{"id":1214,"date":"2009-03-28T08:32:07","date_gmt":"2009-03-28T14:32:07","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/michaelsiegel.net\/?p=1214"},"modified":"2009-03-28T08:35:19","modified_gmt":"2009-03-28T14:35:19","slug":"tubes-2","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/michaelsiegel.net\/?p=1214","title":{"rendered":"Tubes"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>I call BS on <a href=\"http:\/\/www.nationalpost.com\/news\/story.html?id=1419824\">this story<\/a> about medical students messing up intubations because they&#8217;ve watched it done incorrectly on ER.  This reeks to me of excuse making.  I&#8217;ve intubated dummies while helping my dad teach trauma surgeons.  Doing it &#8220;hands on&#8221; while someone watches you blows away anything you would learn from watching TV.<\/p>\n<p>Besides &#8230; since when do medical students have time to watch TV?<\/p>\n<p>It doesn&#8217;t surprise me, however.  <i>ER<\/i> is rather famous in medical circles for its inaccuracies.<\/p>\n<p>On the other hand, this story hails from the socialized paradise of Canada.  It wouldn&#8217;t surprise me too much if their students are getting inadequate training, given the paucity of doctors and funds.  In that circumstance, it&#8217;s so much easier to just blame TV.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I call BS on this story about medical students messing up intubations because they&#8217;ve watched it done incorrectly on ER. This reeks to me of excuse making. I&#8217;ve intubated dummies while helping my dad teach trauma surgeons. Doing it &#8220;hands on&#8221; while someone watches you blows away anything you would learn from watching TV. Besides &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/michaelsiegel.net\/?p=1214\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">Tubes<\/span> <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":4,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[6],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1214","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-culture"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p2BzKF-jA","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/michaelsiegel.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1214","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/michaelsiegel.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/michaelsiegel.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/michaelsiegel.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/4"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/michaelsiegel.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=1214"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/michaelsiegel.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1214\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1216,"href":"https:\/\/michaelsiegel.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1214\/revisions\/1216"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/michaelsiegel.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=1214"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/michaelsiegel.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=1214"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/michaelsiegel.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=1214"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}