The Resident

Previously on The Resident...

You told maintenance about us?

I'm gonna tell everyone!

You are my son and I know you.

And I also know that one day you will want to meet

your biological mother.

That woman is a stranger who threw me away.

- I do not want to meet her. - When you're ready,

- you go see her. - I want you to meet Cain

and get to know him. I would just like you to have this man

- as an ally. - Page me if there's

- any surprises. - You're not leaving

this man's nerve function to a third-year.

Get back there and do your job.

You cross lines that I would never cross.

We are very different people,

and neither of us are ever gonna change.

Five other dialysis patients died.

Whatever killed your sister, it killed them, too.

One click is all it takes to get

immediate access to the records of any patient on the drug.

You could be fired for accessing medical records

for patients that aren't yours.

If we can't get the answers any other way...

Okay, you got this. You got it, you got it.

- Hand. Two hand. - Huh?

- Carpal tunnel? - Oh, 'cause there's a celebrity

- called "Carpal Tunnel". - Don't hate.

Think he's giving you something. He's-he's giving you something.

Uh, me-me. Ceiling?

- Oh... - Oh, my God.

- Ten seconds! - Do something different,

- do something different! - Yeah, okay...

Give me a ceiling. Give-give me a microphone.

- Give-give me a house! - Time!

- Give me a break! - Rick Astley!

- Obviously. - I'm lost.

"Never gonna give you up".

- Wow. - I mean, come on.

I'm gonna raise.

Call your 200...

raise you five.

Out.

Can't take the heat, huh?

Call.

Two pair.

Two pair, aces and kings.

Yeah. All right. You're the man, Dr. B.

Let's play some real poker, boys.

$1,000 ante.

- Here you go. - Thank you.

Those two seem okay, after their man-breakup.

- No. Breakup's a bit harsh. - Conscious uncoupling?

They're just not working directly together anymore.

Speaking of work, I can't be in the clinic tomorrow.

Um, do you have a better offer?

I wish. No, I'm working on neuro.

We lost another nurse.

And Red Rock's policies are not helping at all.

Keep cutting days off, adding shifts,

all these overlapping surgeries...

Yeah, that'll mean more double shifts.

Or triples, if triples were a thing.

What's going on?

E-mail update from the review board.

They are still "working on" my request for hemopleatin data.

- It's taking too long. - I know.

The more time, the more patients could die.

Like Jessie.

I need 20 new celebrity names from everyone.

Let's go.

Exactly how often will we be throwing these game nights?

Once a month.

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Up to you, gentlemen.

All right. I'll-I'll go all in.

Come on. You know I'm out of cash.

What else you got?

Horace Dudley.

- Ortho, 70 years old. - Keep talking.

In and out every couple of months for persistent back pain.

X-rays, CTs, MRIs,

nerve conduction studies, steroid injections.

I've performed multiple microdiscectomies,

and still he wants more.

You're betting a patient?

Insurance?

Silver hair. Platinum insurance.

I say the pot's right.

What do you got?

Flush to the ace.

It's a good hand.

Not good enough.

Full house, queens over eights.

Sorry about that.

Horace Dudley is now my patient.

Hemopleatin is Chastain's standard of care

for chronic anemia patients.

Can't change that because of a hunch.

It's more than a hunch, but yes.

That's why we need more evidence.

How long has it been standard?

Since the last administration.

Here. This is every Chastain patient who's on hemopleatin.

They're all confidential.

Their names are listed, but you can't get access

to their charts without getting flagged.

You see that's not normal, right?

Conrad, your father's on this list.

He's had blood transfusions

for Crohn's flare-ups.

He must have chronic anemia,

so his GP put him on hemopleatin to help.

I got a patient.

And if you two get caught

digging into files you have no access to,

keep my name out of it.

You got to get him off that.

He just got back in town last night.

I'll have him come in.

I'll call some friends at Atlanta General.

Someone should be able to tell me

if they're using it, too.

If they really appreciated us,

they'd get more nurses, not cookies.

Mm. Mm.

Or at least better cookies. Ugh.

You don't know this about me,

but I make a mean oatmeal raisin.

- Hmm. - Maybe for next game night.

Yeah, that sounds good.

In fact, maybe we could host.

You know? Maybe we could, um...

move in together and then host.

Honey, I...

I'm just not into living with a boy before marriage.

I've done that more than once.

- Oh. - This artist in Paris

and a teacher in Conyers, so...

The one in Paris was way better.

So, I don't know, it's just not my thing anymore.

Okay?

- Morning, Horace, I'm Dr.... - Dr. Cain.

Yes. Dr. McGill told us

that you'd be taking over Horace's care.

He spoke very highly of you.

Your mug's on the side of the building,

- so you must be the best. - I can't deny that.

And I'm Nic,

the nurse practitioner on your case.

How are you feeling today, Horace?

Better than before my last surgery,

but worse since my last injection.

His lumbar spinal fusion, the last epidural.

Those are beautiful.

She keeps busy when we're here.

- We're here a lot. - So I looked at your scans,

and good news:

all the problems you've had for decades, I can fix them.

Permanently.

- Where is he? - Wha... Uh,

Dr. Bell? He is 15 out,

and then he's going straight to PT.

- Thank you, Grayson. - No problemo.

Do you know anything about an ortho patient

named Horace Dudley?

Yeah. Yeah! Yeah, yeah, yeah.

Cain got him with a baller hand.

Trip-queens over eights.

Dr. Cain won my patient in a poker game?

This man in need of a miracle.

Is this the patient you won in poker?

Yeah, that's correct.

Now, look at the degeneration of the discs. No wonder

- he's been in and out of here for years. - Yeah, so what's your plan?

Cervical spinal fusions?

If I wanted to go the ordinary route, yeah, sure.

But I'm not ordinary.

Artificial disc surgery.

But not just one.

I'm gonna replace all four of the affected discs.

What, a four-level disc replacement?

- Has that ever been done? - Not in the United States.

So when I'm done, Horace Dudley will have a bionic spine.

There are no U.S. studies on long-term outcomes

for multiple artificial discs.

Every study needs a first patient.

Horace Dudley will be that patient.

Well, great. I'll just need to see the overseas data

before I can sign off on the surgery.

Sure. I'll send them right now.

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Oh. Mm.

Dr. Broome.

Uh... Bonnie.

Please call me that.

I-I know you have a mom, Dr. Austin.

They call him A.J.

So, lunch?