Tonight on CBS Code Black airs with an all new Wednesday October 14, season 1 episode 3 called, “Pre-Existing Condition,” and we have your weekly recap below! On tonight’s episode, the doctors work 36 consecutive hours in code black and must deal with a distraught mother of two sons who were in a devastating car accident.
On the last episode, Christa saved a woman’s life and then pleaded with Neal to perform a surgery that saved the patient’s reproductive future. Meanwhile, Mario got into a fight with a patient after he delivered a diagnosis that could end the man’s hockey career. Did you watch the last episode? If you missed it, we have a full and detailed recap right here for you.
On tonight’s episode as per the CBS synopsis, “the doctors work 36 consecutive hours in code black and must deal with a distraught mother of two sons who were in a devastating car accident. Meanwhile, Mario bullies Angus into performing an unnecessary operation and lets Angus take the blame when Leanne finds out.”
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The ER was in its 36 hour of a Code Black when two brothers came in that were bleeding badly. Apparently they had been involved in a car accident and the seatbelt they were using ended up doing more harm than good.
So Rorish took their case and she had Pineda assistant her. Out of the two brothers, there was one that was still responsive and talking though the other had sadly been brought in an even worse condition. Therefore Rorish assigned the responsive brother Kevin to Hudson while she took on Patrick.
Patrick was practically a lost cause by time he was brought in but Rorish did her best to fight for her patient until she was no longer able to. And afterwards she had to teach Pineda when to let go. The resident wanted to keep at resuscitation and had to be call several stops before she could stop.
It seems that was the first patient she ever lost and she just didn’t know how to handle it. But no one was going to let her run from her possibilities because she was grieving. So whether she liked it or not she still had to call Kevin and Patrick’s mother and then she had to ignore all of the women’s questions seeing as she legally prevented from delivering news over the phone.
And so that Mrs. O’Brien didn’t get to hear about her son until she dragged herself all the way down the hospital.
Though normally her other son who looked like he was going to make it should have been a comfort to her. So Rorish took her to Kevin and truthfully no one was prepared for what happened next. The grieving mother didn’t rejoice at seeing Kevin alive. Instead she told him that she wished it had been him that died.
Subsequently, it was revealed that she had told her son Kevin not to drive that night and he did so anyways. Probably after he already had a few drinks. So his mother is blaming him for what happened to Patrick and she had to be escorted from the room before she could hurt Kevin.
So that was something Pineda hadn’t been prepared for. But Rorish told her that’s what grief does. It turns perfectly recognizable people and turn them into something you would only hear about yet never wished to see up close.
And speaking of monsters or at least people that are perceived as monsters, Mario ended up stepping on Rorish’s toes.
Earlier, he had been nearby when Angus got a case and he intentionally went about undermining every one of Angus’s decisions. However Angus had an idea about what could be wrong with his patient and he wanted to get a doctor to assist him. And leave it to Mario to talk him out of that decision.
Mario wanted to open up the man’s chest and he goaded Angus into doing so. Though there was nothing wrong with the man’s heart and Angus got into trouble for opening up someone’s chest for no reason. And without the proper authority.
Yet there was a chance when Mario could have spoken up for Angus and didn’t. So that’s how he got on Rorish’s hit list. She didn’t feel like Mario could be a team player and it’s her job to filter those that she deems unfit for the job.
So she told Hudson her opinion about Mario and he felt she was being too harsh. There was no such thing as unteachable and he eventually gave Mario a lesson by letting him takeover a patient’s case. The woman had been bleeding out and he left it to Mario to decide her care. And Mario was able to have her life.
And that’s why Hudson told the other man that he could be a good doctor but he had to learn to stop taking points. They work in the ER where it’s not like they can get a win everyday.
Which went especially for Christa. Christa was given an inmate who was rejecting his kidney and she had to keep him alive until a new kidney could be found. So the doctor in her had to come to terms with saving a murder’s life and she also had to learn how to ignore his talking. The inmate apparently wanted to go into great detail about his victims.
And as for Rorish, she was able to get Mrs. O’Brien to go to Kevin in the end. Her son was under guard because he was over the drinking limit and neither of them had anyone else. So she brought them together and watched as a mother forgave her son despite what he did.
Rorish’s own family had been hit by a drunken driver so reaching out in the best interest of her patient was actually very hard for her tonight.
THE END!