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Standoff Episode: "Life Support"

Season 1, Episode 5
Episode Synopsis: A 15-year-old boy pushing his older sister on a gurney walks into an OR in an upscale hospital, pulls a gun and takes everyone hostage---including a patient undergoing heart-bypass surgery. The sister is dying of cancer after having been bounced from clinic to clinic. Now the boy's demanding that Dr. Khoury, a celebrated surgeon, treat her, but the doctor is nowhere to be found. M.J.: Allen Maldonado. Dr. Khoury: Aki Avni. Original Air Date: Oct 31, 2006

October 31, 2006: Life Support

This episode started with a situation we’re used to seeing in great hospital shows like Scrubs and Grey’s Anatomy — the eccentric surgeon and his unique pre-op routine. But Dr. Wayne’s approach certainly added a new twist. Now, I doubt this is the first time we’ve ever seen doctors listen to rock music in the operating room, but there was something so disturbing about the way he gleefully tossed that pitcher of ice on the poor heart-bypass patient. Don't get me wrong, I definitely understand how "Dr. Feelgood” can make one lose one’s head, but maybe that’s why it should be reserved for cleaning the apartment on a Sunday afternoon — not for the O.R.Of course, in this episode nothing was as it should be in the hospital. Poor M.J. was fighting for the life of his dying sister. Matt was losing his cool and letting his childhood trauma affect his work. There was a strange naked man lying on a stretcher who nearly caused the hostage rescue tea... read more

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Premiered: September 05, 2006, on FOX
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