CSI SPOILERS - Why I have trouble watching certain shows
And CSI is usually at least fairly good about their lab science, but tonight, oh my heavens!! Just awful!!
First, Grissom doesn't know what hemolysis is ... any good CSI is going to know it when he/she sees it. There has to be a better way of explaining it to the viewers without making Grissom look like a moron.
Then ... the medical examiner (knowing that there was hemolysis in the victim's system) thinks that the presence of two other people's blood in the victim's system is an indication of "contamination." Oh ... puhleeeeze!!
So ... leaving off for the moment that you can't effectively type blood that has been hemolyzed .... (as in ... how the hell would they have figured out that there were three blood types in the victim ... all that would have survived would have been white cells ... and you can't ABO type white cells).
To top it off, the victim is a type "B" and the other two people are types "A" and "O" ... and the medical examiner says that it was the transfusion of blood from the A individual that caused the death. Again .... WTF???
Yes, a type A person has anti-B in their system, but so does a type O. Sorry .... I'm ranting, but it makes me crazy when medical or CSI type shows get the medicine either wrong or can't find a good way to get the information to the viewer without making the characters jump through a bunch of hoops that make them look dense.
Erg!!!
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