Pulse

I've got you, Frankie.

I've got you, Frankie.

You're losing a lot of protein.

Your GFR has plummeted.

Without medical intervention, you won't last six weeks.

Frankie!

Can someone help?!

It's my wife!

Go to Emergency. Get help! Run!

Stay right here, okay? I'll be right back.

- You stay in the car. - Can you hear me?

Hello? Can you hear me?

- Hey, what's your mother's name? - Mum.

Can you hear me? Hey.

We'll get your mum straight in to see the doctors.

Hey, I need you to respond. Can you hear...?

You're okay. You're okay.

You're at the hospital. You're getting help.

I got you.

Come on.

She was found not breathing.

- We'll take it from here. - Bed 33.

Thank you.

Can you tell me your name? I need you to respond.

Squeeze my hand if you can respond.

Frankie, I've got Cutter.

This is your chance. Show her how good you are.

- Did Tabb get in okay? - He was on the toilet all night.

- No, I wasn't. - Yes, you were.

- No, I wasn't. - Probably were.

Anyway, I've got cardio and my heart can't take it.

Frankie, do you have five minutes, please?

Not a second, and neither do you.

But you'll be fine, Tabb.

Smash it, you guys.

No. No, I just don't...

I don't really...

I'm sorry. Who are you?

I'm your new renal resident.

Oh, you can't be. My resident's a level 8.

I'm Tanya Kalchuri.

- Hi. I'm Frankie Bell. - Welcome.

- Oh, phone. - Oh, sorry, no, I'll turn it off.

Phone. Thanks.

We have to cancel all electives.

Air con's down. Not going back on today.

What about our heart valve?

She won't survive without an operation.

It's 40 degrees!

Well, it's a particularly tricky valve replacement.

Fixable?

Well, we won't know until we get in there.

Dr Cutter...

Lou Tannis, surgical resident.

I emailed you last month.

Ah, yes, just what we need.

A vet who wants to become a surgeon.

You know, you should stick to poodles.

Surgery's a boys' club.

You made it in.

Rowan Mitri.

I understand and I'll do whatever it takes.

Okay. Well, if you're going to do whatever it takes...

my advice is to buy some knee pads and learn how to suck cock.

So, this is an infectious patient.

You'll need to mask up. And you'll all remain at the door.

No talking while the doctors are talking, okay?

- TB. - Hi there.

Zoe, huh? I am Professor Berger.

So, tell me, have you had any renal issues before, Zoe?

No.

Because, looking at these blood tests,

it looks like you're going into acute renal failure.

Now, it's probably a side-effect of whatever else is going on

and totally reversible.

Okay. Um...

Has the TB gone to the kidneys?

We'll be checking for that.

But it wouldn't account for these results.

When did you last pass urine?

Um...

- Oh, t... two days? - Yeah. Yeah, about two days.

I mean, tell him...

She keeps crashing about every two hours.

- The breath... - Oh, the breathlessness.

Um, it started after I had the flu.

- Headache? - Killer.

Any LV dysfunction?

Um...

Yes, there is.

Eli, good to see you back.

What's her oxygen saturation?

Um...

Pulse oximeter.

So how are you travelling?

Just keeping busy, boss.

You must come over to dinner soon.

- That would be great. - Good. Good.

It's 88%.

She needs a blood gas. Follow me.

Hon...

This is the doctor that helped you.

You were wonderful. Thank you.

Uh, Zoe,

we are going to need to get a urine sample out of you somehow

and test your urine for TB.

Okay.

Tanya, can you organise that?

Frankie, with me.

So you treated a TB patient?

Use a mask?

It was an emergency in the car park.

So that's a no.

I did what I had to.

Yes, you did.

You shouldn't be here.

I didn't expect that from you.

Oh, don't get me wrong. I think you'd make a fine doctor.

But your body doesn't have what it takes.

TB. You're immune suppressed.

Extremely susceptible.

Why don't you don't try and protect me?

Here, we are doctor and doctor,

so you don't get to decide what I can and can't do.

I wish to God you'd stick to research.

You know I'm not going to be isolated in some research facility.

I want to be with patients.

The next few years are as hard as they come.

With your health issues, how are you going to manage?

Watch me.

Contempt, five letters.

Sneer.

Clamp, please.

After this, I'm heading to the beach.

Yeah, enjoy the fantasy.

Theatre's closed, Monica.

Well, I heard from the head of Department

there's an MBA that didn't make it upstairs.

There may be a potential donor.

Hmm.

The head of surgery's retiring, right?

Guess they'll be looking for a replacement.

Guess they will.

Dr Tannis, do you have a specialty in mind?

- Cardiothoracics. - Hearts.

My kind of girl.

Right, that's two cannulas in.

Calcification goes right up to the aortic wall.

Don't do that. Do not move.

Not if you want this patient to live.

Sean Lopez finally graces us with his presence.

Sean is in stage kidney disease secondary nephropathy.

He's missed his last dialysis session.

For some reason, he went AWOL on us.

Where are his labs? Sean's results, Frankie!

I'll get them.

We've been trying to reach you.

I was up north with Mum on the farm.

Hey!

It's the quick or the dead around here.

You should have kept in contact, Sean.

I know, I know. But I lost my phone, it died.

Literally drowned. I dropped it in the drink, you see?

- We got flooded in... - You missed three dialysis sessions.

That's about more than a dead phone, mate.

A donor kidney became available, Sean.

When we didn't hear from you, we had to pass.

You're kidding me, right?

Every week for six years I've been coming through these doors.

I know how hard it is for you, Sean.

- Six fucking years. - I know how hard it is.

There is an upside. You must be near the top of the transplant list.

So stay close.

You are uraemic. Tanya, get Sean into dialysis ASAP.

Dialysis is fully booked.

I don't care. Bump someone if you have to.

I will check the admissions list.

No, it's okay. I've got it.

I know you from somewhere.

I have one of those faces.

Could you give Tanya a hand clearing the decks?

Hey, what you doing?

Is she dead?

- Zac, right? - Yep.

Sorry, buddy. I can't say.

Because it's a secret.

Yep.

Zac... your dad's looking for you. Come on.

- You're Zoe's doctor? - Mm-hm.

Have you considered myocarditis?

Have now. You're a renal resi, right?

What gives you the big cardio idea?

Flu, fainting, headache, pressure on the chest and renal failure.

Has the virus gone to her heart?

- Hey, Doc. - Mr Lopez, what can I do for you?

I've got like a 3-hour wait here so, I mean,

I can hang around in germ central getting sneezed on

or go back home for a couple of hours and rest up.

No, it's best you stay here.

I live a block away. My dog needs feeding.