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Submitted by Tornado Dragon

White Coats
(a.k.a. Intern Academy)
(2004)

SHORT VERSION:
Dale ceases being a womanizer and goes steady with Sarah, and Mike and Mitzi also enter into a romantic relationship. One day, they and the other featured interns earn their stripes when they assist with treating dozens of victims from a multiple-car pileup on the freeway, and during it, Mira and Dr. Whiteside start making out with each other, revealing that their mutual animosity was actually attracting them to each other.

At a congratulatory ceremony for the interns and the other hospital staff, Dr. Kipp reveals that one of the victims turned out to be a billionaire, and he has made a generous donation to the hospital which has enabled it to reopen the D wing and fill it with brand new equipment. All of the featured interns go on to graduate from medical school.

LONG VERSION:
One day, Dale (Pat Kelly), Mike (Peter Oldring), and Marlon (Viv Leacock) are sent down to cold storage to pick up some containers full of organs for a pathology class, and Marlon soon gets into an argument with Dale over how Dale takes nothing seriously and spends his work hours trying to hit on every woman he sees in the hopes of sleeping with them. Marlon then brings up how Mitzi (Christine Chatelain) performed oral sex on him in the past, causing Mike – who is dating her – to spill one of the organ containers out of surprise. Dale tells Mike that the dalliance happened long before he started going out with her, and Marlon adds that he brought it up because he thought that Dale had already told him about it, but Mike quickly gets upset with Dale over this news. When Marlon tries to defuse the situation, Mike throws some spilled organs at them both, starting up an organ-throwing fight which ends when one of the organs splatters onto the forehead of an arriving Dr. Olson (Dave Thomas).

The trio are later brought to Dr. Kipp’s (Dan Aykroyd) office, and Mike discovers that his father Sam (Saul Rubinek) is in the room with him and immediately senses that something fishy is going on (which was correct; Sam was trying to bribe Kipp with money for new hospital equipment in exchange for sparing Mike from punishment). Kipp tells the guys that their actions warrant an immediate expulsion from the intern program, and Sam has Dale and Marlon go outside so he can talk to his son. Mike tries to tell Kipp that he started the fight and then voices his suspicions over why his father is here. On Mike’s insistence, Sam steps out of the office, and Sam takes the opportunity to talk to Dale and Marlon, where he offers to use his power and influence to ensure that they can still become doctors if they agree to take full responsibility for the whole episode. Dale and Marlon return to the office and admit that only they are to blame for what happened, but before they leave, they tell Sam in front of Mike that they aren’t accepting his bribe. Mike goes after them and protests what they just did, and Sam then catches up to him and confesses that he did try to buy off everyone in the office and says that he would do worse than that to make sure that he became a doctor. Sickened by his father’s words, Mike goes back to Kipp and informs him that he is quitting.

As the guys are sitting with Mitzi, Sarah (Carly Pope), Christine (Jane McLean), and Mira (Ingrid Kavelaars) in the cafeteria and wondering about what they are going to do next, Cynthia (Lynda Boyd) comes up to the group and tells them that she needs them all in the ER right now; there has been a 76-car pileup on the freeway, and no other doctors can get to the hospital because of it, so she needs them all to help tend to the numerous victims of the accident. As they work on mending and healing everyone, Dale and Mike give their issue with Mitzi closure, Dr. Kipp is revealed to not be an actual medical doctor (having earned his Ph.D. in hospital administration), and Dr. Olson ends up getting hit by a car outside the doors of the ER and suffers internal injuries but survives thanks to the work of the interns. Also, Mira and Dr. Whiteside (Dave Foley) – who have been feuding mainly due to Whiteside’s condescending, chauvinistic, and pompous attitude towards her – finally get into a fistfight, but it ends with them making out passionately, revealing that their mutual animosity was actually attracting them to each other.

Some time after the crisis has been resolved, Dr. Kipp holds a party for the medical staff, where he praises the interns for their courageous work and says that one of the victims they saved turned out to be a billionaire, and he has made a large donation to the hospital, which will enable it to stay open and also reopen the D wing again and fill it with brand new equipment. Cynthia talks to Dr. Olson and tells him that she noticed that he slipped her the tongue while she was giving him mouth-to-mouth resuscitation after he got hit by the car, but she doesn’t mind that he did that and lets him know that she is open to doing that with him again. As Dr. Olson shows a new group of interns around the hospital, Mike narrates that he and the others all graduated, but he doesn’t know what happened to the new interns, nor does he care, simply because they are nowhere near as good-looking as their group, especially the girls.