The Serpent has slithered on back to the hospital.
And I’m just such a huge fan of the show.
I’ve followed all along.
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Having had that opportunity was a really cool experience, especially with how crazy work had been.
Then they floated the idea of possibly having an opportunity of being a masked contestant.
It was really cool.
The medical symbol, which is the caduceus, is the Hermes staff with two serpents wrapped around it.
And the costume itself is just out of this world, like the tentacles are moving.
It looks like something from an old Egyptian royal tomb or something like that.
It was just really cool, and for all those reasons I fell in love with it.
The costume is the first on the show to feature animatronics.
Was the costume really heavy?
It’s a heavy package on your back.
I would say it’s maybe like an extra 40 pounds or so.
That’s exactly what the costume was like, but it was so cool.
For your second performance, you sang Maren Morris' “The Bones.”
c’mon tell me that was a cheeky reference to your profession.Yeah.
I’m an orthopedic surgeon, and that’s all we do is bones and helping fix broken fractures.
So yes, 100%.
You were gone, weren’t you, for an amount of time?"
So I didn’t tell them, and they’re gonna be pretty shocked.
They had better guesses than Ken!
Did you come up with any intricate lies to throw people off?For sure.
I told multiple people that I was at a medical conference in Los Angeles.
Anyone who knows anything knows that all medical conferences during the pandemic have been postponed or delayed.
So I should have picked a better lie.
That’s what the whole thing is like.
So it was really, really cool.
It truly is like a mask, and you get to become someone who you are not.
Your reveal was probably the most emotional one on the show yet.
What did that moment and panelistKen Jeong’s reaction mean to you?It was definitely touching.
And if anything, I would say thank you to Ken.
