Carter runs in to work to let them know that he saw a man in the street with a gun shot wound.  Mark and Carol run back with him and pick him up and bring him in to the ER.  A gun is found on him and he seems to be a "gang banger".  Mark tells Carter to jump in and help and Carter intubates him.  Peter rushes in and carries him up to the OR, but he will not let Carter go with him.  Lydia is having a hard time following through with her New Year's resolution to quit smoking, but she is trying.  A homeless man named Gilbert McCabe is brought in by Al after being found frozen to the sidewalk.  He does not want a black woman working on him, but Dr. Hicks helps with him anyways.  Susan has to wait on Dr. Kayson before she can release her patient that came in with chest pains.  He is too busy and has to check on a patient in recovery.  Mr. McCabe has severe frostbite on both of his feet and can not feel his legs.  He gets to sit in a warm whirlpool.  Dr. Kayson finally sees Susan's patient Mrs. Davies and releases her after the long wait.  Chloe comes in to speak with Susan.  She has come to say goodbye.  Her and Ronnie are moving to Texas.  Susan tells her that she doesn't think she should go.  She is worried about where they will stay and tells her how important it is that she take care of her unborn baby.  Susan gives Chloe her winter coat and hugs her before she leaves.  As she leaves, she watches out a window at her walking away in the snow.  A fireman is brought in with severe burns and the rest of his firemen are with him.  A new fireman has a hard time watching what has happened to him.  Peter and Jackie go for a walk.  She wants to put their mother in a nice home because of her new job, she is unable to take care of her.  Peter doesn't want to and Jackie tells him that it is her and Walt's decision and he won't have to.  She tells him that it can't always be about what he wants.  She and Walt have been taking care of her for years since her stroke.  Carter tells Mark that he is not getting much out of Peter and his attitude for him.  Mark tells him that he is going to have to learn to take it and that most Residents are like that.  Susan takes care of a man named Mr. Vennerbeck who has been having chest pains.  All of the test results come back okay and she tells him that it is just muscle pain.  He is upset because it has taken her hours to do all of the tests.  Now he will have to wait on Kayson to release him.  A helicopter is bringing in a twenty-five year old man involved in a car accident.  Peter and Carter run to the roof to get him.  When they return to the ER, Peter lets Carter be in charge of his care.  Carter does a perfect job with him and tells him that he can scrub in the next morning with him and Morganstern.  Dr. Kayson shows up and Susan tells him about Mr. Vennerbeck's condition.  He sees that he is fit to be discharged, so Susan discharges him.  Dr. Hicks listens as Susan tells Mr. Vennerbeck that he can go.  He fusses with her about how long it took and Susan apologizes.  Dr. Hicks tells her that she does not have to take that from the patients and they are not like a bunch of waitresses.  A pregnant woman is brought in high on cocaine and other substances.  She is fully dilated and having the baby.  Susan helps Mark deliver the breach baby with Dr. Hick's help.  An elderly man and woman are brought in by their neighbor who found them.  They probably have carbon monoxide poisoning, but they should be okay.  Susan's patient Mr. Vennerbeck is back.  Dr. Kayson comes down quickly and takes him right upstairs.  Mark gets to tell a patient that she is pregnant.  She starts to cry and Mark learns that her husband is infertile and so she must have been cheating on him.  Carter scrubs in with Peter and Morganstern.  Peter tells him how to scrub, since this is his first time.  Carter takes a lot longer than what is expected, but he finally scrubs in.  As soon as he gets in, he contaminates himself and is asked by Dr. Morganstern to scrub out.  Linda tells Doug that she is not ready for a commitment, but Doug seems to want one.  He wants to be with someone a long time like the two elderly people have been that came in to the ER.  Carter gets to come back in to the OR, but Shirley draws a circle on the floor and tells Carter to stay there.  Dr. Morganstern asks him about a question and Carter answers it correctly.  He then lets Carter hold the retractor.  Susan and Mark sneak into the cafeteria and he fixes scrambled eggs.  Susan tells him that she told Chloe that she should have an abortion and that is why she probably left for Texas.  Mark disagrees and tells her that it is Chloe's choice.  Dr. Lewis gets paged back to the ER.  Dr. Kayson is waiting for her to let her know that Mr. Vennerbeck died and that a full case review will be going on.  Susan is in disbelief and watches as another patient is wheeled in. 

Reviewed by Tony Conner on 12-01-2000