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No Remedy on Flight EP
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00:00After 48 straight hours in the operating room at Chicago Med, I passed out cold on a red-eye to
00:04LAX.
00:05Sir, this flight is oversold. You need to deplane. Now!
00:08A woman was being ushered onto the plane by the crew, all smiles and bowed heads.
00:11She gets on? And I, who already boarded, get kicked off?
00:16That's Victoria Harrington. Her father owns Harrington Pharmaceuticals.
00:19She's rushing to LA for surgery with the Dr. Blake.
00:22You can't even afford a full fare ticket, you broke loser.
00:25Here's 50 bucks. Now get lost.
00:30My bag and I got dumped onto the jet bridge.
00:31I watched him turn back to fawn over Victoria, and I smiled.
00:35He thought I was some broke nobody who couldn't afford a plane ticket.
00:38What he didn't know was that I am Dr. Blake.
00:40The same Dr. Blake the Harringtons had been begging for an entire year to finally fly out to LA and
00:46perform that surgery.
00:47The same Dr. Blake who's pioneering minimally invasive cardiac technique the medical establishment had spent five years trying to bury.
00:53They kicked me off? Fine. The surgery's off.
00:56Victoria Harrington can just go ahead and die.
01:02I need a refund!
01:04Can't refund it.
01:05What do you mean you can't refund it?
01:06Your airline oversold the flight.
01:08I boarded legally, then got forcibly removed.
01:10Now you're telling me you won't refund my ticket?
01:15You chose to get off the plane. That's on you, not the airline.
01:18What, you think every passenger who changes their mind gets a free refund?
01:21We'd go bront.
01:22Keep your voice down. This is a workplace.
01:25I knew it was you. Causing trouble on the plane wasn't enough? Now you're harassing our staff on the ground?
01:28So that's what I smelled on the plane. Cheap cologne and desperation. You reek of poverty.
01:33What, 50 bucks wasn't enough? Now you want the whole fare refund too?
01:37Look at this guy. Young, able buddy and pulling scams on an airline? Unbelievable.
01:41We heard him. He chose to get off. Now he wants money for it? He's clearly insane.
01:45At least the public understands. We in customer service deal with people like this every day. It's fine. We're used
01:50to the abuse.
01:51I pushed through the crowd and grabbed a supervisor by the arm.
01:54Write me a refund slip. Make it clear. Oversold flight, forcible denial of boarding, and that's why I'm seeking a
02:00refund.
02:01That way, when the Harringtons came calling, they'd know I didn't just flake on them.
02:04Refund? In your dreams. Get him out of here.
02:08You're gonna regret this.
02:12You're gonna regret this. I'll be waiting for you to beg.
02:18Oh, look. A junkie. That explains the grafting. Probably doesn't have long to live anyway.
02:23Guys like you? Wasting oxygen. Do the world a favor and drop dead already.
02:27The experimental targeted gene therapy inside, the only batch in existence, leaked into a puddle on the floor.
02:31The only medication that could get Victoria Harrington through the critical post-op infection window gone.
02:36Now she could actually go ahead and die.
02:37I've seen your type before. Trying to get Victoria Harrington's attention so you can be her kept man.
02:43Two security guards grabbed me by the arms and threw me out like a bag of trash.
02:47Get lost. Don't contaminate our airport with your presence.
02:50I reached for my phone to call 911, but it was already buzzing like crazy. I answered.
02:54Harrington's head of security, Marcus Webb, immediately started screaming.
02:58Where the hell are you? The airline says you demanded to get off the plane?
03:01The Harringtons put 10 million into your hospital just to get you here, and you're pulling stunts?
03:05Do you have any idea who you're dealing with?
03:07We have private doctors on Retentor. We only called you because Victoria's case is terminal and you're supposedly the best.
03:11Don't you dare get cute with us.
03:14If you're not in that OR tonight, I will personally make sure you never practice medicine in this country again.
03:20And if anything happens to Miss Harrington, you'll wish you'd never been born.
03:26The line went dead. I took a deep breath and called back.
