Sawbones: Dr. Odyssey: Shark Week

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and the follow-up.

Dr.

Odyssey, Shark Attack, Orca's Attack.

Orca's Attack.

Yeah, it is actually called Shark Attack Part 2, Orca.

That'll be after the break.

First, we'll start with Shark Attack.

First, we'll start with Shark Attack Part 1.

Now, if you remember, we've talked about Dr.

Odyssey before, right?

Indeed, we did an entire episode on it, and we will be talking about some story beats.

in the show.

So if you want to go in completely ignorant of the events of these episodes, just come back to these after you've enjoyed them yourself.

Sure, sure.

Now, where we last left, I mean, the plot of Dr.

Odyssey is pretty straightforward.

He's the dock on a cruise ship, and wild stuff happens.

It's a Ryan Murphy show, so weird stuff happens.

Right.

And then there's like a,

well, it was a love triangle between him and his nurse practitioner and his nurse.

Avery and Tristan.

Yes, except then it was not so much a triangle as a

threesome.

Yes.

So at the end of the last episode of the season finale, we found out that Avery is pregnant.

But whose baby is it?

We don't know.

We don't know.

So we're going to jump right into that.

Right.

With a shark attack.

Yes.

With a shark attack.

So that's what's happening.

So it's only the crew on board, right?

We're in between cruises.

We have no passengers.

Yes.

As this episode opens up.

Right.

It is an empty.

And that is rare.

This has been the first week that hasn't been like themed to a week of the cruise, right?

It was themed to sharks.

Right.

It was themed about

shark week.

Shark week.

One of the other crew members.

Which I bet they wanted to call it shark week because the other ones have been phrased that, you know.

Oh, man.

I bet they did.

Yeah, I bet they wanted to call it.

Do you think they weren't allowed to?

They probably can't.

Yeah.

Legally, they can't.

So one of the other crew members is out surfing.

They're taking a break.

The first mate is out surfing, and he gets attacked by a shark.

And he gets a terrible shark bite on his foot, ankle area.

Yeah.

And they rush him back to the ship where Dr.

Odyssey stabilizes him, but then is like,

we got to get him to a hospital to save this foot, right?

Because the blood because the arteries have all been torn.

This is the conceit.

And so we are up against the clock to save his foot.

Except as they're headed quickly to the shore,

they find out that there's a distress call from another ship.

What?

And so then they have to go rescue this other ship.

Like they're bound by sea law.

Sea law dictates.

Right.

Is that I'm assuming is that real?

Sea law?

Sea law?

Maritime law.

Maritime law.

Maritime law dictates.

That if a cruise ship hears a distress signal, it has to go.

Right.

And so it does.

It goes to

see what's going on.

And they find a bunch of people in a raft because the boat's been sunk by.

You guessed it.

Well, they

initially guessed it because it actually wouldn't make much sense.

It wouldn't because they're like, the boat was sunk by a shark.

And they're like, that's impossible.

But the shark did bite two of the people.

Yes.

Sharks.

They, okay.

These episodes are themed around aquatic attacks that are not depicted in the budget of this show.

No, not available to you.

You are going to get a lot of talk about sharks.

You may see one in a formation from time to time through the water, but there's a fin.

Yeah, you get a fin.

You get some brief flashes of a shark, and I'm going to be honest,

it's not really that much better than big shark.

Yes,

but.

We are, we are,

the thing is, the sharks are, for whatever reason, attacking the boat.

And Don Johnson tries to contextualize this by saying, yes, I too have been on a boat where animals have attacked us.

Where sharks attacked.

Where sharks attacked.

No, they say, like, we don't think the shark attacked the boat.

That doesn't make sense.

But anyway, the shark attacked these people.

So they rush them back to the ship and they're like, okay, this girl got bitten in the side.

This is not a big deal.

We clean these wounds out, no problem.

But her boyfriend.

has gotten bitten so badly in both his leg and arm that they're going to have to do a double amputation.

There's no time.

He's going to die if they wait till they get to shore.

He's too unstable to take a tender boat.

So we're going to perform a double amputation on this cruise ship.

Yes.

