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Been watching The Pitt and I have Some Thoughts as an actual practicing US medical doctor

The right:

CPR. Their chest compressions aren’t deep enough but otherwise the codes look pretty spot on (although there should be more yelling and chaos with people shouting out time and trash all over the floor from opening the stuff in the crash cart.) Snaps for showing you don’t shock asystole. Also, for showing that most people don’t actually survive CPR (eg attain ROSC) even when it’s done in the hospital by professionals.

Also good job with the FAST scans (trauma ultrasound)/general trauma assessments

Being a little judgy of people who choose to violate their loved one’s DNR/DNI. That’s legit.

The admin pressure about patient satisfaction, issues with boarding, long wait times, etc. Oof too close to home.

Patients boarding in the ED for days is unfortunately real, especially the psych pts

So far the medicine part is actually pretty accurate. Nothing too wrong/implausible yet. Although I would have done an LP to look for anti-NMDA encephalitis on the girl with new onset psychosis.

Covid PTSD is very real

Dealing with something really personal and shitty (like a miscarriage) and still continuing on with your shift is unfortunately quite common

The walk of honor for organ donors is a real thing and always very somber & touching

The resident getting chewed out for going too slow and not seeing enough patients is very legit too. You have to remember it’s a balance, you can’t be too slow or you risk people dying in the waiting room

The homie ambulance drop off for the gunshot wound is a real thing that definitely happens. At least they took him to a trauma center, in med school it happened at our non-trauma center which was stressful

not having time to eat or pee is also real

The wrong:

Doctors just yelling “help!” instead of Code Blue. Just call the fucking code dude

Figs scrubs in the scrub machine. What kind of bougie ass hospital is this lol

Almost every patient being interesting/a true emergency. In a real shift it’s like 90% more boring stuff (constipation, sniffles, chronic disease exacerbation, etc.)

So far they’ve lost 4 patients. In one shift. I’m not saying it never ever happens but even for a busy inner city ED that seems like a really, really, really unlucky shift.

They are generally real bad at taking histories. And they aren’t doing enough CTs lol

Wayyyy too confrontational with patients over social stuff

Is there only one attending in this huge fucking ED? The fuck? They don’t have a peds trained ED doc either?

Who is letting med students to give verbal orders? Just no. They are not doctors.

I don’t really understand that one very arrogant girl, is she an ED intern? Did she say she might want to do surgery? Is she in a transitional year or something? Otherwise her wanting to do surgery makes no sense.

In real life a bunch of these patients would have medication lists a mile long (not that they would necessarily remember what medications they take)

Where are all the specialists? The hospitalists? No one is coming down for consults or to admit patients?

Not only would the surgeon with the scalpel in her foot be waiting hours to get her exposure work up, so would the Med student who got blood IN HIS MOUTH ew

Overall 8/10. More realistic than almost any other medical show but not quite on the money.

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Round Two: Gale "Buck" Cleven vs. Don Malarkey

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I'm obsessed with this duo.

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The Charioteer unabridged 1988 audiobook, narrated by Davina Porter

I've finished recording the cassettes, cleaning up the audio, and stitching the whole thing together! I've had to split it into two parts (each around 7.5 hours).

The tape was corrupted in 2 places near the end of chapter 6 that I have cleaned up as best as possible, but if there are any other issues with the content or playing/downloading it, please let me know!

To download the audiobook directly, here is a link to a Google Drive folder containing both audio files.

I'm also uploading it to the Internet Archive to preserve this just in case anything happens to the Drive links and will update this post once that's live.

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I take no criticism

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Malcolm in the Middle (2000 - 2006) ⏤ 2.02, Halloween Approximately

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So I found the cassettes for the 1988 audiobook and made an impulse purchase! Would anyone be interested in me digitising these and uploading them?

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Really love this Hodder & Stoughton's 1916 dust jacket of David Blaize (cost me nearly 50 quid 😭

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"The actor’s tonality and face also sounds/looks a little like what i would imagine ralph to be like." OP you're absolutely right:

I spent the last few days watching Das Boot (1981) (the six episode version, which is more psycho thriller than the movie), and the captain constantly made me think of Ralph lol

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Charlotte Rampling and Myriem Roussel in Sadness and Beauty (Tristesse et beauté) (1985)

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Camaraderie D'antan, Greece and Youth Herbert List (German, 1903-1975)

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Harmonica, Dog and the Sea Herbert List (German, 1903-1975)

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I’m not always sure how much crossover Age of Sail fandoms have with sea shanty enthusiasts, but I thought I’d share the big sea shanty hub website in case anyone’s not familiar:

You won’t find a better resource for song lyrics and histories!

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*a fictional military man exists*

the fandom:

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Ralph world travelling with Spud together post-canon: