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- OK.

- Mm.
- Got you a pack lunch.

- Oh, thank you, ma'am.

- Some treats from
the vending machine on me.

- Yeah?

- And this is the number for
that drug treatment center, OK?

- Oh. Mm, yeah.

- The same one I told you about
the last three times you OD'd.

- I know.
I'll call 'em.

- You've really, really
got to lay off the drugs, OK?

You could actually die.

- Oh, yeah, I know.

- And then, you know,

who would come bug me

and make me spend
all my quarters on them, right?

No more, I promise.

No drugs from now on.

- OK, good.

Listen, um,
if you are going to use again,

as a nurse, I have access
to some really good stuff

and I will hook you up, OK?

- Yeah.
Let's do that.

- No, man!

That was a test.
- Oh.

- See?
- Yeah.

- That's what you can't do.

Get your stuff.

Let me get your chair
and get you out of here.

You want to rehearse it again?

- I didn't know
we were going to--

- Do you want some drugs?
And you say, "No!"

- No, but I didn't
expect you to say that.

When I was a kid, I really
wanted to be a doctor.

And then when I was in college,

my nan got sick, so we spent
a lot of time in the hospital.

And that's when I realized that

the nurses really provide
the care part of health care.

So I became an RN
and I love it.

You know,
it's not always glamorous,

and our patients
don't always appreciate us.

And the pay's not great.

I mean, considering
the amount of work

and the risks that we take.

But every now and then,

a moment comes along

where you truly
change someone's life.

And that's beautiful.

Uh, Mr. Flynn,

those are supposed to,
uh, open in the back.

- I don't want you
to see my tushy.

- Welcome to
St. Denis Medical Center,

an international
medical destination.

It's what I hope to be saying

in about five
to ten years' time.

It's going to take
a lot of vision,

a lot of hard work,

and a lot more donations.

Hint.

We are a safety net hospital,

which means we provide care
to everyone,

regardless of insurance
or financial status.

But that just means
we have to work extra hard

and stay positive.

Hey, you guys.

What is it that I always say?

What's the most
infectious thing in a hospital?

- C. diff?

- No.

- Antibiotic-resistant staph?

- No.

- I think it's pneumonia.

- No, you guys,

the most infectious thing
in a hospital is

a smile.

- I've never heard you
say that before.

- I say it all the time.

- We have a new floor nurse
starting today.

It's a young guy from Montana.

- Montana?

Ooh, yeah.

Bring to me, please.

- That is exactly the type
of unprofessional reaction

I was going to warn you about.

You can't do that.

- Really excited to meet him.

- Or that.

- Stop it!
- Stop what?

- You OK?

- Yeah.

I was just dry-humping the desk

and imagining it was
the Montana nurse.

- Cool.

So apparently, I ordered
so much Postmates last month

they sent me a gift card.

- Sweet.

- Sad.
That's a sad thing.

- Yeah, I lean towards sad too.

But Burgerville milkshakes
tonight on me.

- Can I get mine with oat milk?

- Probably not.

You?
- Oh, no, I'm good.

My shift's done at 4:00.

- Please. You always
work past your shift.

- Not tonight.

My kids are doing "Mamma Mia"
at school.

- How about a backup milkshake?
You seem like a hazelnut gal.

- Nope, no need.
I am done at 4:00.

there'll be no sharing later.

- OK, can you go help
a sick person now?

No one share
milkshakes with this woman!

Put your hand up
so they can see.

Nurse Alex,
no milkshakes for her!

A couple of weeks ago,

I got a promotion,

and so I am officially
a supervising nurse.

Came with a small pay bump

and a large
responsibility bump.

So it's been a little difficult
finding that work-life balance,

but you know, it's good.

It's--it'll be good.

It'll be good.

- I've been here for
three hours already.

- Ma'am, ma'am, I--

I don't understand.

How are you letting
everybody else in...

- Um--
- And I'm just sitting there?

- Excuse me,
could you tell me where--

- I hear you!
- You know something?

I need--
I demand to see a doctor!

- I need to check
into the nurse's station.

- Pause.

It's a priority-based system
and "my leg hurts"

does not get seen
before "my spleen exploded."

- Well, my spleen hurts too.