Now, what is now, Sid, when we're, just to make this somewhat redeeming, educationally speaking, when we're thinking about an amputation, because it is such a hot topic on this week's episode.

Yes.

What are we really thinking about?

Do you mean what?

What are some of our primary concerns, right?

Because to a layman, it may seem as simple as chopping off a limb, right?

But there's obviously a lot more to it than that.

Well, yeah.

We've talked about it in episodes where I'm not asking for a full, you know, recounting of our concerns here, but yeah.

So, okay.

First of all, I mean, we're not going to do this on a cruise ship.

If you're talking about an actual amputation in an OR, you're going to be able to control for like sterilization.

So like, you know, keep it from getting infected.

You're going to be able to monitor the patient closely for blood pressure, vital, you know, to make sure they're stable throughout the surgery.

You're going to watch for blood loss.

Obviously, this is a major surgery.

You're having a whole limb removed.

So, blood, blood, and especially in these cases, they've already lost a lot of blood because they got, you know, bitten by sharks.

And then, what we need to do as we do the amputation is make sure that what is left is something that we can reform into an appropriate,

you know, appendage.

So, you want to usually like the bone is cut a little shorter so that then the other tissues can fold over it.

Does that make sense?

Sure, yeah.

So, and it's a stepwise process.

You don't just like lop through the whole thing.

You usually cut through the layers of tissue and muscle and whatnot first to expose the entire bone.

So you have a really clear cutting surface to then saw through the bone.

They get a really terrifying saw from the, they don't have a saw on the boat.

Right.

They don't have a bone saw.

The bone saw is not ready.

You know what's interesting to me, they don't have

they don't have a bone saw, but when I, so I have assisted in amputations in my life.

And we did not use the bone saw in the ones that I assisted with.

We used this wire, this like toothed wire with handles on either end, and you loop it under the bone.

And then if you can imagine, sort of like pulling up and down to saw it back and forth.

Yeah, I can't imagine it, but should I?

And it feels like that's such a low-tech item that you could store that on a cruise ship.

I understand.

Yeah.

Yeah.

But no, they go for the power tool.

I mean, he's got a dialysis machine.

They make a lot of hay out of that.

This, they do.

They use the dialysis machine a lot in the first season.

So anyway, he, they do the double amputation.

And I should note, there was a trauma surgeon aboard the other vessel.

And so now we have Hot Shock Shark Doctor.

Is that what they call her?

That is her name.

Hot Shark Doctor.

That is how she is credited on IMDb.

No, she is Dr.

Brooke Lane, a real person, played by Adrian Policki.

But they do call her Hot Shark Doctor on the episode.

We have got a lot of people bringing the guest

the guest

heat.

Rumor Willis is there

is one of the shark bite victims.

We've also got the first character

on the autism spectrum,

let's see, Liam Johnson as played by Ray Baldwin.

Now, I don't know about Mr.

Baldwin's particulars.

with his mental situation, vis-à-vis playing an autistic character, but I do want to say that he mentions a neurospice on his Instagram profile.

So, who knows?

I don't know his journey, but he does a really, I think it's a really interesting inclusion, Sid.

As a physician, what did you think about this

character who is

a first officer who had been working, a very capable first officer who had been working with Hot Shark Doctor?

Sorry, Dr.

Brooke Lane.

Excuse me.

They call her Hot Shark Doctor on the show.

We are not aware of that.

They say that on the show.

So, no, I mean,

well, I don't feel like as a physician, it's for me to comment on like, you know, authentic representation of an autistic person.

No, I don't feel like that.

No, I don't.

Oh, I thought that's what you were asking me.

I'm not, I feel like you would have to ask somebody on the spectrum.

As a TV viewer, we've seen

different,

you know, depictions.

I will say that I thought it was a little ham-fisted how early they had to work in the fact that this officer is on the autism spectrum.

It is like literally almost the first like conversation this person has, and it is in the context of them not tolerating like,

it's in their manner, right?

Is it the first time when we

are impatient?

He's impatient.

He's impatient, right?

And that he wants to get his vitals checked the last time so he can be cleared to go back to work.

Right.

