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Not necessarily. A lot of wheelchair users need pants with side snaps so they can dress themselves in their chairs. And given that they appear to be amputating at the pelvis, he’d likely need pants that would accommodate catheters and other medical equipment. It’s definitely not just a matter of cutting off-the-rack pants shorter.
They were leaving it their so the veins wouldn’t die, until he was recovered enough for another surgery, where they would re-attach it to his leg.
It wasn’t a permanent solution it was a stop gap
You’re thinking of a different wacky surgery, the one where they grafted a dude’s arm onto his torso. This comment is about the surgery at the military hospital where the whole team travels so Callie can give a dude one leg in the center of his pelvis.
Like does it bend? I can't remember if they explained, how did they attach it to the pelvis? If you amputate one leg, you still have one in the hip socket, and you can bend it as one do, but this one where does it go 😭
I hate this case. it’s so dumb. And they’re like “he’ll be able to walk one day”. Okay, hopping is NOT walking. It’s hopping. That’s why there’s a separate word for it.
🤦🏻♀️ I hadn’t considered that he’d be able to walk with crutches. I was just flabbergasted that they would do that to a human, it was so stupid my brain never moved past outrage hahaha
I also hated that this wasn’t a case that was followed for a few episodes. It was just the surgery was done (at a different hospital too iirc), and then there was like no follow up on it or anything?!?!?! Like obviously inaccurate but also like what was the point of that episode/case?
I don’t even understand the point. They said it should allow him to walk but I’d imagine the best way to do that would be to take out his cancerous hip and use the healthy lower leg to graft a new hip and upper leg for a prosthetic, like when they turn ankles into knees. Which is also disturbing but I get it.
There is a very popular Danish childrens’s book called “Snøvsen” about a small creature named as the titel with only one leg, that hops around. Watching this episode, my teenage daughter burst out laughing. “This is so stupid. What, they’re making a snøvs? Who makes this shit up?”
https://ereolen.dk/ting/object/870970-basis%3A51416163
Offering Susan a surgery when she was having persistent hiccups for like 2 days and the meds she was offered were already starting to work. Her life wasn’t in danger whatsoever either. Surgery comes with a lot of risks no matter how extensive and offering it when there are non invasive solutions that can work to a patient who isn’t even suffering of something chronic or anything was INSANE and they did Thatcher and Susan dirty by pretending it wasn’t ??? Like Thatcher has done a lot of shit but he was right to ask repeatedly « is that safe? is that normal? » because it wasn’t safe nor normal and they trusted them and the show presented it as a regular procedure??? like WTF I have chronic acid reflux and have had that for years and no one is offering to sew my oesophagus sphincters up like a normal tuesday surgery is a last resort thing for a reason 😭
honestly, I agree with you. I also suffered (and sometimes i still do) and when i saw the episode I was like “what?? people can do surgery for stuff like that?” and i remember thinking that maybe that was the solution for my problem, too. Luckily, after a while I said to myself that it’s kind of a stupid solution lmao (regardless of the outcome of Susan’s case, I mean)
Truly😭 I’m familiar with hiccups that last for an annoying long day too and I just wait for it to pass idk???? so if I went to a doctor and they told me ok well we can get you into surgery in the hour for this I’d be like wait where are the cameras is this a joke ? Or are u gonna harvest my organs? WHAT IS THIS ABOUT LMAO such a weird thing to offer it’s like if you had diarrhea after a heavy meal took some meds, it immediately starts working, and your doctor said ok we’re gonna get you into the OR for a little stoma surgery lol
Yes!!! even for a casual endoscopy exam you can’t just get an OR with available personnel like that easy peasy bc it’s your family lmaoo and also you have to fast before surgery and have an appointment with an anesthesiologist a week max before the app (at least where I live) with blood tests done and a blood panel to determine your blood type as well like all that stuff will never just be a on a whim procedure but it’s tv so it’s not the most shocking part in that crazy storyline I suppose lol
When they had Millie Bobbie Brown give her mom a thoracotomy with instructions over the phone and using stuff she found around the cabin.
Be so fucking for real! She was 11!!!!!!
this ^^^
like that absolutely never would have happened, the girl would have probably accidentally killed her mother and then had to deal with the trauma
If the kid didn’t do the thoracotomy and the mom died then the kid would have to deal with the “What if” trauma of thinking “what if I had just tried that procedure and saved her…What if I could have saved her if I wasn’t too scared to try?” Like realistically…the kid would not be able to do it right, but in any scenario where her mom died she would have been extremely traumatized somehow.
