I'm the Doctor

Josh even saved two more lives, and the second one got him on Frank Burns' bad side almost instantly.

Major Burns had been in a pretty pissy mood the whole time. The incoming wounded foiled his first mad scheme to win Margaret's heart back. Burns was in rare form tonight, griping constantly, arguing with Hawkeye and B.J., and occasionally taking the odd potshot at Margaret herself. Colonel Potter didn't hesitate to shout down his moronic major whenever he had run his mouth too often.

"How is he second-in-line to become commanding officer if something might happen to me?" Potter wondered to himself before turning his full attention back to his patient: a corporal named Chusid from New Jersey.

Now, getting back to that second patient that Josh saved...

Ten minutes after the nurses wheeled in another badly wounded soldier, Frank Burns threw up his hands and announced "Forget it. This one's a goner!"

Josh immediately sprung into action, practically knocking Major Burns to the floor. "He's not dead yet, Burns! Not if I can help it!"

Surrounded by two nurses, Josh frantically worked on the patient, who was probably closer to life than death, but just barely. He couldn't believe this asshole Frank Burns just tried to write him off! This kid's going home alive! I won't let him die!

Fifteen of the most tense minutes of anyone's lives passed as Josh brought this young kid, the middle child from a family in Dothan, Alabama, back to live. Frank Burns, never one to step out of the limelight, took it upon himself to comment whenever he noticed one of the patient's vital signs take a turn for the better. From the tone of Frank's voice, he sounded impressed, but everyone in the room knew quite well that this newcomer named Burbank had just made a new enemy.

"I GOT HIM!" Josh exclaimed after the soldier began breathing on his own again with little difficulty.
"Great job, Burbank!" Hawkeye replied.
"Looks like the newcomer just made Frank look really bad again, not that he needs any help," B.J. added.
"Burns, for that stunt, I'll see you in my office once this is over," Colonel Potter said.

As Josh walked back to his old position, he never even bothered to look Burns in the eye.
"...creep!" Major Burns mumbled under his breath.

Josh Burbank hardly cared at the moment. He knew that he'd have a run-in with Frank Burns down the road. That was inevitable. What is also inevitable is the day that everyone finds out that he's not a soldier, nor a doctor, but an impostor from over fifty years in the future. But for now, Josh feels elated after having saved six young American soldiers.

1. Hours later, the last patient has been patched up. Frank Burns immediately gets in Josh's face...

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