Medical things are rarely accurate, but Jesus this one is absolutely infuriating. There’s no anatomy in a neck that you could even inject anything INTO. You’re not aiming for a jugular vein on the fly and there’s not enough tissue in a neck to receive an intramuscular or subcutaneous injection. If your needle is too long, you’re definitely hitting something critical. It’s feasible that you could squirt medication into someone’s trachea or esophagus or - god forbid - spine if you actually tried this nonsense.
Arms, people, ARMS. This is where we inject things into people who are not interested in receiving an injection. Arms or butts, right through the clothes. You’re aiming for the deltoid muscle or the glutes. I’m even willing to concede the inaccuracy of a medication affecting someone instantly (they don’t), if Hollywood would just stop having characters inject things into people’s necks.
On our next episode of medical things that make me crazy: People getting shot through the shoulder with zero consequences.
This always bugs me on police dramas. On Chicago PD the characters are constantly on gunfights, get in and out of hospital almost everyday, get shot multiple times on back to back episodes, get beaten up, concussions, cuts, stab wounds, bullet wounds in all sort of places. Yet, every episode they’re fine and working the field, and clearing building like a fucking ad-hoc Swat team. Not a limp, no cronic pain, no painkiller addiction.
In reality, the whole force would be on medical leave, on a desk job for disability or plain out of the force due to medical unfitness by the season’s midpoint. The cases would have to be finished by an entire new batch of officers every few episodes, including the captain.
What is your medical opinion on people who get lofted 30 feet through the air by an explosion only to get up and walk away? On a scale from molasses to beetroot soup, how runny will their organs be?
Injecting medications into necks.
Medical things are rarely accurate, but Jesus this one is absolutely infuriating. There’s no anatomy in a neck that you could even inject anything INTO. You’re not aiming for a jugular vein on the fly and there’s not enough tissue in a neck to receive an intramuscular or subcutaneous injection. If your needle is too long, you’re definitely hitting something critical. It’s feasible that you could squirt medication into someone’s trachea or esophagus or - god forbid - spine if you actually tried this nonsense.
Arms, people, ARMS. This is where we inject things into people who are not interested in receiving an injection. Arms or butts, right through the clothes. You’re aiming for the deltoid muscle or the glutes. I’m even willing to concede the inaccuracy of a medication affecting someone instantly (they don’t), if Hollywood would just stop having characters inject things into people’s necks.
On our next episode of medical things that make me crazy: People getting shot through the shoulder with zero consequences.
This always bugs me on police dramas. On Chicago PD the characters are constantly on gunfights, get in and out of hospital almost everyday, get shot multiple times on back to back episodes, get beaten up, concussions, cuts, stab wounds, bullet wounds in all sort of places. Yet, every episode they’re fine and working the field, and clearing building like a fucking ad-hoc Swat team. Not a limp, no cronic pain, no painkiller addiction.
In reality, the whole force would be on medical leave, on a desk job for disability or plain out of the force due to medical unfitness by the season’s midpoint. The cases would have to be finished by an entire new batch of officers every few episodes, including the captain.
What is your medical opinion on people who get lofted 30 feet through the air by an explosion only to get up and walk away? On a scale from molasses to beetroot soup, how runny will their organs be?
My wife is a nurse and any time someone is getting a shot in the arm she starts yelling at them to find the shoulder bone first three 3 fingers down!