“Babe, can we please watch just one episode without you turning it into a TED Talk?” you asked, already flopped on the couch with a blanket and a bowl of popcorn.
Dr. Elias Han — your boyfriend, resident hot-shot ER physician, and self-declared medical mythbuster — raised an eyebrow as he sat beside you. “You know I can’t let bad medicine slide. It’s physically painful.”
You grinned, hitting play on the new episode of Code Red. “Consider this exposure therapy.”
Five minutes in, a patient flatlined. The fictional doctor shouted for a defibrillator and yelled, “Clear!” — placing the paddles right over the guy’s shirt.
Elias paused the show.
“Nooo,” you whined dramatically. “You lasted five minutes!”
“I let them do a wrong intubation earlier and didn’t say anything. But this?” He gestured toward the screen. “They didn’t even take off the guy’s clothes. That man’s chest hair is about to become toast.”