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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.
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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?
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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.
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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.
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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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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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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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1 hour ago, BitterApple said:
I don't know what John and Alyssa's deal is, because judging by the Christmas social media posts of her siblings, they don't scrimp when it comes to their kids. Layla and Zade got a nice playset, Bradley got his dog, Khloe got a Barbie Jeep and Josie's girls got princess gear and other age appropriate toys. Alyssa strikes me as kind of bitter, like "I didn't get shit for Christmas growing up, so you don't need to either." I think John is just cheap and won't spend any more on his kids than absolutely necessary.
We'll see if that holds true when the Golden Penis is older.
I think you're right that Alyssa is bitter, both about her shitty childhood and about her adulthood not being what she thought it would be. She needs therapy, not that she'll ever get any, and she'll make her daughters' childhoods unhappy, too.
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That brown thing they wrapped the baby in looks something from the reject pile at the St. Vincent de Paul. What a way to welcome a new baby -- with a dirty dull rag for a blanket.
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15 hours ago, CalicoKitty said:
Maybe a wall hanging? Maybe they think this is a tapestry like in a castle.
My guess is they will use it as their bedspread.
Geez, Timmy has a Duggar-boy hairline.
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More St. Crabby -- in season 8, episode 2, why did the writers think it made sense for Haleh to ask for assistance from Abby? Haleh is a veteran ER nurse who probably knows as much as the doctors and can put in a Foley catheter in her sleep. Abby hasn't even been in the ER that long!
The Abby adoration is stupid, and kind of nauseating.
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I've progressed to season eight -- I'm into the St. Crabby, Adored by All Men crap. She's even more annoying this time around. She and Carter are about to head to Oklahoma -- maybe she'll get lost on the way back and only Carter will return to Chicago.
I'd like someone to explain why it was acceptable for Kovac, an attending, to superglue Malucci's hand to his face.
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On 12/20/2023 at 4:50 AM, Notabug said:
In real life, it takes the average malpractice suit about 4 years to make it to trial and most suits aren't even filed until the statute of limitations is approaching to give the plaintiff's attorneys enough time to investigate and write the most comprehensive complaint that they can. The SOL is usually a year after the event occurred. So, in the case of LLL, Mark wouldn't even have been deposed until the kid was probably nearly 2 years old and the boy would've been in kindergarten at least, before it came to trial.
The only cases that settle quickly are those that are so egregious that there is no defense and those often never even come to a complaint being filed. Something really terrible happens (wrong organ removed, wrong medication administered, wrong type blood hung, etc) and the hospital's attorneys are notified ASAP and they will usually meet with the patient and/or family within days to weeks and start settlement talks. I knew a physician who was involved in a wrong site surgery and the patient had already received a settlement from the hospital by the time she was 6 weeks postop. She suffered no lasting ill effects from the error, which was caught at the time and the correct procedure done; but the error was so obvious, there was no other explanation for it. Best to settle and move on in those situations.
How did that error happen? I'm thinking of Romano, when his dead arm was about to be amputated, having Corday write "Not this one, idiot" on his good arm.
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11 hours ago, txhorns79 said:
Think about the brawl they had in Season 7 when the one high school football player died from his injuries, and the two rival teams had a throwdown, with everyone, including the cheerleaders, attacking one another, in the ER. It was completely absurd.
Also, speaking of Season 7, what was the point of the Kneysha storyline? It seems obvious to everyone but Benton that she is extremely troubled and really beyond his ability to help. And in the end, it goes nowhere, except leaving me to question why Cleo would have stayed with Benton after Kynesha trashed her home.
Finally, I just realized that Corday screws up the surgery with the surfer one week, is sued the next week and is immediately deposed the week after that. That is one of the fastest moving lawsuits I've ever seen.
Even the O'Brien lawsuit went from death to deposition to settlement in like a year -- maybe even less.
For St. Crabby, it probably would have been blatant malpractice to settlement in her favor in half an hour.
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28 minutes ago, babyhouseman said:
Carson and his brother could be close in their adult years, but are the girls ever mentioned? Are they just things Erin had to go through to get Carson a brother?
Well, Alyssa and John seems to regard their daughters -- or at least the second, third, and fourth ones -- as nothing more than placeholders until they got their Golden Penis. It tracks that Erin would do the same.
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5 hours ago, oliviabenson said:
Jill photoshopped her fingers trim lol
It looks like she forgot to do the all-important finger, though. 🖕
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46 minutes ago, all fall down said:
I think Jill's just a shitty hairdresser. She went to school in the 90's and has never learned more updated practices and techniques.
