I can't seem to give this kidney away. We're going through potential recipients like...
Crap through a goose?
Yeah, that works.
“Viable Options” · Season 6, Episode 17
In this episode: Robert Romano (4), Kerry Weaver (2), Abby Lockhart (1), John Carter (1), Mark Greene (1), Peter Benton (1), Elizabeth Corday (1), Dave Malucci (1)
[a patient was stabbed in the cheek with Dr. Romano's pen]
Should I just, you know, maybe yank it out?
No, we gotta check for damage to the facial nerve. Not to mention the damage to my pen.
RJRandall James
I've been stabbed, and you're worried about your pen?
Oh, shut up.
I came in here looking for jevity and a dubhoff tube. By the way, we need to discuss your supply management. And I find this girl's foster parent conspiring with DCFS and apparently with you to circumvent the state authority and perform an invasive procedure on a girl who has been a gork most of her life and has no chance of recovery. Did I understand this correctly?
You're overstating it.
Am I?
Yes. She has potentially life-threatening infection. All she needs is a central line and her so-called guardian has never seen her.
Well, I've seen her.
We have an obligation to provide appropriate care. All I'm doing is exercising a safeguard that's built into the system.
You're letting your sympathy for the foster mother override your clinical judgement.
I disagree but thank you for your input.
This girl is not to get a central line.
She's my patient.
Feel free to hydrate her through her g-tube and keep her comfortable.
I already have my second opinion.
I'm the final opinion. I'm not getting in a pissing match with the State Welfare Department.
It's one bureaucrat.
And he is right, it's hopeless and exorbitantly expensive. Stop flogging her. Frankly I've come to expect a higher level of professionalism from you.
I'm supporting what I see is a parental decision. Angie is essentially the woman's daughter.
She's her pet! Look at this girl, what kind of quality of life you think she has?
Robert.
Kerry, I'm serious. No central line.
Well, it looks like a P to me. Bisoprolol.
It's a C. Why would I order a beta-blocker for constipation?
What's that say, Carter?
Well, I-I can see how the pharmacy could have read it wrong, but, they really should have called.
Sure. Blame them, you coward.
It could have been read both ways.
Hey, you, come here. I need an impartial observer.
Oh, come on, that's a fax copy. You can't even...
Quiet, Peter! Is that a C or a P?
It looks like a Q.
Someone else who can't read it.
I prescribed bisacodyl. That's what I ordered. That's what I wrote.
Then why is this patient currently undergoing an angioplasty for a life-threatening myocardial infarction?
You heard me say bisacodyl?
Yeah.
Did you even bother to read the pharmacy label before you handed it out?
There was a trauma coming in.
Oh! Oh, a trauma came in. Oh, well, that makes everything okay. When traumas come in we can just hand out whatever meds happen to be laying around.
Dr. Romano was...
Carter! What does this have to do with you? Nothing. So shut up.
Can I go?
The growing level of incompetence around here is frightening. It's a wonder we haven't been shut down.
It was an honest mistake.
No, it was tag-team negligence. Okay, you are both prohibited from writing prescriptions until further notice.
How are we supposed to treat the patients?
I'm sure Dr. Carter or one of the other colleagues will be happy to write them for you.
How long?
Until your penmanship approves and until you learn how to read.
I know how to read.
Then do it!
[Carter pretends to shiver]
Thank you, Carter. Thank you, Carter.
[Carter walks out]
So you just gave him a bottle of pills without even looking at it?
Peter, what you wrote wasn't legible.
I shouldn't be writing your scripts anyway.
I didn't ask you to.
He was your patient. You always check the label before you give the drugs. They teach you that on the first day, Cleo.
Were my instructions in any way... . unclear?
No, I-I think you made your position known.
And you decided to ignore it?
I took it under advisement.
I see. Okay, well, then, you're suspended. Sign out your patients and go home.
Robert, let's not...
Right now, Kerry. Right now.
Suspended.
Effective immediately and until further notice.
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