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It really is and it was absolutely the lowest point both for Kerry in general and her ever-present hypocrisy. Watching the same woman who wouldn't even let Doug touch any patients because of his possible involvement in euthanizing another essentially get away with manslaughter/criminally negligent homicide--and be rewarded with the Chief of Staff position!--was thoroughly sickening. Let's not forget that it started with yet another major violation of policy--hiding the Alderman's syphilis results instead of reporting it to the Department of Public Health.

Something else I really hated about her--nothing was ever her fault. It's not her fault the Marfan's patient died even though she should have been there to supervise Malucci and Chen, Chen's punishment isn't her fault--"I went on record against this"--despite her explicitly telling risk management to make sure she bore the brunt of it, and even when she finally admits to what she did, she still manages to blame it on Chen and gloss over her conscious and deliberate decision to lie and manipulate things in her favor. She always wanted all of the credit but none of the blame. It doesn't work like that. Especially when you're the one in charge. You can't lament how incompetent your subordinates are without realizing that people are going to wonder why YOU failed to correct this.

I don't know why my previous post vanished, but the malpractice lawsuit my family brought after my sister's death was settled quickly for the very same reason--they failed to do a sepsis workup or admit her for prophylactic IV antibiotics despite her presenting to the ER with symptoms--vomiting, lower abdominal pain, high fever--and lab work--an elevated white blood cell count--that clearly indicated some kind of infection and sent her home with nothing more than painkillers. She returned 2 days later, with her symptoms having worsened and they finally did admit her, but it was too late by then. (Toxic Shock Syndrome, btw) Weaver's behavior in that story--pretending to have Chen's back while all the while preparing to stab her in it--was truly cowardly and despicable. And then to cap it off by lying to Chen about trying to advocate for her--"I went on record against this"--was even more so. I don't blame Chen for quitting upon realizing that someone she trusted had screwed her over like that so that she herself would incur no punishment. Overall, I thought it was a lousy thing for Sandy to do. While Kerry did need to get over herself and Sandy had the right to not want to date someone who wanted to keep their relationship secret, it wasn't Sandy's place to expose her like that.

As much as I hated her by then, I loved the moment when Kerry confronted Dave after finding out that he'd been asking everyone why she uses a cane, acting all cheerful and casual as if it's no big deal, until the moment she very pointedly declares "No, it's NOT." (any of his business) Quite remarkable considering that she probably had to deal with years of intrusive questions about it and has learned to handle it with grace.

Especially Felix, who had every right to be angry with him upon realizing how much Oliver had deceived him from the very beginning. You could tell that he wasn't just angry, he was genuinely hurt. I'm not going to lament the trials of rich people, but it can't be easy to wonder if someone really likes you or is just trying to social climb/gold dig, and in this case, have those fears confirmed. I hate movies that look like they're going to be good and then end up sucking.

My two cents on the MD/JD thing: My father went to law school later in life, as he'd always wanted to, after years of being an accountant, and repeatedly mentioned to me that two of his classmates were doctors, though I have no idea what was behind their decision to pursue a law degree. One of the doctors who interviewed me for a residency also idly mentioned to me that she was attending law school. The MD degree is part of a lot of joint degree programs with the MBA, MPH (which of course, I only learned AFTER I completed mine 🙄), PhD, etc. But they're all set up to do your first two years of Basic Sciences, then the 1-5 years for the other degree before returning for your clinical rotations. There's no way Gallant's patient could have been attending both simultaneously. MAYBE if she was taking night school classes for law, it could technically work timewise, but even then, the tremendous amount of studying required for either degree would still be impossible to handle. It's no wonder she was on the verge of a breakdown. Back to the Season 3 discussion. . . Yes, Mark was an ass for snooping through Jeanie's medical records and further compounded by acting like an ignorant jackass in yanking her away from seeing patients.

Did anyone else expect that while Oliver was doing his naked dancing throughout the house that he was going to encounter Duncan, who would. . .join him, this revealing that the two of them planned the whole thing together? Awful movie. And it's not that it's bad as far as acting/writing, etc., just that nearly everyone is an absolutely awful person who isn't worth rooting for. And the grimness just got relentless--first Felix dies, then Venetia, then James, then Elspeth (albeit years later). And all because of Oliver's actions or manipulations. And why? None of these people ever mistreated him in any way. Felix genuinely befriended him and despite how vapid they all were, the rest of them seemed to like him too.

WTF? I have zero sympathy for anyone who's bought tickets and/or invested. Ever hear the phrase "Fool me once, shame on you, fool me twice, shame on ME?"

