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 Wendy wakes Susan up to tend to a baby who has
swallowed an ear ring and is in respiratory
distress. Carter has to give rectal
exams to a number of older people who have
food poison. Mark and Susan tell Doug
that it has been 8 weeks since Carol's suicide
attempt and that it is time for him to go and
see her. Mark tells him that it was not
his fault. "You have to forgive
yourself sooner or later". Jen
passed her bar exam and comes to the E.R. to
see her husband. A large wedding party
comes in because they got food poisoning at
the reception, the same place the older people
got poisoned at. They all have to get
rectal exams also. Lewis and Cvetic do
not see eye to eye on a patients care.
We see them together later on and they are
involved. Doug finally goes to see
Carol. Helen, her mother, meets him at
the door and tells him to go away. Carol
tells her that it is okay. He tells her
how great she looks and then he leaves.
He is only there for a minute.
Reviewed
by Tony Conner on 09-06-2000
Day
One begins with Wendy waking Dr. Lewis and
informing her that there is a baby in
respiratory arrest. The baby had swallowed an
earring and is fine once the earring is
removed. One Carter hears about this he is
upset that he wasn’t woken up to help. He has
now been woken up to help with a group of
German tourists with food poisoning. As Dr.
Greene walks into the ER he is told that there
are four patients coming in five to ten
minutes by helicopter and that two of them are
critical. Dr. Lewis now goes to help a
patient, Mr. Zambano, with chest pain and asks
if Carter would like to help. Dr. Lewis
decides that that shouldn’t be concerned and
that Carter will monitor him. Carter is
relieved to get a break from the vomiting
tourists.
As Greene, Lewis, and Ross go to wait for the helicopter they talk about how
it has been eight weeks since Carol has attempted suicide. Greene and Lewis
are surprised Ross hasn’t gone to see her yet because they were so close and
had dated. They tell him that it’s not going to get any easier for him and
that he should just go to see her.
A man has ran a red light and crashed into a car at 50 mph. This is the cause
of the four patients coming in. The first that Dr. Greene and Dr. Ross treat
is a little girl who screams for her mother, who has also been hurt in the
crash. The girl is sent to the OR because of a ruptured spleen. Meanwhile Dr.
Lewis treats the man who caused the crash. He has been drinking and will be
okay. The police tell Lewis he has done this five times. Lewis now talks to
Mr. Ring who’s wife and daughter are the two major trauma patients that are
being treated. He has also been hurt, but only with minor injuries.
Carter checks in on Mr. Zambano. As he talks to him, Mr. Zambano becomes
unresponsive. Carter goes to yell for help but realizes everyone is too busy
with the crash victims. He grabs a crash cart and saves the man alone.
Ross and Greene are outside eating and talk about Carol again. Ross says he
went to see her a couple times but never got out of the car. Ross is paged and
as he walks away Greene tells him that it isn’t his fault what happened to her
and that he needs to forgive himself.
Dr. Benton and Carter are treating a man, Mr. Gregor, who sells liquor. He has
been shot and is being sent to the OR. Benton tells Carter to work up the
patient in two and leaves. Mr. Gregor remarks on how good of a doctor Benton
is. “He’s the best,” Carter replies. The man in two, Mr.Thunhurst, is
suffering from abdominal pain. When Benton asks Carter what he would do he
answers that he would discharge him if the tests came back normal. He is
wrong: Benton thinks the man might have a thrombosis (a blood clot).
The drunk man’s blood alcohol has come back as .435. “There’s no justice is
there?” Malik asks the police man. “Not much,” he answers. This man has chosen
to drive drunk and caused a whole family to be injured and hospitalized while
he is fine and sleeps.
Dr. Div Cvetic and Lewis treat a man, Victor. Dr. Lewis wanted the man to be
admitted to a psych services bed for senile dementia. Div disagrees and won’t
admit him to psych. As Greene treats a man who has fallen asleep in the sun
and suffers a very bad sun burn, his wife, Jen, arrives in the ER. She is
excited to tell Mark that she has passed her bar exam to be a lawyer. Mark
tells Malik to take care of the patient as he leaves to talk to his wife in a
bathroom where they start to fool around.
Benton must inform Mr. Ring that his daughter
will be fine, but his wife is going to die.
Lewis talks to another doctor who also won’t
admit Victor.
The emergency alarm goes of at the admin area. Lewis, Malik, and Haleh grab a
crash cart and head towards the bathroom with Timmy, the desk clerk. They are
surprised to find that Mark had accidentally hit the alarm in the bathroom
where he and his wife had sex. They all hold in their reactions until Timmy
closes the door and they all burst out laughing.
