Movie Medicine Part 1
Medgeeks with Andrew Reid
Medgeeks
4.8 • 997 Ratings
🗓️ 4 September 2023
⏱️ 12 minutes
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Summary
We all love the magic of movies and might wonder if that could actually happen in real life.
Would a lightsaber to the upper chest instantly kill a person? Can Harry Potter's scar really hurt like in the movies when "He-Who-Not-Be-Named" gets close? Can Magneto really pull iron out of the guard's body?
Join Dr. Niket Sonpal as he goes over some of our favorite movies/tv shows and the medicine fact or fiction.
September 4, 2023
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| 0:00.0 | The movie Barbie is booming. |
| 0:01.8 | Just look at the movie Barbie and how amazing it's done. |
| 0:04.6 | It's basically outshine tons of Marvel movies and it's the number one |
| 0:08.4 | Warner Brothers film. |
| 0:09.6 | Now if you've been following along with this podcast and you're one of the tens of |
| 0:12.9 | thousands of people who tune in every week you know that I love movies and |
| 0:16.8 | books and science fiction and fantasy novels just as much as I love things |
| 0:21.0 | like science, math, and of course medicine. |
| 0:24.0 | Now many of us have comfort TV shows, the kinds that are playing in the background, |
| 0:28.0 | we can say all the lines and laugh along with it without even having to watch. |
| 0:31.0 | I have comfort movies in the same way and I recently |
| 0:34.4 | had Star Wars episode one playing. Now before I go any further there are going to be |
| 0:38.9 | spoilers of Star Wars, Harry Potter, X-Men, I am Legend, and even Jurassic Park and other films in this |
| 0:44.8 | podcast. |
| 0:45.8 | So if you haven't seen these movies, I suggest you watch them because there are total A-plus |
| 0:49.6 | films, and right now you probably need that break to feel a little bit better about things |
| 0:53.3 | that are just going on in medicine. And so as I'm watching episode one I saw the |
| 0:57.1 | terrible scene in which quaigon jinn becomes stabbed in his upper abdomen by |
| 1:01.2 | Darth Mal's lightsaber and succumbs to his fatal injuries. |
| 1:04.5 | But then if you watch other episodes and played along some video games, these characters |
| 1:07.9 | get stabbed by Litesabers all the time and don't die. |
| 1:10.5 | And then John Wick was playing on TBS as it does multiple times a day and he's fallen off a building gotten stabbed and shot multiple times and he's still trucking along. |
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