Lenox Hill

There they are.

Give me a squeeze, Hannah. Give me a left-hand squeeze.

Squeeze your left hand.

Squeeze your left hand, sweetie?

Hey, Hannah, open your eyes, sweetie. Open your eyes.

Can you open your eyes?

Hannah.

Can you wiggle your toes?

Can you open your eyes?

She's there. She's starting to come around.

- She'll be fine. - Hannah.

We're gonna move you over to another bed.

Just get her upstairs. I'll tell the family everything's fine.

LENOX HILL

Okay. Yes, of course. Is she fully, or no?

I don't know. She just walked into the room

- and said she might have to go back. - Yes, I hope she's fully.

Moisa went into room five or six.

Okay.

Harder, harder, harder. Harder, harder, harder, harder, harder.

Oh, shoot.

Cough.

Push! Push! Good job! Yay!

- Look down! - Look down. Open your eyes.

- Open your eyes. - Look down! Open your eyes.

- Twelve o'clock! - Oh, my God!

Beautiful. Dad, do you want to cut the cord?

- Yes. - Beautiful.

Here you go.

Good job. Good job.

Happy birthday. Congratulations.

Here, Mama, just open your gown with her.

Okay. Hi.

- Hi. - Hi.

- Do you have a name for her? - Aria.

She is so sweet.

- I don't think we have tears. - That was so fast.

Too precious.

Thank you so much.

That was... You did everything. I literally did nothing.

Hi.

When can I try...

Oh, now.

- Yeah? - Yeah, go ahead.

Lenox Hill Hospital, historically,

was a glorified community hospital. It was an old lady's hospital.

But it was also known for its outstanding cardiac services,

orthopedics, and obstetrics.

People came to be born here and die here.

It was a sleepy little Upper East Side hospital with no neurosurgery

competing with some of the greatest health institutions in the world.

So when Northwell bought Lenox Hill Hospital in 2010,

the year I was recruited,

I definitely was thinking about trying to start a department,

and getting a group of people around me that I knew over the years,

and convinced them to join the team and build something together.

DAVID LANGER, MD CHAIR, NEUROSURGERY

I underestimated what that meant.

David Langer.

The equipment was old.

No one knew how to take care of a neurosurgery patient.

They didn't know what a neurological deficit looked like.

So we had to start from zero.

I took way more risk than I ever should, and we still have a ways to go.

Yeah. Did Miss Hannah Deoul... Did Miss Deoul come up yet?

Yes, she did.

On the way up,

there were things that happened here that would have been avoidable

in a place that was fully running, and it was incentive.

Hey, Hannah.

How you feeling? You there?

Now we're saving people that never would have been saved.

It's all done, okay?

The lack of legacy, the nothingness of this place...

Move this left foot.

Is what allowed it to become everything.

Everything went great.

Luckily for me, I had the balls to take

the first dive and make some good decisions.

Okay? I got the whole thing out.

But it's not just me. It's the whole group.

Our focus and our heart and our collaborative culture is

what won the day.

That kind of special chemistry is what allowed us to be able to compete

against the biggest neurosurgery departments in the city,

and in the world.

We've created something pretty amazing,

and I'm very protective of it.

Do I have anybody else here?

- Langer's patients are okay? - They're good, yeah.

John's coming here was...

This was even crazier... Like,

He left Cornell.

Who the fuck leaves Cornell

to come to Lenox Hill to start from zero?

John's a real name.

Why would he do that?

He wanted to try something unique. He's sort of as romantic as I am, I think.

Breast cancer in 1990.

Liver mass, breast,

and then primary lung also?

Phyllis, this won't take me long. Show me the bump.

JOHN BOOCKVAR, MD VC, NEUROSURGERY

There's a bump there,

and it... it radiates.

Ah!

- Sorry. - That's okay.

- You got radiation here? - I did.

- Yes, you did? - Yes, that's why my hair fell out.

Well, your hair looks great, so that's why I was asking.

PHYLLIS, 74

- All right, so... - Yes?

We're doing

scalp exploration,

intersection of mass...

I love when it said on the form that I originally...

- That it said "hardware removal." - Yeah.

Okay, you've signed a lot of forms this morning.

Welcome... to the bureaucracy.

So can I get the screw and the plate to make...

Let's see what we find,

but you can

- call and request it. - And fight with them?

That's my initials.

Oh, good.

So we're going to go in and open her scalp.

Um, I did a brain surgery on her for metastasis to the brain,

which she's doing terrific from.

She had radiation, and has been disease-free,

for over a year.

Interestingly, about three weeks ago, she developed,

um, real pain in the scalp area,

And so in a patient who's had a history of cancer,

we worry about metastasis.

Or in a patient that's had a history of surgery, we worry about

something in the fixation system of the skull

back onto the

her natural skull.

And that may be a plate that's come loose or is irritating the scalp.

So it's my job to figure it out.

- For sure. - For sure.

- Okay. - And, either way, it comes out.

Okay?

Keep our fingers crossed that it's not cancer, and you're home.

- I get nice staples in my head? - You get staples in your head

- and good drugs when you wake up. - Great.

- Okay. I'll see you inside. - Thank you.

Nothing to worry about.

I don't even dare to imagine

what I'm going to encounter on any given day

when I arrive at work.

In neurosurgery, in research,

there's just so many anomalies.

I mean, constant surprises,

that I must always, you know, keep... Literally, an open mind.

All right.

Time to get focused.

LENOX EMERGENCY ROOM GREENWICH VILLAGE

- Stop... - Take it easy, Bobby.

- Bob? - Bobecito.

- Bobecito. - Bob.

Call the medical examiner on that body.

Oh, boy.

- Can we send it off? - Sure.

Just... she wants to go home.

Mohammed?

All right, I'm Dr. Macri.

So, what brought you to the emergency room today?

I mean, so, um, Saturday, I'd been experiencing some pain, right?

And, uh, like, around Saturday night...

MOHAMMED

I thought it was... I asked my sister-in-law to check it out.

She said it's an ingrown hair.

It started to grow bigger.

Started to worry me.

I'm going to put on some gloves, put on a mask, we'll take a look.

Uh, I have to put some lidocaine on the skin

so that you can tolerate the procedure.

- Okay. - All right. Very good.

So I'm going to put on a mask. Hopefully, depending on the look of it,

we won't have to do much.

Well, I actually took a peek in the bathroom,

- and it's not that quite big. - Okay, good.

So, what we're going to do is gonna have you lay on your belly. Okay.

Let me take a look, yes?

Oh, I see.

You're going to feel some burning.

And I'm going to inject all around the area.

So, it's going to feel tender and it's gonna be painful.

- Okay? - I'll bear the pain.

You'll bear... okay. Well, you tell me to stop.

We'll go slow, yes?

- Mm, sure. - Okay.

One, two, three.

- Okay? - Oh, mother... fucker!

See that? It's okay.

- So I'll tell you... - Stop, stop, stop.

- Okay? - You need to chill. Oh, my God,

- I'm gonna give you a break. - I'm trying not to swear.

That's okay. Just be...