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(Message started by: athos12 on Dec 10^th, 2003, 10:24am)

Title: ER episode cont'
Post by athos12 on Dec 10^th, 2003, 10:24am

I wanted to continue this thread, it looks like the original one is somewhat dead, but I wanted give this bit of insight to see if I can help as well.

There may be a few people I still know in the hollywood crowd that I could call and see what the best avenues are.

I will check and get back with you.... A few years ago I could have at least had a script/idea read by the producers of startrek... but that was while Deep Space 9 was on. I had a good friend as key makeup on that shoot..... she and a few others still have really good contacts.. if Not ER we cn try for others as well.

Some insights for scriptwriting... Keep in mind that an ER episode is a serier of vignettes... small litle stories with a outer story that ties it all together.... what needs to be said needs to be done consicely and too the point.. i would suggest searching for past scripts for ER, especially ones that were very good... You can find screenplays online if you look in the right places.

I would also suggest multiple options for the story, different characters... Could you imagine Johhny as the character in question? Who would they get to play him??? I shudder to think....

Also they dig the stuff that makes people think and tugs at their moral and emotional strings.

Read as many screenplays as you can get your hands on to see the style/feel of how they are put together... Understand the use of narative or first person, also scene descriptions and scene setup.... ie..

"camera POV(point of view) over the should of DR. X pans left to view incoming patient ariving via gurny."

You will be taken more serious if you look like you know what you are doing, even if it is just to give ideas to the writers/producers.

Just my 2cents worth

Athos

Title: Re: ER episode cont'
Post by BlueMeanie on Dec 10^th, 2003, 11:18am

jonny could play himself. WOW what a story that would be. LOL

Title: Re: ER episode cont'
Post by TomM on Dec 10^th, 2003, 11:32am

on 12/10/03 at 11:18:03, BlueMeanie wrote:

jonny could play himself. WOW what a story that would be. LOL

Nah. We already got an ass in the West Wing. We don't need a Mule in the ER.

Title: Re: ER episode cont'
Post by mikeyd on Dec 10^th, 2003, 11:40am

Besides...judging from all those pics in the snow string..he's probably bizzy roasting his chestnuts near an open fire...lol [smiley=laugh.gif]
Although he is quite photogenic and I think the big-guy broke that mould...that means jonny would have to star as *himself*

lol@mule in ER [smiley=crackup.gif]
Mikeyd

Title: Re: ER episode cont'
Post by Paigelle on Dec 10^th, 2003, 3:00pm

But if we let Jonny play himself, the censors wouldn't know what to do!

Title: Re: ER episode cont'
Post by thomas on Dec 10^th, 2003, 3:04pm

Put me and the King on there we would f*ck that er up until we got some O2 or DHE. Two big men in pain needin' some relief, I'd be screaming my head off and pounding it on the f*ckin' floor. Better yet next season a new clusterhead every week - get in line guys and gals, have the King on the last episode.

Title: Re: ER episode cont'
Post by Paigelle on Dec 10^th, 2003, 3:26pm

on 12/10/03 at 15:04:47, thomas wrote:

See what I mean about the censors! We can't let Thomas or Jonny on ER. Maybe the Sopranos though!

Title: Re: ER episode cont'
Post by 12gagueblast on Dec 11^th, 2003, 1:55am

i think a charater with Ch would be a writers dream. You could have the charater have a bad day when ever you wanted them to and then it could just go away until you wanted to call it into the script again. would be cool if a person on the show had CH. tons of flexibility with the disease a we all unfortunately know and would be brought up more than once on the show. would also be able to show the gambit of reactions of coworkers.

Title: Re: ER episode cont'
Post by don on Dec 11^th, 2003, 8:00am

Quote:

Who would they get to play him

Michael Jackson

Title: Re: ER episode cont'
Post by Patrick_A on Dec 11^th, 2003, 8:57am

Dennis Hopper could play Jonny!! LMAO!!!

;;D
Patrick

Title: Re: ER episode cont'
Post by Paigelle on Dec 11^th, 2003, 9:03am

It is all back to the censors thing. Can you imagine a CH sufferer on TV. I develop sailor's mouth when I have one. If I even speak every other word involves 4 letters.

Title: Re: ER episode cont'
Post by hdbngr on Dec 11^th, 2003, 9:18am

There you go...

A FEMALE sufferer...(everyone knows only men get em) :D

Have the Doctor's diagnose drug seeker/borderline personlity disorder - make poor character assumptions, stash them in a hallway for 6 hours, untreated. Doctors obviously have more important cases to treat. Call placed to CH patients regular Doctor at request. (Multiple subplots occurring between patients stashed in hallway).

Hours later, when her regular Doc finally calls the ER docs back and gives them the lowdown, true character growth could take place...yadda yadda yadda

ER Doctor could bump into the CH sufferer a week later in a coffee shop, no recognition. Person stares them down, Doctor realizes difference between real life and character assumption, no words exchanged.

End scene.

