Medical Malpractice On Law & Order Ft. Legal Eagle

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Law and Order Season 1 Episode 1 "Prescription For Death"

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[gibberishname]

Having the daughter code in front of the whole ER wasn’t a HIPAA violation Devin! This is from 1990 and HIPAA didn’t pass until 1996. It was a violation of medical ethics at BEST

[flightofthexwings]

The bare minimum of CPR and defibrillation just sent me to the moon with rage. Someone at my workplace dropped like a fly with a heart attack and we were so fortunate a couple nearby, both doctors, started chest compressions the moment they saw him go down. When EMTs arrived they took over for another 45 minutes. He survived and is now fully recovered. KEEP. GOING.

[leifmeadows]

Funny story: my ex room mate was a medical student, and one night I had extreme stomach pain. She told me it was appendicitis. I laughed, told her, "you med students are always thinking it's something serious. I just have food poisoning from Olive Garden. I'm FINE."

36 hours and one small operation later....

It was appendicitis.

I heard hoofbeats and thought horses, but it was actually a zebra. I got lucky my other ex room mate succeeded in dragging me to the hospital when she did.

[bdarci]

That first L&O episode was based on a real case (so many of the episodes were). It was the death of Libby Zion in the ER of a New York teaching hospital that prompted her father to investigate the competency of the physicians. He believed that understaffing and overwork contributed to mistakes which ultimately lead to his daughters death. The regulation in New York State which limits the hours which residents and interns work in hospitals to about 80 hours a week is known as the Libby Zion Law.

[drakkenmensch]

I just learned that the defibrillator is the medical equivalent of "have you tried turning it off and on again?"

[charialer]

NO ONE on staff should be talking with an investigators WITHOUT hospital lawyers present! The cops should be coordinating through and/or redirected with upper management to schedule interviews the ANY personal that were administering care during the person's visit/death.

[Ritapita]

Fun fact: Law & Order began pre-HIPAA, so there are a lot of things that changed after privacy protection was enacted. Before that, someone could reveal your medical records (not ethically, but there weren't that many protections for patients), which is what happened during the AIDS scare of the 80s and 90s. As someone with a newly diagnosed genetic disorder, and also a former healthcare worker, it's been pretty amazing to see the changes in the last 30 to 40 years.

[thunderatigervideo]

When my brother was in med school, my dad caught a bad cold and jokingly listed his symptoms to see what my brother would diagnose. Having just finished a unit on serious infectious diseases, my brother diagnosed anthrax. To be clear, my dad didn’t have anthrax. Just a cold. But it’s now a family joke when someone catches a cold that we should also watch for anthrax.

[shannonkatherine]

Legal Eagle’s references hitting the brick wall that is Dr. Mike is an accurate representation of what happens every time I bring up the West Wing.

[jaynoir]

Just throwing it out there, you guys are missing a golden opportunity. You both could have sports teams composed of doctors and lawyers that could regularly compete against each other for charity, Bears vs Eagles.

[sav]

From a pharmacy student: meperidine is CONTRAINDICATED with MAOIs, meaning this drug combo should never be used! It very much can be a lethal combo.

[awseven]

I love Legal Eagle’s excitement over the side moving crates! It’s not a real Law and Order episode if there isn’t some dude being nonchalant over being interrogated by police. But hey, those crates won’t move themselves! I applaud your work ethic crate man!

[colinchaddock]

The Abyss reference is so spot on. She even tells him it will take 10-15 minutes of CPR to get her back, but everyone else is like, "it's been 3 minutes, just give up, man."

[sophiehorrocks]

My daughter needed 45 mins of cpr even I was shocked they kept going that long and did get her back

[claireebear]

As a Health Information Manager (person who manages medical records) I nearly put my head through a wall when they showed they had used white out on a record!! We also live and breath by "if you didn't write it down, it didn't happen". Love to see a little rep for the role medical records play in these cases :)

[Buff_MC]

2:15 my grandpa had a heart attack back in 2013 and was gone for almost 30 minutes. He was in the icu/hospital for a full month and needed physical therapy afterward. Thank god for the military veteran who was there to perform cpr. Ill never forget his doctors telling us its a miracle he survived. Such strong memories from this small part of the video

[talonthehedgehog]

Glad to see Mike and Devan back for another collab. Hope to see Alok Patel again sometime.❤

[josephpleone]

This case is a play on the Libby Zion case that resulted in resident work hours rules. There wasn’t an alcohol intoxication issue, though. Serotonin syndrome is what killed her from getting meperidine while on an MAO-I

[johnmckay]

There is something incredibly cool about watching two SME's (subject matter experts) in very different areas bounce of each other like this! Love it!

[KBRoller]

I love how triggered Mike was over the pronunciation of "anti-beeotics" 😂As a software developer (so, in the tech world), the first time I heard an old TV show call robots "robits", I had the same visceral pained reaction 😂