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Surgeon/scientist promoting science in medicine and exposing quackery. Editor of Science-Based Medicine. My opinions do NOT represent those of my employers.

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    1. Clay Jones‏ @SBMPediatrics 12 Nov 2019

      I’ve got Hulu and finally after all these years (four?) access to Scrubs. Here we go. #RealDoctorWatchesScrubs Episode 1: Lawyer tells residents to never admit a mistake to patients. Bad advice. Evidence is clear that open communication reduces risk of lawsuit.

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    2. Clay Jones‏ @SBMPediatrics 12 Nov 2019

      Medical students don’t actually learn how to be doctors. They rarely get significant experience doing procedures. You can’t just walk in and do things solo on the first day. Tylenol overdose is deadly. It’s important to give an appropriate dose.

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    3. Clay Jones‏ @SBMPediatrics 12 Nov 2019

      Dr. Cox will become a better person, but in this episode he’s terrible. He shouldn’t be allowed to train residents. Learning by doing without having ever seen a procedure is dangerous. Surgical interns rarely run a code on a medicine patient. This hospital needs a JCAHO visit.

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    4. Clay Jones‏ @SBMPediatrics 12 Nov 2019

      Why is Dr. Cox seeing an outpatient pediatric clinic patient? He’s an adult medicine hospitalist. Sadly yes, female doctors are still frequently assumed to be a nurse. I do judge a nurse who hooks up at work with a surgical intern. I also judge the intern. Both are wrong.

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    5. Clay Jones‏ @SBMPediatrics 12 Nov 2019

      On call JD is covering the floor and the ED. This isn’t something that I’ve ever seen. Calling a death isn’t a magical incantation that must be spoken out loud. And where is this phantom attending that ran the code while JD was seeing patients alone all night?

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    6. Clay Jones‏ @SBMPediatrics 12 Nov 2019

      The arc that Kelso will ultimately go through is made all the more enjoyable by how awful he is in the pilot. Why is an adult hospitalist attending managing a trauma patient in the ED? Why is a floor nurse there? Why is there only one resident?

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    7. David Gorski, MD, PhD‏Verified account @gorskon 12 Nov 2019
      Replying to @SBMPediatrics

      This is a problem with medical drama that is not unique to this show. Blurring of specialties happens in nearly every medical TV show.

      3 replies 3 retweets 11 likes
    8. David Gorski, MD, PhD‏Verified account @gorskon 12 Nov 2019
      Replying to @gorskon @SBMPediatrics

      E.R., a show I loved, was a particularly egregious offender. ICU patients would stay in the ER seemingly forever. ER docs would do everything. One day theyd be doing EGDs, another interventional radiology.

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      David Gorski, MD, PhD‏Verified account @gorskon 12 Nov 2019
      Replying to @gorskon @SBMPediatrics

      I remember seeing Dr. Corday doing some surgery one episode and a liver transplant in a different episode later in the season. Because surgeons could cover every specialty.

      7:33 PM - 12 Nov 2019
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        2. Clay Jones‏ @SBMPediatrics 12 Nov 2019
          Replying to @gorskon

          Grey’s Anatomy was bad about that as well.

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        3. David Gorski, MD, PhD‏Verified account @gorskon 12 Nov 2019
          Replying to @SBMPediatrics

          Truth be told, one of my all time favorite TV shows, “St. Elsewhere,” was a major offender too.

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        1. David Gorski, MD, PhD‏Verified account @gorskon 12 Nov 2019
          Replying to @gorskon @SBMPediatrics

          It’s something that goes on today still in medical dramas. Chicago Med is a particularly egregious offender.

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        1. David Gorski, MD, PhD‏Verified account @gorskon 12 Nov 2019
          Replying to @gorskon @SBMPediatrics

          Just ask my wife how I’d sometimes yell at the TV about these things back when E.R. was still on the air. I sometimes wonder if the producers did it on purpose to rile up doctors watching the show.

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        2. David Gorski, MD, PhD‏Verified account @gorskon 12 Nov 2019
          Replying to @gorskon @SBMPediatrics

          Doing SPINE surgery one episode and a liver transplant on another.🙄🤦🏻‍♂️

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        3. (((Dorit Reiss)))‏Verified account @doritmi 12 Nov 2019
          Replying to @gorskon @SBMPediatrics

          Well, they can’t be more than 20 CMs apart on most people. /s. That addition is for the #antivaxxers

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