Peter has been working for two days straight.  Carol goes to see Tatiana and is told that she did very well in the interview for fostering Tatiana.  She communicates very well with her.  She asks her if she would like to come live with her, she replies by asking Carol if she has a V.C.R..  Dr. Hicks tells Peter that he needs to get some sleep before he sees any more patients.  She demands him to get at least 2 hours worth.  A little girl is brought in with a star shaped burn mark on her hand.  The mother said that the girl had burned it on a radiator.  We find out that the mother had been punishing her for something and that the mother had been punished the same way as a child.  They take the child away from the mother and the mother scratches Doug badly on the neck.  An old man is brought in by a restaurant manager.  The manager is concerned about the man because he did not pay his $35.00 check.  The old man was faking it and later ripped Jerry off of some of the petty cash by quick changing him.  Dr. Hicks catches Peter working on a patient with congestive heart failure.  She tells him again to go get some sleep.  The man he was working on had a Do Not Resuscitate (D.N.R.) Order, but they did not know until afterwards, because the man did not have a voice box and could not talk.  His name is Mr. Cline and Carter takes care of him.  He tries to locate his family, but cannot find anyone.  Carter reads to him and gives him a lot of attention.  Peter does not like this.  Peter tells him that he does not think as a surgeon and why did he want to be one.  Mr. Cline dies and Carter is upset.  Carol asks Lydia if she would be interested in being Charge Nurse.  Carol is going to cut back on her hours so that she and Tag can be foster parents to Tatiana.  Benton is so tired that he falls a sleep while stitching up a drunks hand.  Diane Leeds comes down to see Doug about the incident with the abusive mother.  He asks her out, but she says no.  She later agrees.   Carol is told that she will not be able to be a foster parent to Tatiana because she had attempted suicide last year.  Carol is upset.  Benton goes to his mother's house for the night while his family goes on a trip.  It is the middle of the night and Carol ends up at Doug's.  She tries to kiss him, but he pulls back.  He knows that she is upset.  She asks if she can stay the night, but he drives her home.  Marty, a psych patient, has been down in the E.R. all day.  He had everyone thinking that he was a doctor with a plan for a new hospital.  Morganstern tells Mark that he will probably get the promotion, but that he' s moving to another hospital and his replacement will have to approve it.  Jen is at Mark's when he gets home.  He tells her that they can move to Kanosha and that would only be a one hour commute for the both of them.  Jen wants him to move with her to Milwaukee.  She can not live like this anymore.  She tells him that she is leaving him.  Peter's mother wakes up to get her medicine, but Peter is so tired he does not hear her.  She falls down the stairs.  He rushes her to the E.R. with a fracture hip.  Everyone asks him what happened, but Peter is speechless.

Reviewed by Tony Conner on 09-06-2000

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