The answer is no.
Patient-blogger Duncan Cross takes exception to the cavalier treatment director Christopher Nolan gives to third-degree burns in Aaron Eckhart’s super-villain.
“There is no way that eye would have survived intact, much less be able to function without a lid and tear ducts,” he writes.
And his refusal of pain medications in the film? “The idea that someone could suffer Dent’s injuries, be in that kind of pain, and still be capable of coherent thought is just plain BS.”
Indeed, accurate medicine sometimes gets in the way of good drama.
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Not the place for hypertechnical medical criticism. The unveiling of this injury was the best moment in the movie, wherein the moviegoer thinks, “Aha, the nickname.”
The fact that all stunts were done by humans, with no CGI, including those from the top of the Hong Kong skyscraper was another high point. If you liked Chicago, they did a great job of making it beautiful.
Otherwise, Ledger did a bad imitation of Jerry Lewis in the Nutty Professor, for his allegedly masterful Oscar nominated performance. Bale changed his voice as the Batman, to sound like Dirty Harry. The girl these topnotch males competed for was not only plug ugly, but whiny and annoying. Action sequences were merely adequate.
The incompetence and inadequacy of government was dead on accurate.
I agree about the eye. But pain? Part of the definition of 3rd degree burns is that they are full-thickness….and lack sensation, thus pain wouldn’t be a problem, except around the edges of the burn where you would find 1st and 2nd degree burns.
On top of that the facial musculature is all wrong. What is that band of muscle in the cheek area? Is that suppose to be the masseter or pterygoid? Looks cool at least.
eh. there is some seriously bad science out there in the movies… this one didn’t bother me so much because it looks neat. maybe he was dropping in artificial tears whenever off-screen?
You guys know Batman is a comic book character, right? OK, just checkin’
I just wiki’ed “Kryptonite” and guess what?? It doesn’t exist!!!! What a Gyp!!
Along the lines of Hollywood and its portrayal of hospitals and medicine, just out this short yet funny blog post from my colleague:
http://blogs.hcpro.com/hospitalsafety/2009/01/house-scrubs-and-sharps-containers/
LOL. I can see that you were another one of those guys that go to the movies with friends who have to harshly whisper, “SUSPEND DISBELIEF!!” throughout the movie.
Years ago, I watched an episode of ER (my one and only). It had a character that was dying from Fluoric Acid exposure. While I was sitting there tattering on and on about problems with the scene, the 10 seconds of V-Tach then 10 seconds of V-Fib then straight to asystole, blah blah blah, my friend calmly suggested I was missing the point. And I was.
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