The staff is happy because it is Weaver's day off.  Jerry has cake and they play music and have a good time.  Susan is taking a personal day and she meets a lawyer about having Suzy adopted by the doctor and his wife from the hospital.  The woman who is interested in adopting her is Lisa.  She lets her hold little Suzy.  A new nurse trainee comes in.  His name is E. Ray Boseman.  He dresses like he still lives in the sixties.  Sun brings little Chia-Chia, the boy with AIDS, because he is sick and not speaking much.  Harper helps him give Chia-Chia  a lumbar puncture.  This is a painful procedure and Harper has a hard time dealing with it.  The lab screws up the results and they end up having to do the procedure again.  His mother, Sun, is hesitant, but she agrees to let them do it.  Loretta, a prostitute who Mark has taken care of before, comes in because she has thrown her back at work.  She tells Lydia that she has a job interview later that day and is going to miss it because she doesn't have any nice clothes to wear.  Lydia knows where she can get some clothes.  They sort through the clothes that they have stored where people have died.  She finds a nice outfit with Lydia's help and she goes to the interview.  Susan comes in to talk to Mark.  She wants to know if there is anyway that she can complete her rotation part time.  She wants to know her options and wants him to speak to Morganstern about it.  She wants to keep Suzy.  Doug and Harper examine the results of the procedure they did on Chia-Chia and they see that he has meningitis.  They tell Sun that they want to give Chia-Chia a series of strong, but painful series of treatments so that he will live longer.  Sun doesn't want him to go through any more pain, but Doug convinces her that it is for the best.  Mark finds out about this and talks to the mother.  He tells her that while the treatment could work, it will result in Chia-Chia only living a short time with even more pain.  A woman drives her husband to the ER.  He has had a hit and run while riding his motorcycle.  The man's arm has been cut off and she has it in the back seat.  Susan goes to see her mom and dad.  She tells them of her plan to give Suzy up for adoption.  They are against it, but they still don't want to keep her either.  Carter has a patient with a cut finger.  He sees that the man has a large mole on his arm, so he talks him into letting him test it for cancer.  The results come back and it is a malignant melanoma.  The man has cancer.  Carter is really excited about it because he can do the procedure, but the man starts crying.  E. Ray Boseman begins to cry with him.  Carter tells Harper excitedly about it, but she isn't as enthused as he is to find out that a man has cancer.  Sun tells Doug that she wants to take  her son home.  She don't want any more treatments done on him.  Doug lets her take him, but he gets angry at Mark for going behind his back.  Carol finds the woman who brought her husband in from the motorcycle accident in the lounge.  She has stolen a syringe full of morphine and has already shot up with it.  She hears the woman mumbling about chopping her husband's arm off with an axe for insurance money.  Benton works on a woman who was brought in because of a serious beating.  We find out that her husband is the one who has been beating her and she has been to several hospitals for the same thing.  He sees her talking to a cop and tells her he is glad that she is turning her husband in.  The cop is her husband.  He takes her home.  Peter later sees the captain of the police and tells him about the beatings.  The husband is brought into the ER later on with facial injuries.  He has been brought in by the captain.  He tells Benton that the officer he officer has taken a serious fall while chasing a suspect.  The officer had actually been beaten by the captain and some others.  Loretta comes in happy because she got the receptionist job.  Doug finds Harper crying.  She asks him what he does after a day like today.  He replies, "I tend to drink, but I'm not a great role model.".  She tells him that she could use a drink.  Mark finds Susan swinging in the park with little Suzy.  He tells her that he has spoken to Morganstern and that he will consider her working part time.  She tells Mark that she has decided to keep Suzy.

Reviewed by Tony Conner on 09-23-2000