Carol wakes up to find her mother is there cooking breakfast.  She tells her mother that she is doing okay since the hold up at the convenient store.  She tells her mother that she never supports her and she begins to cry.  Her mother leaves.  Carol is suppose to take her medical admissions test today and she also has to return to work.  Peter sees Carla and apologizes for not calling her after the news of her being pregnant.  He tells her that he wants to take responsibility for his child.  He wants to help out financially and not marry her.  Carla tells him that she can manage by herself as she always has.  She can find a man to be a father in the babies life without his help.  Carter goes around bragging about his appendectomy on Peter and how well he is doing.  He has a lot of pictures to show off of Benton in surgery.  The nurses' contract expires at midnight and they await a verdict.  Mark and Maggie take care of a thirty- five year old Down's Syndrome patient named Louise.  Jeanie asks Greg Fischer to go to an opera with her.  He is not interested in operas and would rather watch a basketball game.  Louise's mom brings some of her things to the ER to make her feel more at home.  Mark tells her that she needs a heart transplant.  Louise's mother tells Mark and Maggie that they would not put her on the transplant list because of her condition.  Peter is upset because his name is not on the OR board.  Dr. Hicks tells him that he can do a mole removal and a circumcision.  She wants him to take it slow.  Dr. Kaysen does a cardio test on Louise and tells Mark that she can go home.  Carol goes to work to see Mary Cain.  She tells her that the hospital agrees that Carol had made a mistake and it was not due to negligence.  She will have a one year warning on her record and the time she was off on suspension will be taken from her vacation time.  Everyone is glad to see Carol back, especially Haleh.  Mark learns that Nina Pomerantz is a member of the committee for the transplant team.  He goes to see her about Louise.  Nina tells Mark that she is the one who declined the request.  She is concerned that they are not able to do the necessary post-operative routine and Louise would end up in a home.  Louise's mom wants to make sure that she never has to put her in a home.  Mark still does not think this is the right thing to do.  Jeanie and Greg have a picnic in the snow.  He tells her that they should start sleeping together.  This comes as a shock to her. She gives him a kiss.  Carter takes care of an obese woman with heart pains.  He pages Anspaugh to come check on her, but he says that she is not a surgical candidate.  The woman's pain increases, so he calls Dr. Hicks to check on her.  She tells him to page Anspaugh and tell him what he just told her.  Anspaugh thinks that it was a great catch and wants Carter to scrub in and do the embolectomy.  Maggie brings in her brother Jimmy, who has down syndrome also.  Nina comes down with the paper work to get Louise on the list.  Dr. Hicks has a whole group of med students watch him do a circumcision on an older man.  He sees Carter in the next room with his patient and gets jealous.  Doug is paged by pediatrics to see a patient he took care of a week or so earlier.  It is Jadd Hueston, who has cystic fibrosis.  He is the patient that Doug put on a respirator for his mother and girlfriends request.  It is his eighteenth birthday and he wants Doug to be the one to take him off.   Doug asks if Katie and Mrs. Hueston have said their goodbyes, and they have.  He is told that he will only live a couple of minutes without the tube, but he walks out of the hospital later.  Benton talks to Dr. Hicks about feeling responsible for Dennis Gant's death.  He admits to being so wrapped up in his own life and problems that he didn't even think about Gant and what he was going through.  She tells him that he just needs to have faith.   Louise's mother refuses to sign the paper work to put Louise on the transplant list.  She doesn't want Louise to be on her own after she dies.  Jeanie tells Greg that maybe they're going too fast and she wants to slow down.  Carol leaves work early to go take her test.  Doug goes to her place after work to see how she did.  She tells him not to worry about her that she is going to be okay.

Reviewed by Tony Conner on 10-17-2000