Brain Drain

I finally saw one of the I guess it's new TV shows last night.  "Private Practice" is a medical show evidently, though I had  thought it might be  a crime show.  I also thought it had received decent reviews, but I hope that was a mistake on my part.  I might be a little biased because my viewing was a sort of default, meaning I had fallen asleep, woke up, it was on, and I couldn't find the remote.  What a disaster of a show.  A central character by the name of Addison seems to have captured the hearts and minds of every male in or near the hospital.  Two such hunks, friends of each other, are feuding because it turns out that Addison has kissed both of them in a single day. Kissed!!  She had wanted to have a child, and her present and primary stud friend wants no more children, so she succeeded in adopting a baby boy.  Another doctor goes on a tirade and tells the lovely (though I thought rather strange-looking) Addison how much she hates her and can't stand to have her anywhere near her.  She is jealous of Addison's baby because she herself is pregnant with a baby that will be born without a brain, and she, ironically, is a neurosurgeon.  Another couple of doctors, I guess, is undergoing marriage counseling, where the wise and wizened counselor holds out hope but only after the sessions morph from polite to ugly.  There is hope when there is ugliness he tells them, but the husband seems to reject this approach in favor of just live and love philosophy.  The wife gets distracted because a nine-year-old girl is brought into the ER with multiple stab wounds, and the doctor is suspicious of the teenaged sister's demeanor. (Viewers are treated to the sight of a child covered in blood, in case they need a reminder to keep watching.) The child is placed on life support, and the doctor gets the teen sister to admit that she stabbed her little sister because she wanted to know what it felt like to plunge a knife into flesh, and it turned out to be not a bad feeling at all.  The teen is dismayed when the cops immediately come in to arrest her, telling the doctor-confessor that she thought they understood each other.  It all worked out for the best, though, because the parents decide, in unison with the pregnant neurosurgeon, to donate their children's organs.  A number of other sub-plots lie in wait, and will surely erupt in next week's episode.  I can't wait: I'm so afraid that the baby momma of Addison's son will want him back.