From the March 2007 Reader's Digest:
Just outside the high-pressure ER of fictional Seattle Grace Hospital, home of hit ABC show Grey's Anatomy, George O'Malley is about to
make a stupid but believable mistake. As the doctor--played by T. R. Knight--sticks a needle in his patients arm to draw blood, a drop falls
unnoticed onto a piece of gauze. Instead of containing the waste, the doctor hands it, along with the blood sample, to a nurse, who passes it along
to a lab tech. Suddenly, chaos erupts as everyone becomes woozy and collapses.
The episode being filmed comes from a real-life case in Southern California: A woman undergoing chemotherapy ingests some kind of herbal remedy,
and the combination emits toxic fumes from her body, causing her attending doctors to pass out.
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