Scenes: 4
Characters: Elizabeth Webber, Maxie Jones, Matt Hunter, Epiphany Johnson, Leyla Mir
Gallery: Screencaps
Elizabeth: He’s clear on all the pre-op workup.
Matt: Okay, I need you to scrub in and find out if Nurse Johnson’s available.
Elizabeth: Yes, Doctor.
Nadine: Wait a second. The patient hasn’t agreed to surgery or to you as the surgeon.
Matt: The patient’s spleen resembles a watermelon dropped from a second-floor window onto the sidewalk. Any questions?
Nadine: This doctor can’t be trusted.
Matt: Watch it, Nurse Crowell.
Maxie: You know, you’re starting to upset Spinelli. His pain, I think, is getting worse.
Nadine: I’m going to page Dr. Drake.
Maxie: Just hold on, Spinelli. Okay, just do the surgery. Just do the surgery.
Matt: Mr. Spinelli? Get him prepped, we’re going to the O.R.
Maxie: Please, God, for once in my life, let this be the right decision.
Matt: There it is, ladies and gentlemen, the overlooked, the under-appreciated spleen. Unlike the heart, once damaged, it cannot be repaired, so Mr. Spinelli will have to live without it. Scalpel.
Nadine: Did you check the liver? There might be a hematoma on the liver capsule.
Matt: I will check all the organs in the exploratory phase. Clamp.
Nadine: Make sure you tie off that artery securely so he doesn’t have internal bleeding post-op.
Epiphany: Take care of your own work, Nurse Crowell.
Matt: Retractor. Nurse?
Nadine: Are you sure you didn’t rupture the diaphragm?
Matt: Get out of my O.R.
Epiphany: Nurse Crowell.
Nadine: You’re going to explore the bowels, right?
Epiphany: Nurse Crowell, leave this O.R. and consider yourself on report. Now!
Matt: Go.
Matt: Clamp.
Matt: The surgery was a success. Everything went very well.
Maxie: Epiphany, how did the surgery really go?
Matt: Oh, yes, by all means, get a second opinion, especially from a nurse. After all, I’m only the surgeon who saved the man’s life, but what do I know?
Epiphany: Matthew Hunter is one of the most annoying and arrogant residents I have seen in a long time, but he is still a doctor and therefore, deserves our respect. Your constant badgering in the O.R. was a major problem. So from now on, you will give him the respect he deserves, as will my entire staff. Do I make myself perfectly clear?
Nadine: Yes.
Epiphany: As for his surgery, Dr. Hunter did a fine job. Mr. Spinelli should be up and about and into his usual antics in no time.
Maxie: Good. I’m glad that you were there.
Epiphany: Just doing my job.
Maxie: Is it okay if I see him?
Epiphany: He’s resting, but be brief.
Nadine: You know, Epiphany’s pretty upset with me, but I would have felt ten kinds of awful if the surgery had gone wrong because of me.
Leyla: I’m not sure I could have forgiven you, either.
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