Complications

I recently caught up on the series Complications on the USA Network's website.  For the most part, it's enjoyable.  I like medical dramas.  Jason O'Mara is a good actor, and it is a treat to see Kevin Tighe in another series.  However, the storylines are a bit over-the-top.

I do understand about people getting in over their heads and things getting out of hand, but a doctor getting caught in the middle of a gang war is far-fetched.  Also, ER doctors do not perform surgery (the episode where Ellison removed a bullet from a gang member's leg).  A trauma surgeon would have been doing that, and it would have been done in the controlled environment of an operating room where any problems could be dealt with.  Ellison did this in an empty room in the hospital, only gave the guy a local anesthetic, didn't have equipment to monitor vital signs and didn't have anything to replace fluids or deal with any bleeding.  Not gonna happen.

Finally, although of course there will be bad apples in the medical field the same as anywhere else, it's not likely a hospital employee would be able to falsify patient records or steal drugs without getting caught.

Whatever the case, the show has been cancelled, so my opinion probably isn't relevant.  I do think Complications had potential and might have gotten more realistic given a chance.  I kind of wonder what might have taken place after the phone call Ellison got about the clinic he burned down, but I'm not going to lose sleep over it.