| If anybody on this forum is a medical doctor or otherwise knowledgeable on the topic of surgery and medicine, I'd love to know how accurate this show is? Based on my very limited knowledge I noticed some things that looked pretty ridiculous to me, but I won't take the risk of sounding stupid and instead would rather hear the opinion of someone that learned medicine outside of House M.D. |
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felixsifuri said: Based on my very limited knowledge I noticed some things that looked pretty ridiculous to me As a Biology major and very briefly a pre-med, I'm hardly qualified, but I personally didn't notice anything really bad... Which part looked ridiculous to you? The two things that come to mind is performing surgery with a shard of broken glass (in the crashed plane, before her re-reincarnation) and cutting into the windpipe with a dinner knife (when the old lady was choking). It may be possible, but I think it'd be very difficult, especially without making a mess out of the patient. One thing that was really off-putting was Elise telling her patients "I WILL save you, I promise" on multiple occasions. I'm pretty sure that's a huge no-no in a doctor-patient relationship, and it's not a healthy mindset for a doctor to have at all. What happens to the doctor and the patient if things go wrong? It may be acceptable in this 18th-century European fantasy setting, but I find it hard to believe that a highly-skilled and experienced doctor from modern-day like Elise would voluntarily say something like this. But I will accept it because it's a drama... I don't think the show digs deep enough into medicine to actually have inaccuracies anyway... The medical stuff is all pretty straightforward; diabetes, a cold, spleen injury, broken leg, etc. And the anime just quickly rattles off a diagnosis and a treatment and moves on. Hardly House M.D. |
felixsifuri said: If anybody on this forum is a medical doctor or otherwise knowledgeable on the topic of surgery and medicine, I'd love to know how accurate this show is? Based on my very limited knowledge I noticed some things that looked pretty ridiculous to me, but I won't take the risk of sounding stupid and instead would rather hear the opinion of someone that learned medicine outside of House M.D. Seasoned radiologist here and I would say the show was 75% accurate. However Elise and her colleagues act as both medical (non-surgical) and surgical doctors. And Elise performs general surgeon (abdomen) and thoracic surgery for the PE at the end. So there is some poetic license in the show. I think the show would be enjoyable for doctors. Bartolomeo_ said: terms, symptoms and treatments were all accurate as far as I know Yeah, that's pretty much a correct statement. Even the knife cutting open the old lady's throat and putting in a straw can be an emergent treatment in a pinch. And sticking a needle into the chest to decompress the pneumothorax. Open surgery for pulmonary embolism would be uncommon but possible in dire circumstances. |
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