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01:00I told them I don't have seizures. It's nothing.
01:02Well, look, I would hardly call passing out nothing.
01:04I just didn't get enough to drink.
01:06Has this ever happened to you before?
01:07Whoa, whoa, whoa. Let's get it back up here.
01:09We're starting on an IV saline.
01:11You got it.
01:11Push, nurse, toxin light, stat.
01:13No pulse.
01:14All right, we got a complete EMD.
01:15Get a crash cart.
01:16I got it.
01:17All right, clear.
01:20Still no pulse.
01:21Right, another 100 milligrams lidocam and amp of epi?
01:23Yes, Dr.
01:23She's been flatlined for 10 minutes.
01:28All right.
01:29Let's call it.
01:31Time of death.
01:341246.
01:37I hope I wasn't overstepping, doctor.
01:39No, you were right.
01:41It's just, uh...
01:43It's amazing.
01:44Someone in this shape goes like that.
01:46No, you were right.
02:37Mark, why are we exercising?
02:39It's a vicious cycle.
02:41I know.
02:42The same way with me.
02:43The more I exercise, the more I eat.
02:45No, I meant now that I'm divorced,
02:47I don't have a social life because I can't find a babysitter.
02:50And I can't find a babysitter because I don't have a social life.
02:54Uh-oh.
02:55Nancy Stewart.
02:57Who is she again?
02:59Hospital information director.
03:00Just pretend you don't see her.
03:02Maybe she won't bother us.
03:03Well, I can't do that.
03:05Dr. Sloan?
03:06What is she?
03:07Wow!
03:07Look at you!
03:08I can't believe what marvelous shape you're in.
03:11You look like you could go on forever.
03:12Well, thank you, Nancy.
03:13That's very flattery.
03:14And we had a wonderful idea to promote the hospital.
03:17A fitness video for seniors.
03:19Dr. Barnett was gonna do it, but he broke his leg on the first shot.
03:23But you would be the perfect person to demonstrate safe exercise.
03:26Oh, watch.
03:27That's a wonderful idea, but, Nancy, I'm awfully busy.
03:30It won't take long, just an hour at four this afternoon to start with.
03:35Well, okay.
03:38Oh, thank you.
03:39Great.
03:39I'll see you then, doctor, right back here.
03:43You can't say no to anybody, can you?
03:45I can, too.
03:46Can you babysit for me on Saturday?
03:49Saturday?
03:50Oh, what time?
03:51Z.
03:52Oh, very funny.
03:59Hey, I heard you had a tough morning.
04:01A 23-year-old female goes into full arrest.
04:05The EMT said that she seemed fine in the ambulance.
04:07Hmm.
04:08Woman her age and her shape.
04:10The only logical explanation would be an underlying cardiomyopathy.
04:14I'll put a rush on the autopsy.
04:15I'd appreciate that.
04:16Now, do I have enough to give notification to the next of kin?
04:19No.
04:20Her stuff is at the vault gym.
04:22I'll get it on my way home.
04:23Okay, the vault gym is in West Hollywood.
04:25You live in Venice.
04:26I'll take the long way home.
04:31Do you know where Mindy was when she passed out?
04:34Who can keep up with Mindy?
04:36She's the entire gym.
04:37Weight room, racquetball, nautilus, aerobics, pool, hot tubs.
04:43Join now.
04:44And you will get the entire elite package.
04:46Total physical.
04:48Custom weight training.
04:49Free consultations with our dietician.
04:52And a complete set of vault sweats, hat, and swimsuit.
04:57How much is a membership?
04:591,200 bucks.
05:01Man on premises.
05:05You get out of here, you don't.
05:11Uh, that's all there is, but, uh, Lane will be able to tell you what happened.
05:16She was with Mindy.
05:17Just saw her in the weight room.
05:18Red outfit, great pecs.
05:20Okay, well, thanks.
05:21You betcha.
05:22Uh, you sure you don't want me to get you anything else from in there?
05:33Mindy passed out during a set of stomach crunches.
05:36Was she okay before that?
05:38She did say she felt dizzy.
05:40A little achy.
05:42Nothing serious.
05:42She pushed right through it.
05:44I'll give Mindy credit.
05:45She never whined.
05:47Well, now, why didn't you try to stop her?
05:50I'm a personal trainer.
05:52That's what people pay me for, to get the most out of their bodies.
05:57People need to be pushed.
05:59You're certainly in good shape.
06:02Mindy and I were the same types physically.
06:05We were always up for the same modeling jobs.
06:07I must have lost half a dozen assignments to her.
06:10Well, now, why Mindy and not you?
06:12No matter how hard I worked, Mindy always had an edge physically.
06:15Whatever her secret was, she sure wasn't telling me.
06:18So, are you saying that she was taking something?
