Dave is a general surgery attending at Seattle Grace Mercy West Hospital.
History
Pacific College Shooting
Dave was working when Seattle Grace Mercy West Hospital received incoming GSW-traumas from a shooting at Pacific College. He scrubbed in with peds surgery chief Robert Stark and surgical resident Alex Karev to treat Kelly Keck in O.R. 2. She had suffered gun shots to her leg and abdomen. During the operation, Stark opted to amputate Kelly's leg to help stabilize her condition, which caused an argument between Stark, Alex, and Arizona Robbins who was watching from the gallery. When Alex was ordered by Robbins to physically prevent Stark from amputation, Dave held pressure to one of Kelly's organs.
When Robbins left to gain privileges and have orthopedic attending Callie Torres treat the leg, Dave stabilized the abdominal trauma and stopped the bleeding. When Torres arrived to assess the leg, she agreed with Alex, much to Stark's chagrin. Robbins shortly arrived to take over the patient, and Stark was forced to leave. Alex was reassigned to the pit, and Dave worked with Robbins and Torres. When the abdominal injuries were repaired, Dave scrubbed out.
Career
Dave is an attending general surgeon at Seattle Grace Mercy West Hospital.
Notes and Trivia
- It is implied that Dave was employed during the shooting as he seemed to support the plan to save the patient's leg, despite Stark's futile insistence to amputate it.
- The episode that Dave appears does not have him wearing a personal scrub cap, but rather a disposable one, likely due to the mass GSW traumas.
- Dave looks similar to a visiting transplant surgeon who procured George's lungs. (Good Mourning)