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E.
R.
Previously on E.
R.
- You two know each other?
- Gordana is here to observe
a correction of a heart repair.
Young boy from Croatia.
Eric.
Where are you?
I have to go get him.
Why? I mean, Eric's been gone
for weeks.
What's one more day?
He's off his meds.
And if I don't
go now, he might disappear again.
- You really need to take this call.
- He's in V-tach.
It's your grandmother.
I'm sorry.
E.
R.
9x20 "FOREIGN AFFAIRS"
- Okay, cough for me.
- How much longer?
- Can you call Psych?
- I did.
A moth flew in my ear.
I'm luring it out.
- Is Dr.
Kovac here?
- What would you do?
Try Trauma 1.
V- fib.
Charge again.
Charged.
Three sixty again.
- Charged.
- Clear.
Time of death, 9:37.
- Sorry to trouble you with this.
- That's all right.
I understand.
- These are complicated issues.
- They certainly are.
I want to give you time to think
about things and go over the papers
before the will is officially read.
- I'll make sure to.
- Kel.
Oh, I didn't realize you were here, Jack.
I flew in three days ago.
I telephoned you in New York.
Did you get my message?
That's Eleanor's apartment now.
I just wanted
to express my condolences.
- Well, I'll see you both at the service.
- Appreciate the visit.
- Bye.
- Thank you.
- Is red not somber enough?
- You look fine.
She liked men to wear red ties.
That's very Republican of her.
I think that's blue now.
I didn't realize estate lawyers
made house calls.
The foundation board has called
an emergency meeting for next week.
- He just wanted me to be prepared.
- Prepared for what?
Gamma stipulated it in her will
that I be put in charge.
She appointed me president.
I see.
Well, I think that would be
a good thing.
- For me or the foundation?
- Both.
It should be you, Dad.
I guess that's not what she wanted.
Well, I think she figured I'm in Chicago.
It'd be easier for me.
She put you in charge
of the family fortune
and left me with a little
bachelor's trust fund.
I don't think it was a question
of geography.
I've also tried to stay as involved
as I could.
- Who are you kidding?
- Want me to tell you the truth?
She was disappointed in you
as a son, as a father.
She didn't think you were up to it.
You could sugarcoat it a little.
It's an opportunity for you.
Not one that I wanted.
Now I'm stuck having to run
the damn thing or walk away.
Looks like she managed
to screw us both.
Almost time.
Are we waiting on Abby?
She's meeting us at the cemetery.
That's good.
You look like a ***.
Damn it!
Anybody home?
Eric?
- What are you doing?
- I broke in.
- I'm home.
- I can see that now.
What happened to you?
I got in a fight with a guy in the
lunchroom.
He took the last Jell-O cup.
God.
What? He cut the line!
- You're a mess.
- I jumped through a window
and scooted through some bushes.
It's a voluntary program.
You can leave whenever you want.
Where's the fun in that?
You're not taking your meds.
I have, I swear.
I just lowered the dosages a bit.
- How?
- By cheeking them.
They had me on too much.
It was a real downer.
So a few hours after our talk,
you pick a fight with another patient.
- They call us clients.
- Then skip out on the whole thing.
Yeah, I think we could find a better
situation, you know? Like, in Maui.
You should've called me.
Give me that.
- Why didn't you call me?
- I don't know.
I really don't.
- Maybe I should just go.
- No.
Sit down, sit down.
I could use a drink anyway.
Is your apartment spinning?
You feel that? Le duele?
I'm working for la Migra.
She says you're a bad man and
she doesn't want you touching her son.
Get an abdominal scan
to rule out appendicitis.
And tell Evita here I can prescribe
a good ESL class.
Twenty-three-year-old minor leaguer.
Syncopal episode after wind sprints.
- She says you're a jerk.
- Got it.
Parietal hematoma on the left.
BP, 104/58.
Pulse, 120.
He got dizzy.
So I walk him to the dugout.
He must've hit his head
when he passed out.
CBC, chem panel, UA, EKG,
lateral C-spine and head CT.