03:29Stop wasting time and get your ass to LA. Now!
03:31I'm not coming. Ask the flight attendant on Victoria's plane why.
03:34I logged into my bank account and wired back the $50,000 deposit the Harringtons had paid me.
03:39$50,000 wasn't worth my dignity.
03:41I hung up before Marcus could respond, then blocked his number.
03:44I looked at the destroyed vials of experimental medication and let out a cold laugh.
03:48Victoria Harrington's life? Not my problem anymore.
03:50I grabbed a cab back to the hospital.
03:54You harassed Victoria Harrington?
03:56The flight attendant said you caused a scene, tried to extort the airline, and made the crew fear for their
04:02safety.
04:03He had no choice but to remove you.
04:05The Harringtons are worth billions. What are you worth? Nothing!
04:08You turn down their invitation and I swear to God, your career is over!
04:16The flight attendant had done a hell of a job spinning the story, and the Harringtons, billionaires who could afford
04:21any lawyer, any private investigator, hadn't even bothered to pull the security footage.
04:25They just believed the first story they heard.
04:27Morrison kept screaming.
04:28Either you get on a plane and do that surgery tonight, or you clean out your besk right now.
04:33This hospital afforded to piss off the Harringtons, and frankly, we can't afford you.
04:36I didn't say a word.
04:37I just found a piece of paper and a pen and wrote out my resignation.
04:40Three years of non-stop surgeries, no real days off, being called in at 2 a.m. to cover for
04:44some attending who didn't feel like working.
04:46Three years of watching Morrison and his cronies at the medical board try to bury my research because it threatened
04:51their profitable established procedures.
04:52I was done.
04:54Are you insane? I yell at you a little and you quit?
04:57Yeah, I'm done. I'm going to Cancun. Tell the Harringtons to come find me if they want me so bad.
05:04Blake, get back here!
05:08I checked my watch.
05:09One hour had passed since Victoria boarded that plane.
05:12Her condition should be hitting its crisis point by now.
05:14Without my medication and my technique, that flight wasn't taking her to L.A.
05:18It was taking her straight to the morgue.
05:22I went home, turned off my phone, and collapsed.
05:24After 74 hours without sleep, I woke up a full day later, finally feeling like a human being again.
05:29Dozens of missed calls, dozens of voicemails.
05:32I declined call after call.
05:33Finally, on the 15th try, I answered.
05:35Dr. Blake, please, please get to L.A.
05:38Victoria Harrington is seizing.
05:39She's turning blue.
05:40The airline has cleared a private jet for you.
05:42You called me a broke loser who couldn't afford a begging me to fly?
05:45Now you're funny how that works.
05:46Shut up!
05:47Without the Harringtons leaning on you, you wouldn't even have my number!
05:50You're still just...
05:52I hung up, blocked the number.
05:54Ten minutes later, someone started pounding on my front door like they were trying to knock
05:58it down.
05:59I pulled up my doorbell camera and almost laughed.
06:01That same flight attendant, plus three huge guys with crowbars, was literally prying at
06:05my door.
06:07Blake!
06:08Get out here or we're breaking this door down!
06:10I'll tie you up and drag you to the plane if I have to!
06:12The Harringtons must have leaned hard on the airline.
06:14My next door neighbor, I didn't even know her name.
06:17Excuse me, what's going on?
06:18What did Dr. Blake do?
06:20He took $100,000 to do a surgery and then ghosted.
06:22Now the patient's dying and he's hiding in his apartment like a coward.
06:25He belongs in prison.
06:26The neighbor's face is curdled.
06:27I knew it!
06:28He never even helped me with that rash I asked about last month, probably because he's a fraud.
06:32$100,000?
06:32And he's too scared to operate?
06:34He clearly knows he'd kill the patient.
06:37Break it down!
06:38The Harringtons are breathing my neck and I'm not going down alone!
06:44Just as he said it, click, the door swung open.
06:48The second I stepped out, a bucket of dirty mop water hit me in the chest.
