Set in downtown New York in 1900, 'The Knick' is a new Cinemax drama series from Academy Award and Emmy-winning director Steven Soderbergh. It is centered on the Knickerbocker Hospital and the groundbreaking surgeons, nurses and staff who work there, pushing the bounds of medicine in a time of astonishingly high mortality rates and zero antibiotics. Soderbergh directs all 10 episodes of the series' first season.
Academy Award and Emmy nominee Clive Owen stars as Doctor John Thackery, a brilliant surgeon pioneering new methods in the field, despite nursing a severe addiction to cocaine. He leads a team of doctors including his protégé Dr. Everett Gallinger; the young Dr. Bertie Chickering Jr.; and Algernon Edwards, a promising surgeon who's been recently thrust upon him. The lively cast of characters at the hospital also includes Cornelia Robertson, the daughter of its benefactor; surly ambulance driver Tom Cleary; Lucy Elkins, a fresh-faced nurse from the country; the crooked manager Herman Barrow; and Sister Harriet, a nun with who isn't afraid to speak her mind.
Regarding absence of surgical gloves ( minor spoilers)
Spoiler:
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Plot Spoiler: Likely, lack of gloves is no accident and sets up a plot development. William Halsted, on whom Dr Thackery is largely-based, introduced surgical gloves, originally to protect the hands of his eventual wife from the irritating effects of antiseptic. See: "Caroline Hampton Halsted: the first to use rubber gloves in the operating room" http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC2943454/
Since The Knick is largely based upon Halsted's career, expect the introduction of surgical gloves as the romantic relationship between him and the little honey surgical nurse with the southern accent develops. Halsted's wife was from South Carolina..
Regarding absence of surgical gloves ( minor spoilers)
Spoiler:
Quote:
Plot Spoiler: Likely, lack of gloves is no accident and sets up a plot development. William Halsted, on whom Dr Thackery is largely-based, introduced surgical gloves, originally to protect the hands of his eventual wife from the irritating effects of antiseptic. See: "Caroline Hampton Halsted: the first to use rubber gloves in the operating room" http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC2943454/
Since The Knick is largely based upon Halsted's career, expect the introduction of surgical gloves as the romantic relationship between him and the little honey surgical nurse with the southern accent develops. Halsted's wife was from South Carolina..
Ah that explains it, nice find^^
This first episode was even better than I expected, seems like the production values, solid acting and writing are all there. It's early to tell, but so far so good!
I wonder what they are doing with that apparatus that they put into wound, and it then ejects steam. I tried to read something up but couldn't found what they do.
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will definitely watch the next ep... could potentially be really cool as long as it sticks to doctoring stuff and doesn't descend into relationship dramas and shit.
side-note, fucking love how they talk openly infront of patients, that shit is just hilarious...
I wonder what they are doing with that apparatus that they put into wound, and it then ejects steam. I tried to read something up but couldn't found what they do.
If you are talking about what I think you are talking about, I think that was supposed to be cauterization. At first I assumed the "steam" was the reaction from the heat, but upon second look it seems they used hot steam itself for cauterization - no electrical medical equipment was at at hand at the time, after all
I wonder what they are doing with that apparatus that they put into wound, and it then ejects steam. I tried to read something up but couldn't found what they do.
If you are talking about what I think you are talking about, I think that was supposed to be cauterization. At first I assumed the "steam" was the reaction from the heat, but upon second look it seems they used hot steam itself for cauterization - no electrical medical equipment was at at hand at the time, after all
Yep. That might be it. I dig around and found similar set for early 20th century cauterisation machine.
sar·casm | \ ˈsär-ˌka-zəm \
1: a sharp and often satirical or ironic utterance designed to cut or give pain
2a: a mode of satirical wit depending for its effect on bitter, caustic, and often ironic language that is usually directed against an individual
b: the use or language of sarcasm
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, I might give it a shot.