- Ma'am, where is your spleen?

- Wh--
it's where the spleen is.

You--what--you should not--

like, right in this area.

I mean, what--

- Lower--lower than--
left slide.

- And sometimes it comes
and creeps over here.

- Nice try.
Have a seat.

Next in line?

- I'm new today
and I'm supposed--

- Next in line.

- I'm not, like, injured
or anything.

I just--
- Good.

Then you have no problem

walking to the back
of that long line of people

who are following the rules!

Next in line?

Sir.

How can I help you today?

- Late on my first day.
Not, uh, ideal.

I was born in
a really religious community

that doesn't believe in

"medicine,"
so when I told my parents

I wanted to be a nurse,
my dad was not happy, you know?

He was like, "Why can't you be
more like your cousin Wyatt,"

you know?

"He listens!"

Unfortunately,
Wyatt passed away last year.

Strep throat.

- This is the beating heart
of St. Denis,

our world-class
emergency department.

Now, it doesn't look fancy,

but it's got some of the
best doctors in the country.

I mean, in--in Oregon.

Carving out Portland
because that's a big city,

so they probably--
well, you get it.

Uh, here's Dr. Ron,
Dr. Ron Leonard,

our elder statesman.

Now, how long have
you worked here, Dr. Ron?

Probably decades.

- Centuries.

Well, why don't you tell us

about a typical day in the ER?

And don't tone it down.
They want it raw.

- Wow.
Where to begin?

Well, I just examined
a patient with a heart murmur.

- Mm.
- That took about two minutes.

Now I'm going
to spend 40 minutes

filling out
electronic health records.

That's a party.

- Uh, Dr. Ron
is an excellent physician,

but he can be a little
grumpy.

Kind of like Dr. House.

- Please.
He wishes he was House.

Dr. Bruce Schweitz.

He's our star trauma surgeon.
We are so lucky to have him.

- No, I'm lucky.

I'm lucky to have these gifts, really.

I mean, look, I do what I can.

And sure,
if saving someone's life

makes their day
just a little bit brighter,

then it's all worth it.

Do I like being a doctor?

I used to.

Till I figured out patients are
just like beat-up old cars.

You fix them up,
you get them running,

then another car conks out.

I'm just a glorified mechanic.

- Right, so you are going
to be ranking nurse,

but if anything comes up
that you can't handle,

you can call me.

- I'll be fine.

- If I don't answer,

this is the number
for the school.

And if they don't pick up,

this is the number for the bar
next to the school.

And can you also check in
on Mrs. Thune--

- Dude, I got this.

Go watch your kids
murder some ABBA songs.

Go.
- You're right.

You're right.

Hey, Stella?

You're gonna twist that line.

- She's gonna twist that line.

- Just don't look.
Look away, please.

- OK, you know what?

I'm just going to do it.
I'll just do it.

Hi. I got it.

Controlling?

No, I haven't heard that
before.

I mean, this is not
the type of job,

you know, where if you mess up,
it's like, "Oh, gosh,

we lost the big account,"
you know?

This is like, if you mess up,
it's--

we took out the wrong organ,
you know?

So you don't have
to do things my way,

but you do have to do them
the right way.

Which is, you know,

how I do them.

So.

- OK, so I figure if we set it
up against the south wall,

we'll get that beautiful
afternoon light.

But feng shui-wise,
if we put it over here,

it might be a better flow.

What do you think?

- Uh, how about in the corner
by the outlet?

Yes.

Hey, Dr. Joyce Henderson,

why does a small,
regional hospital

need a $300,000 Bravo-Genesis
3D mammography machine?

That sounds like
a lot of money.

Well, I think
women are worth it.

Also,
if you're trying to become

a destination
medical facility,

you need an area where you can
outshine your competitors,

and our area

is going to be the breast area.

Women from
as far away as Idaho

are going to come
to St. Denis because...

We have the best breast test
in the West.

Best breast test in the--
you guys.

St. Denis, the best breast test
in the West.

What do you think?

- Sure.
- Yes!

I handle most of our PR.

- I know charting sucks,
and we all hate it,

but you know,
it's really important to get--

- Excuse me.
Are you new here?