06:53I was pulling out my phone, soaked but still working, to call the cops when heavy, synchronized
06:57footsteps echoed down the hall.
07:00Marcus Webb, the Harringtons' head of security, walked in pinching his nose like he'd just
07:04stepped in something foul.
07:05He looked at me like I was a piece of trash just as fast.
07:08The flight attendant's face transformed.
07:10Mr. Webb!
07:11I was just about to tell you I found him!
07:13The surgery will happen tonight!
07:15I guarantee it!
07:16Marcus didn't even look at him.
07:19Dr. Blake.
07:19He just pulled a check from his inside pocket.
07:21$100,000.
07:22Up front.
07:23Another $100,000 when the surgery's done.
07:26$200,000.
07:26More than you'll make in five years.
07:29Get on the plane.
07:30The Harringtons are willing to forget everything that happened.
07:32Gasps rippled through the crowd.
07:34Eyes went wide at the check.
07:35Even the flight attendant swallowed hard.
07:39I took the check, and then I ripped it in half.
07:42Then ripped it again.
07:43Pieces of paper fluttered to the floor like confetti.
07:47Marcus's face went from neutral to murderous in half a second.
07:50His voice dropped to ice.
07:54Dr. Blake.
07:55Don't mistake our generosity for weakness.
07:58If you won't come willingly, we have other ways.
08:03I heard your daughter goes to Sunshine Kindergarten.
08:05Oak Street.
08:06My blood went cold.
08:08How the hell did they know about Lily?
08:09Marcus saw my face change and smile.
08:11If you touch my daughter, I swear!
08:13That's entirely up to you, doctor.
08:16If something happens to Miss Harrington, I can't guarantee your daughter won't have a little accident, too.
08:21Pack his bag.
08:22We're leaving.
08:22Wow.
08:23The Harringtons ask you to work and you play hard to get?
08:25That's a bold strategy.
08:25Let's see if it pays off.
08:27What the hell are you laughing at?
08:30Laughing because you have no idea what's about to happen.
08:34Even if I go, Victoria will still die.
08:39What do you mean?
08:40In the first flicker of fear.
08:43The medication that could get your boss's daughter through the infection window.
08:46He stomped it into powder.
08:47The only batch of that experimental gene therapy in existence.
08:50No medication, no miracle.
08:52Not from me, not from anyone.
08:54The flight attendant's face went white.
08:57That's bullshit!
08:58There was never any medication!
09:00Those were just vitamins!
09:01He was scrambling so hard I almost felt bad for him.
09:05Don't listen to him, Mr. Webb!
09:07He's trying to cover for his own incompetence!
09:10Nothing the Harringtons can't find out, right?
09:12So go check the footage.
09:14Marcus looked at me, still laughing, then at the flight attendant.
09:17It looked like he was about to throw up.
09:20Finally, Marcus grunted.
09:23One dose of medication?
09:25We have money.
09:27We have resources.
09:28We'll find more.
09:29Put him in the car.
09:33The bodyguards blindfolded me and shoved me into the back of a black SUV.
09:37We have money.
09:45Three hours later, after they power-washed the mop water off me in a loading dock,
09:50they pushed me into the ICU.
09:56Victoria Harrington, who'd looked like a million bucks just yesterday, was gray, barely breathing.
10:02When they saw my face, their eyes went wide.
10:04Dr. Blake, the Dr. Blake, thank God, because Harrington is going to begin.
10:08A man in a $3,000 suit pushed through the crowd.
10:11Arthur Harrington, Victoria's father.
10:12He didn't say hello.
10:14He tossed a blank check at my feet.
10:15Name your price.
10:17I'll make you the most famous surgeon in America.
10:22I gritted my teeth.
10:23But if she dies,
10:24every single one of them was garbage.
10:25You and your whole family will wish you'd never been born.
10:29I looked him dead in the eye and smiled.
10:32With all due respect, sir, you'd be better off spending your money on a nice cemetery plot.
10:37Because she doesn't have long.
10:50Did you just curse my daughter?
10:56Get his kid!
