Why the fck did he just throw those serum vials?
Let me just throw and break this clinic's valuable medicine for literally no reason...I'm pretty sure this show tries to be as stupid as possible.
shareWithout a rewatch, I can't be sure but it sounded to me like one of the vials he threw was plastic. I've never heard of a vial being made of plastic but that's how it sounded to me.
Some vials are made of plastic, but certainly glass ones are more common for most medicines
shareYeah.
Dagr317, the noise sounded somewhere between plastic and the clang/shattering of glass but still, why throw.
Presumably to add comedy to an already ridiculous* scene, but you would think that a doctor would be more cautious with a potentially life saving product, even if it's not the one his patient needs…
*(ridiculous given that "rabies serum" (better known as antirabies serum or immunoglobulin) does not differ based on the species the person was bit by….nor would immunoglobulin injections have done the man any good at this stage)
Yes. Read your write up on the rabies line and you are spot on. Having never done any specific research into rabies and rabies treatment, I thought to myself:
"Rabies serum" would be a serum that gives you rabies.
I'm pretty sure there aren't treatments based on what species of animal bit you.
The half hour-or-die seems a strange and arbitrary timeline. Again, not having actually looked into it in depth, I understood that when you're bitten by a potentially rabid animal you need to get shots as IMMEDIATELY as possible, and once it "takes hold", it's too late. It also seemed to me that any symptoms would be a sign that it "took hold" and again, tragically, indicated that it was too late for any anti-rabies serum. It's not a get-sick-immediately, but get treatment within ONE HALF HOUR thing. I think almost anybody older than a little kid has this basic understanding of rabies treatment. I also remember rabies having a particularly long incubation period (I recall it's up to a year, although rarely), which again of course doesn't mean that you shouldn't seek treatment ASAP.
You confirmed and clarified these points. This show is unwatchable.