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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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Yeah!! I would hope so!! *Flails*
*hugs you tight*