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

When the patient presses the buzzer and the nurse comes.

Not in my experience unless it's critical care.

Generally you have to wait about 10 minutes minimum. Then they'll say they'll get you the thing you needed but ti could be over an hour til they come back if they remember.

How no one has to wait years for a diagnosis. It seems to be a few tests.

Or who pull lumps of poo out of their pants and smear it all over the walls and into the carpet.

Everything about pregnancy and childbirth (particularly in soaps/sitcoms). Women invariably throw up and unexpectedly and realise they must be pregnant. Then take a pregnancy test in some sort of public toilet or someone else's house. The first sign of imminent birth is ALWAYS the waters breaking, which signals a dash to the hospital, followed by at friends and family. Accompanying friends and family are welcomed and allowed to wait just outside the delivery room. As pp said, mothers always give birth lying on their backs. Within a few minutes of the birth they are sitting up in bed, fully clothed and with perfect hair etc.

Dark surgical theatres. The ones I know are the most well lit places on earth.

Drama around birth. Contractions start or waters dramatically break in a flood and boom, baby born minutes later. Giving birth lying on back. Continuous shouting/screaming while giving birth. Baby born and everyone leaves the room, no thought about the placenta, or monitoring blood loss etc. (And yes, some babies are born quickly, soon after waters, mum in supine position making a lot of noise, but not every baby like in TV world).

Paternalism and lack of informed consent- doctors telling patients what's going to happen instead of offering and discussing options.

Forgive me as I'm pregnant with my first but... Is this not a thing?!

I will always remember the birth of a baby in Neighbours and the mother still had her tights on.

The patients always tell the doctors and nurses everything about their personal lives and the doctors have time to stand and listen.

Staff play detective and have time to leave the hospital to follow up on a hunch or something.

The staff in the tv A&E are generally 95% British born Nationals.

CPR is unrealistic.

Patients are rushed straight from ambulance to A&E. No queuing up outside the tv hospitals!

This 😂

No blood bottle shortage on TV.

That a disproportionate number of patients on Casualty seem to be either staff members or relatives of staff members.

In real life I am regularly in teams where I am the only White British person there.

Bring in some diversity please! Most of these dramas are set in cities.

The CPR thing, just watching old XFiles,Sculley "looks" at someone says they're dead!taking blood from someone with their elbow bent.

It was with my second because they needed to keep a very close eye on my babies heartbeat as it kept dropping but with my first, I was my knees with my arms draped over the back of the bed

I love watching The Good Doctor but shout at the TV when this small group of surgeons and residents do all sorts of complex specialist surgery from neurosurgery to transplants and everything in between.

I was the only permanent white British,on the night shift in my last job before I retired.

Anyone can walk into a room where there is a critically ill patient lying there full of tubes! Usually with evil intent........

Amazes me how Hotten General (Emmerdale) has a children’s heart transplant unit!

People give birth in all different positions, but lying supine tends to be one of the less comfortable/natural ones (but some women do naturally adopt this position so there's no right or wrong!)

Upright and squatting positions, or even side lying with knees apart if the woman has an epidural in situ, tend to be the most effective/comfortable and the ones women are most likely to adopt themselves.

Women having a physiological birth will often adopt a position which helps the pelvis open most fully so the fetal skull can pass through, and gravity helps too. Lying down the baby's head has to navigate an uphill part of the birth canal.

There are some good videos showing this visually if you search Google :)

You haven't watched The Nurse on Netflix about the Danish nurse Christina Aistrup Hansen, very accurate.

Everything is a pneumothorax or a major haemorrhage protocol. I'm looking at you, Casualty.

When women are left to their own devices they always go on their hands and knees to give birth.

It's not a proper episode of Casualty unless they Initiate the Major Haemorrhage Protocol!

Every baby born on a medical drama is about four months old and is immediately handed to the mother perfectly clean and dry. Babies are then wrapped in 37 blankets and a hat, even if they're indoors in the middle of summer.

Everyone who has had an operation under general anaesthetic comes round looking lovely with neat hair and glowing skin.
I looked like something out of the Thriller video.

staff And patients have long conversation without being interrupted multiple times .

Nobody ever rings the kitchen to find out why they've only sent 16 meals for 24 patients.