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He said go ahead.
So they laid the surgery for 8:00.
:32:03
Welbeck turned up half-stoned,
orders an IVP, clears him for allergies...
:32:06
Without actually testing,
and the patient went into shock.
:32:09
And tubular necrosis.
They lopped out the bleeding kidney...
:32:12
ran him back to the room,
we waited for urine.
:32:14
Fever began spiking like hell, uremia,
vomiting. So we arranged hemodialysis.
:32:19
He's putting out good water now...
:32:21
but some nurse goofed on his last
treatment. A shunt separated, something.
:32:25
Blood pressure plunged.
They ran him up to ICU...
:32:27
gave him two units of whole blood.
Vital signs are normal, but he's comatose.
:32:31
- That was two days ago.
- In short...
:32:34
a man comes into this hospital
in perfect health...
:32:37
and in the space of one week,
we chop out one kidney...
:32:41
damage another, reduce him to coma,
and damn near kill him.
:32:44
Yes, sir.
:32:47
You know, Brubaker...
:32:50
last night I sat in my hotel room,
reviewing the shambles of my life...
:32:54
and contemplating suicide.
:32:57
I said, "No, Bock, don't do it.
You're a doctor, you're a healer.
:33:02
"You're the Chief of Medicine
at one of the great hospitals of the world.
:33:06
"You are a necessary person.
Your life is meaningful"."
:33:10
Then I walk in here, today,
and I find out that one of my doctors...
:33:14
was killed by a couple of nurses
who mistook him for a patient...
:33:17
because he screwed a technician
from the Nephrology Lab.
:33:20
- Hematology...
- Now you come to me...
:33:22
with this gothic horror story in which
the entire machinery of modern medicine...
:33:27
has apparently conspired
to destroy one lousy patient.
:33:31
How am I to sustain my feeling
of meaningfulness in the face of this?
:33:38
I'll tell you something.
:33:41
If there were an oven around here,
I'd stick my head in it.
:33:48
What was the name
of that guy from Farkis Pavilion, again?
:33:51
Lves, sir. Elroy lves.
:33:53
- Somebody ought to ream his ass.
- I'm going to ream his ass.
:33:56
I'm gonna break that Welbeck's back.
I'll defrock those two cannibals.
:33:59
They will never again practice
in this hospital. I'll tell you that.