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Do we need mystical twaddle like the patient, after 'dying' on the operating table, being saved, and getting her speech back, saying that (her dead twin) 'says hello.'  I'll accept ghosts on a show like MEDIUM (the same way I'll accept vampires on BUFFY), but this is ridiculous.  Dead is dead. the twin is dead, and the show soon will be.

I love Stanley Tucci and since my hubby gets tired of watching Law & Order 24/7, I thought I would give this show a try to since Smith failed.  So far, I liked it.  I worry about it being a little too similar to House but if they can move away from that and give this show more indiviuality, and since they are dealing with the brain they have plenty of avenues to do that, I think it has great potential.  I'll definitely tune in for a couple more episodes before making a decision.  I really enjoyed the twist that Hanson has something in his brain.

Are you saying that you can view the whole episode on innertube? I tried but it didn't work. Anyway, but happened in the first episode. I didn't hear of this new series until TODAY, so naturally I missed the first episode. Anyone want to give me a recap?

This show might well be titled 'House for the Neurologically Impaired' or something to that effect.  Another egotistical physician who believes himself to be God incarnate and who is incapable of or unwilling to treat patients as complex human beings who indeed have feelings and are quite capable of understanding some very esoteric concepts if only the physician will take the time to explain things to them in less than technical terms.

In addition, with all the talent on this show, one would think that the producers would have sprung for at least one consultant who knew something about operating room procedures and protocol.  To be more precise, the scene in which the chief neurosurgeon and his new fellow are scrubbing in before entering the operating room was so wrong it was almost laughably pathetic.  Anyone who has been around an operating room for any amount of time knows that one ALWAYS puts on one's surgical cap and mask BEFORE scrubbing up and not, as was shown in this scene of the pilot, afterwards.  And in the same vane, inside the operating room during a surgical procedure with the patient's skull open as was depicted, one does NOT take off one's mask in order to question the awake patient while the cortical surface is being mapped.  This would be a gross break in sterile protocol and should the patient develop a post op infection, would be prima facia grounds for a huge law suit directed against both the offending person and the hospital which allowed such an unprofessional break in sterile protocol.

I realize that a show such as this often takes many liberties as far as following actual medical procedures and practices but to make such obvious errors for the sole purpose of giving each actor/actress more 'face' time on camera is unconscionable.  What the producers fail to appreciate is that there are many viewers of such programs who actually believe that what you depict on the 'small screen of TV' is indeed what does or should happen in real life.  And as I have pointed out above, this is a huge misconception and may indeed lead to many misunderstandings between patients and their health care professionals.

OldTimer