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

Poorly babies are dried.

I have a paediatrician friend and she also shouts 'dry the baby 'at the TV

They never do Pressure area care!

and drs who do everything, like take and run a ct, X-ray etc!

I always think showing feeble fake CPR is so dangerous. People must watch and think that's how to do it. Either use a dummy and do it properly or don't do it at all!

"Newborn" babies being about 6 months old!

Ugh god yes!!! I hate it when they show a “newborn” baby and it’s obviously not!

Its why call the midwife was so refreshing to see

Head injuries/brain surgery…patient wakes up and is just ‘normal, bit slower in speech/movements etc, but not at all aggressive, shouting, pulling ivs out etc, punching any nurse in sight and just generally non compliant. Been punched, push, spat by in bloke twice the size of me who caused havoc on the ward and broke out of the fire escape and ran around the hospital grounds naked. Never happens in House

This. Drives me batty.

Arthur Digby in Holby City
Every patient was Are you old enough / Are you even qualified/ I don't want you doing my blood test you don't look like you've even left school yet/ I want someone who knows what they're talking about
Arthur just pushed his non-fitting glasses up his nose and said nought

And when they storm into A&E they don't say "my wife was brought in, Mary Smith . Is she in surgery. Can you check? Thanks"

It;s more "Get someone down here NOW . Why aren't they telling us anything . Get me someone who knows what they're doing ! "
"He;s going to be alright isn;t he ? He's not going to die"

Of course they won;t say in the middle of surgery "Oh yes , he'll be fine"

(More like <Call Security > )

When they go to hospital and the wards are half empty and really quiet and peaceful (I'm looking at you Corrie)

Dementia patients are always mildly confused.
They can always feed themselves and walk without difficulty.
They are just a little forgetful.
You never see someone who is aggressive, incontinent, refusing to wash and barely able to move.

That CPR works more often than not.

I caused trauma at a first aid training when I said CPR was mostly trying to keep the patient alive until the ambulance arrived, and didn't have a huge success rate on it's own (just over 10% I think if I'm remembering rightly).
Until that moment I think most of the rest of the group thought they'd give a couple of light taps and the patient would come round. One person even refused to continue with the course-although the trainer did thank me afterwards for speaking up.

when they show a birth where the baby has baby has been starved of oxygen for some reason. Baby is always ok, not in my CP world.

It's tv though the mast majority of people aren't going to want to watch the reality as light entertainment.

I'm not a medical professional, but I believed the TV and various books that in labour contractions get stronger and closer together, and then you go to hospital. And that it would take ages

With both of my births, I had strong but not very regular contractions for a couple of hours, went to hospital (I just felt like I was about to give birth, now exH was saying 'it'll be ages yet, you're even just chatting to me, it can't be that bad'). Got to hospital (carried my own bag up the stairs to the labour ward) and when examined I was already in transition (is that what it's called?), wanted to push about an hour later and baby was born. I just 'knew' it was time. With the second one, he was born an hour after I got there.

I did CPR once on a patient in a shopping centre and got a ROSC
Me "WTF?!"
He did actually survive and was later discharged from hospital after an operation

You're quite right Samcro.
Babies are always fine, no matter what.

And when women have post partum haemorrhages, they're always perfectly all right within a couple of minutes.

@Shadypaws23
Well done!

Can see that doing real CPR isn't possible.

But fake feeble CPR where the patient gets better gives unrealistic expectations.

Have seen tiny elderly ladies who seriously thought they would give their terminally ill partners effective CPR, despite being barely able to lift a shopping bag.

Well done@Shadypaws23 !

House uses his walking stick in the wrong hand.

There are always enough staff on duty, and they're all extremely competent.

You never see nurses searching for things in cupboards which have either run out, or have been misplaced, causing great annoyance and occasionally chaos.
Nobody goes to another ward to borrow equipment.

How when theybgo to A and E they get seem to get seen straight away.

Rather than spending almost the whole day sat on uncomfortable chairs. Everything generally goes to plan. Rather than being told after 4 hours someone didn't check in properly. Or names getting missed off lists.

Yes! If you do CPR right you're going to crack a few ribs, at best. Plus it's bloody hard work and you may have to to do mouth to mouth as well - don't do both at the same time.

Hospital ward scene, patients mostly in bed, a few visitors, one or two people sitting on a chair in the corridor, and a whole parade of nurses, doctors, other medical staff, porters with trolleys, police officers and people with clipboards all bustling busily about.

When I've been in hospital, the staff are usually conspicuous by their absence. Piccadilly Circus it ain't.

13 fucking hours I was sat in a chair before I got bed. I was being treated with painkillers and what not during that time but when you’re in agony, sitting for 13 hours in a chair is barbaric