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The PLOT DOC, MD🩺📝✍️

@theplotdoc.bsky.social
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Here to nerd out and advocate for accurate medical portrayals in fiction. Board Certified ER Doc with a degree in Classics. Writer. PLOT DOC. Disclaimer: Not professional medical/criminal advice. ONLY to be used by fiction writers for make-believe

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The PLOT DOC, MD🩺📝✍️ @theplotdoc.bsky.social · 30/09/2026
Quick Shot: BLEEDING CONTROL The most important thing your characters (and YOU) can do for bleeding is apply direct pressure. Gauze/towels will soak up blood. Pressure will stop it. Apply a ton of pressure to that gunshot wound to the abdomen, then get to the ER #writing #scriptsky #gamedev
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The PLOT DOC, MD🩺📝✍️ @theplotdoc.bsky.social · 29/09/2026
Bad Trope: TASERS Tasers should NOT make your character unconscious. The electric shock makes muscles contract. If your character is unconscious, they likely had a dangerous heart rhythm or fell so hard they have a brain bleed. #writing #scriptsky #gamedev
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Lipstick Taser!
ALT: Lipstick Taser!
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The PLOT DOC, MD🩺📝✍️ @theplotdoc.bsky.social · 24/09/2026
A “Top Doctor” list does not exist. It is a marketing ploy I get spam about constantly. Docs aren’t graded on patient outcomes or Yelp reviews. They pay to get their name on a list. America’s real Top Doctors are working for Planned Parenthood and County Clinics, not Beverly Hills Plastic Surgery
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The PLOT DOC, MD🩺📝✍️ @theplotdoc.bsky.social · 21/09/2026
Being Pro Choice means I would never want my kids to terminate a pregnancy, but I would be so tearfully grateful if their friends trusted me enough to ask me for a ride to the clinic and so tearfully grateful if their parents took mine. No questions asked. I’m Pro Choices #prochoice
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The PLOT DOC, MD🩺📝✍️ @theplotdoc.bsky.social · 17/09/2026
Quick Shot: VOMITING If you want to add an extra ick factor to your scene, your character could start vomiting black material Blood digested in the stomach will look like the leftover coffee grounds. Gives a different chilling vibe than bright red blood Gross #writing #scriptsky #gamedev
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The PLOT DOC, MD🩺📝✍️ @theplotdoc.bsky.social · 12/09/2026
It’s 100% humidity outside but somehow the air is still distinctly separate from the ocean, which is also 100% liquid
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The PLOT DOC, MD🩺📝✍️ @theplotdoc.bsky.social · 11/09/2026
Maybe one day we’ll have an actual name for the day we still refer to only by its date. #neverforget
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The PLOT DOC, MD🩺📝✍️ @theplotdoc.bsky.social · 11/09/2026
Had 4 patients in the ER simultaneously with intractable vomiting from GLP1s. 3 needed admission.
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The PLOT DOC, MD🩺📝✍️ @theplotdoc.bsky.social · 10/09/2026
I know this is a medicine account, but for all you super nerds here is a physicist explaining how the Picard Maneuver is actually even more brilliant than Starfleet Academy would have you realize arstechnica.com/science/2026...
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Physicist does the math on Star Trek’s “Picard maneuver”
The trick from Next Generation would be even more effective in real life.
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The PLOT DOC, MD🩺📝✍️ @theplotdoc.bsky.social · 10/09/2026
I don’t want to poke at anyone’s medical woes, but just a reminder Fetterman was a Democrat and it literally took brain damage to turn him into a Trump supporter www.npr.org/2026/09/09/n...
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Fetterman, already at odds with his party, makes surprise video for GOP convention
The Pennsylvania Democrat has already had a strained relationship with many inside his party. In the video, he spoke about working with Trump but did not outright praise him.
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The PLOT DOC, MD🩺📝✍️ @theplotdoc.bsky.social · 09/09/2026
Donnie Darko will have a theatrical re-release this year! collider.com/jake-gyllenh...
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The Best R-Rated Sci-Fi Thriller of All-Time Officially Returns to Theaters
The best cult classic of the 2000s is officially returning with a new release to celebrate the film’s 25th anniversary. Read on for more.
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The PLOT DOC, MD🩺📝✍️ @theplotdoc.bsky.social · 08/09/2026
For the first time in YEARS, I admitted two patients to the hospital with COVID in the same shift. Make good choices
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The PLOT DOC, MD🩺📝✍️ @theplotdoc.bsky.social · 06/09/2026
HOT TAKE: Pregnancy is a sexually transmitted parasite
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The PLOT DOC, MD🩺📝✍️ @theplotdoc.bsky.social · 05/09/2026
“They slowed their heart rate down to 1 beat per minute to appear dead” is just sloppy writing. 1 beat is not enough to keep the brain alive. 1 beat means zero beats about a minute later. #writing #scriptsky #gamedev
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The PLOT DOC, MD🩺📝✍️ @theplotdoc.bsky.social · 03/09/2026
Wear a helmet No, not just on your motorcycle or when riding a bike in front of your children (role model!), but when you’re climbing a ladder
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The PLOT DOC, MD🩺📝✍️ @theplotdoc.bsky.social · 02/09/2026
Please be honest when grandma ends up in the ER after she accidentally gets into your “special” brownies
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Paula Deen's Excited Brownie Smile
ALT: Paula Deen's Excited Brownie Smile
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The PLOT DOC, MD🩺📝✍️ @theplotdoc.bsky.social · 01/09/2026
Quick Shot: LOUD NOISES After acoustic trauma, high dose steroids might help prevent long term hearing damage.