No Battle's.
Has he had incidents before?
No, this guy's a stallion.
He went from instruction league
to Triple-A in a season.
- That's impressive.
Chest is clear.
- Belly's benign.
He was on his way to be called up
to the Show.
- What show?
- Ignore him.
He's foreign.
Shoot the neck film
and get him to CT.
- You good here?
- Yeah, sure.
I'll use my foot to put on the BP cuff.
- That boy has gotten worse.
- What boy?
Ante.
The Croatian kid.
- I thought it was all set up.
- It needs to happen sooner.
No, no.
We have enough trouble
taking care of our own uninsured.
He's dying, Kerry.
His mother
smuggled him onto a plane.
I need you to try again, please.
Look, even if they donate
medical supplies and facilities-
The rest would be for me
to take care of.
- Cardiothoracic team, nurses, transport-
- I'll do it.
Don't count on anything.
Jacy said she'd do it on one condition.
She needs two weeks off in June
that the surgical NM denied her.
- I can't control vacation schedules.
- Everything's a negotiation.
Nurses are supposed to be
angels of mercy.
Even mercy has a price.
Jerry, can you track this flight for me?
- "Air Flugelros"?
- Yeah.
It has a sick kid on it.
- They don't have hospitals in Germany?
- Get Dr.
Deford on the phone.
Checking out of the losers' lounge.
Try not to kill anyone.
We'll do our best.
CT's back on the ball player.
Negative.
Looks like a concussion.
Except his 12-lead EKG shows
a corrected QT interval of 0.
49.
Long QT syndrome? He's just
an athlete who's training too hard.
"Baseball been good to him.
"
Let's check a family history to be sure.
- Okay.
- You know what.
I'll do it myself.
- I thought you were going home.
- Well, you know me.
I live for this place.
She used to tell me how much it meant
to have you in her life.
She was lucky to have you
looking after her.
I was the lucky one.
This is Gamma's good friend, Vivian.
- Hello.
- Are you a relation?
I'm her son.
- I'm so pleased to meet you.
- Thanks for coming.
This way, please.
They're almost ready to start, Dr.
Carter.
- Let's wait five minutes.
- Abby not here yet?
Yeah.
I sent a car for her
but I guess she's running late.
- So, what do you do for that?
- Well, the surgeons can insert an ICD.
An implantable cardioverter-defibrillator.
That can shock your heart into rhythm.
He doesn't drink enough water.
He was just dehydrated.
If I get one of those things, an ICD,
what then?
You'll be on beta-blockers
for six months.
After which, we can gradually increase
your level of strenuous activity.
- We can't stop playing for that long.
- Lucia, please.
A guy with a heart condition
dropped out for a whole season?
What team will take
a chance on you then?
With Long QT, there's a risk
of cardiac arrest and death.
You don't understand.
I'm about to get my shot.
- Tuesday night at Wrigley Field.
- Our whole life has been waiting for this.
All right.
We can treat this
less aggressively.
But just for the moment.
Dr.
Lewis, you have a minute?
- Yeah.
- Thank you, doctor.
- I'm expecting box seats.
- You want a cards consult for the ICD?
No.
Just give IV fluids
and a stress test later.
- I thought you were recommending ICD.
- I had an ER overreaction.
- I worked through it.
- All right.
- I have paperwork for us to look over.
- What paperwork?
You know.
The end of the affair.
- Oh, right.
- Jerry
get me that surgical nurse manager
back on the phone.
Ever think about getting
a personal assistant?
Susan, drunk in 3 is waiting
on his banana bag.
And, you.
I need to talk to you.
- I'll be back in a minute.
- Okay.
What are you doing tonight?
Take it easy, cowboy.
I'm a married man.
Thanks.
O God, whose mercies
cannot be numbered
accept our prayers on behalf
of your servant, Millicent.
And grant her an entrance
into the land of light and joy
in the fellowship of your saints.
Tears have been my meat, day and night.
While they daily say to me,
"Where now is your God?"
Now, when I think about these things,
I pour out my heart by myself.
