Jack Bauer has those days where he finds himself really injured. What is your favourite debilitating injury?
Jack is back this week with the Blu-ray and DVD release of one of television’s most critically-acclaimed dramas 24: Live Another Day from Twentieth Century Fox Home Entertainment, starring Emmy® winner Kiefer Sutherland.
To celebrate the occasion we’ve taken a look back at all the scrapes, scars and injuries the man himself his accumulated over more than 13 years of being a hero for a fun ‘Jack Bauer Injury Infographic’.
Turns out the cost of saving the day is quite high and after being knocked over by an explosion eight times, inhaling toxic gas twice, being punched in the face nineteen times and even being bitten on the hand by a henchman once it’s no wonder he’s racked up a $1,000,000 medical bill!
To help tot up Jack’s total damage over the years Dr. Joe Taylor at Candesic, the healthcare consultancy, has helped to put together the following fun facts:
- If treated by the NHS, Jack would have generated medical costs in excess of £280,000 pounds which would take the average UK resident, more than 140 years to rack up a comparable bill in the NHS.
- In total, Jack would have spent 573 hours (23.9 days) waiting to be seen in A&E, which is nearly 300% longer than the duration of all the action packed days we’ve seen depicted on the screen.
- If he was unlucky enough to be treated in the States, he’d be faced with a jaw-dropping 1.1 million dollar bill. You’d have to work 5,092 twenty-four hours shifts at US minimum wage to earn that amount.
- Jack would have spent 52 hours in an MRI scanner and have been exposed to 626 milli-sieverts of radiation from CTs.
- Statistically, Jack should have been dead 2.8 times over already by the end of season 8.
- If Jack survived all this physical trauma, he’d likely be left with a hefty PTSD hangover costing an astonishing $16,000 every year at Jack’s nearest Los Angeles psychotherapist!
Fans who want to experience every second of Jack Bauer’s heroism can also pick up 24: The Complete Series, which is out now and features all nine seasons, including “24: Live Another Day” and the TV movie 24: Redemption.
“24: Live Another Day” Blu-ray & DVD Special Features
- BLU-RAY EXCLUSIVE –“Destination London” – featurette on shooting in London (not available on the DVD)
- “24: Solitary” – story extension to “24: Live Another Day”
- “Worlds Collide: When Reality Becomes Fiction” – How the “24: Live Another Day” storyline is ripped from today’s headlines
- “24: LAD – Green Production” – A behind-the-scenes look at the environmentally responsible efforts made by the production during filming
- Deleted and Extended Scenes
