DirecTV has a whole sequence of ER and Sex Sent me to the ER episodes. Last night there was one where a young guy went to the ER with testicular torsion. The female ER doc obviously thought testicular torsion was made for jokes. First step is to manually untorque the twisted one. When the patient happened to catch her making a joke with a pair of pliers, they had to convince him she was talking about another situation. At one point he was ready to just leave, but his girl friend convinced him to stay for the good of their unborn children. The doc actually looked pleased when she was able to help relieve his pain. They send those guys off to surgery and her closing line with a big grin was that her testicular torsion patient had come thru surgery fine.

Further proof that shows like this have to be staged. Around here, the girlfriend would have jumped the ER doc and pounded her, if not the guy. Then there would have been lawsuits flying everywhere.

Yep that would have been the case here too, every doctor I have told about my castration was concerned, no smiles. I am going to guess that is the difference between professionals and Hollywood.

Another reason for not watching TV, to many un-reality shows.

River

Good points. I was watching because I was too tired to do anything else and it really did not click. It is too bad because there is probably some guy(s) out there who will not want to go to the hospital or doctor for genital issues because they think they will be treated like that.

Note - not all docs are as professional as those River described. One surgeon in Phoenix had to leave because he took out his cell phone for a picture of a patient with 'Pocket Rocket' tattooed on his dick.

For anyone to appear on these shows they have to sign a release. No show can use your image to make money (photograph or video) without your permission.

Taking a picture, even just for fun (like the picture of the tattoo) is tantamount to revealing the patient's identity. That's a violation of several laws protecting patient's privacy.

Testicular torsion isn't all that rare for a doctor to be acting the foolish jerk by giggling or smirking.

And finally, I have known several medical professionals (doctors, nurses and administrators) who would not think twice about firing a person for mocking a patient in their care. That's just not done. There are lighter times and there are times I have laughed with nurses about various things. Some situations are too absurd for anything but humor. However, it has never been what was described in that TV program.

Some of it, however, I can believe - like that guy who tried to eat molten gummi bear off his girlfriend's chest. They both got third-degree burns.

ZeuterMe (imported) wrote: Tue Mar 03, 2015 9:11 pm Some of it, however, I can believe - like that guy who tried to eat molten gummi bear off his girlfriend's chest. They both got third-degree burns.

The most dangerous food preparation in a kitchen is melting sugar.

Gummy Bears are some gum base and sugar.

Molten sugar does not cool. It will burn skin, stick, and keep burning.

Yes, take some white sugar, put it in a pan under med heat, watch it melt. great for coating the bottom of a custard cup.

River

this is just ...NUTS...