For I went with the multitude
and brought them into
the house of God.
Why are you so full of heaviness,
O my soul
and why are you so
disquieted within me?
Just as the deer longs
for the water brooks
so longs my soul after you, O Lord.
- What are you doing?
- There's a bar.
*** goes through me.
- Get in the car.
- I'm trying to make this work.
- Give me room.
- I swear, if you do not
get back in this car, I will get a gun
and I will shoot you dead!
Did you learn that in nursing school?
Which is the help of my countenance
and my God.
I went with the multitude and
brought them into the house of God.
Eric.
Hey, John.
What's up?
- Sit! Sit! God.
- Put your trust in God.
- You need to calm down.
- Sorry about your grandmother.
Why don't you come sit with us.
- It's tough to lose somebody.
- Yes, it is.
Why don't we talk?
It's quite a sendoff.
She must've been very loved.
Or very rich.
- Eric.
- Sorry.
I don't feel so good.
You brought your brother.
It's not exactly my bowl of rice, Kovac.
Besides, I got a date.
- Hot little brunette in Radiology.
- Oh, you'll be disappointed.
Hey, listen.
All you'd have to do
is be there as a support surgeon.
Some dying kid's desperate mom
snuck him aboard a plane, huh?
That's almost enough
to pluck at my heartstrings
which are notoriously unpluckable.
I'll really be disappointed?
Trust me.
Will Corday be scrubbing in?
The Illinois Marital Dissolution Act says:
"A marriage can be invalidated
for one of the following reasons.
"
- Okay.
Keep going.
- " Fraud.
" Did you ever fake anything?
- No.
You?
- No.
I'm just a screamer.
- " Unacknowledged prior marriage.
"
- Right.
Like either of us is a bigamist.
I have an uncle who's a Mormon.
Next.
- "Under the age of legal consent.
"
- Don't I wish.
Don't I wish.
"Lacked capacity to acquiesce
due to the use of drugs
alcohol or some mind-altering
controlled substance.
"
I think we have a winner.
- Which one of us was trashed?
- Split the difference.
Okay, you know, let me be
the gentleman this one last time.
Oh, I don't recall any precedent for that.
Okay.
You're gonna have to sign these
and I'll take them into family court.
All right.
Don't kick my ***.
Just initial paragraph two
and sign page three.
Done and done.
There we go,
unknotting the bonds of love.
- Yeah, something like that.
- An impetuous ***?
Maybe something in between.
- See you later?
- Yeah.
Call me when we're divorced.
Picked her up at home.
She was
at a neighbor's Botox party last night.
- Botox party?
- Your day will come.
She's having trouble swallowing.
- I'm sorry, Luka.
I can't.
- I'm getting Deford's team from Rush
to do the tet repair.
But I need a County support team.
- It's just too far afield for me.
- Come on.
I'll do anything.
- I'll mow your lawn.
I'll baby-sit Ella.
- Over my dead body.
And this guy's too,
if you don't tie off that bleeder.
Suction from above.
Three-0 Prolene on a needle driver.
Look, Luka, I appreciate
your commitment.
I really do.
But don't you think this is all
just a little bit rash?
It's the only chance this boy has.
Is Dr.
Dorset part of this team?
Is that a problem?
Yes.
Okay.
No, no.
Fine.
Fine, I'll do it.
He's calmer now.
I gave him some Depakote.
How much?
The whole bottle.
I was stuck.
I
He couldn't be left alone
and I wanted to be here.
And I thought he would just wait
in the car, and I'm really sorry, John.
I'm gonna drop him off at the hospital
and then I'll come by the house, okay?
What for?
Because he agreed to be evaluated,
maybe go into a locked ward.
No, I mean, why come by the house?
I know what happened was terrible.
Unforgivable, really.
But my brother is sick and struggling.
I'm just trying to help him survive.
I know.
So go do that.
Didn't your doctor tell you that Botox
is not FDA-approved for neck wrinkles?
They say botulism is beautiful.
- Until you need an NG feeding tube.
