Medical Fitness Report

[sgamadison.livejournal.com]

So...

You're getting ready to send Atlantis back to Pegasus.  Or perhaps you are among a handful of secret plotters planning to steal the city and return it on your own, knowing it means permanent estrangement from Earth.


Which doctor inspired more confidence, Carson or Keller? (names chosen in this format because it had a nice ring to it)

Who made the better CMO?

Which is more likely to say, "Yes, I'll go back to Pegasus?"

Which is more likely to turn a blind eye to the stealing of Atlantis if TPTB won't send the city back?  Which is more likely to actively aid, even if they didn't intend on going back themselves?  Would either one rat on the rest of the expedition planning such a risky move?

If you could send *any* medical doctor, either in this fandom or another, who would you choose?

Comments

[sgamadison.livejournal.com]

Keller was way too young, IMO. She shouldn't have even finished her residency. I think she would have made a good pediatrician--her manner with children seemed better than with adults.

As a medical professional, does it bug you when they get the medical details wrong or can you just enjoy it anyway? I used to know someone who would go into elaborate detail as to why everything depicted was wrong, wrong, wrong. I can usually watch it with suspension of disbelief unless it is blatantly wrong, you know?

[tygtig.livejournal.com]

Well, it's actually easier with Star Trek or general genetic techno-babble (as in SGA) than it is with Dr House.

I can easily accept that people wing it with the science if it helps the plot, but I get bugged out when everyone can do anything. As in House - no nurses. Oh, maybe a pretty slim one in a short dress showing up to tell them something but generally, they're on their own. And the same fucking people do the examinations, check the cell cultures, put the patient in the MRI and of course can interpret the results easily, and the worst thing of all - when the patient has a severe anaphylactic reaction in the MRI lab, they do NOT raise the alarm, no, they give ONE dose of *insert generic medicine here*, and then promptly proceeds to cutting the throat open.
I don't believe that. That bugs me.

I actually find MASH and Scrubs the most realistic medical shows, they do show off the absurdities, the teamwork and the complete horror of suddenly being in over your head and having to make it work very, very well.

But it doesn't bug me at all when they turn Sheppard into a bug and cures him via retro-virus-therapy. I could give you a list on why this is so not a good idea, but it makes for an interesting and believable episode, so I simply turn a blind eye to it.

(But I LOVE dr House. Just imagine walking into the reception of the ER shouting "Hello, sickos!")

[sgamadison.livejournal.com]

I'm far more willing to cut a non-medical show slack than I am a medical drama--I mean, c'mon, that's their *job*. I almost didn't watch ER at first because in the first ep someone referred to a bullet on a radiograph as a radiolucent density! And I snickered my way through an entire episode of Gray's Anatomy when I realized that every single doctor was wearing their stethoscope *backwards*.

But for the most part, in non-medical shows, I don't mind that they play fast and loose with the science aspect of things. I'm not sitting there saying, "OMG, they used the wrong dose of atropine!" or picking apart all the medical details.

I'd kinda like to see House face his first Wraith. :-)