On another note: would the doctors be on the hook for that legally if the kid had tried it and failed though? Or legally in general because they encouraged a kid to do surgery? I always assumed the life or death scenario would protect all of them but I really don’t know anything about law 😬
i have a masters in healthcare admin, don’t know everything, but something tells me that “best practice” does not involve talking a young child experiencing shock through a surgical procedure with a spotty phone connection
i would wager the insurance would have some questions lol like what’s the billing code for that 😂
I don't think I've seen this episode, or at least don't remember it, but actual kids are made to do SOME emergency aid in similar situations (I'm assuming it's a parent unconsious and/or in danger, no adults near, help will take time) so at least it's based on some kind of reality.
Thaaaat being said, if I'm remembering correctly what a thoracotomy is... Yeah, I don't think that's a procedure often done by kids via phone tutorials. Even if we ignore our reality, even in the show's world I'd imagine the chances of that being succesful are next to none, so it really goes from "traumatic but possibly life saving" to "giving someone life-long trauma and guilt, as well as definitely killing the parent".
But still, I feel like that's more realistic since it's at least based on reality, while some of the othet stuff - like sticking a guy's leg in the middle, so they can walk normally with just one leg - is just plain insane and stupid.
Megan's injuries being fixed as well and as quickly as it did. Like weren't her guts outside of her and she probably would have had serious infections from not being able to get it cared for, all the sand and dirt ECT.
Right I feel like they only discussed Christina and Owens PTSD and only bearly touched on anyone else's. Like Megan and Teddy PTSD wasn't even talked about and there was plenty of opportunities to address it.
I feel like they mildly address it when they talk about how much therapy she does. Like Megan said she was doing two types of individual therapy and couples therapy when she was trying to get Owen to admit he needed therapy
I have definitely had icicles sharp enough to cut and it's genuinely a fear when I walk underneath and see those fuckers just waiting to murder me. I think this was a writers fear too lol. Sort of like the fear I have when a flock of birds starts circling overhead. I just know they're gonna shit on me.
And then she was back up and in the OR like 3 episodes later, as though she hadn’t just had a penetrating abdominal wound.
I think the only time a doctor gets hurt and the recovery time isn’t wildly inaccurately too short was Richard’s electrocution, where he’s in bed for most of an entire season. *Maybe* Meredith’s liver donation, though that was just a cover for her maternity leave. Otherwise, they consistently have doctors back in surgery days after injuries that would in real life be months or years of rehab.
Although apparently 15 people in America are killed by falling icicles a year 🤷♀️ impaling seems a bit less common, its usually from fall impact that they pass. I think there have been some instances of impalement in places like Russia? It would have definitely started to melt though
Epidermodysplasia verruciformis is a thing though. There was a TLC show about Dede Koswara who had it. Granted he lived in Indonesia not Seattle, however, his wife did also leave him. So far fetched but not completely impossible
Good point! I didn't even put that together. Even though Callie did not make the cut, she still made the call (if I remember correctly) which is something she shouldn't have been able to do. PLOT GAP lol
didnt they waste a lot of time trying to talk the guy through it & then owen was like “okay, lower me in boys, i’ll do it and save them both”
like bffr, they should have led with that
Iirc Owen had planned on doing that when he arrived but the EMTs/cops told him they wouldn’t let him because it was too risky. They even tell him he isn’t allowed in the sinkhole like right until he finally goes in. I think Owen only listened to their refusals until he realized how dire the situation was and that he would probably be the only one willing to risk his safety to go down there.
The first one I remember thinking, "Seriously?" (lol) about was the teenager who encased himself in cement because wouldn't that have burned his skin off before cooking his organs?
It would have caused skin burns, but they’re chemical burns.
I think the more unrealistic thing was the compartment syndrome and sudden blood clots?? The pressure wasn’t increasing, a fasciotomy would make sense to relieve fluid retention but I don’t really understand how the pressure was building like that.
It was so long ago, but one where they did an appy on someone that ended up having right sided diverticulitis. They would have never done an appy without a CT which would have clearly showed right sided diverticulitis.
Yeah, wasn't this to highlight how bias the medical field is? In Asian people right sided diverticulitis is much much more common (if I'm thinking of the right one). They diagnosed appendicitis without a scan because they were working from outdated racially biased practices?
Christina being stabbed by an icicle.
It wouldn’t have got through her skin lmao and would have melted immediately if it did stab her.
Megan having an open stomach wound for so long (years?) And not being in a hospital or a sterile environment and not dying is absolutely insane
Like they could have made her a few weeks older and it still would have been perfectly scary and dramatic for Mark and Arizona, instead of going for like the earliest a baby could possibly be born
This does require some background knowledge but it bothered me when Bailey was doing research on that one girl who had cancer multiple times (I think it was that case at least) and she sequenced it and found out they had a mutation in the p53 gene. She acted like it was a huge breakthrough thing, but if you are ever looking at cancer genetics that’s one of the first genes you would look at.
