whats crazy is we all know Dr. Robbie was caught doing the same thing as Langston during his early days in the Chicago ER double standard much
Good call, you know the old adage you write what you know. Wyle is a writer and exec. producer on the show ...
Yup called it during the episode that the incel was gonna shoot up PittFest next week is gonna stress me out esp if it involves Jake
We all knew the active shooter mass casualty event was coming, but it still punched me in the gut at the end. Also, some banger lines in this episode. “Lessons in manhood from toxic podcasts”, “Congratulations, you can rent a car”, and “I see hair. Baby hair.”
Too obvious. They made it a point to emphasize he was 18 so his mom couldn’t check him in for help. Bet the shooter is same description. Cops at the hospital and mom and everyone just assume it’s him. Then they find out it’s not him and he has checked himself in for help
Interested in what the setup is going to be for s2(assuming this isn’t a one and done?) they aren’t going to wrap up the fallout from the shooting in one hour. Is s2 them staying on with the next shift? Idk if they’d even have the shooting resolved in the next 12 hour shift of new characters
I was thinking about that, too, but I’m not so sure. It is such a massive legal liability to have someone who’s diverted controlled substances come back to work when you don’t know if they’re high, or before they’ve completed a rehab program. I just can’t see it flying in the real world, and for a show that’s been lauded for its realism, it would be a disappointment if it happened.
Twist - Langdon is the shooter, but wins his redemption by triaging and saving his victims at the scene
if this show was greys anatomy - he 100% would be. And then somehow become chief of emergency medicine or something
Speaking of the show being realistic, I bet they save a surprising amount of gunshot victims, and still get low patient satisfaction scores, and one star Yelp reviews trashing their ED.
Robby's kid who he's close with will be involved, guessing his gf who used Robby's ticket gets mortally wounded ...
Laughed a little at Dr. Abbot asking about the shooting after learning about it listening to the police scanner on the way to work. My wife and I are both nurses with Surgical/Trauma ICU backgrounds and we listen to the police scanner all the time to know what shit is coming through. Co-workers do the same.
What is it like to watch this show with that background? Lots of articles about how realistic it is. Insane episode. Not sure I took a breath for 40 minutes
Pretty cool how much calmer the episode felt than normal. Everyone just executing their jobs at such a high level. Only thing that sucked was only 40 mjns.
Every conversation I've ever had with fellow healthcare professionals about what makes a quality practitioner is always the same - Know your limitations know your limitations know your limitations ...
That kid in the grey hoodie with the arm wound that said to help the others first is the shooter isn’t it?
I'd say it's about 80-90% realistic which is as good as you can ask for from Hollywood. To put it another way, it feels like being at work (almost to the point of wanting to turn it off because it's my day off). Don't hold me to it, I'm not a trained physician, but the medicine looks accurate. I imagine the medical terminology used can be difficult for a layperson watching it, but that's what you would hear if you were in the room. The bit about Press-Ganey/HCAHP/patient satisfaction scores in the first episode was dead on - "If the patient is alive, they should be satisfied" is a great line from Dr. Robby. Another thing they convey well is the way you have to walk away from something that would otherwise be burned in your permanent memory, and then walk on to the next thing like nothing happened (and without having had the opportunity to process what happened). There's not always a time to process the things you've seen, and sometimes those emotions hit you months or years later with no warning. The show is a little heavy handed, but a busy level 1 ED in a metro area could absolutely have that many things going on at a given time on a bad day. There's two things that stick out to me that don't capture the reality of working in the hospital. One, I don't recall seeing any respiratory therapists (RTs). Maybe they're in the show and I've missed them, but in reality they'd be involved in those rooms. The second thing is the lack of charting/documentation. I always say the patients only see half of what I do. The other half is charting, which is the bane of my existence. However, that might be because the show takes place in the ED, and I don't think ED RNs have the same legal requirements for charting as they do in the ICUs or step down/med-surg floors. Also, it would make the show a lot more boring if you showed a bunch of nurses and doctors charting at their computers for half the show.
The most unrealistic aspect is how much the ED docs are doing without specialist consultation. I get why- you want to see these docs that you know do the gnarly stuff and not consult a specialty and then have to cut back to the procedure, but it just isn’t real. ED docs aren’t doing compartment fasciotomies for compartment syndrome for example. Maybe out in the middle of nowhere if there isn’t a specialist for hours, but at a place like this it isn’t happening in the ER. There was one example specifically where the ED resident did something way unrealistic and then was like “send it up to the OR, ortho will do the rest”. Yeah… no. That’s not how it works. Specialists come down, consult and then make the plan. They don’t just have patients show up and then take over. But, whatever- still a fun show. They are keeping characters to a minimum I bet which is why they aren’t showing a lot of consultants coming in and out.
it’s just gong to be some rando that we never see on screen just like we’re never going to see the guy who punched Dana again
Seems like the guy is on tilt (and he’s been combative the whole episode) and would be the most likely of the known characters on the show if it isn’t the kid.
He was suicidal in the pilot episode and he’s walking into an absolute nightmare at work. It’s implied he has military medicine experience so this likely triggers some degree of PTSD for him. Of course he is “on tilt”. Just don’t see any reason/specific evidence hinting at him being involved. edit I was referring to the lead ER doc, not the guy that punched Dana