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** Dr. Jorge Villanueva aka El Gato. He's played by Ving Rhames. He's a cool doctor, and great to both his colleagues and his patients. Indeed awesome.

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** Dr. Jorge Villanueva aka El Gato. He's played by Ving Rhames. He's a cool doctor, and great to both his colleagues and his patients. Indeed awesome.pure awesomeness.
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* AdultFear: All the terminally ill children who have brain tumours. Oh, the horror Poor children. [[spoiler:Paricularly scary was the case of Chloe, a little baby who was happy. Too happy. Hadn't it been the coincidence that a doctor obsessed with her job met them, she wouldn't have got diagnosed at all or too late.]]

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* AdultFear: All the terminally ill children who have brain tumours. Oh, the horror horror! Poor children. [[spoiler:Paricularly scary was the case of Chloe, a little baby who was happy. Too happy. Hadn't it been the coincidence that a doctor obsessed with her job met them, she wouldn't have got diagnosed at all or too late.]]

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* AddedAlliterativeAppeal: Apart from the show's title, names and nicknames, one episode is called "Wheels Within Wheels".

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* AddedAlliterativeAppeal: Apart from the show's title, names and nicknames, one episode is called "Wheels Within Wheels". Wheels".
* AdultFear: All the terminally ill children who have brain tumours. Oh, the horror Poor children. [[spoiler:Paricularly scary was the case of Chloe, a little baby who was happy. Too happy. Hadn't it been the coincidence that a doctor obsessed with her job met them, she wouldn't have got diagnosed at all or too late.]]
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** Michelle had -- well, not quite a thing, but almost a thing --with Dr. Stewart Delany.

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** Michelle had -- well, not quite a thing, but almost a thing --with Dr. Stewart Delany. Their good-bye with gentle hand touching is very sad.
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* SassyBlackWoman: One PatientOfTheWeek from the pilot episode is an obese black woman, and very outspoken, sometimes downright rude. It seems she's a hypochondriac and a chronic complainer, but Dr. Napur, who is a surgeon and doesn't really have to deal with this case, pushes doctors into other tests or looking for possibilities. The sassy patient was indeed seriously ill. She thanked Dr. Napur for saving her life before the surgery, but was as outspoken and rude-ish as ever.
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* ChekhovsGun: When "El Gato" goes to the first M&M meeting in the pilot, he brings a cup of coffee and a newspaper. It seems like he's going to read through the meeting, casually drinking his coffee, not paying too much attention to the meeting. But remember the newspaper! While Dr. Martin is getting fired for a misdiagnosis, "Gato" takes the newspaper and reads him an obituary of his patient, a woman beloved by her family. When "Gato" learns that Martin's fired from the hospital, but his medical license will stick with him, he angrily tosses the newspaper in his general direction, and leaved in disgust.

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* ChekhovsGun: When "El Gato" goes to the first M&M meeting in the pilot, he brings a cup of coffee and a newspaper. It seems like he's going to read through the meeting, casually drinking his coffee, not paying too much attention to the meeting. But remember the newspaper! While Dr. Martin is getting fired for a misdiagnosis, "Gato" takes the newspaper and reads him an obituary of his patient, a lovely woman beloved adored by her family. When "Gato" learns that Martin's fired from the hospital, Chelsie General, but his medical license will stick with him, stay, he angrily tosses the newspaper in his Dr. Martin's general direction, and leaved leaves in disgust.
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* ChekhovsGun: When "El Gato" goes to the first M&M meeting in the pilot, he brings a cup of coffee and a newspaper. It seems like he's going to read through the meeting, casually drinking his coffee, not paying too much attention to the meeting. But remember the newspaper! While Dr. Martin is getting fired for a misdiagnosis, "Gato" takes the newspaper and reads him an obituary of his patient, a woman beloved by her family. When "Gato" learns that Martin's fired from the hospital, but his medical license will stick with him, he angrily tosses the newspaper in his general direction, and leaved in disgust.

