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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 · 23/08/2026
Coincidentally also one my my favorite Angel episode themes:
Angel Puppet leading excellent supernatural squad to slay the stars of s children’s tv show
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The PLOT DOC, MD🩺📝✍️ @theplotdoc.bsky.social · 17/08/2026
Data Center (AKA Android smartphone)
Android smartphone
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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 · 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 · 06/08/2026
Hollywood spending absurd amounts of money on the same matt damon plot
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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 · 28/07/2026
Here is the proudly displayed winning lego set
Lego world cup ball displayed with a mandalorian naboo fighter, back to the future delorean, db5, pverlooked by buffy the vampire slayer
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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 · 20/07/2026
So, I guess the post office has just given up on posting actual prices these days Prices $ $$ $$$
Post office pricing $ $$ $$$
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The PLOT DOC, MD🩺📝✍️ @theplotdoc.bsky.social · 15/07/2026
I now have a 50% chance of lifting the coveted Lego World Cup Bracket Trophy in my work pool
Lego world cup trophy
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The PLOT DOC, MD🩺📝✍️ @theplotdoc.bsky.social · 13/07/2026
We hold these truths to be self-evident, that ALL [WO]MEN ARE CREATED EQUAL
The painting thats on the back of a $2 bill with a bunch of old white dudes signing a scroll
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The PLOT DOC, MD🩺📝✍️ @theplotdoc.bsky.social · 13/07/2026
In case you were wondering what the ticket stub Lincoln was holding when he got Boothed in a booth at the Ford Theater, it looked like this
Lincoln relics including the ticket stub from the ford theater and a pair of stained gloves he wore that night
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The PLOT DOC, MD🩺📝✍️ @theplotdoc.bsky.social · 05/07/2026
Mood
Conference room slider “In Use” and “Vacant” set to the middle blocking out letters so it reads “I Cant”
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The PLOT DOC, MD🩺📝✍️ @theplotdoc.bsky.social · 30/06/2026
He’s bringing the circuses, but refuses the people bread. “Now that no one buys our votes, the public has long since cast off its cares; the people … longs eagerly for just two things—-Bread and Circuses!” — Juvenal, Satire X #USA
Comic of an emperor missing his orange skin and yellow combover being reminded that people aren’t buying his bull$#!+ as he faces down a pair of gladiators belowA vast field of pristine greenery made visible by the complete lack of crowds in the middle of the dat
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The PLOT DOC, MD🩺📝✍️ @theplotdoc.bsky.social · 28/06/2026
I took a picture of water See? You can look at it!
Wet stuff with floating wet stuff reflected in it
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The PLOT DOC, MD🩺📝✍️ @theplotdoc.bsky.social · 16/06/2026
Insurance companies struggle to find physicians willing to be paid to use their likeness in advertising. It’s quite telling that this pediatrician isn’t even willing to use her last name to limit blowback
Lame insurance ad using a doctor’s likeness without their name
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The PLOT DOC, MD🩺📝✍️ @theplotdoc.bsky.social · 12/06/2026
Now hiking the Scottish Moors of California
Super awesome boardwalk hime through mistMisty landscape of haunting beauty
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The PLOT DOC, MD🩺📝✍️ @theplotdoc.bsky.social · 12/06/2026
And another beautiful California sunset!
