Gail tries her hand at surgery
Well, Gaildidsay she’s not a doctor.
As last week’s episode foreshadowed, Phil is very, very sick with appendicitis, to be exact.
And as Gail learns, the only way to treat appendicitis is to remove the appendix.

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There’s a “100-percent chance,” she says, the patient will die.
It’s obviously risky, or else Mike would have probably tried it out years ago.
So that’s what he does.
If Gail doesn’t remove the appendix, Phil dies.
They’re both screwed, basically.
But here they don’t have the skills or knowledge or materials to do that.
In theirs, it might as well be neurosurgery.