"E.R." "E.R. 13x06 "HEART OF THE MATTER"" "Oh, my God." "Well, I'm coming." "I'll be there in a second." " Who is it?" " It's Ray." " What are you doing here?" " You wanted me to look at your TV?" " It's 6:30." " Well, you work in an hour." "I brought Krispy Kremes." " You okay?" " Yeah, I'm just a little out of sorts." " Look, uh, my cable isn't working." " Okay, I'll take a look at it." "I'm gonna go and get dressed." "The jury's been out three days." "That's too long." "It's a lot of complicated stuff." "You're gonna be fine." "And remember, we have the Croatian film festival tonight something I know I've really been looking forward to." " Maybe it'll take your mind off it." " That sounds good." "Morning." " How's the weather, Frank?" " Hurricane Up Yours is about to hit." " What do you want?" "I'm filing." " I'm just making small talk." " How's it going?" " What, am I being punked?" " You never wonder how I'm doing." " Course I do." "How's the family?" "My wife has a goiter." " My kid has a hard time holding a job" " Yeah, I gotta run." "Hey, what are you doing later?" "You wanna hook up?" " Hook up?" " Yeah, prep for the M and M." "Give you a heads-up before I kick your ass." "It's an educational exercise, not Survivor." " Somebody has her panties in a wad." " Who's talking about my panties?" " Look, I'll try and find you later." " Women are weird." "No, Neela's weird." "Indian and Brit?" "Bad combination." "Channel Five wants a photogenic, well-spoken ER professional to do a health piece." "Anybody interested?" "Let's start with "no" and work from there." "Pretty boy, you in?" " Sorry, bad hair day." " I'll do it." "You're a newbie." "Put your hand down." "What about Kovac?" "He's worn out." "Gremlin's not sleeping." " What about you?" " Nobody wants to hear from a nurse." " Guess it's all you, Morris." " No, me?" "No, I couldn't possibly." "I mean, if you guys are forcing me, I..." "Okay." "Lou Smith, head injury, altered, possible blunt abdominal trauma." "BP, 90, tachycardic." "Clipped by an SUV." "Yeah, I almost redlined it." "Abby's got the driver." "Ray, you're with me." " Got hit on his Harley." " Luka, I need to talk to you." "My wife wanted me to get a bicycle." " She's gonna kill me for this." " Luka, the jury's got a verdict." "C- spine, chest x-ray and trauma panel." "I'm a little busy right now." "Moving all extremities, but the sats are borderline." "I told the court we'd be there." " Fifteen liters O2." " What's the protocol for intubation?" " Etomidate for sedation" " Trauma 2." "and succinylcholine as a paralytic." "Kerry can cover for you." "He's got a head injury." "Wouldn't you wanna use lidocaine first?" "Yeah, it reduces the ICP response to the intubation." " Good, good." " Luka." "We have two major trauma patients coming." " This is important." "You need to be there." " Yeah, one, two, three." " What are you doing?" " My job." "You gotta talk to Luka." "Knowing Ames' lawyers, they've already called the press." "Do you know how bad County's gonna look if he doesn't show up?" "Go." "I'll make sure he gets there, I promise." " Hang a liter of saline." " Luka, I just talked to Angela." " You should go." " Why?" "So people who don't understand what we do here can pass judgment on me?" "Think about how it reflects on the department if you don't show up." " Gram of Ancef." " I think you already asked for that." "It's hanging." "Let me take over from here." " What in the hell?" " Chuny, get Maintenance down here." "He's gonna need a portable monitor for CT anyway." "Hook him up and let's roll." "Hey, Luka, I've been through this." "Five years ago, I had a patient with a runny nose who I sent home with meningitis." "I was sure the jury was gonna nail me." "They didn't." "Look, I'm telling you as your friend hiding out here is sending the wrong message." " Is that what you wanna do?" "Open the saline." "I was trying to get to Union Station to pick up my wife." "Can somebody call her?" "Why don't we just concentrate on getting you better right now, okay?" " You gonna be okay without me?" " We're fine." "Just go." "Excuse me." "I'm looking for Dr. Morris." "Mrs. Paik." "Hi." "Hi, how's it going?" "She's a