Does anyone think that Rob may have contracted VCJD from the cut he got in season 2 from Hurley's scalpel? He was given a blood sample to test for HEP and HIV, but he threw it away. Does anyone know if it's possibe to contract VCJD this way?
shareYes - this was explained in the finale - and a good enough justification for Lake to lie through his teeth in bringing Hurley down.
shareYes, exactly.
In the end Hurley killed Lake too, not just his patients. So all bets were off for Lake.
And also what a stunning ending to the story! Never saw that one coming in a million years!!!
I think Mercurio had to come up with a thing SO bad that in the end Hurley would break the omerta vow between the doctors that they cover for each other.
Hurley continuing to do surgery with scalpels next to other doctor's hands inside blood soaked bodily cavities meant in his career he could end up infecting any doctor he worked with with a deadly or life long blood borne disease. Lake had to act.
We see that their surgeries are often emergency in nature with people coming off the street and into theater. So the patients might have deadly blood borne disease that could not be diagnosed before surgery--unlike elective surgery where a patient can be fully screened in advance.
So in the end Hurley's ineptitude was potentially deathly to the entire surgical staff as well as patients!!