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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
00:05LAX.
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.
00:12She gets on? And I, who already boarded, get kicked off?
00:16That's Victoria Harrington. Her father owns Harrington Pharmaceuticals.
00:20She's rushing to LA for surgery with the Dr. Blake.
00:23You can't even afford a full fare ticket, you broke loser.
00:26Here's 50 bucks. Now get lost.
00:30My bag and I got dumped on the jet bridge.
00:32I 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,
00:41the same Dr. Blake the Harringtons had been begging for an entire year
00:44to finally fly out to LA and perform that surgery.
00:47The same Dr. Blake who's pioneering minimally invasive cardiac technique
00:50the medical establishment had spent five years trying to bury.
00:53They kicked me off? Fine. The surgery's off.
00:57Victoria Harrington can just go ahead and die.
01:03I 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.
01:16That'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.
01:24I knew it was you.
01:25Causing trouble on the plane wasn't enough?
01:27Now you're harassing our staff on the ground?
01:28So that's what I smelled on the plane.
01:30Cheap cologne and desperation.
01:32You reek of poverty.
01:33What, 50 bucks wasn't enough?
01:35Now you want the whole fare refund too?
01:37Look at this guy.
01:38Young, able buddy and pulling scams on an airline?
01:40Unbelievable.
01:41We heard him.
01:42He chose to get off.
01:43Now he wants money for it?
01:44He's clearly insane.
01:45At least the public understands.
01:46We in customer service deal with people like this every day.
01:49It's fine.
01:50We're used to the abuse.
01:51I pushed through the crowd and grabbed a supervisor by the arm.
01:54Write me a refund slip.
01:56Make it clear.
01:57Oversold flight.
01:58Forcible denial of boarding.
01:59And that's why I'm seeking a refund.
02:01That way, when the Harringtons came calling, they'd know I didn't just flake on them.
02:05Refund?
02:05In your dreams.
02:07Get him out of here.
02:09You're gonna regret this.
02:12You're gonna regret this.
02:14I'll be waiting for you to beg.
02:27The experimental targeted gene therapy inside, the only batch in existence, leaked into a
02:31puddle on the floor.
02:31The only medication that could get Victoria Harrington through the critical post-op infection
02:35window gone.
02:36Now she could actually go ahead and die.
02:38I've seen your type before, trying to get Victoria Harrington's attention so you can
02:41be her kept man.
02:44Two security guards grabbed me by the arms and threw me out like a bag of trash.
02:47Get lost.
02:48Don't contaminate our airport with your presence.
02:50I reached for my phone to call 911, but it was already buzzing like crazy.
02:53I answered.
02:54Harrington's head of security, Marcus Webb, immediately started screaming.
02:58Where the hell are you?
02:59The 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.
03:09We only called you because Victoria's case is terminal, and you're supposedly the best.
03:12Don'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
03:19country again.
03:21And if anything happens to Miss Harrington, you'll wish you'd never been born.
03:26The line went dead.
03:28I took a deep breath and called back.
03:29Stop wasting time and get your ass to LA now.
03:31I'm not coming.
03:32Asked 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.
03:3950 grand 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?
03:49Not 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
04:01crew fear for their safety.
04:03He had no choice but to remove you.
04:05The Harringtons are worth billions.
04:07What are you worth?
04:08Nothing.
04:09You turned 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,
04:20billionaires who could afford any lawyer, any private investigator, hadn't even bothered
04:24to 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
04:44for some 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
04:50because it threatened their profitable established procedures.
04:53I was done.
04:54Are you insane?
04:55I yell at you a little and you quit?
04:57Yeah, I'm done.
04:59I'm going to Cancun.
05:00Tell 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.
05:15Without 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.
05:25After 74 hours without sleep, I woke up a full day later, finally feeling like a human being again.
05:30Dozens 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!
05:51You're still just...
05:53I hung up, blocked the number.
05:55Ten minutes later, someone started pounding on my front door like they were trying to knock it down.
05:59I pulled up my doorbell camera and almost laughed.
06:01That same flight attendant, plus three huge guys with crowbars, was literally crying at my 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.
06:15My next-door neighbor, I didn't even know her name.
06:17Excuse me, what's going on?
06:19What 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.
06:28I 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?
06:33And 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 footsteps echoed down
06:58the hall.
07:01Marcus Webb, the Harringtons' head of security, walked in pinching his nose like he'd just stepped in something foul.
07:06He looked at me like I was a piece of trash just as fast.
07:09The 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.
07:20He just pulled a check from his inside pocket.
07:21$100,000.
07:23Up front.
07:24Another $100,000 when the surgery's done.
07:26$200,000.
