[S04.E15: We Hold These Truths]

55 minutes ago, cinsays said:

I agree with statsgirl about the organ donor issue.  And I don't think there was really any strong pressure to make the mother decide to donate her child's organs.  I think she was just persuaded to look at it as a way to keep part of her daughter alive.

My husband died in August and I was able to donate his eyes and that gave me some comfort.

No strong pressure?! Seriously every time one of these shows broaches the topic there is guilt trips and pressure. It would be great just once to see the parent tell them to go jump and then sue the hospital for emotional trauma. 

[S04.E15: We Hold These Truths]

1 hour ago, statsgirl said:

The face transplant was on The Good Doctor. It enabled a girl who had been disfigured by surgery after an accident to have a normal life again.

The husband of a friend of mine had a double lung transplant just over a year ago. Without it, he possibly would have been dead by now and his sons without a father, so I'm going to have to disagree with you.

If anything happened to my child, the only light that I could see coming out of it is that it might help some other people live. In the horror of having my child die before I do, I would hold on to that thought desperately.  It's why  both of us are on the donor registry.

For me, the gold standard of TV organ donation was the scene from ER when Abby explained to the man's wife how each of the organs she was donating for him would help someone live or see. A powerful scene.

Oops all these shows run with the same stories. 

I find it dull, I would like to see someone flat out refuse or does that mess with the PC agendas?

I am not an organ donor neither is anyone in my family and any doctor who would ask me especially at a time like that better have a team of cops behind them. I don't care who it might save they can nick off. 

[S12.E16: The D & D Vortex]

The show has been in decline for a few seasons now but this season, which I believe is the last one, the cast just seem to be really lacklustre. 

[S04.E15: We Hold These Truths]

On 2/22/2019 at 6:18 AM, langford peel said:

I disagree. Making the driver a cartoon white guy is par for the course for the Chicago shows. The only surprise was that he wasn’t a cop.

This episode was as self-righteous as all get out. They could have done the episode with it simply being an accident and the Mom refusing to have her beloved daughter be cut up for parts. That would be an interesting dilemma and worthy of a drama. This blah episode is the usual cartoon with the preferred narrative.

Typical of the hack writing in Dick Wolf’s empire. The nonsensical frenzy of a nondescript procedural like “The Rookie” is more nuanced and believable than this tripe.

I agree, It seems every week now on one of the Chicago shows and other non Dick Wolf shows we get some kind of lecture on racism. There was a part in the ep where the ugly manager of the hospital is chatting to the psychiatrist and she tells him that at some point everyone needs to get over it. Kind of ironic given it's brought up in everything now. 

I'd also love to see one of these grieving parents refuse to let their child be cut up for once too for spare parts. Surely it would be harassment the way the doctors etc keep coming at them. If I remember correctly the previous ep or a recent one had the same theme where they wanted to take the child's face!