:12:02
- These things happen.
- I'd better call the Medical Examiner.
:12:06
- I still don't understand what happened.
- It took us an hour to get it sorted out.
:12:11
A patient named Guernsey
died last night, in 806.
:12:14
That information wasn't given
to the night nurses. These things happen.
:12:19
At any rate, according to the cardex...
:12:21
the patient, Guernsey, was down
for 25 mg of Sparine at q. 6h.
:12:25
Mrs. Reardon sent Nurse Perez
to give him his 12:00 shot.
:12:28
In the meantime, Dr. Schaefer
usurped that particular bed...
:12:32
for his own purposes.
:12:34
Dr. Brubaker suggests
it was for a love tryst...
:12:36
and some weight is given that hypothesis...
:12:38
- by the fact that Dr. Schaefer was naked.
- I get the drift.
:12:41
Nurse Perez went in
and sedated Dr. Schaefer...
:12:44
thinking it was the patient Guernsey.
What I don't understand...
:12:47
May I finish, please?
:12:49
After Perez gave him his shot, she noticed
the IV was pinched off on the bed.
:12:54
She reported this to Mrs. Reardon...
:12:56
who then assigned Nurse Rivers
to restart the IV.
:12:59
Rivers was a float. She didn't even know
the staff people on the floor.
:13:03
Nobody knew what the patient looked like,
since he'd only been admitted that morning.
:13:09
- So she plugged an IV into him.
- Yes.
:13:12
- How much?
- A liter.
:13:16
Five percent glucose solution
won't kill anybody.
:13:21
Was he dehydrated?
Did he have any ancillary conditions?
:13:24
Didn't anybody bother to go check on him
during the night?
:13:27
Even under the impression
that he was merely a patient?
:13:30
Was he hyperosmolar?
Did he have a bad heart?
:13:32
He must have had some sort of thrombosis.
:13:37
I want the post done here, Mr. Hitchcock.
:13:41
You and I better have a chat
about your excessive use of float nurses.
:13:44
I've got nearly a thousand nurses
in this hospital...
:13:46
Every time one of them has her period,
she disappears for three days.
:13:50
Doctors complain they can't find
the same nurse on the same floor...
:13:54
two days in a row.
:13:55
What am I gonna tell Schaefer's parents?
:13:58
That a substitute nurse assassinated him...