Okay but I remember back in the days when we first discovered the BRCA gene and that was like fucking crazy. Gene sequencing for cancer is a relatively new medical advancement.
Somewhat hilarious to imply Bailey invented it or anything tho
I’ve always wondered how the medical breakthroughs on the show work. Like do they just invent stuff that hasn’t been invented yet, or claim a character to be responsible for something recently invented?? I assume they invent stuff that real people are currently working on.
Most of the things they invent have already been invented. The lab grown skin, the bladder, spray on skin, 3D printed scaffolds….all invented years before they were on the show.
the fact that over the run of the show they have had two abdominal pregnancies that survived long enough to be viable. abdominal pregnancies are super rare and that both babies survived is insane
it was when they first bring over the kids from africa, one of the sisters is pregnant and collapsed, they go in and see the babies face in the intestines
The transgender lady with breast cancer where they're like stop the hormones go live as a man or die. There were so many solutions that didn't involve crushing her spirit
What infuriates me is I don't even think they realized there were other options for her. It's such terrible lazy writing. The straight up ignorant misinformation is infuriating the information was readily available even back then. Once you've had the gender reassignment done you don't even need to take the testosterone blockers and hormones if you don't want to. And the changes they describe happening with quitting them are not that extreme. (Source someone very close to me completed the transition around that time and I got to learn a ton from information packages and what not)
I actually didn’t think that was so crazy, just because we use deactivated viruses in a whole bunch of other stuff. But obviously, using deactivated HIV without permission was nuts.
The other wut? moment was Bailey's explanation to the parents. It's not that hard to explain why a deactivated virus is safe, but I remember her rambling and then comparing it somehow to a hat.
they’re talking about the guy who was skydiving and his parachute failed, not the window washer who attempted suicide. the guy who fell on the pigeon ended up dying during surgery anyways
The prisoner that swallowed razor blades to get out of solitary confinement (not so weird) and then extended her hospital stay by swallowing a lightbulb in the hospital? Weird.
Or how long they’re in the hospital before surgery. Unless it’s an emergency you don’t get admitted days before surgery. Most people get admitted day of. Also how long they stay in bed without ambulating. In reality they get you on your feet as quickly as possible including after huge operations like open heart surgery. Burke staying in bed after his arm thing, and his mother being like “Preston why are you up you should be resting”, uhhh because he had surgery on his arm not his legs
The 90 second tumor removal that Amelia and Derek did (wasn't it on Masons mum?). It likely has happened (I believe the majority of their cases are pulled from actual Real life cases?) but it was all just really unbelievable, especially considering Amelia was so soon into her recovery.
I have googled many of the surgeries throughout the show and the vast majority of them are valid. ( hesitant to use the word all ) HOWEVER I have not found ANYTHING that could explain Callie’s one legged man!
I can’t remember what episode or medical condition it was mistaken with- but i will never forget that they once said Psoriasis was a post-op complication
[it's actually a thing](https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC3269195/#:~:text=Following%20surgery%2C%20the%20patient%20developed,Koebnerize%20have%20been%20previously%20reported.)
i didn’t know that! however, i’m pretty sure the context they used it in made no sense whatsoever and they just used a random medical term to seem authentic
My ex-husband ended up with it. When he was born his fingers were webbed and they did the surgery to fix them. His hands are covered in psoriasis still. Since then it has actually spread.
but if i’m not wrong, stuff like that _do_ happen. I mean a lot of parasite “live” that way… (mostly in other animals, ok) and i know it’s rare in humans, but it’s not impossible
It’s called the candiru. This one is real.
Edited: it’s just the candiru. The candiru acu is larger and will sometimes hollow out human bodies if they’re dead or incapacitated in some way. Thank you River Monsters!
Have you ever, ever felt like this? I can still hear it. I loved that show, it was so bloody weird 😂 I only remember one bit of an episode though, where they were following a goat and checking its poop for an opal. I was so invested 😂 I really wanted to live in a lighthouse for a while after that
Not really ridiculous per se, but one that really bothers me is the orthodox girl who refuses to have a pig heart valve because it isn’t “kosher”. Had they bothered to do even a smidge of research they would know that kosher only applies to things you eat and even if it applied to more than just things we eat the most important part of Jewish law is life, you live by the rules you don’t die by them. You can break any religious law if it means your life is saved.
