I haven’t seen the rest of the Tritter arc yet, so hope that the writers pull this out of the can accuracy-wise — say, by having Tritter disciplined and demoted for falsifying records or some such.

And that said, I love David Morse, and he IS doing a great job — even if the info is abysmally inaccurate.

Medical accuracy or not, though, the ep succeeded in doing one thing: When they started to mark the spot for the amputation (and I agree with the poster who called that one down), I had to stop the program and go find out if they amputated…because I could not bear to keep watching if so. There’s been a few others that touched chords, but as a mom myself, and stepmom to two boys who have a mother who is even worse than Alice’s mom (if that can be believed), I think the thing that bothered me most was that a child could face something like that and her parents be too intent on scoring points to care about comforting her.

I’d feel better if I thought such parents were fictional, but I’ve seen my stepsons’ mother refuse to visit her eldest in ICU when he had brain surgery after an accident because the drain in his head ‘grossed her out’…even though he kept asking where his mommy was.

*sigh*