And he's being impatient.

with Tristan.

Right.

And

Dr.

Brooke Lane says, well, it's because he's autistic and autistic people are impatient, which is also kind of a sweeping generalization.

Yeah.

Yeah.

But I thought it was a little, all the other characters seem to be somewhat unfamiliar with autism, which that is what troubled me the most.

I mean, that is what, like, listen.

Most people are somewhat like colloquial.

I mean, you don't have to be a medical professional to be somewhat familiar with the concept of autism spectrum.

Listen, listen, I recognize my road dogs almost instantly, I feel like.

You know what I mean?

Like,

you know people.

You see it.

Like, it's very recognizable.

I feel like that.

Are you saying you know each other like as a person, as a member of the community?

As a member of the community.

Like, I feel like

I see people.

You know what I mean?

Like, I see the hints, and I feel like there's been

so many coded characters, right?

Like, so many that it feels weird for it to be explicit, I think.

You know what I mean?

Because it's like, it's almost like we don't really, we run into lots of people in our day-to-day life.

Maybe this is just my life is cooler than most people's, but I run into a lot of people who, who would appear to externally be on the autism spectrum or would have some of those characteristics.

And like, I don't feel like we necessarily are going around be like, hold up.

Let me clarify something right now.

Are you on the autism spectrum?

It's like, okay, we could just be people.

Well, I wondered about that too, just because we talked about the show, The Pit, last week.

And there is a character, we didn't really talk about this, but there's a character that I think is supposed to be autism spectrum coded.

I believe I now have not seen the whole season, and maybe they address this.

Maybe this is said, and I just haven't gotten that far.

But she seems to be.

And I think, in a lot of the ways she's interacting with patients and some of the

strengths and weaknesses, I think that's what they're trying to communicate through the character, which I feel like a lot of people would pick up on without anyone having to say it.

I also would say, though, as I'm sitting here thinking about it, we are, this is a mainstream network TV prime time drama.

Like, it is not, I don't think maybe you can't make the assumption that everybody watching is going to be as familiar with some of these.

So, you're like trying to contextualize it a little bit.

Yeah, that's true.

I, and I tend to take a lot of things for granted if they're medical at all, because I, I know, I never know what I know because I'm a doctor and what I just know because a lot of people know this, right?

But anyway, the uh, they do the double amputation, and

does the power go off in the first episode?

Um, the it's towards so, okay, Shark Doctor and Pacy are

not exactly caught in Fo Le Grante by Avery.

They're definitely flirting.

Yeah, she needs to take a

Dr.

Brook Lane needs to take a shower, which actually Dr.

Brooklane sounds worse than not Shark Doctor to me now that I say it out loud.

It sounds actually more made up.

But yeah,

Avery comes into the room.

She had gone in to take a shower and then realizes, oh my gosh.

Maybe he isn't the potential father that he tried to say that he wanted to be in this potential baby's life, maybe.

Yeah, because like that, what they've struggled with from the previous episode is that

Dr.

Odyssey was pretty controlling and kind of sexist about his reaction to the pregnancy.

Like he should have a say in what she does.

Whereas Tristan was very much like, your body, your choice.

I'm here no matter what.

And if you have this baby, I don't care who the dad is.

I'm a part of it.

I'm a part of this.

baby's life.

So like she's struggling with that.

And then she sees Max flirting with with Shark Doctor and she's hurt.

And then the power goes out.

Well, then she has the idea of taking right before the power goes out.

They're in the middle of the amputation.

I did want to remind you, they had the idea of taking the arteries from the other foot and like break.

Like Shark Doctor is like, I just have, I have a foot in a bag, holds it up.

Well, that's because, so our first mate, his foot is dying.

Because we have delayed him getting to shore for so long, his foot is dying.

Right.

And he's going to lose it.

And they're trying to save it so they take an artery from the foot they've amputated from the other guy and they transplant it into him which is a heck of a thing to do on a crack

on a boat heck of a thing on a boat there are a lot of things that should be the name of this show heck of a thing on a boat there are a lot of things that are like is that something we do yes i mean that is possible

Not on a boat.