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* DrivenToSuicide: One Patient of the Week is brought badly hurt, and everybody assumes he was a jumper because he was found under the window. The team are reluctant to treat him, but they do nevertheless. He might end up an organ donor but they actually need organs for him. [[spoiler:The team's attitude change when they find that he in fact did not try to commit a suicide, but was pushed. Dr. Hooten calls them on it later and is extremely harsh on them, because suicidal people are considered ill, not losers unwilling to live. Well-played, Dr. Hooten. Jerkass Has a Point in this series for a reason, and he was not a jerkass at this matter at all.]]



** She's a talented pianist and determined not to get a treatment because she wants to live her life to the fullest and not deal with the pain of brain surgery and chemotherapy. [[spoiler:The doctors are able to persuade her that she should not consider only mathematical statistics and chances to survive, but medical miracles as well.]]

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** She's [[spoiler:The death of]] one extremely cute boy who is a CheerfulChild and a soccer star, but unfortunately has a tumour in his brain, kicks off the series.
** One thirteen-year-old girl is
a talented pianist and determined not to get a treatment because she wants to live her life to the fullest and not to deal with the pain of brain surgery and chemotherapy. [[spoiler:The doctors are able to persuade her that she should not consider only mathematical statistics and chances to survive, of survival, but medical miracles as well.]]

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* Autocannibalism: Some women are allowed to take home their placentas after giving birth, and it's known that they get eaten. It's supposed to be helping to deal them with the stress. One patient uses it as an argument when she wants [[spoiler:to take her own kidney which was supposed to get transplanted to her sister. She wants to eat it. Um, that's how she deals with her grief and a loss of her sist, and it's also a ritual from one eastern culture. She's completely sane, but it caused some in-universe squick.]]



* ImAHumanitarian: Some women are allowed to take home their placentas after giving birth, and it's known that they get eaten. It's supposed to be helping to deal them with the stress. One patient wants [[spoiler:to take her kidney and eat it as well. That's how she deals with her grief and a loss of her sister (who was to receive her kidney), and it's also a ritual from one eastern culture.]]
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* BillyNeedsAnOrgan: Happens quite a lot with interesting twists. Dr. Tierney's transplant programme gets mentioned a lot.
** When a young gangster dies, his organs are harvested and transplanted to various people. The drama here lies in Dr Tierney's insensivity. He spoke about it in front of the dead kid's mother without knowing it was her. When he tries to apologise later, he unfortunately insults her even more by implying that his life was worthy ''because'' he enabled several people to live.
** There is a scheduled operation for one transplantation. A young women agreed to give up her kidney to her sister. [[spoiler:The sister who was to receive it dies during the operation. Naturally, they assume someone else could get it, but the woman wants it back. Um, she wants to eat it.]]
** A young man is badly hurt and everybody assumes he was a jumper. They are reluctant to treat him, but they do. He might end up a donor but they actually need organs for him. [[spoiler:The team's attitude change when they find that he did not try to commit a suicide. Hooten calls them on it later and is extremely harsh on them because suicidal people are ill, not losers unwilling to live.]]
** One woman who is brain-dead signed that she's a donor, but her son doesn't want her organs to be used. They want to legally stop the transplantations and argue that she didn't know what she gave consent to.


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* ImAHumanitarian: Some women are allowed to take home their placentas after giving birth, and it's known that they get eaten. It's supposed to be helping to deal them with the stress. One patient wants [[spoiler:to take her kidney and eat it as well. That's how she deals with her grief and a loss of her sister (who was to receive her kidney), and it's also a ritual from one eastern culture.]]
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** Hooten, for a few episodes, at the request of a LittlestCancerPatient, but he starts letting it grow back out almost immediately. DoubleSubverted. Gato first thinks it's ridiculous but when he hears who asked he just silent raises his cup (of tea or coffee), impressed.

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** Hooten, for a few episodes, at the request of a LittlestCancerPatient, but he starts letting it grow back out almost immediately. DoubleSubverted. Gato first thinks it's ridiculous but when he hears who asked asked, he just silent silently raises his cup (of tea or coffee), impressed.
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* AddedAlliterativeAppeal: Apart from the show's title, names and nicknames, one episode is called "Wheels within Wheels".

