By Joe R
Three young doctors have been recruited to a remote village Somewhere in the South American Jungle, where western medicine gives way to the healing powers of rubber tree sap, but western modes of Freudian drama endure. Do our doctors have highly specific personal traumas that are driving them? They sure do! Tommy's unsure if he's got what it takes to quarterback the Dillon Panthers, tchotchkes talk to Lily, and Mina's mom is Meryl Streep. Or: Tommy's a fratty plastic surgeon, Lily's a pie-eyed girl scout with a dead fiancé, and Mina is an overachiever and perfectionist who overworked herself into fatally misdiagnosing a kid back in the states. They join the medical practice run by Dr. Ben, Dr. Ben's meandering accent, Otis (and his disdain for these punk kids) and Zee, whose Latina identity really gives her a leg up on judging the gringos.
The doctors all meet, work themselves up to bluntly revealing their various back-stories, and enjoy the pleasures of an oscillating fan in bajillion-degree heat.
There are also patients! One is Michael McKean, who tore his arm up but NASTY on the wheel of a zip line and gets freed only to have all his internal organs explode on him at once. Good thing Lily and Dr. Ben are able to run out and rustle up some coconuts for the COCONUT TRANSFUSION, after which he survives and lives to scatter his wife's ashes in a bioluminescent pond. Mina deals with an old lady who seemingly has a cold but really has asthma, and after puffing on Mina's own inhaler, she's so happy to be able to breathe (for the first time) that she gives Mina A CHICKEN. And Tommy treks out to a nearby village where he struggles to get a man to accept TB vaccines for him and his family. Things are resolved!
And just as Lily is staring into Dr. Ben's eyes long enough for you to write out the words "Meredith Grey" and "Derek Shepherd" in calligraphy, that crazy redhead from Twilight shows up as Dr. Ben's girlfriend. AND it sounds like Dr. Ben has a dead/divorced wife/girlfriend in his past. In summation: these doctors bring death and heartbreak wherever they go -- RUN, LOCALS, RUN!
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