premed student, wanted a tour of the hospital." " Why am I here, Archie?" " Shh." " Five hundred cc's." "Another liter, wide open." "Toss me the Betadine." "Ah." "CBC, trauma panel, type and cross for six." "I'll prime the infuser." " It says "Helen. "" " That's my wife." " Can you put that on speaker?" " Hello?" "Garrett?" " Mrs. Palsey?" " Who the hell is this?" "All right, we need to start a second line." " This is Dr. Lockhart." " Who?" "Garrett, are you still at work?" "Is that why you didn't pick me up at the train station?" " Honey, I'm in the hospital." " The what?" "Haleh, you do the Foley." " Mr. Garrett, you'll feel a stick." " Mrs. Palsey, are you driving?" "No, my daughter's driving, thanks to Mr. Undependable not being here." "All right, call for a portable C-spine, chest and pelvis." "Mrs. Palsey, your husband's been in an accident." "You need to get to County General." "He's been seriously injured." "Oh, my God." "He's what?" "I'll be there as soon as I can." "This is Dawn Archer." "She moved from New Orleans." "Used to work at Charity." " What's up, Dawn?" "I'm Ray." " Katey." " I'm Neela." "I work in Surgery." " Neela, check this out." " She's busy." " There's enough of her to go around." "Let's do a FAST scan and we'll reassess." "All right, what?" "Fifteen-year-old, everted ankle." " Mighty glad to meet you." " And?" "Well, it looks pretty angulated, don't you think?" " Well, that's terrible, but I'm not Ortho." " Oh, sorry, I got confused." "Want me to get the SonoSite?" " Gates, we're really busy over here." " I'll get it." "Might I suggest you start off with an x-ray?" " Brilliant idea." "Thank you." " You guys got it from here?" " We've gotta go." " I'll call you after the ultrasound." "Can someone wheel her to X-ray, please?" "Dawn, it's all you." "Dawn, meet Josie Weller." "Delightful to meet you." "I've been so looking forward to this day." "We're going to Radiology, not Disneyland." "Marvelous squared." "Josie goes to Mountain View." "It's a school for kids with special needs." "You know you can take the Red Line to Roosevelt and hop on the 12?" "You have to walk, but the whole thing should take half an hour unless you're a slow walker and you miss your connection." " Know why she goes to this school?" " I study French." "I'm just an aide but they all have some sort of developmental disorder." "You have wonderful pecs." "Why do you hide them under that unflattering white coat?" " Do a tox screen after the film, okay?" " No problem." "Glad you made it." "Are we going to win, Daddy?" "So" " Of course we're gonna win." "We didn't come this far for nothing." "All right?" "All right." "Okay." "I'm bagging at a rate of 16." "Somebody call for a vent." " Having trouble getting another IV." " Throw in a femoral." " What about a sternal intraosseous line?" " We don't have those." " We do." "We got them three weeks ago." "Army uses them a lot in Iraq." "Five hundred cc's out." " You guys have the ultrasound?" "Yeah, but we need it." " HemoCue's 8.5." " Okay, bleeding into the chest." "And the cool thing is, Abby's prepped the chest for me." " What have you got?" " Still 80 systolic." " I'm doing a central line here." " Don't bother." "Let me try this." "Wait a minute." "Uh, no, no" "Got it." "Run the saline." " Hook up the Thora-Seal." " I don't think that's the way" " Nice." " Very nice." "Wow, ultrasound to Neela." "I'm missing an esophageal resection to respond to your call." " I'd appreciate the bullet now." " Okay." "A 50-year-old driver versus motorcycle." "Hypotensive with pneumothorax and fluid in Morrison's." "O- neg's running through a sternal IO." "Chest tube secure and ready for the O.R." "Let's pack up and take him up." "Fine, but then I want you to get back to the ER for consults." "Yeah, well, I wanna scrub in on this one." "I'm sorry?" "That's at the discretion of the Chief Resident." "That's me, who, having considered your request, answers with a resounding no." "I want you to stay here with your ER buddies and cover ER consults." "Now, bystro, bystro." " Oh, gosh." "Poor Neela." " Is she why you haven't called me?" "What are you talking about?" "I've been busy." "It's okay." "A few "who's