She literally, gang, she literally pulls this rusty, dusty, crusty, old, as our kids say, old foot out of, in a bag, out of a trash can.

No, sorry.

It is a cooler.

It is a cooler.

She pulls it out of a cooler.

She's like, I got your

here.

It's like, gross.

No, thank you.

Yeah.

Anyway, the orcas or the sharks attack the ship.

Yes.

It's orcas.

That's right, folks.

It's not just sharks we're worried about.

Don Johnson's old enemy, killer whales.

Orcas.

So I guess, now this is what is interesting.

Orcas do have been known to attack ships.

Yes.

This is not, I had to look this up.

I don't know this because of medical school.

They don't teach you that.

Orcas do, and it looks like from what I read that they very specifically will attack like rudders of ships, which would, I assume, be bad for the ship.

And that they also appear to have a behavior like they're teaching each other to do this, which is terrify.

All of this is terrifying, by the way.

I wasn't like not scared of orcas before.

Now you're extra.

But now I am scared of orcas, I guess, because they're very smart.

We all knew that.

And then also they attack ships.

And so now the orcas are attacking the Odyssey, which shouldn't matter because it's a giant cruise ship, except it ends up with like it knocks something, which causes a fire, which in order to fix the fire, they have to shut down the power.

So now they're plunged into darkness

and they've got

three patients basically at this point who are unstable, need antibiotics, need blood, have limbs in various states of amputation.

Yes.

And they're in darkness.

Yes.

Credits.

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To be continued.

And also to be continued on this

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Yes.

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Shark Attack Part Two Orca Exclamation Point is the technical name of the 10th episode of Doctor Odyssey.

Yes, that's right.

The orcas are attacking the ship.

And what we've learned is that the orcas probably caused the initial ship to sink because that makes more sense.

Yes.

But I guess sharks don't usually.

attack ships.

Anyway,

but the orcas do, and they have all these theories.

I thought that was fascinating.

Why do the orcas attack the ships?

And they're trying to get the get people to fall in the ocean to attract sharks that then the orcas will eat the sharks, their livers.

Yeah.

So there you go.

There you go.

I don't know if that's true, but they said that on the show.

Yeah, and it is, they are scouring the ship for any drugs that they can find.

They're running low on supplies.

That's another thing that is like, they're running low on supplies, but we really only ever see those few patients.

There's just the three people.

Like nobody else comes in.

I don't know where all the supplies are going.

Well, to be fair, I would bet this is a little more reflective of real life because

what they're running low on specifically are IV antibiotics and blood products.

And what are blood products?

Like blood.

Like, yes, plasma, blood, blood to give people who need blood.

I would bet they don't store a lot of those things on cruise ships.

I mean, because traditionally you wouldn't think you would need a lot of those things on cruise ships.

So I think that actually is pretty realistic.

But they start scouring the ship to look for any sort of antibiotic specifically, because right now what you have are, and this, this is one thing that did, I mean, there's a lot of things that stretch the bounds of credibility medically on this show, right?

That's not the point of Dr.

Odyssey.

Yes, absolutely.

But

they, all these patients are becoming septic from their wounds.

like immediately.

And I will just say that the way infection works is that generally speaking, you do not become septic from a wound infection within hours of receiving the wound.

What if you were already a super dirty dog, Sid?

What if you were already a super dirty dog colonized by lots of funky stuff?

Could you get septic then?

It's actually

there's an acronym or there's a mnemonic that you learn for post-op infections.

And it's W's.

There's wind and water and wound and wonder drug.

But the point is, what are the causes of a post-op fever?

And the things that you think of first, like they're in the order of more common things.

Um, wound is further down the line.

There are other things that cause fevers, yeah, like your urinary tract infections, or um, you could have a blood clot or wind, it has to do with like atelectasis, meaning little collapsed areas in the bottoms of your lungs that can cause a fever sometimes, or like a clot, or like a

wushark tooth.

Wushark tooth.

No, I think that would be

causing infections.

Wonder drug is also like sometimes

antibiotics can cause fevers, which is weird, but it happens.