Oh, she has. She just doesn't care. This is a woman who thinks stumpy, overly thick acrylics and caked-on black eyeliner are the height of beauty.
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20 minutes ago, Vivigirl10 said:
On a spoof Rodrigues site I follow on Instagram, the comments are leaning towards Renee's haircut being a form of punishment for something. Public humiliation. It that's true, it's absolutely heartbreaking. Unfortunately, it makes sense. It doesn't matter how damaged, ugly, thin, broken, or lackluster a woman's hair is, it is always left alone and worn long. Renee would never choose to cut her hair, nor would Mahmo think it would make her more attractive. I'm concerned.
I thought of that, too, but I maintain that Jill intentionally makes her daughters look worse to make herself look better, or for less competition. I lean toward that being the case with Renee's shitty haircut.
It's not like fundies aren't total hypocrites already. Jill cuts (and colors and fries) her own hair, so she clearly has nothing wrong with haircuts for women.
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3 hours ago, txhorns79 said:
The best I could think of was that having HIV left her feeling isolated, and while Al was not an ideal choice, she didn't have to keep secrets with him and he could understand what she going through.
I thought of that as well. I just hate seeing her go back to the person who put her in that place to start with. I liked her with Greg Fisher, although he was pushy.
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I'm still cruising through season 3. Al and Jeanie reuniting is a mystery I've never understood. Al cheated on Jeanie, gave her a potentially deadly virus -- one that was deadly for him -- and by Jeanie's own account, they "barely had a marriage these last few years." But she goes back to him anyway.
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1 hour ago, GeeGolly said:
I always thought stones fell into two categories, proteins based and calcium based, so recommended dietary changes would be specific to the stones found.
From the article I posted: "Up to 75 percent of all kidney stones are composed primarily of calcium. Stones can also be made up of uric acid (a normal waste product), cystine (a protein building block), or struvite (a phosphate mineral). Stones form when there is more of the compound in the urine than can be dissolved. This imbalance can occur when there is an increased amount of the material in the urine, a reduced amount of liquid urine, or a combination of both."
Bad news for the Starbucks in Katie's area, I guess. Then again, maybe there is hope that she won't be like her mother or sister Carlin.
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3 hours ago, zenme said:
Is there a family predisposition to those?
Kind of. Having a first-degree relative with stones increases your chances of having one. https://medlineplus.gov/genetics/condition/kidney-stones/#causes
Topic: Better give up the Starbucks and ice cream, Katie. Carlin will be crushed.
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5 minutes ago, BitterApple said:
I would've loved to have been a fly on the wall during that car ride home. I'm not sure if details weren't hashed out beforehand or what, but I doubt E&C would've driven over 20 hours roundtrip for a long weekend. Even for immature, scattered people like the Stews, that's a bit insane. I think they figured Katie would spend Saturday and Sunday recovering and then be ready to play tour guide by Monday, and it didn't go according to plan.
You can't tell me they weren't pissed that they drove all the way up there to go the gym and get a manicure and then turn around and go home. I bet they were talking shit the whole way back to TN. 😂
In slight defense of them, however, I'm wondering why T&K even had them come. Katie wasn't so down and out that she needed a team of helpers. They don't work and live off takeout, so I'm not exactly sure what E,C and Ellie were supposed to do that Travis (and his nearby family) couldn't handle themselves.
I would bet that the Stews outright invited themselves, or they "suggested" it and Travis and Katie felt it would be rude to say no.
I'm sure the Stews' disappointing vacation won't prevent them from doing it again, and soon. Those dipshits act like they're allergic to their own home. I wonder who kept their canine photo op this time.
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4 hours ago, Cloud9Shopper said:
I was on TWOP (RIP) during the original airing in 2002 and still have fond memories of the roast of that episode. 🤣I watched it again on my first rewatch back in 2018 or 19 and still don’t like it. Now it’s a skip. One run through every episode was enough for me honestly; I plan on more skips the later I get into the series.
I miss those TWoP episode recaps. The Cartus! The Weavus! Bummer.
I would like to know what the hell the writers were thinking with "Secrets and Lies." Character assassination on somebody? More St. Abby, every man's dream?
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Carlin and Evan: But Mostly Carlin!
in Bringing Up Bates
Did she get an Angelina Jolie leg at the shop, too?