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As a Greek, in response to the current controversy about Matt Damon being cast as Odysseus, I'd just like to share that one of the moments that changed my brain chemistry as a kid was reading a novelized version of the Odyssey and coming across the following description of Odysseus when Circe sees him for the first time and thinks he's hot: "his hair curled like a clematis and his eyes were very brown".
So may I present my own casting choice for Odysseus:
Excuse me???
you are right and you should say it.
Is this the face of a man who would put his own infant in front of a plow to avoid going to war?
Absolutely not
You know who would try that shit?
Is this the face of a man who would defy the very gods to get home to his wife?
You know who would defy the gods just to show he could get away with it?
The last thing Penelope's suitors ever see:
Heâs actually bad ass
So awesome I love him
So awesome I love him đ
So nice you see him twice
This goes hard heâs actually awesome
I've never loved anyone as much as I love Ursula Le Guin
Ben Vereen in "Pippin" (1972)
Iâm literally on shift as a nurse at the hospital (but also on my 15 min break #responsibleblogger) rotating a post in my head Iâve been thinking about for a while entitled âOkay But Like IS Marta From Knives Out A Good Nurse??â And i really do hope that post finds its way out of me and onto the page, but christ the mental draft of it is so long. Maybe I can just get away with posting the conclusion: no sheâs not, and yes she is, and also itâs complicated in ways that have almost no real life parallels. Surely no supporting evidence necessary.
Because while there is overlap between the definition of Good Nurse vs Good Person, nursing has a professional code of conduct. Thereâs patient autonomy and safety, thereâs duty of care, thereâs equitable and impartial treatment, etc. So the question is: by the yardstick of our profession is she upholding the standard of care?
(And lemme sneak back here and add this to provide some context for the rest of this post. Martaâs situation is affected by class, money, power, immigration, concern for loved ones, character dynamics, the concerns of the plot, Benoit Blancâs whole dealâbut this post isnât about any of that. This post is just about the theoretical Best Nursing Action. This post is a case study in your third semester Patient Safety class. This post exists in the same perfect world that NCLEX questions exist in.)
By the professional standards of nursing, when she gives the medication without checking the label, she fails at doing a universal safety check that can have catastrophic consequences. Letâs ignore the fact that the meds were maliciously switched (weâll get to that, itâs a real fuckin wrench in everything). The fact is that she should have verified that she had the right medication rather than go by routine. Med error is so so easy in part because passing meds can become so routine. Especially in home health. You lose the fear of fucking up, you donât check something bc youâve done it a hundred times before, oops something goes wrong.
Additionally, she fails to assess her patient. Harlan is not showing any signs of morphine overdose. (I also want to be clear as Iâm saying all this: if I thought I had given someone 100x their morphine dose and then lost the narcan, my asshole would have fallen out so hard you would have heard a clunk when it hit the floor. I like to think I wouldnât let the dramatic old man rope me into an elaborate coverup, but like. He was very convincing. Anywayâ)
Most importantly, she does not admit her error. Every single person in healthcare will make a mistake. If you are lucky, it doesnât cause any harm. If you arenât lucky, you think about what you did for the rest of your life. Sometimes youâre lucky and you still think of what you did for the rest of your life. Whatâs important is not keeping mistakes secret. It doesnât help the patient harmed by the mistake to pretend there isnât a problem or that you donât know what the problem is. And on a larger scale, it doesnât let the system know what happened, how the mistake happened, and what we can do to stop it. Marta doesnât tell anyone what happened, largely in part bc Harlan is fucking wild and so hyped to die dramatically, but still for the point of nursing argument: she conceals her mistake.
And that causes about every problem in the film. Because if sheâd been like âHarlan, this is insane, I am calling an ambulanceâ (and to her creditâshe did try to call an ambulance. That crazy bitch Harlan ruined that plan) then the med switch up would have been caught because he would have been fine. So much of the situation was out of Martaâs controlâliterally, malicious interference with the medication and hiding the reversal agent, like whatâs she supposed to do about thatâbut after the error happened, she engaged in a cover up.
And the moment in which Marta is a by the books Good Nurse is when she performs CPR and calls 911 to save someone she believes is blackmailing her and is the only person who knows Harlanâs death is her fault. She is providing care to someone in need regardless of her personal situation. She is owning up to what she did to prevent further harm. In a world in which Harlan was dying from a med error, she provides the family closure regarding his traumatic suicide. Being a Good Nurse means owning up to your mistakes, even if it is too late to save the patient, because we canât find ways to address problems we donât know exist.
But like to get back to the murder of it all, her failure to check the medication DID prevent a catastrophic med error. Like yeah she fuckin t gave the right med! She did know it by touch! And on one hand, thatâs kinda bullshit, but on the other hand, I know what dilaudid feels like when I draw it up. I know what Ativan looks like in a syringe. And to be clear I would not give anything on a purely vibes based premise, but with experience you do get a nursing sense thatâs difficult to articulate. Itâs knowing someone has a fever from the doorway of their room, or that someone has a GI bleed from the faint smell of their poop, or that someone is in the early stages of sepsis from a glance at their respirations, or that someoneâs getting delirious from just a passing comment they make. Intuition is not a consistent safety system, and also it is an invaluable asset. Sometimes you just know something isnât right. That cannot be the entire basis of your practice. But it helps!