Because you look just like one
of our nurses who left at 4:00.

- Ha, ha.
Very funny.

I'm leaving now.
I'm just hitting save.

- Before I upload
the software,

are you sure you have
the bandwidth?

We usually install these
at bigger hospitals.

Well, newsflash,

we are just as good as any of
those bigger hospitals, so...

Full speed ahead.

- So you're running
over a thousand megs?

Hmm.

- Great.
OK.

- Whoa, whoa.
- Oh, no.

- I think the whole system
just went down.

Did we just lose everything?

- It's all right.
Don't panic.

I can still save this.
It's kind of what I do.

Here we go.
All right, come on.

Stay with me.

Stay with me.

I'm kidding, I'm kidding.

It's dead.
It's gone.

- We need to call the IT guy.
Can somebody--

- Go now.

- Ron, I can't go now.

- This doesn't have
to be your problem.

If you leave now, it won't be.

- Big problem.
Big, big problem.

We thrive in these moments.

Alex, you look like how I feel.

Come on, baby.
I need you.

Let's go!

- And you missed it.

- Come on!
Now! Now! Now!

- Again, I don't know why
the system went down,

but IT is on the case

and they're going
to get everything

up and running in no time,
all right?

- What are the nurses
supposed to do in the meantime?

All the patient information's
on the computers.

- You're going to have
to practice medicine

the way they did before
computers were invented, OK?

Ron, you know about that, right?

- Yeah, we used to drill holes
in patients' heads

to release evil spirits,

but hey,
that's the '80s for you.

- Uh, who's the schmuck?

- Oh, sorry.
I'm Matthew, everybody.

I'm--I'm the new--

is schmuck floor nurse?

- Oh, boy.
- I'm the new schmuck.

They didn't--they didn't have
my size scrubs, but--

- Joyce, our computers
are too old, OK?

They need to be replaced,
not just fixed.

- Look, we just don't have
the money right now

for a whole new
computer system.

- But we have money
in the budget

for your fancy
3D mammography machine?

OK.

OK, I was an oncologist
for 20 years.

But now that
I'm a hospital administrator,

I'm battling different kinds
of cancers

like cynicism, pessimism,

people questioning my judgment

because they think I'm spending
money on things we don't need.

Those attitudes are
the real cancers.

♪ St. Denis Regional Medical! ♪

St. Denis Regional Medical!

No!

- All right!

Let's get out there
and heal some people!

Come on!
Let's go!

- OK, guys, listen up.

We need to rebuild our
entire record system by hand.

- And we have to go fast.

She's missing her kids'
childhoods for this.

- Not missing their childhoods.

I'm just going to be
a little bit late.

That's it.

OK, Carla, I need you to take
vitals and start a paper trail.

Janice, get written scripts
from all of the MDs.

- Uh, Alex, I--

I checked in with all
the patients like you asked.

- Great.

- And Mr. Lasky wants morphine,
oxy, and Vicodin.

He asked if we had a menu
and I said I didn't think so.

- OK.

I will check in with Mr. Lasky.
Thank you.

- All right.
Well, I'm around.

Let me know
if you need anything.

- OK.
- Nice.

- Wow.

He dumb.

- Sorry, just adjusting this.

Correct height.

- No, Ron,
I'm just saying that

in the future,
I would appreciate it

if you didn't disrespect me
in front of the entire staff.

- You want to talk disrespect?

How about all these people here
working their asses off

to fix this while
you spent, what,

200 grand on a scanner that

we don't--

was it more?

It was more.

- It's been hours, and your
computers are not my problem.

- Ma'am, ma'am, please--

- You're my problem!
You don't listen!

I hear you.
- OK.

- I'm going to give you
the number for the person

who can help you, all right?
- Thank you.

Mm-hmm.
All right.

- That's the White House.
Ask for Joe.

Tell him there's
a nursing shortage

and we need him
to fix the health care system.

Next!

Oh,.

- All right, we don't have time
to redo a whole intake.

Fever, aches.
He probably has the flu.

Give him liquids and a PCR.

- Unless--uh, forgive me, Ron,
but things

aren't always what they seem.

- Have you visited the Congo
in the last 48 to 72 hours?

