Luka runs over to Crushed Firefighter and tells Carter, "I have to take this boy in. There's a woman back there impaled with spinal shock and I want you to stay with --" Throughout this speech, Elizabeth has been moaning and rocking and generally making such a spectacle of herself that Luka has to stop and ask what the hell is up with her. "She's having contractions," Carter says matter-of-factly. Luka snaps, "What?!" and Carter yells, "She's having contractions at twenty-five weeks!" Damn, Carter -- say it, don't spray it. Elizabeth's all faux-heroic, "I need tocolysis and a fetal monitor! I can keep on going if I can just get [the contractions] to stop." Cut to Crushed Firefighter, who's making a pretty funny face, like, "Oh, this is exactly what I want to hear right now." Here's where the whole thing gets ridiculous. Busy hospitals all over the city because of all the victims? Of course. Doctors needed at said hospitals to deal with traumas as they come in? Obviously. Not one other surgeon, either at County or anywhere else in the city, who could be paged to come and take over a double amputation in the field for a woman who's in the process of having early labour with a scalpel in her hand? Carter, no cell phone to make a call asking for such a surgeon? Paramedics, no radios? Firefighters, ditto? Whatever! That is just stupid. And I will not stand for it! Okay, I will stand for it, but I won't like it. Anyway, Luka asks Pam, "Do you have any terbutaline?" "No," she replies. "In the rig?" Carter tries to jog her memory. Pam says they don't carry it. Elizabeth grunts some more, and Luka tells her to come back to County in the helicopter with him and Pin. Luka adds that Carter should take care of Metal Bar. Carter snits, "What about [Crushed Firefighter]? We just opened the anterior compartment!" Luka barks at Carter to get another surgeon, like, duh! Elizabeth screeches, "We're out of O-neg! We have to finish him now!" Luka asks her if she could monitor Pin in the chopper, and she nods that she could, but that Crushed Firefighter could exsanguinate (I think that's the same as "bleed out") from his left leg. Luka asks Carter, "You were a surgical resident, yeah?" Carter says he was an intern for a year. Luka and Carter exchange a significant look.
County. Weaver, Lisa, and assorted others work on Shannon, the driver of the car on the tracks. She is conscious, but still seems kind of out of it. Weaver asks whether she's experiencing chest pain, and Shannon says she isn't. Shannon looks through the window at Blunt Chest Trauma, as Benton and Dr. Dave continue to work on him. "Is that man from the train?" Shannon asks. Lisa says he is. Shannon asks, "Is he dying?" Lisa says she doesn't know. Weaver asks Lisa to go close the doors, and continues calling out orders. Lisa swings the doors shut...













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