Facts and Fiction
I like Grey’s Anatomy. I DVR it and watch it every week. I watch it for the drama, and of course because it’s a medical drama. There’s something that totally ticks me off about it though… the medical facts are completely skewed. Because I am not, by any means, an expert I do not always catch all of the inaccuracies and medical dramatizations, but I caught a lot of the wrong in tonight’s episode regarding the 30 week neonate. Here is a short list:
- a physician would never kangaroo a baby
- a nurse would never kangaroo a baby (we would absolutely hold, but not kangaroo)
- it is not okay to rock a preterm infant (this causes motion sickness)
- it would not be okay to remove CPAP from an infant whose heart rate was less than 60 unless you were going to intubate immediately
- there would be nurses and respiratory therapists everywhere
- RNs would be the ones pushing drugs and doing all of the dirty work
- medical professionals do not explain every little bit of the diagnosis to each other (i.e. a peds surgeon telling residents what “short gut” is… a resident should know what that is)
In my personal opinion, these fallacies and extreme cases do not do the public at large any good. People who see these shows may actually expect life/hospitalizations/illnesses/codes/real life to happen in the way they see on these shows, only to be horribly disappointed when the outcome is not the pretty picture that they see on Grey’s or Private Practice or any other number of TV shows. Oh, how I wish that the networks would portray accurate and probable outcomes rather than the things that don’t happen. You can create plenty of drama without erasing the line between fact and fallacy. Just walk the halls of your local hospital.
P.S. Read this post to see what the news media likes to tell the public about NICU.
Twilight
Read it. Not impressed. Not going to watch the movies. I may be the only one in the world who isn’t on a huge vampire kick… but I’m still just not into it.
This random thought brought to you by the Twilight commercial that I just saw.
Psalm 121
1 I lift up my eyes to the hills—
where does my help come from?
2 My help comes from the LORD,
the Maker of heaven and earth.
3 He will not let your foot slip—
he who watches over you will not slumber;
4 indeed, he who watches over Israel
will neither slumber nor sleep.
5 The LORD watches over you—
the LORD is your shade at your right hand;
6 the sun will not harm you by day,
nor the moon by night.
7 The LORD will keep you from all harm—
he will watch over your life;
8 the LORD will watch over your coming and going
both now and forevermore.
Family Room
Remember this faux painting?
It’s not there anymore!!
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- We’re hoping to replace the couch pretty soon :)
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- Harrison… and our tile
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- View from the kitchen
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- Drapes from Target… what a great find!!
Kitchen!!
Remember this horrible textured brick on my island?
Well… it’s not there anymore!!
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- No more brick!
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- My doggied cookie jar. I’ve wanted this for my own house since I was a kid.
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- Yummy pumpkin candle
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- Breakfast nook… and Harrison
Ecclesiastes 3
For everything there is a season, and a time for every matter under heaven: a time to be born, and a time to die;a time to plant, and a time to pluck up what is planted; a time to kill, and a time to heal; a time to break down, and a time to build up; a time to weep, and a time to laugh;a time to mourn, and a time to dance; a time to cast away stones, and a time to gather stones together;a time to embrace, and a time to refrain from embracing; a time to seek, and a time to lose;a time to keep, and a time to cast away; a time to tear, and a time to sew;a time to keep silence, and a time to speak; a time to love, and a time to hate;a time for war, and a time for peace.
Ecclesiastes 3: 1-8 ESV
Have you seen this?
MckMama is giving away a $200 gift card to Best Buy! She was given a new (beautiful) fridge by Samsung… so now they are passing on the blessings to her blog readers! Go enter for a new refrigerator!!!! *Fingers crossed* I hope I win, I hope I win, I hope I win!
Roller Coaster
I’m on a roller coaster right now. I don’t like it. I want to fix things, to make them better, to take away the pain. But I can’t. All I can do is watch and pray.