Given that Abby was so drunk she blacked out, while Moretti was at least sober enough to get them back to his place --ergo, should have had a clearer head, frankly, that whole sequence borders on rape. I always figured that the reason they reconciled is because they'd dated/slept with everyone else in the hospital and had no further options. That said, I still genuinely believe that their second go-round was better than their first. I absolutely hated how nasty she was to and about her and the way she kept trying to interfere in their relationship. The man broke up with you, that means his personal life is no longer any of your business. I especially hate that moment when she offers the pregnant Nicole some coffee and when Nicole declines, citing that she shouldn't have caffeine, claims "Oh, right, I forgot". Um. . .Bull to the Fucking SHIT. You're a NURSE. And an OB nurse, at that. You did NOT forget that a pregnant woman shouldn't have caffeine, you did that to trick her and see if she was lying about being pregnant. As far as the Marfan's case , I thought Kerry pretending to be Chen's friend have Chen's back while all the while planning to screw her over in order to save herself was utterly reprehensible and I don't blame Chen for being so angry that she quit. Chen never denied screwing up, but I think she was still stunned at how harsh her punishment was and the realization that someone she trusted has engineered that.

I just read his autobiography earlier this year.

Mother of God. . . He was my favorite Friend too. I just read his autobiography earlier this year.

I watched "The Vicky White Story". It was pretty good, and yet incredibly sad at the same time. I don't know how/why people continually get themselves into these kind of situations. Was this convicted murderer really worth sacrificing your career/freedom/life? So unbelievably stupid.

Yep. He was an asshole, but at least he fully admitted it and you knew he wasn't to be trusted. Unlike others who would pretend to be your friend and then stab you in the back (Kerry), or just wimp out on you altogether (Mark).

That's true and I hate it too. It's especially pathetic when you consider, as you pointed out, that Peter and Elizabeth dated--did they even really?--for all of 5 minutes a year before he even met Cleo (and she herself is the product of a black man/white woman pairing, so her disapproval of them is incredibly hypocritical), and that Mark and Susan were never even together.

That was the one legitimate point Kerry made in the midst of her self-centered cowardice. Sexism aside, it annoyed me how outraged Elizabeth was that other doctors were operating on her patients. Um, work doesn't stop at ANY workplace just because the employee is out sick or on vacation, especially at a hospital. Were you seriously expecting lifesaving operations to be put off until you returned?

Abby's behavior was indeed incredibly childish, especially since she's the one who instantly started trying to antagonize him when she saw him--"What are you doing here?"--as if the man doesn't have the right to be wherever he wants. It's not like she has a restraining order against him. And therein lies the point. Yes, she had to report Mark, but she didn't have to handle it as badly as she did--going behind his back, leaving it for someone else to tell him, and trying to blame administration for forcing her hand. And as always, she was a complete hypocrite--she wouldn't report her mentor despite his visible cognitive decline, but she instantly reports Mark? Of course, any sympathy I might have had for Mark evaporated due to his own hypocrisy, as he clearly felt Kerry shouldn't have reported HIM, even after the way he blasted Kerry for ignoring the warning signs about Gabe.

WAAAH!

The Fugitive is my favorite movie, so I like the two clips where it's parodied, though I can't find them, sadly.

The dreaded Good Girls Avoid Abortion trope. No matter how unfavorable the woman's circumstances are or how unhappy she is about the pregnancy, she will always inexplicably decide to keep the baby.

Me too. I'll always love Doug and Carol, individually, and as a couple, even growing up does make me more critical of some of their actions than I was as a kid.

I would have been had it not been yet another demonstration of her hypocrisy. I was glad when Romano suspended her, just as she would have done to anyone else. Instead of being pissy about it, she should have been glad that at least he wasn't screaming his head off and publicly humiliating her the way she would have been. He was always so dangerously self-righteous with patients who weren't living up to his expectations.

Jamie Bamber confirmed that he filmed scenes for Series 2, though I don't think he'll be appearing full time. Perhaps Rachita's going to visit Martyn in prison.

It looks like Broadway might be next. . . https://www.yahoo.com/entertainment/iatse-holds-strike-authorization-vote-150711454.html

Women do it too. There was a episode of Cold Case where despite having been run off the road and almost drowning, Lily raced out of the hospital before her doctor could finish evaluating her and spent the rest of the episode clearly struggling with the effects of a concussion, although it turned out that she never even made it out of the car and the entire episode was a dream. But overall, the "who cares that I'm badly hurt, I've got a case to solve!" is infuriatingly common on cop shows. Saturday Night Live even parodied this where the guy kept working even though he'd been SHOT. By the time it was time to celebrate catching the bad guy, he'd DIED.

It's pure Fridge Horror to wonder how he found that out. There's absolutely no explanation that doesn't make him an obsessed pervert. I hated the way he'd take the most minutely nice thing she said or did as a sign that she reciprocated his feelings. The poor girl couldn't even say "Thank you" without him declaring "You love me, don't you?" Although sadly, from my own experience and the numerous other stalking stories I've heard, this is unfortunately Truth In Television, which is why Gavin de Becker advises victims to ignore their pursuers as much as possible. My stalker ex capped off a year of harassment by spending nearly 3 hours trying to browbeat me into marrying him. Let's see, we're only 19 (me) and 20 (him), have no jobs, no money, nowhere to live, are both still in college, and I broke up with you a year ago and have been telling you to LMTFA ever since. All the makings of a great marriage! Rational thought and common sense doesn't exist for these people.