[voice-over] The toughest thing about being a doctor isn't the terrible hours. It isn't the loneliness, the isolation, or the knowledge that, one day, we all lose out to the relentless decay of the human body. No. It's something else.
“Dream Runner” · Season 15, Episode 12
In this episode: Neela Rasgotra (3), Morris (1), Brenner (1), Catherine Banfield (1)
[voice-over] The care of every patient is a twisty maze that leads to an infinite number of potential outcomes. We hope that knowledge and experience guide us, but sometimes it becomes obvious a wrong turn was made.
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[voice-over] If only it were possible to apply the wisdom of our mistakes, go back to the fork in the road, and this time, be assertive. Choose the road we think we should take, not the path of least resistance.
[after the death of a patient] We can't see the future.
Sometimes we can, actually with this handy new technology called the CT. You heard of it?
Fine. Do I wish I could do it over? Yeah, I do. There was no way to know.
Gates was begging to get the scan.
Gates is a resident.
Don't make this about hierarchy. If any of us refuse to hear another opinion, the entire system breaks down.
What system? You guys don't have a system. All I see here is chaos and disorder.
Well, maybe that's the problem. Maybe that's why after five months, you still don't get it. You still don't fit in.
Fit in? This isn't junior high.
We are a team. We work together, but you think that you're so much better than all of us, so much smarter, you'll never let yourself be part of it. If you wanna be a queen, go into private practice, go back to Indonesia, leave medicine altogether, but don't torture us here.
[to Neela] You don't have to know exactly where you're going, you just have to keep moving forward. That is the key to happiness, really.
[voice-over] For some patients, there is no road to recovery. Nothing we do as doctors will alter the outcome. At least that's what we tell ourselves.
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[voice-over] When their way doesn't work and your way doesn't work, you've got to accept defeat or find another way.
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