Morrison has a struggle with his conscience when he has to treat a bombing suspect. Ehrlich is nervous about having to work with Dr. Craig. Samuels teaches Beale how to swim.Morrison has a struggle with his conscience when he has to treat a bombing suspect. Ehrlich is nervous about having to work with Dr. Craig. Samuels teaches Beale how to swim.Morrison has a struggle with his conscience when he has to treat a bombing suspect. Ehrlich is nervous about having to work with Dr. Craig. Samuels teaches Beale how to swim.
Photos
Storyline
Did you know
- TriviaTim Robbins' screen debut as the bombing suspect.
- GoofsWhen performing the coronary artery bypass, Dr. Craig leaves the operating room to change scrubs leaving an intern at table side. With a patient on active bypass and an open chest this would never happen. Likewise, the surgical team would consist of several surgeons, not just an attending and intern.
- Quotes
Dr. Mark Craig: [breezes into the room, almost bumping into a nurse on the way out] Excuse me.
[Immediately opens Broadwater's file]
Dr. Mark Craig: Mr Broadwater. How are we this morning?
Mr. Broadwater: Feelin' pretty good.
Dr. Mark Craig: Well, I have some good news, and I have some bad. Two of the major vessels to your heart, the left anterior descending artery, and the circumflex artery, are 90% obstructed.
Mr. Broadwater: [stunned] But I feel fine.
Dr. Mark Craig: You didn't feel "fine" when you had those chest pains walking up a flight of stairs, now did you?
Mr. Broadwater: Did I have a heart attack?
Dr. Mark Craig: No, but when we put you on the treadmill, your electrocardiogram indicated ischemia. And the angiography - do you remember when we put the dye through the heart? Revealed obstructions... VERY serious obstructions.
Mr. Broadwater: [clutches his chest, breathing heavily] 90% obstructed?
Dr. Mark Craig: [holds up a long rubber tube] Let me show you something, Mr Broadwater - what does this look like to you?
Mr. Broadwater: A rubber tube.
Dr. Mark Craig: Arteries are tubes. They carry the blood and oxygen from the heart. Now, bear with me. If we obstruct the flow of blood and oxygen to the brain...
[ties a tight knot in the tube]
Dr. Mark Craig: ... What do you think happens?
Mr. Broadwater: [gets up unsteadily] I-I don't believe this. I'm only 40 years old here. Doc, you...
Dr. Mark Craig: [curtly, shouting] You're fat. You smoke. Your father died of a heart attack when he was 42.
Mr. Broadwater: But Doctor, there must be SOMETHING...
Dr. Mark Craig: You are walking a tightrope, Mr Broadwater. If it isn't the stairs today, it'll be washing the car tomorrow, or bouncing your little boy on your knee - or, if you're lucky, when you're sleeping.
Mr. Broadwater: [sits back down weakly] Ohhhh, my dear God.
Dr. Mark Craig: Now, for the good news.
[pause]
Dr. Mark Craig: I'm going to save you.
Mr. Broadwater: How?
Dr. Mark Craig: Triple bypass.
Mr. Broadwater: Surgery?
Dr. Mark Craig: [nods firmly] We'll give you a few moments to think about it, notify your loved ones. Do I have your complete cooperation?
[holds out his hand]
Mr. Broadwater: [shakes it half-heartedly] ... I guess so.
Dr. Mark Craig: Excellent.
[shakes Broadwater's hand, snaps the file shut, and breezes back out without further comment]
- ConnectionsReferenced in St. Elsewhere: The Naked and the Dead (1985)