- A what?
It's an internal catheter which goes
from your nose to your stomach.
Now, you'll have to use that to feed
yourself four cans of solution a day.
Will I lose weight?
- GSW times three en route.
- That's not the point.
- How long till they get here?
- Now.
Forty-five-year-old in a drive-by shooting
at home.
Let's take her in Suture.
Pratt, two kids coming in.
GSW to the right hand, chest and arm.
My babies! Where are my babies?
- They're right behind us.
- Turner Mitchell, GSW to the abdomen.
- Where does it hurt?
- Where the bullet went in.
Nine-year-old girl.
Multiple abrasions
to the head and neck.
Denies LOC.
I'm okay.
Help my kids first.
- They're taken care of, Mrs.
Mitchell.
- BP's 100/74 after two liters.
-108/64.
- But he's tachy at 120.
Hold him steady.
- I can't find any GSW.
- Me either.
- My back hurts.
My neck.
- What's your name, pretty girl?
- Noelle.
- Well, Merry Christmas, Noelle.
- We're gonna fix you right up.
- One, two, three.
BP's 90 systolic.
Single small-caliber wound
in the right lateral chest.
We were watching Bugs Bunny.
The window
- Exit wound.
- Okay, hang another liter.
Betadine the right chest.
- Nothing.
- Good, Gallant.
Keep going.
Must have come around
for a second time
- Is there a husband?
- No, he's gone.
- It's just me now.
- Okay.
- Ma'am, we're gonna numb you up.
- What about my kids?
I'll go check.
Prep and anesthetize.
I'll be back for the chest tube.
Down to 64/48.
Sterile gloves and a 7 French
triple-lumen.
- Gallant needs the SonoSite.
- Take it.
Dr.
Kovac, there's a telephone call.
It's important.
Take a message.
Let's prep a 6.
0 ET tube and a 2-Mac.
Eighty of sux and 10 of etomidate.
- It's that airplane you asked me to track.
- Okay, ask them what the problem is.
Hey, what's the problem?
Okay, wire's in.
Needle back.
- Is this the unifoc kid?
- Sounds like a tet spell.
- He's saying "bad breathing" and "blau.
"
- Okay, hold out the phone.
Okay, catheter is in.
Hook up the infuser.
- Pressure's holding up at 70.
- Go ahead.
I got it.
Okay.
I'll take it outside.
- DPL kit for Pratt?
- Over there.
- What?
- Says he's doing a DPL on the girl.
- My pager's going mad.
- Start up here.
I gotta see what the hell he is up to.
NG tube and a Foley.
What's his first HemoCue?
- Twelve-point-eight.
- Talk to me, Pratt.
She's persistently hypotensive
and bradycardic
with warm dry skin
and good cap refill.
- Spinal shock.
- Or complete transection.
Hi, sweetie.
Can you squeeze my hand?
Shrug your shoulders.
I can't feel anything.
- Don't worry.
We'll take care of you.
- She has no motor or sensory below C-5.
- Where's the GSW?
- There isn't any.
Her mom pulled a bookcase down
to protect her.
It must've caused a spinal-cord injury.
Like I said, she needs a DPL.
Do a SonoSite and wait for Corday.
Start the steroids?
Yeah.
Nine hundred milligrams
of Solu-Medrol, then 5.
4 per hour.
I'd assume you would save a human
over an endangered species.
- Yes, I would.
- I mean, do you understand that-
I'm curious.
Who do you love most
in the world? Can I ask you?
You know, and it's not a trick question.
Who do you love the most?
I mean, a mother, a father,
a brother, a wife, a kid?
- Yeah.
I do-
- Oh! God! Son of a-
It is an unfortunate situation.
But if
Mercy is committed to doing surgery
- they should do it.
- That won't happen.
And our facilities provide the best,
perhaps, the only last-minute option.
I'm sorry to interrupt,
but I need an answer.
It's hard enough to keep pace
with our own problems, Dr.
Kovac.
If it were a wealthy businessman
in need of an artificial heart
we'll find a reason to do it.
