Big Scrubs"My Number One Doctor"
Original Air Date: December 6, 2007
Rachel B - TwoCents Staff Writer
This episode was all about being fake. Actually, to put it in a more educated light, it was about the struggle between propagating the positive perceptions of oneself and the less than positive reality to achieve specific and selfish results. Man, my college professors would be proud.
In the spirit of competition (which is overflowing in the first few scenes of the episode), Dr. Kelso has signed Sacred Heart up to the website www.RateYourDoc.org (Yes, it is a real website put up by the show and yes, Dr. Jan Itor is currently ranked number one).
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Original Air Date: December 6, 2007
Rachel B - TwoCents Staff Writer
This episode was all about being fake. Actually, to put it in a more educated light, it was about the struggle between propagating the positive perceptions of oneself and the less than positive reality to achieve specific and selfish results. Man, my college professors would be proud.
In the spirit of competition (which is overflowing in the first few scenes of the episode), Dr. Kelso has signed Sacred Heart up to the website www.RateYourDoc.org (Yes, it is a real website put up by the show and yes, Dr. Jan Itor is currently ranked number one).
Predictably, the doctors begin to change their bedside manner to advance in the rankings. Turk, who usually cuts ‘em up and sends ‘em on their way, starts spending some personal time with his patients. Cox encourages a patient’s decision to embark on a full raw diet found on Wikipedia (Wikipedia, for heaven’s sake!) to beat his cancer. But it is JD, always a good guy when it comes to bedside manner, who comes out on top of the rankings. Good for you, JD!
Unfortunately for JD, Turk and Cox decide a little sabotage (in that whole “spirit of competition” mentioned earlier) is in order. They get The Todd to tell everyone he is Dr. John Dorian, and JD rank plummets. To make it up to JD, Turk promises to let him win at basketball and to shout “White Lightening” every time JD scores.
Meanwhile, Carla and Kelso discover that Janitor is pretending to be someone completely different from his taxidermy-loving self in order to keep his relatively normal girlfriend. Carla tells Janitor that he needs to stop being fake and show Lady (yes, her name is Lady) his true self. So Janitor lays all the crazy on Lady at once, only to be saved by Carla telling Lady he is kidding. As we all know, one has to let the crazy out in small doses. That is how I got my husband.
On the other side of the hospital in cozy private practice, Elliot learns that one of her patients (Shannon), who has Lou Gehrig’s Disease (ALC), tried to off herself because it’s going to happen soon anyway. JD points out that this might be the time to stop being Shannon’s friend and be her doctor by reporting the attempt to the home health nurse. This is hard for Elliot because she feels Shannon has a right to end things on her own terms and ratting Shannon out would make Elliot just as fake as the other doctors running around Sacred Heart. In the end, she keeps her mouth shut. I have a feeling this story line will be revisited.
So, the moral of the story? We all do things to advance ourselves. Sometimes it’s fake and sometimes it’s not. We’re the ones that have to live with our particular ratio.
Next on Scrubs: Sorry, kids, I don’t really have a clue: no new Scrubs until after Christmas!