I found it interesting that(even though they had a vaccine at that point)that diphtheria was still an issue.Most people get vaccinated against it so you don't see it so much in the developed world. Though there was an episode of House where a patient had diphtheria. I just had a Tetanus/diphtheria/ pertussis(whooping cough) booster recently. The area around where I got the shot on my arm had a HUGE bruise on it-a common reaction apparently.
Then there was a storyline with a baby whose bones kept getting broken.They thought that the parents were abusing their baby. Eventually Dr. Turner figured out that it was Osteogenesis Imperfecta-which they didn't know much about back then-they didn't have the benefit of being able to Google stuff like doctors today do.
Dr. Turner blamed himself for not catching it quicker. He was overworked because he was subbing in for several doctors who decided to go on vacation, so he had that going, and then he had the situation with the baby who had Osteogenesis Imperfecta,and it was too much. But it was resolved, in a way that was very touching,but then he got to save a life so he was *back*.
Orphan Black is the other show I am loving. I got my dad into it(and to Hannibal too).
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