• Thassodar@sh.itjust.works
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    4 days ago

    I like intense shows but can’t handle medical shows because I cannot handle looking at surgery scenes or anything involving cutting someone open and seeing their insides. I can barely handle cutting chicken bones.

    I really wanted to like Dr. Death but they had pretty extensive scenes showing the extent of his malpractice and I couldn’t do it. If The Pitt has more drama and less surgical stuff, I’ll give it a shot.

    • MimicJar@lemmy.worldM
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      4 days ago

      It’s eye surgery that gets me. I don’t think The Pitt has that (but it might), but I know several medical shows do. Everything else is just “meat” and I can handle it but eye stuff is always too much.

      (And The Pitt birth scene is also a shock, but mostly just because so many shows handwaved it. If I remember correctly the Seth Rogan film Knocked Up also gives you a visual. But in X years of film and TV that’s it.)

    • BeeegScaaawyCripple@lemmy.world
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      4 days ago

      Let me tell you, seeing your own insides is a completely different experience than seeing them on TV (my big vertical abdominal scar started opening up after one surgery)

    • Cethin@lemmy.zip
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      4 days ago

      Not every show needs to be for everyone. I appreciate at least that these guys are doing something different and risky. There are dozens of medical shows that are purely drama. I don’t think we need another.