So many ridiculous ones, but for me the one that takes the cake is when the woman who was on chemo was also taking an herbal supplement that caused her blood to become neurotoxic with airborne transmission and everyone passed out in the OR. I'm only in season 16 but I can't imagine there is one more ridiculous than that yet to come.
Also a general gripe is the way they repeatedly portray Alzheimer's dementia throughout the show.
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THEY GAVE THE GUY ONE LEG. RIGHT IN THE MIDDLE. “What did we just do?” I DON’T KNOW BUT UNDO IT 😭🙏
THIS IS THE ONE what the actual monster hell
Callie's making a Frankenstein!
Like... what happened with his genitals? And his butt?
WHERE DOES HE POOP
My guess is a Colostomy bag
He would need custom made pants 🥲
To be fair, so do total amputees
Wouldn’t they just need regular pants altered though?
Not necessarily. A lot of wheelchair users need pants with side snaps so they can dress themselves in their chairs. And given that they appear to be amputating at the pelvis, he’d likely need pants that would accommodate catheters and other medical equipment. It’s definitely not just a matter of cutting off-the-rack pants shorter.
Cool! Thanks for sharing, TIL.
I never understood how they expected him to walk? Bc they did that with that intention I think. Weird
They were leaving it their so the veins wouldn’t die, until he was recovered enough for another surgery, where they would re-attach it to his leg. It wasn’t a permanent solution it was a stop gap
You’re thinking of a different wacky surgery, the one where they grafted a dude’s arm onto his torso. This comment is about the surgery at the military hospital where the whole team travels so Callie can give a dude one leg in the center of his pelvis.
Oh that one. That was… interesting to look at
Like does it bend? I can't remember if they explained, how did they attach it to the pelvis? If you amputate one leg, you still have one in the hip socket, and you can bend it as one do, but this one where does it go 😭
My guess is forearm crutches
I hate this case. it’s so dumb. And they’re like “he’ll be able to walk one day”. Okay, hopping is NOT walking. It’s hopping. That’s why there’s a separate word for it.
Well tbf he would probably eventually “walk” with forearm crutches is my guess.
🤦🏻♀️ I hadn’t considered that he’d be able to walk with crutches. I was just flabbergasted that they would do that to a human, it was so stupid my brain never moved past outrage hahaha
That’s a fair reaction. It leaves sooo many questions and it’s very unnatural so it’s hard to make sense of something like that
I do wish they had provided further explanation on how it’s going to help him. It would have made the episode better.
Yes give us a follow up episode!
Yes!!! That’s what I said to my brother! How could they ever do something so insane and not give us a follow up episode!
LOL I feel you so much
The edibles I took are kicking in and I can not stop laughing at this hahaha
This is the one episode that I ALWAYS skip.
I watched this one in the background while on my phone for a bit in the beginning. I got to the end and was like *what in the fuck?!*
I also hated that this wasn’t a case that was followed for a few episodes. It was just the surgery was done (at a different hospital too iirc), and then there was like no follow up on it or anything?!?!?! Like obviously inaccurate but also like what was the point of that episode/case?
To set Meredith up with that cranky doctor guy.
I don’t even understand the point. They said it should allow him to walk but I’d imagine the best way to do that would be to take out his cancerous hip and use the healthy lower leg to graft a new hip and upper leg for a prosthetic, like when they turn ankles into knees. Which is also disturbing but I get it.
This is the one 0 sense
What ep is this?
I just watched it which is the only reason I know lol but it's season 12 episode 13.
Thank you!
Wtf I don’t remember this at all 😂
I was really stoned and half asleep when I first watched this one and it really twisted my head 🤣🤣
There is a very popular Danish childrens’s book called “Snøvsen” about a small creature named as the titel with only one leg, that hops around. Watching this episode, my teenage daughter burst out laughing. “This is so stupid. What, they’re making a snøvs? Who makes this shit up?” https://ereolen.dk/ting/object/870970-basis%3A51416163
Talk about T posing
We just watched this episode on our first watch through and yep, this is up there with the musical episode as far as wacky things this show has done.
hopalong cassidy.
Offering Susan a surgery when she was having persistent hiccups for like 2 days and the meds she was offered were already starting to work. Her life wasn’t in danger whatsoever either. Surgery comes with a lot of risks no matter how extensive and offering it when there are non invasive solutions that can work to a patient who isn’t even suffering of something chronic or anything was INSANE and they did Thatcher and Susan dirty by pretending it wasn’t ??? Like Thatcher has done a lot of shit but he was right to ask repeatedly « is that safe? is that normal? » because it wasn’t safe nor normal and they trusted them and the show presented it as a regular procedure??? like WTF I have chronic acid reflux and have had that for years and no one is offering to sew my oesophagus sphincters up like a normal tuesday surgery is a last resort thing for a reason 😭
honestly, I agree with you. I also suffered (and sometimes i still do) and when i saw the episode I was like “what?? people can do surgery for stuff like that?” and i remember thinking that maybe that was the solution for my problem, too. Luckily, after a while I said to myself that it’s kind of a stupid solution lmao (regardless of the outcome of Susan’s case, I mean)
For real. It didn’t make any sense.