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Loud Noises Meme
ALT: Loud Noises Meme
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The PLOT DOC, MD🩺📝✍️ @theplotdoc.bsky.social · 31/08/2026
Charles Dickens as plagiarized by a 4yo: “Daddy, you are the best daddy and I love you, daddy!” (… 3 min later) “Daddy, you are the worst! You’re not the daddy I wanted! I’m not gonna be in this family any more!”
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The PLOT DOC, MD🩺📝✍️ @theplotdoc.bsky.social · 31/08/2026
Quick Shot: BLOODY TOENAIL Want your character to look bad@$$? If they have a big collection of blood under their toenail, they can heat a paperclip and slowly burn a hole in the top to drain the blood and relieve the pressure. (caution: don’t try this at home, kids) #writing #scriptsky #gamedev
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Randall Munroe @xkcd.com · 31/08/2026
Archery Feat xkcd.com/3288/
Comic. [person drawing bow and arrow in front of a line of twelve axes, in front of a person seated on the ground with an apple on their head, in front of an archery target with an arrow in the bullseye that has been split by another arrow.] [caption] I want to prove that my new protagonist is a better shot than all those other protagonists.
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The PLOT DOC, MD🩺📝✍️ @theplotdoc.bsky.social · 28/08/2026
Can confirm: Full Moon causes crazy shenanigans in the ER - Blood Moon opens a portal to an evil hell dimension #medsky #em #er #thepitt
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The PLOT DOC, MD🩺📝✍️ @theplotdoc.bsky.social · 27/08/2026
Quick Shot: AIRWAY BURNS Smoking crack, swallowing a blunt, or eating super hot microwaved hot fudge when youre high can cause life-threatening airway swelling (epiglottitis) For some added drama, this might take an hour or so for the swelling to worsen (it might need a crich) #writing #scriptsky
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The PLOT DOC, MD🩺📝✍️ @theplotdoc.bsky.social · 23/08/2026
Quick Shot: EAR DRUMS - Ruptured eardrums often heal on their own. - We often start antibiotic drops to prevent infections. - DON’T use Q-Tips. - Barotrauma/diving injuries can cause dizziness, so don’t go under water! #writing #scriptsky
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The PLOT DOC, MD🩺📝✍️ @theplotdoc.bsky.social · 22/08/2026
Friendly reminder that any part of your body can need stitches …ANY part Make good choices!
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The PLOT DOC, MD🩺📝✍️ @theplotdoc.bsky.social · 22/08/2026
As someone whose job doesn’t magically stop when the sun goes down, I really hate when the calendar turns to Friday
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The PLOT DOC, MD🩺📝✍️ @theplotdoc.bsky.social · 19/08/2026
Weird Diagnosis: Cannabis Hyperemesis Syndrome Intractable nausea and vomiting associated with daily weed smoking Improved by hot showers/hot tub Sometimes leads to abdominal burns from hot pads #writing #scriptsky
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The PLOT DOC, MD🩺📝✍️ @theplotdoc.bsky.social · 17/08/2026
This is the only Data Center I want in my life
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Star Trek Data's Funny Moment
ALT: Star Trek Data's Funny Moment
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The PLOT DOC, MD🩺📝✍️ @theplotdoc.bsky.social · 15/08/2026
I love me some Bear Grulls But dude, if Man vs Wild was real life, Wild would have totally won almost every episode
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Bear Grylls: This Was A Bad Decision
ALT: Bear Grylls: This Was A Bad Decision
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The PLOT DOC, MD🩺📝✍️ @theplotdoc.bsky.social · 15/08/2026
Trees are cool
Majestic skeletal tree standing sentinel over the Sierras
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The PLOT DOC, MD🩺📝✍️ @theplotdoc.bsky.social · 14/08/2026
Quick Shot: URINE In a survival situation: do NOT drink your urine. It is highly concentrated and full of waste products that will likely hasten your demise #writing #scriptsky #gamedev
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The PLOT DOC, MD🩺📝✍️ @theplotdoc.bsky.social · 13/08/2026
This punishment is unusual and cruel
No button on a water fountain
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The PLOT DOC, MD🩺📝✍️ @theplotdoc.bsky.social · 13/08/2026
Saving $2,800 by soldering a 1 in section of wire yourself: peak dad life
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The PLOT DOC, MD🩺📝✍️ @theplotdoc.bsky.social · 09/08/2026
Dear Urbanites, When you’re out of the city, cell service might be sporadic/non-existent. It could take 30+ min for an ambulance to reach you. You are responsible for yourself, make good choices.
