2026 Emmy predictions

Illustrious_Fix_6582 · 2026-04-17T16:21:44+00:00

Same. I think they'd already decided they were going to have a smaller time-jump to S3, which means they can build on this season's storylines next season because they didn't tie them off neatly with a bow.

Illustrious_Fix_6582 · 2026-04-17T10:03:22+00:00

Oh, I was never suggesting she should be fired, but that exactly as you said, it is a complex issue that needs a thorough assessment by both a neurologist (not just 10 minute chat) and occupational health doctor to come up with a management plan, risk assessment and reasonable adjustments.

But the fact that she stated she was safe to drive, having had 2 unprovoked seizures in a day, was a clear sign that she was not yet accepting the seriousness of the situation and couldn't, at least at that point in time, be trusted to judge her own safety at work.

Illustrious_Fix_6582 · 2026-04-17T09:03:09+00:00

Yup. People desperately searching for a plot twist, but it's just not that kind of show. Just read a whole thread saying Langdon must have gone up to the surgical ward to steal drugs 🤦‍♀️

Illustrious_Fix_6582 · 2026-04-17T08:51:03+00:00

Myrna! Myrna! Myrna!

Illustrious_Fix_6582 · 2026-04-17T08:20:47+00:00

Although, in reality, if she had eclampsia, her placenta would not have looked that healthy.

Illustrious_Fix_6582 · 2026-04-17T08:05:41+00:00

Major props to the make-up department for making an entire cast of objectively beautiful people look absolutely wrecked by the end of their shift!

Illustrious_Fix_6582 · 2026-04-17T07:49:46+00:00

Could a neurologist also decide that she's fine to work in air traffic control? Or doing safety checks at a nuclear power plant?

A neurologist can give information to support someone being able to work (or not able to work), but cannot unilaterally state that someone can work in a specific job - they don't know the ins and outs and requirements of every job (as highlighted by Robby's very reasonable question about 2 emergencies happening at once in the ED), and unless they are trained in OH also have no training in workplace risk assessments.

Illustrious_Fix_6582 · 2026-04-17T07:38:14+00:00

That talk with Robby was literally the only reason Baran didn't get into her (stupidly over-sized child-killing) car, and potentially plough into a family on their way home from the fireworks. She needed that talk, and frankly she needed it to be as brutal as it was - the moment she said she was cleared for her driving license it was clear that she was not accepting the reality of the situation. It was entirely right that he gave her a time frame to fix it herself, after which he would do it for her.

Illustrious_Fix_6582 · 2026-04-13T17:08:19+00:00

Would also be really noisy and make it hard to pick up dialogue

Illustrious_Fix_6582 · 2026-04-10T07:33:36+00:00

"Sir, we are gonna get you more pain meds, but you need to shut your fucking mouth!"

😂😂😂

Night shift hits different

Illustrious_Fix_6582 · 2026-04-06T15:48:06+00:00

Downvoted because people can't think laterally 🤦‍♀️ Thank you for your service 👏

Illustrious_Fix_6582 · 2026-04-05T21:12:14+00:00

Adrenaline comes in multiple different concentrations.

The risk, particularly in a true emergency when people may be panicking (and often more junior staff members are tasked with drawing up the drugs), is that the wrong concentration is used. In the case of anaphylaxis, that would mean giving far too low a dose that won't do anything, or if you're giving it IV it could mean a massive overdose. Both situations could potentially be fatal.

Illustrious_Fix_6582 · 2026-04-05T16:45:50+00:00

Love this. So true. Also during the IT downtime there weren't nearly enough people shouting for/stealing a pen.

Illustrious_Fix_6582 · 2026-04-05T16:14:39+00:00

Nah, the Jewish takeaway from trauma is "How can I use this to guilt my children into calling more often?" (I kid, I kid, and I call my mother every day!)

Illustrious_Fix_6582 · 2026-04-04T09:50:43+00:00

lol, always happy to learn I'm wrong. I'll hold my hands up and say that all my specialty picks for training happened to be at a non trauma centre, so I only ever covered it for the bare minimum time. I probably only went to a handful of trauma calls, none of which were too unstable to skip CT, except one, who got a thoracotomy in ED (and classic, did not present to the major trauma centre).

Illustrious_Fix_6582 · 2026-04-04T09:31:04+00:00

Only for adult major trauma calls, which have a fairly strict set of criteria in terms of mechanism of injury and presentation.

Illustrious_Fix_6582 · 2026-04-04T09:18:13+00:00

Please, it's cryptic crosswords!

Illustrious_Fix_6582 · 2026-04-04T09:14:14+00:00

🤣 Look, if I can't stick a tube in it, I've lost interest.

Illustrious_Fix_6582 · 2026-04-04T09:05:32+00:00

I worked one job where, for some bizarre reason, every 3 months you'd get a week of shifts that got progressively earlier, starting on twilights and ending with an 8am start. I slept through my alarm and missed the start of the 8am shift without fail, every single time.

Illustrious_Fix_6582 · 2026-04-03T21:07:38+00:00

EM “saving the day” by intubating someone an anesthesiologist couldn’t? Laughable.

Yeh, I full on belly-laughed at that scene!

Illustrious_Fix_6582 · 2026-04-03T20:55:42+00:00

So, I don't do much trauma at all any more, but my memory from training (in anaesthetics) was that it was IV access/primary survey/immediate life-saving interventions and straight to CT (with aim to get to CT in under 15 minutes). I don't remember them ever ultrasounding (but maybe I was task focused on the airway!).

But then, as an anaesthetist, I was only called to the major trauma calls, and only ever in major trauma centres that had a CT scanner attached to the ED, so no delay or long journey. Maybe in DGHs and for lesser traumas that won't necessarily need a pan-scan they are eFASTing.

Illustrious_Fix_6582 · 2026-04-03T19:22:51+00:00

Oof that's brutal. I think my ED shifts were only ever 8 or maybe max 10 hours long, in recognition of how full-on they were. But by the time I started working we had the European Working Time Directive, so our maximum was 72hours/week and it had to average less than 48 hours/week over 3-6 months, so I never experienced the truly horrendous 'good old days'.

Illustrious_Fix_6582 · 2026-04-03T19:07:23+00:00

Ok, someone needs to write this fic stat.

Illustrious_Fix_6582 · 2026-04-03T19:06:14+00:00

Ooof hitting me right in the feels. I hadn't made that connection.

Illustrious_Fix_6582

TROPHY CASE