10:58Now!
10:58Let's see how brave he is when she's in the room.
11:00From down the hall, I heard a little girl start screaming.
11:03You're animals.
11:04Can you do the surgery now?
11:06I took a deep breath, pulled out my phone, hit play.
11:09The medication your daughter needed?
11:12Here's what happened to it.
11:15The video showed the flight attendant smirking, proud of himself, stomping the vials into dust.
11:23I've seen your type before.
11:25Trying to get Victoria Harrington's attention so you can be her kept man.
11:28Arthur Harrington's head turned slowly toward the flight attendant.
11:30The flight attendant dropped to his knee.
11:32Mr. Harrington, Mr. Harrington, please.
11:33Let me explain.
11:35Crack.
11:36One kick.
11:36Arthur Harrington wasn't a small man.
11:38The flight attendant flew across the room.
11:46The flight attendant lay crumpled on the floor, gasping for breath.
11:49Then his eyes landed on someone.
11:51A tall, distinguished man in an expensive suit.
11:53He'd been standing in the corner the whole time, observing.
11:56The flight attendant dragged himself across the floor and grabbed the man's leg.
11:59Dr. Hamilton, Dr. Hamilton is the chief medical advisor to the hospital board.
12:03He's top ten nationally in cardiac surgery.
12:05He can save Ms. Harrington.
12:07Blake is a fraud.
12:08He's all reputation and no skill.
12:09His so-called minimally invasive technique is just a way to cover up his incompetence.
12:12Dr. Hamilton stepped back like the flight attendant was contagious, smoothing his suit jacket.
12:16But he didn't say no.
12:26Mr. Harrington, I don't understand why you trust a man who's currently under investigation
12:30by the medical board.
12:34His paper in the New England Journal of Medicine couldn't survive peer review.
12:38There's a reason his technique hasn't been adopted by any major institution.
12:42I've handled hundreds of cases like your daughter's.
12:44Following the established clinical pathway, I can guarantee a 95% success rate.
12:49A surgeon with no institutional backing, no published replication studies,
12:53no board certification in three of the five relevant subspecialties,
12:57and he wants to lecture me about cardiac care?
13:00Arthur Harrington's eyes moved between us.
13:02On one hand, Dr. Hamilton, Harvard-trained, published in every major journal.
13:06On the other hand, me, Rumpel, tired.
13:09Arthur Harrington made his choice.
13:12Go ahead and get up.
13:21Dr. Hamilton, if you save my daughter,
13:25Harrington Pharmaceuticals will fund your research for the next decade.
13:28Unlimited budget.
13:29Hamilton allowed himself a small smile.
13:31You won't regret this, Mr. Harrington.
13:32Arthur nodded.
13:33Then his eyes landed on me.
13:37As for this quag...
13:39He didn't finish the sentence.
13:40He didn't have to.
13:41The bodyguard grabbed me.
13:44As they dragged me out,
13:45I watched Hamilton pull out his custom-made surgical kit,
13:48the instruments laid out in perfect order on a sterile tray.
13:54I looked at Victoria's chart one last time.
13:56Are you insane?
13:58Victoria's anatomy is itympical.
14:00She has a congenital variation in her coronary vasculogy.
14:03If you follow the standard protocol,
14:04you'll hit an anomalous vessel,
14:05and she'll hemorrhage on the table.
14:08Choose my technique now,
14:10and she might have a chance.
14:12Otherwise, she's dead in 20 minutes.
14:14Arthur Harrington froze.
14:15His eyes flickered between me and Hamilton.
14:17Dr. Blake, spare us the theatricals.
14:20Every failed surgeon blames atypical anatomy.
14:22The literature doesn't support your approach.
14:24The data doesn't support your approach.
14:25You have nothing but anecdotes and arrogance.
14:27He walked into the O.R. without looking back.
14:31The bodyguard shoved me into a supply basket
14:35and locked the door.
14:36I didn't pound on it.
14:37I didn't scream.
14:38I just sat there and watched the clock tick.
14:4623 minutes later, someone started screaming in the hallway.
