medical errors


No privacy in the emergency room, and the doctor did not wear sterile gloves when touching the wound.

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It's Lifetime; do you actually expect accuracy? When they aired the Carlina White story, they put up a blurb at the end stating that she keeps in contact with her birth parents, when the truth is, she does not, and she returned to her abductor and considers that woman her mother. It's actually a miracle when Lifetime is accurate about things.



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Depends on the ER, last time I went I was in a room-like area (three walls & a curtain in front) by myself and had pretty much complete privacy except when the doctor and nurses came to see me. And that was in a county hospital in Texas, so a private hospital would be even more likely to do so.

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HIPAA was violated way more times than that girl was.

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Also, psychotic persons cannot just conveniently shut it off in order to expertly perform heart surgery.

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He didn't wear gloves on purpose. They wanted us to see that. It's because he's a creep and wanted to 'touch' her. Just like in "The hand that rocks the cradle" when the creepy gyno took his glove off to give an exam.

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As a former open heart surgery ICU nurse, the thing that bothered me more than the ridiculous plot and glaring medical errors was the fact that cardiologists are NOT surgeons! Ever. I couldn't believe they got this basic fact wrong. Cardiac surgeons perform heart surgery. Cardiology is an internal medicine specialty. Two totally different residencies and specialties. Some cardiologists perform invasive procedures like cardiac catheterizations, stent placements, etc. but those are not considered "surgery". In no universe do they do open heart surgery. It was just ludicrous for a cardiologist to be performing open heart surgery.

The lack of gloves bothered me too until I realized he was getting off by smearing ointment on her incision and touching her. Another thing, even if he had on gloves, you'd never touch the opening of the tube and then apply the medication with your finger. That contaminates the whole tube. You'd use a sterile cotton-tipped applicator. And you don't have to use sterile gloves just to change a dressing over a closed incision because normally you'd never be touching the incision; you can just use regular gloves.

I was yelling at the TV half the time. I cannot abide medical shows/movies. ER was about the only fairly accurate one I've ever seen. (Not that this movie tried at all to give an accurate medical representation. It was crazy. But Eric Roberts was entertaining, as usual).

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