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* AddedAlliterativeAppeal: Apart from the show's title, names and nicknames, one episode is called "Wheels within Within Wheels".
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* TrueCompanions: There are diverse relationships among the doctors, and they argue and bicker a lot, but they support each other in a crisis. Their resemblance to a family dynamic is shown especially in the season one finale.
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* HeterosexualLifePartners: Tina and Sydney are best friends and very close.
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* ActorAllusion: Creator/IoanGruffud who is fondly remembered as sailor Hornblower from ''Series/HoratioHornblower'' miniseries guest-starred in "Truth and Consequences". When he was being fried by Hooten, he refers to him several times as the Captain of his ship.

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* ActorAllusion: Creator/IoanGruffud Creator/IoanGruffudd who is fondly remembered as sailor Hornblower from ''Series/HoratioHornblower'' miniseries guest-starred in "Truth and or Consequences". When he was being Hooten fried by Hooten, him on stage, he refers to him several times as the Captain of his ship.
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** Dr. Tina Ridgeway is obviously ''the'' female hottie of Chelsie General. She's called hot by a marine soldier. She blushes, but laughs and admits. It's quite adorable.

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** Dr. Tina Ridgeway is obviously ''the'' female hottie of Chelsie General. She's called hot by a marine soldier. She blushes, but laughs soldier, which makes her blush, laugh and admits.admit that "yeah, ok, I'm hot". It's quite adorable.

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* AlliterativeName: Dr. Harding Hooten.
* AlliterativeTitle: ''Monday Mornings''

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\n* ActorAllusion: Creator/IoanGruffud who is fondly remembered as sailor Hornblower from ''Series/HoratioHornblower'' miniseries guest-starred in "Truth and Consequences". When he was being fried by Hooten, he refers to him several times as the Captain of his ship.
* AddedAlliterativeAppeal: Apart from the show's title, names and nicknames, one episode is called "Wheels within Wheels".
* AlliterativeName: Dr. Harding Hooten.
Hooten. It inspired his nickname, too: Hardly Human.
* AlliterativeTitle: ''Monday Mornings'''''''M'''onday '''M'''ornings''



** El Gato.
** Hooten, for a few episodes, at the request of a LittlestCancerPatient, but he starts letting it grow back out almost immediately.
* HospitalHottie: Nearly everyone. Drs. Wilson and Ridgeway in particular

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** Dr. Jorge Villanueva aka El Gato.
Gato. He's played by Ving Rhames. He's a cool doctor, and great to both his colleagues and his patients. Indeed awesome.
** Hooten, for a few episodes, at the request of a LittlestCancerPatient, but he starts letting it grow back out almost immediately.
immediately. DoubleSubverted. Gato first thinks it's ridiculous but when he hears who asked he just silent raises his cup (of tea or coffee), impressed.
* DoctorJerk: Subverted with Dr. Buck Tierney. He knows others saw him as an asshole, but he's actually a good man deep inside. He's willing to fight for his patients and is committed to a transplant programme at the hospital. Others sometimes view him as a vulture or predator, but he feels it as unjust.
* FacePalm: Viewers get to see characters facepalming all the time, both for their failures and because others failed spectacularly. You wouldn't expect otherwise for a show dealing with professional screw-ups, would you? They are seen especially during M&M meetings held in room 311, but there are several during legal meetings or after surgeries. Some Face Palms were related to shame and personal relationships.
* HiddenDepths:
** Dr. Hooten plays the piano and Beethoven is his favourite composer.
** Dr. Sung Park has a perfect pitch and can play the violin really well, and music obviously touches him very deeply. He also recognises when a patient is right to refuse a treatment [[spoiler:as was the case with a gifted writer who suffered from hyper-graphia]].
* HospitalHottie: Nearly everyone. Drs. Wilson and Ridgeway in particularparticular, and there are several acknowledgement in-universe.
** Dr. Tyler Wilson. One of his patients -- a marine -- said he was a baby face. Quite a strange thing to say to a doctor in his forties, but then again, he's played by Creator/JamieBamber. In blue scrubs, which brings out his blue eyes.
** Dr. Tina Ridgeway is obviously ''the'' female hottie of Chelsie General. She's called hot by a marine soldier. She blushes, but laughs and admits. It's quite adorable.
** Young resident Dr. Michelle Robidaux gets hit on by patients and is referred to as "the pretty brunette".
* InSeriesNickname: The show has some fun with the characters' nicknames. Some of them are affectionate or tongue-in-cheek, some of them are... rather harsh.
** Dr. Martin who gets sacked in the very first episode is called "Double Oh Seven" by his colleagues. He supposes it has something to do with a license to kill.
** Dr. Harding Hooten is called Hardly Human.
** Dr. Jorge Villanueva has two -- El Gato and Big Cat.



