Episode Report Card Sars: D | Grade It Now! YOU GRADE IT Greene With Envy
By Sars | Season 6 | Episode 3 | Aired on 10.13.1999
Corday checks on a post-op Brassy. Brassy comes to, and Corday asks her how she's feeling; Brassy murmurs sleepily, "I'm good," and Corday tells her, "It went well. There was no evidence the cancer had spread, but we will have to wait for the pathology reports on the lymph nodes." Brassy blinks and looks relieved as Corday continues in this weird little-girl voice, "I got a plastic surgeon in to close so we could minimize scarring, and of course within the next couple of weeks we can begin reconstruction." Brassy asks when she can go home, and Corday says they had to put in drains to collect any extra fluids; Brassy says weakly, "Like I'm a sewer system." Um, okay -- time to cut Brassy's dosage of Demerol, methinks. Anyway, Corday says that Brassy can probably go home tomorrow, and she says tenderly that she's given the nurse all of her numbers, so if Brassy needs anything or has any questions, she should call, any time. Brassy thanks her. I suppose the writers intended this scene to remind us that, in spite of her administrative problems, Corday Really Cares, but I still think she's a weak-willed wimp.
Downstairs, Kerry tells Luka, without looking at him, that now that they have Dr. Lawrence on staff, "I don't believe that we're gonna be needing you anymore, okay?" Luka says, in a "whatever" tone, "Okay." Carol comes in behind the desk and asks Luka if he's on that night, and he says in a strangled voice, "No, I'm not," and he looks past Carol; she follows his gaze to see Loren walking out with Paulie. Paulie has his arm around Loren's shoulders, and he shoots Luka a triumphant look while holding the door open for her. Carol looks over at Luka. Luka hangs his head and walks off.
The paramedics bust in with a seventeen-year-old on the gurney. Dr. Dave, Mark, and Hawkeye all gather to deal with the kid's gunshot wounds. Dr. Dave handles the central line, and Mark and Hawkeye have to put in one chest tube each, but Conni only has one chest tray; Mark orders her to get another one, but Hawkeye says, "We'll share." Of course, Mark frowns, but of course, he says nothing. The doctors work on the kid. Hawkeye's core values badge flops into one of the wounds, and he snarls, "Get this damn thing out of my way!" and one of the nurses moves it for him. The kid isn't improving, and Dr. Dave reports that a lot of the blood loss is coming from Mark's "side" of the kid. Mark wants to find Benton, but Conni says he's off. Mark snaps at her to get a surgeon down there right away, and she goes to the phone while Hawkeye comes around to Mark's side of the table to help him. Hawkeye calls for the Foley. Mark asks what he's doing. Dr. Dave and Haleh look worried, but Hawkeye whips yet another technique out of his Bag Of Folksily Endearing Medical Tricks to put pressure on the bleeder from the inside instead of from the outside. Surprise, surprise -- it works. Hawkeye calls this one "an old Army trick for tamponading the subclavian." "Army trick"? Oh, fine -- heh. Dr. Dave calls it "cool," and Mark admits that it's "very cool."