Quick Shot: FLATLINE As anyone remotely involved in healthcare knows, YOU CAN’T SHOCK A FLATLINE Shocks just prove your character is uneducated A charge “shocks” the heart INTO a flatline so a regular rhythm can resume FIX: you get the same dramatic effect with Vfib arrest #scriptsky #writing

On the topic of venom/poison, an ambulance/hospital isn’t a magic cure. A doctor can’t instantly diagnose what’s causing your character’s symptoms. Sometimes it takes a few weeks…after the autopsy. #writing #scriptsky #gamedev

Me: “It’s going to be a long drive to LA tomorrow” 7: “Why? It’s just a Tuesday morning. Traffic shouldn’t be that bad” Apparently my kids are spoiled elitists

Set a record for number of teenage human trafficking victims seen in one shift. I hate people.

Jimmy Kimmel nailed another one. Enjoy.

Quick Shot: VENOM vs POISON VENOM is actively produced and delivered via an attack POISON is passively absorbed through ingestion/contact “If it bites you, it’s venom. If you bite it, it’s poison” #writing #scriptsky #gamedev

I am the anti-Superman The power of the yellow sun absolutely destroys me

The Consumer Protection Safety Commission wants to capture personal health information from ER visits that have nothing to do with consumer products “Very often, they will use information for marketing because now they’re going to know what conditions people have” www.cnn.com/2026/07/27/h...

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Trust But Verify: When a patient drops some baked goods off for the ER staff as a thank you, we always check to verify which patient it came from before trusting it

Here are my notes as a Physician with a Degree in Classics on Nolan’s Odyssey I would say “spoiler alert,” but you’ve had $&#%ing 2,700 years to read it 🧵👇

…and I’m wearing my Iliad shirt to the Odyssey Guess I should have bought a new shirt

Going to see the Odyssey at Imax in 90 min

Quick Shot: RECOVERY Writers, stop giving your characters miraculous recoveries - Muscle strains can heal quickly - Tendons/ligaments are the slowest to heal…if they heal at all - Broken bones are a 4-6 week recovery time (see Taika’s Hunt for the Wilderpeople) #writing #scriptsky

DAYCARE: You’re child sneezed. They’re not allowed back without a signed note from the Surgeon General certifying they will never EVER be sick KINDERGARTEN: Child Protective Services will be called unless you produce evidence your child was hospitalized on a ventilator for that unexcused absence

FYI, Doctors STILL use pagers when they’re on call (and an intern can have like six pagers clipped to their waist at once covering different services)

So, I guess the post office has just given up on posting actual prices these days Prices $ $$ $$$

EMTs are medical professionals paid barely above minimum wage to sit in a tin can with sick patients without access to a bathroom. They experience trauma saving lives without making a living wage. #writing #scriptsky

TRIGGER WARNING Saw a newborn baby last night. Brand new person. Born in a riverbed after the mom did meth Welcome to the world. Your NICU nurses are miracle workers and I hope the best for you. My soul hurts. #medsky

Quick Shot: ARTERIES Arteries pulse with each heart beat Veins don’t #writing #scriptsky

When patients are stuck in the ER >30hrs, but the nursing director’s mom comes in and gets a room in under 40 min…

I now have a 50% chance of lifting the coveted Lego World Cup Bracket Trophy in my work pool

If you tell people to show up at “A Quarter to 8,” don’t be surprised when you get murdered for making someone wait 6hrs for your late self. Just say 7:45 like a $&#>ing human.

Quick Shot: ACCIDENTS Want to make your scene more realistic? All of that random stuff in your car will go flying in a rollover. Wrappers, diapers, happy meal toys, everywhere Consider adding debris to the chaps or a well-placed forgotten memento for drama #writing #scriptsky

I love that flags are at half mast today for Sam Neill

We hold these truths to be self-evident, that ALL [WO]MEN ARE CREATED EQUAL

In case you were wondering what the ticket stub Lincoln was holding when he got Boothed in a booth at the Ford Theater, it looked like this

“Large software corporation using stolen intellectual property for AI sues large software corporation using stolen intellectual property for AI for stealing their intellectual property” www.msn.com/en-us/money/...

My ER experience has taught me that there are only two groups of people in this world not having sex: Your parents and your kids

Quick Shot: CRYSTALS Did you know we legit use crystals in medicine? Crystals have magical* frequencies That’s how quartz watches keep time, and we use those frequencies in ultrasound probes to create the waves that produce images (*magic=science) #writing #science

My swash buckled