That would be a separate settlement in civil court, provided the patients and survivors sue ABC. I would guess the network would prefer to settle out of court based on the plaintiff agreeing to a gag order rather than endure the PR nightmare of trying to justify snuff TV.

HIPAA violation (patient confidentiality) 101. You can’t get much more stupid than that, unless you’re watching emergency medicine reality show snuff television.

My husband’s appendix ruptured when he was in his early 40's (who knew he still had one???) and yes, it can be very serious indeed. He was hospitalized for four days. He and I have always joked about the technical medical term his doctor used when describing his appendix the day after surgery as “necrotic and yucky”.

Now that isn’t quite true, in that anyone who showed up got to play — including people who had actually played instruments for years. It doesn’t mean they played the instrument they played professionally (a violinist might try, for the first time, to play a French horn) but the real key is nobody got to rehearse. You…

How bout doing donuts in front of the Viet Nam Memorial in D.C.?

Yes.

Watched with the sound off. I should not have gotten so excited. But I did.

When I see this kind of idiocy take place, I have to begin to wonder if the Sanders extremists and the Trump extremists are just two sides of the same non-listening, non-learning coin. I look at their manner, not their ideas or goals, and to me the two sides are starting to look alike.

It looks to me like Jaime’s hair color has taken a turn for the worse in this episode. I don’t remember his hair being a flat, dull red, but in several shots in this episode he looked the victim of a bad dye job.