先日見たドラマで、医師が病状説明している1シーン。蜂アレルギーによるアナフィラキシーショックで意識が戻らず血圧低下から回復しない、との内容。後ろにあるモニターの画面に表示されている収縮期血圧は116/83と正常。こういうドラマって筆者なような視聴者を喜ばすためにワザと間違いを演出してるんだと思います。
I like medical dramas. They are so dramatic to save patients’ lives and inspiring to us. But that’s not all. As a professional cardiovascular surgeon, I enjoy the detail in the medical technical scenes, and check out the end roll who did the medical spectatorship. Sometimes I find my friend’s name on it, or the filming location is somewhere I have worked or know. By looking at the small details of the background and tools used, I can feel familiar with the drama and enjoy the content of any medical scene more deeply.
Sometimes I find something wrong with medical common sense or professional perception, which makes the drama all the more enjoyable for me. In the drama scene I saw last week, the doctor explained to the family that the patient was stung by a hornet and was in anaphylactic shock, leaving her unconscious and hypotension. However, on the biological monitor moving on the background, the blood pressure was extremely normal at 116/83.
I have recently come to believe that the medical mistakes in these medical dramas are created with the aim of entertaining medical professionals like me.
