If Maggie can’t speak, she can’t utter her lines, and she can’t partake in the dialogue with Clint. A patient cannot speak with a tracheotomy tube in place because all ventilation takes place below the vocal cords. Maggie has a tracheotomy, with the breathing tube inserted in the front of her neck, below the level of the vocal cords. What’s the problem with this scene? It’s impossible for Maggie to talk if she’s on a ventilator. She tells Clint she doesn’t want to go on living like this, a paralyzed invalid. He sits next to her bedside and they discuss her fallen health. Her coach and trainer, Frankie Dunn (Clint Eastwood) visits her. Maggie is paralyzed from the neck down- a ventilator-dependent quadriplegic-and is hospitalized in a private room. The female lead, Maggie Fitzgerald (Hilary Swank) is seriously injured in a $1 million World Boxing Association welterweight title match. Million Dollar Baby won the Academy Award for Best Picture in 2004, yet the concluding scenes vital to the movie’s plot are both medically impossible and unrealistic. This film is my Hollywood medical pet peeve, and the movie that motivated me to write this column. Let’s take a look at medical inaccuracies in movie scenes from 12 famous Hollywood films: I love the movies, but it can be painful to watch scenes where the facts are distorted, sometimes so much that the storyline is implausible. CONTINUOUS FINGER-CUFF BLOOD PRESSURE MONITORING.CALL FROM THE JAILHOUSE REVIEW: “I LOVED HOW THE BOOK WAS CRAFTED.”.STANFORD EMERGENCY MANUAL POCKET VERSION.
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