14:49The door in the supply closet burst open.
14:52Marcus Webb, the head of security,
14:53Dr. Blake, please,
14:57fell to his knees in front of me and grabbed my legs.
15:00Arthur Harrington pushed past him.
15:02Dr. Blake, I was wrong.
15:03I was a fool.
15:04Please, please save my daughter.
15:06She's 22 years old.
15:07I can't watch her die.
15:10He looked up at me, tears streaming down his face.
15:15You have a daughter.
15:17You understand?
15:17I looked past him, past Marcus,
15:19down the hallway to the O.R.
15:20The doors burst open.
15:22Dr. Hamilton stumbled out.
15:23He was covered in blood from head to toe.
15:26Impossible.
15:27Impossible.
15:27She shouldn't have hemorrhaged like that.
15:30I followed the protocol.
15:31Every step.
15:32Why didn't it...
15:34Idiots.
15:35Victoria Harrington had an anomalous right coronary artery.
15:38It was right there in her scans,
15:40if you knew what to look for.
15:51Hamilton had been too busy being right to look.
15:56Arthur Harrington saw Hamilton stumble out,
15:58saw the blood,
15:59and let out a noise.
15:59Please, I'll give you anything.
16:02Anything.
16:03I didn't say a word.
16:04I just stood up and walked into the O.R.
16:07The scene inside made me stop breathing.
16:09It didn't look like a surgery.
16:11It looked like a murder scene.
16:13She had almost no blood left in her body.
16:16You absolute moron!
16:20I kicked Hamilton out of the O.R.
16:24Sent him stumbling into the hallway.
16:26Then I got to work.
16:27I had to improvise.
16:29I grabbed the basic kit they had,
16:30not what I would have chosen,
16:31but enough.
16:32And I started cutting.
16:33Not the way Hamilton cut.
16:35Not the way the textbook said to cut.
16:37The way I'd spent ten years learning.
16:39Small incisions,
16:40precise angles,
16:42following the anatomy,
16:43not biting it,
16:44avoiding the main vessels,
16:45working through the gaps.
16:46Sweat dripped off my face
16:47onto Victoria's skin.
16:49The situation was a hundred times worse
16:51than it should have been.
16:52The anomalous vessel was shredded
16:54and the heart was struggling.
16:55I kept working.
16:56One suture at a time,
16:57one vessel at a time,
16:58for forty minutes,
16:59then sixty.
17:01My legs gave out
17:02and I hit the floor.
17:04When Harrington's people
17:05flooded into the O.R.R.
17:06Marcus grabbed me
17:07and took a look.
17:08What about my daughter?
17:09And hauled me halfway
17:11off the ground.
17:12She's alive.
17:14Arthur Harrington's face
17:14started to lift.
17:16What?
17:16The word landed like a gunshot.
17:18She lost too much blood,
17:19too many organs
17:20went without oxygen,
17:21and Hamilton's surgical errors.
17:23Without my medication,
17:24she'll never wake up.
17:25The room went silent.
17:29What do you mean,
17:31never wake up?
17:33Most families choose
17:34to pull the plug.
17:35The cost isn't sustainable.
17:37Arthur Harrington's face twisted,
17:39the hope in his eyes
17:40curdled into something else.
17:48A vengeable?
17:49I paid you $200,000
17:51to save my daughter
17:52and you turned her
17:52into a vengeable!
17:54You did this on purpose.
17:56You're getting revenge
17:57because of what happened
17:58on that plane?
17:59If it weren't for me,
18:00your daughter would already
18:01be in a body bag.
18:04If you hadn't stalled
18:05and schemed
18:06and played games,
18:07I never would have trusted
18:07Hamilton in the first place.
18:09This is your fault.
18:11And I'm going to make sure
18:12you watch your whole family
18:13die because of it.
18:14You're dead, Blake!
18:15Do you hear me?
18:16Dead!
18:17Where is his kid?
18:19Break your legs!
18:20I want him to know
18:21what this feels like!
18:24I told you not to trust Hamilton!
