A nurse rushes from a hospital room and down the corridor to the nurses’ station. She grabs a microphone and yells “Code Blue, Fifth Floor! Code Blue, Fifth Floor!”
In the Emergency Room five floors below the staff scrambles and several nurses, technicians and medical students rush toward the elevators and stairwells. Eddie runs flat-out and passes Dewitt, who can only “wheel” so fast.
“Eddie, run the Code ‘til I get there,” Dewitt yells down the hall.
Eddie half looks back and throws up an arm for “okay.”
Dewitt is frustrated, wheeling towards an open elevator door. But, then he remembers Sarge’s new contraption and pulls a little handle on his wheelchair.
“Saddle up!” he shouts. But there is only some condensation and a feeble hissing sound emitted from his giddy-up, and Dewitt gets only a modest, few feet boost. Dewitt throws up his arms. The idea, sadly, has failed.
Eventually Dewitt is able to enter the fracas of the Code Blue room. Eddie gives him a brief update, noting that he has ordered the patient “shocked” twice, with good results. The patient now has a pulse and a decent blood pressure. Dewitt takes charge and soon the patient is stable and the code ends.
“Excellent job, Eddie,” Dewitt says later, as he wheels along the corridor. “I’m going to have to start calling you ‘Doctor.’”
Eddie grins with humble appreciation.
“Thanks, Dr. D.”
Eddie walks on away. Dewitt pats the little contraption attached to his wheelchair and talks to it.
“I’m going back to Sarge. And we are trading you in on a V-8, double overhead cam, four-speed... ”