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  1. I would be very angry if I were a Florida taxpayer and my money went to religious bigots' "homeschooling" rather than something worthwhile. 

    Topic: I wonder if Princess Erin and her henpecked hubby are looking forward to another roasting Floriduh summer. I hope for the kids' sake that they have adequate central air conditioning -- the kids didn't ask to live in a sauna. 

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  2. 1 hour ago, Dr.OO7 said:

    I completely forgot about that episode. I actually liked that one very much, although you've now pointed out the implausibility of it. 

    I liked the episode too ("I swear, if you don't have a vasectomy, you're having the next one!"), but it was entertaining implausibility. 

    The thirteen-year-old having a baby, who swore her mother would help her, just broke my heart. I knew girls like that growing up. They didn't get any help from their mothers and most of them were doomed to a lifetime of poverty. 

  3. 43 minutes ago, Dr.OO7 said:

    Speaking of Mark, didn't he essentially do brain surgery once?

    And speaking of Kerry, that would be example #876 of her hypocrisy, as I'm sure she swooped in and tried to STOP Susan from doing an endoscopy (though that was more about her being controlling and nitpicking than worrying about a lawsuit).

     

    He did indeed. 

    ER's treatment of seizure patients always bugged me (I have epilepsy). Not every person who has a seizure gets or should get Ativan, stat! Not every seizure is a medical emergency. I think the show's unrealistic portrayal of a common medical condition did a tremendous disservice to people who actually have it. 

    Anybody remember the season 2 episode in which the sprinklers in OB went crazy and six laboring women (including a thirteen-year-old who would presumably be classified as higher risk) were sent to the ER? That was another big ol' storyline of crap. Why send them to the ER instead of a regular med-surg ward? Were the doctors and nurses who would have treated them in OB now fixing the sprinklers instead? 

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  4. 3 hours ago, BetyBee said:

    Did Kelton's dad remarry? In the olden days, that baby may have been farmed out, or Dad would remarry pretty quickly. 

    No, he hasn't remarried and still wears his wedding ring. 

    When I was little, I thought the "olden days" meant the 1950s, which annoyed my parents because they were born in the '50s. 

     

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  5. 53 minutes ago, AstridM said:

    If his mom died when he was 13 and he was the oldest, who homeschooled his siblings?

    His father worked from home before his wife died, and I believe he continued to do so and also homeschooled the kids. I'm sure there was a lot of responsibility put on Kelton after his mother died (as in, can you cook dinner, Kelton?), but they probably got some help from relatives and "sweet church friends," too. Quotation marks because that term is so nauseatingly fundie. 

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  6. 7 hours ago, Notabug said:

    In general, medical school is free in Great Britain.  The government subsidizes it as part of the provision of universal health care.  If med students accrued the hundreds of thousands in debt ($300,000+ is typical in the US), in England that they do in the US, no one could afford to pay off their loans on an NHS salary.  There are some foreign governments who pay to place students in US med schools, but not Britain, and those are limited seats, mainly from nations that don't have extensive higher educational systems.

    In reality, no US med school will accept non US citizens as students.  They want people who are going to practice in the US.  I had a friend in undergrad who was born in Canada, to Canadian parents who moved to the US when he was 10.  He never naturalized, it just wasn't anything his parents thought about.  Then, when he hit his 3rd year in undergrad, he realized the problem and had to scramble to get citizenship in order to get into med school.  He did it, but it was not simple, even with a green card and longstanding residency.

    Neela seemingly came to the US for undergrad; I seem to vaguely recall her mentioning Princeton or Yale at some point, but no one in her family lived in the US and there would be no reason for her to incur the kind of debt she would've been able to avoid by attending a British university.  I guess TPTB had to account for Parminder Nagra's British accent, but it was dumb.

    BTW, in real life, Elizabeth could've come to the US and done a specialty fellowship as she did; but she was not qualified for a regular US medical license and would not have been able to practice in the US.  The British and US systems are very different and there is no reciprocity.  Someone graduating from a foreign medical school would have to do an entire residency, not just an internship, like Elizabeth did.  Doesn't matter what prior training she had or how much experience; it's an iron-clad rule.  Canadian medical schools/residencies are the only ones with full reciprocity with the US.  Many foreign medical graduates go to Canada for training or even to practice for a bit as a means of entering the US to practice medicine.

    Yale, either biochemistry or microbiology. I remember that because somebody -- maybe Gallant or Pratt -- made a comment about how she must feel out of place. That was in her first episodes. 

    Let's be real -- at the time Neela started in the ER, the show writers had already started up the train that soon went off the tracks. 

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  7. 8 hours ago, zenme said:

    I can’t imagine have umpteen unruly people in my home, especially if people aren’t respectful of my home and its contents. I would hate kids walking around my house with snacks and juice boxes, etc. I don’t blame them for not always inviting folks with small, unruly children.

    And it's not like some of the adult Bateses are likely to be much tidier than the children. 

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  8. On 1/11/2024 at 6:02 PM, Bastet said:

    I had completely forgotten about Gamma's hit and run.  We see where Carter gets his callous attitude towards pets from -- she didn't know she hit a person, but she knew she hit a dog and didn't stop, or care.

     

    When did Carter display a callous attitude toward pets? As for Gamma, she was older, confused, driving at night, and she thought she hit a dog. I'm not sure she even knew where she was. 

