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13 hours ago, txhorns79 said:
And even after that, Weaver still acted like she had done nothing wrong. That was my problem. I think back to the episode where Peter screwed up the infant's surgery while he was being overseen by Dr. Keaton. She acknowledged that the botched surgery would be her responsibility, while still being Peter's fault. That was something Kerry just couldn't bring herself to do.
Something else I really hated about her--nothing was ever her fault. It's not her fault the Marfan's patient died even though she should have been there to supervise Malucci and Chen, Chen's punishment isn't her fault--"I went on record against this"--despite her explicitly telling risk management to make sure she bore the brunt of it, and even when she finally admits to what she did, she still manages to blame it on Chen and gloss over her conscious and deliberate decision to lie and manipulate things in her favor.
She always wanted all of the credit but none of the blame.
It doesn't work like that. Especially when you're the one in charge. You can't lament how incompetent your subordinates are without realizing that people are going to wonder why YOU failed to correct this.
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On 12/20/2023 at 4:50 AM, Notabug said:
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 don't know why my previous post vanished, but the malpractice lawsuit my family brought after my sister's death was settled quickly for the very same reason--they failed to do a sepsis workup or admit her for prophylactic IV antibiotics despite her presenting to the ER with symptoms--vomiting, lower abdominal pain, high fever--and lab work--an elevated white blood cell count--that clearly indicated some kind of infection and sent her home with nothing more than painkillers. She returned 2 days later, with her symptoms having worsened and they finally did admit her, but it was too late by then.
(Toxic Shock Syndrome, btw)
7 hours ago, txhorns79 said:I'll admit, even if Chen really screwed up with the Marfan Syndrome patient, and deserved the demotion, I did enjoy Weaver getting her comeuppance for throwing Chen and Malucci under the bus to try and save herself.
Weaver's behavior in that story--pretending to have Chen's back while all the while preparing to stab her in it--was truly cowardly and despicable. And then to cap it off by lying to Chen about trying to advocate for her--"I went on record against this"--was even more so. I don't blame Chen for quitting upon realizing that someone she trusted had screwed her over like that so that she herself would incur no punishment.
7 hours ago, txhorns79 said:Also, I'm curious what the view might be now on Sandy purposefully outing Weaver at work. Then, it was treated as though it was necessary for Weaver's growth, but I feel like now Sandy would be seen as a villain, i.e given she outed Weaver for personal reasons without much thought as to how the outing might effect Weaver's job.
Overall, I thought it was a lousy thing for Sandy to do. While Kerry did need to get over herself and Sandy had the right to not want to date someone who wanted to keep their relationship secret, it wasn't Sandy's place to expose her like that.
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As much as I hated her by then, I loved the moment when Kerry confronted Dave after finding out that he'd been asking everyone why she uses a cane, acting all cheerful and casual as if it's no big deal, until the moment she very pointedly declares "No, it's NOT." (any of his business)
Quite remarkable considering that she probably had to deal with years of intrusive questions about it and has learned to handle it with grace.
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51 minutes ago, Spartan Girl said:
At least the assholes in Promising Young Women deserved to have Cassie mess with them (some got off too lightly, but that’s another issue entirely). Why should we root for Oliver to ruin these people’s lives, just because they’re rich and snobby?
Especially Felix, who had every right to be angry with him upon realizing how much Oliver had deceived him from the very beginning. You could tell that he wasn't just angry, he was genuinely hurt. I'm not going to lament the trials of rich people, but it can't be easy to wonder if someone really likes you or is just trying to social climb/gold dig, and in this case, have those fears confirmed.
I hate movies that look like they're going to be good and then end up sucking.
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My two cents on the MD/JD thing:
My father went to law school later in life, as he'd always wanted to, after years of being an accountant, and repeatedly mentioned to me that two of his classmates were doctors, though I have no idea what was behind their decision to pursue a law degree. One of the doctors who interviewed me for a residency also idly mentioned to me that she was attending law school.
The MD degree is part of a lot of joint degree programs with the MBA, MPH (which of course, I only learned AFTER I completed mine 🙄), PhD, etc. But they're all set up to do your first two years of Basic Sciences, then the 1-5 years for the other degree before returning for your clinical rotations. There's no way Gallant's patient could have been attending both simultaneously. MAYBE if she was taking night school classes for law, it could technically work timewise, but even then, the tremendous amount of studying required for either degree would still be impossible to handle. It's no wonder she was on the verge of a breakdown.
Back to the Season 3 discussion. . .
Yes, Mark was an ass for snooping through Jeanie's medical records and further compounded by acting like an ignorant jackass in yanking her away from seeing patients.
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Did anyone else expect that while Oliver was doing his naked dancing throughout the house that he was going to encounter Duncan, who would. . .join him, this revealing that the two of them planned the whole thing together?
Awful movie. And it's not that it's bad as far as acting/writing, etc., just that nearly everyone is an absolutely awful person who isn't worth rooting for. And the grimness just got relentless--first Felix dies, then Venetia, then James, then Elspeth (albeit years later). And all because of Oliver's actions or manipulations. And why? None of these people ever mistreated him in any way. Felix genuinely befriended him and despite how vapid they all were, the rest of them seemed to like him too.
