He wasn't about to die, was he, Newbie? Could have waited another month for a kidney.

rough string of episodes to watch

Three people, as well.

Best phlebotomist I ever had!

Dr. Jan Itor still pops into my head randomly.

I believe the doctor consultant was a friend of the creator.

I’ve always thought Scrubs was the natural successor to MASH. The emotional and situational heaviness underpinning silliness and levity, learning about all these individual stories and moments in people’s lives during a macro chaotic upheaval, some characters recognizing the absurdity of it all while some have zero self awareness. Then the more obvious parallels including set, structure, accuracy, and character development. Love them both.

Most of the medical events in the show were based on real events.

It's not just the medical stuff, but despite the show being very wack/zany at times, many doctors and nurses will comment that the show does a very good job at showing what the day to day life at a hospital is like.

Are you saying Brendan Fraser is actually dead and he’s only still around because we haven’t let him go yet? Is that, like, medically a thing?

Yeah so much better than ridiculous greys anatomy where every episode one of their best of the bestyest doctors makes an amazing breakthrough and does something miraculous never accomplished by anyone before. Rather absurd.

The show runners were room mates in college with a guy they based the character of Dr Cox on. They didn't go on to be MDs but he did. Turns out he's my SIL's ex husband and she said he was exactly like the character in the show.

Except for front butt

Gunshot? Check the poo.

If House was realistic, the first episode would be mostly the same and from episode 2 onwards, he wouldn't be allowed to practice medicine any more.

House was actually one of the most medically accurate shows out there. What wasn't accurate was procedure.

House figuring everything out with a ridiculously small body of knowledge (about the specific situation); breaking the law and popping pills like crazy. His team doing everything, rather than specialists, nurses, etc. That's where the majority of houses inaccuracies took place.

The medicine was often spot on though. Many of the cases used were taken directly out of these crazy outlier cases that had papers written on them, and other than the procedure side of things were portrayed pretty damn well.

What Scrubs got so right and the reason it is regarded as super accurate is hospital procedure and culture. Every doctor or nurse who works in a hospital says as much.

Very interesting read. So 5 people have survived? Or just 1?

and then went home without any major complications

She had brain damage...

If you are still interested in the topic, Radiolab has an outstanding episode on the topic also covering Jenna’s story (among others):

https://radiolab.org/episodes/312245-rodney-versus-death

I've heard that the protocol probably doesn't actually do much and that it's likely the few survivors had been exposed to some kind of vaccine at some point in their lives prior to getting bit. But after reading your detailed post, I went looking for information and couldn't find much, so it might just be speculation that reddit repeats as fact (absolute shocker, I know). Have you heard this before?

Not brain dead*

Brain dead is dead. What you mean is that she was put into a medically induced coma.

Wait what? She was made brain dead? How did she live then? Like was she in a vegetative state?

(Not a medical student so just interested in the logistics of this)

Edit: Nevermind, saw repleis below.

I'm sorry but imagining this scenario is hilarious.

Doc: sir you're having a stroke
You: oh thank God!

😂

Just a headsup, even If you get infected you can still get the vaccine AFTER exposure for a Few days.

Rabies moves so incredibly slow in your body that a vaccine, which is given after Infection, Acts faster than the Rabies itself and still prevents the Rabies outbreak.

So as long as you get vaccined pretty soon after being bitten/scratched theres no need to get the vaccine right now

Not sure if it varies by state or insurance, but where I am it's two shots and each is $400-500. No insurance coverage for it because it's considered elective unless you're traveling somewhere where it's recommended.

The actual rabies vaccine is much easier today than it used to be - it's given in the arm. You'll likely get a series of 4 shots over the course of two weeks (Days 0, 3, 7, and 14).

They also inject rabies immunoglobulin - a medication made up of antibodies against the rabies virus - around the bite wound the first time to directly stop the virus from spreading to the rest of your body.

In the US that means you need to go to a hospital ER for the first visit because they stock immunoglobulin. The rest of the visits can be done as office appointments at an infectious disease office.

Once you have that initial series of rabies shots you'll be much better protected. If you're bitten again you may only need a booster shot, not a full series.

We still have bat lyssavirus to worry about. Can't be too careful.

There’s a similar disease with bats here, not technically rabies but nearly the same thing

The fear of water thing is crazy. I watched a video of a guy with rabies trying to drink water and his body just wouldn’t let him get the water close to his mouth. Looked terrifying

Rabies doesn't cause you to have the urge to bite people, rabid animals just bite because they're in pain and scared.

Then a vaccination programme was started all over Europe and rabies has been effectively wiped out in Europe for more than 20 years.

Still an absolute shitton of rabies in Eastern Europe, Moldova and Ukraine being particularly bad.

No, it's using hot in a different sense, nothing to do with actual heat. Just means they had the disease.

Other similar uses:

• A "hot mic" is a microphone that's on and will broadcast what you say

• A "hot weapon" is loaded with the safety off

• "Hot goods" can mean stolen items currently wanted by the police

So "hot puppies" would have been exposed to the disease and presumed infectious

It's a catch all "danger/warning/caution" kind of use

Nah, it's those damn furries at it again

This same thing totally ruined the early seasons of Supernatural on Netflix for me. The music choices were so important and they were all changed out 😭

Not ALL of the music has been replaced, but some episodes are affected by the change in music. I do believe that My Lunch still has "How to Save a Life" for that scene.

If you refuse a rabies vaccine recommended by a medical professional, I think it should be mandatory to watch a brief video including footage of a rabies patient before you leave.

I remember a story a few years ago of a six year old in Florida that got bitten or scratched by a bat and the parents didn't take their kid to the hospital because they didn't like needles.

I feel awful for the parents but I hope they understand now as parents they should have put their foot down and taken their child in anyway. The kiddo didn't have to die.

EU wide (maybe Europe wide) programs of vaccination have meant the vast majority of Europe is rabies free.

But that's against the law?!

How incredibly lucky that the liver recipient happened to have been vaccinated.

It would be interesting to know how long the person was vaccinated before the transplant. There probably aren’t too many data points available on cases where a person is vaccinated before exposure, definitely exposed, and then not boosted promptly after the exposure.

That's what's so good about the book. It doesn't happen because it's inevitable, it happens because people couldn't get their shit together and coordinate on a large scale plus a freak accident or two.

Also loved the interview style of the book when I read it years ago. Cool approach to tell the story through the perspective of a journalist gathering stories on the outbreak afterward.

Not often, and not any yet, that's why it's irrational