Physician Response Team

The Physician Response Team, more commonly referred to as PRT, is an initiative started by Dr. Ben Warren at SFD Station 19 with the funding coming from both Seattle Fire Department and Grey Sloan Memorial Hospital. It is a mobile, fully equipped operating room aimed at providing urgent surgical care to patients in dire need.
==History==
===Conception===
Struggling with his new role as a firefighter interfering with him acting as a doctor while at scenes, Ben went to Sullivan and proposed a "physician response team," which would include a surgeon being first on the scene.Indoor Fireworks, 3x02 He then pitched the idea to Michael Dixon, the new fire chief. Dixon rejected the idea, saying it sounded expensive. After losing Martin in the field because they were unable to get him to an OR quickly enough, Ben went back to Dixon and asked what he would need to do to get the money. He played up the good PR angle and said he could get Grey Sloan Memorial to cover half the cost. Dixon then agreed to do it.Eulogy, 3x03
Once the funding was available, Ben started getting things ready with Sullivan's help. After Ben counted the vials of fentanyl, Sullivan took two vials out for himself.Into the Woods, 3x05
During the blizzard, Ben used the PRT to amputate Jeff's foot and keep him safe until the weather cleared enough to transport him to the hospital. While he was monitoring Jeff, Ben counted the fentanyl vials and noticed that two were unaccounted for.Ice Ice Baby, 3x06 He asked Sullivan about it and Sullivan told him to file a police report if he believed fentanyl had been stolen. Ben didn't want to do that as he knew it would result in the PRT being shut down. He suggested that maybe he just counted wrong, so Sullivan told him to count again. Ben decided to toss the log that there were missing vials and create a new one that put the missing vials as having been broken in transit. As the PRT made it's official debut, Pruitt Herrera joined the PRT's team, along with Claudia Flores, a registered nurse anesthetist.Satellite of Love, 3x07
===Sidelined===
After an incident in which a drug addict kept the PRT's staff at gunpoint to demand drugs, SFD brass decided to shut the PRT down.We Are Family, 4x03 (S19)
At one point, Ben drove the PRT to Grey Sloan so Owen Hunt and Winston Ndugu could perform a kidney transplant on Rashida Flowers. The hospital's HVAC system shut down in the middle of a heatwave, resulting in the cancellation of all scheduled surgeries. To prevent the kidney from going to someone else, Winston enlisted Owen's help to get creative, and he in turn contacted Ben, who served as the anesthesiologist for the procedure.Hotter Than Hell, 18x03
===Repurposing===
After the overturning of Roe v. Wade and the resulting untimely death of Susan Miles, Addison felt the urge to do more and branch out of Los Angeles to help women in states in which abortion was now effectively illegal. Aware of her unique set of skills that could help women in need, Addison was looking for a place to operate out of. Bailey suggested southern Illinois. As Addison was still reeling over Susan's death, Bailey told her she had done everything she could under the circumstances with the right tools and supplies lacking. This prompted Bailey to think of the PRT, which had been collecting dust in SFD's motor pool. She took Addison to show off the vehicle and offered her to use it for her mission to help women across the country.When I Get to the Border, 19x05
==Notes and Trivia==
*Victoria Hughes nicknamed the PRT the "knife mobile".
*While Addison wasn't made aware of the PRT until Bailey offered her to use it in When I Get to the Border, it coincidentally made one of its scarce appearances on Grey's Anatomy in Hotter Than Hell, the episode featuring Addison for the first time after a nearly ten-year absence on the show.
*With Addison now presumably taking full control of the vehicle's use, it can be regarded as a direct cross-over between the worlds of Station 19 and Private Practice.
*According to Ben, the PRT vehicle cost around half a million dollars.No Days Off, 3x11 (S19)
==Appearances==
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