Artificial heart implantation
is a cutting-edge surgery
that has benefits to medical science
as well as the patient.
I know all that.
Unifoc and tet repair, while important,
are more prosaic.
We have the ability to save
but not the will to do it!
After all the talk, we won't save this boy
for only one reason.
Because we don't want to.
It's more complicated than that, Luka.
Yeah, you're right.
There's also the money.
I didn't know Gamma had
The Collected Oscar Wilde first edition.
There was a story about him
late in his life
she loved to tell.
I can't quite remember.
He was on his deathbed,
drinking champagne.
And a friend of his asked him
what he was doing.
And he said: " Isn't it obvious?
I'm dying beyond my means.
"
She was a society lady
with the heart of Stonewall Jackson.
I didn't mean what I said before.
Oh, it is what it is, John.
We can't pretend it was anything else.
Not much of a party, huh?
Not much of a funeral.
It was certainly memorable.
More like embarrassing.
Is that why Abby's not here?
I was just having a hard time mingling.
Sharing duck canap�s and cosmos with
a bunch of people I don't really know.
You don't need to stay
if you don't want.
It's all right.
I'm sorry, Dad.
I'm really sorry.
I feel like I blew it.
Well, you didn't.
Neither did Abby.
Let it go, son.
Just let it go.
They're ready for her up in CT.
So you're on Harper.
I live on Williams,
about six blocks east.
I don't know any doctors
in our neighborhood.
- So, what do you wanna be?
- A fashion designer.
That's good.
But with a smile like that,
think about becoming a model.
- Stuff like that never happens.
- Sure it does.
I've seen it happen.
I'll come find you later, okay?
We'll bring you back
as soon as the CT's done.
I still can't move anything.
Why can't I move?
We're gonna figure that out.
- Dr.
Romano, you forget something?
- Yeah, I did.
Denzel
I need my Ancef.
Exam 2.
Pronto.
- I.
M.
or IV?
- What's it matter to you?
- Nurses give antibiotics.
- I gotta push this girl through CT.
Well, let her do that.
You come with me
now.
Come on.
I haven't got all day.
Romano's got a new ***, huh?
Get me a portable defibrillator
and a drug box.
- Is somebody going on a run?
- Something like that.
I'm not sure why you'd want an
affirmative-action imbecile fixing you.
- But if you're trying to humiliate me-
- Zip it.
You've demonstrated integrity.
It won't last long,
but for the time being
it suits my purposes.
I'd prefer to keep this between us.
- How did that happen?
- It's not important.
There's some tissue that's devitalized.
It'll need d�bridement.
I don't know much about burns, but
you'll need more than d�bridement.
Just do it.
Just do it? Some of this
is circumferential.
The vessels look charred.
I don't know if I can take care
of an injury that severe.
All right then.
- I'll get Corday.
- Get Lewis.
She's the least annoying
of the bunch down here.
Dr.
Romano, you need a surgeon
to examine that.
I am a surgeon.
Jerry, have you seen Abby?
She's off today.
I thought you were too.
Jerry, tell Malik to let me know when the
postictal postal worker in 4 wakes up.
"Postical" - I don't think
I can even say that.
- Carter, thought you went to the funeral.
- If you can call it that.
Excuse me.
Curtis Mitchell.
They say my family's here.
Yeah.
I'll take you to them.
You gonna be here a while?
- Did they tell you what happened?
- They told me.
Your mom was lucky.
A bullet went through her chest
but we were able
to re-inflate her lung.
- What about Turner?
- Shot to the abdomen.
But he's stable.
And my little sister?
No bullet wounds.
That's good.
But a bookcase fell on her
so there's some paralysis,
which we're hoping is temporary.
But we won't know more
until we get back her CT.
Hey, Mama.
How are the kids? Did you see them?
No, not yet.
Are you all right?
I was trying to protect her.
- It's not your fault.
- I pulled the bookcase down on her.
Did you see who did this?
Mama, did you see who did this?
Don't do anything, Curtis.
- You hear me?
