The first time I watched Knives Out, I was in nursing school & wondered what I’d think about it when I was a nurse. Now I’m five years into my nursing career, plus with plenty of time in the home health speciality like Marta, and watched the movie again a few nights ago. My overall feelings about the nursing are actually about the same: I could quibble about details but overall the vibe feels right. She feels emotionally authentic. She feels like a nurse. She should have maybe done a respiratory assessment. But also that old man was absolutely so hyped to concoct a mystery. Absolutely jazzed to slit his own throat. Not a good partner in his own care. Patient who definitely wouldn’t use the call light appropriately.
And god can you imagine dealing with his family
You know that hospitalist note starts with something painfully diplomatic that just screams you will be walking into a war zone. “Harlan is an energetic and pleasant 85 year old gentleman with very engaged family support network actively involved in care”
many women are excited to get old and weird, but i have great news that it's fully possible to become weird now, before you get old. just imagine the heights of weirdness you will be able to reach in fifty years if you get started now. that's what I think
me as a kid reading Dune: I appreciate the detailed world-building that justifies why everyone fights with swords and has mental powers, but the idea of a Butlerian Jihad against computers is pretty silly
me in 2025, trying desperately to find the three (3) places you need to go to to disable the latest helpful AI assistant that's inserted itself into my work chat and is advising me to do things that would be a breach of federal law: Oh Now I Get It
Amanda tapping's memories of the episode are somewhat peculiar. "To make the operation room look all insulated, they lined it with bubble wrap. I'm talking the big stuff," she beams. "Now, I'm a bubble wrap fanatic, as is Christopher Judge, so the two of us are like, 'Yay! Bubble wrap!' and we were throwing ourselves against the wall, laughing our heads off! Or we'd be sitting with a bit we'd pulled from the wall, happily going 'Phtt, phtt, phtt' and bursting the stuff. So now you know, next time you watch the episode, that behind all that medical stuff is big, beautiful bubble wrap."
- Stargate SG-1 The Illustrated Companion Season 5 and 6, Frozen, p.65