Doctor Reacts To St. Denis Medical

TL;DR

Doctor Mike finds St. Denis Medical surprisingly accurate on nurse burnout and documentation overload, while calling out dangerously wrong CPR and medical diagnoses.

Key Points

• 1.The show accurately portrays nurses spending 40+ minutes on electronic health records per patient, time doctors often aren't compensated for
• 2.A nurse accidentally self-injecting an EpiPen was realistic; Doctor Mike notes training pens exist specifically to prevent this, and the victim needed EKG monitoring
• 3.CPR scenes were repeatedly called out as dangerously incorrect — wrong depth, no proper recoil, wrong compression rate, and a chaotic Code Blue response
• 4.A doctor diagnosing pulmonary embolism and pneumothorax mid-resuscitation with no data was labeled "the most inaccurate thing I've ever seen"
• 5.The organ donor trolley-problem joke prompted Doctor Mike to clarify that separate teams handle saving patients vs. organ procurement — a real and common myth
• 6.Hospital IT failures were validated as genuinely catastrophic: no medication scanning, no charts, forced return to paper, requiring on-call IT support just like emergency physicians