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*** There's also the question of how the camp had such a high survival rate if one of the four doctors was so incompetent. If Burns was really as bad as they claimed he was while being one of the camp's few doctors, they could not have had a 97% success rate. |
*** There's also the question of how the camp had such a high survival rate if one of the four doctors was so incompetent. If Burns was really as bad as they claimed he was while being one of the camp's few doctors, they could not have had a 97% success rate. |
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**** The show's Burns was heavily [[Flanderization|Flanderized]] from the novel's original. ''That'' Burns was a decent surgeon -- not a prodigy like Hawkeye, Duke and Trapper, but still respectable -- he just had an attitude that the others couldn't stand. Given the books' versions are [[Jerkass Hero]]es that the show toned down, another reason was needed for why Frank was objectionable. Even then, it's pretty likely that much of the accusations of incompetence are insults and [[Trash Talk]] rather than literal truth. (Though TV's Frank Burns was certainly capable of major malpractice at his worst.) |
**** The show's Burns was heavily [[Flanderization|Flanderized]] from the novel's original. ''That'' Burns was a decent surgeon -- not a prodigy like Hawkeye, Duke and Trapper, but still respectable -- he just had an attitude that the others couldn't stand. Given the books' versions are [[Jerkass Hero]]es that the show toned down, another reason was needed for why Frank was objectionable. Even then, it's pretty likely that much of the accusations of incompetence are insults and [[Trash Talk]] rather than literal truth. (Though TV's Frank Burns was certainly capable of major malpractice at his worst.) |
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**** Also, Frank was almost certainly assigned the 25% easiest of the cases, and presumably he's capable of handling a basic stitching job without killing the patient. Just don't ask him to do anything complicated. |
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* Did the characters' attitudes have to be so anachronistic? I could stand them being a bit ahead of their time, but it's just so blatant, especially in the latter seasons, how everyone acts like the social movements of the 1960s have already happened. And the 1950s were twenty years before the show was made, so there's no way the cast and crew didn't live through the time period they were portraying. |
* Did the characters' attitudes have to be so anachronistic? I could stand them being a bit ahead of their time, but it's just so blatant, especially in the latter seasons, how everyone acts like the social movements of the 1960s have already happened. And the 1950s were twenty years before the show was made, so there's no way the cast and crew didn't live through the time period they were portraying. |
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