Noah Wyle

But it set a kind of hierarchical tone and differentiated us enough as performers that when we started working, it carried over.

So whether it was a byproduct of the rehearsal or the fact that I am...

considerably older than the rest of the cast or that I've played a doctor before.

Yes, there was a lot of meta energy where everybody was sort of playing the dynamics that were present and just sort of heightening them a little bit.

Either his pneumonia is getting worse or his heart couldn't handle the fluids that we gave him to treat the sepsis.

His lungs are filling up with fluid.

Can't you take the fluid away?

Not without his blood pressure crashing with very bad consequences.

So let's just hope the BiPAP works.

Then I would need to know your decision about using a breathing machine.

We're still talking about it.

Well, we know he expressed his wishes in writing, do not intubate.

We're thinking try it for a week.

That would be a very painful week.

He wouldn't get a lot of rest with all the monitors and all the blood tests.

He might need to be sedated.

He might need to be restrained because he'd be in an unfamiliar place with a very uncomfortable tube down his throat.

And he wouldn't really know what was happening.

Elderly patients can often develop psychosis.

or it might get worse, what would you do?