06:23Some freaks around here are knowing to blow as much as a grand of wheat on supplements.
06:28Wow.
06:29Did she take anything today?
06:33Actually, I did see her get something for Marco.
06:37He's the guy who pushes performance enhancers around here.
06:40You know, vitamin B12, beta blockers, designer proteins, enzymes.
06:44This guy Marco, is he around?
06:46Yeah, he's the guy in the gray sleeve with his t-shirt.
06:50Um, he was just here.
06:57Hey!
07:14My first day off in a month, and you pulled me out of a movie for a death notification?
07:18Hey!
07:19It was either that or breaking and entering, and the landlady wouldn't let me in without you.
07:26Well, now I understand your interest in her.
07:29Hey, that has nothing to do with it.
07:31Look at this.
07:32A couple of medical bills from the Den-El Clinic.
07:34I wonder what's wrong with her.
07:36Nah, not unless it's in plain sight.
07:39Just in case it was a crime.
07:43What, do you look at this stuff?
07:44Oh, mega bodybuilder formula.
07:49Thyromax.
07:50Low-sodium soy.
07:52Huh.
07:52Boy, for a health nut, she sure wasn't fussy about what she put in her body.
07:55Is any of this stuff dangerous?
07:57Well, alone, no, but in combination, maybe.
08:01Yeah, well, this stuff is.
08:02Human growth hormone.
08:04Well, that's an anabolic steroid.
08:05It's great for building muscle mass, but hell on the internal organs.
08:09Here's her address book.
08:10What was her last name?
08:11Yeats?
08:12Yeats.
08:13Hey, look at that.
08:15A message.
08:16I know.
08:17Well, aren't we going to listen to it?
08:18No, we are not.
08:20To do so would constitute an illegal search.
08:24Well, here's her parents' number.
08:25It's in Little Rock.
08:26Wait, wait, I don't get this.
08:28How come you're allowed to look through that book, but we can't play back her message?
08:31Yeah, this is in plain sight.
08:34That is not.
08:35It's an invasion of privacy without a warrant.
08:37Oh, the law.
08:38Very complex, I forget.
08:40Well, let me ask you this.
08:42What if someone, not a cop, but someone like a doctor were to accidentally...
08:48Oops.
08:49I mean, what then?
08:51Then a cop might strangle him.
08:53Mindy.
08:54Marco.
08:55I expect to get paid today, lady.
08:58All right?
08:59Vote Jim, 10 o'clock.
09:00And this time, it better be everything.
09:02That's him.
09:03That's the guy I've been telling you about.
09:04The guy who's been dealing all these supplements.
09:07Marco, huh?
09:08Marco.
09:09Marco.
09:13Cut.
09:14Oh, Dr. Sloan, that was great.
09:15All right, guys, let's get over here and get a different angle.
09:18Like this.
09:19Okay, tight down there.
09:20The lights have to be right in your face like that.
09:23All right, Dr. Sloan, stretch number nine, the lumbar stretch.
09:27And I'm over with it.
09:30All right.
09:31Run!
09:33And action.
09:35Okay, now this next movement, you have to be very, very careful with this one.
09:41The left foot over the right leg.
09:44You're going to twist.
09:47I want you to do it very slowly and very carefully.
09:50Very slowly come around.
09:51Now, don't go too far.
09:53Go as far as you can.
09:54But if you go too far, you could throw your back out like I just did.
09:59Oh.
10:00Marco, are you all right?
10:02I'm fine.
10:03I always look like this.
10:04Oh, cut, cut.
10:06Don't touch me.
10:06Can somebody find a doctor?
10:08Yeah.
10:08Psychiatrist would be a good idea.
10:13Yeah.
10:19Hey, Marco?
10:20Yep.
10:21I'm Steve.
10:21I'm the guy that paged you.
10:22Oh, hey.
10:23What can I do for you?
10:24You can turn around and put your hands in the car.
10:32Oh, now, Marco, what's a big guy like you need with a little gun like this?
10:37I have a permit for it, all right?
10:38Uh-huh.
10:43What about this?
10:45I'll tell you what, Marco.
10:47You tell me what you gave Mindy this morning, or I go on a scavenger hunt.
10:54Tryptophan, okay?
10:55It's a harmless amino acid.
10:56Give her some nausea.
10:57That's it.
11:00Look, Mindy owed me a lot of money, okay?
11:02She had a bad habit, and I threw a scare into her.
11:07She paid everything off this morning.
11:15Marco, you better hope that this isn't the stuff that killed her.
11:26I threw it out doing a fitness tape.
11:29Hi.
11:30Hi.
11:30Any luck tracking down Marco?
11:32Oh, yeah.
11:32I found him, all right.
11:33He was selling bottles of human growth hormone, identical to the one we found in Mindy's apartment.
11:38Any idea how long Mindy been on the steroids?
