To rescue NP Nic from prison, Conrad calls in Daddy. Now for some accuracy. Nothing quite like the privilege of the wealthy to circumvent the justice system.
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This will be their excuse to bring in AJ Austin (in the flesh) to arrive and be terrible to everybody. If my medical care requires the involvement of such a terrible human interacting with my loved ones, let me die.
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He already knows about it, calls her "princess" and deigns to offer her help. This guy is the worse tool, he says, "Medicine is art balanced by science, fortunately I happen to be Rembrandt."
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The science of medicine *would* give you the ability to quote odds on such a patient. The art of medicine is less about surgical skill (which is practice) than it is about compassionate care of patients, which involves not being a terrible monster who mistreats people.
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Okafor says, "Kill me now". Of all the terrible people on this show, she is the least terrible. She's my most least favorite characterpic.twitter.com/I6V8SCNI1s
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Nic, the Intern and Conrad meet in a radiology reading room (always dim lighting because drama) and talk about how Lane is just giving chemo to healthy people. Without tissue, without labs, without imaging, that is some brash malpractice. I thought it was just "too much chemo"?
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They bring this to the CEO. Not the right person. I would suggest going to one of the many people from patient advocacy, to risk management, to the medical board, rather than her lover/hospital administrator. Or maybe, just maybe, tell the patient?
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Contacting the FBI is interesting. Sure, if medicare fraud, it's really HHS/OIG which uses FBI to assist them. More likely you would go here, https://www.medicare.gov/forms-help-and-resources/report-fraud-and-abuse/report-fraud/reporting-fraud.html … rather than directly to the FBI.
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Is Okafor really going to scrub on her boyfriend's case? Really? I'm trying to like someone on this show, and it's basically impossible.
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What's wrong with this sentence, "Have you diagnosed healthy patients with incurable cancer in order to treat them? Because there's a patient in our ER you diagnosed with lymphoma..." Lymphoma is treatable, and often curable.
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Lane says the difference between a low WBC count and cancer is subtle. Yeah right. HODAD offers to have her bring any questionable files to his apartment to burn them. I think he's setting her up. If she brought any I'd be like, thanks, that makes it easier.
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AJ Austin says, "I am not cutting anyone open with the cast of Deliverance assisting. WHere is Dr. Okafor?" That is a discriminatory comment and should result in immediate firing. Dr. Okafor is the patient's boyfriend/lover and is inappropriate to assist. Fire everybody!pic.twitter.com/Z3Xe3WGaSA
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She enters, "Well hello Dolly". Please do not call your colleague, "Dolly". Unless her name is Dolly. Again, this abominable monster wants to operate without going on pump, because he'll end up "pump headed" - like when he got the transplant in the first place?
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Then he puts the saw down, "Fine we'll go on pump." Wait a minute. How are they going to put him on bypass without the sternotomy? Are they talking ecmo? What am I missing here?
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Looks like ecmo. That's like the ugliest ecmo access I've ever seen. Did they cut down on the vessels with a chainsaw? They complain about scar tissue, AJ says, "I will fix this" yes, lysis isn't magic. It makes things harder, not impossible. I'm glad they found the bovie.
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But oddly, this is the one time they might be better using sharp instruments rather than bovie in this instance. They also notably appear to have used a shot from an actual surgery in there. It's the first time it didn't look like doll parts.
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AJ Austin says, "Deader than a doornail, that is, until I bring Lazarus back to life." Uggh, the least subtle God complex ever. Then he wants Okafor to sew in the dacron graft. She refuses, appropriately, she has no business in here. He tells her "UPS is hiring"
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Nothing is worse than this character. Sorry, next season someone will have to take over for me, it's just too stupid. He bullies Okafor into performing a grotesque act of unethical, inappropriate care. Don't operate on your loved ones FFS.
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What kind of monster makes someone perform cardiac massage on their boyfriend, if literally anyone else could do the task? This is not cute.
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AJ Austin says, "Well done, if he wakes up" then the camera pans down and he is stroking her hand on the field. Gross. Don't stroke your assistants hand. Ewww. Ugggh.pic.twitter.com/dcqkKQtbQ6
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So hunter goes into her office which has a keypad login. Games up already. You think they won't look at keylogs? I'm just hoping HODAD has her arrested when she shows up with the records. But wait! FBI caught her. HODAD sold her out. Good.
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So HODAD is not irredeemable, just incompetent at surgery. At PR, he's killing it. Much better CEO than surgeon.
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It ends a patient asking, "am I safe here" when they say they need to admit her. The answer is no. No, this hospital is terrible. The people are terrible. The heroes are only good relative to an oncologist FABRICATING CANCER DIAGNOSES.
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And even then I would remind the audience that in the first episode Conrad sexually harassed Nic, professionally abused his intern, performed an unnecessary exam on a patient bordering on sexual assault, and attempted murder.
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There are no winners here. The characters the writers think are heroic are monsters, the representation of what bad doctors are absurd caricatures, comic book villains that put the monstrous actions of the supposed "good" characters into a falsely-positive light.
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Medicine is represented as magic, rather than a thoughtful, science-based practice in which study and training are important. In this universe doctoring is like being an X-man, a mutation, you're born with it. Not something that you dedicate yourself to.
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Every message of this show is gross and dysfunctional.
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But there is good news. No more
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