The eighth episode of Scrubs begins with JD talking about how he’s doing at the hospital, before he runs into Dr. Cox. While talking to the interns, Dr Cox comes in and tells the interns that they are better than before, but that they are dangerous because they think that they know it all. JD then shows Dr. Cox how well he’s filling his shoes, and how much he’s taught the interns.
Turk later asks JD when he is going to stop needing Dr. Cox’s approval. Sam tells Elliot that she bolused hypertonic saline, much to the horror of Elliot, who reveals that you can’t just do that (it caused the patient to have a medical emergency). Blake then tells Dr. Parks that they should give a patient antibiotics since he could have pneumonia, which Dr. Parks still isn’t going for. Finally, Asher has a hard time dealing with his stress for his patient, so Turk helps him cope with the stress with a game.
All the patients were luckily ok. While JD is talking with the interns about the patients being alright, Dr. Cox interrupts. JD asks if he’s going to do a “I always believed in you” speech, but before he can say anything, he collapses. While he’s in a hospital bed, JD questions Cox on why he wouldn’t tell him he wasn’t feeling well, and Cox tells him it’s because he would turn it into a crybaby feelings fest. He also says that he would get too emotional with having to care for him and be objective with him.
Sibby has Elliot and Sam come into the office, where Sibby reveals that Sam filed a complaint against Elliot. Sam claims that Elliot didn’t guide her how to properly raise the sodium on the patient, though Elliot says she should know how to do it. Elliot then goes to speak with Dr Cox, who reveals he might have been too harsh with her.
After Elliot has a quick talk with Sam, JD, who was by Dr. Cox side, reads him his test results, and it turns out to be early-stage renal failure. Dr. Cox says that he tried to protect JD from this, and that he’s scared. He also has JD promise that he’ll help him live for a long time, because he doesn’t want his death to make JD cynical. For the last scene, JD shows Cox a video that Sam took of one of his rants.
So far, this is one of the better episodes of this season. It didn’t have as much cringe in it, and the pacing feels like it was a little better, though it still has some issues with its pacing. Overall, it was an improvement, though still not the greatest.
Rating 7/10