Chapter 12: August. 12, 2000, 11:08PM, Hallway (Doug Ross's Point of View):
I give up. I need to tell Weaver or Mark as soon as I see them next. They need to know that one of their doctors has a drug addiction. Unfortunately both of them are gone until midnight and I am off at 11:30. So until then I guess I'll just find an empty room and work on charts. I walk into Exam Room 3 and sit down at the table. I hear a groan come from behind me. I jump up and spin around, thinking that it is a hurt patient, but in the back of my mind I am afraid that the same thing will happen to me like it happened to Carter: being attacked. But to my surprise, I see Carter lying in the fetal position on the floor. He has vomited all over himself and is shaking badly. I check his heart rate. It is weak, and his breathing is shallow. My God. His lips are tinted blue. He is having a morphine overdose. Sure enough there on the floor next to him sit the bottle and a syringe. I slip them into my lab coat.
I run into the hall and shout out, "I need some help here!" Chuny, Malik, and Dave Malluchi come running.
I go back to Carter and ask him, "How much did you take?"
"I don't know," he spits out.
"John, was it only morphine, or did you take more?"
"My bag in my locker." and he trails off.
The nurse and doctor are in the room with me and I quickly say to them, "Treat him for a morphine overdose."
"Where are you going?" Chuny asks.
I am almost out of the room but reply, "To see what else he took."
Dave shouts, "Was it a suicide attempt?" But I don't answer. I am already running down the hall. In the lounge, luckily Carter's locker is unlocked. I open his bag. It's a Goddamn pharmacy. Okay, so I am exaggerating. But there are two kinds of antidepressants and three bottles of painkillers. And two of the latter aren't even prescribed to Carter.
**Dun! Dun! DUN! What will happen now? Will Carter die? Will he finally admit to his drug addiction? Wait and see**
I give up. I need to tell Weaver or Mark as soon as I see them next. They need to know that one of their doctors has a drug addiction. Unfortunately both of them are gone until midnight and I am off at 11:30. So until then I guess I'll just find an empty room and work on charts. I walk into Exam Room 3 and sit down at the table. I hear a groan come from behind me. I jump up and spin around, thinking that it is a hurt patient, but in the back of my mind I am afraid that the same thing will happen to me like it happened to Carter: being attacked. But to my surprise, I see Carter lying in the fetal position on the floor. He has vomited all over himself and is shaking badly. I check his heart rate. It is weak, and his breathing is shallow. My God. His lips are tinted blue. He is having a morphine overdose. Sure enough there on the floor next to him sit the bottle and a syringe. I slip them into my lab coat.
I run into the hall and shout out, "I need some help here!" Chuny, Malik, and Dave Malluchi come running.
I go back to Carter and ask him, "How much did you take?"
"I don't know," he spits out.
"John, was it only morphine, or did you take more?"
"My bag in my locker." and he trails off.
The nurse and doctor are in the room with me and I quickly say to them, "Treat him for a morphine overdose."
"Where are you going?" Chuny asks.
I am almost out of the room but reply, "To see what else he took."
Dave shouts, "Was it a suicide attempt?" But I don't answer. I am already running down the hall. In the lounge, luckily Carter's locker is unlocked. I open his bag. It's a Goddamn pharmacy. Okay, so I am exaggerating. But there are two kinds of antidepressants and three bottles of painkillers. And two of the latter aren't even prescribed to Carter.
**Dun! Dun! DUN! What will happen now? Will Carter die? Will he finally admit to his drug addiction? Wait and see**