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Angus Leighton

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Angus Leighton is a surgical resident at Angels Memorial Hospital.

History[]

Early Life[]

As a child, Angus was repeatedly bullied and beaten up by another kid, Johnny Wexler. One day, some other kids brought Johnny to him and told Angus to hit him. Angus couldn't do it and the other kids let Johnny go, leading to Johnny punching him.[1]

Starting Residency[]

On the first day of his residency, Angus listened as Jesse Sallander introduced himself as their mama and explained to them that the number one rule was that they were not allowed to kill a guest in his house, meaning they needed to ask him all their stupid questions because they'd be too scared to as their daddy, Leanne Rorish, the residency director. As he finished talking, a doorbell rang and they rushed outside for a "homebody drop-off." They found their patient, who had been shot in the neck. Angus pushed from the other side to get him out of the car and onto a gurney. Once they got him inside, Angus offered to send up a blood sample for a cross-match, but learned they didn't have enough time to wait for that. When the O- blood arrived, Leanne decided to save it for other patients who would need it that night and instead replaced their patient's blood with cold saline to buy him the time they needed to have surgery.

While talking to Malaya Pineda, another resident, she recognized his name and said his brother, Mike, had talked about him. She worked with him while she was a medical student. Angus, jealous, informed Malaya that Mike crapped his pants at summer camp when he was 12. Their conversation was interrupted by Leanne explained to them how they triaged patients in the waiting room. While she was talking, an older man, Mr. Cleery, who started speaking gibberish at dinner. Malaya quietly said he needed TPA and Angus repeated her answer loud enough for Leanne to hear it. Leanne sent Angus to go with Rollie Guthrie, another attending, and the patient.

When Mark Taylor, the ER director, questioned if they needed so many people to treat Mr. Cleery, Rollie sent Angus to find someplace to be useful. Hannah Reynolds took him to Caesar Lopez, a skateboarder with a broken wrist who needed a cast after having x-rays. While Angus was putting the cast on, Jesse had Malaya take over the process so Angus could go back to Mr. Cleery. Malaya asked him about Caesar sleeping and Angus said he was just sleeping it off. Angus went back to Rollie and Mr. Cleery. After receiving TPA, Mr. Cleery's symptoms quickly resolved and he was able to speak normally.

As they moved to a Code Red, Angus helped treat Sebastian, a young kid who was unable to breathe. After learning that Sebastian was Norwegian, Leanne diagnosed a pneumothorax and told Angus that Norwegian kids had a genetic predisposition to that. She assigned Angus to place a chest tube. As Angus went to place the tube, Caesar stepped into Center Stage in a daze then collapsed. Angus placed the chest tube, but it got stuck in the fascia. Angus panicked, but Malaya was able to calm him down enough to get him to pull it free, allowing Sebastian to breathe.

Caesar turned out to have a brain bleed from a missed head injury, which forced Leanne to drill burr holes in the ER. Guilty over missing it, Angus hid in an OR gallery, where Malaya found him and told him his only problem was his lack of confidence in himself. He admitted to her that he was going to do a psych residency, but he hated it, so he took up his father's offer to get him a spot at Angels for ER residency. Rollie found them in there and reassured them that their experience wasn't unique.[2]

Stan Rocksickler[]

Jesse had all the residents clean up the mess from the last shift. Jesse said that to be part of a team, no job was too big or too small, plus being an ER physician requires humility and like firefighters cleaned their rigs, the residents would clean theirs. He also warned them that as it was Saturday night, they would see some things before the sun came up.

Angus ended up working on Jake Willis. When Jake's arm swung out and grabbed Angus, Angus thought he was awake, but Malaya said it was just a reflex based on Jake's vitals. Then Leanne saw how frequently he was squeezing the ambu bag and said to slow down, as Jake only needed six breaths per minute and Angus was hyperventilating him.

Later in the shift, Angus and Malaya treated Stan Rocksickler, who had been waiting for ten hours to be seen and was complaining of serious back pain. Malaya diagnosed persistent muscle spasm and decided to order a CT, while Angus thought it was Stan's heart. When Malaya presented her plan to Leanne, Angus stayed quiet.

