Cox slips JD a compliment in this when he says he's seen guilt ruin a lot of good doctors and he won't let it happen to JD.

Seeing the unshakable Dr Cox break and lose it as he trashes the room is honestly one of the most emotionally brutal scenes in TV. The other was how he and JD reacts to the loss of Ben. Creating a temporary delusion to cope.

This episode was based on a tragedy that happened in 2004, 3 patients died of Rabies. Obviously they weren't all in the same hospital but the race to get the organs postponing testing was true

The thing that always gets me in this episode isn’t the way that Dr Cox reacts to his patient flat lining. It’s the way that Carla reacts to him losing his cool. Throughout the show Carla has always seemed to have the answer to Cox brash and fiery side but when Cox loses his temper due to this you can see that even Carla is stunned and doesn’t know how to help her friend.

This is one of the episodes that FUCKED ME UPPPP. Dr. Cox's acting was amazing, the song selection was perfect, obviously its not medically realistic but this one hurt. And then when he said his patient could've lasted another month without a new kidney, DAMN.

The episode that comes after this one, My Fallen Idol, is incredible as well. It's a direct follow up to this one and shows Dr. Cox struggling with severe depression following the events of this episode. I HIGHLY recommend that one.

Truly a great episode. The fact that is was based on true event makes it even better. They change some stuff, like making all recipients be patients from the same hospital, but its still relly cool. The show is not really medically accurate, but its accurate enough. You feel that they cared about accuracy but they wanted to make a show that is still enjoyable by non doctors.

I've watched this scene a million times and another thing I noticed before his friend died that Cox was REALLY close to getting over it...because JD said he'd have made the same call he did Even with the emasculating comments and aggravated reactions and rants and proclamations of how annoying he finds him he deeply respects JD and it makes their dynamic so layered and loveable

Dr. Cox makes me emotional, all the time. Wonderful reaction can't wait to see the rest of your channel (stomach bug, stuck in bed! I'm dying lol)

This is the episode that makes my eyes tear up b/c as much as we know how unbreakable Dr. Cox is as a character, watching him break while his kidney transplant patient is flat lining is heartbreaking. Not to mention The Fray playing in the background adding to the sorrow!

I've been through a few vids of medical professionals reacting to this episode. It'll come as no suprise that "she died of rabies??" gets the same "Oh f------ck" reaction.

Seen this episode and some medical professionals reactions to it a lot and it always hits me. Scrubs is my favourite medical show and these reactions are a great way of going back to it. I actually live in a country where unfortunately Rabies is relatively common. I never go near stray animals for this reason. Such a terrifying illness.

I love your Scrubs reactions, please continue with them! Lots of other doctor reactors do a few then stop

My brother has been a chiropractor for 40 years, leaving me with a deep distrust of them. Some, like my brother, consider subluxation a central principle, but other chiropractors have told me subluxation was never a thing. It would be like GPs disagreeing on whether germ theory is a thing or not. You don’t have any idea what you’re going to get when you visit a chiropractor new to you. Plus I can tell you first hand the chiropractic community is a cesspool of conspiracy theories.

Dr cox flipping over the machine in anger after the third patient died was such a raw & iconic moment that's still etched in my memories. Fun fact about "How To Save A Life" by The Fray here. Their use of the song came in April/May of 2006 4 months before it became a hit on the radio. This show always had a knack for finding songs that go with specific moments.

10:40 This looks like it's the premise for the last bit of the episode. Then the twist hits.

You know when The Fray starts playing its going to be a sad scene 😭

Can we just appreciate the fact that she is literally reading and replying to all of the comments? Great videos, really and thank you for trying to give some more medical and personal information about what happens, always love to learn something new. Keep it up, hope you’re having a great day/night :)

Your reactions and commentary bring so much more love and empathy to a series I have always loved since it premiered. Thank you!

Todd was never ridiculed for being gay on the show, he was supported from day one of admitting it by everyone.

As a massage therapist, the chiropractic scene made me laugh because it reminded me of being in massage school and learning cervical manipulation and passive stretching techniques. One student asked the instructor, "Have you ever broken someone's neck doing that?" Fortunately, the instructor assured us that it wasn't actually that easy to break anyone's neck with the kind of things we were doing. ...I think the Janitor's methods have a much higher chance of doing damage, especially since he didn't properly warm the soft tissue first!

