diagnostic realism
3.8/5
ER
Season 7 Episode 11
Rock, Paper, Scissors
Rock, Paper, Scissors is curated around Swallowed Condom Cocaine Smuggling; Recovery Disclosure to Supervisor.
Air date: Jan 11, 2001
overall
3.8/5
procedure realism
3.7/5
workflow realism
3.9/5
Medical Cases in This Episode
These are the patient stories worth unpacking. Open any case for the real-world medicine, what the episode shows, what it leaves out, and source-backed context.
2 cases identified
Case 1
Rock, Paper, Scissors: Swallowed Condom Cocaine Smuggling
Body packing can become rapidly fatal if packets rupture and requires toxicology-aware monitoring and surgical consultation when indicated.
- Episode shows
- Carter treats a woman smuggling drugs by swallowing a condom full of cocaine.
- Clinical takeaway
- Body packing can become rapidly fatal if packets rupture and requires toxicology-aware monitoring and surgical consultation when indicated.
Accuracy 3.8/5body-packer-cocaine-riskemergency-medicinepatient-safety
Case 2
Rock, Paper, Scissors: Recovery Disclosure to Supervisor
Recovery monitoring in clinicians must balance privacy, patient safety, supervision, and relapse-prevention agreements.
- Episode shows
- Abby pressures Carter to tell Weaver about the Vicodin he nearly took.
- Clinical takeaway
- Recovery monitoring in clinicians must balance privacy, patient safety, supervision, and relapse-prevention agreements.
Accuracy 3.7/5recovery-disclosure-to-supervisoremergency-medicinepatient-safety
Episode Summary
Carter treats a woman smuggling cocaine in a swallowed condom, and Abby presses him to disclose his Vicodin near-use.
Differential Diagnosis and Testing Logic
Rock, Paper, Scissors: Swallowed Condom Cocaine Smuggling: A real team would stabilize urgent problems, verify patient identity, review history and exposures, use targeted testing, involve specialists when needed, document decisions, and reassess when new risk appears. The available summary does not support adding unshown vital signs, lab values, medication doses, imaging findings, timestamps, or outcomes.
Rock, Paper, Scissors: Recovery Disclosure to Supervisor: A real team would stabilize urgent problems, verify patient identity, review history and exposures, use targeted testing, involve specialists when needed, document decisions, and reassess when new risk appears. The available summary does not support adding unshown vital signs, lab values, medication doses, imaging findings, timestamps, or outcomes.
Medical Accuracy Review
Rock, Paper, Scissors: Swallowed Condom Cocaine Smuggling: The episode summary supports this as a concrete medical, safety, diagnostic, or care-pathway thread. The summary does not support adding unshown vital signs, medication doses, test values, exact procedure timing, consent dialogue, or outcomes.
Rock, Paper, Scissors: Recovery Disclosure to Supervisor: The episode summary supports this as a concrete medical, safety, diagnostic, or care-pathway thread. The summary does not support adding unshown vital signs, medication doses, test values, exact procedure timing, consent dialogue, or outcomes.
Sources and Further Reading
Episode evidence: iDRief catalog page, TVmaze - ER 7x11 Rock, Paper, Scissors. Medical context appears on linked case/topic records with trusted patient, public-health, clinical, ethics, toxicology, emergency-care, oncology, obstetric, pediatric, and behavioral-health sources.
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