18:26I told you!
18:26And you made that choice!
18:28Not me!
18:28Daddy!
18:29Daddy, help!
18:39I want him to spend
18:40the rest of his miserable life
18:41eating out of dumpsters.
18:42And then,
18:43when he's got nothing left,
18:46he can join my daughter in hell.
18:49I don't know how long I was out.
18:50When I woke up,
18:52Lily's crying brought me back.
18:53Her face was covered in blood.
18:55Not hers.
18:56Mine.
18:58I got to my feet,
18:59picked her up,
19:00walked out of that hospital
19:01and didn't look back.
19:02The Harringtons moved fast.
19:04At 3 a.m.,
19:04the hashtag started trending.
19:06Hashtag DrBlakeScamUnlicensedSurgery.
19:08$100,000 fees.
19:10Patient brain dead.
19:11The bots flooded
19:12every comment section.
19:13This is why people hate doctors.
19:14Greedy.
19:15Arrogant.
19:15Murders.
19:17My parents,
19:18living in a small town
19:18three hours away,
19:19got egged going to the grocery store.
19:23Marcus called me just to gloat.
19:25DrBlake,
19:26this is what happens
19:26when you cross the Harringtons.
19:28And we're just getting
19:29started.
19:30Tell your mom to pick out
19:31a nice plot for you.
19:32You're going to need it.
19:33Did they really think
19:34I hadn't prepared for this?
19:36I logged into my Twitter account,
19:37the notifications were crashed,
19:38the app was barely functional,
19:39and I started posting.
19:41The recording from the plane,
19:42the airport security footage,
19:43the OR records showing
19:44Hamilton's error,
19:45and the recording of
19:46Arthur Harrington
19:46threatening to kill my family.
19:48The internet broke.
19:50The second the evidence went live,
19:52the entire country
19:53lost its mind.
19:54Within an hour,
19:55the airline was drowning
19:56in refund requests.
19:57Their cash flow froze.
19:58Stock price?
19:59Free fall.
19:59A billion dollars in market cap,
20:01gone.
20:01The airline tried to stay quiet,
20:03then they panic-fired
20:03the flight attendant
20:04and his father,
20:05a vice president.
20:06I want to sincerely apologize
20:08to DrBlake,
20:09to the passengers,
20:11to everyone I hurt.
20:12They dug up everything.
20:14Workplace harassment,
20:15passenger complaints,
20:15records of him threatening coworkers.
20:18The Harringtons?
20:19Their products got pulled
20:20from every major retailer.
20:22Customer boycotts spread like wildfire.
20:24A billion-dollar pharmaceutical empire,
20:26gone,
20:26in less than 60 minutes.
20:28And then,
20:28a twist no one saw coming.
20:29A billion-dollar empire,
20:30gone in 60 minutes.
20:34The Journal of the American Medical Association tweeted,
20:36Not a statement.
20:38A retraction of their previous position.
20:40Then Johns Hopkins tweeted,
20:41We are pleased to announce
20:42that DrBlake has accepted a position
20:44as Director of Innovative Cardiac Surgery
20:45at Johns Hopkins Hospital.
20:47He will begin next month.
20:49My DMs went from death threats
20:50to apologies.
20:51Then my phone rang.
20:53It was my father's number.
20:54DrBlake,
20:55I'll admit you're clever,
20:57hiding your family like that.
20:59Don't listen to him, son!
21:00But I told you,
21:01the Harringtons find everything.
21:04Call the police, baby!
21:07DrBlake,
21:07I know about the compound.
21:09The one your family developed.
21:11The one the Harringtons were trying
21:12to reverse engineer
21:13before all this started.
21:14Give it to us.
21:15Give it to Victoria.
21:17And the Harringtons
21:18will let your family live.
21:19One hour.
21:20If I don't have that compound in my hand,
21:23I'll send you a video of,
21:25of your parents
21:26and your daughter saying goodbye.
21:28Permanently.
21:29I almost laughed.
21:30They had no idea
21:31what they were asking for.
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