Anyway, wound is further down the line because if somebody just had a surgery and they are going to get an infection in that wound, in that surgery site, you wouldn't expect it to happen overnight.

It takes a while for like the bacteria to grow.

I mean, just think about like petri dishes.

You don't like inoculate a petri dish and then have bacteria on it an hour later, generally speaking.

That's not how things work.

The rate at which all these patients become septic is strange and it feels like something that someone should have known, but whatever.

It's because one of them has a shark tooth floating around in her body.

They finally reached the distress call earlier, the raft, you know, that they were dealing with.

But out there, there's one of the key scenes of the episode where we see, by the way, I don't know if this is important, but Avery, I think, has sort of decided that Tristan is more deserving of her affections.

And she seems to be leaning that way.

She plans to smoocharooski on him.

And then she's in the tendership.

Well, no, they're trying to get the tendership to shore.

They're trying to get the two most critical patients to to shore in the tendership

yes i'm jumping forward a little bit yeah doctor shark doctor and avery are in the tendership together and avery's asking for her feedback on med school and i wanted to get your thought on that scene yes uh so avery as we know from last season has been accepted to medical school and so she's asking this fellow female physician for advice on medical school and i just thought it was so strange

surely they have a doctor telling i don't know but so the advice was first of all, you already know everything that's in the lectures because you're a nurse practitioner.

Okay, well, that's that's probably fair.

There's probably a lot of overlap there in that training.

And so there's probably a lot of stuff that would, she would know.

But then she says, find your favorite professor

and go visit them during all their office hours and bring them coffee.

And that's how you'll learn what kind of doctor you want to be.

And it was just the strangest, it's, I think, maybe for undergrad, like find a mentor to help you or something is good advice maybe but in medical school you don't

i mean first of all like your mentors would would probably end up being physicians most of my initial classes were taught by like basic science professors and so they wouldn't have been able to tell me what kind of doctor i want to be because you made them some basics no

Like they weren't, they weren't physicians.

And so by the time I started.

That's what makes them basic?

No, I mean,

you know what I'm saying?

I don't know.

It was just very strange advice.

I mean, like the advice I give when somebody asks me about medical school is study harder than you think you have to in the beginning.

It's always easier to dial it back than to get behind and then try to catch up and learn study skills.

Study too much

because, I mean, you're learning a whole new language.

It's hard.

It's hard.

And so study as much as you possibly can.

And then keep an open mind.

Try every specialty.

Walk into every one with the mind like, maybe I'll love this and then see what happens.

She also gives her the advice of in your med school and residency interviews, they're going to ask you if you want to have kids and you should lie and say you don't.

Okay.

This is nitpicky.

It is a major match violation to ask residents.

And generally speaking, you're not supposed to ask incoming medical students either, but I will speak about the match and residency process.

You cannot ask potential residents for your program about their marital status, about anything about their relationship status, about whether they have children, want to have children, any of that.

You cannot ask any of those things.

If you even hint that you're trying to figure out if the person in front of you is going to have kids during their residency, if it is, you can get in so much trouble.

You can get so many violations.

And I will tell you that we go over this rigorously every match season with all of the people currently in the program to make sure that no resident makes some, because it's really easy to make some inadvertent comment about like, oh, I had kids during residency.

They were so supportive.

Are you thinking of starting a family?

It's so easy to say something and then you've broken a major rule.

That being said, there are always people who break rules, of course.

And if you are somebody who's going through this process and somebody asks you one of these inappropriate questions, you should report it.

because it's unacceptable because whether or not you want to have a family has nothing to do with whether or not you're going to be a great match for their program.

And obviously, we can't expect Dr.

Odyssey to be 100% accurate in all things.

But I think for this specific thing,

I thought it was worth mentioning it just so we don't start to normalize that, right?

Like people should know that it's an abnormality and they should know that it's adults.

Exactly.

And they should also know that there are a lot of programs like the one I went through where they didn't ask me.

They told me from the jump, we're not asking if you want to have kids, but we are telling you that if you decide to start a family, we will support you.

We have special rotations for new parents and we embrace families in this family medicine residency.

So there are programs out there that are welcome and opening or open and welcoming to that.

So,

was that a problem?

