Emergency

It is apparent from the beginning that something is wrong with Georgie, and he seems to possibly be troubled. He is crying hysterically while mopping up blood in an OR room. We are told that he has been stealing pills from the hospital and he alludes to possibly having a drinking problem by what he says after he is told that his shift is about half over, “Good. Because I really, really, really need a drink.” Then later when a man comes into the ER with a knife in his eye a nurse says, “I hope you didn’t do that to him”, alluding to the fact that Georgie may be capable of violence.

I thought it was bazaar that the nurse seemed to be very slow moving when meanwhile there is a man with a knife in his eye! She also seems to not take it very seriously when she pages for the doctor and instead of saying something like, “We have an urgent emergency” she says, “Got a surprise for you.” This seemed very unprofessional. If I was sitting there in the ER with a knife in my eye, I wouldn’t want a nurse referring to me as something positive or a “surprise”. We are given another hint as to there being something wrong with Georgie when the doctor says, “That person is not right, not at all, not one bit.”

I was shocked when Georgie walked out with the hunting knife that had been stuck in George Webber’s eye, that no one was supposed to touch, and no one even had the reaction they should have had. The only thing the doctor said was, “where did you get that?” It seems like this hospital is not being run very well and that no one is taking his or her jobs very seriously.

I was surprised with Georgie’s reaction when he ran over the rabbit. He said, “rabbit stew…where’s my hunting knife…” You would think that considering he works in a hospital, that he would have a little bit more respect for life. It’s also ironic when Georgie is on the side of the road cutting up the poor rabbit he had just run over and says, “I should have been a doctor.” We are later told that the rabbit he’s cutting up has babies inside. He then dumps them into his friend’s lap. This is absolutely disgusting and horrible that he is treating these innocent animals this way. They then go to a drive in movie and forget about the rabbits all together. Georgie is very scattered.

Then in the end when Hardee asks Georgie, “What do you do for a job?” And Georgie said, “I save lives.” This is by far the most ironic line in the whole story. We have just been told about how he killed a rabbit and it’s 8 babies, almost without guilt, and now he is saying that he “saves lives” for a living.