Doug sleeps through the alarm and Diane tells him that he is going to have to leave before Jake wakes up.  Jake is already up and says, "Two nights in a row, huh?".  Jake is already aware of his mother and Doug spending time together.  Bento tells Carter and Deb that he will be getting their procedure books soon so that he can work on the sub-I evaluations.  Carter tells Deb that he has already done a lot of different surgical procedures and they still are competitive.  Mark is too cautious with his patients and he orders a lot of tests that they do not need.  Swift has to cancel some of his orders.  Benton and Jackie go to see their mother and Peter has to tell her that she is going to have to go in a nursing home.  She cries.  Deb gets upset when she sees Carter getting to do a central line.  Carter and Mark treat a woman that might have tuberculosis (TB).  Mark gets a patient that comes in that is 8 months pregnant; he tells Susan to take her.  Swift finds out and tells Mark that he knows about what happened to Jodi O'Brien and that he wants him to present the case in a conference today.  Mark tells him that he needs more time to prepare, but Swift tells him that he knows what happened.  Mrs. Salazar tested positive for TB, but she wants to leave the ER.  Mark advises her against it and tells her that her whole family needs to be seen and tested.  She is worried and does not want to be put in the system, because she is probably an illegal alien.  Susan tells Mark that he is going to scare her away; Mrs. Salazar leaves.  Jeanie rides with Mrs. Benton to the nursing home while Peter stays behind to work.  Deb gets to scrub in with him to do a surgery, since Carter messed up one of his other surgeries by giving the patient water when she was not to have anything to eat or drink for 24 hours prior to the surgery.  That is one more procedure for Deb to put in her book.  Mark has an entire auditorium of people waiting to hear his case on Jodi O'Brien.  Mark does very well considering.  Deb bribes Haleh so that she will give more procedures to her than to Carter.  She works on a drug user that she has a hard time finding a vein.  She decides to do a central line on her own and loses the guide wire.  She runs out and no one can find her.  Carter feels at fault for pushing her so hard about the procedure book.  Mark and Susan talk and he tells her that Jen has left.  Susan can't believe that he waited so long to tell her.  She tells Mark that he should go to Milwaukee and see Jen and Rachel.  Mark calls Jen and tells her that he loves her.  Benton goes to the nursing home to visit his mother.    Carter goes to Deb's house and there is a wedding anniversary party for her parents.  They go into the kitchen to talk.  She tells Carter that she is quitting med school.  She is not like him.  He cares for the patients and all she cared about were the procedures.  Deb thanks Carter for all that he has done.  Mark has visitors at the ER.  It is the entire Salazar family coming in to be tested for TB.  When Susan gets home, Chloe is there in the hallway waiting for her.  She looks as if she has been homeless.  Susan takes her in and they talk.  Susan is glad that she is okay and asks if she has had any prenatal care.  Chloe tells her that she has a few times.  Chloe is glad that she is there, she begins to cry on Susan's shoulder.  

Reviewed by Tony Conner on 09-16-2000