11:40Well, according to Marco, she wasn't.
11:42But I trust him about as far as I could bench press him.
11:45The symptoms that Mindy's personal trainer described fit steroid overdose, muscle ache, nausea.
11:50But that's not what killed her.
11:52I got Mindy AIDS tox screens and blood chems back.
11:55They all tested negative.
11:56She was completely clean.
11:58Well, if this isn't a drug reaction, what are we looking at?
12:00A woman who's 43% synthetic.
12:03And we'll start at the top and work our way down.
12:05Well, the autopsy revealed she had eyelid and eyebrow augmentation, minor nose job, facial microsuction, surgical and collagen lip enhancement.
12:14She also had an artificial beauty mark, waist and ankle liposuction, laser skin resurfacing to rough areas at the back
12:21of the feet.
12:21She had chin, breast and gluteal implants.
12:24Well, nobody's perfect.
12:26Well, it looked like she had a pretty good start on it.
12:29What part of this body is actually Mindy?
12:31The sweat under her arms.
12:33Hold this.
12:34To truly appreciate her commitment.
12:36Look over here.
12:37You see, less than 72 hours ago, Mindy AIDS had cheek implants.
12:43She was out exercising for four hours this morning.
12:47What kind of a doctor wouldn't caution her against that?
12:49And if she had surgery, how come there's not a mark on her?
12:52Well, incisions for cheek implants are done from inside the mouth.
12:56But judging from the redness in her cheeks, I'd say Mindy had some kind of an infection.
12:59Oh, you're right.
13:00Her sutures were badly infected.
13:02That explains those bills we found from the Donnell Clinic.
13:04They must do plastic surgery.
13:06Mm-hmm.
13:06In a big way.
13:07Elaine Donnell's a local surgeon who wrote a bestseller.
13:11Used that notoriety to open a clinic.
13:14You're going to report the cause of death as massive systemic infection?
13:17The blood culture came back positive for bacteria, but I am going to do further analysis.
13:22Right now, that's going to be my preliminary determination.
13:25You know, judging from the rate and the toxicity of the infection and the number of surgeries,
13:29I'd say there's something seriously wrong at that clinic.
13:32Are you saying criminally wrong?
13:34For somebody this young and in this good of health to succumb to that kind of an infection,
13:37isn't just poor medicine.
13:39It's negligent homicide, Steve.
13:53Listen, are those real?
13:54Of course not.
13:57First time?
13:59Look, don't worry.
14:01Elaine's a genius with breasts.
14:02If she can do mine three times.
14:04No reason why she can't fix yours.
14:06Three times?
14:07Well, the first time I had silicone.
14:0934 B's for the role of Nurse Jan on MD.
14:12But for Aqua Hunt, I went with the saline.
14:14Up to 38 C.
14:16I'd keep them.
14:18But I just got Madame Curie, the miniseries.
14:20And my agents say she's not a 38 C kind of madam.
14:23If you know what I mean.
14:26Doctors?
14:27Please come in.
14:32Dr. Sloan?
14:33Dr. Bentley, please.
14:37So, what can I do for you?
14:39Doctor, we want to talk to you about some plastic surgery.
14:42Your nose.
14:44Of course we can help.
14:46You know, the awful truth is, it's an ageist world out there.
14:49Every doctor's expected to look like George Clooney these days.
14:54Actually, I did read your book.
14:56You did?
14:56Yes.
14:57You claim in here that in two days you can take 20 years off a man's face.
15:01It's true.
15:02Men hold their age in three places.
15:04Around the eyes.
15:06Forehead.
15:08Chin.
15:09So, if I gave you a week, I could wind up being 16 years old again.
15:14Make all those same mistakes again?
15:16I don't think so.
15:17We're more concerned with the mistakes you're making now.
15:21Excuse me?
15:21How do you justify doing a dozen different cosmetic surgeries
15:25on a 23-year-old woman like Mindy Yates?
15:30I don't have to.
15:32It was her choice.
15:33I think what Dr. Bentley's trying to say is that Mindy Yates seemed awfully pretty to start with.
15:39Well, you think so.
15:40I think so.
15:40But she didn't.
15:42Whose opinion matters most?
15:43You could have refused to do the surgeries.
15:47I don't see that that is any of your business.
15:49I'm not hearing any complaints from Mindy.
15:52Because she's dead.
15:53She died in the ER yesterday at Community General.
15:59How?
16:00Septic infection.
16:02Bacteria she picked up during surgery in your OR.
16:05Or, you know, possibly somewhere else.
16:07You see, the thing is, we know so little about plastic surgery.
16:10We really need your expertise to help us narrow down the causes.
16:15Of course.
16:19Dr. Sloan, if there is anything that I or any of my staff can do to help you, would you
16:24please let me know?
16:25Certainly.