Hey Dr. Jess, I found the original article, this episode based on (N Engl J Med 2005; 352:1103-1111) . Unfortunately, this wasn't an isolated case, rabies infected recipients from corneal transplant donors earlier (see references of the N Engl J Med article, 14-17) or Clinical Infectious Diseases, Volume 50, Issue 8, 15 April 2010, Pages 1112-1119 (youtube doesn't allow links, even of scientific articles). I accept the reasons why checking all donors for rabies wouldn't solve the problem (rabies is very rare, too much time for the tests). But vaccination the recipients against rabies and/or check their vaccination history, prior the transplantation wouldn't be an effective approach?

Scrubs was the most real look at life as a Dr surrounded by humor to help the realities go down better..

Love Scrubs...great writing and just has so much heart to it. And as it turns out (based on the many YT reactions from doctors and nurses) I have to give them kudos for the amount of things they actually get right in that show....which is both impressive as well as, I think, a good thing

I guessed wrong! You kept the song in. It really does make the ending more powerful. Still makes me cry.

The hardest episode to watch. It tears me up every time I suffer through it.

I love your comments and reactions!

I can never hear this song on the radio without immediately thinking about this episode.

I like your videos. Scrubs is great. I get the impression that you would really enjoy Dr Cox as your attending.

oh shit! This video made me think of one ofthe last human interactions I hade before I shattered my elbow in Vegas. We were in a grogery store buying liquor and someone with meth teeth who claimed to be a nurse (was wearing scrubs) started telling us how she avoided hangovers by plugging IV's full of Gatorade into her arm. Was a good prelude to a night where I shattered my elbow and kept bar hopping for 10 hours after.

John C McGinley is an absolutely amazing actor, and I want my doc to have that big Cox energy when trying to save my life. This episode still wrecks me, just watching the reaction was hard enough.

God that part at the end where Cox so succinctly throws JD's words back in his face to demand responsibility for his friend's death. I got chills. It kind of makes me sad the only morbidity and mortality review the show did came early and provided no comfort because I'd love to see what dispassionate professionals have to say about using that kidney without confirmed cause of death. Weighing the time a kidney remains viable outside of the body against the timeline for receiving an expedited autopsy to establish cause of death and that even against the odds of getting a different donor within the month or so that man could have continued to survive on dialysis. Cox very well makes the point that this isn't as cut and dried a case as the prior two patients, but that still doesn't mean he made the wrong choice and I think this might actually be some sort of comfort to him. Or not, the guys a bit of an egomaniac.

Between this episode and Brendan Fraser's episode, these both hit hard emotionally.

This is by far my favorite episode of scrubs. I cannot imagine the pain experiencing a patient’s death unexpectedly. Thank you for commenting on the show.

The end of this episode was possibly the most emotionally devastating moment in the series to me - definitely in the top 3. I only wish this video had included the full minute or two that closes out the episode, continuing from when he's using the paddles on the third patient. When he starts yelling out in frustration and knocking things around, I always tear up. And then walking out in the middle of his shift, after J.D. echoes the warning that once you blame yourself, there's no coming back - to which Dr. Cox says, "Yeah. You're right" and leaves. Man, that's a weighty ending.

My eyes well up just thinking about the end of this episode and the one that follows, it's sort of an unofficial two-parter. I hope you watch the next one after this one soon, it's tough but it's such a good episode

This is one of the saddest episodes, next to the ones in which Ben dies and the one with Laverne’s death That show was so amazing, i binged it over and over again, to the point that I could enter the room where my roommate’s were watching an episode, I watch it a couple of seconds and could tell them season and episode. At least for season 1 to 6

I've seen a few doctors react to this one. At the rabies diagnosis everyone doubletakes. Every single one.

Now if JD had reported Jill for what he believed was a mental health crisis. What is the likelihood they would have recognized that her symptoms would have resulted from rabies? If they were able to recognize that was the cause would it have been too late anyways to save her?

