The New Amsterdam medical mistakes that would make any doctor blush

New Amsterdam joined the phenomenon of medical series and It is currently among the most viewed of its kind worldwide. The NBC program portrays the day-to-day work in the oldest public hospital in the United States. While the show stands out for its realism, It is not without errors and some of them would make any real doctor blush. Review the most important ones!

The technical analysis of the scenes was carried out by Rawdy Royal Rois, a Colombian medical student who is known as “the health influencer”. He has an Instagram profile with 662 thousand followers where he shares his knowledge to the public. He also has a Youtube channel with 109 thousand subscribers and there he posted a detailed study of New Amsterdam.

The specialist stopped in detail in the first episode of the series and he highlighted the medical aspects that the scriptwriters did not take into account to respect the usual procedures of a real hospital. While it highlighted the program, He pointed out some mistakes that his trained eye could detect.

4-Dead not so dead

When a patient who appears to be dead arrives at New Amsterdam, Dr. Lauren Bloom disbelieves in the situation and wants to perform a resuscitation of the body despite her partner telling her that she is. “without vital signs, with rigor mortiz and with mortal lividity”. For Rawdy, the way of proceeding of DR. “it is not at all close to reality” because according to the diagnosis “probably the patient had been dead for hours.”

3-La biopsia a Max Goodwin

In the first episode Max Goodwin’s cancer is also discovered. To detect it, they perform a throat biopsy with an element called a trucut. “However, it is not the conventional way to take a throat biopsy. More in-depth studies such as a nasosinuscopy are required.”, the doctor opined.

2-Confusing explanations

The same woman who had entered the hospital as dead, could be resuscitated and Dr. Vijay Kapoor explains to his relative what happened saying that “the brain ordered the heart to stop beating”. For Reales Rois, the words have no medical meaning. “It is very strange, I have never read anything about it. Let it stop beating for so long that it causes you to cause rigor mortiz and lividity mortars, in reality it does not happen”, Held.

1-Basic rule of a doctor

New Amsterdam received a young patient from Africa who is suspected of having contracted Ebola. Being a highly contagious and deadly virus, it is isolated in a special room. However, when the boy presents a serious picture of bleeding from the mouth, Dr. Bloom enters the room without the necessary elements of protection. “In that case it would be catastrophic, you would be putting your life at risk and health professionals know that we have to safeguard our lives to save the lives of other people”, said the expert.