TV Review: General Hospital: Night Shift - "Employee of the Month" - Page 2

All of the mixups, some resulting in death, have left a wide opening for MedCam to begin its takeover of the hospital, and Dr. Ford finds himself meeting with the HMO's attorney Mr. Lovell. As they meet the 'angel' is yet again striking the hospital, changing an IV bag for Maxie that sends her into a cardiac crisis.

Meanwhile, Lainey escorted her father, who is having another attack, back into the emergency room. He was confused, combative, and refusing treatment, asking for Dr. Detwiler, who we soon learn was a one-time fiancé of Lainey. When Patrick can't get close enough to him to do his examination, Lainey notices a physical resemblance between her former boyfriend and Stan and begs him to try and get her father to calm down. Stan is resistant at first, but eventually agrees and is successful. Patrick learns he is suffering more TIAs and insists if he doesn't operate soon, her father will have a massive stroke.

Dr. Ford continues to refuse the surgery to the patient because of his advanced Alzheimer's. When Patrick challenged him and the decision, we saw for the first time just how upset Dr. Ford was that running the hospital had become less about helping people than it was about preventing the HMO takeover. "If you think it's bad now, let MedCam take over and see where we're at," he challenged Dr. Drake.

Meanwhile, in the morgue, Mr. Lowell met with his person on the inside and it was revealed to the viewing audience that student nurse Jolene Crowell is the angel of death. As we saw flashbacks of all the incidents, including her putting the drug in Mrs. Storch's IV and throwing a glass of water on the elevator circuit board, Jolene gave a passionate speech about how the doctors walked around the hospital accountable to no one and holding precious life in their hands with little regard, obviously she blames the hospital, more than she let on to Spinelli in a previous episode, for her father's death.

In direct contrast as the episode came to a close, Epiphany stepped in to help Stan who was being questioned by a patient about her medications and had mistaken him for a doctor since he was still in the white coat he had worn to help Lainey. While he braced himself for another verbal smack-down from his mother, she instead told him he had done what he could to help someone who needed it. "Sometime you do something simply because it's the right thing to do," she said before retrieving the wrapped gift she had nervously hesitated giving Toussaint throughout the episode. With a firm determination we've grown to love Epiphany for, she marched over and gave him the gift with a smile and congratulations.

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