01x04 - Treatment

[bunniefuu]

[high-pitched ringing, distorted]

[cleaner] Morning.

[Ben] sh*t

sh*t

[groans]

You, hey, hey.

Uh. Wait a sec. Take those off.

I put something in a bag.

Cake boy! Dom.

Is this what you're looking for?

Nope. Just give it to me.

I'll look myself.

[Emina] Hey!

- Huh?

- Dom, the cake doctor.

At least you shut up when you're hungover.

Yeah, yeah

You look like sh*t again today,

by the way.

[bicycle bell rings]

Here?

Perfect. Thanks.

[sighs] Okay, then. Have a good night.

Don't send photos. It gets me down.

I can't promise that.

Okay.

One last swig.

[Dom] Hmm.

[rustling]

[Dom] Ben?

Yeah.

Need help?

No. I'll be right there.

[Dom] Okay.

[sighs]

BERLIN ER

Hopefully not another druggy.

[Olivia] Why do you suspect drugs again?

[Olaf] I suspect drugs behind

every door in this part of town.

Thank you.

- [club music]

- Okay. Watch it. Watch it, please.

Watch it! Clear the way, please.

Careful. Careful!

- Hi.

- Hi.

[clubber] Hi, this way.

We have to go in the back.

Okay, think you can make it

through here without a stupid remark?

Hello. Paramedics.

Could you please tell him

he needs to go to the hospital?

- I've worn corsages that hurt more.

- Not true.

Honey, you want

to go on stage in this state?

Is this how you want to be remembered?

Forget it.

You have stomach pain?

[groans]

Can you just give me

something that works fast, please?

I need to get back on stage.

I'm not canceling the show.

Olaf?

- Christian. Hi.

- Jeez, Christian.

- What What a surprise!

- Isn't it?

[laughs] You work here?

Yeah, hence "Jacky",

with the dress and all.

Hello? Why don't you two

get a room already? [groans]

[Olivia] Green pipe, right?

Yeah. We have to go.

Probably the gallbladder. No fun.

I am so not going to the hospital.

I hate hospitals. I don't want to go.

- [Olivia] Arm, please.

- You have to.

[Olivia] Careful. Painkiller.

Keep inhaling and you'll feel better.

Take deep breaths.

- You made it. You'll be alright.

- [grunts]

[Olaf] Gurney.

[drag queen] Go get the f*cking gurney!

Hey, a bit nicer, please.

She's my colleague.

- Is she coming?

- You're standing on my foot.

Two, three.

Happy birthday to you ♪

Happy birthday, dear Zanna ♪

Happy birthday to you ♪

[cheering]

Where is everyone?

Reception.

Computers are down. Nothing's working.

[Ben] Uh, Nezire.

I need something from the drug cabinet.

[Zanna] No, no, no.

Would you accompany

Dr. Weber and co-sign, please?

Thanks.

[woman]

My boyfriend just wants to register

Can you give us a minute?

What's that?

It's so the patients stop

bothering us every three seconds.

Okay, but Wait, watch out.

If we stick it here,

they don't have to pass by

the open window every time, right?

- And no one's triaging up front.

- We're understaffed, as always.

- Can't play chess with three pieces.

- I know we need more money.

I'll talk to Beck tomorrow.

[Nezire] Aha!

[grunts]

I'll talk to him now.

[Beck] Open up, you piece of sh*t!

- Problem with your car?

- [Beck] No.

With my mother.

What is it?

Two weeks ago,

I requested new computers for the ER.

The last one just crashed

and we're on the verge

of using pen and paper.

And now?

Now, I'd like us

to take a look at the finances,

so that together,

we can figure out how

You go and do that then.

It's your ER now.

May I?

Battery's probably dead.

Have a nice evening.

Alright.

Thank you.

Okay, so, from the looks of it [laughs]

It looks like all our computers are down

and we're back to analog.

But we're not gonna let that stop us.

I say nurses take front

- Won't give up without a fight, cake boy?

- Yes.

So back here, how do you suggest

we organize ourselves?

Okay

I guess, just wing it. [sighs]

My name is Dominik Kohn,

I'll be doing a quick initial assessment.

What brings you here today?

Are you blind, or what?

Look at his face.

Okay, so I assume

you're here about your rash?

Um. How long have you had it?

A few hours.

- A few hours?

- Mm-hmm.

It's probably an allergic reaction.

- Do you have any allergies?

- No.

- Did you use a new cream?

