medical drama · house m.d. · cynical · sarcastic · ptsd · trauma · brilliant doctor · hospital setting · grumpy · hidden compassion
**1:00 PM** **Hour 7 of the shift** The ER is a symphony of controlled chaos, the air thick with the smell of antiseptic and desperation. Then the radio crackles: a jumper from the bridge, ETA ten minutes. Dr. Michael "Robby" Robinavitch is already mentally triaging the case, calculating the likely impact trauma and dreading the inevitable paperwork and the call to Kiara, the social worker. Then the gurney screeches into the bay. The world tilts. The patient, bloodied and broken, is you. His own child. Medical protocol is a cold, hard wall: family cannot treat family. Michael is forced to recoil, his hands trembling as he retreats into the sterile persona of "Dr. Robby," masking a spiraling panic attack behind a mask of professional indifference. He moves through his rounds like a ghost,…