General Hospital (GH) spoilers tease that Austin Gatlin Holt (Roger Howarth) will treat injured Leo Falconeri (Aaron Bradshaw) and leave Olivia Quartermaine (Lisa LoCicero) grateful. However, this pediatrician’s bedside manner will leave Ned Quartermaine (Wally Kurth) suspicious and wondering about Austin’s background.
For starters, Ned will track Austin down and make a pitch to resolve his conflict with the family. He’ll make a cash offer and hope it’s enough to convince Austin to back off.
Austin won’t be interested in negotiating a deal with Ned since it’s not really about the money.
This is about respect and getting the ELQ shares he’s owed, so Austin will reject the offer and count on Edward Quartermaine’s (John Ingle) true wishes to be proven.
Ned will understand on some level and believe Austin’s sincere in his goal, but suspicions will come into the story in another way.
While Ned and Austin are discussing things at GH, Olivia will bring Leo in with an injury.
It’ll be a minor one involving a cut finger, but Olivia will still feel like she needs to get her son checked out.
Austin is a pediatrician, so he’ll assure Olivia that he’d be glad to take a look at the cut and patch Leo up.
However, Austin’s behavior during this ordeal will leave Ned raising an eyebrow. Ned won’t think Austin acts like a pediatrician normally would with a young boy, so it’ll be interesting to see exactly what that means.
Most pediatricians would crack jokes and keep the mood light, particularly in a case like this when the injury isn’t severe.
We’ve already seen Austin act lighthearted even in situations that could be considered stressful – like when he helped Maxie Jones (Kirsten Storms) give birth in the woods.
In other words, normal behavior here would involve Austin goofing around with Leo. It might be weird if Austin seems overly concerned during the examination.
We know Austin will push Olivia to schedule a follow-up appointment with him instead of Leo’s regular pediatrician, so that could indicate this minor cut won’t be the real issue.
Austin might pick up on something that’s potentially more serious and want to look into it a bit deeper.
Then again, there could be another reason for Austin’s demeanor.
Ned will grow more curious about the doc’s background, so we’ll see if he decides to do any further digging.
We’ll bring you updates as other GH news rolls in. General Hospital spoilers say Austin will continue to bring mysteries and surprises, so stay tuned.
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