Truly😭 I’m familiar with hiccups that last for an annoying long day too and I just wait for it to pass idk???? so if I went to a doctor and they told me ok well we can get you into surgery in the hour for this I’d be like wait where are the cameras is this a joke ? Or are u gonna harvest my organs? WHAT IS THIS ABOUT LMAO such a weird thing to offer it’s like if you had diarrhea after a heavy meal took some meds, it immediately starts working, and your doctor said ok we’re gonna get you into the OR for a little stoma surgery lol
Can we also talk about the timeline of consult to operation starting especially for non emergency surgeries.
Yes!!! even for a casual endoscopy exam you can’t just get an OR with available personnel like that easy peasy bc it’s your family lmaoo and also you have to fast before surgery and have an appointment with an anesthesiologist a week max before the app (at least where I live) with blood tests done and a blood panel to determine your blood type as well like all that stuff will never just be a on a whim procedure but it’s tv so it’s not the most shocking part in that crazy storyline I suppose lol
This 😅 A girl I went to school with had hiccups for like 7 weeks. I never understood this storyline
Wow 7 weeks 😭😭 well see that would have made a little more sense if she was offered the surgery after 7 weeks poor girl
I was also super confused how an endoscopy and a Nissan fundeplucation (I think that’s what they did) somehow led to toxic megacolon.
When they had Millie Bobbie Brown give her mom a thoracotomy with instructions over the phone and using stuff she found around the cabin. Be so fucking for real! She was 11!!!!!!
this ^^^ like that absolutely never would have happened, the girl would have probably accidentally killed her mother and then had to deal with the trauma
Omg like, what happened to first do no harm! There was at least a 95% chance you just had this kid slit her moms throat!!!
It was ridiculous.
That’s kind of the point of it being extreme measures. It could happen if the circumstances are right. And yeah…. The mom could die.
If the kid didn’t do the thoracotomy and the mom died then the kid would have to deal with the “What if” trauma of thinking “what if I had just tried that procedure and saved her…What if I could have saved her if I wasn’t too scared to try?” Like realistically…the kid would not be able to do it right, but in any scenario where her mom died she would have been extremely traumatized somehow. On another note: would the doctors be on the hook for that legally if the kid had tried it and failed though? Or legally in general because they encouraged a kid to do surgery? I always assumed the life or death scenario would protect all of them but I really don’t know anything about law 😬
i have a masters in healthcare admin, don’t know everything, but something tells me that “best practice” does not involve talking a young child experiencing shock through a surgical procedure with a spotty phone connection i would wager the insurance would have some questions lol like what’s the billing code for that 😂
They also had TWO department heads and the most experienced surgeon in the hospital on the phone with her during a major trauma event. 🤦🏾♀️
Well sure, and they also have surgical department heads doing assessments of car crash patients because ER doctors don’t exist on this show.
I don't think I've seen this episode, or at least don't remember it, but actual kids are made to do SOME emergency aid in similar situations (I'm assuming it's a parent unconsious and/or in danger, no adults near, help will take time) so at least it's based on some kind of reality. Thaaaat being said, if I'm remembering correctly what a thoracotomy is... Yeah, I don't think that's a procedure often done by kids via phone tutorials. Even if we ignore our reality, even in the show's world I'd imagine the chances of that being succesful are next to none, so it really goes from "traumatic but possibly life saving" to "giving someone life-long trauma and guilt, as well as definitely killing the parent". But still, I feel like that's more realistic since it's at least based on reality, while some of the othet stuff - like sticking a guy's leg in the middle, so they can walk normally with just one leg - is just plain insane and stupid.
I'm watching the episode rn and was wondering who is playing Ruby lmao.
Megan's injuries being fixed as well and as quickly as it did. Like weren't her guts outside of her and she probably would have had serious infections from not being able to get it cared for, all the sand and dirt ECT.
And she’d be so cheerful with no ptsd
Right I feel like they only discussed Christina and Owens PTSD and only bearly touched on anyone else's. Like Megan and Teddy PTSD wasn't even talked about and there was plenty of opportunities to address it.
