The Resident

Previously, on "The Resident"...

Trevor, no one here needs to know

that we're related, that you're my biological son.

I need to talk to the state medical board.

Dr. Bell asked me to write him a recommendation for it.

He told me Robert Porter...

is angling for a seat on the board.

He has to be stopped.

He raped me when I was 13 years old.

Withdraw the complaint.

Say you lied for Dr. Bell, and you'll never hear from me again.

You're scared.

Withdraw it or I will destroy you.

I'm fully aware of your mistakes.

I'll expose all of them,

and I will take away the very thing you love the most,

your career.

You ready to tap out yet, Hawkins?

No way. You?

No, sir. I can do this all day.

Saved by the bell.

Ooh!

I've seen that smile before.

Getting in shape for a lady friend,

- perhaps? - Oh,

- is that a clinical diagnosis? - 100%.

You know, I passed by Marion

headed to your house this morning.

How's she doing?

Touché.

Oh, no.

What's wrong?

Breakfast potatoes, turkey bacon, toast, eggs?

- What's the occasion? - No occasion.

I just wanted to do something nice for my sister.

Someone died, didn't they?

Was it Uncle Ishman?

Okay, Uncle Ishman will outlive all of us.

But, um, since today is the last day

before Devon comes home from his conference,

uh, there's actually something I wanted to talk to you about.

Padma, I got to go.

- Do you have to? - It's kind of an emergency.

And we will talk later, okay?

And thank you. And I'm so sorry.

- What's up, Janice? - Hey.

- What's all the commotion about? - You haven't seen?

It's all over Twitter.

Apparently, Dr. Sutton cut unsupervised

when she was a resident.

Ended up paralyzing a patient.

Why are we concerning ourselves with a few inflammatory tweets?

If by "a few" you mean hundreds.

Are they wrong?

Did you not promote Dr. Sutton knowing full well

she had been fired for misconduct?

All doctors make mistakes.

Billie was promoted because she deserved it.

Did she deserve it over our surgeons

with more experience and seniority?

What you should be asking yourself is why these reports

are surfacing now, years later.

Dr. Voss is right.

There clearly is an ulterior motive here.

Dr. Sutton filed a complaint against a powerful doctor.

If I were to guess, this is a smear campaign

designed to turn the public against her.

Keeping Chastain under this intense public scrutiny

is not something we can risk right now.

Then what do you suggest?

You know how much this board respects you, Dr. Voss.

But I think you should be relieved of your CEO duties.

Just until we get this situation handled.

- You want to fire me? - No one's being fired.

We can mute the outrage by putting someone in your seat

that can take the heat off the hospital.

Even if we were considering this, which we are not,

who would that person be?

Dr. Bell is the obvious candidate.

I think we should take a vote.

All in favor

of putting Dr. Voss on a temporary leave of absence.

"Groove Me" by Fern Kinney playing...

AJ, did you talk to her?

I talked. Billie, not so much.

She needs to know we're here for her.

This is wrong.

Those pansy-ass keyboard crusaders

only show courage behind a computer screen.

Or not.

I don't think they're here for Billie.

I'll call EMS.

Tell them to hurry. We have no idea how long

- she's been up there. - She's not moving.

No doubt the blood has already started to pool into her legs.

If she passes out, she'll develop suspension syndrome.

That could kill her.

We need emergency services to Chastain hospital now.

Hold on! We're getting you help!

Try to keep your legs moving!

- Gather around, y'all. - Incoming trauma.

We need all available hands on deck.

- Is this everyone? - Dr. Pravesh won't be back

from his critical care conference until tomorrow.

- But where are all the nurses? - Dallas, Newark, L.A.

- Take your pick. - Ugh, these travel contracts are no joke.

Last week I was offered $130 an hour in Key West.

Housing, meal stipends.

If it weren't for Riley's school, I'd have taken it.

We are fielding offers left and right.

It's a national problem hospitals are desperate to fix.

Same kind of nurse exodus happened at Atlanta General.

Led to some pretty unsafe working conditions.

Which is why Chastain

should cough up the funds to keep us.

Instead, we get travel mugs and back-to-back surgeries.

Speaking of which, I'm needed in the OR five minutes ago.

Go. We'll make do.

- Bay 10. - Window washer took a fall.

- Caught by her harness. - Tachy to 130, BP 80/50.

Sats stable post-intubation.

One, two, three.

- Bolus a liter of LR. Let's get some norepi. - Mm-hmm.

I'll get labs and EKG.

Let's get her out of this harness.

Whoa, whoa.

That harness is acting like a tourniquet.

- Restricting blood flow. - And allowing toxins to accumulate.

- Remove the tourniquet and... - Pop goes the weasel.

- Those toxins flood right into the body. - Right.

We need to prepare for the worst.

Say whatever you want, there's a reason

Sutton was made chief of surgery.

Hey.

We heard. I'm so sorry, Kit.

This won't stand. It's a wrongful dismissal.

There's more to it than that.

This all leads back to Porter.

I'd put money he pushed the board to suspend me.

But the real question is, how are you doing, Billie?

Well, I feel awful. This is all my fault.

No, none of this is on you.

Listen, Porter came to see me last night.

He threatened to come after me

if I didn't withdraw my complaint.

But I never expected this to blow back on you.

He's trying to discredit you, take away your allies.

- We can't let that happen. - And Marshall called.

They want to install me as interim CEO.

Do it.

We need you as a shield.

Well, better you running the hospital

than some Porter ally.

Oh... Okay, I'll do it.

Oh,

please say it's not about me.

Another OR nurse just handed in their notice.

Dealing with this nursing shortage

was top of my priority list.

So this is your way of saying it's my problem now?

Unfortunately for you, but lucky for us.

Bicarb drip going up and the calcium chloride's

- ready to push. - Let's get some vasopressin in our back pocket.

- Just in case. - Already ahead of you.

FAST is negative.

BP is stable.

We've done everything we can.

It still might not be enough.

Say the word.

Here we go.

BP is tanking, 60/20.

Her heart rate is skyrocketing.

Potassium is high, which makes sense.

But her hemoglobin is 5.

She's profoundly anemic.

We need two units of blood.

Where's it all going?

Her FAST was negative, but that doesn't rule out

a pelvic fracture.

Well, if she fell with enough force to fracture her pelvis,

there's no telling what other damage might be done.

This is as stable as she's gonna get.

Let's get her to CT and figure out what we're dealing with.

Uh, Hundley, page Kit.

- Tell her to meet us there. - Okay.

The Sutton stuff is wild.

And beyond cruel. Poor Billie.

I read that she was banned from practicing medicine in the U.S.

Come on, Janice. That's not true.

How do you know?

I know, okay?

Can't you tell these are all lies?

I didn't realize you were such a fan.

I thought you didn't like her.

I don't like unwarranted character assassinations.

- Preach, Trevor. - You do realize people are trying

to destroy her reputation with no proof and you're piling on.

When hundreds of people are all saying the same thing,

you can't just discount it.

You can't blindly believe it, either.