How does ER hold up? Still worth watching?

I also live in Spain. I’ve been to public and private hospitals and I think sometimes it’s like you describe (doctor comes to the box) and sometimes the doctor is in the box and just sees one patient after another. Depends on a hospital. In general my experience is that you get in, wait for maybe 30 minutes, get treated and leave (I know it depends on the day and hospital). The Pit looked like hospitals during Covid yet they were relaxed, like it’s not their problem, just business as usual. For me it felt like the doctors were immediately emotionally attaching to every patient they see but people suffering in the waiting room didn’t matter to them.

In the end it just depends on what you like. If you like personal dramas then you will probably enjoy The Pit. I don’t like shows about personal dramas and watching an episode were doctor spends most of his time working as a psychologist for the family of a dying person instead of treating people waiting in pain in the waiting room was unbearable. I had the same issue with The Walking Dead (too much focus in personal dramas) but I enjoyed The Strain which had way more pragmatic characters.

Bare in mind that I’m not saying it’s a bad show. Acting, writing, production and all is top level. I do realize the show is very popular because a lot of people like stuff like that. I’m just not one of them.

I’m not saying they are lazy. I’m saying they are extremely relaxed, like there’s nothing to do. 90% of the show is doctors talking about personal stuff, bullying other doctors, dealing with feelings (theirs and others’ people) and doing anything else than treating people. You’re probably right that there’s time for that in a workplace and even with people collapsing in the waiting room they have to stop and have a personal conversation with someone every now and then. Maybe they are treating people off camera and the show just focuses on other things. For me this focus was unbearable. It made it look like no one is being treated while doctors move around slower then me on a coffee break.

It could also be that I’m used to ERs in Europe. Here when I go to ER doctors sit in their rooms and people get assigned to a room. So doctor will see one patient after another without walking around, wondering what case to pick next and chatting with people all the time. For me that’s how hospitals work and The Pit just looked like a disorganized mess to me.

I think we’re talking about different shows. In The Pit I remember an episode where someone stole an ambulance and for the rest of the episode a bunch of employees where constantly standing there making bets about where it’s heading or something. When a patient needed some basic stomach medicine two nurses standing next to a counter and just talking told the doctor “it will be easier if you give it to him”. The doctor ended up spilling the liquid on himself and wasting what seemed like half an hour to change his clothes. All done without any hurry, like his actively trying to avoid work. All this time I’m thinking “why the fuck a nurse can’t give a patient some basic medicine from the first aid kit?”. Because they where busy chatting. The whole show is like this. They work like they are in IT department of a bank on a Friday evening while people wait 4 hours in the waiting room. That was the worst organized ER I have even seen and/or people with the worse work ethics I’ve seen.

The best Dune.

And that’s why they stop working?

Much better, thanks.

Again? How many hats did they have? More importantly, how many do they still have left?

I found it unbearable. Watched like 2.5 episodes and had to give up. I couldn’t get past the part where people were waiting for so long they were literally collapsing in the waiting room while the nurses where just chatting and doctors were gossiping, flirting and doing anything but actually treat people. All the time a just wanted to scream “GET TO WORK YOU FUCKING IDIOTS!”.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=fibDNwF8bjs

My cynical prediction is that the new government will struggle to hold anyone accountable, will soon have their own corruption scandals and will be out of power before they can fix anything. As we have seen in US and Poland voters are pretty stupid and if they voted for a crook once they will most likely vote for a crook again. There’s also a crisis coming, a crisis that will be blamed entirely on the government. I really hope the new government will prove to be extremely effective at prosecuting Orban and his cronies, will fix the system, people will love them and they will govern for the next 16 years but I’m yet to see government like that.

If we’re lucky this will help EU send aid to Ukraine and approve new sanctions on Russia. If we’re unlucky this will get blocked somehow anyway.

shrubbery cow!

Ask and you shall receive: https://www.youtube.com/shorts/wJRwhLD4V2w

Sadly no one cares about Spain. It’s trying to be a bridge between EU and Africa and South America, it’s trying to stand it’s ground in EU doing all the right things, the government is fairly effective locally and in EU but in the end it’s all about money. Germany is fumbling as a EU leader for about a decade now, France is struggling internally, UK doesn’t have any feet left to shoot itself in but they are still the ones calling all the shots.

Why not both?

El Burgo has population of ~1700. Nice town, beautifully located. Great cycling route.

Everyone get your mortgages while they are still cheap. If you’re planning on buying pretty much anything buy it now. Get a new EV, new computer, new boat and do that renovation in your summer house you’ve been postponing all this time. Everything is about to become way more expensive.

I remember watching Talking Funny with him, Louie C.K., Seinfeld and Chris Rock. It was really interesting and funny. Neither of those guys is watchable anymore. Incredible.

I didn’t say NO physical activity. Just don’t make it more important than actual school. No idea where you took “no culture” from. You think you can’t research information on culture? Just again, don’t make drama clubs more important than school. Memorization should definitely be present, I didn’t say school should be filled with it.

What I was trying to describe is similar to project-based learning used in Finland. If you haven’t heard about it it’s worth researching.

I didn’t know that one. I use vi all the time but my brain can’t handle it in the command line. Two different muscle memories clash.