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* SurgeonsCanDoAutopsiesIfTheyWant: Both played straight ''and'' averted. While patients are usually handed off to the required specialists as needed, several times a Code Black situation (or just a plain medical emergency) has had Rorish deciding a patient needs a particular procedure Right The Hell Now, only to be told that there aren't any specialists available -- at which point Rorish, while not doing the specialized procedure required, will cowboy it up and improvise something that will keep the patient alive until a specialist ''is'' available.
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* BreakTheHaughty: As of "Pre-Existing Conditions" (1x03), Rorish has begun to make a point of doing this to Savetti, who is brilliant but, to put it bluntly, a complete ass to his colleagues. She hammers home the lesson that medical professionals depend on the people around them just as much as on their own skill set, and that skill set doesn't matter if you can't work with the people around you.

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'''''Code Black''''' is a MedicalDrama which premiered on Creator/{{CBS}} in 2015, starring Creator/MarciaGayHarden as Dr. Leanne Rorish. Other main characters include the other attending physicians, Dr. Neal Hudson (Raza Jaffrey) and Dr. Rollie Guthrie (William Allen Young); the new residents, Dr. Christa Lorenson (Bonnie Somerville), Dr. Angus Leighton (Harry Ford), Dr. Malaya Pineda (Melanie Chandra), and Dr. Mario Savetti (Benjamin Hollingsworth); and experienced head nurse Jesse Salander (Luis Guzmán).

It was inspired by a documentary of the same name that detailed the efforts of the emergency room staff at Los Angeles County Hospital.

The show focuses on an overworked and understaffed emergency room of Angels Memorial Hospital in Los Angeles as they try to deal with the swaths of people who come through their doors seeking help, focusing on a new group of residents and the doctors training them.

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'''''Code Black''''' is a MedicalDrama which premiered on Creator/{{CBS}} in 2015, starring Creator/MarciaGayHarden as Dr. Leanne Rorish. Other main characters It was inspired by a documentary of the same name that detailed the efforts of the emergency room staff at Los Angeles County Hospital.

The show focuses on an overworked and understaffed emergency room of Angels Memorial Hospital in Los Angeles as they try to deal with the swaths of people who come through their doors seeking help, focusing on a new group of residents and the doctors training them. These
include the other aforementioned resident supervisor, Dr. Leanne Rorish (Marcia Gay Harden); the attending physicians, Dr. Neal Hudson (Raza Jaffrey) and Dr. Rollie Guthrie (William Allen Young); the new residents, Dr. Christa Lorenson (Bonnie Somerville), Dr. Angus Leighton (Harry Ford), Dr. Malaya Pineda (Melanie Chandra), and Dr. Mario Savetti (Benjamin Hollingsworth); and experienced head nurse Jesse Salander (Luis Guzmán).

It was inspired by a documentary of the same name that detailed the efforts of the emergency room staff at Los Angeles County Hospital.

The show focuses on an overworked and understaffed emergency room of Angels Memorial Hospital in Los Angeles as they try to deal with the swaths of people who come through their doors seeking help, focusing on a new group of residents and the doctors training them.
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'''''Code Black''''' is a MedicalDrama which premiered on Creator/{{CBS}} in 2015, starring Creator/MarciaGayHarden as Dr. Leanne Rorish. It was inspired by a documentary of the same name that detailed the efforts of the emergency room staff at Los Angeles County Hospital.

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'''''Code Black''''' is a MedicalDrama which premiered on Creator/{{CBS}} in 2015, starring Creator/MarciaGayHarden as Dr. Leanne Rorish. Other main characters include the other attending physicians, Dr. Neal Hudson (Raza Jaffrey) and Dr. Rollie Guthrie (William Allen Young); the new residents, Dr. Christa Lorenson (Bonnie Somerville), Dr. Angus Leighton (Harry Ford), Dr. Malaya Pineda (Melanie Chandra), and Dr. Mario Savetti (Benjamin Hollingsworth); and experienced head nurse Jesse Salander (Luis Guzmán).