* OneOfOurOwn: The season finale featured one of the doctors being attacked by a vengeful patient, requiring one of the others to operate on her.

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* OneOfOurOwn: LittlestCancerPatient:
** She's a talented pianist and determined not to get a treatment because she wants to live her life to the fullest and not deal with the pain of brain surgery and chemotherapy. [[spoiler:The doctors are able to persuade her that she should not consider only mathematical statistics and chances to survive, but medical miracles as well.]]
** Exaggerated with Chloe, who is a two-month-old baby and has a tumour growing in vital part of her brain.
* OneOfOurOwn:
** One episode has Dr. Dr. Villanueva's estranged son being brought to the ER all stabbed with a kitchen knife. He wanted to operate on him, but Dr. Napur stopped him.
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The season finale featured one of the doctors being attacked by a vengeful patient, requiring one of the others to operate on her.them.
* SayMyName: Dr. Wilson to Dr. Ridgeway [[spoiler:when she's seriously hurt and is about to get a surgery]].
* ShoutOut:
** Franchise/JamesBond and his license to kill got a few mentions.
** The team try very hard -- and fail -- to diagnose a patient. Clearly they are missing something. Michelle asks whether they should call Series/{{House}}.
* {{Squick}}: In-universe when a patient deals rather strangely with her grief and wants to consume her own organ.
* UnresolvedSexualTension:
** Tina and Tyler. Lots of hand holding and longing looks, calling each other honey and sweetie and being there for each other.
** Michelle had -- well, not quite a thing, but almost a thing --with Dr. Stewart Delany.
* WillTheyOrWontThey: Tina and Tyler. She's married, but not very happily, and they are close. [[spoiler:They do. But her husband sues Tyler for breaking up their marriage.]]

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''Monday Mornings'' is a MedicalDrama airing on TNT. Created by Creator/DavidEKelly and based off a novel by Sanjay Gupta, it debuted Febuary 4, 2013.

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''Monday Mornings'' is a MedicalDrama airing on TNT. Created by Creator/DavidEKelly Creator/DavidEKelley and based off a novel by Sanjay Gupta, it debuted Febuary 4, 2013.
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''Monday Mornings'' is a MedicalDrama airing on TNT. Created by David E. Kelly and based off a novel by Sanjay Gupta, it debuted Febuary 4, 2013.

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''Monday Mornings'' is a MedicalDrama airing on TNT. Created by David E. Kelly Creator/DavidEKelly and based off a novel by Sanjay Gupta, it debuted Febuary 4, 2013.
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* HospitalHottie: Everyone. Dr. Wilson in particular

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* HospitalHottie: Everyone. Dr. Nearly everyone. Drs. Wilson and Ridgeway in particular
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* OneOfOurOwn: The season finale featured one of the doctors being attacked by a vengeful patient, requiring one of the others to operate on her.

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The series follows the personal and professional lives of the doctors of the fictional Chelsea General Hospital in Portland, Oregon. The title refers to the monday morning meetings where the Chief of Staff, Dr. Harding Hooten(played by Alfred Molina) tells the doctors exactly how they screwed up over the course of the week, so that they may do better in the future.

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The series follows the personal and professional lives of the doctors of the fictional Chelsea General Hospital in Portland, Oregon. The title refers to the monday Monday morning meetings where the Chief of Staff, Dr. Harding Hooten(played Hooten (played by Alfred Molina) tells the doctors exactly how they screwed up over the course of the week, so that they may do better in the future.