Oh also you should totally react to the episode after this, “My Fallen Idol”, doesn’t look like you have and it’s a good follow up to this episode, them trying to get Dr Cox un-depressed

1 think i find so wierd when seing rabies symptoms is that fear of water. How can u get scared of water from contracting a virus. I understand that u can generate a laster fear of something from an event, but how is a virus infection giving u a fear u never hade before makes no sense.

Nevermind the work/hime separation (going out with scrubs) what about hygiene?! Both what you might take out from the hospital and what you might take into it to the next patient? Is it normal to leave the building wearing scrubs?

In regards to chiropractic treatment, it feels really good when done by someone who was properly trained. Spent some time in the birthplace of American chiropractic treatments, Iowa, and the students needed people to practice on. When looking for a chiropractor, be careful. Many who go to the Putnam School in Bettendorf, Iowa are trained to regard chiropractics as pretty much a cure all. There are other schools that teach chiropractics and basic medicine. Either way, being adjusted by a chiropractor feels good and can loosen the stress in your body.

Bypassing the obvious flaws in the medicine in the episode, the barely there code procedure for the kidney patient, the fact that one donor would never be an exact match for several transplant recipients, the fact that Jill exhibited no symptoms of rabies prior to losing consciousness and the fact that Cox likely would be in extremely hot water with the medical board for patient abandonment at the end of the episode, it's still one of my favorite episodes of one of my favorite shows lf all time. Scrubs has a reputation for being one of the more accurate medical shows, creator Bill Lawrence employed his college roommate who was an actual doctor, as an advisor, but it gets plenty wrong. However, even when it's technically incorrect it still feels very accurate for life in a hospital. Btw, Grey's came after Scrubs and borrows from it considerably at times, a fact that Scrubs itself makes fun of in an episode. There's also an episode that features 3 guest stars who play doctors who were also doctors in one of the more famous medical shows of the 80s, St. Elsewhere.

1:23 One should keep in mind that JD doesn't have much else going on though

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You cut out the best part of Cox' escalation :/ but besides that: great video with great explanations! :)

i don't like the spoilers at the beginning (i try to skip that part) but love everything else in the video...mostly you and your advice...

Phil Hughes was hit with a cricket ball and suffered a vertebral arterial dissection, which caused his death.

Hmmm. Not sure I'd use the word "boasts" in that situation, or maybe I'd use it in the opposite way you did. I think 2 things when I see a Dr in scrubs outside of a hospital. Either A, they ARE trying to "boasts" and be cool about being a Dr, or B, they're tired and don't give 2 sh1ts what they look like as long as there isn't blood on them. I assume the latter, but I know a few of the first category. They're the guys who wouldn't be Drs if daddy didn't have deep pockets for repeating tests and courses lol. Enjoyed the reaction. Oh, and thank you for helping people!

Even Though JD Finds Her Anoying (Jill Tracy) I think just taking the time to listen to her was a nice thing to do.

I had an ear infection and needed my diabetes prescriptions renewed and my toenails fell out and it took me six months to find a doctor. It would be nice if I could have had someone to talk to when my father died (my fault) but no, medical care in the US isn't always available to everyone. Sorry to say.

I have no knowledge on medicine at all. I'm curious, how does it work if the people receiving rhe organs are all vaccinated against rabies? Im assuming it makes no difference as the complications are already there but just curious. 😅

I know that Jill Tracy was often used as a punchline, but she was actually such a tragic character. The first episode she was in the show she was constantly overworking and losing herself trying to live up to everyones expectations AND her own expectations (which seemed to be more what she thought she should want from life than what she really needed) and it caused her to stumble in that downward spiral that she never really managed to get out of again. And then she tried to overcompensate her depression and mental struggles with this bubbly, over-the-top behaviour that just irritated the hell out of everyone. She was the personification of "the road to hell is paved with good intentions" and her death and organ donation causing three other deaths was the tragic pinnacle of that.

You kinda missed the point of the Todd segments, Turk was warning them that even if he does turn out to be gay, he's still the Todd, he's still a poon hound; and it bit them in the ass when Todd used that to harass them since he's bi, something they didn't even think of. There's another episode where there's a gay couple and they're portrayed pretty fairly.