It was inspired by a documentary of the same name that detailed the efforts of the emergency room staff at Los Angeles County Hospital.
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* ShipTease: "Sometimes It's a Zebra" (1x04) starts overtly hinting at a possible romance between Christa and Dr. Neal Hudson, with her first [[spoiler:confiding in him about her son's death]] and later [[spoiler:him suggesting they go get breakfast (she asks for a raincheck)]].
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* DeadpanSnarker: Most of the nurses snark at the residents and their naivete.
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* ImmodestOrgasm: Angus and Mario try to deal with a schoolteacher suffering from an intense and prolonged orgasm. They give up because everything they do sets her off and neither wants to deal with an ethics inquiry. Jesse eventually takes matters into his own hands. [[spoiler: He stuffs pepper up the teacher's nose and causes her to sneeze, allowing her to release the tension she's been holding in in one explosive burst]].
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* OhCrap: Leighton and Savetti, panicking, open up a man's chest believing that he's gone into cardiac arrest only to discover a healthily beating heart.

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* OhCrap: Leighton and Savetti, panicking, open up a man's chest believing that he's gone into cardiac arrest only to discover a healthily beating heart. They can only stare and wonder just how much trouble they're in.

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* LipstickLesbian: Paneda is revealed to be a lesbian and the only member of the cast who has a personal life outside of work.

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* JumpScare: Mario gets one when the patient he thought was only suffering from severe heat stroke suddenly stands up behind him, [[BloodFromEveryOrifice bleeding out of everywhere]]. There's even a ScareChord before it cuts to commercial.
* LipstickLesbian: Paneda is revealed to be a lesbian lesbian, and the only member of the cast who has a personal life outside of work.
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'''''Code Black''''' is a medical drama which premiered on Creator/{{CBS}} in 2015, starring Creator/MarciaGayHarden as Dr. Leanne Rorish. It was inspired by a documentary of the same name that detailed the efforts of the emergency room staff at Los Angeles County Hospital.

The show focuses on an overworked and understaffed emergency room of Angels Memorial Hospital in Los Angeles as they try to deal with the swaths of people who come through their doors seeking help.

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'''''Code Black''''' is a medical drama MedicalDrama which premiered on Creator/{{CBS}} in 2015, starring Creator/MarciaGayHarden as Dr. Leanne Rorish. It was inspired by a documentary of the same name that detailed the efforts of the emergency room staff at Los Angeles County Hospital.

The show focuses on an overworked and understaffed emergency room of Angels Memorial Hospital in Los Angeles as they try to deal with the swaths of people who come through their doors seeking help.
help, focusing on a new group of residents and the doctors training them.


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-->'''Rorish (to Hudson)''': You're the doctor they want. I'm the doctor they need.
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Angels Memorial Hospital in Los Angeles experiences it 300 times per year.'''\\
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Angels Memorial Hospital in Los Angeles experiences it 300 times per year.'''\\
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->'''Code Black: The term for when the influx of patients is too great to be treated properly.\\
The average hospital experiences Code Black an average of 5 times per year.\\
Angels Memorial Hospital in Los Angeles experiences it 300 times per year.'''\\
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* CodeEmergency: "Code Black" is the term used to describe a situation where a hospital is officially at overcapacity and cannot adequately provide care to those that need it.

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* CodeEmergency: "Code Black" is the term used to describe a situation where a hospital is officially at overcapacity and cannot adequately provide care to those that need it. Codes Green, Yellow, and Red are also announced at different points to indicate the situation getting better - or worse.



* SurvivorGuilt: [[spoiler:Leanne]] is revealed to be suffering from a whopping great dose of this after [[spoiler:surviving the accident that killed her husband and two children]].

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* SurvivorGuilt: [[spoiler:Leanne]] is revealed to be suffering from a whopping great dose of this after [[spoiler:surviving the accident that killed her husband and two children]]. A patient responsible for his younger brother's death due to driving drunk also goes through this.
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'''''Code Black''''' is a medical drama starring Creator/MarciaGayHarden that premiered on Creator/{{CBS}} in 2015. It was inspired by a documentary of the same name that detailed the efforts of the emergency room staff at Los Angeles County Hospital.

