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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]Who's the biggest ahole tonight? Robby, Santos, or the surgeons? [/quote]

Robby.

Santos is a childish, insolent, arrogant piece of shit and her lover surgeon girlfriend person or whatever rightly put her in her place. Her seething as Langdon instructed was really something. Obviously, she's a head case and probably has serious mental health issues, as we saw hinted at with the cutting.

The orthopedic surgeon was just being a surgeon. Every surgeon I've ever known has been like that. God complexes. The man has the ability to reattach a limb, so he's somewhat entitled.

Robby just got nasty. It's obvious he's on his last nerve. But he seems to be losing his compassion and empathy for his staff as the day goes on. He generally retains it for his patients (see how he treated Howard), but he really has it in for his colleagues and especially his subordinates in this episode. Al-Hashimi was right to call him out on it.

I did like the Becca-Mel scene, watching Mel process that her sister was getting laid. Even Mel, who's clearly more highly functioning with the autism, sort of had some narrative in her head that people with intellectual disabilities wouldn't boink. Ironic, eh?

I did find it ironic that Dana, who runs a tight ship, would so casually commit insurance fraud on the nicotine patch, implicating Dr. Mohan in the process.

What do we think Mohan's mother wants? In fact, we have a couple of storylines going now about troubled relationships with parents. Javarti being counseled to give her a mother a chance, she might surprise you, really was heartbreaking when she got dressed down, eh? "More talented people upstairs."

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I'm not sure that Mel was thinking that people with ID don't boink.  I think she was dealing with realizing that her *sister* was having sex.  Because of her caregiving role, she thinks of her sister more like a child, and realizing that she's sexually active would throw her a bit. Like when a parent realizes their child is now a sexually active adult.  [/quote]

It is important that she get her sister on birth control and similar so the situation doesn't get worse.[/quote]

Agree, and also she needs to be getting regular gynecological check ups to check for STDs and other issues. People with IDs of course are entitled to sex lives like anyone else, but it is complicated by the fact that Becca may not fully understand the consequences of having sex and it puts Mel in a challenging situation. There is also always the concern of Becca being exploited by someone *because* of the IDs, and even though this sounds like a totally consensual situation between two out-patients at her daycare facility, realizing that Becca has this whole part of her life that had been hidden from Mel is likely triggering all kinds of anxieties about her obligations to Becca which are a lot more similar to a parent's obligations to a child than a normal adult-sister relationship.

A theme of this season seems to be the many ways that stress from outside the job gets brought into the ED with these doctors and nurses, and how it can impact their work. Mel's private and professional lives are really crashing together in this shift, between the deposition and Becca coming in, yet she is still going to be expected to do her job and she can't just take a mental health day because they're already struggling to cover patients with the staff they have. She has to get through the last few hours of her shift. But like Robby, Mohan, and Santos, that is easier said than done. There are a lot of people at the end of their ropes right now.[/quote]

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