Yes, I do mean tripe, although stomach lining WILL be lost if you watch this series. I am an Aussie anaesthetist, my OH a neurologist and he actually managed to note about 10-15mins into the first episode that "but this isn't set in Australia?" Had to disabuse him of that misconception. Sorry, I only watched the first episode, it was just TOO bad to have my life for another episode.
So, why it's so wrong? We don't operate when the AC is down. IF you can't do air exchange in the theatre then the air isn't of the quality required to assure "cleanliness" and so theatres would be cancelled. We don't assign cases to residents, you have a team you are assigned to for a term, so you might be the cardiothoracic resident for 10-12 weeks, you do their cases, although if they're cancelled that day, you're off on the wards!
I wouldn't mind if you had a transplant as my resident. But if you sent your dialysis requiring renal failure patient home (and he wasn't already unconscious) I'd suspect that he'd arrest from too much potassium as he already would have had significant uraemic encephalopathy. You've just proved that you really aren't up to scratch, probably shouldn't have passed third year medical school let alone being a renal resident (which in many hospitals is a medically streamed resident job) and would be spending significant time with medical admin rethinking your career path.
And there is much more that is just not what should or would happen in the modern Australian workplace. Seriously ER back in the 90s was a run of really bad days at work. This is just BAD! Read a book.
So, why it's so wrong? We don't operate when the AC is down. IF you can't do air exchange in the theatre then the air isn't of the quality required to assure "cleanliness" and so theatres would be cancelled. We don't assign cases to residents, you have a team you are assigned to for a term, so you might be the cardiothoracic resident for 10-12 weeks, you do their cases, although if they're cancelled that day, you're off on the wards!
I wouldn't mind if you had a transplant as my resident. But if you sent your dialysis requiring renal failure patient home (and he wasn't already unconscious) I'd suspect that he'd arrest from too much potassium as he already would have had significant uraemic encephalopathy. You've just proved that you really aren't up to scratch, probably shouldn't have passed third year medical school let alone being a renal resident (which in many hospitals is a medically streamed resident job) and would be spending significant time with medical admin rethinking your career path.
And there is much more that is just not what should or would happen in the modern Australian workplace. Seriously ER back in the 90s was a run of really bad days at work. This is just BAD! Read a book.