- Let's go.
We need to get him upstairs.
Don't you do anything.
Don't you do anything!
Have them send
type-specific to the O.
R.
.
- That's my brother.
- Cefoxitin's on board.
- Turner.
- Second unit's in.
- What's going on?
- We're taking him to the O.
R.
.
He needs exploratory surgery.
He's bleeding internally.
- Can you make it stop?
- A bullet ripped into his spleen.
- We may need to remove it.
- Turner, you all right?
- We gotta get him upstairs.
- You stay strong, little man, okay?
Stay strong, man.
The standard of care
really does suck here.
Mrs.
Perez?
He's got a swing
like a young Ted Williams.
That's what everybody says, anyway.
Sounds like a natural.
I just- We can't give up on that.
You don't have to explain it to me.
Robert.
Shall we step inside?
Gallant told me what happened.
So much for his integrity.
He was concerned.
Dr.
Lewis was busy.
May I?
It may be a little worse
than I thought initially.
Normally, in order to determine
full assessment for escharotomy-
We need to determine
pain and paresthesias
which we can't do because I'm the guy
with driftwood hanging off his shoulder.
There are other ways to determine
if the procedure is called for.
No.
No escharotomy.
These are full-thickness burns.
If blood
supply to the hand is compromised-
I can feel a pulse.
I am not gonna let
the surgical B-team hack away at me.
It's possible your arm
could become ischemic.
In which case, it's already too late
to save it.
I know.
I get it.
I understand.
Caisce.
- You should see Corday.
- I don't want to.
At least get a Plastics assessment.
Will you do that, Robert?
Hi, it's Abby.
Leave a message
after the beep.
Thank you.
Hey, I thought you were gonna
be here with Eric.
- Dr.
Carter.
- I was trying to catch you.
- Dr.
Carter.
- I guess there was a change of plan.
And I'm gonna hang up now because
you're standing right in front of me.
- Hi.
- Where's Eric?
Upstairs with Meyers.
Are you okay?
I'm really sorry.
I feel like such a terrible person.
Yeah, well, it's been a bad time
all around.
I'm gonna see them dead!
I'm gonna wipe them out!
Look, I swear I will kill them!
I'm gonna do them all!
And I'll take this whole damn world
with me, man!
- I'll take them with me!
- You wanna be cool?
Or you wanna be in custody?
I'm cool, all right? I'm cool, man.
- Okay, I'll get a suture kit.
- Sit.
I'm gonna come back later.
Good.
- Picked a fight with an IV stand?
- You a doctor?
Just a hobby, really.
Nice tattoo.
What is that,
Black Pharaohs?
No, man.
Righteous Lords.
How long you been into that?
I'm not anymore.
I used to run with them a while
before I stopped, man.
Outgrew it?
My mama begged me.
I got a job bagging groceries.
Okay.
This'll sting a little.
They were after me.
- Who was?
- The Discip- The Disciples, man.
They think they own my ' hood!
Probably figured I was an easy target
ever since I left my crew.
Now Turner, Noelle and Mama,
they paying for it?
Punk-*** hoods, man.
Luka, the board's answer was no.
Oh, this is for something else.
However, I convinced them to agree
that if a boy with no other options
shows up at County General's doors
in need of an emergency unifoc
and tet repair
well, he wouldn't be turned away.
Hypothetically?
And completely off the record.
Kerry, thank you.
Welcome to Chicago.
Please remain seated.
We have medical
personnel arriving to escort a passenger.
Thank you for your cooperation,
ladies and gentlemen.
- You are Dr.
Kovac?
- Yeah.
Baseline cyanosis.
Non-rebreather at six liters.
- All right.
- Can I get a pulse ox?
Wait until we're in the helicopter.
That the x-ray the lady doc
was talking about?
Come on.
Talk to me, man.
She has no return of her reflexes.
She's having difficulty breathing.
- That could indicate paralysis.
- Will she walk?
If the swelling goes down,
we can put her on physical therapy.
Will she walk?
I don't know.
- Hey there, baby girl.
