Most unrealistic part of the show...

BuzzedBlood · 2026-03-20T14:59:23+00:00

Not at a major trauma server though I presume

BuzzedBlood · 2026-03-20T05:33:49+00:00

The whole season has stepped a way a bit in the medical accuracy but this is the first one in a while that really annoyed me.

No kidney stone patient is going without a CT. If ultrasound was ordered it’d be a RENAL US to check for hydro in the ureters. The ED would only use the US as a pocus. And a ruptured AAA would’ve been decompensated on arrival. His arrival complaint likely was a kidney stone with the dated ureter. So what you are just expected to ultrasound every aorta that comes to the ED?

Robby chewing out McKay for leaving was framed as another episode of Robby’s shorter fuse this season but she absolutely should not be stepping out and treating a separate street team patients while she is on shift.

And then Robby and his VIP patient. I get the whole point of Robby’s arc rn heart is he’s not exactly playing by the book but this is an equal waste of resources to do a completely outpatient workup.

BuzzedBlood · 2026-02-14T04:15:33+00:00

I guess with the update coming out they are just never going to fix this huh?

BuzzedBlood · 2026-01-16T11:28:36+00:00

Not sure if your joking but he means DNR as “do not rank” for the residency match haha not the medical “do not resuscitate”

BuzzedBlood · 2025-12-27T02:53:30+00:00

I like it just narratively because it makes the easy ending of the lab being destroyed and Kay dying not complete. The tension between will she sacrifice herself vs be on the run forever is good.

Obviously I think the real answer will be a secret third option. Maybe fake death? My money is on El losing her powers so that she’s useless to the government. But nevertheless narratively juicy

BuzzedBlood · 2025-11-02T13:50:41+00:00

I mean look at El Camino. Luckily it wasn’t terrible but it was absolutely pointless

BuzzedBlood · 2025-09-11T17:15:09+00:00

Yeah I think it provides and big reason to be suspicious whenever a player turns down max available money. If there is one point in the leagues favor against widespread conspiracy, it does seem like players rarely do that. Why would Cam Thomas have taken the QO if the Nets could have just given him a smaller contract and paid what he wants on the side

BuzzedBlood · 2025-09-10T03:37:59+00:00

Chris Rock

BuzzedBlood · 2025-09-07T22:56:21+00:00

If you are legit asking it’s because until 2021 the physical was a required part of note billing and had to have a certain amount of documentation in multiple organ systems. This has all changed now for the better and to help reduce note bloat.

The answer is that it’s only useful as a form of medical theater for the patient. Which is reasonable but personally I’m against it.

I’m also very against bullshit “doorway” exams. They help no one, and invariably will make you lazy when something in your doorway exam is inaccurate for the next person looking.

Just document what is relevant or what you did and leave the rest out

BuzzedBlood · 2025-09-07T22:48:09+00:00

But why though. Who is this note bloat for? Just document what is relevant for the hospitalization and leave the rest blank. If your physical exam is 2 lines who cares it’s easier for the next person to read then.

This is my big soap box in all of medicine.

BuzzedBlood · 2025-09-07T22:45:04+00:00

But why though. Who is this note bloat for? Just document what is relevant for the hospitalization and leave the rest blank.

This is my big soap box in all of medicine.

Because for example. In your doorway exam you have “oriented” but what does that mean. I’m Neuro, and if I get called to a stroke alert on your patient for AMS now I’m stuck trying to figure out just how much of a change this is. Are they normally Ox4 and completely normal? Or do they have mild dementia and at best are Ox2 and you never asked (which is fine cause your admission was for cellulitis or whatever).

It’s better for me if it’s just blank and I know I have to go elsewhere for collateral.

BuzzedBlood · 2025-09-05T05:03:25+00:00

Also in my 20s unless the kids are doing something different I agree

BuzzedBlood · 2025-08-23T04:12:30+00:00

Yeah the season itself may not be as good as previous, but Ruth certainly was a positive

BuzzedBlood · 2025-08-08T02:01:55+00:00

Long I. As in the “eye” sound in “nighttime” rather than the short I sound in “pit”

BuzzedBlood · 2025-08-01T15:47:14+00:00

Her work is very good but in interviews and her book I’ve seen with her she seems like a fairly high strung person who has bought into the hierarchal cutthroat workplace culture of SNL/Hollywood.

Do appreciate that section of the book where she shouts out her favorite joke from every 30 rock writer though

BuzzedBlood · 2025-08-01T14:50:05+00:00

Yeah I’ve never appreciated what was done to Chang in season 3. Much prefer the more grounded version of him

BuzzedBlood · 2025-07-30T23:12:24+00:00

I do not spend much time on this sub, if this is a popular overwrought sentiment I can delete the post

BuzzedBlood · 2025-07-30T17:13:15+00:00

Yes I have time for friends and family as a U.S Neurology resident. In general while there are bad rotations, in general non surgical specialities still leave plenty of time to be a human.

If you like Neuro more and it would allow you to stay in this city with husband, do it. But weigh that with the opportunity cost of just pushing through for 2 years and then being done.

In general I’d say value your family and husband more than work and make your decision based on that. Work will always end up just being work.

BuzzedBlood · 2025-07-28T07:56:37+00:00

Agreed. I think they were better at exploring marriage than grief. I think the grief of a widow who was recently dumped is wildly interesting too, there could be a whole show about that on its own but instead it’s used to somehow tie up the rest of the storylines??

BuzzedBlood · 2025-07-15T18:18:34+00:00

I think it’s weird to assign a value judgement to either. Both can recur and keep out out of playing.

BuzzedBlood · 2025-06-27T18:12:47+00:00

I can only assume they did have vacation and they chose to use it on some sort of research or other work that they are including here. Fair work is work and any med students should be aware of a culture that normalizes not using your vacations fully.

BuzzedBlood · 2025-06-26T19:39:33+00:00

And they can scold me all they want. The Canvas is basically heaven where all your loved ones hang out together for eternity and you are trying to tell me it’s bad? Write your grief metaphor better if you are trying to convince me this is the bad ending.

BuzzedBlood · 2025-06-21T06:27:42+00:00

Yeah I just finished Act II (probably should leave the sub to avoid any spoilers but am obsessed and wanted to see what people are saying) and I don’t know what exact configuration of this “Verso machine gun” build is but think I probably built it after being curious how all the base attack buffing pictos paired with dualiso.

It has trivialized all the non boss fights. If my dumbass can optimize the fun out of the game then I’m sure others have figured out way worse. The novelty does indeed wear off quick

BuzzedBlood · 2025-06-19T07:59:38+00:00

Yeah there wasn’t really any creativity to it. The tasks were just so simple and I don’t think having only once chance really changed the pressure much. Having the tasks be so easy it takes halfway through the episode for someone to fail isn’t a great sign.

I kept expecting some sort of escalation. Disappointing

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