Season 8- Episode 18 - Orion in the sky
RTE voiceover "As Dr. Greene's condition deteriorates, his
colleagues are determined to cut his workload despite his
objections in ER."
Pratt (has there ever been a character soooo appropriately named?)
"I'll be a resident in July."
Mark "Here?"
Pratt "Only if the match screws me."
Now that's a great way to create a good impression. Tell people
you'll only be working at their workplace of choice if you're
unlucky.
Okay, I *did* like the way that Mark immediately fumbled his shot
just after Pratt had offered to help him with it. And by the way,
when did Mark get so good at basketball? I'd always thought he
was pretty crappy at it.
And why is Mark still being allowed to treat traumas?
Oh come on Carter, that's not fair on the earache patient,
letting Pratt go in there thinking he's got a penile fracture.
The guy's only been there a few days at most and he's probably
still trying to figure out the layout of the ER.
We did *not* need that 'oh so tragic' music playing when Mark
dropped the intubation tube. It would have been a lot more
effective if we'd simply heard it clatter on the floor with no
accompaniment. In fact, most of the soundtrack to this episode
seemed completely overdone. I presume this is the director's
decision, but I think they could have toned it down a bit whoever
it was.
Mark "Working is good."
Yeah, but not for your patients if you can't treat them properly.
Kerry "I trust you to recognize your limitations."
She's obviously revised her opinion of him since last year when
she *couldn't* trust him to recognize his limitations and sicced
the competency tester on him.
I know that Mark wants his life to continue as normal as
possible, but as a doctor, his first consideration should be for
his patients.
Have to admit, that they're doing a good job of making him all
sickly looking.
Mark re him and Jen "I wouldn't change a thing."
Well except for the whole you leaving Chicago and cheating on me
and taking my daughter so far away that I only see her once a
year, but apart from *that* I wouldn't change a thing.
Jen is doing a very good 'ostrich' impersonation "maybe if I
don't talk about this, then it isn't really happening"
Yes, I know it's hard for her to accept that Mark is dying, but
sometimes the only thing that you can do for someone in his
position is to accept their fate and allow them to make their
plans. (and yeah, been there, done that, bought the wreath)
Abby seems in an unusually good mood for someone who's going to
be moving out of Luka's place <g>
Hmm, wonder what her BAL is.
Pratt "Psych consult?"
Al "Screw you, Junior."
Cein "Word!!"
Why is Abby wandering around and assisting in traumas with her
hair hanging loose like that? Wouldn't there be some sort of
hospital regulation about keeping long hair out of the way? (I'd
complain about Chen's hair as well, but it's not as if she was
doing anything much)
I can't believe that everybody just stood by watching Mark after
he fell and nobody tried to help him up. Tumor or no tumor,
somebody goes down like that, you *don't* just let them lie there...not
even Mark.
Um hello? Mark can't blame the mother for the premature birth
since it was most likely brought on by her getting slammed by a
gurney. I'm sure that Risk Management are breathing a sigh of
relief that she was a junkie cause it'll sure limit *their*
liability.
So Mark knows how badly he was affected by his last round of
Chemotherapy, but he *still* planned the second one for the
middle of his shift.
Mark to Pratt "I told you to get his old charts."
So what hospital did Pratt train in that taught him that it's
okay to not bother doing what your supervisor tells you to do?
Pratt re the guy stopping breathing "Thanks for mentioning
that."
Well maybe if you'd looked at the old charts like you were told
to, then you'd have known that that's what happened before.
If the tumor doesn't kill Mark, then all those anvils are going
to.
Lets see...so far he's had to deal with a dying woman whose
daughter thinks the doctors should let her die in peace and
accuses them of thinking that they take it as a personal defeat
when someone dies.
He's had to deal with a man suffering from terminal cancer.
With Al, who just wants to die outside on his own terms.
With the Egyptologist who got sick because she worked too hard
and 'didn't realize what she was missing until it was gone'.
I suppose we should be grateful that at least Mark didn't pull
off one last miraculous save like Peter did.
So Orion jumps into the sea to get away from the scorpion...anyone
here wonder if Mark is going to try something similar?
Would it have been soooo difficult for Mark to actually *tell*
Kerry that he wasn't coming back? I know he probably didn't want
to make a big fuss and have everyone saying long-drawn out
goodbyes, but a simple "Don't put me down for any more
shifts Kerry," wouldn't have been *that* hard.
Carter "Leaving early?"
Mark "Not early enough."
Damn right, you should have died *last* year.
Mark to Carter "You set the tone."
Now was that an acknowledgment that Carter is currently setting
the tone, or an instruction from Mark that from now on, he's
going to have to 'set the tone'.
Of course, if everybody followed *Mark's* tone, then there'd be a
lot of dead bodies in elevators.
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