Colin Donnell: Connor Rhodes

Monday Mourning

Connor Rhodes

Dr. Connor Rhodes: You and Dr. Wheeler were friends?
Dr. Sarah Reese: No, I hardly knew him. He came to me - twice - asking about pills, about therapy. And that wasn't really what he was asking for. He was asking for help. I don't know why he came to me, but he did, and now he's dead. What kind of terrible psychiatrist am I gonna be?
Dr. Connor Rhodes: You can't jump in and save everyone, Reese. It's just not possible.
Dr. Sarah Reese: It's not that I didn't jump in to save him. I didn't even see that he was drowning.

Dr. Sarah Reese: [in the O.R] Dr. Rhodes, why did you bring me here? I can't assist on a bypass graft.
Dr. Connor Rhodes: We're not doing a bypass graft.
Dr. Sarah Reese: What? But I...
Dr. Connor Rhodes: Look.
Dr. Sarah Reese: [looking at the patient's heart] A ventricular septal defect?
Dr. Connor Rhodes: From necrosis. Lack of blood flow from his heart attack at the river caused a small patch of muscle to die.
Dr. Sarah Reese: That's impossible to find. How did you even know to look?
Dr. Connor Rhodes: You see this discoloration?
Dr. Sarah Reese: Uh-huh.
Dr. Connor Rhodes: I missed this once. Guy died before we even got him off the table. I know that you feel like you let Wheeler down, like you missed the signs of him needing help. As doctors, all we can do is learn from that and try not to miss them again.

Dr. Connor Rhodes: Wheeler came to me, too, Reese, when we had that pile-up in the blizzard and the pregnant woman almost bled out. He took it hard. I had the chance to reassure him, but I didn't.
Dr. Sarah Reese: All right. I appreciate that you're trying to make me feel better, but it doesn't.

Dr. Connor Rhodes: [a patient is coding] BP's dropping. ST segments are elevated.
Dr. Sarah Reese: He's barely got a pulse.
Dr. Connor Rhodes: He's in cardiogenic shock. It must be another MI. We're gonna balloon pump him. Bolus heparin, start dopamine, dobutamine. Get him on a high flow O2.
Nurse Doris: Got it.
Dr. Sarah Reese: I'll tell the cath lab we're coming.
Dr. Connor Rhodes: There's no time. We're gonna do it here.
Dr. Sarah Reese: We're...? How will we know if we're in the right place?
Dr. Connor Rhodes: If he bleeds out, we'll know we punctured the iliac. If he stops breathing, then we perforated into the mediastinum. But if we don't get his blood pressure up right now, none of that's gonna matter anyways.