I'm not one to Keller bash...

[Colonel_Ez]

In fact, im one of the few that likes her as a character however...

If somebody had to play stupid over Woolsey seeing people nobody else could see... did it really have to be the CMO?

You have to assume based on "mission/case reports" from the SGC would have given her at least an inkling that something wasnt right with that whole situation...

[FallenAngelII]

I'm annoyed no one thought it odd that Richard was suddenly conversing with thin air. They should know better by now.

[fumblesmcstupid]

Yah! Don't do another scan after he starts acting weird..just give him some pills! *headshake followed by an eyeroll*

[Hong3103]

You can't blame her... only so much the writers will let her do.

[Rac80]

You can't blame her... only so much the writers will let her do.

ITA!!! who knows, maybe woolsey always talks to himself like I other people do!

[Repli!kat]

I'll say this for Keller, she's supposed to be a surgeon, and if surgeons don't find something they can fix by cutting it out, they aren't interested.
Far easier to give the patient a sleeper, and stop the whining.
I don't know how on earth she's going to put up with Rodney over the years!!!

[dasNdanger]

I talk to myself all the time, and no one has ever questioned it. Of course, most people give me a wide berth, too...

das

[Guest]

In fact, im one of the few that likes her as a character however...

If somebody had to play stupid over Woolsey seeing people nobody else could see... did it really have to be the CMO?

You have to assume based on "mission/case reports" from the SGC would have given her at least an inkling that something wasnt right with that whole situation...

Keller did not play stupid over the symptoms Woolsey presented, she did a scan which showed he was perfectly normal physically and despite how Woolsey acted, when Keller asked him about the symptoms he played along leading her to believe it was possibly stress, anxiety and fatigue. If you went to a doctor presenting the same symptoms the first thing they would do is recommend you get some rest, they might prescribe something to help... Keller did that and she also told Woolsey that if they don't help then to come back and see her (at which point she would have referred him to the resident psychologist on Atlantis).

Yah! Don't do another scan after he starts acting weird..just give him some pills! *headshake followed by an eyeroll*

Keller scanned Woolsey and found there was nothing physical wrong with him so what should she have done, claimed he had developed psychosis or something? Stress, anxiety and lack of sleep can cause a person to be confused and from Keller's point of view there was nothing to say Woolsey was definitely hallucinating, he played along with the symptoms she asked him about which would have led to her trying out some medication to help him relax and get some rest.

[Lucylee]

I'll say this for Keller, she's supposed to be a surgeon, and if surgeons don't find something they can fix by cutting it out, they aren't interested.
Far easier to give the patient a sleeper, and stop the whining.
I don't know how on earth she's going to put up with Rodney over the years!!!

Oh, I'm sure she has every intention of keeping him sedated.

[Guest]

I'll say this for Keller, she's supposed to be a surgeon, and if surgeons don't find something they can fix by cutting it out, they aren't interested.

I don't think Keller would be CMO if her only skills in medicine were as a surgeon.

Far easier to give the patient a sleeper, and stop the whining.

Or it was the right course of treatment to try out based on Woolsey's symptoms.

[Lythisrose]

I don't think Keller would be CMO if her only skills in medicine were as a surgeon.

A CMO is usually chosen more for their administrative skills as opposed to being brilliant in a variety of medical fields. Dr.Keller is shown to be a neurosurgeon, a highly specialized field that would have required years of training.
By necessity, in such an environment as Atlantis, she's probably expected to serve her rotation in the clinics and see all-comers. But I don't think it would be fair to expect her to have anything but a surgeon's perspective on things.
And I work with them, they do like to slice and dice, and have quite the derogatory things to say about the medical docs. Kind of like Rodney dismissing the "soft sciences."

[Rac80]

I'll say this for Keller, she's supposed to be a surgeon, and if surgeons don't find something they can fix by cutting it out, they aren't interested.
Far easier to give the patient a sleeper, and stop the whining.
I don't know how on earth she's going to put up with Rodney over the years!!!

she won't, she will dump him and run off with Ronon!

[nx01a]

Is it me or does she just give out sleeping pills to everyone who comes in there?

[Lahela]

Woolsey told her he was having visual and auditory hallucinations. No doctor (especially a neurosurgeon) would just hand a patient displaying those kinds of symptoms some sleeping pills.

[Linzi]

Woolsey told her he was having visual and auditory hallucinations. No doctor (especially a neurosurgeon) would just hand a patient displaying those kinds of symptoms some sleeping pills.

Of course they wouldn't. They also wouldn't hand over a whole bottle of pills and then give no instructions on when to take them or how many to take! This proves the writers really need to do their research more. I can only blame JM here. He should have taken five minutes to actually find out what a doctor would do here - how a doctor would act. Has he been to the doctor? Does his doctor hand out pills with no instructions?

If TPTB want me to take Keller seriously as a doctor, let alone as CMO, then they need to write as if she actually IS a doctor. This might well be fiction, but it's based in our timeline in our reality, thus we do need to see a little bit of realism every now and then - well, I do anyway.

I have to say, I don't think Keller is meant to be a neuro-surgeon. As is often the case, TPTB just make the CMO a 'jack of all trades'. Of course, in real life that doesn't happen, because doctors specialise in one area. But it was the same with Carson. He was a xeno-biologist/researcher, a genetics specialist, a surgeon, general medical doctor.... I'm afraid we have to take it all with a pinch of salt. It's silly really. Because as has been said here, the CMO is really a manager and has a team working beneath him/her. On SGA we rarely even see subordinate doctors.