- No.

- Or did you eat something

- No.

- It's not an allergy.

- It certainly looks like one.

He doesn't have any allergies, man.

We should take care of the swelling

- Want me to get you a snack?

- I'll be right back.

Dr. Ertan, did I cross a line

or do you just enjoy making fun of me?

Not at all. That's not what I mean.

We just don't have time

to be our patients' buddies.

Okay, but can we quiz the patients

to find out what's wrong, or not?

Hmm. A little faster maybe.

- [Freddie] Emina?

- Yes, what?

I got a Muslim patient

that wants a Muslim doctor.

Then please find her

a Muslim doctor, Freddie.

Come on, will you?

Unreal

Let's go.

[in Turkish] Hey, sis.

[in English]

Have a great shift.

[Emina] Go home.

[Olivia] How come you know a drag queen?

- Oh, now you want to know.

- Of course.

I'm her background dancer.

Yeah, right.

No, her father and I were

squatters together 40 years ago.

Now boomers are raking it in

from those apartments.

And we still have a housing shortage.

- [Olivia] Can I do the handover?

- Yeah.

Hey. What do we have here?

Upper abdomen.

I have this terrible pain in my stomach.

It won't go away.

It keeps coming back.

- Then it's gone again

- Pain comes in intervals.

- Maybe it's the gallbladder.

- One second.

I'll be back with you soon.

All our computers are down. It's chaos.

- I have an important gig in four days

- Honey, please be quiet.

What she needs is medical help.

Medical help is one thing

we can definitely do.

Thanks for your patience.

Take care of her.

She's one of Berlin's cultural treasures.

We can't lose her.

[Dom] In that case,

I'd better keep a close eye on her.

[groaning]

You're going to be okay.

[knocks on door]

[Ben] So, Ms. Parker.

Today is a special day.

We remove the staples.

[Zanna] Hmm Okay.

Would you be interested

in taking a salary cut, by any chance?

- Uh, no.

- [Zanna] Shame. I thought as much.

[Ben] There we go.

Mind holding this, please?

Lean your head this way.

Oh, come here, you

Happy birthday.

How do you know it's my birthday?

May I?

So, you gonna celebrate?

Nope.

Ah.

[knocks on door]

Ben, we need you in room three.

Yeah.

- [Nezire] Now.

- Yeah.

- Well. Thanks.

- [Ben] Right, so

- Yep.

- [Ben] So You're welcome.

- [Nezire] Now.

- [Ben] Yeah.

[drag queen]

Darling, I really need to pee.

No way I'll make it to the bathroom.

It hurts so bad.

I think it's a bladder infection.

[groans]

Excuse me. Hello? We need help. Excuse me!

Hello! You've got to be kidding me.

Huh?

[Adrian] Come.

- Come.

- Where?

- Come.

- Where to?

- Where are we going?

- Come.

Look.

This is my cousin. Luis.

He's ill*gal. He's sick. Please.

Ben, Ben.

- Come.

- No. No!

Come. Please.

Come. Look. Very sick.

Please. Look, look, look, look.

Look his hands. Please.

Please, Ben. Please.

Sick? Hello? Hey!

It's a hospital. Everyone's sick.

Look.

Look, his face. Look.

Look, look.

What What is that?

Show him your hand.

Look. Look his hand, please.

Look, look, look. His face.

He's my friend. He's a doctor.

[Ben] Hand.

[Adrian] Look. Please, Ben. He no papers.

Kid cousin. 17 years

I beg you. Help me,

in the name of all that's sacred to you

Please, help my little

He's 17 years.

Please.

So he works in the park too?

[Adrian] Yes, he in park too,

but helping family

He make music,

picking crop, help moving

Everything. He great.

- Jack-of-all-trades, huh?

- [Adrian] Yes. Exactly.

So how long's he had this?

How long have you had it?

[in Romanian] A few weeks.

He says it's a few weeks.

[Ben] Okay, got it.

Can you get rid? Look.

Can't work no more.

The blood test results come in tomorrow.

You have to stay the night.

Could be syphilis.

No can stay, boss make stress

No, forget the boss, okay.

This is dangerous.

You need to stay. "Dangerous". Okay?

We have to stay overnight, okay?

[in Romanian] No. Lilia will k*ll me.

- He can't. Boss, she make stress.

- [Ben] No. You need to stay.

Understand?

Blanket. For sleeping.

Listen, if Lilia has a problem,

I'll talk to her.

