Peter goes to see Carla, but she has already been discharged.  He knows that she has been tested for gestational diabetes and he asks Dr. Coburn to let him see her files.  She knows that Peter is the father and he needs to ask the mother; the file is private and confidential.  Jeanie is in a bad mood today because her viral count is back up.  She tells Greg that it is her and Al's anniversary.  Greg tells her that they can change the bad memory by making a new memory.  He wants her to go away for the weekend and she agrees to go.  Mark is late to work and he misses his meeting with Anspaugh.  He tells Mark that the search committee has received his application for the teaching position, but he has someone else applying for the same spot.  He tells him that it is Kerry Weaver.  He tells Mark that he needs to start publishing so that they will like him and not make Anspaugh look bad for recommending him.  Jeanie gets some roses from Al.  She has just missed him and she goes outside to catch up with him.  She tells him that it is inappropriate and does not want to continue celebrating something that was so bad.  She throws the roses in the garbage.  Peter goes back to OB after Dr. Colburn leaves and asks for Carla's ultrasound tape.  The lady gives it to him because he is a surgeon.  Carter takes care of a gambler named Mr. Bartok.  He has been sick and vomiting since yesterday.  Kerry answer a phone call for a Dr. Markovic.  It is for Jerry.  He is impersonating a doctor with a high IQ to make money at a Sperm Bank.  He tells the people that he has an IQ of 150 and Kerry tells him that he is lying.  She makes him take an IQ test from psyche and if he doesn't pass it, he will have to cancel the appointment.  Jeanie takes care of a woman who was found bleeding to death in a parked car.  Her name is Suzanne Alner and she had slit her wrists and overdosed on her medication to treat her HIV.  Pictures of a little girl were found in the car with her.  She tells them that she killed the girl.  Carter thinks that his gambling patient has the flu, but Carter finds that it is worse.  He tells him that an artery carrying blood to his small intestine is blocked, and he needs surgery right away.  If he doesn't have the surgery, he will die in a few days.  Mark finds a patient to write about.  She is Ms. Ida Blinnder and she is complaining of pain in her stomach.  She has been operated on five times previously and nothing was found.  Haleh tells Mark that she is a psyche case, because she likes to have operations and pain.  Carol is concerned that she did not do well on her medical school entrance exam.  Doug tells her that she probably did okay.  Maggie Doyle is a reminder that she is only a nurse and this upsets her.  Jeanie learns that Suzanne caught AIDS by cheating on her husband and she gave it to her unborn daughter, who later died of it.  Doug gets to take care of an eighteen year old girl named Betsy.  She has had a gallstone attack on the way to her prom.  She does not want to miss it, so she tells Doug to give her an antibiotic and let her leave.  He is worried that she will get septic.  Jeffrey is her date and he is concerned about her.  She already has him "hen pecked".  Betsy needs an operation, but Doug fixes her up so that she can go to the prom and be back in time for surgery.  He send her with an IV and has them chauffeured by an ambulance.   Carter wants Dr. Anspaugh to do surgery on Mr. Bartok, but he tells him that he will die if it is done.  Carter tells the patient and the patient doesn't understand.  Carter told him that it could be done.  He doesn't want him to give up.  Carter tells Dr. Hicks about him and she agrees to do the surgery.  Benton takes the ultrasound to an expert consultant, who tells him that the baby appears to be doing okay.  Mark calls Nina Pomerantz to come look at his patient.  Nina already knows who she is and asks if any one is looking after her while they are away from her sight.    She will eat things so that they will have to do exploratory surgery on her.  When they walk in her room, they see a lot of medical tools missing.  She has swallowed them.  Mark tells her that the instruments can be removed by doing a new procedure with a tube and a camera that she can watch as he does it.  She likes the idea.  This will be great for his paper for Anspaugh.  Mark forgets to pick Rachel up from school, so he has to leave.  She has told the other kids that she has leukemia.  He also sees how rude she is with her teacher.  Suzanne's husband Roger comes to the ER to watch her die.  He is glad that she is in pain.  It is payback for the pain she has caused him.  Jeanie finds this hard to swallow.  Anspaugh becomes in to the OR where Carter and Hick's are in surgery.  He is upset with Carter and wants him in his office at 5:00.  Dr. Hick tells him to scrub out.  Mark comes back to work and finds out that Kerry has already performed the procedure on his patient.  Carter meets with Anspaugh and Hicks.  They want to know what his explanation is and he tells them that he is sorry for not going ahead with the surgery and for not being forceful enough in presenting his case to Anspaugh.  He knows he should have let Dr. Hicks know what was going on.  He asks if Mr. Bartok survived the surgery and Hicks tells him that he did.  He gets put on probation, but he can still be a resident. Dr. Hicks tells him that she wanted him kicked off her team, but Anspaugh let him stay.  Jeanie's patient ends up blind from the methanol she took.  She keeps saying, "Forgive me, forgive me".  Jeanie tells Greg to say it, but he doesn't.  She dies and Jeanie is upset.   She cancels her weekend with Greg.  Jerry did an awful job on his IQ test.  Kerry makes him call and cancel his appointment.  Jerry gets Malik to call and pull the same stunt.  Doug's patient is back from the prom.  He and Doug get to see the two kiss.  Jeanie goes to see Al.  She tells him that she is sorry for having argued with him earlier at the hospital over the flowers.  She tells him that she is tired of being angry and they hug.

Reviewed by Tony Conner on 10-17-2000