A cum laude graduate of a medical series — I learned what lupus is by seeing House, chondrosarcoma on Grey’s Anatomy, or Duchenne muscular dystrophy in New Amsterdam — nothing grabbed me more this summer than HBO Max brought back the mythical 15 Has! Notsaisons in its catalogue. So here I am in my free time, tangled up in pneumothorax, lacerations and aneurysms; with the mistaken belief that he would be able to endotrachially intubate a stranger because he saw Dr. Greene practices it so much at this Chicago University Hospital.
I wonder what use Mark Greene would be today if he were performing tubal abortions like he did in his ER in 1994. Because in the County General he carried them out without hesitation. An ectopic pregnancy is a pregnancy that develops outside the uterus. It can be fatal to the mother if carried to term. So when it is detected, action is taken to disrupt it before the structure breaks and the patient bleeds internally. In the US this is no longer the case.
This summer, Central Texas Hospital—one of the most restrictive states on reproductive rights after the Roe v. Wade – a doctor instructed not to treat him until a hernia occurred, he denounced in a letter to a group of doctors alarmed at the legal panorama that awaits them. Nobody thought in the last century that Dr. Greene, and I was afraid that perhaps in the fall of 2022, Meredith Gray would face her hospital’s legal team to save a patient. Another fiction surpassed by reality that threatens our bodies.
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