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The PLOT DOC, MD🩺📝✍️ @theplotdoc.bsky.social · 09/08/2026
Yay, camping! Boo, 106F weather
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The PLOT DOC, MD🩺📝✍️ @theplotdoc.bsky.social · 08/08/2026
Bystander CPR is SO important for saving lives in cardiac arrest! But, PLEASE check for a pulse first. Otherwise you might unnecessarily give a little old lady with dehydration 12 rib fractures
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The PLOT DOC, MD🩺📝✍️ @theplotdoc.bsky.social · 05/08/2026
Quick Shot: FLATLINE As anyone remotely involved in healthcare knows, YOU CAN’T SHOCK A FLATLINE Shocks just prove your character is uneducated A charge “shocks” the heart INTO a flatline so a regular rhythm can resume FIX: you get the same dramatic effect with Vfib arrest #scriptsky #writing
Ventricular fibrillation getting defibrillated into a regular rhythm. The charge delivered “shocks” the heart into a flatline rhythm so a regular rhythm can restart
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The PLOT DOC, MD🩺📝✍️ @theplotdoc.bsky.social · 05/08/2026
On the topic of venom/poison, an ambulance/hospital isn’t a magic cure. A doctor can’t instantly diagnose what’s causing your character’s symptoms. Sometimes it takes a few weeks…after the autopsy. #writing #scriptsky #gamedev
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The PLOT DOC, MD🩺📝✍️ @theplotdoc.bsky.social · 04/08/2026
Me: “It’s going to be a long drive to LA tomorrow” 7: “Why? It’s just a Tuesday morning. Traffic shouldn’t be that bad” Apparently my kids are spoiled elitists
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The PLOT DOC, MD🩺📝✍️ @theplotdoc.bsky.social · 03/08/2026
Set a record for number of teenage human trafficking victims seen in one shift. I hate people.
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Dr. Mar @boldnewme.bsky.social · 31/07/2026
Jimmy Kimmel nailed another one. Enjoy.
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The PLOT DOC, MD🩺📝✍️ @theplotdoc.bsky.social · 29/07/2026
Quick Shot: VENOM vs POISON VENOM is actively produced and delivered via an attack POISON is passively absorbed through ingestion/contact “If it bites you, it’s venom. If you bite it, it’s poison” #writing #scriptsky #gamedev
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The PLOT DOC, MD🩺📝✍️ @theplotdoc.bsky.social · 27/07/2026
I am the anti-Superman The power of the yellow sun absolutely destroys me
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The PLOT DOC, MD🩺📝✍️ @theplotdoc.bsky.social · 27/07/2026
The Consumer Protection Safety Commission wants to capture personal health information from ER visits that have nothing to do with consumer products “Very often, they will use information for marketing because now they’re going to know what conditions people have” www.cnn.com/2026/07/27/h...
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Trump administration demands hospitals share emergency room records | CNN
A tiny federal agency tasked with protecting the public from injuries caused by lawn mowers and coffeemakers is demanding that some of the nation’s biggest health systems turn over detailed, personall...
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The PLOT DOC, MD🩺📝✍️ @theplotdoc.bsky.social · 26/07/2026
Trust But Verify: When a patient drops some baked goods off for the ER staff as a thank you, we always check to verify which patient it came from before trusting it
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The PLOT DOC, MD🩺📝✍️ @theplotdoc.bsky.social · 24/07/2026
Here are my notes as a Physician with a Degree in Classics on Nolan’s Odyssey I would say “spoiler alert,” but you’ve had $&#%ing 2,700 years to read it 🧵👇
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The PLOT DOC, MD🩺📝✍️ @theplotdoc.bsky.social · 23/07/2026
…and I’m wearing my Iliad shirt to the Odyssey Guess I should have bought a new shirt
T shirt with english text of the odyssey printed on it
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The PLOT DOC, MD🩺📝✍️ @theplotdoc.bsky.social · 23/07/2026
Going to see the Odyssey at Imax in 90 min
From Stephen Tan’s Linkedin post, 4 movie posters of matt damon from saving private ryan, interstellar, the martian and the odyssey with production costs totaling >$600M to bring him home
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The PLOT DOC, MD🩺📝✍️ @theplotdoc.bsky.social · 22/07/2026
Quick Shot: RECOVERY Writers, stop giving your characters miraculous recoveries - Muscle strains can heal quickly - Tendons/ligaments are the slowest to heal…if they heal at all - Broken bones are a 4-6 week recovery time (see Taika’s Hunt for the Wilderpeople) #writing #scriptsky
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The PLOT DOC, MD🩺📝✍️ @theplotdoc.bsky.social · 21/07/2026
DAYCARE: You’re child sneezed. They’re not allowed back without a signed note from the Surgeon General certifying they will never EVER be sick KINDERGARTEN: Child Protective Services will be called unless you produce evidence your child was hospitalized on a ventilator for that unexcused absence
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The PLOT DOC, MD🩺📝✍️ @theplotdoc.bsky.social · 20/07/2026
FYI, Doctors STILL use pagers when they’re on call (and an intern can have like six pagers clipped to their waist at once covering different services)
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