I just started watching ER for the first time and in the pilot George Clooney shows up to his place of work hammered, gets an IV, and within a few hours is triaging crush victims from a nearby building collapse. Amazing.

I couldn’t figure out why everybody was so in love with George Clooney in this show, then I saw Dr. Ross ask a patient with diplopia if she was having any associated pain and now I get it.

Ep 2 There’s a room full of 15 German tourists with viral gastroenteritis. For some reason Dr. Carter is tasked with performing rectal exams on all of them. Meanwhile, Dr. Greene is caught having sex with his wife in an ED bathroom, just a few feet away from 15 vomiting Germans.

Dr. Benton’s character is wild. He’s a PGY2 “surgical resident.” He is brilliant, hard working, confident, and I guarantee you all his co-residents fucking hate him.

I’m really enjoying this show 3 episodes in, although it’s giving me incredible anxiety as an ophthalmologist to think about going to see a patient in this ED, which has roughly 5,000 staff members power walking through the hallways at all times.

This is the worst thing I’ve seen in this show so far. You want a donut, you take the whole donut, Dr. Benton

Carter (a med student) finally got to go home after a long shift and as he’s walking out, Dr. Lewis asks if he wants to see an intubation. He sighs and says sure with a smile on his face and despair in his eyes and I’ve never seen anything more accurate in my life.

Pt comes in with a gunshot wound. Theres a bullet in the RV. Benton cracks the chest and pulls out the bullet with his hand. Then he jumps on the pt & tamponades the hemorrhage while they wheel the stretcher to the OR. And I get frustrated when the ED is out of fluorescein strips

Really nice of the ED staff on this show to put motor vehicle accident victims in adjacent trauma bays connected by glass saloon doors so they can see each other crashing and getting intubated and everything

Carter just watched a patient jump off the roof and the entire ED staff was eating thanksgiving dinner in the next scene wtf even is this show lol

Like there’s a body that just crushed a car and the alarms going off and everybody’s inside carving up a turkey making fun of George Clooney for banging a pharmaceutical rep this show is wild

The number of awake patients that get defibrillated on this show is astounding

I get that some people might not like medical shows like ER because they’re inaccurate. Fortunately, I don’t know any better as an ophthalmologist so I’m like “hell yeah Dr. Ross do your 3rd open thoracotomy of the night while wearing a shirt and tie you’re crushing it!”

A cop just brought a dog in who got hit by a car. 3 human doctors are reading vet textbooks trying to save its life. Carter is giving it mouth to mouth for some reason. If this episode came out today, twitter would talk about it for 6 weeks.

Alright I’m gonna need one of y’all to tell me why they put an honest to god catcher’s mask on this woman with bleeding esophageal varices

Just so you know, this threads gonna keep going until I see an ophthalmologist on this show, so buckle up

I like Carter a lot. He’s definitely on his way to honoring his 18 month long emergency medicine rotation.

There’s bad television CPR, then there’s John Carter MS3

Just watched "Love's Labor Lost," the most gut-wrenching hour of TV I've ever seen. It was so horrifyingly familiar: The seemingly innocuous patient, the questionable decision making, the resident who is in over his head but is convinced he can get himself out of trouble...

...the multiple system failures that ultimately resulted in a catastrophic outcome, and of course, the resident who tried his absolute hardest to do what he thought was best, now all alone, crying on his way home. This one hit too close. Heartbreaking.

Honestly I need whoever wrote that episode to come give me a hug right now you made me tweet sadness now come fix it and tell me Dr. Greene will be ok

There is no way the burnout rate in this ER is less than 100%. I’m burned out just watching it. Burnout by proxy.

I need everybody to stop what you’re doing right now and look at this photo of John Carter wearing a scrub top tucked into dress pants with suspenders. Iconic.

I honestly want to know how you’d treat this. I wanna say just swallow it and then poop it out but that can’t be right.

Just finished season 1. Here’s the consult count:

Ophthalmology 0
Dermatology 0
OB/GYN 3
Cardiology 6
Orthopedics 8
Psychiatry 263

Love it every time somebody yells "DON'T DIE ON ME YOU SON OF A BITCH." Makes me want to starting yelling "DON'T GO BLIND ON ME YOU SON OF A BITCH" but my patients are awake and I'd get a lot of bad reviews

Oh my this Dr. Weaver is gonna be trouble. She just told all the doctors they have to do better at charting their orders in real time, you know, over the current system of not charting anything during any time.

One of the first things Dr. Weaver did was tell the nurse manager that the MDs are gonna start cleaning up after their own procedures. Lmao I swear to god the writers on this show got a bunch of nurses drunk and took notes as they teed off on everything they hate about doctors

A woman chopped her boyfriends arm off with an axe in an elaborate drug seeking operation and just...I don’t know...there’s got to be an easier way.

Ok I’m confused because I know I’m supposed to not like Dr. Weaver but all she wants is for people to write down their orders, doctors to clean up after themselves, and Dr. Ross to stop having sex with med students. Honestly very reasonable requests.

(Literally every episode of ER)

Patient: Doc, I’m starting to feel—

Dr. Ross: Alright let’s get psych down here tell him we got a patient with feelings in room 2

Match Day for Carter. He celebrated by leaving for lunch, getting a hotel room, taking a bubble bath with his gf, getting drunk, returning to work 3 hrs later, then telling the chief of surgery he can’t assist on an appendectomy because he is drunk. You know, typical match day.

Halfway through season 2, here’s my ranking for who I’d most want as a coresident:

1. Susan Lewis
2. Doug Ross
3. Mark Greene
4. John Carter
5. Kerry weaver
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87. a sack of potatoes
88. Peter Benton