I've been going through the Columbo catalog. Yes, Columbo is really cool, as police shows go. Also I was watching a bit of Red Dragon.
One common narrative is that some cops are special, and have this really precise intuition, which someone magically cuts through all the many details of the case and exactly hones in on the correct perpetrator, which is never without fail. I love Columbo, but FUCKKKK he's so guilty of this. From minute ten of the episode, he's knows who is the murderer and he's just examining all the inconsistencies of the story until the murderer just confesses and goes to a life in prison without a fight. In Red Dragon, ~~Ben~~ Ed Norton's character can just look at the crime scene photos and then the crime plays in his brain like a movie. I might be exaggerating slightly as I was bored of that film. Think Odo, who just knows when something illegal is going to go down.
I feel like many cop movies have this "special police intuition" trope going on.
It does upset me. If one's ever gone dealt with the legal system in any way, cops are wrong AF. I think we've all experienced it when a cop makes a snap (lazy) judgement, follows through with their hunch out of sheer laziness and hubris, the cop builds a lazy ass case out of vibes, and then the innocent victim spends an inordinate amount of time and money trying to prove their innocence, if they're even able to secure their innocence. Often many are stuck with the results of a 5 second cop hunch for the rest of their lives. Prosecutors and courts generally take the cops' findings at their word.
In another venue, we've all tried fighting snap judgements is from admin on Twitter and 
. AFAIK, I've never seen an admin apologise or return a ban.
I feel like some podcast like Citations Needed or whatever covered this, but no amount of Googling led me to where this idea came from.
You know what show never does this? House MD. It's a detective show without cops, where the super cool genius misanthrope is actually just a loser and wrong all the time. House's intuition is often wrong and makes things worse, and the same goes for other characters. And it has doctors instead of cops. Best detective show ever
Okay but it is worth pointing out that they present House as a super genius even though he is wrong all the time, like it's not treated as a failure on his part that he just keeps saying sarcoidosis and paraneoplastic syndrome.
They also have several conversations in which they discuss medical ethics and they pretty much always reach the most fucked up conclusions about patient consent, the role of the doctor and the ethics of various treatments.
Edit: Like here are some of the conclusions reached by just Dr. Cameron (Who is treated as the moral center of the show for it's early seasons) presented as correct.
1: It is good to lie about the benefit of medications if it's to help an unrelated person.
2: Euthenasia is ok but only if the patient is a bad person and deserves to die therefore.
3: It's not only okay to treat patients while stoned, but if you don't feel bad about intervening then you're a bad person.
4: If you're a good enough doctor the rules no longer apply to you
5: Lying to a patients face to get what you want is ok.
6: Giving patients false hope is good because then they don't feel as bad.
Basically every episode has a new and utterly fucked up conclusion reached about medical ethics reached by the cast. It's the same as a police procedural on that front.
Oh yeah it is hilariously pro-medical abuse. Which obviously is extremely fucked up, the message is usually that you should let doctors do whatever they want to you because they know best and people who don't consent to medical abuse are stupid and wrong. Which is bad
Pretty much. But also every medical drama treats the basic four bioethical principles the same way cop dramas treat the fourth amendment or defense lawyers
All true but it's a show and it has to last 40 minutes so they can't just figure it out right away. I feel like house has such a ridiculous premise that it's basically a fantasy show and no doctor would ever say that they are like house or that doctors should be like house whereas cops on the other hand....
I feel I must remind you that cops will model themselves after The Punisher.
-House
I've always said that Apothecary Diaries is also House MD in fictional ancient China.
Also inspired by Sherlock Holmes, funnily enough.
That's really funny because Sherlock Holmes has dogshit methodology, Arthur Conan Doyle based him off one of his lecturers in medical school, and Arthur Conan Doyle was involved with the Spiritualists to the point that people have drawn connections between Spiritualists' dogshit pseudoscientific reasoning and Sherlock Holmes's horrible methodology. There's a lot of crossover between early Spiritualism and what would become an entire industry of pseudoscientific charlatanism and quackery today.
Sherlock Holmes : detective work :: homeopathy : medicine
If you got him as the attending doctor your health will be in jeopardy
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