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On 5/17/2023 at 6:16 PM, BetterButter said:
WTF?
I have zero sympathy for anyone who's bought tickets and/or invested. Ever hear the phrase "Fool me once, shame on you, fool me twice, shame on ME?"
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On 11/7/2023 at 3:53 PM, Notabug said:
Like when Abby and her attending got very drunk and slept together.
Given that Abby was so drunk she blacked out, while Moretti was at least sober enough to get them back to his place --ergo, should have had a clearer head, frankly, that whole sequence borders on rape.
On 11/7/2023 at 11:23 PM, Cloud9Shopper said:Pick a camp. I still don’t get the hype of these two as a forever couple.
I always figured that the reason they reconciled is because they'd dated/slept with everyone else in the hospital and had no further options.
That said, I still genuinely believe that their second go-round was better than their first.
On 11/7/2023 at 11:23 PM, Cloud9Shopper said:Also, Abby needs to mind her own business about Nicole. Is Nicole a prize
I absolutely hated how nasty she was to and about her and the way she kept trying to interfere in their relationship. The man broke up with you, that means his personal life is no longer any of your business.
I especially hate that moment when she offers the pregnant Nicole some coffee and when Nicole declines, citing that she shouldn't have caffeine, claims "Oh, right, I forgot".
Um. . .Bull to the Fucking SHIT.
You're a NURSE. And an OB nurse, at that. You did NOT forget that a pregnant woman shouldn't have caffeine, you did that to trick her and see if she was lying about being pregnant.
As far as the Marfan's case , I thought Kerry pretending to be Chen's friend have Chen's back while all the while planning to screw her over in order to save herself was utterly reprehensible and I don't blame Chen for being so angry that she quit. Chen never denied screwing up, but I think she was still stunned at how harsh her punishment was and the realization that someone she trusted has engineered that.
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I just read his autobiography earlier this year.
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Mother of God. . .
He was my favorite Friend too.
I just read his autobiography earlier this year.
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I watched "The Vicky White Story". It was pretty good, and yet incredibly sad at the same time. I don't know how/why people continually get themselves into these kind of situations. Was this convicted murderer really worth sacrificing your career/freedom/life? So unbelievably stupid.
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9 hours ago, Bastet said:
He was a good "love to hate" character, because the show didn't try to paper over how awful he was
Yep.
He was an asshole, but at least he fully admitted it and you knew he wasn't to be trusted. Unlike others who would pretend to be your friend and then stab you in the back (Kerry), or just wimp out on you altogether (Mark).
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15 hours ago, Bastet said:
That stupid plot is so annoyingly sexist, a common refrain with this show (and virtually all shows, sadly). At least, IIRC, Peter has an appropriate oh, come on type reaction to her ridiculousness, but the fact she's written that way under the circumstances is obnoxious as all get out. The worst offense on that front is woman-loving Elizabeth being an insecure jerk to Susan for absolutely no reason, but this is a bad, bad look on its own.
That's true and I hate it too. It's especially pathetic when you consider, as you pointed out, that Peter and Elizabeth dated--did they even really?--for all of 5 minutes a year before he even met Cleo (and she herself is the product of a black man/white woman pairing, so her disapproval of them is incredibly hypocritical), and that Mark and Susan were never even together.
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12 hours ago, Cloud9Shopper said:
too would love to know what Legaspi was thinking telling a patient she was gay. I can’t think of any universe, fictional or otherwise, where that’s a good idea. 🤦♀️
That was the one legitimate point Kerry made in the midst of her self-centered cowardice.
Sexism aside, it annoyed me how outraged Elizabeth was that other doctors were operating on her patients. Um, work doesn't stop at ANY workplace just because the employee is out sick or on vacation, especially at a hospital. Were you seriously expecting lifesaving operations to be put off until you returned?
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On 10/5/2023 at 10:43 PM, Cloud9Shopper said:
Hate the way Abby brags about how Luka doesn’t get jealous and her deflating Richard’s car tires. I guess it’s kind of funny but also childish at the same time. Just be an adult and leave his car alone and mo
On 10/5/2023 at 10:43 PM, Cloud9Shopper said:Abby's behavior was indeed incredibly childish, especially since she's the one who instantly started trying to antagonize him when she saw him--"What are you doing here?"--as if the man doesn't have the right to be wherever he wants. It's not like she has a restraining order against him.
On 10/5/2023 at 10:43 PM, Cloud9Shopper said:I’m torn on Kerry ordering the competency tests for Mark. In terms of danger to patients, I think Gabe was worse, and she ignored that. We haven’t seen Mark do much more than mix up some words and send some people with the flu home, and even she initially said she wasn’t worried about it. That said I know from a legal and ethical standpoint she had no choice.