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'''''Code Black''''' is a medical drama which premiered on Creator/{{CBS}} in 2015, starring Creator/MarciaGayHarden that premiered on Creator/{{CBS}} in 2015.as Dr. Leanne Rorish. It was inspired by a documentary of the same name that detailed the efforts of the emergency room staff at Los Angeles County Hospital.
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* SurvivorGuilt: [[spoiler:Leanne]] is revealed to be suffering from a whopping great dose of this after [[spoiler:surviving the accident that killed her husband and two children]].
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* SergeantRock: Jesse, as the senior admitting nurse, occupies this position in the ER, heavily depended upon by the attending physicians while mentoring the residents on the nuances of working at Angels Memorial.
* TeachersPet: Paneda is eager to prove that she knows her stuff (and she does, to her credit), but Jesse is quick to remind her that she's still just a resident and that she has to do a lot of drudge work before getting to work on more complicated cases.
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* OhCrap: Leighton and Savetti, panicking, open up a man's chest believing that he's gone into cardiac arrest only to discover a healthily beating heart.

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* DangerDeadpan: The ER's attending physicians remain calm and collected, only raising their voices to be heard over all the commotion, while in the midst of death and seeming chaos. This is a trait that they're trying to teach their residents.

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* DangerDeadpan: The Even as patients are dying in front of them, the ER's attending physicians remain calm and collected, collected while quizzing the residents about what sort of procedures should be performed RFN, only raising their voices to be heard over all the commotion, while in the midst of death and seeming chaos.commotion. This is a trait that they're trying to teach their residents.


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* LipstickLesbian: Paneda is revealed to be a lesbian and the only member of the cast who has a personal life outside of work.

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* AffectionanteNickname: Dr. Guthrie quickly dubs Leighton "Young Squire".

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* AffectionanteNickname: AffectionateNickname: Dr. Guthrie quickly dubs Leighton "Young Squire".



* VitriolicBestBuds: Rorish and Jesse good-naturedly trade insults to keep the other motivated during busy shifts.

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* VitriolicBestBuds: Rorish and Jesse good-naturedly trade insults to keep the other motivated during busy shifts.shifts.
-->'''Jesse''': I love you so much I wanna break you in half.
-->'''Rorish''': I love you so much I wanna punch your face in.
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* AffectionanteNickname: Dr. Guthrie quickly dubs Leighton "Young Squire".
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The show focuses on an overworked and understaffed emergency room in Los Angeles as they try to deal with the swaths of people who come through their doors seeking help.

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The show focuses on an overworked and understaffed emergency room of Angels Memorial Hospital in Los Angeles as they try to deal with the swaths of people who come through their doors seeking help.



* DangerDeadpan: The ER's attending physicians remain calm and collected, only raising their voices to be heard over all the commotion, while in the midst of death and seeming chaos. This is a trait that their trying to teach their residents.

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* DangerDeadpan: The ER's attending physicians remain calm and collected, only raising their voices to be heard over all the commotion, while in the midst of death and seeming chaos. This is a trait that their they're trying to teach their residents.
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* JerkassFacade: Dr Rorish's seemingly cold demeanor is implied to be a reaction to previous trauma, as other characters have noted that she was much warmer before the accident. She ''does'' care; she just doesn't ''want'' to, and thinks it gets in the way of her doing her job.
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* {{Nepotism}}: Leighton asked his father, a member of the Angels Memorial board, to pull some strings to get him an emergency room residency. He quickly finds himself overwhelmed and regretting his decision, however.
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* ArtisticLicenseMedicine: C-Booth (the real life version of Center Stage) has been supplanted at real-life hospitals in favor of individual beds in semi-isolated trauma bays. While younger staff at the real Los Angeles County Hospital occasionally say they wish for the rush and excitement of C-Booth, older staff remind them that patients were highly exposed during very vulnerable moments of their lives and that the new system provides a certain level of dignity to patients and their loved ones.

