I have always been watching medical television shows like "Grey's Anatomy" and "House." In the television shows whenever a patient has a body part that severed, such as a finger or leg, as long as the patient places the limb into a box of ice then the doctors can reattach with no problem. Turns out those television shows are just a big fat lie.
While I was looking through the news report something grabbed my attention, there was a picture of a men with some missing tooth titled "What to do when body parts fall off." So i clicked on it and started to read the contents. It says that Jim accidentally severed his middle finger and some parts of his index finger. They decided that in-order to keep Jim's middle finger they had to put it in ice. The thing is, that was probably a bad decision, or so the nurse from the Swedish Medical Center said. The nurse told them that they should have kept the finger cold instead of putting it directly on ice because if the vessels get in contact with the ice it might damage the vessels and make reattachment hard. Then it goes on talking about what a person should do when their tooth falls out, or when the eyelid goes behind the eye.
This article is actually kind of gross but at the same time very helpful since it teaches the reader how to deal with these kind of situations. I have always thought about what I would do when my finger gets severed. The first I would have done was to throw it in ice because that is what the patients do on the shows. Now that I have seen this article I will follow the steps so that the doctors can reattach the finger with no complications.
Next time when your finger, toe, arm, or leg gets cut off then you would know that you shouldn't put it in ice, because if you do then you might forever lose that part of your body. Another important thing, don't believe television shows because they are feeding the audience false information such as, putting a person's severed body part in ice. If you want real information go to the Discovery Channel or any educational channel.
Cohen, Elizabeth. "What to Do When Body Parts Fall off - CNN.com." CNN.com International - Breaking, World, Business, Sports, Entertainment and Video News. Web. 17 Sept. 2010. http://edition.cnn.com/2010/HEALTH/09/16/things.fall.off/index.html
Friday, September 17, 2010
Just when I thought T.V shows don't lie
Posted by A Picky Eater's Guide at 5:18 AM
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I think you have a very interesting response to the article. I also used to watch lots of that kind of stuff and also, for a period of time, believed it too. After years of watching horror movies and various shows, I also learnt that lots of it were just a lot of bogus and lies. It is pretty interesting to watch though! :P
Grace, I hope your finger never gets severed because you might end up with a hand thats missing a finger.
I've always known that medical television shows that portray the correct procedures, but actually sometimes they do get the basics. For example, I remember watching a medical television show and it was showing how a nurse-in-training learned how to put the IV needles in patient, and when I went to the hospital this summer to volunteer, I noticed it was the same procedure. So, I think that sometimes what you see on TV can be true, but most often times not.
I know on CSI, the forensic parts are never that exciting in real life. Televisions shows need to dramatize everything to make it interesting! Real life is more boring, anyways. When people watch those dramatic television shows, they don't want it to be like their boring every day life.
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