  9. Personally, I don't get the impression that Kelton is rigid or controlling. Yes, he's a bible-thumping ass, but that doesn't mean he's abusive or isolates his wife from her family. My impression of Kelton has always been that he sees Josie's family as a bad influence, which is a sentiment I wholeheartedly agree with. If I were a parent, I wouldn't want my children spending a lot of time around lazy slobs like Gil or Kelly or some of the other in-laws (outlaws?). Imagine your little kid coming home from Granny's and telling you she doesn't have to wash her nasty dirty feet because they don't have to do that at Granny's house. Or that they don't have to do chores, or work if they're adults, because Grandpa and Granny don't do that or Uncle Evan and Aunt Carlin don't work. 

    To each her own, of course. I don't have children, but I do have some lazy, gross, self-centered family members who I would not want around them if I did. 

    Ironically, as an atheist and progressive, I would see Kelton as a bad influence and wouldn't want him around my children, except for his enviable work ethic. 

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  10. 1 hour ago, Salacious Kitty said:

    Michael provides everyone a shit ton of babysitting. I bet she's the only one who can actually name her nieces and nephews. I doubt Granny could do it. 

    And Granny's not babysitting, either. 

    Granny doesn't take care of her own damn kids, and probably hasn't since Michael was old enough to take over! 

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  11. 43 minutes ago, cereality said:

    And Kelton - lol - he couldn't hate his inlaws more. While he surprisingly did go the last 2 years, I think as he does better and better financially, he's like whatever - we can go skiing on our own whenever we want and we'll pay for ski school for the kids and babysitting a few nights too for date night; like being with G&K ain't worth the free babysitting. Even last year when the Bates were staying 30 min from the mountain, he was on a gondola one time looking at the ski in/ski out cabins on the mountain saying to Josie - we should stay here next time.

    Carlin and Evan would be pea-green with envy. 

    You And Me Friends GIF by Barbara Pozzi

    Green-Eyed Envy GIF by Five Guys A Week

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  12. 47 minutes ago, Notabug said:

    HIPPAA came into being in 1996, while ER was in its early seasons and almost every episode includes multiple HIPPA violations.  Remember Mark whining and complaining when Kerry stopped allowing patient names on the status board?  Linking identifiable elements to a diagnosis and location is about as big a HIPPAA violation as there is and Mark, of all people, having just recently completed his residency, should've been well aware of it and advocating on behalf of patient privacy.

    The street-kid episodes are in season 13. It's HIPAA -- not HIPPAA -- and its date of origin was years before the episodes in question aired, not to mention that Mark's character was long dead at that point. 

  13. I'm skipping around the truly sucky, later seasons. I kind of like the storyline overall, but what is with the way they dressed the unhoused street kids? The one kid is gray. And "the man at the desk told" Gray Kid that the kid with rabies was at the care something? HIPAA laws, anyone? 

  14. 6 minutes ago, Cloud9Shopper said:

    My favorite out of the hospital episode is Middle of Nowhere from S5, when Benton goes to Mississippi. It captured the culture of the rural south well and wasn’t preachy, and I think it showcased the challenges of working in rural medicine with limited resources in an authentic way. Plus it only lasted one episode…if it had been the way the Africa episodes went where Benton kept going back and forth, I’m sure it would have run its course. 

    Carter really got a raw deal on love interests. Roxanne the insurance lady, his cousin’s ex-wife, Wendell the social worker, Abby, Kem…I wish he could have ended up with a stable relationship that had a chance of going somewhere. 

    Don't forget the woman in season one who gave him an STI, and Harper, who cheated on him with Doug. 

  15. 12 hours ago, Cloud9Shopper said:

    Books? Instead of TV? What is this you are speaking of? /s 🤣

    The Africa episodes always bored me. I have been wanting to watch The West Wing and 9-1-1, though. 

    MOST of the Africa episodes are boring. But Eamonn Walker...not so much. 

    I still think Carter and Debbie would have made a good couple. Kem can go find someone else to whine and feel superior to. 

  16. 1 hour ago, Cloud9Shopper said:

    I’m still deciding if I will continue my latest watch. I didn’t expect Mark’s death to make me lose so much interest in continuing this time around. Maybe it’s because I’ve seen the whole series before and know it’s not going to get better for a good long while. I could still change my mind, though, so I haven’t written it off. Does anyone else just kind of…stop at some point and start over or move on to another series? 

    I finished season 8 this week, and frankly, I don't really give a damn about watching the subsequent seasons. They're just dull. I might watch the Darfur episodes (because Eamonn Walker), but otherwise, I'll find something else to do. I  have books calling my name. 

     

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  17. My grandmother always got a discount for displaying the contractor's sign in her front yard -- roofers, driveway pavers, septic tank, you name it. The Websters aren't unique in that respect. 

    I guess Allie's lousy Christmas paid for the paint job and the new SUV and whatever else John and Alyssa got that wasn't for their children. 

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  18. 1 hour ago, GiandujaPie said:

    Neela should never have been allowed to come back to County, especially in the ER after all of the attendings, except Carter, agreed she wasn't suited to emergency medicine. Yet, when she comes back, she's suddenly the best and most sexually desired female working there. And now she's such a great surgeon too. BS. 

    Not to mention that she went from ER intern to super duper surgeon, doing brain transplants by herself, in about two years. Come on. 

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