your daddy's? " doesn't make us a couple." "No worries." "It was good." "Just not that good." "And what in the hell is that supposed to mean?" "You have to move your hips." "You're not touring with the Grateful Dead." "I move my hips." "Then move them to Admit." "We've got two GSWs and an antifreeze ingestion coming in." "Look, I can't afford to close a Trauma room." " Have you had a problem there before?" " A shootout a few months back." "God knows what got hit in the walls." "I'm gonna need to check the panel box and open the wall." "Well, do what you have to do." " Do it quickly." " Get down." " Something going on in here?" " No." "No, Benny got jacked and passed out." "I'm just sewing him up." "And this is funny why?" "Uh, he was..." "He was talking in his sleep." " Yeah, told a real zinger too." " Oh." "These two rabbits walk into a bar and, uh..." "Okay, she's gone." "Whoa, whoa." "Watch the cuticles, all right?" "Last time, I was bleeding like a hemorrhoid." "We got a displaced fibular fracture." "Needs reduction under fluoro." " You gonna sedate her for that?" " Yeah, set up for ketamine and Versed." "You got it." "So how's it going here?" "You like everybody?" " Everyone seems really friendly." " Happy birthday." "Even the patients." "All rise." " Has the jury reached a verdict?" " Yes, we have, Your Honor." ""In the matter of Ames v. Kovac docket 06CH75255 we, the jury, find in favor of the defendant. "" "Thank you, ladies and gentlemen, for your service." "The jury may now be excused." "Two units of O-neg, three of type-specific and barely keeping his systolic above 80." " HemoCue?" " Dropped from 12 to 8.3." " We're ready for you, Dr. Dubenko." " That's my cue." "You need some help?" "Isn't there something you should be doing?" "Well, not if you require my assistance." "All right, then." "Scrub in." "Fifteen-year-old female, twisted her ankle during gym." "Displaced fibular fracture, post-reduction films look good." "Dispo?" "Home after casting with pain meds and, uh, crutches." "Sounds good." "Follow up with Ortho." "There's one more thing." "I just got off the phone with her school." " She has Asperger's syndrome." " And?" "And she's a little sexually forward for her age." " I'm guessing that that's her." " Yeah." "You see that sometimes with Asperger's." "I was thinking about giving her condom ed. and starting her on Depo-Provera." "Depo?" "That may be a little too proactive." "She's a teenager, but mentally, she's a kid." " I don't know if she can take hormones." "I don't need no wheelchair." "Hospital policy for all our patients." "Let go, Morris." "Stop touching me." "Uh, well, before you start any form of hormonal birth control check an ICON and do a pelvic." "Call me when you're ready." "I'll supervise." "Hey, Kerry." "Can you do me a favor and see my guy in 4?" "He's been here 14 hours for a pre-employment physical." "Doesn't have a primary-care doc?" "Classic misuse of the ER." "Dr. Lockhart." "Five pages in 45 minutes." "I hope someone's dying." "Stab wound to the right shoulder." "Get Rasgotra." "I'm scrubbing in on an esophageal jejunostomy." "Well, hold up." "Neela's in the O.R. with an MVC." "No, Neela's here, covering consults." "No, Neela's in the O.R." " Are you trying to irritate me?" " Well, you make it so easy." "Take a bigger bite." "Don't be shy." "My wife is going to be pissed." "You were hit by a car." "It's not your fault." "The only times I've seen her mad were the day I brought the Harley home and the day we met." " The day you met?" " Yeah." "She's a photographer." "She was in the park shooting this Chicago Magazine thing and I kept getting in the picture." " Intentionally?" " No, no." "Not at first, but when I saw it was getting to her I kept doing it." "And I told her I'd stop if she'd give me her number." " Well, I guess that worked." " Yeah." "Six months later, we were engaged, looking at houses." "That's sweet." "I'm gonna check on my hemophiliac." "Make sure you evert the edges." " Okay." " You know, we had some" "We've been through some tough times but she got us through them." " It's nice to have someone like that." " Yeah." "Lou Smith, came in as an MVC." "Hit on his