This is going to hurt
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Link to video
This is a British series about a first year resident on the OB ward in the national health service.
I just watched the first episode, and I must say, medically it’s remarkably accurate. The surgery looks like real surgery, and the blood looks like real blood.
And the frustrations of the staff are real as well.
I don’t know if it will hold up in subsequent episodes, but I enjoyed the first one.
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Spent the day binging through this.
Outstanding.
It's based on a bunch of essays written by the protagonist ("Adam") during his experiences in the NHS. The author gave up on medicine and decided to become a full-time writer.
Though it tends to go a bit too "woke" at times - chronicalling the relationship between Adam and his male lover - the overall story is about his frustrations with the NHS - being unprepared for accepting responsibility, the hierarchy of medicine, the complete exhaustion of a
residentregistrar in the system, and the horrible personal toll it takes on his colleagues.Some parts are overly, and uneccessarily dramatic, but the overall tone is spot-on.
Having dealt with hundreds of women in labor and having done hundreds of c-sections, the medical accuracy is really, really good.
I enjoyed it, particularly now that I haven't set foot into an OB suite in 8 years.
I fucking HATED OB.
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Just happened across the poster for the series.
When I said it's pretty medically accurate, the poster confirms.
He's holding the instrument correctly (almost). Fourth finger is in the hole, although inserted too far. It should be in about as far as the first joint of the finger.
Too many medical shows depict this with the surgeon's index or middle finger in the hole - wrong. Less control that way. Ideally, fourth finger in the hole, third (middle) finger along the shaft of the instrument, and index finger pointing to where you want to go.
Link to videoSome surgeons won't even bother putting the thumb into the hole, using the fleshy part of the thumb to close and open the hemostat. I never mastered that because I didn't use them all that often.
I'll eagerly await @bachophile 's take on how such an instrument should be held. But, even if this is slightly incorrect, it warms my cockles that someone is paying enough attention to detail to at least try.
Oh, did I mention I hated OB?
"Now look here, you Baltic gas passer... " - Mik, 6/14/08
The saying, "Lite is just one damn thing after another," is a gross understatement. The damn things overlap.
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We saw Ben Whishaw in Euripides’ Bakkhai in London in 2015, which was a tremendous production in a very intimate theatre. Russell Brand was sitting a couple of seats away.
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Just happened across the poster for the series.
When I said it's pretty medically accurate, the poster confirms.
He's holding the instrument correctly (almost). Fourth finger is in the hole, although inserted too far. It should be in about as far as the first joint of the finger.
Too many medical shows depict this with the surgeon's index or middle finger in the hole - wrong. Less control that way. Ideally, fourth finger in the hole, third (middle) finger along the shaft of the instrument, and index finger pointing to where you want to go.
Link to videoSome surgeons won't even bother putting the thumb into the hole, using the fleshy part of the thumb to close and open the hemostat. I never mastered that because I didn't use them all that often.
I'll eagerly await @bachophile 's take on how such an instrument should be held. But, even if this is slightly incorrect, it warms my cockles that someone is paying enough attention to detail to at least try.
Oh, did I mention I hated OB?
@George-K I do both. Sometimes thumb in hole and sometimes without. I guess it depends on what position my hand is in at the time. It becomes something you don’t really consciously think about. U just do what comes naturally at the time.