He's above labels. He's The Todd.

it's hilarious watching any medical show with MD family members cringing

Am I the only one that completely misunderstood when she said "cervical manipulation?" Thank God for the graphic, I was about to look into becoming a chiropractor.

1:02 Was that Hayao Miyazaki?

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"cervical manipulation" BOY HOWDY did I get what that meant wrong.

You're not ready for The Todd.

Felt so sorry for the woman. Re-watching this, cant remember her name. Her death hit hard.

I dont get why rabies wouldn't be part of the screening to see if the organs are viable or not, especially with a non responsive on arrival patient as shown. Her next of kin obviously didnt live with nor see her day to day to give up dated health info. And iirc rabies can lay in waiting?

I know this is one of the most brutal eps ever, but you skipped past the greatest Kelso line of all time. "My son used to have a gimp named Barry! ...or was it Larry? Huh, at my age, it's getting hard to keep track of all his gimps..."

He’s the Tod

Sad episode.😢 what’s interesting is Scrub’s and Grey’s Anatomy have a lot of similar medical story lines.

I am not sure how you feel about criticism. This is just a hobby and I am learning from your channel, which is nice, honestly. I'm a jobless person who did video editing as a hobby so feel free to take my words with a grain of salt, tbh. My critique on this video, which I think applies to other videos, is to not make so many cuts in your videos and let the video play out longer DURING the more emotional moments only. In my experience, people want to experience these emotional moments with the person who is narrating the video. In this case, those scenes with Dr. Cox saying: "He wasn't about to die, was he noobie?" and ending the video there makes me, as an audience member, feel like I have been cut short of experiencing a "moment" with the doctor experiencing this moment with the video because that is what I, as an audience member, want and expect to experience with this video. BUT, if it is a personal choice to not expose vulnerability on your platform, then I respect that choice. However, if the reason for cutting scenes and cutting the length of the end to shorten the overall video... Then, I would advise against this for harder-hitting emotional scenes. You want to extend the emotional parts out because that is how an audience can "relate" to the narrator of the video more because of the emotional impact and emotional connection those moments will have with the narrator. Anyway, just my two cents. I'm not saying your video is bad (It is a good video), but I am giving some critique that could, hopefully, improve the quality of your future videos. Best of luck! Edit: Here's an incomplete example video of mine. I'm just showing that you do not feel like you need to rush a video to get an emotional impact. (The video is slightly Not Safe For Work, by the way) kzfaq.info/get/bejne/Y6epaMehyKnUcpc.html

Based on a true story in Alaska

I know there are a lot of gray areas and I have a hard time with those. Yet I would think that JD does deserve blame. Doctors are mandatory reporters. Even though Jill did not seek out treatment at the hospital, she did open up about her struggles and that he had not seen her therapist in a while due to certain things and being stood up, should have definitely been a red flag for him. He was right to feel guilty and even though ultimately she did not take her own life as the episode later showed, he should not have been relieved, the bare minimum for him would have been to suggest for her to go get some help or to talk to somebody and offer her resources that could help her. If Jill had a physical issue instead of a supposed mental one, there is no question that JD would have recommended going to the emergency room to seek treatment. Of course that is also not always the best place to send someone who is having a mental health crisis, at least that is what I found out from my own experience when I was teenager.

Scrubs is a bit cringey, looking back on it, but the show still puts me to tears and I love that.

the worst thing a police officer can do off shift is intervene

Can you please do Scrubs "My Screw Up"

Chiropractors and Osteopaths can do miracle work and solve some really spooky inexplicable problems (unexplained nausea for example). But many have no talent and can't fix your problem. You have to keep shopping until you find one of the less common talented ones. I had a rib out once- the chiro was basically doing generic work on me that had nothing to do with my stated problem and after 15 sessions I went and found an office chair with a webbed back and adjusted my own rib. Oh- I'd be *real* careful about music. So many youtubers get burned for any clips over 12 seconds long. It's always very upsetting to them. And it usually hits when they just start to gain momentum and pass 10 to 20 thousand subscribers.