07:27More than you'll make in five years.
07:29Get on the plane.
07:30The Harringtons are willing to forget everything that happened.
07:32A gasp 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.
07:48Marcus's face went from neutral to murderous in half a second.
07:51His voice dropped to ice.
07:54Dr. Blake, don't mistake our generosity for weakness.
07:59If you won't come willingly, we have other ways.
08:03I heard your daughter goes to Sunshine Kindergarten, Oak Street.
08:07My blood went cold.
08:08How the hell did they know about Lily?
08:09Marcus saw my face change and smiled.
08:11If you touch my daughter, I swear!
08:13That's entirely up to you, doctor.
08:16If something happens to Miss Harrington,
08:17I can't guarantee your daughter won't have a little accident, too.
08:21Pack his bag. We're leaving.
08:22Wow. The Harringtons ask you to work and you play hard to get?
08:25That's a bold strategy. Let'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?
08:41In 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, the only batch of that experimental gene therapy in existence.
08:51No medication, no miracle.
08:52Not from me, not from anyone.
08:54The flight attendant's face went white.
08:58That's bullshit!
08:59There 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.
09:18Looked 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
09:34and shoved me into the back of a black SUV.
09:45Three hours later, after they'd power-washed the mop water off me in a loading dock,
09:50they pushed me into the ICU.
09:56Victoria Harrington, who looked like a million bucks just yesterday, was gray, barely breathing.
10:02When they saw my face, their eyes went wide.
10:04Dr. Blake!
10:05The Dr. Blake!
10:06Thank God.
10:07His Harrington is going to make it.
10:08A man in a $3,000 suit pushed through the crowd.
10:11Arthur Harrington, Victoria's father.
10:13He 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 at Classic Harrington.
10:24Every single one of them was garbage.
10:26You 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.
10:38Because she doesn't have long.
10:51Did you just curse my daughter?
10:57Get his kid!
10:58Now!
10:58Let's see how brave he is when she's in the room.
11:01From down the hall, I heard a little girl start screaming.
11:04You're animals.
11:05Can you do the surgery now?
11:06I took a deep breath, pulled out my phone, hit play.
11:10The 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. One kick.
11:36Arthur Harrington wasn't a small man.
11:38The flight attendant flew across the room.
11:40It wasn't me!
11:41Those weren't real drugs!
11:43He's lying!
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!
12:00Dr. 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.
12:10His so-called minimally invasive technique is just a way to cover up his incompetence.
12:13Dr. Hamilton stepped back like the flight attendant was contagious, smoothing his suit jacket.
12:17But he didn't say no.
12:27Mr. Harrington, I don't understand why you trust a man who's currently under investigation by the medical board.
12:35His 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 daughters.
12:45Following 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, mean, rumpled, tired.
13:09Arthur Harrington made his choice.
13:12Go ahead and get up.
13:21Dr. Hamilton,
13:23If you save my daughter, Harrington 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.
13:38As for this quag...
13:39He didn't finish the sentence.
13:41He didn't have to.
13:42The bodyguard grabbed me.
13:44As they dragged me out, I 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.
13:57Are you insane?
13:57Victoria's anatomy is itympical.
14:00She has a congenital variation in her coronary vasculogy.
14:03If you follow the standard protocol, you'll hit an anomalous vessel, and she'll hemorrhage on the table.
14:08Choose my technique now, and she might have a chance.
14:12Otherwise, she's dead in 20 minutes.
14:14Arthur Harrington froze.
14:16His 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.
14:35I 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.
14:4723 minutes later, someone started screaming in the hallway.
14:50The door in the supply closet burst open.
14:52Marcus Webb, the head of security,
14:54Dr. 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.
15:04I was a fool.
15:05Please, please save my daughter.
15:06She's 22 years old.
15:07I can't, I can't watch her die.
15:11He 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.
15:24He was covered in blood from head to toe.
15:26Impossible.
15:27Impossible.
15:28She shouldn't have hemorrhaged like that.
15:30I followed the protocol.
15:31Every step.
15:32Why didn't it...
15:35Idiots.
15:36Victoria Harrington had an anomalous right coronary artery.
15:38It was right there in her scans,
15:40if you knew what to look for.
15:42Hamlin, tie man to jumping to this shit,
15:43do you?
15:43Gum at me out, you can.
15:46His hands were shaking.
15:47His perfect silver hair was matted.
15:49His eyes were empty.
15:52Hamilton 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.
16:03Anything.
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.
16:10It 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.
16:24I sent 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 him.
16:34Not the way Hamilton cut.
16:35Not the way the textbook said to cut.
16:37The way I'd spent 10 years learning.
