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Dr. Flanagan Saves A Life

posted 12 years ago by FattyMcButterpants
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I love the scene where Flanagan first meets Elizabeth Shue when her friend passes out on the beach. He sprints down the beach to the unconscious body, makes a joke about Champagne, lifts her head, and proceeds to tell everyone she is going to be fine, but someone better go down to the condo office and call an ambulance... "just in case". LOL, that scene cracks me up. This guy is a bartender, not a Doctor! The friend was actually still passed out when he made that diagnosis that she was going to be fine. How the frack would he know, she is still passed out!!! At least he had the ambulance called on the tiny chance that he may be wrong. LOL!

[–] ferkix 12 years ago

As a bartender in the tropics, he's probably seen a million idiot tourists drink too much alcohol in the heat.

Besides he was in the military. For all we know he could have been a medic.

[–] Hoffman31 11 years ago

That's what I took from it too. That his experience as a bartender, combined with his military background has taught him how to recognize signs of danger versus the more common signs of someone who had one too many.

I could be wrong but when he first arrived on the scene, didn't he take her pulse to make sure that the body was circulating blood properly and the heart was functioning sufficiently?

He have also been touching her skin to rule out hypothermia, which I have heard is a symptom of alcohol poisoning.