motorcycle." " He should've taken the train." " Who's taking care of him?" " I wish I was." " Why the delivery?" "We could see this on the PACS." "Come on, it's an excuse to see me, right?" "Uh, wrong." "Look at this." " Oh, man." " Those are brain mets." " What's his primary cancer?" " Cancer?" "He came in as trauma." "Ventricles look good." "No midline shift, no edema." "Sounds like" "My husband's Garrett Palsey." "He was brought in." "Hi, I'm Abby Lockhart." "I worked on your husband." " What does that mean?" " Mom, it means she treated him." " Let me see if he's still in surgery." " Please, he needs me there with him." "Another round of platelets and FFP." "More lap pads." "He's oozing around the packing." "Think it's retroperitoneal?" "Yeah, probably." "Hold pressure over the portal triad." "Clamp." " This is the Pringle maneuver, right?" " Yes, but nobody" "No one calls it that anymore." "Dr. Crenshaw." "Was I unclear when I assigned you to consults?" "No?" "Do I speak too fast?" "Or is it that I accidentally lapsed into Aramaic, as I am prone to do?" " No, I" " Then explain what you're doing here instead of seeing any of the eight consults currently waiting on you in the ER." "You didn't mention you were covering the ER, Dr. Rasgotra." "I'm sorry." "I was here, he was unstable, and I thought" "You don't think." "You're years away from thinking." "If I tell you to do consults, that is not a suggestion." "That is an order." "Do you understand?" " Pulse is dropping, 61." " Give her a break." "Patient's crashing." "I needed another pair of hands." "I lost an excellent esophageal jejunostomy because I had to clean up her mess." "Plenty to go around here." "Mobilize the left triangular ligament for me, will you?" "He's still in surgery, but I can bring you upstairs." "Did they say how he's doing?" "I'm sure they'll give us an update up there." "Frank, page me if my pediatrician calls again." "Do I look like your girl Friday?" " Hey, you're not in jail." " Not this time, Frank." "I just got off the phone with Angela." "Congratulations." " Thanks for the pep talk." " That's great news, Luka." "Morris owes me 50 bucks." " He swore you were going down." " I'm not going anywhere." "I knew you would win." "I prayed on it, Dr. Kovac." "Well, it worked." "Thanks." "How are your patients?" "Our motorcycle guy, Mr. Smith, is thirsty." "Could I give him some ice chips?" "Yup, that's a good idea." "He's gonna need more than ice chips." "Look at his scan." "I called his oncologist at Huntington." "Brain mets from pancreatic cancer." " Is he in treatment?" " He failed rescue chemotherapy." "From what this scan shows, he belongs in a hospice." " What about radiation?" " For metastatic pancreatic cancer?" "Hospice can probably help him enjoy his remaining time." " Which is just about up." " Dr. Kovac." " I'll talk to his family." " I am the family." " This is his wife, Mrs. Smith." " It's spread, hasn't it?" " Uh, can we go over here?" " Has it spread?" " Yes." "Yes, I'm afraid so." " It's in his brain." "Oh, I thought we had a couple of years, maybe even more." "We were supposed to go on a bike tour in Provence." "I'm sorry, Mrs. Smith." "Well, I guess, uh, this was supposed to happen." "Wow." "I think that it's best that it comes from me." "I think that I should be the one to tell him." "We'll give you some time." "When you're ready, I could come in and answer any questions." "Mr. Gallagher, your slit-lamp exam was negative." "There is nothing in your eye." "It still hurts." "Well, maybe because you keep rubbing it." "Maybe you're missing something." "I'd like to see an eye specialist." "Your eye will be fine." "This doesn't warrant an Ophthalmology consult." "Doctor, the electrician is ready to see you." " Give him a gram of acetaminophen." " What are you "gramming" about?" "I got crap in my eye." "I wanna see the doctor." "We can fix it, but it's gonna take a week." "How much will it cost for a rush?" "It's not the money." "I gotta wait for parts." "I don't think you understand." "If we shut down the Trauma, patients get diverted to other ers and there'll be longer transport times and" " Hey." " Did someone say Chante?" "Just give me a