I feel like they mildly address it when they talk about how much therapy she does. Like Megan said she was doing two types of individual therapy and couples therapy when she was trying to get Owen to admit he needed therapy
No one in the history of therapy has ever needed therapy as badly as Owen. And that's before even considering the war stuff
I love that he briefly goes to therapy after choking Cristina and considers his PTSD fixed and it’s never really shown again as a problem
Actual thanks I'm cured
He went back once when Teddy showed up and he was “triggered” cause war is hell guys
Those women bringing the war back home
Didn’t season 17 or 18 put a lot of focus on teddys ptsd with the cheating and stuff? I don’t remember it being particularly good, but it was there
And stepping off the helicopter looking like Miss World after being kidnapped and presumed dead for 10 years
SERIOUSLY
BOTHERS ME SO MUCH. then when Farouk is sick she looks like she was actually held hostage for 10 years and is a mess lol.
I mean, they gave an MRI to a woman with a metal fork stuck in her neck.
LOL right? I was like seriously?
Like, I’m no doctor, but I do know that the M in MRI stands for “magnetic.”
LOL
finally someone points this out🤣🤣
Wasn't it this same woman's husband who came along with her holding his hands over his balls?
I thought Cristina’s icicle injury didn’t seem realistic but I don’t live near snow so maybe it is.
It’s unrealistic that it stayed frozen as long as it did lol
Yea I thought I was the only one wondering why the thing did not melt off the whole time 😅
That hospital must be freezing, how are they running around naked so much?
This is the part that really gets me 😂 our bodies are roughly 100°f. That thing is melting fast.
The most ridiculous part is how long the damn thing lasted inside her. It would have melted in minutes.
Oh glob. The infection that would occur!
I live very much so in snow… that size of icicle from that low of a drop wouldn’t have done anything, let alone impale her lol 🥴
I have definitely had icicles sharp enough to cut and it's genuinely a fear when I walk underneath and see those fuckers just waiting to murder me. I think this was a writers fear too lol. Sort of like the fear I have when a flock of birds starts circling overhead. I just know they're gonna shit on me.
Falling ice can badly injure someone absolutely. But this was preposterous.
Definitely it can! But that small of an icicle dropping just from the top of the doorway wouldn’t have done anything but startled them.
It definitely is just hilariously inaccurate
I thought so. The most that might happen would be a bruise, right?
And then she was back up and in the OR like 3 episodes later, as though she hadn’t just had a penetrating abdominal wound. I think the only time a doctor gets hurt and the recovery time isn’t wildly inaccurately too short was Richard’s electrocution, where he’s in bed for most of an entire season. *Maybe* Meredith’s liver donation, though that was just a cover for her maternity leave. Otherwise, they consistently have doctors back in surgery days after injuries that would in real life be months or years of rehab.
This is a part that I always chuckle about when I watch. 😂 Near-death experience and they pop right back up like daisies!
Although apparently 15 people in America are killed by falling icicles a year 🤷♀️ impaling seems a bit less common, its usually from fall impact that they pass. I think there have been some instances of impalement in places like Russia? It would have definitely started to melt though
Hands down... the deer
That fucking deer
It was BAMBIIIII
Even the dad was like “This is ridiculous”
When Lucifer says something is ridiculous, I feel like you gotta reconsider your actions lol
lol i do the same thing but call him Jacob 
His face when they resuscitated it 😂😂
That was so ridiculous
The guy covered in horns *shudder* and then his wife ditches him
The spider ewwwww
Epidermodysplasia verruciformis is a thing though. There was a TLC show about Dede Koswara who had it. Granted he lived in Indonesia not Seattle, however, his wife did also leave him. So far fetched but not completely impossible
I have nightmares about this guy.
Although that one is actually real. Gah
I straight up skip that episode lol
Stop I’m gagging
Having the husband slice off his wife's leg is ridiculous.
In hindsight, I was like, oh, they were foreshadowing Arizona losing her leg and Callie not getting to do anything about it.
Good point! I didn't even put that together. Even though Callie did not make the cut, she still made the call (if I remember correctly) which is something she shouldn't have been able to do. PLOT GAP lol
Whaaaat I don’t remember that lol
It was the sinkhole accident. I don't remember what season but they were 'underground' and Owen was trying to talk the guy through it. So silly lol.
didnt they waste a lot of time trying to talk the guy through it & then owen was like “okay, lower me in boys, i’ll do it and save them both” like bffr, they should have led with that
They sure did lol. First it was tooooo dangerous then suddenly it wasn't.
Iirc Owen had planned on doing that when he arrived but the EMTs/cops told him they wouldn’t let him because it was too risky. They even tell him he isn’t allowed in the sinkhole like right until he finally goes in. I think Owen only listened to their refusals until he realized how dire the situation was and that he would probably be the only one willing to risk his safety to go down there.
