Mark
takes an early morning run in the snow and
comes in to work on his day off. He does
not want to settle on the O'Brien case.
Kerry Weaver tells Susan that she is the top
contender for Chief Resident next year.
Carol learns that her shift has been cut back
to three shifts a week and Jeanie's shifts
have picked up. Mark learns that Jen
wants full custody of Rachel. Harper
finds an aneurysm patient for Vucelich's study
and tells Carter about it, but Carter looks at
the x-ray and tells her he doesn't see it so
she forgets about it. While the x-ray is
still up, Susan comes by and says what a nasty
aneurysm. Carter goes to Vucelich and
takes the credit for himself. They are
proud of him and let him scrub in.
Harper later finds out and gets mad at Carter.
He later tells Vucelich that he didn't find
the patient and that Harper did. He gets
scolded and told that the patient has been
excluded anyways. This makes Peter
suspicious of Vucelich's study. Carol
worm sits for a lady who sells earth worms to
farmers. She makes a lot of money doing
this and Carol is interested. Benton
gets access to Vucelich's exclusion files and
starts researching it. He seems to be
dropping bad outcomes to pretty up his
numbers.
Reviewed
by Tony Conner on 10-02-2000

NBC Review
FINAL SETTLEMENTS -- Greene
finally settles the wrongful death suit, only to
have his ex-wife sue for custody of their
daughter, Rachel. Carter takes credit for
Harper's diagnosis, which leads to an argument.
Benton grows increasingly suspicious of Dr.
Vucelich's research study. Weaver pressures
Lewis about the Chief Resident position;
Hathaway becomes a part-time worm farmer to
raise extra cash.