minute." " Chante." " Morris, what the hell are you doing?" "My eyebrows." "The camera picks up everything." " Get out." " Dr. Weaver, please." "I just need" "There's a rectal prolapse in Curtain 2 with your name on it." "Now go." "Leave me a little powder." "I tend to shine." "Just go." " So Josie's ankle will be fine?" " A month in a cast and she's good to go." "I told you, dear." "He thought she was gonna need a wheelchair or something." " No, none of that." " Tony's very good for a neophyte." " May I speak with you a second, please?" " Yeah, sure." "I'd like to talk to you about your daughter." "She's, uh..." "She..." " How do I say this?" " She got naked again?" " So it wasn't just me?" " Isn't he adorable?" "Her condition makes her act like that." "It's no big deal." "This is a big deal." "Have you talked about birth control?" " Why would I do that?" " Because you're her father." " The school will handle it." " It's not their job." "Her school's different." "That's why we sent her there." "Look, Mr. Weller, I realize this is a difficult conversation." "You think birth control's the answer to-?" " Honey." " Josie's a pretty girl." "Smart, open." "If she takes her clothes off in front of the wrong guy" "Josie likes Hilary Duff and MySpace." "I'm sure she does but Josie doesn't have the same ability to say no like other kids." "Thank you, Lucien, for letting me scrub in." "I wish it ended better," " ....but I appreciate" " Listen to me." "Dr. Crenshaw is your chief, and he owns you." "He owns you." "As smart as you think you are, that guy is smarter." "You'll start respecting that today." "And if you ever play me like that again, ever run to Daddy when you don't like Mommy's rules, you will be done here, do you hear me?" "This is your only warning." "Now, Mr. Palsey's family is waiting." "Go." "Go." "This is Mr. Palsey's wife and daughter." "This is Dr. Rasgotra." "How's Garrett?" "Is he all right?" "Well, when we opened your husband's abdomen we found it full of blood." " But you can fix that?" " The accident tore the vena cava." "We tried to repair it for over an hour, ...but he was bleeding too fast." "Okay." "Okay, so, what happened to my father?" "Mrs. Palsey, he died." "Oh, God." " Oh, God." " We made every effort." "Okay." "It's all right." "I got her, I got her." "Back up." "Mrs. Palsey?" "Mrs. Palsey?" "Mrs. Palsey?" " Mrs. Palsey?" "Mrs. Palsey?" " She should be waking up by now." " Pulse ox only 91." " I'll bag her through this." " She's okay, right?" " She needs time to come around." "Systolic's down to 88." "Does your mother suffer from a heart condition?" " No." " High cholesterol?" " What are you talking about?" " Look at the monitor." " ST elevation, T wave inversion." " The leads must be reversed." "Nothing wrong with the leads." "Looks like a massive Ml." " CBC, lytes and troponins." " Ml?" "I know what that is." "My mother can't be having a heart attack." "She's 45." "No risk factors." "Charging to 360." "Clear." " No change." " All right, amp of epi." "Neela, pick up the pace." "A hundred per minute." " Is she on any medications?" " No." "What's happening?" "Your mom's heart's in a dangerous rhythm." "Shock again after five cycles." "Okay, have lido ready." "Acute LV dysfunction after a sudden tragic event." " This is broken-heart syndrome." " I read about that." "Never seen a case." "Stress cardiomyopathy from the catecholamine surge." " No cardiac risk factors." "It all fits." " You want the lidocaine?" "Yeah, all right, 7-5, MAC 2." "Someone call Cardiology." "All right, so we're gonna give you a shot." " I don't like shots." " Josie, it's gonna be fine." "Yeah, it'll pinch a little at first, but it's gonna protect you." "Did you know the Blue Line goes from O'Hare to Irving Park Road?" "Jump off and take the 80 towards the lake." "It'll drop you at Sheridan." "We're talking about something very serious now, hon." "Pay attention." "So you're gonna have to come back every three months for a shot." "I talked to your fathers." "And I'm gonna give you some education on condom use." "For when we have sex." "No, not when we have sex, when you have sex." "That doesn't mean you're old enough or ready but when the