- Curtis.
- Mom's okay.
- Yeah, I know.
We didn't do anything.
Why'd they shoot at us?
I'm gonna go home and I'm gonna
get things fixed up.
You stay here and get better, okay?
Neuro ICU's ready to take her.
- When can I visit?
- It's open 24 hours.
Am I going to have to stay here?
- For a while, yeah.
- I can't go home with you tonight?
No, not tonight, baby girl.
Not tonight.
These folks are gonna take care of you.
You try to get some sleep, all right?
- Car's outside.
- You back?
Too bad it's like this though, man.
- Where you going, Curtis?
- Like I said, fix things.
- Yo, they shot up Jamal's crib too, son.
- Yeah?
- Not the way to do it.
- What do you know?
- You did a good thing.
Don't undo it.
- Disciples undid it.
They shot my family.
- Your family needs you.
- Yo, doc.
Hey, Curtis.
- Hey, Curtis.
- You just didn't do that, right?
What am I supposed to tell that girl
upstairs when you don't show up?
You tell her I'm a warrior.
You tell her that.
- Sats are falling!
- Can't get a good angle!
- PVCs.
We've gotta bag him!
- No, maybe we'll have to wait!
He's gonna go into arrest!
Let me give it a shot!
- I don't think it's possible!
- We do it all the time!
Here.
Bag for me!
Get low like you're having sex
in a Volkswagen.
- You know what I mean?
- He's going into V-tach! Don't miss!
You're a motivator.
Anyone ever tell you that?
- Bypass tech and machine ready?
- On their way.
- Where can I plug in?
- You are?
- The echocardiologist.
- Kovac promised me Cubs tickets.
Dr.
Corday.
- What a pleasant surprise.
- I didn't realize Kovac had recruited you.
- He's a persuasive man.
- They're three minutes out.
- Are they ready?
- Standing by in the O.
R.
Okay!
Let's roll!
Easy! Don't pull the tube!
He's bradying down! Looks like 65!
- Half mg of atropine!
- Let's get moving!
- No.
He might arrest.
- Eagle Scout, doc!
- Sats are off-the-chart low.
- No pulse.
Okay.
Starting CPR.
You want epi?
- Point-five escalating doses.
- Pushing down!
High-dose epi doesn't work.
Nothing works.
I just want his heart to beat.
- I got a pulse! Let's go!
- Okay! Go, go, go!
Pressure's only 60 on maximum
dopamine.
He needs suctioning.
- Where's the CT team?
- On their way in.
- You intubated?
- Yeah.
He's in pulmonary edema.
- Let's get started.
- He stable enough for general anesthesia?
- I'll scrub in.
- Let's prep the chest.
It's all right.
We have it.
Porcine pulmonary valve
with Dacron conduits.
- Let's look at his coronary anatomy.
- All set.
It's been a good gig being married
to you, all in all.
No complaints.
If you ever need a letter
of recommendation-
- My r�sum� speaks for itself.
- Is that split move you do
is that a special skill?
So
I guess we'll be
running into each other.
You know, just because we're splitting
up doesn't mean we have to end it.
That makes sense to me.
I hear divorc�es have the best sex.
- We're technically annulled, not divorced.
- Work with me.
I will.
I got a roommate.
That's okay.
I know a bench in Lincoln Park.
There'll be some outrage at the top,
but we'll handle that.
- So he's doing well?
- Yeah.
Stable on bypass.
Harvesting pericardium.
I thought if I could save him,
it would make me feel
I don't know, like
maybe I was a doctor again.
Hey, does this look like
a *** ramus fracture to you?
No.
Avulsion of the ischial tuberosity.
Abby's on her way down.
Dr.
Romano, how's it going?
- How's what going?
- Nothing.
- Back to work.
- Gallant.
- I'm putting Mrs.
Mitchell in 1.
- I'll be back from Ortho in a minute.
- What's the chest-tube output?
- Less than 50 cc's an hour.
Normal sats.
Mrs.
Mitchell, how are you feeling?
Curtis.
