Yeah Essay Research Paper PLOT ONE MAN

Yeah Essay, Research Paper

PLOT ONE: MAN OF THE HOUR

At the beginning of the episode, Doug tardily keeps an appointment with Morganstern, who, backed up by Mark Greene and (reluctantly) Neal Bernstein, offers Doug his job back. Doug is in the public limelight now thanks to his rescue of a little boy last week, and Morganstern assesses the hospital’s prestige is helped by Doug’s presence. Without much visible enthusiasm, Doug accepts the offer, also acknowledging an award dinner scheduled for the evening in his honor. One of the first patients of the day is Alan, a young asthmatic boy whose guardian recognizes Doug from television. Alan’s HMO wants him transferred to their care, which Doug revolts against by exaggerating Alan’s condition on the chart, thus ensuring that Alan isn’t going anywhere. When Mark finds out, he confronts Doug. “This cowboy crap has got to stop.” He realizes the problem: “You can’t take the fact that I’m your boss.” Doug replies sourly, “That’s typically narcissistic of you, Mark. I can’t take the fact that anyone’s my boss.” Later in the day, Mark and Doug clash again, over the emergency treatment of a pair of injured motorcyclists, and Mark orders Doug to go home, warning as well that he will write Doug up for his insubordination. On his way out, Doug receives a phone call from his father, whom he hasn’t spoken with since he was twelve. The conversion is brief and curt. That evening, Doug is a no-show at the dinner, and Mark finds him in the lounge drinking and playing pool. Bitter and a bit inebriated, Doug recites for Mark his “speech”, which bluntly lambasts Mark, Morganstern and Bernstein in turn by name. When Doug steps up the podium to receive his award, however, he chooses not to give this speech, and instead leaves with a gracious general thank-you. Afterward, Doug tosses his award off the roof of the building and tells Mark that his dad called only because he saw Doug on television. Doug inquires about the condition of his job, and Mark says that it’s still his if he wants it.

PLOT TWO: DOUBLECHECKING

Carter treats a Hispanic boy with facial paralysis. The mother looks with disdain upon Carter, whom she believes too young to be a real doctor. Carter diagnoses Bell’s palsy, but it’s later pointed out to him that he neglected to check signs for a more serious malady, Ramsay-Hunt syndrome. This spurs him to spend much of his day trying to retrieve young “Wilbur” (as he liked to be called) for a re-examination. Carter also overcompensates by ordering a huge array of tests for his next patient, Mrs. Briggs, who has a history of renal failure and lupus. Mrs. Briggs turns out to be Dr. Vuselich’s patient, which makes both Carter and Benton antsy until Vuselich declares that Carter’s “shotgun” approach was valid given the patient’s complex history; Vuselich promptly invites Carter upstairs to scrub up for a “fem-pop bypass”. That night, Carter makes his first house call to the Corvalans’ to check Wilbur’s paralysis again. Harper, whom Carter brushed off earlier in the day, is allowed to tag along. Despite the apparent clean bill of health, Mrs. Corvalan shuts the door in Carter’s face. Walking down the street, Carter expresses relief that he’ll be a “real doctor” in four months’ time, to which Harper complains that he’s talking shop. Carter’s response to this is a kiss.

PLOT THREE: IS THERE A NANNY IN THE HOUSE.

Susan Lewis is scheduled to work a night in which she has no night nanny scheduled for little Susie, so she spends the day trying to find one. A terse conversion with Cookie rules out the grandparents, but it looks like Susan might have a miracle solution when she treats Ms. Ransom, a frumpy English lady who takes to children in the E.R. A real “Mrs. Doubtfire”-type, Ms. Ransom seems to be just the ticket until Susan discovers that she has a terminal blood disease and must be admitted immediately for a bone marrow biopsy. Ms. Ransom reveals that she’s already had one — and is refusing subsequent transplants. Susan watches glumly as the proud Ms. Ransom walks out of the E.R. Later that day, Susan arrives at the day care and is surprised to see her father there, playing with little Susie. Mr. Lewis disavows the non-responsibility of his wife, and humbly offers his services as little Susie’s night nanny, even though it means that he’ll have to come to Susan’s apartment. “I figure it’s about time,” he says.

PLOT FOUR: SIBLING MATTERS

A teenager named Julia is brought in as an attempted suicide by her brother Kyle. Julia swallowed two bottles of pills, it’s later revealed, and she refuses to talk initially. Kyle reveals to Carol that their mother is recently deceased, and their dad “isn’t around” much. Julia finally decides to talk when Carol confides in her that she too tried to kill herself with pills. Julia is pregnant, and Julia reveals that it was caused by a sexual encounter with Kyle that began when she innocently tried to comfort Kyle over their mother’s death. Both Julia and Kyle are extremely uncomfortable about this incident, naturally enough. Kyle explodes when he finds out that Carol knows about it, and predicts that their gun-toting father will literally kill him when he finds out. Carol tries to assure Kyle that their situation will be treated with utmost confidence; however, Carol herself blabs about it to Lydia later, not realizing that Kyle and Julia’s father is standi