TV Medical Dramas
I’m quoted in this Stanford Med Magazine piece about TV medical dramas. Follow-up: The writer actually got in touch with the medical consultant for Grey’s Anatomy, who I’d mentioned in my post complaining about CPR on the show.
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I’m quoted in this Stanford Med Magazine piece about TV medical dramas. Follow-up: The writer actually got in touch with the medical consultant for Grey’s Anatomy, who I’d mentioned in my post complaining about CPR on the show.
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I know it’s an old topic, but someone (lecturer? cpr instructor?) once told us that since people vastly underestimate the rate at which you need to do compressions, someone at an emergency med conference “discovered” that 100 compressions/minute goes exactly to a song you can (try) to sing in your head to keep time.
the song?
Stayin’ Alive by the BeeGees
no joke.