Marta knew the med was right because sheâd drawn it up a hundred times before. Thatâs horrible safety practices, but also she was right. If sheâd done the med check correctly by verifying the label on the vial, then she would have killed Harlan. So in this sense, ignoring protocol and going by pure intuition resulted in the correct decision in the context of unknown but extraordinary circumstances (Chris Evans). So like. Not sure exactly what the takeaway there is. I think mainly just murder is wrong.
And also just generally speakingâstepping back from the murder of it all once againâHarlan clearly liked her. Marta and Harlan had good therapeutic rapport, by which I mean they enjoyed each otherâs company which was probably Harlanâs chief need. Like medications, treatments, those are all good, but so is talking to patients like theyâre people and making them feel comfortable. I mean, she did that so good she got millions of dollars and a mansion. Girl knocked it out of the park.
So is she a Good Nurse? Iâd say overall yeah. While at times throughout the movie, she is more concerned with being a Good Daughter or a Person Who Isnât In Jail, the overall impression is a compassionate person who is normally competent at her job, tries to save others despite her personal situation, and takes responsibility for her mistakes. I think thatâs why she rings true as a character who is a nurse, even if you could quibble with the exact medical details.
But like. To be clear. 1) Holy shit you should read the labels on your drugs. And 2) do not let a man with a knife throne take charge of your emergency response.

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the human body is an engineering marvel. I sneeze in bright light. if I dont get enough sunlight on my skin I get tired and sad and have to drink a lot of milk to fix it. standing too much hurts, but sitting too much also hurts. if I get a virus, my body will increase its temperature in an attempt to cook it, which also cooks my brain cells. toenails exist. I have to turn the radio down to see better when I drive. there are 17 genes dictating what my hair texture is, but it completely changes when the air is too humid. yawning is contagious. there are more species of bacteria living in my body than there are species of birds in the entire world. every few months I grievously injure my neck by "sleeping on it weird." it took seven million years of human evolution to form me, and now I'm afraid of phone calls.
My toxic fandom take is that I think that it's awful how much we can talk to creators and get answers from them word of god style. We should be out here in a godless place rooting for scraps of lore in the media like truffle pigs out in the fields
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He looks a bit different than I imagined.

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Decades-long campaign powered by patient perspectives results in switch from PCOS â a name that caused confusion and undue suffering â to PM
After more than a decade of global consultation, polycystic ovary syndrome (PCOS) â a condition that affects one in eight women â has been renamed. The hormonal disorder, estimated to impact 170 million women worldwide, will now be known as polyendocrine metabolic ovarian syndrome (PMOS). The name change was published in the Lancet and announced at the European Congress of Endocrinology in Prague on Tuesday, after 14 years of collaboration between international societies and patient groups across six continents. The renaming was spearheaded by the endocrinologist Prof Helena Teede, the director of Melbourneâs Monash Centre for Health Research and Implementation. For too long, experts including Teede say, the misleading nature of the term âpolycysticâ in PCOS contributed to delayed diagnosis and inadequate medical care. Announcing the new name at the European Congress of Endocrinology in Prague on Tuesday, Teede said the term PCOS didnât capture the âmulti-system burden that people with this condition have sufferedâ, and that it âdirects attention to only one organâ. PMOS is hoped to better reflect the conditionâs complex nature â which affects not only the reproductive system in people assigned female at birth but also the metabolism and the risk of diabetes and cardiovascular disease. âA much broader conditionâ The first thing Maddy Mavrikis was told by her GP when she was diagnosed with PCOS at 15 was that she would probably never have children. She would later learn that was not true. [...]
Mavrikis initially went to her doctor because of irregular periods, and a blood test revealed she had high levels of androgens. All women have these male sex hormones but women with PCOS can have an excess, which also explained Mavrikisâ other symptoms, including acne and excessive hair growth. Hormone imbalances can also result in âpolycystic ovariesâ â a term which in itself is a misnomer, as what appear on ultrasound to be ovarian cysts are in fact eggs in arrested development. People can be diagnosed with PCOS without ovaries that appear âpolycysticâ â Mavrikisâ ultrasound revealed she didnât have any, though her GP insisted she would eventually develop them. The doctor also found she had insulin resistance, which affects most women (about 85%) with PCOS.
LITERALLY THREE DAYS AGO my doctor was all "hey, so the surgeon who did your endometrial biopsy wrote "PCOS?" in your file, and the clinician dismissed it because your biopsy was clear (of cysts), but it turns out insulin resistance is a much bigger thing, so let's work on that next."
Then she apologized (for the clinician), and I was all "in your defense, my first appointment with you was, like, two steps shy of a mental health intervention, and you've saved my life like twice since then", but also: GLAD IT'S OFFICIAL.
(Also: one of the stated goals of the name change is to shift research and treatment away from Fertility Or Nothing, which is, you know, also great.)
*pastel cartoon of artfully mud-splattered Cordelia Naismith and Aral Vorkosigan smirking at each other, arms crossed*
House of the Dragon meets Murderbot in SHARDS OF HONOR, a swoony new sci-fi romantasy by debut author Lois McMaster Bujold, perfect for fans of Andor.
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âGorgeous!â -Emily Broccolini, #1 NYT-bestselling author of An Heir of Storms and Sapphires and A Queen of Tornadoes and Topaz
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