So #NewAmsterdam is a new medical drama about “breaking all the rules” and “tearing up the bureaucracy.” Worth a live tweet a la #TheResident?
Bets on “third leading cause of death” myth?
Sex at work?
Arrogance and bullying presented as competence?
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Just say impossible things and expect that they'll just happen, without a plan, without study, without considering for a second the human costs of your actions. Now all I can see is Donald Trump, as a medical director, being presented as a "good guy."
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Oooh shock. It turns out that firing the entire cardiac surgery department struck an innocent person, and he immediately has to walk back a radical thoughtless action. He now tasks this person to build a new department that he just set fire to. Trumpian medical drama.
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Now for pointless drama, a patient shows up with possible Ebola. Because during outbreaks we allow diaphoretic, febrile people onto planes and clear customs no problem... You can have drama short of hemorrhagic fever you know.
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My wife has bailed. Too stupid to tolerate. Too reminiscent of Trump. Apparently they had BSL IV level ebola isolation just ready to go. Good for them.
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I like the neurologist who keeps losing his glasses on his head and talks to people. They are true diagnosticians, and time with the patient is a sign of strength. Then they switch to a pt yelling in Russian. The medical director seems determined to micromanage each interaction.
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He convinces the patient not to leave AMA, and scares him with "rectal bleeding" as a possible consequence of ignoring CO poisoning while waving a folder of restaurant menus. Good to see lying to patients as a strategy coming from the top.
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It's amazing in this time of malignant narcissists ruining the country that people are craving for malignant narcissists to ruin medicine.
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Now the medical director is micromanaging a psych patient. Seems like if it's that important to her just let her keep the damn book. I agree one of the most frustrating aspects of psychiatric care is the total absence of mental health parity and lack of outpatient services.
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Because there wasn't enough drama the ebola patient now is suspected ISIS terrorist. The medical director is now interfering with the investigation because he knows better than the counterterrorism investigators after hearing the patient's story. Because no one lies.
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The neurologist schools medical director on the value of listening. A characteristic he doesn't exercise himself but seems to see as valuable in others.
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Ebola kid is vomiting blood. Dr. Bloom runs in without proper gear despite the kid vomiting blood all over. Medical director shows up to micromanage the code. The most unbelievable aspect of this drama is that he has such perfect situational awareness.
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Maybe this is a flaw of modern medical dramas. We can't be trusted to follow more than one character or specialty. Everything has to revolve around a single tyrannical white man who will set everything right.
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Now his wife has shown up with possible placenta previa, apparently unknown (were they not keeping up with prenatal screenings?)
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Good thing he didn't fire the entire OB department on a whim.
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White female doctor can't get over the black doctor isn't interested in dating white women. This is the biggest tragedy for white people, that for one second we experience what it's like to be denied what we want, as folks of other races routinely are, based on our race.
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So this
#NewAmsterdam show is pretty terrible. Why do Americans crave strongmen and dictators? The savior, once again, a rule-breaking, impulsive white dude who makes wild promises without plans, is presented as a *good* thing. I think we've had enough of that for a lifetime.Show this thread
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