Two questions.
Morning, Rita.
Hallway beds again.
Morning, Cleota.
I like the hallway.
You are the only one who does.
The daughter at bed four asked for you by name.
For me, she said the one who actually listens.
Asked for who?
For Rita, Veronica.
In my department, families ask for me here.
So, everyone, one moment.
Rita, come here.
11 weeks on this floor.
Is that right?
Yes, ma’am.
11 weeks.
11 weeks does not put your name in anyone’s mouth.
You have not earned a name here yet.
Emerging, sir.
I only did my job.
Then do more of it.
Bed pads bays 2 to six.
Restock linen the spill and triage.
Yes, ma’am.
[snorts] Trouble.
Verona just teaching the new one how a line works.
Good.
Somebody should be reporting [snorts] on Kevin.
That was not right.
It is fine.
Work is work.
It’s not fine, baby.
One more thing.
Bed nine is yours now.
Verona, not bed nine.
He has sent away three nurses since midnight.
His paperwork is not even started.
Finish his chart by the end of this shift.
And if I cannot, then I recommend they let you go.
Well, you What is wrong with him?
You are the one who listens.
Find out.
[music] She did not tell you everything.
Cabo towards something.
[sighs] Then he will also hear our nurses actually.
Good morning, Mr.
Prell.
I am Retha.
[music] Sir, I need to check your vitals.
Mr.
Purrid, stop talking behind my back.
[snorts] Get out like the other three.
You are reading my lips.
You signed 9 years.
Nobody in a hospital ever signed to me.
[music] My mother is deaf.
I have signed since I was four.
Nobody told you I was deaf.
No, nobody told me.
I am sorry about the tray.
I have had worse mornings.
This one actually.
[gasps and snorts] Then sit.
Ask me anything.
How did you lose your hearing?
An accident in the service 9 years ago.
One loud second, then nothing.
Ever since.
Do you ever feel music, bass in your chest?
Sometimes in my jaw.
Why?
My mother feels nothing at all.
Who tested your ears after the accident?
One doctor once in a field tent and never again.
Do you hear any?
Dr.
Lath.
Bed nine needs a hearing consult.
Bed nine is deaf.
It is in the chart.
The chart is 9 years old.
Doctor permanent 9 years.
Can you read 11 weeks and you are teaching me medicine?
I told you, Corbett.
One simple test.
2 minutes.
Fine.
Prove it right now in front of everyone.
And if you are wrong, your badge stays on this desk.
[snorts] Go ahead.
I trust you.
[music] This will be quick.
[music] a tuning fork out of a museum.
My mother’s doctors used one aund times.
There.
I feel that a hum.
Lord.
Nothing.
It is gone.
Tell me when it comes back.
Now it is back.
A coincidence.
Do it again.
Three times both sides.
Good job.
The vibration travels through the bone.
He can hear it even when the room is quiet.
The test confirms the signal is reaching him.
His hearing nerve is alive.
Something is blocking the path in front of it.
My mother feels nothing on the bone.
He does.
[music] You have to turn to the guy.
Say that again.
Slow.
You are not deaf.
The way they told you [music] 9 years and she found it before lunch.
It proves nothing.
She is not a doctor.
Exactly.
Get leads down here.
End this.
Who called me away from clinic?
A nurse with a tuning fork.
Fenton, [sighs] then show me the fork.
On the bone.
Mr.
Permage.
Yes.
Clear.
And here in the air.
There thick scar tissue closing the canal outside the nerve that can be opened for 9 years.
This man was filed as permanently deaf.
Oh dear.
This morning, a nurse of 11 weeks sat down and asked him.
She was the first.
What is your name?
Rita Amosberry.
Sir, as of this minute, You work on my team.
She has a shift to finish here.
Not anymore, Mrs.
Casby.
Who gave her this patient without his history?
She did and told the whole desk the girl would fail.
Cleola 11 years I kept quiet.
Not today.
A consult request declined this morning.
Signed C.
Lath.
It was a busy shift.
Fenton, [music] you are off emergency cover.
Pending review over a tuning fork.
Over 9 years and one more morning.
[music] And this desk needs a new charge nurse.
You cannot mean that.
Your badge stays on this desk, Verona.
[music] They will operate.
Dr.
Lee’s will soon.
Will you be there when I wake up?
The first voice you hear, I promise.
That is thank you.
You remembered [music] ready.
Mr.
Ped Mason, can you hear me?
Say it again.
Good morning, Mr.
Purid.
I am Retha.
[snorts] [laughter] Good morning, Retha.
Ellis emergency journey something where I go okay remember your hospitalwide your rule our rule you stood up first go home tell your mama [music] He heard me, mama.
He heard my voice.