time comes, I just wanna make sure you're prepared, okay?" "Can I get a pen and paper and take notes?" "Just no props or diagrams." " What the hell is Morris doing?" " Not his job, that's for sure." "Here we see firsthand the effect of overexuberant Halloween-candy consumption." "Little Luke here has a bowel obstruction." "Too much taffy gummed up the works, right?" "We're gonna stick this tube in his stomach." " He's not moving air." " Point-3 epi sub-Q." "Continuous albuterol, intubation tray." "Call RT." "Hey, you guys are in the way." "I'm just warning parents so people don't abuse the ER system." "Overeating Halloween candy is not draining the system." " This is." " Can you explain the patient's condition?" "Asthmatic." "He got laid off." "No job, no insurance." "Hey, I got more stuff." "Instead of costing his insurance company 10 bucks taxpayers will spend tens of thousands of dollars taking care of him in the ER." "You're a proponent of a national health plan?" "If we had one, this guy would be home with his kids instead of fighting for his life." "That was gold." " What's her name?" " Dr. Judas." "Three-sixty again." "Clear." " Asystole." " V- fib." "Another 50 of lidocaine." " Let's try amiodarone." " Neela, she's in asystole." "All right, let's try one more round of epi." "No, please don't stop." "Syndrome causes a transient ventricular weakness." "It's temporary." "It's reversible." "She'll get better." " We've been flogging her for 20 minutes." " Epi's in." " Husband just died." " Please don't give up." "She's had five rounds." "She's not responding." "All right, hold compressions." " Oh, God." "Mom." " Neela, stop." "Back in sinus." "You sign them out?" " No." "Mr. Smith?" " Hey." "You got a great team here, doc." "Do you have any questions you want me to answer or...?" "No, I'm just praying my Harley still runs." "Dr. Kovac, I'd like to sign those papers you were talking about." "Yeah, sure." "Uh, right over there." "Give us a second, please." "You didn't tell your husband about the brain mets?" "No, he thinks the chemo worked." "Let's leave it at that." "I don't lie to patients." "Look, when he was first diagnosed, he shut down." "For the past six months, he's been living it up." "He's been taking tango lessons and scuba lessons." "And we are going to France in December." "He has the right to know the truth." " Why spend his last months in fear?" " Dr. Kovac?" "I mean, if he just has a little hope, at least there can be" "There's still chance for a miracle." "Ray, put them back in the room, please." "We wouldn't even be here if it wasn't for that stupid car accident." "Mrs. Smith, I'm giving you a second chance." "You're gonna tell him now or I'll tell him when I come back, okay?" " Mr. Ames." " You were celebrating." "In court today." "You were celebrating." "Mr. Ames, we were just happy that the case was over, that's all." "You were happy that you got over." "Isn't that what you really mean?" "Look, I have patients." "I was a patient." "Don't you remember?" "Mr. Ames, you shouldn't be back here." "Isn't this where the sick come to get healthy?" " Because I wanna get healthy." " Hey, do you need some help here?" " Do these people know what you did?" " It's under control." "It's okay." "I came in here with a cough, and I went out like this." "I gave you the best treatment possible." "While I was having a stroke, you ignored me." " Mr. Ames, that's" " You ignored me." " You did." " You should go." "You should" "Go where?" " Where am I gonna go?" " Security." "If you had let me go home in the first place then none of this would've happened in the" " What do you want me to do?" " I want you to" "I want you to give me my life back." " Just give me my life back." " Come on, get up." "Get up." "Give it back." "Give it back to me." "Stop." "Get off." "Get him off." "Mr. Ames?" "Mr. Ames, wait up." "I just wanted to make sure you were okay." "You wanna make sure I'm okay?" "No, I'm not okay." "I'm not okay at all." "See, when you came in the court this morning I was telling my kids about justice." "They were looking at that lady with the scales." "And I said that justice was gonna be done today." "But I don't think