HIT!

GH's Young Doctors In Love

By JD

Her cover is her HIV status, and his is being a playa, but you don't have to be a brain surgeon to realize that General Hospital's hot docs Robin and Patrick belong under the covers together.

While cocky Patrick and coolly confident Robin were at each other's throat from the moment they met, there was an odd spark. Any soap couple that bickers that intensely is destined to fall into bed together, so we all just set our watches and waited.

Delightfully, GH has not rushed them to the next level or overmilked the suspense. A throwback to old-fashioned romance, these lovebirds are getting to know each other through bantering, an evenly matched battle of wits.

Patrick started out as a stereotypical cipher: a handsome, womanizing hotshot surgeon (yawn) with the wrong kind of bedside manner. But Robin has gradually peeled away his layers, and filled in his backstory with a dead mother and distant, alcoholic dad (Noah).

As for Ms. Scorpio, she grew armor to keep others at bay so she wouldn’t suffer the heartbreak she did when Stone died. But Patrick has been piercing that hard candy shell; no doubt she’ll soon melt in his hands.

Robin is more emotionally fragile than physically frail. She was devastated when she thought she overheard Patrick make a $100 wager to bed the woman with HIV. When she lashed out at him, he was the one who got hurt.

Her health makes her cautious, which counterbalances his impetuousness. They both were abandoned by their fathers. They don’t trust people, but are tempted to trust each other.

Neither Robin nor Patrick is a cardiac specialist, so they are carefully navigating their way around the human heart. So far, the operation is a great success.

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