Yes, it's why we have rules.

I wanted to touch on one of the wilderness.

Sometimes Dr.

Odyssey asks its characters to do wild stuff just to keep the plot beats coming.

One of the wilder things in this episode is after the

foot is reattached,

they go to Spencer's bed, First Officer Monroe's bed, and it's empty.

And they're like, where is Monroe?

And they find him on the

stairs.

He's like crawling up.

He's crawling up to where, like crawling up to the deck.

He's like, they need me up there.

It's like, dude, listen, you know, but no one's doing this, right?

No one's tossed themselves.

He does it again later.

He does it twice.

They bring him up to the...

It's wild.

It's such a wild beat.

He does it again later.

He escapes twice.

I thought that was wild.

I thought the use of an acetylene torch to

cut through a six-inch steel door

was pretty wild to get to the part of the ship where the inner, like where the power is to, I don't even know what was happening.

They had to find where the power was out, and they found it, and they fixed it.

Yeah, that was part of the acetylene torch.

And they were like mid, they're looking for the thing while the lights are off.

And they were like trying to close her up, but they haven't found the thing that's bleeding yet.

This is Rumor Willis.

Yeah, well, you haven't even got, so Rumor Willis is going septic, and they don't know why, so they have to open her up, and that's who they find a shark tooth inside uh I did want to mention just because it's so funny they

all the doctors are wearing these um

flashlights if you can imagine a flashlight that like wraps around their necks with two light like a light on each end like two circles of light sort of where they're uh uh what would you hear collarbones your collarbones would be there's like two beams of light coming down and i swear to god gang They have got them angled exactly on Dr.

Brook Lane's chest to where they have gotten like discrete cleavage lighting that she is constantly wearing at every scene.

It is one of the wildest things I've ever seen.

So Ryan Murphy.

It's like, yeah.

PS, by the way, over on Rescue 9, over on 911, the other Ryan Murphy show this season began with a B-NATO is what's happening over there.

Oh, my gosh.

So, as you may imagine, they get

the energy back on.

They use sound cannons to scare off the orcas.

And then they...

By the way, one of the most unfortunate things, I think, as for in terms of the character on the autism spectrum is very hesitant to use the sound cannons on the whales because he doesn't like loud noises.

Yes.

Hey, listen.

Okay.

Let's calm down a little bit already.

Listen,

you'd have to really, really hate loud noises to not want to.

Save yourself from an attacking orca, I think.

So they save everybody's life

with their many surgeries.

They do so many surgeries.

A lot of surgeries.

They do so many surgeries and they save everyone's life.

And then the couple, Rumor Willis and her boyfriend, who were in the shark attack, get married

immediately after when they wake up from their surgeries.

And then they settle.

Is this the first time people have been married on the I don't think so?

It feels like we've already had weddings.

I think we've already had weddings.

And then they have a

fireworks display to keep the orcas from following them home, which I guess they keep fireworks on the cruise ship.

And maybe that's standard.

Don't know about that.

I would like to point out

they

freeze Monroe at one point because he's like septic and they're trying to lower they're trying to freeze him oh no they're trying yeah freeze him to save his foot anyway

they pull an IV they say he needs more fluids give him cold fluids which you can do but they pull an IV bag out of the like liquid nitrogen or whatever I don't know there's fog everywhere and it is a glass

rectangular

It always looks.

Everything on this show is like designed to death.

Like they, everything is gold trimmed,

you know, forceps and all this nonsense.

I still don't know what those little Paul Soxy things on their fingers are.

The things that read their vitals.

Like Lady Gaga jewelry.

Yeah, it's like, it's wild.

It looks like, you know, in the movie Death Becomes Her, the vial

with the stuff in it that you drink.

Exactly.

Perfect reference.

Yeah.

Everything in the OR looks like it was designed by whoever made that vial.

Like that's what everything, well, I mean, don't you think like that's a reference that everybody would get.

Jeff becomes her energy, yeah.

Anyway, anyway, they save the day.

And Dr.

Odyssey sales out for a casino week next week.

So we won't be covering that because

we won't be covering it, but we will be watching it.

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