The episode explores how doctors and patients alike "push the pain away" by focusing on games or medical tasks rather than facing their personal trauma.
: Alex works with a woman dying of throat cancer who is struggling to tell her daughter the truth. Alex's blunt bedside manner clashes with Burke's more sensitive approach, but it ultimately forces the patient to face her reality. [S2E22] Push the Pain Away
"You know you could sleep with him and then right in the middle... start crying. It's painful, humiliating, and unbelievably cruel, but apparently it works." — The episode explores how doctors and patients alike