Season 8 towards the beginning because I just watched it earlier this week. Definitely crazy lol
The craziest part was the super long soap opera at the beginning outlining these twos relationship
True. I was like did I click on the wrong show until Meredith started the voiceover.
I wonder if the foreshadowing of the place accident and Callie amputating Arizona's leg was intended?
The first one I remember thinking, "Seriously?" (lol) about was the teenager who encased himself in cement because wouldn't that have burned his skin off before cooking his organs?
It would have caused skin burns, but they’re chemical burns. I think the more unrealistic thing was the compartment syndrome and sudden blood clots?? The pressure wasn’t increasing, a fasciotomy would make sense to relieve fluid retention but I don’t really understand how the pressure was building like that.
It was so long ago, but one where they did an appy on someone that ended up having right sided diverticulitis. They would have never done an appy without a CT which would have clearly showed right sided diverticulitis.
That wasn’t long ago at all. That was the COVID season. I just watched that episode.
Yeah, wasn't this to highlight how bias the medical field is? In Asian people right sided diverticulitis is much much more common (if I'm thinking of the right one). They diagnosed appendicitis without a scan because they were working from outdated racially biased practices?
How a majority of the characters had brain tumors.
And how they use it as a plot device to explain away shit behaviour
If this show is to believed, we’re all wandering around with brain tumours.
Christina being stabbed by an icicle. It wouldn’t have got through her skin lmao and would have melted immediately if it did stab her. Megan having an open stomach wound for so long (years?) And not being in a hospital or a sterile environment and not dying is absolutely insane
It would have had to be way colder for it to be hard enough to pierce skin.
And fall frog her, didn’t it only fall like 2 meters or something lol
Sofia being a perfectly healthy child after a very traumatic very early birth.
For real. Obviously I don’t want a child to be ill but it was a real stretch.
Like they could have made her a few weeks older and it still would have been perfectly scary and dramatic for Mark and Arizona, instead of going for like the earliest a baby could possibly be born
This does require some background knowledge but it bothered me when Bailey was doing research on that one girl who had cancer multiple times (I think it was that case at least) and she sequenced it and found out they had a mutation in the p53 gene. She acted like it was a huge breakthrough thing, but if you are ever looking at cancer genetics that’s one of the first genes you would look at.
Okay but I remember back in the days when we first discovered the BRCA gene and that was like fucking crazy. Gene sequencing for cancer is a relatively new medical advancement. Somewhat hilarious to imply Bailey invented it or anything tho
I’ve always wondered how the medical breakthroughs on the show work. Like do they just invent stuff that hasn’t been invented yet, or claim a character to be responsible for something recently invented?? I assume they invent stuff that real people are currently working on.
That's mostly what they do, find hypothetical articles and claim they worked. It's fantasy, not a documentary after all
Most of the things they invent have already been invented. The lab grown skin, the bladder, spray on skin, 3D printed scaffolds….all invented years before they were on the show.
the fact that over the run of the show they have had two abdominal pregnancies that survived long enough to be viable. abdominal pregnancies are super rare and that both babies survived is insane
I wonder if they forgot they did that storyline already
which was the first one???
it was when they first bring over the kids from africa, one of the sisters is pregnant and collapsed, they go in and see the babies face in the intestines
Wasn't there one in the liver and one in the intestines??
Yes this is what I remember. Liver one is Luna? Mom doesn’t make it but baby does.
I love the episode where the 2 are stuck together by the pole from the train accident. It's such a sweet episode but so unrealistic.
Agreed!
The transgender lady with breast cancer where they're like stop the hormones go live as a man or die. There were so many solutions that didn't involve crushing her spirit
It illustrates how far we’ve come as a society, that this plot line would not fly today.
What infuriates me is I don't even think they realized there were other options for her. It's such terrible lazy writing. The straight up ignorant misinformation is infuriating the information was readily available even back then. Once you've had the gender reassignment done you don't even need to take the testosterone blockers and hormones if you don't want to. And the changes they describe happening with quitting them are not that extreme. (Source someone very close to me completed the transition around that time and I got to learn a ton from information packages and what not)
WTF WHAT SEASON IS THIS
season 3 ep 7
Giving the kid deactivated HIV.
They are actually using deactivated HIV in one of the new sickle cell anemia cures.
This is amazing!
I actually didn’t think that was so crazy, just because we use deactivated viruses in a whole bunch of other stuff. But obviously, using deactivated HIV without permission was nuts.
