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or_mabinogi: it's National Punctuation Day! Huzzah!
Viabentleywg: "Top Five Most Common Comic Book Writer Medical Errors": add to that "and movie, and tv show, and fanfic"--I bet I've made some myself.
To that I'll add two things that always set off my alerts:
• wrapping ribs in non-emergency situations. I thought I had a cracked one myself, but my doc wouldn't even x-ray it; my brother-in-law also cracked some (separate occasion). What we heard is they don't wrap them anymore if they can avoid it because the resulting compression of the lungs raises the risk of pneumonia, so just take it easy and you won't drive a rib through a lung. There may be a difference between cracked ribs and outright broken (and especially displaced!) ribs here. If you know more than I do, please tell me! Wrapping used to be pretty standard; I don't know when that stopped.
• keeping concussion sufferers awake (because clearly they haven't suffered enough): hey, I got hit by a car. My husband was instructed to wake me every two hours and ask me questions to which we both knew the answers; if I got them wrong, he was to call the hospital. Shoot, as long ago as the 70s there was an episode of M*A*S*H where Hawkeye was concussed, and he was afraid to sleep, even though he said (in his amazing monologue) that he knew he didn't really have to keep awake the whole time. I think they might once have kept concussed people awake for a time, and they don't want you to go to sleep right away, but I keep reading about fanfic concussion victims being kept awake for twenty-four hours, and I've never heard of that in real life.
I think some of these errors propagate themselves through fanfic, actually--but they might also do so through college dorms. I remember having an across-the-hall neighbor once telling her friend very loudly if she married the wrong man and they had incompatible blood types and she got pregnant, she could die. Um, not exactly. She had a couple of other howlers. I never knew her well enough to correct her, and, frankly, after a couple of those, I didn't feel motivated to get to know her better.
bentleywg also referred me to Cascade Hospital, a medical information website for fanfic writers (in other words, do not try to treat yourself or anyone else with this info! Sadly, I looked for both "concussion" and "broken ribs" with no success.
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bentleywg: "Top Five Most Common Comic Book Writer Medical Errors": add to that "and movie, and tv show, and fanfic"--I bet I've made some myself. To that I'll add two things that always set off my alerts:
• wrapping ribs in non-emergency situations. I thought I had a cracked one myself, but my doc wouldn't even x-ray it; my brother-in-law also cracked some (separate occasion). What we heard is they don't wrap them anymore if they can avoid it because the resulting compression of the lungs raises the risk of pneumonia, so just take it easy and you won't drive a rib through a lung. There may be a difference between cracked ribs and outright broken (and especially displaced!) ribs here. If you know more than I do, please tell me! Wrapping used to be pretty standard; I don't know when that stopped.
• keeping concussion sufferers awake (because clearly they haven't suffered enough): hey, I got hit by a car. My husband was instructed to wake me every two hours and ask me questions to which we both knew the answers; if I got them wrong, he was to call the hospital. Shoot, as long ago as the 70s there was an episode of M*A*S*H where Hawkeye was concussed, and he was afraid to sleep, even though he said (in his amazing monologue) that he knew he didn't really have to keep awake the whole time. I think they might once have kept concussed people awake for a time, and they don't want you to go to sleep right away, but I keep reading about fanfic concussion victims being kept awake for twenty-four hours, and I've never heard of that in real life.
I think some of these errors propagate themselves through fanfic, actually--but they might also do so through college dorms. I remember having an across-the-hall neighbor once telling her friend very loudly if she married the wrong man and they had incompatible blood types and she got pregnant, she could die. Um, not exactly. She had a couple of other howlers. I never knew her well enough to correct her, and, frankly, after a couple of those, I didn't feel motivated to get to know her better.
bentleywg also referred me to Cascade Hospital, a medical information website for fanfic writers (in other words, do not try to treat yourself or anyone else with this info! Sadly, I looked for both "concussion" and "broken ribs" with no success.![[identity profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/openid.png){kind=small}
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Fanfic always give a lot of information because they think it's needed in the story.
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I had the xray because I'd already seen two doctors by the time I went to my doctor.
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How many doctors does it take to diagnose a fractured rib?
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The fractured rib after the car accident was looked at by the Emergency room doctor on the Monday (bastard forced me to do a blood sample when I was only a passenger :( Turns out I didn't have to do that and forcing an already distressed patient to give blood..well, they had to hold me still to get it), then by the local doctor at one of those 24 hour clinics on the Tuesday (don't really look too hard) and then on Thursday when I couldn't breathe I went to my doctor who finally sent me off for an x-ray. Yeah, I know, I should have gone to her on the Tuesday but I presumed it was just bruising.
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Very, very true! I try to avoid the medical/treatment side of writing at all costs! My dad was a doctor, but alot of stuff I know MUST be outdated and SO twenty years ago - so I avoid altogether, lol!!
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That's okay. The hospital thought the same thing, too, the first four hours or so. Then everything happened really, really fast....
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Yeah!! I would hope so!! *Flails*
*hugs you tight*