Wow, two posts in one day. Can you all tell that my European project at work is over? Well not totally, but all of the hard work at least.
Anyway, did any of you see that television show called The Practice last night? OMG, they had a story line where this teenage girl was dying of cancer but had a wish to be a mother and so she was going through IVF. She was actually married, again since she was dying, her parents let her live out a few last wishes - one of which was marrying her high school sweetheart. So in one scene last night they showed the girl, her parents, the teenage husband in the room with the doctors and the doctor was doing ICSI on one egg (I assume she didn't respond well to the stims and only produced one mature egg?). Okay so much for a sterile lab environment. It was so funny because I knew how wrong it was that all I could do was laugh - even though it was a serious and sad storyline. Later on they mentioned that one egg (which apparently didn't become an embryo yet because then the teen hubby chickened out and didn't want his sperm used, so then the girl went and got donor sperm - like 3 days later). In the end the doctors didn't do IVF on this girl since she was dying, but it was the inaccuracy of it all that just had me LMAO! I can see now why Geohde of Mission Impossible doesn't like to watch the TV show House because of the complete medical rubbish. I know it's just TV, but it's scary to think how many people believe what they see on shows like this or CSI.
4 comments:
That's great...ICSI on display!
oh my gosh...I know. I watch The Practice. I've never had IVF, but I know enough about it to know how wrong the show was portraying it, so I spent commercial breaks explaining to K about how wrong it all was and how it's not an easy process like they just portrayed it!
I saw a commercial about that but didn't see it.
They were IN THE ROOM during the ICSI? lol. That's funny.
Yeah, I am glad I'm not in the medical field because I love many of the medical shows. I couldn't watch them with my nurse friend because she'd always explain "yeah, whatever" and I just wanted to enjoy the show.
I'm glad I didn't watch!
Scott and I saw the same show and were like, "hey! we didn't get to watch during ICSI! What up with that?" LOL
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