16:26You could start by showing us your OR.
16:29My OR is booked solid until 8 o'clock this evening.
16:32Of course, you're welcome to have the run of the clinic until that time.
16:36Here, uh, about my nose.
16:38Your nose.
16:41Frankly, I wouldn't touch it.
16:43I think it gives you character.
16:52This is what we call our vision imaging center.
16:54Now, this is where we show our patients the range of procedures available and how they might look afterward.
16:59Now, we take their picture with a digital camera, we download it to the software, apply morphing techniques to, uh,
17:06show, for example, how a nose job might improve facial balance.
17:10What, you think there's something wrong with my nose?
17:11No, I didn't say that, sir.
17:12It's just an example.
17:14Well, I mean, do you think it needs work?
17:15Of course he does.
17:16I'm sure he thinks all noses need a little fixing, don't you, doctor?
17:19Well, my job is just to make people feel better about themselves.
17:22I mean, if I can do that without surgery, even better.
17:24What, what, what about me?
17:26Sir, my father has the biggest nose in Arkansas, and I wouldn't take a millimeter off of it.
17:31If you ask me, character comes from the small imperfections that make us unique.
17:34Well, if that's the way you feel, then what are you doing working here?
17:37What every doctor does, alleviating suffering, healing wounds, making people feel whole again.
17:42Did you know Mindy Yates?
17:43I saw her for the first time in OR.
17:45I was supposed to assist on her surgery.
17:48As soon as I walked in, I was hit by this wave of nausea, so I'd ask Dr. Shermer to
17:51cover for me.
17:52Did you come down with anything?
17:53I thought I did, but after an hour or two, I was fine.
17:56Must have been that third burrito at lunch.
18:01Hi, I'm Dr. Shermer.
18:03I assisted on Mindy Yates' surgery, and I thought you'd like the details.
18:06Yes, that'd be very helpful.
18:08Right, uh, the, um, implants were celastic.
18:13The surgery lasted 39 minutes.
18:15The, uh, patient went into recovery at 146 and left at 220.
18:19And, uh, well, uh, the procedure actually went very well indeed.
18:23Just, uh, 34 minutes in recovery.
18:26Well, yes, it, uh, pretty quick, but...
18:28You don't have that conveyor belt going yet.
18:30Look, uh, Dr. Donnell prides herself on using the latest surgical tools and procedures
18:35so that patients suffer the least amount of post-operative discomfort as possible.
18:40You see, most of our patients lead very active lives, and they don't want to be sidelined a minute longer
18:43than necessary.
18:44Uh, speaking of time, we are due in an hour right now.
18:47Excuse us.
18:50While you fall asleep around here, you're liable to wake up with a... with a tummy tuck.
18:55You were going to say nose job, but yes, you were, too.
18:57I wasn't going to say tummy tuck.
18:59Biggest nose in Arkansas.
19:00What does that mean?
19:01I don't know.
19:04The results came back from Mindy's blood work.
19:08Pseudomonas.
19:09Just the type of virulent bacteria you expected.
19:12Does the clinic have its own blood lab?
19:14Yes, and I'm sure that's where it was cultured.
19:16Lax procedures was probably the reason why I ended up in the O.R.
19:19What are you going to do?
19:20I'm going to call a friend of mine of the state board and request a spot inspection right away.
19:25No.
19:26I have filled out enough forms.
19:28I told you I am Julia Brush, and I'm here to collect Mindy Yates.
19:32I'm sorry, but we have rules.
19:33I can't release her to someone who's not a relative without proper authorization.
19:36I am her best friend.
19:39Her mother is dead.
19:40Her father is in a home.
19:41I have a letter.
19:42I've shown it to you twice.
19:44No, I'm sorry.
19:44I have flown 2,000 miles.
19:46I have crossed three time zones, and if you don't bring her out to me right now, there's
19:50going to be another corpse.
19:51It's okay.
19:51You are right.
19:52Nurse, this is all we need right now.
19:54Thanks.
19:56Finally.
19:57Someone human, even if you are a doctor.
20:01So can I have my friend, please, now?
20:03Yeah.
20:04Why don't we go check with Dr. Bentley?
20:05She's our medical examiner.
20:07Although it may be a bit of a delay.
20:08See, there's an investigation pending right now.
20:12Investigation?
20:13Why?
20:23We think Mindy may have died of medical negligence.
20:27That's doctor talk for, oops, I killed someone.
20:30We have to determine whether it was the clinic or the plastic surgeon's fault.
20:34That's why I can't release her yet.
20:39Mindy had plastic surgery?
20:41For what?
20:43Mindy was born perfect.
20:45She had the kind of looks that made other girls think about having surgery.
20:48This wasn't her first surgery, Miss Brush.
20:51How well did you know, Mindy?
20:54We've been best friends since we were kids.