While Stan was getting a CT, he started coding. Angus and Malaya checked on him and Malaya decided to start the CT as he was already there. The CT showed an aortic dissection, meaning Angus was right. They prepared to do a pericardiocentesis and when Leanne arrived, she inserted the needle, draining the blood and relieving the pressure. After she was finished, she said you never wanted to see an aortic dissection on a CT because it means you didn't act quickly enough. She warned them to trust their instincts.[3]

Stanley and Clearing the Waiting Room[]

In the 36th hour of code black, Angus treated Stanley, who had falling off a truck ramp. Rollie sent him to do a blunt-trauma workup. While Angus was doing that, Mario found him and said that Stanley's unstable heart rhythm was probably due to a problem in his chest and suggested Angus do a thoracotomy. Angus disagreed, believing it was due to the bleeding in his pelvis, and ordered blood to transfuse. Mario continued to push and Angus finally decided to do the thoracotomy. When he got Stanley's chest open, they were shocked to see his heart beating normally, meaning it was his pelvic bleeding after all. Rollie found them like this and reported it. Taylor and Leanne questioned Angus, who took all the blame while Mario stayed silent. Leanne sent Angus to decompress the waiting room. In the waiting room, Angus treated Mrs. Curtis for allergies and Tiffany for a bruised ankle.

While retrieving food for the waiting room patients, Angus told Rollie that Mario had pushed him to do the thoracotomy. Rollie said he'd figured that out and said that Angus had done it because he didn't trust himself. He encouraged Angus to find his voice and let it sing.

Back in the waiting room, Angus noticed Donald having trouble breathing while he diagnosed TJ with a foot fungus. He checked on Donald and Mrs. Curtis said she'd given him an energy bar because he didn't get any of the food. Angus looked at the wrapped and asked if Donald was allergic to peanuts. Donald couldn't answer, so Angus gave him epinephrine and then got Donald into the ER, where he sang to himself to keep his confidence up as he intubated Donald. Once that was done, he ventilated.

Angus found Mario in the locker room. Mario said they should talk about what happened if Angus was mad, but Angus said Mario was the last person on his mind. Back in the waiting room, Tiffany came to Angus and tried to give him her number. He refused it, saying that there were rules against him socializing with patients. She said she wasn't a patient anymore, but he noticed nystagmus in her eyes and said she'd need a scan.[1]

Relationships[]

Romantic[]

He had a one night stand with a patient who happened to be a stripper, and a few years later she brought her son, whom she believed to be his, to the ER. It turned out he was not the father. He also had an interest in surgical resident Heather Pinkney.

Familial[]

He believes he lives in the shadow of his older brother, Mike, who is something of a superstar. His father's on the board of the hospital, which is how he got into the program.[2]

Friendships[]

He is friends with most of the other residents, and seems to be most close with Dr. Mario Savetti.

Professional[]

Will Campbell had Angus perform a surgery with him in the O.R. In the bathroom later, Angus called Campbell a number of insults, but Campbell exited a stall before Angus could end with, "but he's brilliant." Later, after a patient refused care from Campbell because he is black, Angus criticized the patient.[4]

Career[]

Angus was an ER resident at Angels Memorial Hospital. He is now a surgical resident.

Notes and Trivia[]

  • CBS Bio: Angus, a new resident at Angels, is a former psychology major who remains passionate about understanding the intricacies of human behavior. Angus has terrific instincts but needs the confidence to trust those instincts. Approachable, loyal, and, at times, endearingly wet behind the ears, Angus invests in relationships both with his patients and with his fellow residents. Camaraderie is essential to Angus, and he slowly but surely ushers even the most difficult candidates (like Mario) into the family circle. Angus hails from a medical family—his brother is a superstar ER doctor and his father is on the board at Angels—but every day Angus works hard to be his own man.
  • Angus was a C-student all his life.[5]

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