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No Brain, No Gain

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Episode 054 "No Brain, No Gain"
Original Air Date: November 14, 1996
Written by: Paul Manning
Directed by: David Nutter
Guest Stars:
  • William Sanderson - Percy
  • Lucy Rodriguez - Nurse Bjerke


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Mark sees Carol on his way in to work and he calls her Susan.  Carol tells Mark that him and Susan need to get married.  She also tells him that Susan really did want him to go to Hawaii with her, but felt awkward about asking him.  Conni is out sick, so Nurse Rhonda Sterling has been floated back to the ER.  Dr. Edson asks Carter and Gant to help him find his missing surgical patient who needs throat surgery.  Carol and Doug both tell Mark to let Susan know how he feels about her.  Carter finds Dale's patient hiding in a cabinet in a trauma room.  He is choking on the taffy Wendy had made for the staff.  Carter is asked to scrub in on the surgery for finding him.  Peter Benton is still watching after the baby, Megan Herlihy, who he almost killed after a picking something off of her liver during surgery.  She is still in very serious condition and Abby Keaton tells him that for the time being, he needs to look and the operations and not participate in them.  A 13 year old boy is brought in after being shot.  Doug pronounces his time of death and then Peter and Gant come in and work on him.  They get his heart beat back, but his brain is probably mush.  They take him up to surgery.  E. Ray is concerned that something weird is going on with him after having received a MRI.  Anything electrical that he gets near goes haywire.  Mark gets the nerve and asks Susan out.  She tells him that she can't, but they need to talk.  She hangs around Dr. Motganstern a lot, so he thinks something is going on between the two of them.  The boy's mom, Mrs. Dorsett, that Peter has been working on wants to see her son after his surgery.  She sees that he is going to be brain dead and begins to cry.  Rhonda mistakes the wrong bag during an amputation of a foot procedure.  She is asked to put the foot on ice in one bag and ends up putting the ice in the bag with a football in it instead.  When the surgeons go to get the foot it is a football.  When the patients wife goes to get the lucky football, it is the bloody foot.  Carol is going to write Rhonda up, but Rhonda quits and walks out.  Carter is concerned about his patient that is having the throat surgery.  He doesn't feel that he is competent enough to understand the seriousness of the surgery.  All he can do is ask for change for the candy machine.  Carter is afraid to tell Anspaugh.  Carter and Dale get into a fight and Carter gets punched in the face and knocked to the floor.  Peter stands watch over baby Megan all day.  Just when things look as if they will not get better, she wakes up.  The baby is doing a lot better and her parents than Benton for all that he has done for her.  They still do not know that he is the one that caused the problem.  Dr. Keaton takes care of Carter's injury.  Dr. Abby Keaton and Carter are very attracted to each other and they kiss.  Mark goes to Susan's apartment.  He tells her that he knows about her and Morganstern.  She has no idea what he is talking about.  She tells him that her and Morganstern have been working on finding her a place to work in Phoenix.  She is moving there to be closer to Chloe and Suzy.  Mark and Susan then hug and tell each other how much they will miss each other.

Reviewed by Tony Conner on 10-13-2000

NBC Review

TIME FOR A CHANGE -- While obsessing over a critically ill baby in his care, Dr. Benton (Eriq La Salle) uses heroic measures to sustain the life of a gang banger already declared brain dead by Dr. Ross (George Clooney). Ross is again second-guessed when Dr. Greene (Anthony Edwards) steps in to diffuse Ross's argument with the father of a 6-year-old boy with an infected wound. Dr. Carter's (Noah Wyle) suspicion that a surgical patient has psychological problems leads to a confrontation with Dr. Dale Edson (Matthew Glave). Nurse Hathaway (Julianna Margulies) continues to clash with an inexperienced nurse (guest star Jenny O'Hara), who makes another serious mistake. Dr. Greene treats a slightly injured social anthropologist who gives him new insight into human courtship behavior.

TV Guide Review

November 14, 1996: No Brain, No Gain: Benton tries to save a young gang member who has already been pronounced dead by Ross. Meanwhile, Greene suspects that Lewis is dating Morgenstern (William H. Macy), and Carter becomes involved in a surprising relationship.