I’m a Grey’s girl myself (yes, I’m very fond of sappy, although I did like season one, where they were *actually* residents (okay interns) and actually did some work, more. but I didn’t fall for the show till sappy season 2, so…). My brother likes PP though, and I can endure it, no problem. Even if I’m not fond of most of the characters (I can relate to Violet the most – wouldn’t you expect)

Thanks for decoding JVD, since they didn’t (why did I think it was a sign of cardiac tampanode or pericardial effusion or something?)

and

Do you ever watch the almost medical shows? I’ve been doing Diagnosis X on TLC. More fun than Mystery Diagnosis (for one thing, no never-ending closeups of people’s *eyes) and they toss in some recurring actors with a tiny non-medical subplot, that, somehow, the real doctors manage to play along with.
Also, 5 eps in, I finally noticed they were using the hospital from Scrubs.

Pardon me for asking rather than just perusing the site. I’m between piles of work (though they should be light considering our biggest client is having the holiday today. around here, you never know – I could get bombed with repairs)

-Pam, medical (fiction) show junkie – I’ve seen everything set in a hospital except for Ben Casey, since I started with reruns of Dr Kildare when I was in my single digits. But I don’t do dead people (CSI,Bones, etc.) It all started with those Cherry Ames novels I read as a kid….

AHAHAHAA! XDDD I hate this show too. -_-;

Bad,
I just watched that episode. I was thinking: “If she doesn’t have a pulse, then why aren’t you performing CPR?” It could be that she’s so dehydrated, it’s hard to find a pulse, but it’s there (and if that’s the case, good luck getting the IV in).
I was also thinking she should have stayed atop the pile of rocks to see and be seen. I know the area she was stranded in pretty well, and if she was just outside Icebox Canyon, there’s a nice stream there she should have been able to hear that recently after a rainstorm. It’s also about 10-15 degrees cooler in that canyon (hence the name). She should have just headed that way.

At one point there is someone with heatstroke who is several times described to not have a pulse (or, at least, no one can feel a pulse). Up to and even after when professional medical personnel arrive, no CPR is given, and eventually an oxygen mask is placed over their face with no intubation performed. Maybe I’m missing something, but wouldn’t someone with no pulse not, you know, be breathing? What’s the point of a mere mask at that point? One of the med techs does later say that they “still can’t feel a radial pulse” which could maybe imply that they COULD get a pulse elsewhere, or otherwise knew that the heart could still be beating faintly along with actual breathing. But it still seemed like some pretty questionable medical care. “The unconscious patient is not responding to verbal requests to open their eyes and talk to us: WE’VE TRIED NOTHING AND WE’RE FRESH OUT OF IDEAS!”

Also (and this is a little more of a spoiler):

wouldn’t an educated person know that when you are lost in a desert, it’s best to stay in a single location (hopefully also one that’s better shaded) near an important and identifiable landmark that your rescuers are sure to look for and find first, if they find anything… rather than walking off randomly into the desert?