Episode Report Card Heathen: B- | Grade It Now! YOU GRADE IT The Longer You Stay
By Heathen | Season 8 | Episode 2 | Aired on 10.03.2001
Paul's brother, who the closed-captioners thoughtfully name "Glenn," frets that he should be with Paul if he's having a heart attack, but he's told to give the doctors room to do their work without scrutiny. Chen charges into the OR to see whether Malucci needs assistance. He gives her a brief bullet: twenty-seven-year-old man, acute MI, possibly a cocaine user. He is ready to push TNK. Chen asks whether he sent a tox screen; Malucci says he did, but frets that Paul is "killing myocardial cells while we wait." He offhandedly hangs up Paul's chest x-rays, then clarifies that Paul's had no recent surgery, and that blood draws indicate no disorders in that department. "What about the cath lab?" Chen queries. Malucci argues that they can't wait the two hours it will take for those tests to be processed. Briefly, Chen starts to founder. "Where's Weaver?" she frets. Despite repeated pagings, Haleh can't locate her. "Do you want to wait for him to arrest?" pressures Malucci. This seems unfair. Granted, Chen is hedging like a seasoned horticulturalist, but mockery and condescension are the surest paths to misdiagnosis. Chen briefly furrows her brow and looks desperate for a miracle that might suck her out of this mortal coil. None comes, so she sighs, "Yeah, okay, do it." As Dr. Dave discusses the next treatment options, Chen grabs the just-in toxicology results. "Cocaine, right?" Malucci smarms. Wrong! He's clear of that and there's no traces of amphetamines, either. Malucci tries to justify his initial instinct by claiming that Paul's probably on drugs, but took them too recently for them to have shown up in a drug screen. Dude, let it go. He's not a coke fiend. Chen asks whether he did a lipid panel, and Malucci suggests that they add it onto the slew of other tests they'll perform. Beeping interrupts the discussion. "We've got V-tach," Haleh states. Paul has no pulse, so Chen calls for the magic paddles and an amp of epi -- epinephrine, I assume -- to jolt the heart. Dave looks up and grimly growls, "It's too early for reperfusion arrhythmia." Erik Palladino is definitely trying to milk these scenes. Haleh just looks at him, vague disapproval on her face, as Chen shocks him. There's no response, so she bumps it up to 300 while Malucci compresses again. "Clear!" Chen shouts.
Abby storms back into the bar, where she sees Luka chatting in sotto voce Croatian. "I'm taking a cab," she announces. Luka asks where she went, to which Abby frostily replies that she has been waiting outside for him to settle the tab. "I thought you were coming back in!" he protests. She storms out and steams outside until Luka joins her. "That guy's father was diagnosed with prostate cancer last month. He was asking [about] treatment," Luka explains, softly. Abby lies that it's okay for him to go back in there and play doctor, but Luka insists the conversation is over. "Luka, you forgot your credit card," Julie calls from the bar's open door. Her dulcet tones tense every muscle in Abby's face. Julie flirts that the last two drinks are on the house as a goodwill attempt to turn him into a regular. Abby's muscles move from tense to twitching. "Nice meeting you," Julie calls to Abby, who hisses, "Yeah," and bolts.
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