20:57I don't understand.
20:59Well, maybe it was the world that she lived in.
21:02Acting and modeling, that can be very competitive.
21:04She underwent at least a dozen procedures.
21:08A dozen?
21:10That can't be.
21:16What does this city do to people?
21:26My courthouse search showed that the Denal Clinic was a defendant in 13 cases.
21:30Not one of which ever went to trial.
21:32They were settled by nondisclosure agreements.
21:35Well, she's a best-selling author.
21:37You know, she's a setup for any nuisances.
21:40You know, I don't agree with her very much, but I don't think she's a sloppy doctor.
21:45Something's wrong somewhere.
21:47Yeah, a patient dies. Dr. Sherman just quit.
21:49Sherman quit?
21:52Maybe we better find out why.
21:57The experience of Santa is remarkable, really.
21:59See, they, I mean, we, provide plastic and reconstructive surgery
22:04for burn patients, amputees, victims of traumatic injury.
22:09And make it available virtually free of charge
22:11to those who just couldn't afford it otherwise.
22:14Certainly not how things worked at the Denal Clinic.
22:17Not as lucrative.
22:18No, but, uh, there's an opportunity to do some cutting-edge work.
22:22Yeah, the kind that most plastic surgeons only dream about.
22:25That's inspiring, Doctor.
22:27But are we supposed to believe that this career move
22:29has nothing to do with Mindy Yates' death?
22:32Look, this is something I've been thinking of doing for some time.
22:35And I never intended to spend my professional life
22:37doing suctions on spoiled Beverly Hills 16-year-olds.
22:41Working at Asperian may make you feel better
22:43until somebody else at the Denal Clinic dies.
22:47We know about the lawsuits, Doctor.
22:49We also know about the way the Denal Clinic settled them.
22:53Do you really think that Elaine Denal let me go
22:55without making me sign a non-disclosure agreement?
22:58And if you broke it?
23:00Well, I can forget about the kitchen remodel
23:02my wife and I are doing for starters.
23:03Well, it's that, or you'll be occupying a 9x7 cell,
23:07because I'll make sure that you're brought up in charges
23:09as an accessory to a negligent homicide.
23:22If you'd just be patient, we'll be with you in a moment.
23:24Why don't you have a seat?
23:25Please, sit down.
23:30What's going on, Doctor?
23:31I don't know.
23:35But I'm meaning to get a pretty good idea.
23:38What makes you think you have the right to come in here like this?
23:40Uh, it's not a right, Doctor.
23:42It's a responsibility, and not a pleasant one, believe me.
23:44Just something you need to do so you can sleep at night.
23:46Something like that, yeah.
23:48Because no patient of yours ever picks up an infection in the OR.
23:51Because a young girl died needlessly.
23:53That's the only reason we're here.
23:54Really?
23:55And if Mindy Yates had died
23:57after complications from a routine appendectomy,
24:00would you still be here?
24:05Hey, Steve, look at this.
24:09It's blood.
24:10Well, I take it that's not a good thing.
24:12Not on an instrument that should have been sterilized.
24:15You find anything else?
24:16Where should I start?
24:18How about in the blood lab right next to the OR?
24:21Sounds convenient.
24:23It is for the bacteria.
24:24These two rooms should not share the same ventilation system,
24:27let alone the same door.
24:29But what you found have caused Mindy Yates' death?
24:32You know what I think, Doctor Sloan?
24:34You don't like the kind of medicine I practice,
24:35and you're trying to put me out of business because of it.
24:37I don't like the idea of performing unnecessary surgery on people
24:39simply because they're willing to pay.
24:41Unnecessary according to whom, Doctor?
24:42That I can't do anything about, but when your people start dying...
24:45One patient, Doctor Sloan.
24:46One tragic death that may or may not have resulted
24:49from a procedure she chose to have performed here.
24:52You don't feel the slightest responsibility, do you?
24:54I am not the person who puts sculpted bodies
24:57on the cover of every magazine and calls it beauty.
25:00I am not the person who pays actresses 15 million dollars
25:04to show off their surgically enhanced breasts.
25:07I just helped Mindy Yates become what she wanted.
25:11A corpse.
25:14Detective Sloan,
25:15how much longer is this inspection going to take?
25:19It's over now.
25:20Good.
25:21If you would like to debate this further,
25:23book us a date on Oprah.
25:24Until then, I'm busy.
25:27Okay, let's all go back to work, everyone.
25:28This is over.
25:30By order of the county medical examiner's office,
25:32this clinic is officially closed.
25:35What?
25:36This is all a terrible misunderstanding.
25:39If you could all just be patient a few more minutes,
25:42I'll have it all cleared up.
25:44Or my attorney will.
25:45You can call him from the police station.
25:48I have a full slate of surgeries scheduled for today,
25:50and I intend to perform every single one of them.
