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doctors, nurses and other medical personnel always looking like they just walked out of a makeup trailer no matter what the circumstances are. someone upthread mentioned women in crime shows always wearing their hair loose- doctors shouldn't be doing this either. long hair gets in the way, people.

and while we're on the subject of medics- unrealistic recovery from injuries (when there's not a tech or magic explanation for it). i get that it can be hard to write around an infirm character, but it's still jarring when, say, someone's been in a coma for months and they wake up and walk around like nothing happened or they break a bone and it's 100% healed a week and a half later. or they're in unsanitary conditions like a war zone/post-apocalypse zombie invasion yet never seem to run short on supplies or qualified medics, nor do they deal with infection or badly-treated injuries hampering them.

i'm with you on medical stuff. two things that bug me because of personal experience.

hand injuries. if you shoot a nail gun through your hand or get stabbed in it or whatever happens where something has gone through your hand, you cannot use your fucking hand again properly for at least a week. it swells up to ridiculous degrees and even trying to wiggle a finger causes so much fucking pain. source: i got stabbed in the hand with a knife about 12-13 years ago and holy shit, man. no.

when anyone in any movie/show 'cuts' themselves. i know the blades are loaded with blood pellets or there's buttons or something, but when dean winchester takes a fucking machete and draws the whole thing across his arm, he's not going to get a two-three inch nick. he's going to carve down to the fucking bone, ffs. knives drawn from hilt to tip across any bit of skin just bothers me because wow, way to try to cut off whatever you're just trying to nick.

this reminds me of my intense cringing whenever a character needs a few drops of blood for a magic ritual or some such and chooses to obtain it by drawing a knife across their palm or fingertip. it's obviously done because it looks dramatic, but you know that has to hurt like a bitch and will probably make it uncomfortable to use to the hand for days.

the fingertip is one thing because you can still pretty much go about things normally with a cut on your fingertip, but it's absolutely bewildering when they go for the palm. who willingly drags a knife all the way across their palm? nobody does, omg.

and the palm thing is such a bitch to heal because flexing your hand tends to reopen the wound.

It's a good way to sever tendons and lose the function of that hand. Way to go Klingons, now you can't use your bat'leth.

and to add: getting something through your hand can easily impair your hand's function for the rest of your life. in fact, that's a more likely outcome than no permanent effects because your hand is that dense with important shit.

to add to this; blood trails. when someone gets hurt and knocked out/down and the blood is always down their face like they were standing. that's not how gravity works, man.

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