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The baby thing is from an interview with the firefighters wife in the Nobel Prize winning book Voices from Chernobyl. I dont remember how its depicted in the se
by flipthefrog 4y ago
The baby thing is from an interview with the firefighters wife in the Nobel Prize winning book Voices from Chernobyl. I dont remember how its depicted in the series, but in the book, it is clear that this is the woman's personal belief
- kergonath 4y agoI don’t remember the details in the series but this was jarring. It was asserted as a fact (by the lady, IIRC, so not a specialist) without any nuance whatsoever. That said, the OP is harsh. There are a couple of dodgy “facts” such as this one, but remarkably few for such a long mainstream TV programme.
- shakow 4y ago> but in the book, it is clear that this is the woman's personal belief And that would make sense in the serie. However, there, it's presented as a fact by an apparently perfectly competent physician.
- gambiting 4y agoI mean, physicians are still people and can hold stupid beliefs. Our family doctor, who is otherwise fully licenced medical professional and finished actual medical school not some quack university, would regularly recommend my mother herbs and various folk treatments, maybe in a belief that it's better to prescribe us a course of herbal tea(which will do nothing) instead of yet another course of antibiotics for what appears to be a normal cold. Obviously the show is fictional and dramatized - but I could totally see a normal doctor who knows better telling a grieving mother that this is what happened, that her baby absorbed radiation in order to save her - even though it is a complete lie, it might help her with the grieving process. I don't think they should do it, but I think it's believable enough.