Is Curtis here?
He had to go out for a little while.
He said he'd come back later for a visit.
You a doctor? You dress so nice.
Yeah.
I had a funeral.
Somebody close to you?
- Yes, ma'am.
- Oh, I'm sorry.
- Must be hard.
- Turner's better.
He's out of surgery.
And Noelle is up in the Neuro ICU.
You can see her tomorrow.
Will you wake me up
when Curtis comes back?
I'll make sure that the doctor knows.
He's a good boy, my Curtis.
How did Kovac get you on board?
Well, he asked.
That was easy.
So, what do you wanna do now?
Because normally tonight, I would just be
sitting at home watching Trading Places.
But fortunately for you, it's ladies' night.
Yeah, you're right.
My daughter's waiting.
I see.
Well, have I mentioned
how much I love kids?
My car's up the street.
You want a ride?
Which way are you going?
Whichever way you point me towards.
I'm really sorry.
I just can't tonight.
Can I take a rain check?
Nice evening for a stroll.
Lizzie.
How'd it go with Plastics?
What'd Gallant do, post it
on the bulletin board?
No.
Plastics consulted me.
They knew that I'd examined
your other infection.
He wants to admit me for wound care,
daily d�bridements, pulse monitoring
in about a week, do skin grafts
on the dorsum and the volar aspect.
Well, that seems reasonable.
Does it?
I was making tea.
I put the pot on.
I got distracted.
My sling got caught on the burner
and my arm was on fire.
And I didn't realize it until
I saw the flame.
It's ridiculous.
Unfortunately, things like that
can happen during sensory recovery.
Yeah, but I'm not recovering.
I'll never get the feeling back.
Listen.
Just because you're discouraged,
don't do anything that may cause delay.
- It's gonna keep going.
- You can't afford another infection.
It's over.
Compartment syndrome,
vascular insufficiency.
Lizzie, you're not hearing me.
It's over.
It's time for me to cut my losses.
- Robert.
- We both know I'm better off without it.
- You as much as said so.
- No.
I said that amputation
was always a possibility,
but I don't think-
I'm very, very glad we had this chat.
Will you check the O.
R.
schedule
and set it up?
As soon as possible.
I just wanna be rid of the damn thing.
- Hey.
- Hey.
- Have you seen Carter?
- He was here before.
Everything okay?
Hey, I heard about the boy.
Congratulations.
Thanks.
Okay, see you tomorrow.
Actually, you won't see me
for a while.
I'm going to the Congo.
What?
The Alliance de M�decine Internationale.
I'm off tomorrow and then
I'm going for West Africa.
I didn't realize that was so soon.
Take care of yourself.
- I mean it.
- Yeah.
Hold down the fort.
- She's in the lounge.
- Who?
- You're not gonna play that?
- GSW to the chest.
- No LOC, but he's altered.
- Who's Attending?
Chen's in 3 with a hot MI.
Who's gonna take this?
Pratt needs an Attending.
- You're an Attending.
- BP, 90/66 after a liter.
Hey.
- Hey, where's Curtis?
- I don't know, man.
I don't know.
- Was anybody with him?
- A couple pronounced on the scene.
- Tachy at 130.
- I can't breathe!
- Lost the pulse.
- All right, start compressions.
Let's go.
- No pressure, no pulse.
- All right, stop CPR.
I'm in.
You bag.
Thoracotomy tray.
- Carter, I'm here.
- Betadine and 10 blade next.
- Jing-Mei's got it.
- Pratt, don't just stand there.
- Do a central line.
- He's my patient.
I got it.
- Still no pulse.
- It's okay.
You don't have to do this.
- Give me the 10 blade.
- John, let them take it.
Fifth intercostal space all the way
to the midaxillary line.
- Okay, why don't we get out of here?
- You know I came in to find you, right?
I shouldn't have come in here.
I shouldn't have come.
- Things are gonna get better.
- Can you do me a favor?
- Yeah.
- Can you leave me alone?
- What?
- I need some time.
Can you just go?
Okay.