During an episode of the first season of “Scrubs,” Dr. Perry Cox, played by John C. McGinley, boasted to a group of clinicians that every patient that had been in the ICU when he started his shift at midnight remained alive later that day.“And I damn sure intend for them to still be breathing when I get the hell out of here tonight at midnight,” he said. “I think you understand what kind of opportunity we have in front of us.”The plot likened Cox’s effort to attempting to throw a perfect game in baseball.The fictional scenario frequently plays out in the real world, too, even when trying to