25:53You won't be doing any cutting today, doctor,
25:55unless you can do it wearing these bracelets.
25:58Dr. Elaine Dinell,
25:59you're under arrest for the negligent homicide
26:01of your patient Mindy Yates.
26:02Take her away and read her rights.
26:14What's the matter?
26:16You know, there's so much bacteria in this place,
26:18there ought to be a lot more sick people than there are.
26:21Maybe that's where all those lawsuits came from.
26:23You know, it's hard for me to believe
26:24that someone as intelligent as Dr. Dinell
26:26would allow this kind of insanitary condition.
26:29Well, she won't be doing it anymore,
26:30thanks to you.
26:31Thanks to me.
26:39You'll have to hold on to Mindy's body
26:41at least until the inquest.
26:42No, I understand.
26:44Actually, I came back because I wanted to apologize.
26:47I was pretty upset yesterday,
26:49and then hearing about Mindy's surgeries, I...
26:52People can become addicted to it.
26:54Yeah, well, she always was a perfectionist.
26:57I guess I lost a part of her even before this.
26:59Oh, hey.
27:01Hi.
27:02Did you have a crick in your back?
27:03Oh, yeah, I threw it out the other day.
27:06Well, you know, I can help you out if you like.
27:08My Uncle Bert taught me this move.
27:10I don't think I'm familiar with the Uncle Bert method.
27:13She knows what she's doing.
27:15Yes or no?
27:19Well...
27:27Hey, that worked.
27:30That's great.
27:31Who are you?
27:32I'm Julia Brush.
27:34Oh, yes, Mindy's friend, the, uh...
27:36Doctor heater.
27:38But I'm not, really.
27:39I just had a bad experience with one.
27:41And, unfortunately, he was my fiancé.
27:44Oh, that explains it.
27:46Partly.
27:47He did a stomach bypass on a woman at his clinic.
27:51And when things went wrong, he panicked.
27:53By the time he got her to the hospital,
27:55the poor woman had died.
27:57Oh, well, hearing that,
27:58I understand why you mistrust doctors.
28:00I hope that we've gained some of your trust back.
28:02Well, you have.
28:04That's why I wanted to come back and apologize
28:06and ask if there's anything I can do to help.
28:10As a matter of fact,
28:11there is something you can do for us and for Mindy.
28:15Address the inquest tomorrow?
28:17Without any family, Mindy needs an advocate.
28:19A living, breathing reminder
28:21that Dr. Donnell put profit before people.
28:24I'd be more than happy to.
28:26Is there anything in particular I need to know?
28:28We can discuss it over dinner.
28:30Or lunch.
28:32Well, Dr. Travis,
28:34I'd like that very much.
28:36Jesse.
28:37Jesse.
28:39Jesse.
28:45I'm sorry it's come to this,
28:46but it's best for the patients and the clinic
28:48that we close down now.
28:49Well, if you knew there was a problem,
28:50why didn't you say something?
28:52Well, it's no excuse,
28:53but I've only been here a short time.
28:55You know, and Elaine is intimidating.
28:57I just wish I could have insisted on some changes
28:59before it came to this.
29:00Well, answering the summons to appear at the inquest
29:02is a start, but what about you?
29:03Where will you go?
29:04I'll land on my feet.
29:06A guy with a medical degree
29:07can always work somewhere.
29:09I just wish there was some way
29:10to repair the damage to the family.
29:12You can start with an apology to Julia Brush.
29:16Who's Julia Brush?
29:17She was Mindy's best friend.
29:19And she'll be there tomorrow,
29:20and I'm sure she'd appreciate
29:21if at least one doctor took responsibility
29:23for what happened to her best friend.
29:27I'd be happy to.
29:28It's the least I can do.
29:51It's the least I can do.
29:54Sure.
29:56Well, if you won't let me valet park,
29:58can I at least walk you back to your hotel?
30:01Jesse, if I wanted you to walk me back,
30:03I would have let you park.
30:06Okay, I get it.
30:24After the inquest, I want to take Mindy's body home.
30:30I owe it to her parents and to her and to myself.
30:34She was a dear friend to me at a time
30:36when I really needed one.
30:40But if I let this go any further today,
30:44going home is going to be really hard.
30:47Really?
30:48Really.
30:50I had a great time today.
30:53So did I.
30:58Bye.
31:06That was the nicest kiss-off I have ever had.
31:41What have you got?
31:42Female in her 20s in an acute hypovolemic shock
31:44suspected to our emphemoral type
31:46and cross-start a second IV wide-open plasmate.
31:49Go, go, Prima 1.
31:53Hey, anything new on Julia?
31:55No, she's still unassisted breathing and comatose.
31:57Doesn't look good.
31:58Oh, man, if only I'd been there.
