Joanna Robinson

Mr. Samba.

Jean-Jean Samba, 54, with a heart condition.

This was a really good season one callback.

Because, as you might remember, Whitaker lost a patient, Mr. Bennett...

due to a cardiac incident in season one a patient that he was attending to who he was bonding with who they basically like put in a gurney in the hallway and like while he was there he like died and later in the season um there was another patient uh harvey chang that's when they got the ecmo machine out that like really insane very cool machine that they use to sort of try to keep

someone's, like, lungs and heart going when their body can't.

And when that happened, Whitaker was asking, like, why couldn't we do that for Mr. Bennett?

And Langdon said that Mr. Bennett needed to have CPR within five minutes, an initial rhythm of V-fib or V-tach, or the ECMO wouldn't have worked.

So the fact that—please forgive all of my bungling of jargon—

But the fact that Whitaker was not only a little bit more on it than Santos was about sort of thinking about the possibilities of a heart condition inside of this particular patient.

But when Jesse comes in, he's like, oh, you already put the pads on for the defib paddles?

And he's like, yeah, just in case.

And to me, that's him saying, like, if we need to do defib, like, we need to not have anything standing in our way.

I need to not have another Mr. Bennett incident happen.

Completely.

And so this was just like a, this is why he gets the double fist bump from Robbie, but this was like a great win and safer Whitaker.

And also just like some season one trauma hanging over him as he handles this patient.

What do you think about that?

Interesting.

I thought this episode was, for me, much more successful than last week.