June gloom setting in over the pacific
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The PLOT DOC, MD🩺📝✍️ @theplotdoc.bsky.social · 12/06/2026
Baby sea lions are pretty cool too
Baby sea dogsGeown up sea dogs being lazy
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The PLOT DOC, MD🩺📝✍️ @theplotdoc.bsky.social · 12/06/2026
I want to be a sea otter in California
Cute sea puppy by a dock
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The PLOT DOC, MD🩺📝✍️ @theplotdoc.bsky.social · 10/06/2026
There are no private beaches in California But that doesn’t mean you can’t have privacy
Awesome besch with nobody on it
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The PLOT DOC, MD🩺📝✍️ @theplotdoc.bsky.social · 10/06/2026
Obesity Hypoventilation Syndrome: Inadequate respiratory effort in patients with OBESITY causing elevated carbon dioxide levels and low blood oxygen This leads to: - Increased heart strain causing LEG SWELLING - DAYTIME SLEEPINESS
A sleepy man in an ugly yellow tie surrounded by a bunch of old white guys
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The PLOT DOC, MD🩺📝✍️ @theplotdoc.bsky.social · 10/06/2026
The only Trojan horse worthy of a popcorn bucket
Traveler, the majestic USC white arabian steed at a sold out coliseum football game
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The PLOT DOC, MD🩺📝✍️ @theplotdoc.bsky.social · 10/06/2026
My gym has a secret back room with a magical ceiling that makes you lift harder
Honeycomb lighting in a gym ceiling
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The PLOT DOC, MD🩺📝✍️ @theplotdoc.bsky.social · 06/06/2026
Accurate
Thermos capable of fitting an entire pot of coffee
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The PLOT DOC, MD🩺📝✍️ @theplotdoc.bsky.social · 06/06/2026
Actual footage of me hanging upside down after taking care of two more college kids drinking away their final exam woes
Noir black/white inverted doctor with a stethoscope and a sick captain america badge real
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The PLOT DOC, MD🩺📝✍️ @theplotdoc.bsky.social · 03/06/2026
Day off Costco run, no kids. Here is my hot dog reward.
Costco hot dog with the toppings
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The PLOT DOC, MD🩺📝✍️ @theplotdoc.bsky.social · 31/05/2026
Trader Joe’s Fearless Flyer!
Flyer for the awesomest grocery store
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The PLOT DOC, MD🩺📝✍️ @theplotdoc.bsky.social · 26/05/2026
For those of you who only picture Chris Hemsworth’s smokin’ Australian/norse god physique when they think of Thor, just remember the real Marvel Thor had an alter ego as a physician. Fact: All doctors definitely look like that under our white coats
Thir transforming from a doctor into a god
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The PLOT DOC, MD🩺📝✍️ @theplotdoc.bsky.social · 25/05/2026
Ive read almost every captain america title in existence and had no idea about this book But the cover art featuring the firearm makes me think of one of my favorite issues that helped change my own stance on gun ownership
Captain america speaking out against guns
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The PLOT DOC, MD🩺📝✍️ @theplotdoc.bsky.social · 21/05/2026
Hello Ozzie!
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The PLOT DOC, MD🩺📝✍️ @theplotdoc.bsky.social · 14/05/2026
Quick Shot: EYE INJURIES Want to make your character look uniquely badass? - A subconjunctival hemorrhage LOOKS nasty, but it’s just a painless burst blood vessel in the eye - A hyphema is bleeding INTO the eye. This is dangerous and your character can lose their vision #writing #scriptsky
Bleeding on the sclera and bleeding into the anterior chamber of the eye
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The PLOT DOC, MD🩺📝✍️ @theplotdoc.bsky.social · 07/05/2026
It’s go time…
Page one of Leah’s sure-to-be-fucked-up novel The Lost
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The PLOT DOC, MD🩺📝✍️ @theplotdoc.bsky.social · 07/05/2026
I mean, one of these is a TV series…
Hurt locker poster with desert warfareER TV show poster with doctors posing in a trauma bay
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The PLOT DOC, MD🩺📝✍️ @theplotdoc.bsky.social · 30/04/2026
Quick Shot: Props Hey look! Another character with an asinine oxygen device! This mask in Daredevil: Born Again is attached to…nothing. The oxygen tube has been cut off. So, these medics are really covering the patient’s face with a piece of plastic. Nice #writing #filmsky #scriptsky #daredevil
An oxygen mask with the oxygen supply cut off
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The PLOT DOC, MD🩺📝✍️ @theplotdoc.bsky.social · 19/04/2026
Another set of Laurels Almost done w some pretty good revisions before I submit to a second round. Thanks for all the support, Bsky friends! #scriptsky
Laurels for Santa Barbara International Screenplay Awards
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The PLOT DOC, MD🩺📝✍️ @theplotdoc.bsky.social · 19/04/2026
Yay, hikes! Yay, waterfalls! Yay, forest of poison oak!
Itchy plantSexy water caressing a rock wall complete with mood lighting
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The PLOT DOC, MD🩺📝✍️ @theplotdoc.bsky.social · 18/04/2026
As dysfunctional as the US Government is, I just renewed my passport online and legit got it in the mail 10 days later. 10 DAYS!