Ross jokes with the incident later in the bathroom and how everyone always
though he was such a saint. Greene is kind of concerned because he is the
chief resident and is supposed to set a good example. They also find that
Carter has fallen asleep on the toilet. Mark yells “Clear!” to wake him up.
A patient with a rash comes in to be treated. She was treated by Greene in the
previous episode for a burn on her legs and just like she was with Greene, she
is completely flirtatious and acts inappropriately with Carter. Ross and Green
treat Mrs. Franks, and elderly woman, who’s husband has brought her in. She is
in respiratory failure and her husband is informed that they will need to make
decisions as to her care within the next few hours. He wants the doctors to do
everything they can. Dr. Lewis comes into the room as Carter treats the
patient with the rash, which is poison ivy. She asks if he wants her to stay.
The patient tells her he’s doing fine on her own. Greene is troubled by the
test results on the 86 year old woman, Mrs. Franks, and tells her husband that
there options are limited because her condition is terminal. Greene hopes he
will agree to keep her of a respirator and let her die in piece, but the man
decides to try to keep her alive as long as possible by having her be put on
the respirator.
The man who caused the crash finally wakes up
and notices he is restrained. Malik tells him
that he has hit a family and that the mother
is dead and the daughter is in intensive care.
Mr. Thunhurst’s doctor arrives and agrees with
Carter that he could be sent home and doesn’t
have thrombosis like Benton thought. When
Benton asks him to reconsider he comments on
Benton trying to show of in front of his med
students. Wendy and Dr. Lewis are now treating
a bride who began throwing up at her wedding.
It ends up the wedding reception with a couple
hundred people took place at Gerber’s
Hofbrauhaus on 46th, where the German tourists
had eaten and got food poisoning. Sixty of
them end up getting sick from the food. Mrs.
Franks tells Greene she doesn’t want to be put
on a respirator and her husband gets upset and
cries because he doesn’t want her to die.
The police have brought Victor to the ER after finding him walking in the
street naked. Lewis is upset because he should have been admitted by Div. She
has him admitted without a consult by Div. While talking to Mark in the
cafeteria Lewis tells him he should talk to Doug about Carol. He tells her he
has and the two are confused as to why he’s acting the way he is. Div arrives
and is mad at Lewis for admitting Victor. Carter apologizes for what happened
with the thrombosis patient and says that he agrees that he should have been
farter tested. Benton just makes a rude comment and walks away. The wedding
reception has now been moved to the ER’s waiting room where some of the staff
join in on the dancing. Greene is informed that Mrs. Franks has died. He finds
her husband singing to her with the ER staff standing and watching.
Back at his house Green congratulates Jen again for passing the test and they
laugh about what happened in the bathroom earlier. After mentioning that he
has to be back at the hospital in two hours, Jen comments on how he’ll
probably never leave that job. She is upset because of how demanding and time
consuming it is.
Carter is leaving the hospital now and is in the parking garage getting into
his car. He is surprised to find that the rash patient he had treated earlier
is in the back seat of his car and wants to go back to his place. They drive
to her place because he lives with his parents.
Dr. Lewis is back at her place with Div who we
now learn she is dating. They talk about
Victor. “We can’t solve all the world’s
problems,” he tells her. He also tells her she
has to be more careful when dealing with
consults. “I just want to make a difference,”
she tells Div.
Dr. Ross decides to finally visit Carol with
flowers as Mark had suggested. Her mother
answers the door and tells him he can’t come
in. Carol comes to the door. Doug tells her
she looks beautiful and asks how she’s been.
He tells her he just wanted to say hi and
leaves.
Benton is woken up to help with a ruptured bowel who ends up being his
thrombosis patient from earlier. The OR is notified to do an exploratory
surgery on the man. Benton was right all along: the man did need further
testing.
Reviewed by heather b on 01-15-2004
NBC Review
CARTER'S FIRST SAVE - Carter's first full day
finds him saving a patient from cardiac arrest,
his first such save. Later, he treats a
coworkers rash and winds up going home with her.
Meanwhile, the ER is inundated with both a tour
group and a wedding party suffering from food
poisoning from the same German restaurant. When
Dr. Greene helps his wife, Jennifer (Christine
Harnos), "celebrate" passing the bar, they get
caught having sex in the ER bathroom. Dr. Ross
visits a recovering Nurse Hathaway (JULIANA
MARGULIES).
TV Guide Review
September 22, 1994: Day One: Ross fights
to save a girl hit by a drunken driver; Dr.
Susan Lewis (Sherry Stringfield) seeks
help for an emotionally disturbed man.
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