- It's all right, sir.
You can ignore him.

- Congo?
No.

- That's fine.

Any African countries
that border the Congo?

- Surgeons,
I mean, the good ones,

at least,
we're not just doctors.

Good lord, no.

No, we're detectives.

We're Sherlock Holmes-es.

The body's been attacked.

Who done it?

Or, you know, what done it?

Who done it?
What done it?

What done it?
Yeah.

Babe, are you coming?

- I'm so sorry, honey.
I'm--I'm--I'm trying.

It's just--
it's a disaster here.

No, listen.

The girl playing the lead
got sick,

and Ella's the understudy,
so she's Donna.

- Oh, my God.
She's fricking Donna?

She's Donna!
Rick, she's Donna.

- Yeah.
- So are you going to make it?

- What? Yes.
Tell her that I'm coming.

I'm going to leave
in two minutes, OK?

OK.

- She's--she's Donna.

In "Mamma Mia."

- I never knew
I was allergic to avocados.

- Yeah, they're silent killers.

- OK, I got the EpiPen.

- Great. Uh, he's going
to give you the shot.

- You--you want me to--

um, not a problem, uh,

because I am a nurse.

So, uh, OK.

I've done a lot
of these before,

usually with
someone supervising,

but that's fine.

It's just a quick stab.

Oh, sorry.

Take two.
Here we go.

Just quick stab in the leg,
all right?

Three, two, one, stick!

OK, wrong side.
Got myself.

That's intense, huh?

You OK?

I feel like I need
to go to the hospital.

- So we just need your
autograph right at the bottom,

and we can process payment.

Oh, how exciting.

- Uh--

are you sure that this is the
most cutting-edge technology?

Because I'm going to be mad
if I wake up in the morning

and they've come up
with something better

that makes this obsolete,
you know?

Like iPhone.
Oh, now there's Max Pro, OK.

- This is the best there is.

- Great,
'cause I want the best.

- Right.
- The best.

For St. Denis.

Wait a minute.

Is that a scuff I see?
- What?

- All right, I am headed out,

but I want records copied and
distributed to every station

and folders on every door.

Thank you, guys.
Go, go.

I'm leaving.

- You keep saying that,
but you're still here.

- This time,
I really am leaving.

- And you're just going
to get sucked right back in.

I'm not.

- Your life, your choice.

- Oh, my choice?

I'm only here because the
computers went down, Ron.

I mean, I had to stay.

- You had to stay because
there's a big emergency

here in the emergency room?

- Wh--
what do you want from me?

I mean, you want me to bail the
second that my shift is over?

I'm sorry that I care.

- You want to know
what I think?

- No, I do not.

- I think you're a workaholic
control freak,

and you're afraid that if you
do go and nothing bad happens,

that just means you're not as
important as you think you are.

Well, I'm only here now because

you're giving me crap
about not leaving.

- Then go.
- I'm going.

- Enjoy your evening.

I don't care.

It's her life.

I just don't want her
to be one of those people

that works so hard
she winds up divorced,

alone, living in a condo
in the middle of Oregon.

Her one joy of the day
is a free milkshake.

Speaking of which,
where is my Postmates?

Mile away.

Randall's got 4 1/2 stars.
I think we're good.

Come on, Randall!

My heart's beating so fast.

You think it's possible
for somebody's heart

to beat, like, too fast?

- I mean, yeah.

- Huh?

Hey, Alex, I--I--
I stabbed myself--

- Not my problem, newbie.
I'm on my way out.

- Alex, you have to hear this.
- Nope! La, la, la!

"Mamma Mia."
You know what?

Talk to Ron.
He'll love it.

Because I feel--

- It's going to be tight,
but I'm going to make it.

I mean, I love this job,

but it is just a job, you know?

You've got to have boundaries.
I'm always saying that.

I'm always telling my nurses
that you have--

Ma'am, are you OK?

- I will be when I can find
a hospital that doesn't suck.

- OK, wh--

you know,
if you're having trouble,

you really shouldn't leave.

- Terrific.

- She's at a hospital.
- She'll be fine.

Ma'am, are you sure you're OK?

- Oh, my God.

Oh, my God.

OK.
Ma'am, I'm coming.

Yep.

