Malpractice

[Julianka7]

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and what about all these people that she had "pronounced" dead....lets see....barnabas and adam and carolyn(yes, there was perhaps extinuating circumstances) but with liz, it was malpractice to the max...even when liz tells all that everyone will think she is dead, the good doc "pronounces" and they toss her in that special coffin(good thing she was stubborn enough to want that type coffin) but, if you ever need a sedative, you know who to look for

That's what I was thinking about too
Usually if Julia says someones dead, what's a sure
sign they going to make it

[jthomas_123]

Of Course, we all know that the only SANE Doctor is Eric Lang

[Bj]

Julia is a terrible doctor, of course, at least as written by the DS writers, who probably had absolutely no counsel with any real doctors and made everything up as they went along.

Sorry, no money in the budget for such frivolous things as researching facts.  DS was style over content  

[Cassandra]

There's an unconcious man on the floor....SHE comments that she's not sure if he'll LIVE!!!

And then proceeds to have a long chat with Barnabas about Adam and Vicky and running away together.  

And THEN she goes to have a chat with Vicky, while Willie and Barnabas dither about taking Joe to the hospital and who does Maggie love, and 'why are you always so mean to me', and AAARRRGGGGGG!!!....I could just smack all of them.

I know, I know....this goes on all the time.  But today's episode, with poor Joe just lying there on the floor (they DID put a pillow under his head!  ) was particularly appalling.





Rainey

LOL!!! I sometimes wonder how anyone managed to survive on the show once they were hurt or injured!  But I guess after being buried alive in coffins, bricked up in walls, shot 5 times, and getting hanged by the neck ,and yet still managing to survive,  I figured these people could survive anything.

[scout75]

Julia is a terrible doctor, of course, at least as written by the DS writers, who probably had absolutely no counsel with any real doctors and made everything up as they went along....

Even back then, as a teen, I noticed how half-assed the medical aspects of this show were handled--half the time, long-term patients weren't even hooked up to an IV!--but somehow, I dismissed or accepted it all, including Julia's insane actions.  She was a woman in love, and somehow, everything else, including her questionable medical practices, was acceptable to me

Since I have nothing to do with it, I'll give a shameless plug to www.juliahoffman.com, which has a great article where Grayson Hall laughs about what a truly horrendous doctor JH is--but she's a woman in love out to protect her vampy man!

"Oh, the things I did for that man!", she says...Grayson Hall seems like she was a neat lady.

[IluvBarnabas]

[spoiler]I remember when Jeff Clark found Elizabeth and brought her back to Collinwood after she collapsed. Julia pronounced her dead and a second later, Elizabeth opens her eyes and sits up. Later on, Julia told Vicki it would happen to Elizabeth again. Vicki is worried Elizabeth's fears about being alive might be justified but Julia assures her they won't let it happen. Yet weeks later afterr Cassandra puts Elizabeth in a comatose state appearing to be dead, Julia with conviction tells Carolyn she is dead.

Just because Elizabeth didn't regain conciousness a moment after like she did the last time, Julia is convinced of this?

Julia told Vicki that they wouldn't let Elizabeth be buried alive, but that's exactly what they did.....either Julia totally forgot her earlier opinion Elizabeth would go into a catatonic state or she didn't just want to have to wait for a long time to see if Elizabeth really was dead or not.

I think they should have waited for at least a week....If Elizabeth still appeared to be dead I would not have blamed them to have assumed she was.....but they didn't. Elizabeth was buried what....a day or two after she was pronounced dead.[/spoiler]

[Sunny_Collins]

Well, if Julia is talking about running away with Barnabas, who's more important, the love of her life Barnabas, or an injured Joe? LOL!