Late

(Draft from Wednesday that I thought I'd posted but hadn't.)


Lots of lovely sleep, and the world looks less prickly. Rain moistening the world, cooling the air, soothing the mood. Moby curled on the bed. Last evening, with friends over, he had to come out of the closet, but stayed in the kitchen anxiously as the weather had him so unsettled. I picked him up, and stood near the dryer, which had a few towels inside. He reached out to get in, and nestled there for the rest of the evening. He can get up there himself, but he's a timid jumper, especially when he's already worried.

An ad showed an OR scene, a situation that would not happen. Not without the circulator stopping it immediately. "What are you doing? Get those bloody gloves off my phone! And you're contaminated!" But those of us who would notice and care are a tiny, tiny minority. But it's like Engrish, makes me think there was a lot of skimping on preparatory research. There was a similar moment in Scrubs, which I tend not to ding on their medical gaffes, since that isn't what the show was about. They were about the human interactions, and put aside facts to get to the joke. Fair enough, and clearly the writers' priority. But the one in the OR could easily have been both factual and funny, and it sticks in my mind.

For example, those scrubbed in, in sterile gown and gloves, don't answer the phone, or scratch their noses. There is always at least one other person, not in sterile garb, to take care of such things. Yes, to include glasses adjustment and facial itch abatement. And if they do touch unsterile things, like faces or phones, they are breaking scrub, spreading blood contamination, and will need to get new sterile gown and gloves and scrub back in. And the circulating nurse has to clean the surfaces touched, and chew out the individual who couldn't just wait a second, or take off their bloody gloves... oh, wait, already said that. There was only one surgeon who would routinely do this, and he is now barred from working at most of the hospitals in town.

This is why I never watched ER, won't watch House, and we can't go to movies about hospitals, or with history themes. The latter for D's sake. Neither of us can stand the other one shouting at the screen.