Mark calls a staff meeting.  He is having a hard time dealing with Susan's absence, so he is taking charge of the ER.  He is tired of Kerry haven taken over.  He wants to make a name for himself.  The flu is going around, and Randi looks like she is getting it, but she continues to tell everyone that she does NOT have it.  She hates shots.  Carol is worried about her mid term exam later on in the day.  Jeanie takes care of a woman in a lot of pain who has sickle cell.  Peter and Carter scrub in for a surgery with Keaton.  Peter gets called out of the surgery to assist Morganstern, which upsets Peter because he had been study so long for this operation on a child.  Mark asks Doug to help out with some of the adult patients because the ER is so busy with people with influenza.  Al Boulet comes in to the ER and Mark takes care of him.  He sees that he is HIV positive and Mark asks him if he is related to Jeanie Boulet.  He tells him that she was his wife and that their divorce was final a month ago.  Al gets admitted to the hospital and Mark goes to find Jeanie.  He tells her that he is sorry, that he didn't know she had been going through all of this.  She tells him that she hasn't, it has been Al going through it alone.  She tells Mark that she got tested and it was negative; she didn't have AIDS.  Mark goes to Kerry and tells her that they may have a problem with Jeanie Boulet.  Kerry doesn't find it concerning.  Abby tells Carter that she will be leaving to go to Pakistan soon.  Carter is upset, he had been having so much fun with her.  She tells him that they can still have the same kind of fun until she leaves.  This makes him feel better about it.  Mark goes to the file room and lies to get in to the Boulet medical records.  He sees that Jeanie was lying and she had tested positive also.  Carol goes upstairs to attend a re-engineering meeting.  She wants the nurses to stop being floated.  Mark comes back down to the ER and sees Jeanie.  She is taking care of her sickle cell patient and asks Mark to increase the pain killers because her patient is really hurting.  Mark tells Jeanie to cover the waiting room and he will take care of the patient.  Gant is covering the ER and is loaded down with patients and charts.  Bento just doesn't let up on the poor guy.  Jeanie senses that Mark knows about her HIV, so she goes and chews Al out for telling him.  Al tells her that he didn't, but he should have gone to a different hospital.  Mark tells Kerry what he found out and she tells him that it was none of his business.  Carter offers to help Gant, but Gant tells him that Benton would be mad if he found out.  Mark goes to see Anspaugh about Jeanie.  Anspaugh agrees with Kerry about not making a big deal about it.  Anspaugh doesn't want anything to cause Jeanie to talk to legal about it.  Jeanie goes to the records room and sees that Mark inquired about her file.  Mark has neglected Jeanie's sickle cell patient and this makes Jeanie very mad.  She is going to take care of her anyways.  Benton lets Carter know what a good job he has been doing during his surgical rotation.  Benton wants Keaton to let him know the same.  Carol and William are done with their exam and Doug meets them there.  The three of them go to get a milk shake to celebrate.  Carter and Keaton go to cut down the Carter family tree.  

Reviewed by Tony Conner on 10-14-2000