it was." "I know you don't feel that way, but" "Look, I just wanna hear it from you without the filters of lawyers or judges, anybody." "Did you give me the best possible care?" "At any given moment, I'm responsible for 40 acute patients." "We try our best to watch everyone." "It's hard." "We're" " We're not gods." "So you feel you paid attention to me?" "I followed your progress, examined you once a shift." "Your wife and I were in constant contact." "You talked to my wife?" "Listen, the stress of something like this can cause you" "No, no, no, you don't understand." "Don't understand." "After the stroke, I came home one day and all of her stuff was gone." "Same with the kids." "So I called her sister, I checked the machine." "Finally, I get an e-mail telling me that this was too much." "This." "Me." "Pursuing you, pursuing this." "It was too much." "She thought that, uh..." "That nothing was gonna ever come of this and that if I couldn't move on then she was gonna have to move on without me." "Eighteen years, and she leaves me in an e-mail." "I figured that I'd just win this, you know?" "I'd win this case and I would send that e-mail back and then she'd come back home." "There are people who can help you." "Groups." "But I don't want any help." "I want things back the way they were." "I wanna work." "And it wasn't some government check." " I build things." "That's what I do." " I know." "But I just don't know how to fix this." "How do I fix this?" "I'm sorry, I have to get back." " No, I got it." "I understand." " Look, if you need anything..." "Curtis." "My name is Curtis." "Of course." "Curtis." "If you need anything, give me call, okay?" "If a laparotomy is indicated to rule out a life-threatening condition the procedure doesn't become unnecessary just because the condition is ruled out." "You lost me." "Well, the ER keeps accusing us of performing unnecessary surgery but we believed the guy had a triple A." " If we waited, he'd die." " He didn't have a triple A." "Given his symptoms, we would've been right 90 percent of the time." " Then surgery would have saved his life." " Good." "Do it like that." " Okay, your turn." " I'm fine." "I know how to do this." "I'll just pull some articles." "If you're not prepared, the Attendings are gonna have you on a spit." " Let me take a look." "Give it." " No, I'll be fine." "Hey." "You're gonna see my secret winning strategy." "My spelling is awful, huh?" " Tony" " Worse than awful, my..." "My syntax and my grammar and..." " Yeah, but how do you...?" " I'm a little dyslexic." "I've learned to work around it, and most of the time, it's fine." " Hi." " Hi." " We're having girls' night out." " You in?" " I'm busy." " I'm free." " Preparing for the M and M." " Go out with the girls." " Tony, we" " We'll talk about this later." "Maybe it's a good thing that you talked to him." "Yeah, he just feels alone." "Dr. Kovac, we still need to break the news to Mr. Smith." " She didn't tell him?" " She's sticking to her guns." "Okay, uh, go ahead and sign out." "I gotta do this." "Wait a minute, though." "We have tickets to Ig" "Yes, in an hour." "Well, we can just do it some other night." " You're canceling?" " Oh, my God, you're disappointed." "No, I guess I just have to go to Ike Ryan's with everybody." "I'll come pick you up." "How's it going?" "Hey, I'm ready to get out of here, doc." "How's my CT look?" "Well, uh, the good news is, there is no skull fracture." " There's no hemorrhage." " Thank God." "I don't know if my wife told you but three years ago, I was diagnosed with pancreatic cancer." "I don't have time for some brain injury too." " I got trips to take, friends to see." " Yeah, sounds like fun." "Yeah, my wife and I, we're going to Provence for the holidays." "Might even go to Paris, eat some Grand Marnier crepes and some of the best Bordeaux we can find." "Well, I don't wanna stand in the way of your plans." "All you have to do is sign these papers and I'll start you on new medications." "You can explain them to my wife." "She handles all the medicines." "No problem." "Can we talk?" "Oh, my God, thank you." "Thank you so much." "He cannot ride the Harley." " Okay, but what about