Things that annoy you when it comes to medical stuff on tv

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When they wake up and immediately rip out their cannulas and walk off. No!!!

It doesn’t work like that and I unfortunately had first hand experience last week when a lady did just that. Blood every where

Crap CPR and the amount of patients they revive who start talking immediately!

The feebleness of CPR

Switching off life support and the patient opens their eyes and rapidly recovers with no muscle wastage, swallowing problems or emotional trauma.

The time a baby takes to be born - just a few minutes from the first twinge or water breaking to holding a new born baby. If only!

I was going to say pathetic CPR attempts too 😂

Comas. It's always so restful, and the family and friends get to sit in a lovely room with flowers and concerned staff. And then, if the machine DOES get turned off, it's immediate and soft and gentle as they fade away.

All complete and total bollocks and makes it even harder when it's you going through it in real life because it's such a bloody shock.

Also, how doctors are always so good diagnosis and understanding everything - heart surgeon who can diagnose a brain injury etc. In my experience, doctors are almost myopic on their own areas and are completely oblivious to, and iuninterested in, any possibility of cross-effects of symptoms etc.

I’d honestly got no idea what someone is liked coming out of a coma - what’s it like?

Agreed CPR where they bend at the elbows and just flop their arms against the actor playing the patient. If they can't swap in a CPR mannequin, couldn't they film from an angle that makes it look slightly less pathetic?

Doctors of all trades, a la House as a classic, where residents studying under an infectious disease consultant seem to run all diagnostic tests including MRIs and CT scans, carry out all lab work, do or assist in every type of surgery...

Definitely childbirth, nobody has a normal long labour.

Oh my life the ripping out the cannula drives me batty! I've cleaned up more blood from self/accidentally removed cannulas than from actual bloody injuries at this point in my life 😭🤣🤣Connecting an iv line without priming the line, not properly securing intubation tubes, how fast people recover when waking up from comas/being extubated. Terrible cpr same as everyone else.

Women always lie on their backs to give birth.

No muscle tone. Breathing problems from being ventilated for weeks (my mum lost half a lung). Confusion. Swallowing problems. Dental problems. Incontinence. Memory problems.

Feble CPR is a practical consideration I think - not something to do on a healthy living person.

Mine is digging bullets and such out of wounds. No! Do you want to bleed to death or get an infection?

When they call labs to hurry up results. Testing can't go any quicker. Certainly not in Histo.

I don't know. She died. I can tell you that the coma experience was awful - lots of machines, a dark windowless room, a patient who looked uncomfortable and unhappy with dirty hair, chapped lips and tubes in places tubes should be. And it took days for her to die after the machines were turned off.

I've never felt the same about greys anatomy since.

Well for starters coma as on TV doesn't really exist.

There are people with brain injuries who have low levels of consciousness weeks/months after the event - they sadly are not going to 'wake up' and will always have damage although for some improvement will be possible.

Then there are people who are critically unwell who have been put in a coma with medication to allow for treatment of their condition in ITU. When the medication is stopped hopefully they do wake up but it is a lengthy process, they will be confused and delirious and this may last for days.

Getting a ROSC just about every time a patient arrests.
And when they do, the patient is then discharged that day, absolutely fine.

....... and shocking a patient in asystole.

Not inflating the non re breath bag, the Drs shouting orders, who are they to and why are they all shouting at the same time?
Nurses who finish a 12 hour shift and walk out,.looking like they have been at a beauty salon. Don't get me started on the perfectly fitted and coloured scrubs. Oh and the staff rooms 🤔.

Baby scans at like 12 weeks and they go "oh you're having a boy". Gets me shouting at the TV every time 😂.

Both Phoebe and Rachel on Friends would have likely had c sections.

Never drying babies when they're born.
In Call the Midwife, they once delivered a woman outside in the snow, and handed her the baby, uncovered, as soon as it was born.
Even inside, they never dry the babies, and it's so important.
I shout at the telly every time.

I'm not in the medical profession, but how everyone always gets a parking space right outside the door of the hospital, any time day or night.

I agree with PP above, surely even in the late 90s Phoebe would have had a c-section with triplets.

Coming round from open heart surgery immediately, no drips, no heart monitor, no oxygen mask, sat up talking animatedly, discharged 2 hours later

Recovery from surgery seems to take a few hours and the patients are a) immaculate b) fully coherent and c) pretty much fully recovered in a few days.

When a Friend had a ten hour surgery , she was in ICU for three days, almost completely sedated. Once wheeled down to the next stage ward, she was able to manage a few words on the phone, visitors were out of the question.

Her surgeon told her they reckoned a month of recovery for every hour in surgery. She thought it was longer than that ( and she was quite young and very fit except for the thing that was wrong).

My baby was never dried. They were both delivered straight on to me