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Oct. 15th, 2010 08:50 am![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png)
Ok. I have no idea if Private Practice's depiction of Chiari malformation is even remotely correct, maybe someone else can tell me that. But spoilers 'neath the cut.
1) I am pretty sure that, even if their depiction of Chiari malformation IS correct, no doctor would tell a pregnant patient that had it that they should "tough it out", and I'm pretty sure no doctor would tell her that she shouldn't get surgery to fix it.
2) Is it really that easily mistaken for fibromyalgia? And would it really go undiagnosed for 7 years?
Their depiction of teenage depression is...ridiculous.
1) If a patient comes to you telling you that he is being bullied for liking anime (?????), and has been in and out of six schools for liking anime (???????), and is getting kicked in the shins for liking anime (ok, seriously?), and his mother tells him that he is a whimp for being upset about it, and that his dad would kick his ass for it if he were still alive, despite being the one who got him into anime (ok, come on, really?)...then no, I don't think that he is "hiding his depression from you".
2) If your depressed patient tries to kill himself via stabbing himself in the stomach (!), going up to him after he is treated by the doctors and asking him a) what he was thinking b) "Suicide is NEVER the answer!) and c) telling him how you were teased in HS and look now you have a hot wife? Not going to help. FFS.
Not to mention the insane treatment of Betsey, child of the deceased co-worker Dell, who saved all of their lives at one point or another and saved the life of one of their daughters when she was having a baby.
1) If you are a rich, private practice doctor with a) no children, b) one child or c) one child who is out of the house and married and you don't take in the child of a co-worker who did above, whose mother and father died horrifically just five months ago and has no been abandoned by her aunt in the middle of your office? You are a jerk.
2) If you do these things and then tell you that you are not going to take her in because you want her to get a "real mom and dad" and hope, hope that the system will provide her one despite knowing that the system fails most kids? You are a monster.
3) If you do these things after talking about how "disturbed" she is because her mother died in a meth lab explosion and her father died after not receiving treatment after a car accident? You are a double monster, which is not even a thing.
A child is not disturbed simply because her parents died. If you are going to tell us that she is disturbed and you want us to believe it, you cannot depict said child's 'disturb'ingness by showing her watching cartoons with a baby, drinking soda and being sad that her father is dead and someone else has his office so she can't color.
Frowning and sad eyes because her father is dead does not equal disturbed. Especially not in a seven year old girl.
What the fuck.
1) I am pretty sure that, even if their depiction of Chiari malformation IS correct, no doctor would tell a pregnant patient that had it that they should "tough it out", and I'm pretty sure no doctor would tell her that she shouldn't get surgery to fix it.
2) Is it really that easily mistaken for fibromyalgia? And would it really go undiagnosed for 7 years?
Their depiction of teenage depression is...ridiculous.
1) If a patient comes to you telling you that he is being bullied for liking anime (?????), and has been in and out of six schools for liking anime (???????), and is getting kicked in the shins for liking anime (ok, seriously?), and his mother tells him that he is a whimp for being upset about it, and that his dad would kick his ass for it if he were still alive, despite being the one who got him into anime (ok, come on, really?)...then no, I don't think that he is "hiding his depression from you".
2) If your depressed patient tries to kill himself via stabbing himself in the stomach (!), going up to him after he is treated by the doctors and asking him a) what he was thinking b) "Suicide is NEVER the answer!) and c) telling him how you were teased in HS and look now you have a hot wife? Not going to help. FFS.
Not to mention the insane treatment of Betsey, child of the deceased co-worker Dell, who saved all of their lives at one point or another and saved the life of one of their daughters when she was having a baby.
1) If you are a rich, private practice doctor with a) no children, b) one child or c) one child who is out of the house and married and you don't take in the child of a co-worker who did above, whose mother and father died horrifically just five months ago and has no been abandoned by her aunt in the middle of your office? You are a jerk.
2) If you do these things and then tell you that you are not going to take her in because you want her to get a "real mom and dad" and hope, hope that the system will provide her one despite knowing that the system fails most kids? You are a monster.
3) If you do these things after talking about how "disturbed" she is because her mother died in a meth lab explosion and her father died after not receiving treatment after a car accident? You are a double monster, which is not even a thing.
A child is not disturbed simply because her parents died. If you are going to tell us that she is disturbed and you want us to believe it, you cannot depict said child's 'disturb'ingness by showing her watching cartoons with a baby, drinking soda and being sad that her father is dead and someone else has his office so she can't color.
Frowning and sad eyes because her father is dead does not equal disturbed. Especially not in a seven year old girl.
What the fuck.