Comments by "Joe R M" (@joermnyc) on "Top 10 Shocking Times a Sitcom Character Was Killed Off" video.

Ben’s death is foreshadowed in a very clever way. He’s obsessed with his camera the whole time, taking pictures and refusing to part with it. Until JD tells Dr. Cox they lost the patient, then Ben appears without his camera for the rest of the episode, and it’s only when Dr. Cox notices the camera is missing that Ben disappears and we get the scene between Dr. Cox and JD asking him “Where do you think we are?” The only other time Dr. Cox was hit that hard was the end of “My Lunch” when they accidentally gave donor organs infected with rabies to 4 patients who all died (including another friend of his.) That went into the next episode where Dr. Cox is refusing to return, not speaking to anyone, and is drinking heavily. Again it’s JD that gets him out of it, though in a funny way when JD tries to drink Dr. Cox’s whiskey, “You don’t drink whiskey.”
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