How would you feel about accepting a non-tenure-track position as clinical instructor?
So after giving seven years of my service to this hospital, I lose my tenure over a single patient.
Elizabeth, you broke the law. What did you think was gonna happen?
I don't know. That I might be appreciated for saving a life. That... that friends might have fought for me.
I did fight for you. I had to beg, borrow and steal just to keep them from giving your name to the state board.
What the hell, let them pull my license. Let them make it ugly. I'll go public. I'll tell anyone who cares to listen this hospital was willing to let a man die because a bloody bill was signed on a Tuesday rather than a Monday. We did something extraordinary here, Kerry.
You're right. We did, but that's not our purpose. We can barely service the community's basic medical needs as it is.
And that's it? Just stay open, get through each day?
EElla
Mommy, in the picture?
Listen, John, i'm going to have go, okay, bye. [to Ella] Sorry, sweetheart, what?
EElla
Is this Daddy? [hands Elizabeth a picture of Mark]
Yeah! You know that! [hands the picture back to Ella, and she looks at another photo]
EElla
Who are they? [hands a black and white picture to Elizabeth]
[smiling] That's your Nana and Grandpa.
[Elizabeth looks sadly into the distance, remembering Mark]
[at the Jumbo Mart] One large coffee and a first-year resident, please.
Yeah, are you interested?
Well, Neela's going through this delayed adolescent rebellion slash premature midlife crisis thing right now.
Look, I've called the NRMP, I have scraped the bottom of the barrel, I have seen or spoken with more freaks that Dr. Phil. I am desperate, no offense, for anyone even remotely competent and/or sane.
I don't know, I mean, I'm-I'm working now so...
Yeah, you're right. You just keep ringing up those pork rinds and making Icees.
This whole transplant situation, the new staff, my four-year-old daughter... it's all helped me see things more clearly. Mark's gone. So many of my friends are gone. There's... there's no reason to stay. Not for me. Not for Ella. I suppose I've known that for a long time now, but it's It's just hard to move on, isn't it? Would you apologize to everyone for me?
Aren't you gonna come by and see everybody before you go?
I'm not much for goodbyes. They make me cry, truth be told.
If you want me to tell anyone anything?
Tell them, uh... It's been lovely.
And, I got a real winner for you. Belly pain with combustible breath.
You talking about that creepy homeless guy? [Pointing at Charlie Metcalf]
"Creepy" I'll give you, but I don't think he's homeless.
How 'bout we wait till he sobers up? I'll be in home and in bed by then.
SSamantha
He needs to be examined, Pratt.
Do you have a problem with me?
It's him? [indicates the Trauma room where Charlie is being cared for]
Okay. Let's go. [starts to head back in]
The guy's a waste. [Luka turns back around] Dying from something he's doing to himself.
Last time I checked, alcoholism was still a disease-
So is suicide. He should catch some of that, and save us the trouble.
We get ones like this every day-
Well maybe I need a day off! [pause]
Good. Then we don't have to talk about it.
[smiles coldly] You like raggin' me, don't you?
Ever since I was an intern, you've been on my back.
You're good, Pratt. But I think you could be better.
[Sam is sorting supplies in an empty trauma room. Luka enters]
The detective is still here.
You shouldn’t have been so dismissive of me in front of him.
You didn’t need to discuss the details of Louise’s condition. She deserves some privacy.
Yeah, and she deserves a chance to help. We have an option we haven’t even talked about.
If we deflate the crike balloon Louise could whisper.
You want to take her off the vent?
Just for a few moments at a time.
She is requiring 100% oxygen
I take her off the vent every time I suction her and she’s fine. Come on, we both know it’s possible.
Technically, yes, but why risk it?
Because she wants to help.
What is that supposed to mean?
[a beat, softer] You’re sensitive about these kinds of cases.
You always want to stand up for women who’ve been assaulted.
Of course I do. Maybe because of when you were with Steve?
Physical abuse? Hitting you?
Oh, this has nothing to do with that.
Yeah. There’s a violent rapist out there. How are you going to feel in two days, two weeks, a month from now when we get another woman like Louise in here.
