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Ellis let the comment from Teddy Altman roll off her
shoulders as the patients stat’s began to drop. Her
heart was going into distress and who only knew
what other organs were going to soon follow. Stepping
back as she moved over across from Teddy, Ellis
watched the monitor carefully. 

              “Charged.” Elis called out as the nurses around the
               two doctors backed away from the body to let the
               electric charge flow through the heart. Ellis’s eyes
               stayed on the monitor, only to watch the rhythm return
               to normal - well at least for the patient at this time.
              “What do you need from me, Dr. Altman?”

“I  need you to check if she’s  not  brain-dead  from
the  lack of oxygen,” Teddy hissed.  “Did  you  ever
think  of  that  before  undermining  your  superior?
I assure you; I’ll be having a  word  with  the  Chief  
about  this. You  n e v e r  challenge an attending’s
orders, do you understand me?”

              The  threat  in  her  voice  was an empty one,  and
              she knew it  —  a  momentary anger never spread
              any  further  than that. But knowing what she knew
              and having seen what she’d seen, Teddy had long
              since  realized  that hospitals had a pecking order
              for a reason.