Ahead of Finale, Fox's Doc Gave Fans More Reasons to Jeer Dr. Miller
Just when you started warming up to Dr. Richard Miller, understanding as we now do his difficult home life…. Doc went and had him do the unthinkable. And boy, did it have immediate repercussions.
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Arguably the biggest question born of the (already-renewed!) Fox drama's inciting incident had to do with a mistake that Richard made, before colleague Dr. Amy Larsen's (Molly Parker) life-changing car accident, when treating an older patient, 83-year-old Bill Dixon, who had choked on, well, a ham sandwich. Richard accidentally pushed Metoprolol, a beta blocker, into the patient's IV, causing him to code and then die.
Amy of course does not remember uncovering Richard's mistake, but her review of email drafts — namely a curious one with only the subject line 'Dixon' — set her on a journey that tagged in Nurse Julie, who in turn was curious to see that Dixon's autopsy report had restricted access. Julie asked Richard about it, and he said/lied that he would circle back with Amy himself.
Instead, he made a beeline to his lawyer.
'My negligence killed a man, and then I lied about it,' Richard affirmed to his increasingly anxious lawyer. 'How do you defend that?'
Richard's lawyer suggested that maybe perhaps possibly there could be/might be an 'alternate theory' about why Dixon died. Afterwards, we saw Richard privately huddle with Nurse Liz, who was with him when Dixon coded. Amy meanwhile learned of Richard's slipperiness from Julie, then paid a visit to Dr. Franco from pathology, who recalled that Dr. Miller had (atypically) made changes to the deceased's medical file, removing the mention of Metoprolol. When Amy asked Liz for her recollection of the event, the young nurse, fresh from her meeting with Dr. Miller, said that he had taken Amiodarone from her cart and administered it himself. Liz then urged Dr. Larsen to not dig into the matter further.
Dig Amy did, though, marching into Richard's office to declare, 'I know what happened to Dixon' — that after the patient aspirated and Richard called a code, he mistakenly administered Metoprolol. The old Amy had figured it out, and 'that is why you were so keen to get rid of me' after the accident, she surmised.
Caught dead to rights, Richard somehow had the temerity to 'correct' Amy, saying, 'I didn't kill Bill Dixon; you did,' by going behind his back weeks prior to write Dixon a script for Metoprolol and then fail to add it to the man's chart.
'I haven't been covering my ass, Amy,' he added. 'I've been covering yours.'
Amy tried to wave off the accusation, but Richard said that Liz would back him up, because she was there when Amy wrote the prescription.
Hit by a ton of bricks by this devastating 'news,' Amy was emotionally vulnerable when she ran into ex-husband Michael in the elevator. Sensing her distress, Michael pulled her into a comforting hug, and a face caress… which turned into a long, passionate, yearning kiss.
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