US passport
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The PLOT DOC, MD🩺📝✍️ @theplotdoc.bsky.social · 13/04/2026
I just noticed the terrible excuse for “body armor” Fisk’s taskforce wears in DAREDEVIL There’s still lots of important anatomical bits in that upper third of the torso they leave unprotected… Remember this for writing/costumes. #scriptsky #filmsky #writing #gamedev #scriptskyuk #daredevil
Corrupt cops with crappy body armor exposing the too third of their chestsActual thoracic anatomy
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The PLOT DOC, MD🩺📝✍️ @theplotdoc.bsky.social · 13/04/2026
Finally, perhaps also appropriate, Epstein is being, um, fondled. It’s no consensual because, you know, he’s dead. Also, any genital interactions on a patient should involve gloves. Follow me for more accurate medical depictions in fiction
A hand reaching for a patient’s crotch
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The PLOT DOC, MD🩺📝✍️ @theplotdoc.bsky.social · 13/04/2026
Hey, look! A misogynistic depiction of a nurse! 👇🧵
An outdated misogynistic depiction of a super smart and capable nurse
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The PLOT DOC, MD🩺📝✍️ @theplotdoc.bsky.social · 13/04/2026
In this alternate universe, 1980s spaceships engage in dogfights with military jets and bald eagles 👇🧵
Bad ‘80s spaceship closes in on an F-32 fighting concorde
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The PLOT DOC, MD🩺📝✍️ @theplotdoc.bsky.social · 13/04/2026
Also appropriate, the lovechild between Cthulu and a demogorgon joins a team of resurrected suicide bomber zombies to bless the evil ritual 👇🧵
The lovechild between Cthulu and a demogorgon joins a team of resurrected suicide bomber zombies to bless the evil one
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The PLOT DOC, MD🩺📝✍️ @theplotdoc.bsky.social · 13/04/2026
First of all, using Epstein is absolutely appropriate since he’s super dead and this photo seems to show him on a reclining morgue table rather than a hospital bed 👇🧵
People praying for a man on a reclining morgue table
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The PLOT DOC, MD🩺📝✍️ @theplotdoc.bsky.social · 13/04/2026
Since I’m all about revealing medical inaccuracies, let’s take a close look at the sloppiest slop that ever slopped: Donald Jesus Trump, anointing a dead Jeffery Epstein with glowing Ivermectin 🧵👇
 Donald Jesus Trump, anointing a dead Jeffery Epstein with glowing Ivermectin surrounded my a bunch of white cultists
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The PLOT DOC, MD🩺📝✍️ @theplotdoc.bsky.social · 02/04/2026
Teeny tiny laurel, but quarter finalist in my first script submission. First and last, baby! #scriptsky #writing
Laurel quarterfinalist emergency screenwriters drama screenplay competition 2026
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The PLOT DOC, MD🩺📝✍️ @theplotdoc.bsky.social · 30/03/2026
Captain america punching an orange blonde hitler
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The PLOT DOC, MD🩺📝✍️ @theplotdoc.bsky.social · 27/03/2026
Ok SFF fans, let’s do some fun math science! What if: Skin had chlorophyll? (minor spoilers ahead) Looking at @scalzi.com super awesome (and Hugo certified) novel Old Man’s War How much passive energy could a human realistically create? 🧵👇 #sff #sf #science #writing #booksky #scriptsky #filmsky
John Scalzi’s Old Man’s War novel cover, featuring space ships and a planetDiagram of photosynthesis equations and efficiency with sun, leaf, and a sexy stick figure. Equations are written in the post
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The PLOT DOC, MD🩺📝✍️ @theplotdoc.bsky.social · 26/03/2026
“But Doc, I’m an SFF writer! Surely I can just make up whatever science I want” Sure. But did you ever consider things like “Centaurs must be bad@$$ opera singers because they might have TWO sets of lungs.” No. You didnt. Youre welcome #writing #scriptsky #scriptskyuk #filmsky #booksky #gamedev
Graphic of centaur respiratory physiology depicting two sets of lungs
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