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<blockquote data-quote="Scott-C" data-source="post: 1734894" data-attributes="member: 374531"><p>These posts about films and TV getting it totally wrong are ringing a bell for me.</p><p></p><p>There's a decent Scandi-noir drama on British TV at the moment, Below the Surface. </p><p></p><p>Bunch of people get taken hostage and held for ransom somewhere off the Copenhagen underground tram system for ransom.</p><p></p><p>Needless to say, one of them, Leon, turns out to be some kind of unspecified diabetic. </p><p></p><p>One moment he's fine, next, after a sharp edit, he's unconscious on the floor. Maybe he's T1 and lost all hypo awareness, let's go with that for the sake of editing.</p><p></p><p>Anyway, luckily enough, one of the co-hostagees is a trainee nurse. She says he needs sugar: good call. </p><p></p><p>A few scenes later, they're on the phone to the negotiator (they're fair captors - if a man needs sugar, he needs sugar), but, whoah, then they're ignoring the nurse and it turns into a vague, "we need medicine", which turns out to be insulin, even though the guy was showing nothing like going dka to the point of getting unconscious.</p><p></p><p>So, a special agent comes down in the lift dressed as a medic, ostensibly to deliver the 'medicine", turns into a gun battle, bit of a mess, some innocent people are hurt, but Leon, who is probably neuroglycopenic hypo by this stage if the nurse's hypo call is right, ends up getting a shot of, erm, something, probably insulin if what was said earlier in the flaky "diabetic drama plotline" is kept to, and wakes up 20 seconds later as if he's just had a nice nights kip -there we go, all better.</p><p></p><p>Hmm, let's just say I'm unconvinced. Here was me thinking the Danes always paid a lot more attention to detail....</p></blockquote><p></p>
[QUOTE="Scott-C, post: 1734894, member: 374531"] These posts about films and TV getting it totally wrong are ringing a bell for me. There's a decent Scandi-noir drama on British TV at the moment, Below the Surface. Bunch of people get taken hostage and held for ransom somewhere off the Copenhagen underground tram system for ransom. Needless to say, one of them, Leon, turns out to be some kind of unspecified diabetic. One moment he's fine, next, after a sharp edit, he's unconscious on the floor. Maybe he's T1 and lost all hypo awareness, let's go with that for the sake of editing. Anyway, luckily enough, one of the co-hostagees is a trainee nurse. She says he needs sugar: good call. A few scenes later, they're on the phone to the negotiator (they're fair captors - if a man needs sugar, he needs sugar), but, whoah, then they're ignoring the nurse and it turns into a vague, "we need medicine", which turns out to be insulin, even though the guy was showing nothing like going dka to the point of getting unconscious. So, a special agent comes down in the lift dressed as a medic, ostensibly to deliver the 'medicine", turns into a gun battle, bit of a mess, some innocent people are hurt, but Leon, who is probably neuroglycopenic hypo by this stage if the nurse's hypo call is right, ends up getting a shot of, erm, something, probably insulin if what was said earlier in the flaky "diabetic drama plotline" is kept to, and wakes up 20 seconds later as if he's just had a nice nights kip -there we go, all better. Hmm, let's just say I'm unconvinced. Here was me thinking the Danes always paid a lot more attention to detail.... [/QUOTE]
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