16:40Small incisions, precise angles.
16:42Following the anatomy, not fighting it.
16:44Avoiding the main vessels,
16:45working through the gaps.
16:46Sweat dripped off my face
16:48onto Victoria's skin.
16:49The situation was 100 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.
16:58One vessel at a time.
16:59Forty 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.,
17:06Marcus grabbed me and my daughter.
17:08What about my daughter?
17:10And hauled me halfway off the ground.
17:12She's alive.
17:13Arthur Harrington's face started to lift.
17:16What?
17:16The word landed like a gunshot.
17:18She lost too much blood.
17:19Too many organs went without oxygen.
17:21And Hamilton's surgical errors.
17:23Without my medication,
17:25she'll never wake up.
17:26The room went silent.
17:29What do you mean?
17:31Never wake up?
17:33Most families choose to pull the plug.
17:35The cost isn't sustainable.
17:38Arthur Harrington's face twisted.
17:39The hope in his eyes
17:40curdled into something else.
17:48A vengeful?
17:49I paid you $200,000 to save my daughter
17:52and you turned her into a vengeful?
17:54You did this on purpose.
17:56You're getting revenge
17:57because of what happened on that plane?
17:59If it weren't for me,
18:00your daughter would already be in a body bag.
18:04If you hadn't stalled
18:05and schemed
18:06and played games,
18:07I never would have trusted
18:08Hamilton in the first place.
18:09This is your fault.
18:11And I'm gonna make sure
18:12you watch your whole family
18:13die because of it.
18:14You're dead, Blake.
18:16Do 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!
18:29Daddy!
18:30Daddy, help!
18:39I want him to spend
18:40the rest of his miserable life
18:41eating out of dumpsters.
18:43And 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.
18:51When I woke up,
18:51Lily'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.,
19:05the hashtag started trending.
19:06Hashtag DrBlakeScamUnlicensedSurgery.
19:09$100,000 fees.
19:10Patient brain dead.
19:11The bots flooded
19:12every comment section.
19:13This is why people hate doctors.
19:15Greedy.
19:15Arrogant.
19:15Murders.
19:17My parents,
19:18living in a small town
19:19three hours away,
19:19got egged going to the grocery store.
19:23Marcus called me just to gloat.
19:25DrBlake,
19:26this is what happens
19:27when you cross the Harringtons.
19:28And we're just getting stone started.
19:30Tell your mom to pick out
19:31a nice plot for you.
19:32You're going to need it.
19:34Did they really think
19:35I hadn't prepared for this?
19:36I logged into my Twitter account,
19:37the notifications were crashed,
19:38the app was barely functional,
19:40and I started posting.
19:41The recording from the plane,
19:42the airport security footage,
19:43the OR records
19:44showing Hamilton's error,
19:45and the recording
19:46of Arthur Harrington
19:47threatening to kill my family.
19:48The internet broke.
19:51The second the evidence went live,
19:53the entire country lost 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,
20:03and they panic-fired
20:04the flight attendant
20:04and his father,
20:05a vice president.
20:06I want to sincerely apologize
20:08to Dr. Blake,
20:09to the passengers,
20:11to everyone I hurt.
20:12They dug up everything.
20:14Workplace harassment,
20:15passenger complaints,
20:16records of him
20:16threatening co-workers.
20:18The Harringtons?
20:20Their products got pulled
20:21from every major retailer.
20:22Customer boycotts
20:23spread like wildfire.
20:24A billion-dollar
20:25pharmaceutical 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
20:35Medical Association tweeted,
20:37Not a statement,
20:38a retraction of their
20:39previous position.
20:40Then Johns Hopkins tweeted,
20:41We are pleased to announce
20:42that Dr. Blake has accepted
20:43a position as director
20:44of Innovative Cardiac Surgery
20:46at Johns Hopkins Hospital.
20:47He will begin next month.
20:49My DMs went from death threats
20:51to apologies.
20:52Then my phone rang.
20:53It was my father's number.
20:54Dr. Blake,
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,
21:02the Harringtons find everything.
21:04Call the police, baby!
21:06Dr. Blake,
21:08I know about the compound,
21:09the one your family developed,
21:11the one the Harringtons
21:12were trying to reverse engineer
21:13before all this started.
21:14Give it to us.
21:16Give it to Victoria,
21:17and the Harringtons
21:18will let your family live.
21:20One hour.
21:21If I don't have that compound
21:22in my hand,
21:23I'll send you a video of,
21:25of your parents
21:26and your daughter
21:27saying goodbye,
21:28permanently.
21:29I almost laughed.
21:30They had no idea
21:31what they were asking for.
21:32Push the
21:34I still haven't
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