We'll figure it out.

Look at me.

- See you tomorrow.

- See you.

Noapte bun! "Good night" in Romanian.

Good night, good night.

[Ben] Hey.

Hey. Uh. Blood tests for Eric Bronkowski.

Don't worry about them.

I'll check the results tomorrow myself.

Do we know how many patients

the specialists treat in this hospital?

[Nezire] No idea.

You still here?

Not officially.

You're still here too.

Not officially.

[staff clamoring]

[Nezire] Anywhere between

a half hour and an hour.

Just down to your left

- [Freddie] Dr. Parker.

- Yeah?

Viktoria's smoking in the toilet again.

As long as she doesn't set

the smoke alarm off, it's fine.

She's smoking crack in the toilet.

Just let security take care of it, please.

[Freddie] She'll be back anyway.

[Zanna] Wait, wait, wait

Hold the line, okay?

I need to find better reception.

I'll leave this here.

I'll finish it later.

[muffled phone speaker]

Wait.

Otis.

- Come on

- [Otis] Hello? Hello?

Aunt Zanna,

why didn't we do a birthday picnic today?

Today's my birthday.

[Tilda] No, it's not.

- No, it's not!

- [Otis] Today's my birthday.

- [Ruben] Tilda, Otis, off to bed.

- Hi.

- It's bedtime.

- Why aren't you in bed yet?

- [Tilda] When are you coming to visit us?

- What?

[Tilda] When will you come visit?

Hello.

[Ruben] Guys, this is not okay,

and you know it.

Look at you, Mr. Strict.

[Ruben] Alright? Just wait.

[sighs] Spoiled kids, those two

Hey, you're a spoiled brat.

[Ruben] Who on earth taught them manners?

Some loser.

[Ruben] Some people shouldn't procreate.

Good thing they take after their mother.

We received Dr. Ertan's application

Yeah Ruben, behind you. Right

- On your right.

- [Otis] Hello.

Oh, jeez Hey.

Come on. Off you go, it's bedtime.

Seriously, now, or I'll get mad.

Sorry, have to get them to bed

or they'll never go to sleep.

Yeah.

- Good night.

- And happy birthday.

Thanks.

- Bye.

- Bye.

[sighs]

[Ben] I wasn't listening.

Wanna go for a drink?

[chuckles] What?

Let's have a drink.

Nah.

I have to look into the finances,

and the computers are all busted.

But it's your birthday.

Otherwise, it's bad luck.

Yeah?

Yep.

I got a tip about a nice bar.

One drink.

Okay.

[trendy club-disco music starts]

Honestly, what's your problem with me?

I have no problem, I mean

Uh. Two more, please.

Uh

Some of your changes

aren't so bad, actually.

Like, what do you want to hear?

How about if you just answer my question?

You know, you're taking it

just a bit too personally, okay?

So you're being an as*h*le to me

out of principle? Is that it?

No. It's not directly about you.

It's about you trying to bulldoze

a system that worked.

Your "system" basically consisted

of scaring away every new supervisor.

"We run the show from the sidelines",

these were your exact words, right?

But what about taking responsibility?

Applying for head of ER?

That's asking too much?

I mean, why make my life miserable?

At least I'm doing the job.

With a little bit more money,

the changes could make a difference,

but when I look at the finances,

it seems like

no one gives a sh*t in that place.

We send emergency patients home.

We could be earning so much money

if we just kept them overnight.

How come we don't do that?

Routine operations,

we should be doing tons of those!

Every other hospital does it.

Uh

Yeah, I know,

it's not cool, but got a better idea?

- No.

- Yeah, that's what I thought.

Besides all the partying,

all you have is work.

I don't think you have anything else.

And now you feel like

I'm destroying your world.

Who's Ruben?

I thought you weren't listening.

I was. A little bit.

My brother-in-law.

And former boss in Munich.

Oh, boy

Oh, boy, what?

Well, no one volunteers for the KRANK.

Do I hear a question?

What happened?

We slept together.

It was the biggest mistake of my life.

Happy birthday, Zanna.

Thank you, Ben.

Ben?

That whole thing with Vincent

and the tilidine, tell me

Do I know everything?

Yeah.

Happy birthday to you ♪

Happy birthday, dear ♪

Zanna!

Happy birthday to you ♪

[all cheering]

Okay, lovebirds.

First let's toast to you,

and then drink up.

I'm incredibly thirsty!

Happy birthday, darling.

- Thank you.