Todd is bi, and it’s not an implication, he admits it, and no one in the show at all thinks or says it’s a big deal in any negative way, they’re not negative about it at all, just mentioning or questioning the possibility someone might have a different sexuality than they’re presenting based on certain sexual behaviors that are not typical of heterosexual people (ie, BEING ATTRACTED TO ANYTHING OTHER THAN THE OPPOSITE SEX AS IT IS DEFINITIONALLY CONTRARY TO THE WORD HETEROSEXUAL (LIKE TODD VERY CLEARLY IS)) isn’t homophobic or offensive. It might be in bad taste nowadays, and sure that’s a reasonable and fine point, but acting like it’s like homophobic or vitriolic is just stupid. Other than that, wonderful video though, and I appreciate your insight otherwise…

According to the show's creator, this situation is based on real events.

please do "my mistake"

you did not cover one of the most important parts of the episode it showed Cox's weekness in full, he leaves though his shift and gets told by JS "remember what you told me start blaming your self for patient deaths that a door you can never close", Cox responds with "i know" and walks out, showing that weakness in cox and that he's human and has flaws and he was talking from experience with JD.

Will you please add closed captions to your videos? The autogenerated ones are terribly inaccurate. The nice thing is you can have them autogenerated and then just take a few minutes to correct them. It’s a small step that many people will be extremely thankful for

plot twist when the todd ends up being bisexual and in a closed poly triad with a married couple 💀 no, scrubs def misses the mark on a lot of social issues fr, that just made me laugh

This show can make you laugh real hard but can also totally destroy you. They use emotions way too good.

Loving and respectful... Mmm really, I find respect is earned not simply given out like jelly babies at a kids party 🤨

Do nurse Jackie

Would American doctors use organs from a cocaine overdose. Because in Sweden where i live it's a complete no-go unless you pretty much die in a hospital bed from natural causes.

very sad ep, but at the same time, isn't rabies not only quite rare but apparent when symptoms start showing esp the neurological symptoms? I mean it's not called "zombie virus" and "hydrophobia" for no reason? I feel like an actually responsible hospital would catch that, but idk. Rabies and all the lyssaviruses are very scary, considering they're almost always fatal after symptoms show, and it's really sad in pets like dogs, although they've done a really good job of making it very rare in western countries in the last few decades.

Is it just me or does Dr. Jess look a bit like Sarah Shahi? 😍😍😍

And since they were all transplant recipients/patients, then they were all on immunosuppresants... So rabies would run it's course in them MUCH faster. I don't even know if prophylaxis or any vaccine would have made a difference even if given at the time of them waking up from the transplant. IMO

Man, Scrubs gave us episodes like this or My Screw Up and they gave us the boobie horn. It did have a lot of filler and the characters became pretty Flanderized by the end but what a ride it was.

I think Todd turned out to be bisexual.

Yo, 90% show, 10% facecam. Thanks

I believe Todd eventually comes out as bisexual

Slightly off topic and very insensitive comment incoming. You have been warned. I'm morbidly obese and I can't condone giving a valuable heart to someone who is just going to abuse it. That guy was severely overweight he should not be eligible for a heart. Like I said I'm in that category but I just think it's wrong when it possibly could go to someone who will look after it.

What yes he did....he should have tested those organs before he put them into the patients ....I mean they were willing to be reckless with these patients who to say they wouldn't be reckless with us or if not us you or if not you then your love ones.....rushing into a surgery to replace the organs with damaged organs is not a good job or a good trade off especially if it hurts or in this case kills numerous people in the process ....thats not a good look for the hospital or doctors in general because it make you look like murderers....you didn't save there lives....you just prolonged there deaths....and possibly made it more painful for them and there family.....i dont care what anyone says your the ones in control not the ones Going into surgery ....they're lives are in your hands they trusted you....and you failed them....and you wonder while people don't like to go to the doctors ....its because of things like this .....and if you still defend these doctors negligence then I wouldn't want you to be my doctor or be my families doctor in fear you would make the same mistakes....you should be ashamed of yourself for says it's ok to screw up ROYALY ....ITS NOT OK

Another 'Dr' reacting to Scrubs for clout.. Yawn!