How a TV show kept my nephew safe.

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So my sister took my nephew to one of his many doctor appointments last year. (My 10 year old nephew, Hudson, is one of three children my sister and her husband adopted.) Near the end of the appointment, the doctor said she was going to prescribe a new medication for Hudson, and said the name aloud. The name rang a bell, and she told the doctor Hudson couldn’t take that medication because Hudson was part Lebanese (they had all done Ancestry.com). The doctor’s jaw just about dropped. She asked my sister how on earth she knew people with Lebanese lineage could not take that drug. So how did my sister know? Growing up, my dad would watch reruns of the TV show, MASH, and in one episode the TV doctor in the script mentioned the name of a drug and the subsequent fact about certain people not being able to take the medication, safely. And sure enough, the writers paid careful attention to the script because that was absolutely true! And that is how a TV show kept my nephew from being sick. That’s nuts!