A doctor is murdered, and Goren and Eames delve into the history of one of her patients in an extreme vegetative state.A doctor is murdered, and Goren and Eames delve into the history of one of her patients in an extreme vegetative state.A doctor is murdered, and Goren and Eames delve into the history of one of her patients in an extreme vegetative state.
Tammy Morris
- Nurse
- (as Portia)
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- TriviaFentanyl patches contain enough medication for three days. Even the smallest-strength patch contains enough fentanyl (the 12 microgram-per-hour patch contains 1.28 mg of fentanyl) to kill a petite non-opioid tolerant person such as the victim. The higher-strength patches would contain enough to kill several people, as the patches range in dosage of 12 mcg/hr, 25 mcg/hr, 50 mcg/hr, 75 mcg/hr, and 100 mcg/hr. The most commonly prescribed dose is the 25 mcg/hr patch, which contains a total of 2,550 mcg (or 2.55 mg) of fentanyl. The median lethal dose (meaning a dose that would kill 50% of people given it) of fentanyl for non-opioid tolerant adults is 1 mg or 1,000 mcg; the maximum fatal dosage is 2 mg or 2,000 mcg. However, the lethal dose of a drug can vary widely from person to person: it mainly depends on age and weight. A dose of fentanyl that would be lethal to a 30-year-old 300-pound man could potentially kill four 60-year old 100-pound women.
- GoofsIt is inaccurate for Mark Farrell to call himself a corpsman. The Guard is Army and the Army has Medics. Corpsman is a Marine Corps term for a Naval Medic, and the Marines have Reserves, not Guardsmen.
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Dull AND hokey
D'Onofrio's investigative skills are impressive as usual, but this segment concerning euthanasia is quite dry and mostly quite dull. Given the controversial nature of the subject, the writing here falls into the "like walking on eggshells" school of broadcasting -tame as could be, rather than dramatizing a sensitive subject.
The subdued acting, led off by the characteristically low-key approach of John Savage, which has served him in good stead in so many fine performances in a large number of prominent movies (see for example "The Deer Hunter", where he properly is part of the ensemble, overshadowed by Walken and the superstars), is boring.
The big scene of D'Onofrio "interviewing" the woman in a vegetative state to uncover the guilt of the murderer of a doctor is extremely hokey.
And in hindsight, the script's discussion of fentanyl is the opposite of prescient, it being treated as just another painkiller that was used as the murder weapon via overdose, but with no hint of what we know decades later has become one of the deadliest of all chemicals in wide circulation.
The subdued acting, led off by the characteristically low-key approach of John Savage, which has served him in good stead in so many fine performances in a large number of prominent movies (see for example "The Deer Hunter", where he properly is part of the ensemble, overshadowed by Walken and the superstars), is boring.
The big scene of D'Onofrio "interviewing" the woman in a vegetative state to uncover the guilt of the murderer of a doctor is extremely hokey.
And in hindsight, the script's discussion of fentanyl is the opposite of prescient, it being treated as just another painkiller that was used as the murder weapon via overdose, but with no hint of what we know decades later has become one of the deadliest of all chemicals in wide circulation.
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- lor_
- Aug 29, 2023
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