Another maniac going crazy in a theater. This the world we live in?
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S1 E15Unfinished Business
Have you been binging on Mannix again?
You don't like it, stop sending me box sets for Christmas.
I got Parker's test results back.
And?
You need to take a look. Here.
CT negative. We need to order...
An MRI, I know. I already did it. It shows excessive demyelination.
Explains the clumsiness, degeneration of motor skills...
And the seizure. I don't want to jump to conclusions, but I'm pretty sure he has...
Krabbe disease.
Yeah. He's eight, so it's late-onset.
Gives him five to seven years before he becomes confined to a bed and completely vegetative. [sighs] Poor kid.
What do you want to do?
Well, I've got to go talk to the par...
Dr. Manning? You okay?
No. I think my water just broke.
[looks down at the floor and sees a huge puddle forming from her legs]
Oh my God. It did. I guess this is happening today.
Uh, can we get a wheelchair over here?
Look, I'm sorry, Sarah, but you have to go tell the parents.
What, me? No, I can't...
You have to.
I don't have the experience.
Go get Dr. Charles. He will help you. I have to go have this baby now.
[sits down in a wheelchair]
Thank you.
[nervously] Okay.
You look a little lost.
I'm not sure what's going on with my patient. Her labs are inconsistent with how she presents.
Whenever I get confused, I always go back to the history and the physical. It's the best place to find answers.
Mr. Mosconi's gas exchange is good. We'll rest him overnight, hopefully extubate him in the morning.
I thought maybe you'd be at home resting after that episode in the OR.
Episode?
You didn't need me to take over.
I've usually found, Dr. Rhodes, that when given responsibility, people rise to the occasion. I know the last few weeks have been... challenging, and I'd be lying if I said the months to come will be any easier. I have an impossible amount to teach you in a diminishing amount of time. You don't have to show me how smart you are, and you don't have to please me. Just learn.
[after Reese caught the brunt of a collapsing patient] Anything hurt?
Not really. Gonna be stiff tomorrow, though, aren't I?
Yeah, but pain builds character.
According to who, exactly?
Bret still needs an LP. You good?
Uh... fourth period, bottom of the ninth... put me back in, coach.
Butchered hockey, football, and baseball in one sentence. Impressive.
Got a patient, seventeen year old hockey player.
I heard. Bret "Bear" Cooper. Dad was a heavy. Hear the kid's even better.
Wouldn't have taken you for a jock.
Oh, come on. Sport's the oldest form of group therapy. We yell, we scream, testosterone spikes. Every now and then, we even get to believe in a miracle.
I've been talking to Dr. Charles, the hospital psychiatrist. Shared some things about my service, tough things.
VGDr. Vicki Glass
You don't have to explain.
I know. I thought if I didn't think about it or talk about it I'm here. [pauses] My dad was Navy.
VGDr. Vicki Glass
That why you enlisted?
It just always seemed like that was what I was gonna do.
VGDr. Vicki Glass
There's a room full of kids in there who are gonna ask you about your service. What are you gonna tell 'em?
That I'd do it again.
I haven't seen you in a while.
RUDr. Ron Unger
Oh, it'd be more often if you'd show up at poker now and again.
Maybe I'd show up more often if you didn't keep taking my money.
RUDr. Ron Unger
Yeah, I'd stop taking your money if you didn't touch your chin whenever you bluffed.
Wait. I have a tell? Really?
Maybe we should talk about that kiss.
You asked why I treat you so badly; why I say things I wouldn't say to anybody else. I'm like a little kid with a crush on a girl, so what does he do? He pulls her pigtails.
I got a patient who wants his LVAD removed. He got what he wanted. [deep breath] Now his dead.
[having had to witness a colleague's termination for medical misconduct] Huh. I guess I took out an LVAD myself today.
How do we ever know what we're doing is right?
It's tricky. The first part of Hippocratic oath is clear, right? "Do no harm." Then it goes on to say, "I'will remember that there is art to medicine as well as science." So it's tricky.
It ever get any easier?
Hope so.
You know what I am going to tell you why I think you threw yourself in front of that car. It's precisely because you think you have the perfect life and you're still miserable.
PPatient
So what I'm a ingrate?
It's called endogenous depression. And it's caused by your brain chemistry. And like so many people who suffer from depression, you ashamed to tell anybody about it because you think it's your fault.
PPatient
Ok. Ya sure. I bet.
Ok, look. Why don't you call your wife. Tell her where you are. Why you're here. She's an attorney, she'll get you out of here in 5 minutes. She knows what to do. Oh, what? You don't want to call her? Why, are you worried that maybe if she finds out that you're not the brave strong man she married she might not love you anymore? Did you know the single greatest challenge that I face is trying to convince people that depression isn't a sign of weakness.
PPatient
Ok, I'll remember that if I'm ever depressed.
Ok. You know I got to hand it to you, you are... you're one hell of a performer. I mean, a real trooper. Keeping it up for so long. Selling this idea you think of who you need to be all the time. Carrying around the weight of that performance... isn't it tiring? Aren't you exhausted? I think it be exhausting.
PPatient
I have absolutely no excuse to be sad.
You don't need a excuse, man. You're a human being.
Stop trying to calm me down. You're not good at it.
JTJoey Thomas
I'm just saying there's no reason to be nervous.
Joey, it's match day. They're gonna hand me a piece of paper telling me where I'm doing my residency.
JTJoey Thomas
I understand.
It's literally the turning point in my life, both the world's assessment of my past and a map of my future. It's my whole life.
JTJoey Thomas
That's an awfully dramatic way to put it.
That's because you're not good at calming me down.
We lost a patient this morning, Lisa Patrick. Her husband wants to harvest her eggs. Do we have a protocol for that?
We do. Ms. Patrick will have to be on life support for two weeks for hormone stimulation therapy, followed by the retrieval itself. It's an expensive and complicated procedure.
Well, he seems pretty committed. He says his wife really wanted to have a child.
Well, I imagine she meant she wanted a child she could mother and raise. This... this is a little different.
A lot different.
I'll call gynecology and get the process started.
Thank you.
PPatient
Nurse? Nurse? Hey, nurse!
Are you talking to me?
PPatient
Hello? Been here for two hours with snot pouring out my nose.
I'm sorry, but we need to see patients in order of urgency.
PPatient
And I'm dying of a sinus infection. Maybe if you got off that iPad and did a little work, things would go faster.
Maybe you just need to wait your turn. And I'm not a nurse.
Handled like a true pathologist.
I know, I'm sorry.
My match day, I threw up six times and passed out, so I'd say you're doing fine.
You did not throw up and pass out.
Wanted to, though.
Was emergency medicine your first choice?
My only choice. All I ever wanted to do.
[referring to an obnoxious patient] Even though it comes with a lifetime supply of angry snot guys?
Has its downsides. Then again, how many jobs are there where you literally get to save lives?
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