Joanna Robinson

And Mel being someone who both does and doesn't have the personal skills to get it done, like she's got a great bedside manner.

And then you see her try to relate to Santos and that's a much more challenging job for anyone.

I mean, Santos is a prickly customer, but like, I don't know.

I just, I love watching these people

Try to help.

That's what this show is about.

I have a couple more sort of John Wells quotes that I want.

Well, I don't want to, like, read—you can read the whole article yourself.

Leslie did a great job with the interview.

But one thing he talked about is the reason they did the format that they did, this sort of every hour of a day, is that they wanted to avoid—I think this is interesting in light of Dr. McKay and—

Robbie and Nurse Hastings, et cetera, said they wanted to avoid sort of the soapier, romantic, that wasn't like shots fired at Grey's Anatomy.

He was just like, we did that on ER.

Right.

We did it for over a decade on ER.

This is the quote.

We wanted to talk about what these physicians' life is.

You show up with them for a shift and you're leaning over their shoulder and see what they go through on our behalf.

to emphasize that when you're waiting for eight or nine hours because you cut yourself trying to slice a bagel, there's a reason you waited eight or nine hours.

It's not that people are ignoring you.

They're dealing with so much of humanity and so many major cases.