as seen on TV

[stas]

When physicians at an Alberta hospital asked why so many medical
students and residents were using a faulty technique for inserting
life-saving breathing tubes in patients, they received an unexpected
answer: It's television's fault.

Many of the doctors in training
said they had learned the procedure from watching medical dramas. And a
subsequent analysis of the show ER revealed its fictional MDs and nurses performed intubations incorrectly almost every time.

Жуть. Классный вывод там делает Dr. Peter Brindley:

"The important lesson here is that we can't leave medical education to chance alone."

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Comments

[dmpogo.livejournal.com]

Bloody hell, and this is my hospital :)

[stas]

Лучше быть здоровым и богатым :)

[tenorgroupie.livejournal.com]

Good Lord! Unfortunately I believe it.

[trurle.livejournal.com]

Вот и с оружием то же самое; хорошо что работу программиста трудно показать в кино.

[stas]

С оружием у кого?

[trurle.livejournal.com]

В кино и телевизоре неправильно показывают как надо держать оружие.

[stas]

Ну да, однако дело не в этом, а в том, кто именно черпает эти знания из телевизора.