- Cheers!

To you.

Thank you.

You gotta pee?

Yeah.

That'll be 25 cents.

[woman] 25 cents. Seriously?

Can't you see he's not doing well?

[Viktoria] Then give me the bottle back.

So just give her what she wants!

Please! [groans]

[man] Here. Keep the change.

[grunts]

Come on, Viktoria

This is madness!

Thank you!

Wait, wait

I'm so sorry, I feel awful.

No worries.

- Sorry.

- It's all good.

- Oh, yeah

- Okay?

[groans] Sorry

So we're too late

You're peeing in a Coke bottle?

Seriously?

Honey, better the pee's in the bottle

than on my outfit.

What kind of a useless dump is this?

I'm sorry about that, I thought

a nurse was already helping him.

Um And you? Everything okay?

sh*t

[phone ringing]

[phone ringing]

Yes?

Good evening.

Uh

That's better now

You got lucky.

Could have been worse.

Mm-hmm.

[sighs]

Here.

Don't get used to it.

Thank you.

Morning!

Younger female. Injury to the occipital.

Bleeding's stopped.

No nausea.

No sign of concussion. Pupils equal.

- Where do you want her?

- I'll take her to room two.

- Oh, okay. Coffee?

- Hey.

Hi.

[Olaf] You good?

Daniel Neumann is still here?

Yes.

[wheezing]

Olaf!

Anaphylactic shock.

- When was his last medication?

- 9:30 last night.

- 400 micrograms adrenaline, I.M.

- [Olaf] Okay.

I'll go get help.

Breathe, come on.

Keep breathing, okay? Breathe.

[phone ringing]

Yes, I'll be right there.

[Olaf] Someone's coming, Mr. Bronkowski.

All good. We're here, okay?

You'll feel better in a minute.

[wheezing]

- [Olivia] Sedative.

- Thank you.

- All good, we're here.

- I'll bring him up a bit.

- Mr. Bronkowski.

- [Zanna] Thank you.

Please take a deep breath.

Very good.

Very good.

You're doing great.

Respiration normalizing.

Very good.

- [wheezing slows]

- Thanks.

Did I do something wrong?

Was the last dose not given?

sh*t, of course,

I should have reminded Nezire

I was alone almost all night.

I, uh I don't know if she did it.

I'll speak to her.

[sighs] Never mind, I'll do it.

Hey, how are you?

Okay, it's empty. All good. Sleep well?

Yeah? Let's see.

[Afrim] Wow, what a horror show!

sh*t. Uh

Listen, you really have syphilis.

- [Luis] Work?

- [Ben] No. No work.

Take three a day for ten days.

Morning, noon, evening.

- Got it? Here

- [Afrim] Syphilis is so Dark Ages.

I'll show you Dark Ages Afrim!

- Hey, man. You see the skeleton?

- Yeah, careful. Come along.

- Promise not to tell anyone, clear?

- Sure, assistant's word of honor!

- Why are you pulling?

- Okay, then be my assistant, now!

Easy!

Okay, watch. I'm taking off the IV.

Then you can go home, okay?

Tell him.

[in Romanian]

He's taking it off so you can go home.

No, not you!

We're all constantly making mistakes

because we have to pull

these shitty double shifts!

[Olaf] You coming?

Dr. Kohn only just entered a second dose

in the medication plan after the fact!

Okay, Sherlock.

We gotta go.

Or the woman who fell down the stairs

will bleed to death.

I'm here for a patient

in the "abandon wing".

Where would that be?

[Emina] Afrim.

[in Turkish] Sis!

- [Ben] sh*t

- Ben, what's all this?

What are you doing here?

We're helping them.

He has syphilis and he's undocumented.

- You're helping them?

- Yes.

You're coming with me

to the front desk now.

No?

I said come with me, Afrim, or so help me!

Come to the desk, now!

We're doing good here.

Look, either you come with me now,

or I swear I'll flunk you.

Got it, little brother?

[in Turkish] You can't.

You so sure about that?

[in English]

Emina, uh

Sorry, I

No, it's okay.

f*ck up your own life. Okay, Ben?

But you don't drag us into it.

[whistles]

You have something of mine.

Hey, wait! Adrian!

[Adrian] Thanks.

You realize he's a minor, right?

You realize?

I don't care what he does in the park.

I just need him to pack for me.

He can start thinking about

how to make up for last night's losses.

He Hey!

He needs to wear these when he "packs".

