Medical Director Threatens to Fire Doctors to Save Patients | New Amsterdam

When tasked with turning the Opioid epidemic around, Max shuts down the ED and proposes a massive change.

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Season 2 , Episode 15, Double Blind
Max has a meeting with all the heads of the departments. He says there is only 1% of the doctors of New Amsterdam in the room, yet they prescribe over 79% of the opioids there. He confronts them angrily about being the ones who hooking these patients on drugs, a step away from black tar heroin and he wants to know why all of them should not be arrested. They admit that the patients ask for them by brand name. He orders them all to change this right now. He is giving them one year to prescribe 79% less than what they are doing now and if anyone doesn’t meet that mark, they will be fired. His announcement causes a stir among everyone as he thanks them for coming. He tells Karen she can expect some calls, but she is unimpressed with his words as she could have done it all herself. She wants a “Full Max” solution and this right now is very disappointing. Meanwhile, Sharpe goes great lengths to prove a point.

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In the wake of the ambulance crash that ended Season 1, medical director Dr. Max Goodwin grieves the death of his wife, Georgia, and learns the difficulties of being a single parent - all the while continuing his commitment to solve systemic health care issues at the hospital. Add in his new responsibilities as a father and with cancer still lingering in the rearview mirror, everyone around Max must wonder how long he can sustain this impossible load. But "How can I help?" is not just Max's catchphrase, it's his reason for living. As long as he's helping others, Max is able to find hope in the most hopeless of places. The cast includes Ryan Eggold, Janet Montgomery, Freema Agyeman and Jocko Sims, with Tyler Labine and Anupam Kher.

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