I kept saying the same thing after that one scene of her at Tony's bed. Damn, she was awesome in that episode.
I'm in the medical field... and they actually portrayed the typical a**hole surgeon dead-on. The type of guy who doesn't really have time to micro-manage ICU patients (like most of the family is probably expecting), and he doesn't even try to be sympathetic... until he realizes he's already come off like a douchebag, but its too late to try and reconcile with the family. Actually, giving a family "false hope" is almost more detremental than saying that its likely he's not going to come out of this... there are better ways to handle it than this guy did, but he's right in saying that the chances, at this stage, aren't looking too great for a full recovery.
I guess I must have been lucky. I'm not saying the ones I talked to went out of their way to be sympathetic and hopeful, far from it, but their pessimism never went to the extent portrayed on the show. Anyway, it's not a big deal. Can they get any weirder next Sunday?? When is World War III going to break out, and who's gonna get bumped off?
Patience! To me, the build up to the explosion is far more entertaining than the explosion itself. Right now, you're going to see a huge internal power struggle, probably some mishandling of buisness agreements with the NY family and Johnny Sac, somebody is going to get killed who shouldn't have, and things aren't going to be in all great shape if/when the boss gets out of the hospital. It'll be fun.
Disgusting but accurate. I've seen what someone looks like after they get shot in the stomach, and that is exactly what they look like.
The bullet apparently had ruptured the gallbladder, probably some of the small intestine, and all of this had caused Tony to become septic. THAT is his real problem... they induced a coma to prevent him from having constant seizures/pain due to the infection that he would be going thru if he was awake. When the bacteria is permeating like that, you cannot close up the wound... you risk creating a huge abscess that would make the infection even worse.
Regarding the open wound, I read on another board, that they leave it open to guard against infection. That way they can clean out it with gauze and disinfectant on a regular basis. Otherwise if it was a less severe wound, then they would have closed it off and used anti-biotics.
Per Nick: "Actually, giving a family "false hope" is almost more detremental than saying that its likely he's not going to come out of this... there are better ways to handle it than this guy did, but he's right in saying that the chances, at this stage, aren't looking too great for a full recovery." I completely agree. During my dad's illness, his cardiologist kept giving the family false hopes- they expected recovery. Thank goodness for the CCU nurses who told me his chances were slim and mentally prepared me for it. The rest of the family was shocked and devastated when he died. Unnecessary this false hope-be brutally honest.
I really liked this episode as well.. I thought the parts at the hospital were great and I thought the best part was "Maybe he might have been a closet homo and couldn’t talk about it with anyone and decided to killed himself.." "WHAT!?!?! That type of thing happens too you know.." considering who that was coming from I couldn’t stop laughing.. Great placement in a very tense scene..
Throw me in the purgatory camp. Did anyone notice that his second hotel room had the same exact view as his first one? I think the rotating light is the "light at the end of the tunnel".
What Van Helsing in the Mafia...Overall, a boring episode...I can't wait for next week for the killing...
The director of the Sopranos is going to be on Jim Rome's radio show on Wednesday. Van Patten, who played Salami on The White Shadow.