Title: Re: ER episode cont'
Post by Paigelle on Dec 11^th, 2003, 9:20am

I am only going to ER is George Clooney comes back to treat me.

Title: Re: ER episode cont'
Post by athos12 on Dec 11^th, 2003, 10:40am

12gagueblast and hdbngr,

There you go.. great ideas......

Lets take it an run....

I wounder if there are statistics around that show how little ER doc's care about chronic pain. There are those that abuse the ER... And there are those that have no other choice other than suffer.

Here is a quote form an ER doc that saw me, I won't say that he treated me, but he said... "I don't take pride in treateting patients like you." referring to chronic pain sufferers.... You could through that in the script.

Title: Re: ER episode cont'
Post by thomas on Dec 11^th, 2003, 10:42am

on 12/11/03 at 10:40:12, athos12 wrote:

There are those that abuse the ER

And they are the reason we get treated like drug seekers and wimps and over-reactors.....

Title: Re: ER episode cont'
Post by Paigelle on Dec 11^th, 2003, 10:43am

It makes me so damn mad to think there are doctors out there that don't take pride in treating a chronic pain patient. The worst problem is that alot of doctors are like that. It just proves that many, many doctors are only in that occupation for the money. They see dollar signs and thats it. Now I am mad.

Title: Re: ER episode cont'
Post by Mikey on Dec 11^th, 2003, 11:04am

Now you've got me mad Paigelle!!

Just remembering the last ER visit, and it was for a kidney stone NOT a CH....Mention pain to a Doc without any gash in your flesh, you might as well be pissing in the wind!

[smiley=mad.gif] Mikey....

Title: Re: ER episode cont'
Post by Paigelle on Dec 11^th, 2003, 11:23am

My husband had a kidney stone the size of a nickel. He had to have lithotripsy done and they gave him a free t-shirt. Can you imagine? Getting a t-shirt after you have been suffering like that. He asked the doctor if that suppose to make him feel better.

Title: Re: ER episode cont'
Post by athos12 on Dec 11^th, 2003, 11:31am

Maybe I should make an X-tshirt for er doc's

http://www.inovion.com/~reality/downloads/xdup.jpg

X er doc's

Title: Re: ER episode cont'
Post by TomM on Dec 11^th, 2003, 1:03pm

on 12/11/03 at 08:57:17, Patrick_A wrote:

Dennis Hopper could play Jonny!! LMAO!!!

;;D
Patrick

Dennis Hopper ain't cool enough and Michael Jackson would end up playing with his circus midgettes.

Title: Re: ER episode cont'
Post by athos12 on Dec 11^th, 2003, 6:56pm

Russell Crowe comes to mind.... Then again so does Howard Stern..

Johhny, you are just so diverse.....

Title: Re: ER episode cont'
Post by Paigelle on Dec 11^th, 2003, 7:56pm

Ewwww, don't like Russell Crowe. He gives me a headache.

Title: Re: ER episode cont'
Post by athos12 on Dec 12^th, 2003, 10:39am

Ok then Howard Stern... Probably... well I will keep that to myself..

--Athos

Title: Re: ER episode cont'
Post by hdbngr on Dec 12^th, 2003, 10:50am

My sis is an ER nurse, and I got mad at her recently for sounding so insensitive to pain patients... she asked me if I realized that she saw at least 80 patients with "headaches", every single week.

She said some of them can spike their blood pressure up on will and vomit repeatedly, then settle in to read a book, then do it again when the nurse comes back in the room (obviously not a cluster sufferer) They will tell you what pain meds they want and don't want....

I countered by saying treat everyone of them like they were in the worse pain imaginable. The ones who are in pain deserve the compassion. The ones who aren't deserve it too, cause something else has them messed up enought to be there.

The reputation precedes us though, and that won't be shed any time soon. My LAST time at the ER the Doc asked me what I wanted HER to do. She got quite ugly when I wouldn't lie down and be still.

Maaybe we can donate some money to OUCH to send one of the best and brightest among us to medical school?!?! Then we would have our very own CH DOC! :)

(My vote for Jonny would be himself, and only if all the tattoos show, and of course, the socks)

Title: Re: ER episode cont'
Post by athos12 on Dec 13^th, 2003, 10:40pm

Is there anyone here in the medical field now or already in med school?

Cathy is a Nurse... Right?

I have been looking into doing a career change.... Not to go the complete med school route, but to be a physicians assistant for a nuero... the research side of things is a lot of fun.

All that would take is about 2 years for the masters program.

Title: Re: ER episode cont'
Post by athos12 on Dec 13^th, 2003, 10:46pm

Has anyone started compiling ideas for a story line?

Title: Re: ER episode cont'
Post by Jayne on Dec 13^th, 2003, 10:57pm

Actually I have to tell you that our own Mr BrianY had his first ever proper CH diagnosis by an emergency room nurse. Brians wife rushed him to the Er. The nurse came outside to get Brian ito a wheel chair and took one look at his face and said "I know what's wrong with you" and took him inside and put him straight on the o2" she said she had read about it and recognised the eye tearing and the runny nose and REMEMBERED.