** Hooten, for a few episodes, at the request of a LittlestCancerPatient, but he starts letting it grow back out almost immediately.
* WhatTheHellHero: The main point of the show is Dr. Hooten calling the surgeons out on their screw ups and insensitive behavior.

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** Hooten, for a few episodes, at the request of a LittlestCancerPatient, but he starts letting it grow back out almost immediately.
immediately.
* JerkassHasAPoint: Dr. Hooten may be extremely harsh on the doctors at the hospital but he does it because they are doctors and they need to be kept in line. The problem is whether it's effective to work in such a tense environment.
* WhatTheHellHero: The main point of the show is Dr. Hooten calling the surgeons out on their screw ups and insensitive behavior.behavior.
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* BaldOfAwesome: El Gato. Hooten, for a few episodes, at the request of a LittlestCancerPatient, but he starts letting it grow back out almost immediately.
* HeyItsThatGuy: [[Series/BattlestarGalacticaReimagined Lee Adama]] & [[Main.PulpFiction Marsellus Wallace]] work for [[Film/SpiderManTrilogy Dr. Otto Octavius]]

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El Gato. Gato.
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Hooten, for a few episodes, at the request of a LittlestCancerPatient, but he starts letting it grow back out almost immediately.
* HeyItsThatGuy: [[Series/BattlestarGalacticaReimagined Lee Adama]] & [[Main.PulpFiction Marsellus Wallace]] work for [[Film/SpiderManTrilogy Dr. Otto Octavius]]
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* HeyItsThatGuy: [[Series/BattlestarGalacticaReimagined Lee Adama]] & [[Main.PulpFiction Marsellus Wallace]] work for [[SpiderManTrilogy Dr. Otto Octavius]]

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* HeyItsThatGuy: [[Series/BattlestarGalacticaReimagined Lee Adama]] & [[Main.PulpFiction Marsellus Wallace]] work for [[SpiderManTrilogy [[Film/SpiderManTrilogy Dr. Otto Octavius]]
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* HeyItsThatGuy: [[Series/BattlestarGalacticaReimagined Lee Adama]] & [[Main.PulpFiction Marsellus Wallace]] work for [[SpiderManTrilogy Dr. Otto Octavius]]
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* BaldOfAwesome: El Gato. Hooten, for a few episodes, at the request of a LittlestCancerPatient, but he starts letting it grow back out almost immediately.

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* BaldOfAwesome: El Gato. Hooten, for a few episodes, at the request of a LittlestCancerPatient, but he starts letting it grow back out almost immediately.
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The series follows the personal and professional lives of the doctors of the fictional Chelsea General Hospital in Portland, Oregon. The title refers to the monday morning meetings where the Chief of Staff, Dr. Harding Hooten(played by Alfred Molina) tells the doctors exactly how they screwed up over the course of the week, so that they may do better in the future.

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The series follows the personal and professional lives of the doctors of the fictional Chelsea General Hospital in Portland, Oregon. The title refers to the monday morning meetings where the Chief of Staff, Dr. Harding Hooten(played by Alfred Molina) tells the doctors exactly how they screwed up over the course of the week, so that they may do better in the future.future.

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* AlliterativeName: Dr. Harding Hooten.
* BaldOfAwesome: El Gato. Hooten, for a few episodes, at the request of a LittlestCancerPatient, but he starts letting it grow back out almost immediately.
* WhatTheHellHero: The main point of the show is Dr. Hooten calling the surgeons out on their screw ups and insensitive behavior.
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''Monday Mornings'' is a MedicalDrama airing on TNT. Created by David E. Kelly and based off a novel by Sanjay Gupta, it debuted Febuary 4, 2013.

The series follows the personal and professional lives of the doctors of the fictional Chelsea General Hospital in Portland, Oregon. The title refers to the monday morning meetings where the Chief of Staff, Dr. Harding Hooten(played by Alfred Molina) tells the doctors exactly how they screwed up over the course of the week, so that they may do better in the future.

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