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* ArtisticLicenseMedicine: C-Booth (the real life version of Center Stage) has been supplanted at real-life hospitals in favor of individual beds in semi-isolated trauma bays. While In the documentary, younger staff at the real Los Angeles County Hospital occasionally say they wish for the rush and excitement of C-Booth, but older staff remind them that patients were highly exposed during very vulnerable moments of their lives and that the new system provides a certain level of dignity to patients and their loved ones.
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* CrapsackWorld: The real life reason why Angels Memorial (based on the real Los Angeles County Hospital) experiences Code Black so often: medical insurance, and therefore preventative care, is unaffordable to a large portion of the population so they put off seeking medical attention for as long as possible and swamp emergency rooms due to a law that says that all [=ERs=] must provide care no matter if the patient can pay or not. Patients are then funneled to public hospitals (like Angels) because private hospitals will only do the bare minimum to keep a person alive in order to maintain their profit margins.
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* DangerDeadpan: The ER's attending physicians remain calm and collected, only raising their voices to be heard over all the commotion, while in the midst of death and seeming chaos. This is a trait that their trying to teach their residents.
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* MamaBear: Gender-flipped. Jesse Salander labels himself the ER residents' mama and that he'll look out for them and that they should never even think of lying to him because they'll be caught.

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* MamaBear: Gender-flipped. Jesse Salander labels himself the ER residents' mama and that he'll look out for them and that they should never even think of lying to him because they'll be caught.caught.
* VitriolicBestBuds: Rorish and Jesse good-naturedly trade insults to keep the other motivated during busy shifts.
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* ArtisticLicenseMedicine: C-Booth has been supplanted at real-life hospitals in favor of individual beds in semi-isolated trauma bays. While younger staff at the real Los Angeles County Hospital occasionally say they wish for the rush and excitement of C-Booth, older staff remind them that patients were highly exposed during very vulnerable moments of their lives and that the new system provides a certain level of dignity to patients and their loved ones.

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* ArtisticLicenseMedicine: C-Booth (the real life version of Center Stage) has been supplanted at real-life hospitals in favor of individual beds in semi-isolated trauma bays. While younger staff at the real Los Angeles County Hospital occasionally say they wish for the rush and excitement of C-Booth, older staff remind them that patients were highly exposed during very vulnerable moments of their lives and that the new system provides a certain level of dignity to patients and their loved ones.

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'''''Code Black''''' is a medical drama starring Creator/MarciaGayHarden that premiered on Creator/{{CBS}} in 2015. It was inspired by a documentary of the same name that detailed the efforts of the emergency room staff at Los Angeles County Hospital. The title comes from the term used to describe a situation where a hospital is officially at overcapacity and cannot adequately provide care to those that need it.

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'''''Code Black''''' is a medical drama starring Creator/MarciaGayHarden that premiered on Creator/{{CBS}} in 2015. It was inspired by a documentary of the same name that detailed the efforts of the emergency room staff at Los Angeles County Hospital. The title comes from the term used to describe a situation where a hospital is officially at overcapacity and cannot adequately provide care to those that need it.
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* CodeEmergency: "Code Black" is the term used to describe a situation where a hospital is officially at overcapacity and cannot adequately provide care to those that need it.
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* DrJerk: Dr. Rorish doesn't believe that her job requires her to be kind to her residents, or her colleagues for that matter, because working in emergency medicine requires important decisions be made quickly to save lives.
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'''''Code Black''''' is a medical drama starring Creator/MarciaGayHarden that premiered on Creator/{{CBS}} in 2015. It was inspired by a documentary of the same name that detailed the efforts of the emergency room staff at Los Angeles County Hospital. The title comes from the term used to describe a situation where a hospital is officially at overcapacity and cannot adequately provide care to those that need it.

The show focuses on an overworked and understaffed emergency room in Los Angeles as they try to deal with the swaths of people who come through their doors seeking help.

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* ArtisticLicenseMedicine: C-Booth has been supplanted at real-life hospitals in favor of individual beds in semi-isolated trauma bays. While younger staff at the real Los Angeles County Hospital occasionally say they wish for the rush and excitement of C-Booth, older staff remind them that patients were highly exposed during very vulnerable moments of their lives and that the new system provides a certain level of dignity to patients and their loved ones.
* MamaBear: Gender-flipped. Jesse Salander labels himself the ER residents' mama and that he'll look out for them and that they should never even think of lying to him because they'll be caught.

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