01.13 Long Day's Journey

I am no longer watching these old episodes in a hotel room.

This one opens with a classic beaten up mother, with a history of injuries i.e. presenting all the symptoms of a beaten wife except in a twist, it's the teenage daughter. (She was in trauma 1 - yellow - just in case that turns out to make a difference) She dies.

Carter is trying to adjust to Deb(Chen) being ultra efficient and overly smart. And she has a photographic memory.

Susan has to take her charts to Mark to be signed off. She says, still in her funk from last episode, that no other resident has to do this. Clearly things have changed since then, since R2s having charts signed off by attendings seems pretty normal now.

Mark has to deal with a Chinese couple who are trying to induce their child's birth so that the kid is born in the year of the dog.

A suicide is brought in (trauma 1). Dies.

Doug is trying to avoid pasta name guy, unsurprisingly after that punch up, but pasta name guy chides him on it. They have to deal with a kid with possible cancer which seems to be an excuse - along with the suicide's orphaned baby - to show how wonderful Doug is with kids. He also has to deal with a 15 year old street rent boy who has AIDS. "Paeds is OK when all the kids are healthy". He's definitely getting depressed with failing to find a long term partner and the sort of work he has to deal with.

Jean Bolay is introduced as Benton employs her to care for his elderly mother.

A guy is brought in who entered a burning building for a couple of minutes to rescue a little girl (like Neela in 12.08) but goes into trauma 1 (unlike Neela). It turns out the chap has cystic fibrocis and has essentially given his life for the girl's. Trauma 1 is looking like increasingly bad news.

Chen: Your uncle Ed is dead.
Aunt: I thought he was quiet.

Susan and the Doctor from the third circle of Hell (Kayson) face an review into her patient's death from 01.11. As they crucified Kayson, Doug thinks Susan should give Mark a break. A drunk coronory comes in: it's Kayson. He goes into trauma 2, where Susan has to treat him. She overrides a surgeon in order to get Kayson the right treatment.

Pasta name guy leaves his bag of sex accessories under the desk in admit. It's called admissions, but we all know it's admit.

So trauma 1 (yellow) has 3 deaths and trauma 2 (green) none. This is contrary to Alan's theory that green is very bad. I think this is a stat I can track with some reliability.

With some of these episodes there's just very little to actually say in summary.