the trip?" " You better rent a car and do the driving." "He could have seizures or a stroke." "I wanna make sure I'm not setting someone up to get hurt." "Okay, I promise." " Okay." "Good luck." " Thank you." " Provence is beautiful." " Thank you." " How's your promotion going?" " I'm hanging in there." "Still got a few knuckleheads I gotta beat into shape but other than that, it's all right." " Are they showing you respect?" " You know how it is." "They do what they do." "We keep pushing through it." "To pushing through it." "To pushing through it." "You'd better get that." "No, no, no, it's probably a Jehovah's Witness." " They're very persistent." " Yeah." " Save my spot, okay?" " Mm-hm." "All right, hold on." "What you doing here?" "Now's not a good time." "It's Thursday." "You said I could move in on Thursday." "No, no, I said Friday, tomorrow, mañana." "No, you said I could move in on Thursday." " I said Fri" " Hey, what's up?" " Oh." "My bad." " Who's this?" " This is my brother Chaz." " Hey." " How you doing?" " Hey." "You, uh, moving in?" "Yeah, but he's supposed to move in Friday." "Thursday." "Oh, Greg, you cannot let him sit out there in the hallway." "Come on in." "Are you hungry?" "I'm 18." "I'm always hungry." " Betina, come on." " So, what can I get you?" "Okay, okay, okay." "I would shag..." "I don't know." "I guess I would shag Pratt." "I knew you had the fever." "And shoot Morris." "Do us all a favor." "I think you're a little too hard on Dr. Morris." "I mean, he has potential." "Apparently, Morris is in the process of bringing God into his life." "Dr. Weaver, is that you on TV?" "is not draining the system." "It is." " Turn it up, turn it up." " Turn it up, turn it up." "Oh, the camera really does show everything." " Look at you." " My hair looks like crap." "Kerry, you look good." " Is that Morris?" " Morris?" "You okay?" "Bad day." "And the nights are..." "I've been having these dreams." "About Michael?" "No, Gates." " It's stupid." "It's my frigging hormones." " It's not stupid." "It's human." "And he's cute and he's nice." "And you can't just sit and mourn forever." "Yeah, but it's only been six months." "That's longer than you were married." " You always thought I rushed into it." " Well, Michael was a great guy." "You were just young and impetuous and I don't think he'd want you to put your life on hold." "I know." "You're right." "So, what exactly are these dreams you're having?" "Oh, your average intubation." " Extubation." "Re-intubation." " Okay, I get it." " Why don't you call him?" " Oh, God, no." "No, come on." "You better do it quick." "One of these girls is gonna shag, shoot or marry him." "Well, we are studying for the M and M together." "Excuse me." "Could you set my friend up with some tequila?" "Well." " Hey." " Hey." " What are you up to?" " Answering e-mail." "What's up?" " Sarah got an A on her English paper." " That's great." "She had to write an essay on who she'd most like to have dinner with." "Guess who she picked." "Me, of course." "Gandhi?" "Madame Curie?" "Keith." " She wants to ask him why he died." " Let me see that." "Every time I think she's gotten over losing her father..." " This isn't bad." " You think?" "Yeah, she wants to know why he fought in that war and why did he have to leave before she got to know him." "These are good questions." "All right, all right, all right." "Call him, call him." " Who is it?" " It's Ray, isn't it?" "Are you mad?" "It's somebody I met at a conference." "Then hit those digits, sister." "I miss him, T." " Me too." " You do?" "Yeah." "Yeah, every day." "Tony, my computer crashed again." "In fact, yesterday I went by our old school." "I thought about all the touch football we used to play." "You mean how he used to burn you all the time?" "Yeah." "In his dreams." "Well, he did get the girl, huh?" "Yeah, he sure did." " Hello?" " Uh, is Tony there?" "I'm sorry, he's a little busy right now." "Can I take a message?" "Never mind." " It's a bung number." " You wanna try it again?" " No, I'm good." " Is it Gates?" "Wait, wait, wait." "Let's get back to the game." "Okay, Abby," " ...shag, shoot or-?" " Not me, though." "You just don't wanna talk."