- Matt, get the door.

- Yep.
- She's unresponsive.

- Her breathing's
really shallow.

- I'll start IV.
Wide open.

- Get her on the monitor
right away.

- Yep.
- We need some doctors in here.

Call Code Blue respiratory.

- Uh, yep.
Uh--

- How are we doing?

- Uh, Code Blue!

I---uh--Code Blue!

- Starting compressions.

- Code Blue in here!

- Matt, use the intercom!

Got it, got it.

Is there a button I'm supposed
to push or something?

I've never used one
of these before.

- Hurry up!

- OK, uh, I'm just going
to press this button.

Code Blue, I repeat, Code Blue!

Report to the trauma room.

I need a doctor urgently!

Phew.
Cavalry's on the way, guys.

- Ma'am, ma'am,
you really need to sign this.

- OK, yes, I know.

I'm just, you know,
considering all sides

and--

Oh, no.
What's going on?

- Where are the doctors?

- On it.
- On three. One, two--

- Oh, I already, uh--
- Code Blue.

We've got a Code Blue
in Trauma 1A.

I think you need
to press that button.

I understand how to do this.

- Then they're not
going to be able to--

- So where are we?

- She--she fell and--

- What's happened?

- Collapsed in the parking lot.
Shallow breathing.

Hypoxic. 83%.
We lost her pulse.

- Uh, she was
in the waiting room.

She said her, uh, leg hurts.

- Sounds like
DVT turned pulmonary.

Let's get some heparin in here.

- She sounds like a smoker.

Could be pneumothorax.

- It's an embolism, Bruce.

- I think it's both.

- All right,
let's get her stabilized.

We'll do a CT scan.
Prep a tube.

Give me Eminase too.

- Calling for Eminase.
- I'll get the bag.

- I want epi, 1 milligram.

- Right here, coming in.
- Where's that Eminase?

All right, go ahead
and prep 300 milligrams.

- So a blood clot in her leg
triggered a pulmonary embolism,

and that in turn
caused her lung to collapse.

- Which is pretty rare,
but it happens.

- Yeah.

I saw a couple during COVID.

We were at war.

Colleagues became brothers.

- OK, I think we're good here.

- Leaving only
in order to become an animal.

A life is saved.
- Hey, you OK?

- Yeah, I just, uh, kind
of feel like I choked in there.

What?

It's fine.
You did great in there.

Don't beat yourself up.

You stepped up.

- Oh.

Uh, yeah, thanks.

It was nothing, really,
you know?

Nurses got to--

got to nurse, right?

- Right.

Got to admit,
I was starting to feel like

maybe nursing wasn't for me,

but, uh,
then I kind of realized

we're like the Avengers,
you know?

Like--like, Bruce is Iron Man

and Alex is Captain America

and Dr. Ron is Professor X.

And then there's me,

Guy Who Knows How
To Work a Breathing Bag Man.

Also...

Might have met
the girl of my dreams!

So yeah,

I, uh,
I think I'm in the right place.

- He's definitely
getting fired.

He's so, so bad.

Come on.

Come on.

This is fine.

- Hey.

- Sir, I am not in the mood

to be assaulted
by a stranger right now.

- They told me that you're
the one that saved my Lori.

- Oh, your wife, yes.

My wife!

Thank you.

- That's got to feel good.

Hazelnut.

- The fridge was full,
so I put it in the cooler

with a kidney, but who cares?

Well, you called it.

- Come on.

I'll grab some jumper cables.

- It's a good milkshake.

- Told you.

What makes a hospital great?

Is it the quality of the staff?

The number of lives saved?

The level of
mammographal technology?

Sure.
Absolutely, it is.

But running St. Denis,
oh, it is a balancing act.

We have so much potential,
so much untapped greatness.

And it is my job to tap it.

Tap it till it's dry.

Gonna do "Dancing Queen."

Look at her hair!

Ooh, very nice!

But we have needs.

Needs that, uh,

I can't ignore even
if I wanted to.

Like a vacuum, the needs.

And they're loud.

And they suck.

They suck, and they suck.

It's my job to tap
faster than they suck,

or else--

Oh.

10% restocking fee
for the boob scanner?

Oh,.