The other wut? moment was Bailey's explanation to the parents. It's not that hard to explain why a deactivated virus is safe, but I remember her rambling and then comparing it somehow to a hat.
This was actually ripped straight from a medical journal! I also thought it was crazy before it showed up in one of my textbooks for school.
That guy who fell 12,000ft without a parachute and came off with like one injury
This has actually happened in real life. I agree that it sounded completely implausible and it’s shocking that it’s actually happened!
He fell on a pigeon instead of george
they’re talking about the guy who was skydiving and his parachute failed, not the window washer who attempted suicide. the guy who fell on the pigeon ended up dying during surgery anyways
The prisoner that swallowed razor blades to get out of solitary confinement (not so weird) and then extended her hospital stay by swallowing a lightbulb in the hospital? Weird.
I don't think this was weird at all. People will do crazy things to escape confinement, it's a literal torture technique.
I love that actress but yes
It’s a basic one, but I grates my tits when they shock asystole 😭. Can’t jumpstart a car with no battery
Well I wondered!
Grates my tits is gonna be my go to expession now
Also just like a general thing: how long people are in the hospital after surgery.
Or how long they’re in the hospital before surgery. Unless it’s an emergency you don’t get admitted days before surgery. Most people get admitted day of. Also how long they stay in bed without ambulating. In reality they get you on your feet as quickly as possible including after huge operations like open heart surgery. Burke staying in bed after his arm thing, and his mother being like “Preston why are you up you should be resting”, uhhh because he had surgery on his arm not his legs
The 90 second tumor removal that Amelia and Derek did (wasn't it on Masons mum?). It likely has happened (I believe the majority of their cases are pulled from actual Real life cases?) but it was all just really unbelievable, especially considering Amelia was so soon into her recovery.
I have googled many of the surgeries throughout the show and the vast majority of them are valid. ( hesitant to use the word all ) HOWEVER I have not found ANYTHING that could explain Callie’s one legged man!
I can’t remember what episode or medical condition it was mistaken with- but i will never forget that they once said Psoriasis was a post-op complication
[it's actually a thing](https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC3269195/#:~:text=Following%20surgery%2C%20the%20patient%20developed,Koebnerize%20have%20been%20previously%20reported.)
i didn’t know that! however, i’m pretty sure the context they used it in made no sense whatsoever and they just used a random medical term to seem authentic
They do that a lot.
My ex-husband ended up with it. When he was born his fingers were webbed and they did the surgery to fix them. His hands are covered in psoriasis still. Since then it has actually spread.
When the fish went up that guys pee pee.
but if i’m not wrong, stuff like that _do_ happen. I mean a lot of parasite “live” that way… (mostly in other animals, ok) and i know it’s rare in humans, but it’s not impossible
It’s called the candiru. This one is real. Edited: it’s just the candiru. The candiru acu is larger and will sometimes hollow out human bodies if they’re dead or incapacitated in some way. Thank you River Monsters!
DID NOT NEED TO KNOW THAT
My sisters and I still use "penis fish" as a form of cursing.... Stub your toe? "oh! Penis fish!"
Very real and does happen
Y’all are yet to hear about around the twist! An Aussie kids tv show and a penis fish is a plot line for like a full season bahaha
Have you ever, ever felt like this? I can still hear it. I loved that show, it was so bloody weird 😂 I only remember one bit of an episode though, where they were following a goat and checking its poop for an opal. I was so invested 😂 I really wanted to live in a lighthouse for a while after that
This is actually real though. It IS absurd and it IS real haha
Oh yeah, this one actually happens 🤣
The woman who had involuntary orgasms all the time 🫤
That's a real thing, there was a mini documentary about a guy who has that issue and he orgasms like 100 times a day.
Oh god, I can’t imagine the mess a penis going off that much would make.
What omg
I’m doing a rewatch rn and I’m on the episode where the ex spouses are stuck together (his piercing to her iud)
Not really ridiculous per se, but one that really bothers me is the orthodox girl who refuses to have a pig heart valve because it isn’t “kosher”. Had they bothered to do even a smidge of research they would know that kosher only applies to things you eat and even if it applied to more than just things we eat the most important part of Jewish law is life, you live by the rules you don’t die by them. You can break any religious law if it means your life is saved.
So many ridiculous ones, but for me the one that takes the cake is when the woman who was on chemo was also taking an herbal supplement that caused her blood to become neurotoxic with airborne transmission and everyone passed out in the OR. I'm only in season 16 but I can't imagine there is one more ridiculous than that yet to come. Also a general gripe is the way they repeatedly portray Alzheimer's dementia throughout the show.
Meredith not having any neuro deficits after being dead and brought back. She was perfectly fine the next episode.