32:00You were there.
32:01If it weren't for you, she never would have made it.
32:02I didn't walk her to her door.
32:04I didn't see the driver.
32:06I didn't even get the whole license plate.
32:08No, but she got enough.
32:09You found the car?
32:10A black explorer was reported stolen last night.
32:13Found it abandoned in a parking lot
32:14about a mile from Julia's hotel.
32:17So whoever stole the car must have dumped it
32:19right after they hit Julia.
32:20Yeah, it looks that way.
32:22Poor Julia.
32:23I mean, first Mindy, and then this accident.
32:26Accident?
32:27What makes you think it was an accident?
32:29Well, I mean, just because two awful things
32:30happened to two friends in the same week
32:32doesn't mean that they have to be connected.
32:34No, they don't have to be,
32:36but in my experience, they usually are.
32:37Just I haven't made the connection yet.
32:41I graduated from Vanderbilt Medical School
32:43in the fall of 1991, sir.
32:46I did my surgical residency
32:47at St. Edward Mercy in Little Rock,
32:49and I got my surgical diploma in 1995
32:53from the American Plastic and Reconstructive Board,
32:56and I joined the Dinell Clinic last November.
33:00The on-site swabs done by the health department
33:03not only turned up Pseudomonas bacteria,
33:05but also Staphylococcus, Pneumocystis,
33:07and a whole other array of bacteria.
33:11In my opinion, yes.
33:13There may have been lapses in ROR.
33:16Did you ever make Dr. Dinell aware
33:18of your concerns, doctor?
33:20Yes, I did.
33:28I want this board to know
33:29that I am as shocked by what was found
33:31in our O.R. as anyone,
33:33and I cannot explain it,
33:36except to say that I believe
33:38I have been targeted by Dr. Sloan,
33:40Dr. Bentley, and others in this room,
33:43not for the quality of our care,
33:45but for what we represent.
33:47Are you suggesting we're looking
33:48at falsified results?
33:50No.
33:50But this is about power and politics.
33:53Old medicine versus new.
33:55A giant hospital is taking on a small clinic
33:58that gives the kind of speedy,
34:00cost-efficient surgery
34:02that makes it impossible
34:03for dinosaurs like Dr. Sloan
34:05and community general to survive.
34:08But our surgery eases human suffering
34:11every bit as much as theirs does.
34:14For the painfully shy teenager
34:16who's so ashamed of her nose,
34:18the morbidly obese man
34:20who cannot get a job,
34:23the fading star
34:24trying to add just a few years
34:26to her career,
34:27were their last hope.
34:47upon review of the testimony,
34:49the board has unanimously decided
34:52to immediately withdraw
34:53surgical certification
34:54of the Donnell Clinic.
34:57We further order hearing BL
34:58to consider revocation
34:59of Dr. Elaine H. Donnell's license
35:01to practice medicine.
35:03the other day.
35:03I'll do it.
35:06I'll do it.
35:10I'll do it.
35:18This wasn't a hearing.
35:19This was a farce.
35:20And I'm not gonna let you get away with it.
35:27we may have won but it feels a little hollow never was gonna bring back mindy but it sure
35:32would make me feel better to know if julia brush is gonna pull through i don't know it would i
35:37just wish she'd have been here you know julia should have seen this each and every one of
35:42those clinic doctors should have to look her in the eye that's it what's it the key to mindy
35:48yates murder elaine daniel was right this whole thing was a farce premeditated by the same person
35:54who killed mindy yates
36:06okay here's the list of every teaching hospital in the country have a look at it and then i'll tell
36:11you why i think mindy yates cheek implants were deliberately contaminated dad what does this
36:16have to do with julia brush being run down by a stolen car everything it struck me at the inquest
36:21when you said if julia had been there she would have looked every one of those doctors in the eye
36:25somebody in that room didn't want her there or they'd be recognized but which doctor it's right
36:31there in front of you st edwards mercy hospital in little rock that's where dr johnson said he did
36:36his residency his dad had the biggest nose in arkansas remember so johnson was julia's ex-fiance
36:43the one who botched that simple stomach bypass and killed the patient i think of everything he
36:48told us one thing was the truth when he went in to insist with mindy's surgery he got sick all
36:55right
36:55because laying on the table was his ex-fiance's best friend a patient who sooner or later was going to
37:00recognize him and expose his malpractice past he knew that if he was going to prevent it right then
37:06there was the time he excused himself went into the lab filled a syringe with bacteria and when
37:15no one was looking laced the implants then he got schermer to replace him so that he and danelle
37:22would take the blame if there was ever an inquiry how does a doctor who lost his license in arkansas
37:27get a job here unfortunately that's fairly simple oh it's a scandal in this country there's no national
37:33clearinghouse that keeps track of malpractice yeah a doctor always has his degree to fall back on
37:37you can practically kill somebody in one state have your license revoked and to go start a new
37:42practice and a new life in another state which is what dr johnson must have done until mindy came
