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Do you mean ADD, not hypertension? It's entirely plausible that adults still take medication for ADD/ADHD. I wasn't even diagnosed until I was 32, and that happens a lot.

Didn't Jen and Craig split up later? Anna must have been older since Carter was an intern that year (and he was a year younger than most people at that stage of his training), and Anna had already done either a pediatrics or ER residency. But this is ER, where even the slackers somehow know more than experienced attendings with decades of experience, so who knows.

Maybe she kept pulling it off and her parents gave up. The only good thing -- Joe and Kendra and kids look happy. They're not dead-eyed like Smuggar.

UO: I don't get the general dislike for Lucy Knight. Was she overly earnest and maybe a little irritating at times? Yes, but nowhere near the level of Abby or Luka or so many minor characters.

Having been there, it's hard enough to be a teenager, then add in your parents moving on, you feeling left out, and having a much younger sibling whom you feel is the favored one. Then add in guilt over an accident that almost killed said younger sibling, plus grief over your dad's early death. Hell, I'd act out too. Freshman year of high school leaves plenty of time to turn one's life around. Plus, once you actually make it to college, nobody really cares how you did in high school. My only skepticism is Rachel getting into Duke, but maybe she transferred after a year or two of college. It happens.

Neela, not Leela. Dusty Crenshaw is the surgeon you're referring to. I don't remember anyone saying he was a great surgeon. He was just kind of there.

ER did that with other specialties, too. I remember when Mark went upstairs to talk to Loretta's radiation oncologist, and that doc was leaving at what would be around the end of normal business hours. Mark made some snarky comment about the easy life of a radiation oncologist. Well, maybe he'd seen all his patients for the day. Maybe he had an appointment of his own. Maybe he was going to spend time with his family and not show up an hour late and inconvenience everyone else, like some people. At County General, of course, every appendectomy except for Benton's is wrought with complications and nearly ends in tragedy. /s

Carol annoyed me pretty much all through her tenure on the show, then she irritated me when she returned in the last season. So did Doug Ross.

Season 6, Carter and his cousin's ex-wife. It's kind of icky, but then add in Carter getting into her business by asking Corday about her mastectomy. Creepy. Also, the whole Gabe Lawrence plot line.

I wish they'd have faked CPR rather than doing it incorrectly -- with horizontal arms, for instance. But that's the kind of thing that I just find absurd. More stuff -- the wildly inappropriate behavior of some staff members. Hello, Luka and Abby.

I'm finishing season one (again) now. We talk about the show jumping the shark in later seasons, but even from the start, there was a LOT of totally ludicrous artistic license going on. Example: the way the show treats seizure patients. I have epilepsy. So did my late grandmother. Both of us spent time in the ER after seizures. Neither of us got Ativan for uncomplicated (non-status) seizures the second we rolled through the door before the doctor even looked at us. Not to mention, the way the show does CPR.

Unless Benton/Corday/Anspaugh has been operating for 77 hours straight and is called into a trauma while walking out of the hospital, then all the mysterious Surgeons X have the flu, broke their leg skiing, or are out of town at their mother-in-law's funeral!

Season one, "Motherhood" -- Lewis delivers her own niece because Coburn is twenty minutes away. In a busy, big city hospital, there was only one OB on duty ("she's doing a crash C-section in four")? Is that level of staffing legit? Also, the birth was entirely too normal for ER, or the caricature ER became later. Shouldn't the baby have been breech or sideways (I'M KIDDING, PEOPLE) or been an alien? I can't stand Kathleen Wilhoite to this day.

I'm aware of that. One of my aunts had one at 47 (IVF), one great-aunt was even older (natural), and my great-grandmother had her thirteenth at 45 (natural). However, I very much doubt either was the case here as much as the writers not thinking. They needed Mrs. Benton to be old enough that dementia and her physical problems made sense, which they might not have if she were ten years younger.

Season 1 -- Peter's mother turned 76 years old, and Peter was a third-year resident and thus about 29 or 30 years old. So she was 47 when he was born? The writers didn't think that one through.

I remember when Carol was dating Shep, and there were holes in her roof with snow coming into the living room. I also remember her mother, Helen, urging her to cozy up to her rich Uncle Miko. In a lot of ways, Carol was a loser.

Yes.

Genetics play a big, big role in wrinkles. Some people are wrinkly at 17, some people are not wrinkly when they're old enough for AARP. I don't think Nathan went to real college. I'm guessing his "degree" is from some online diploma mill that fundies use. ETA: I was right. It looks like something called Independent Baptist Bible College, which is not accredited.

South Dakota also has a moron for a governor. Topic: I hope Jinger has an easy delivery and nobody gets covid.

So much for breaking away from her in-laws' beliefs.

Well, Jill acts like she's about twelve, so that explains the idiotic mugging for any and all cameras.

Psssh. People are always saying Anna's or Jessa's or whoever's face looks pregnant, and they're usually not.

It always was to some extent, but it got really really bad. I'm so sorry, FJers, if some of us don't have time to follow the Duggars and other fundies as closely as you do. FFS. I wonder if Jill ever gets her eye makeup completely off.

I gave up on FJ years ago because it descended into cliquishness, bullying, and virtue signaling like so many other forums. Not only did it cease being fun, it became an ordeal. I went back a year or two ago out of curiosity, and I didn't even recognize the site. Topic: it's interesting that Amy and Angie both got married "late" by some fundie standards. Maybe they weren't pressured by their parents into marrying young. Ahem.

I thought Jinger was supposed to be Josie's mother, not Joy.