And therein lies the point. Yes, she had to report Mark, but she didn't have to handle it as badly as she did--going behind his back, leaving it for someone else to tell him, and trying to blame administration for forcing her hand. And as always, she was a complete hypocrite--she wouldn't report her mentor despite his visible cognitive decline, but she instantly reports Mark?
Of course, any sympathy I might have had for Mark evaporated due to his own hypocrisy, as he clearly felt Kerry shouldn't have reported HIM, even after the way he blasted Kerry for ignoring the warning signs about Gabe.
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3 hours ago, GHScorpiosRule said:
NOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOO!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
WAAAH!
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On 1/19/2023 at 2:20 PM, Spartan Girl said:
My favorite parody of Raiders of the Lost Ark:
It’s Homer’s angrily running with the rake that cracks me up every time.
The Fugitive is my favorite movie, so I like the two clips where it's parodied, though I can't find them, sadly.
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5 hours ago, Bastet said:
What would have made sense is for her to opt for abortion, and it would have been nice to see. Just an abortion, period, since American TV still treats that as the third rail of storytelling, especially for main characters, but also to show that older, financially secure women in relationships have them, too (on TV, if they do let a character have one, it's usually some poor, dumb teenage girl with nasty parents and whose boyfriend took off once he heard the news, so she couldn't raise a baby even if she wanted to).
The dreaded Good Girls Avoid Abortion trope. No matter how unfavorable the woman's circumstances are or how unhappy she is about the pregnancy, she will always inexplicably decide to keep the baby.
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13 hours ago, Cloud9Shopper said:
At the end of the day, Carol is A-tier for me.
Me too. I'll always love Doug and Carol, individually, and as a couple, even growing up does make me more critical of some of their actions than I was as a kid.
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On 8/17/2023 at 11:46 PM, Cloud9Shopper said:
And in the same episode, I actually was on Kerry’s side with putting the central line in the disabled girl.
I would have been had it not been yet another demonstration of her hypocrisy. I was glad when Romano suspended her, just as she would have done to anyone else. Instead of being pissy about it, she should have been glad that at least he wasn't screaming his head off and publicly humiliating her the way she would have been.
On 8/17/2023 at 11:46 PM, Cloud9Shopper said:Luka has no bedside manner with the cocaine addict who was awaiting the kidney transplant (in Viable Options
He was always so dangerously self-righteous with patients who weren't living up to his expectations.
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Jamie Bamber confirmed that he filmed scenes for Series 2, though I don't think he'll be appearing full time. Perhaps Rachita's going to visit Martyn in prison.
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It looks like Broadway might be next. . .
https://www.yahoo.com/entertainment/iatse-holds-strike-authorization-vote-150711454.html
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3 hours ago, Daff said:
I agree, but typically, it’s a male trope.
Women do it too.
There was a episode of Cold Case where despite having been run off the road and almost drowning, Lily raced out of the hospital before her doctor could finish evaluating her and spent the rest of the episode clearly struggling with the effects of a concussion, although it turned out that she never even made it out of the car and the entire episode was a dream.
But overall, the "who cares that I'm badly hurt, I've got a case to solve!" is infuriatingly common on cop shows. Saturday Night Live even parodied this where the guy kept working even though he'd been SHOT. By the time it was time to celebrate catching the bad guy, he'd DIED.
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On 7/17/2023 at 7:21 AM, Spartan Girl said:
Not to mention this episode revealed he uses Laura’s measurements as his locker combination, which she rightly found creepy.
It's pure Fridge Horror to wonder how he found that out. There's absolutely no explanation that doesn't make him an obsessed pervert.
On 7/17/2023 at 7:21 AM, Spartan Girl said:when Laura gave him the first dance to thank him, he immediately took that as a Love Kernel and went right back to stalking her.
I hated the way he'd take the most minutely nice thing she said or did as a sign that she reciprocated his feelings. The poor girl couldn't even say "Thank you" without him declaring "You love me, don't you?" Although sadly, from my own experience and the numerous other stalking stories I've heard, this is unfortunately Truth In Television, which is why Gavin de Becker advises victims to ignore their pursuers as much as possible.
On 7/17/2023 at 7:21 AM, Spartan Girl said:his immediate reaction is to propose marriage, ignoring her pointing out that they’re only 15
My stalker ex capped off a year of harassment by spending nearly 3 hours trying to browbeat me into marrying him.
Let's see, we're only 19 (me) and 20 (him), have no jobs, no money, nowhere to live, are both still in college, and I broke up with you a year ago and have been telling you to LMTFA ever since. All the makings of a great marriage!
Rational thought and common sense doesn't exist for these people.
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All Episodes Talk: What's Up Doc?
in ER
It really is and it was absolutely the lowest point both for Kerry in general and her ever-present hypocrisy. Watching the same woman who wouldn't even let Doug touch any patients because of his possible involvement in euthanizing another essentially get away with manslaughter/criminally negligent homicide--and be rewarded with the Chief of Staff position!--was thoroughly sickening. Let's not forget that it started with yet another major violation of policy--hiding the Alderman's syphilis results instead of reporting it to the Department of Public Health.