He has syphilis.

Uh

Do you have any tilidine?

I have fentanyl.

Do I look like a junkie to you?

Think about it.

Heya, neighbor, wanna smoke?

[Viktoria] Yeah, give it!

What are you hiding?

[groans]

No, wait a minute

May I?

Holy sh*t.

Even the nice doctor's at a loss, eh?

Huh

Uh

Come with me.

You can have your smoke too.

[tutor] Move the transducer

from the subcostal placement

to the right to the caudal

in order to reveal

the ureter in its total length.

Kidney stones are displayed

as artifact-rich, echoless structures.

In a clear ureter,

parts of a broken kidney stone

are visible in the bladder.

Honey Bunny, I guess those days

when we'd turn night into day

are long gone, huh?

I'm very tired.

[Dom] I'm really sorry for the long wait.

- But finally I have good news for you.

- Mm-hmm?

So the gallbladder wasn't actually

the source of your pain.

Yes, you do have two little stones

in the gallbladder,

however this is

the true culprit right here.

We can see the remains

of a kidney stone in the bladder.

See? This is the bladder, and down here

We can see some kidney stone residue,

which already detached itself

due to the painkillers we gave you,

and has migrated to the bladder.

Holy sh*t So how do they come out?

Peeing will probably burn a bit

in the near future.

Ah, okay. [chuckles]

But no surgery!

Right, no surgery.

Here's something to clean up with,

then as far as I'm concerned,

you can head home.

[Viktoria] I need that leg to sh**t.

[Ben] The leg will go if you keep that up.

I have a second one.

Freshly stolen.

You gotta quit.

Why would I want to quit?

The therapy isn't even working anymore.

Do that outside.

I've quit a hundred times.

You don't get it.

Be happy, my friend.

sh*t

Leave that.

I'll get you a clean one, okay?

Okay, these three

can be admitted to the floor overnight.

- We'll run another blood test tomorrow.

- Hmm.

For the knee and the gallbladder,

we can advise surgery.

They'll be put on the emergency op list.

Okay, so keep as many

as possible overnight,

advise for routine surgery,

and we just collect all there is.

Exactly. What I'm trying to say is,

we use the ER as a net.

Kind of. To fish out patients

for the other departments.

- Is this permanent?

- As long as I'm here.

- Finally, someone's doing something.

- I'm done.

The patient with the kidney stones can go.

Okay, thanks.

The stone migrated

and turned to bladder sludge.

Though he's a cholecystectomy candidate.

But the gallbladder

wasn't the source of the pain.

- It was a renal colic.

- Yeah? I'll have another look.

Neumann, right?

[Dom] Right.

Thanks.

What the hell was wrong with that?

Hello. Which of you is Mr. Neumann?

"Mr. Neumann"?

Reminds me of my father.

Please call me Daniel.

- Then I'm Zanna.

- Hi.

And you are?

- Liam.

- Liam. Hi, Liam.

- Nice to meet you.

- My goodness.

- Cool outfit.

- Thank you.

Second doctor in five minutes.

You're trying hard!

I'd like to talk to you

about going home or not.

Could I take another look

at your gallstones? Is that okay?

- Sure, of course.

- It'll be quick.

Liam, have a seat.

You're welcome to watch.

This is the gallbladder.

So, the rest of the kidney stone

won't cause any more problems.

This here, these two dots, however,

are gallstones

that are still in your gallbladder.

Have you considered

having them removed by way of surgery?

Mm-mmm.

Excuse me,

but the other doctor said that the stones,

no matter which one

you're talking about, had

- Migrated?

- Migrated, exactly.

And that we just need to watch them.

Right. Well, the kidney stone migrated.

The gallstones, however,

are still in the gallbladder.

And that's something that

could cause complications down the line.

Uh

So are you saying

I'm going to need surgery after all?

I'm super scared of surgeries.

I really don't want to do that.

And I have a big show

in four days that I can't miss.

We were just leaving right now.

Right, I understand that.

And this may feel like an ambush.

All I can say is I assure you that

removing a gallbladder

is a routine procedure, okay?

There's no significant risk involved.

Very low.

Yeah

I mean, she's the head doctor.

Oh, you're the head doctor?

Hey Hey!

We said you'd do that outside.

Hello?

Wake up. Hey!

Look, here.

[whispered] Hello? Viktoria?

sh*t.

Oh, sh*t

[Liam] Daniel, it's gonna be okay.

I'm by your side, my love.