37:47along yeah given how often mindy was in and out of that clinic sooner or later she was going to
37:52recognize johnson and reveal his past that clinic was a mess you said so yourself couldn't that
37:57contamination have been accidental well that was my problem was way too messy there could have been
38:02dozens of deaths well if that clinic was dirtied up then johnson knew the inspection was coming
38:08how schermer we told him we needed his statement to get an inspection and he's who we need to talk
38:15to
38:20detective i uh thought i'd given you all the help you needed oh you can answer another question or
38:25two huh uh-huh why did you let dr johnson know that uh health services was about to do a
38:30spot
38:30inspection i didn't well that's not what your phone records show you called dr johnson not 10 minutes
38:38after you spoke with dr bentley and dr travis all right i uh i called to warn him to get
38:45out
38:47why johnson johnson's a friend all right i knew that the clinic might fail an inspection
38:53i'm gonna need a statement from you admitting you called johnson otherwise you're an accessory to
38:58murder to murder that's right because your friend johnson arranged for you to put in a
39:04contaminated implants that killed mindy the arkansas state medical board revoked the medical license of
39:11a dr richard johnson four years ago don't tell me let me guess he bungled a resection on a woman's
39:17stomach didn't get it to er on time great julia's ex-fiance is our murderer but we can't prove it
39:22what about the staff around the clinic didn't they notice anything at all i went through all the police
39:26interviews any one of those clinic surgeons could have contaminated those implants they all had prior
39:31access to the lab a woman dies because she's in the wrong place at the wrong time and we can't
39:36make
39:36a case for being unconscious in the wrong place at the wrong time right unconscious don't you see
39:45julia brushes our case she's an intensive care on life support how could she help us
39:52let's talk over here
40:04you mind if i come in no what can i do for you well um actually i stopped by to
40:12apologize for
40:13throwing you out of work no it's not your fault truth is it's better this way still losing your
40:19income do you have anything lined up well maybe i can help i mean there's always some place around
40:26here looking for a really good surgeon that's kind of you but with all this publicity i was thinking
40:32about seattle there's a clinic there with an opening seattle really you know i just went to a medical
40:39conference out there you are going to love it it's so beautiful all that nature and that booming
40:45economy i think so i sure hate to leave you know i was hoping to stay here a long time
40:50oh well there
40:51is one bright spot mindy's friend julia brush she left intensive care this afternoon oh mindy's friend
40:57that's right no wonder i didn't get a chance to apologize to her she had an accident oh and a
41:02bad
41:02one but you'll be able to now she's going to be all right is she conscious well briefly but no
41:08one
41:08was able to make out what she was trying to say she's going to be okay oh that's wonderful so
41:14remember if you need me to make a call or a letter of recommendation or just contacts up in seattle
41:19get in touch with me i'll be happy to help thank you
41:27get in touch with you
42:55Do you need any help with that, doctor?
43:01Police!
43:02Hold it!
43:11You know, Dr. Johnson, you're a regular triple-thet man.
43:15This guy can kill somebody with a scalpel, an automobile, or a syringe.
43:40I don't know how to thank you.
43:43You saved my life.
43:46You did.
43:48Come here.
43:58I don't want to make this any more difficult for you.
44:02You won't.
44:09I guess we know where Jesse will be spending his next vacation.
44:12Uh-oh.
44:13Dr. Sloan!
44:15Yes?
44:15Hello.
44:16I've come here to thank you personally.
44:19Oh, you didn't have to do that.
44:20I think getting the charges cleared and your license reinstated was the least I could do.
44:24The very least.
44:24Of course.
44:25That's why I'm not thanking you for that.
44:26It's for the $20 million I'm going to collect from you and this hospital for defamation.
44:32You're suing me?
44:34Your reckless charges smeared my reputation and cost me countless patients.
44:39It will take me years to recoup what I've lost, both professionally and personally.
44:46You know something?
44:47You're absolutely right.
44:49She is?
44:50Yes, she is.
44:51As a matter of fact, doctor, I'd be happy to testify on your behalf.
44:54You will?
44:56Yes.
44:56I mean, I think all I have to do is tell them the facts.
44:59All the many surgeries that Mindy had, the high volume of patients you see every day,
45:04the fine doctors on your staff.
45:06And I'll just explain to them that you had no way of knowing that one of them had been
45:10stripped of his license for killing a patient in another state.
45:13I mean, you're very busy.
45:14You don't have time to go checking into the background of every doctor you hire.
45:18I'll make sure they understand that.
45:37You ever thought about being a lawyer?
45:39Too bloody.
45:40Yeah.
45:43I know.
45:44I know.
46:15Viacom
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