Carol tells Doug that she is interested in having an ER clinic at the hospital for people to have somewhere to go for follow up care for free.  Doug is busy setting up video equipment in the bedroom as she is talking.  He tells her that he is doing it for her and to help fulfill an old fantasy of hers.  Reese is crying and making it hard for Peter to study for a procedure that he will be performing with Anspaugh.  He wants the crying to wake Carla up, but it does not, so he has to tend to him.  Maggie fill Mark in on the patients in the ER when he comes in to work.  Jeanie has a patient for him to look at right away.  It is an older woman who seems to be fond of Mark.  She likes it when he touches him, so he leaves her to Jeanie without finishing the exam.  Pablo comes in looking for Haleh.  Carol tells him that she is out sick and to come back tomorrow.  Carter gets to teach his student, Ivan, how to insert a catheter.  He does a good job, but he forgets to attach it to a bag.  Cynthia sees that Mark is in a bad mood and she asks him who peed in his cornflakes?  He tells her that he is in a bad mood because he is meeting with his lawyer and the people that are suing him today.  Anna has a 20 year old patient with shortness of breath.  He is an athlete and his name is Brett Nickelson.  Carol talks to Kerry about her clinic idea, but she responds that the ER does not have any money to fund such a thing.  Maggie Doyle's patient walks out, because he is tired of waiting for a surgeon to come down and look at his gun shot wound.  Peter, Corday and Anspaugh are in the OR and Anspaugh asks him a question about the procedure.  Peter does not know the correct answer, so he is asked to step out.  Anna gets her x-ray back from her patient and there are a lot of spots on his lungs.  She tells Doug that it is probably testicular cancer and he offers to examine him for her.  She tells him that she can handle it.  Carter calls for a surgical consult and Dale Edson comes down.  Carter has a patient with a bad toe.  Edson tells Carter that Dr. Romano is back.  Carter never got to work with him, because he left surgery before he came.  Edson asks the patient if he can feel his toe when he touches it and he tells him no.  Dale takes the toe and twists it right off of his foot.  Anna tells her patient that she needs to check his testicles.  He wants to know why and she explains his condition to him.  He is shocked by it, but he lets her examine him.  He was not quite prepared for the exam and has to stop during the middle of it.  Kerry brings Carol a bunch of forms and manuals for her to look at if she is really interested in starting a clinic.  Carol wasn't talking about doing it herself, but she will have to if it is going to be done.  Carter makes a good call on his patient and he needs surgery.  His patient crashes, so Romano and Edson take him to the OR.  Elizabeth finds Peter when the surgery is over.  He is sleeping on top of his stack of patient files.  She tells him that Rocket Romano is back and he is sponsoring her.  She wants him to meet him, but he is not interested.  Anna's patient is missing.  He has left the ER.  Pablo is still waiting for Haleh.  Carol has Cynthia tell him again, that Haleh will not be back until tomorrow.  Ivan comes to Carter to tell him that he is having a hard time drawing blood from a heroin addict.  Carter goes to help him.  Carter has a hard time also.  The addict takes the needle and draws the blood from around his heart himself.  Ivan watches and faints.  Anna goes to Doug and tells him that she messed up with her patient.  If she finds him, she wants him to take care of him to make him more comfortable.  He tells her that he will.  A patient is brought in with restraints on.  He is wild and mean.  Mark goes to take care of him and the patient kicks Chuny down and she bites her tongue.  This makes Mark mad and probably scared, so he goes for the guy's hurt leg and makes him cry.  Peter goes to Anspaugh and apologizes for not being prepared for surgery.  Anspaugh tells him that he has been letting it slide because of his family problems, but that this an not continue.  Anna's patient returns.  He just need to get away and take a walk to think about the whole thing.  He wants to keep Anna as his doctor.  Cynthia goes outside and bums a cigarette off of Mark.  She tells him that she thinks he handled the wild patient well.  She gives him a back massage, and then he gets paged for his meeting with the lawyers and the Law family.  Carter speaks with Carol in the lounge, as he is waiting on the phone to hear about his patient that Dale and Romano took up to surgery.  He mentions that maybe she can get a foundation to give her money for her clinic.  He tells her that his grandmother is always helping causes like that.  He tells her to write something up and submit it to her for review.  Jodi O'Brien's name is mentioned during the lawyer meeting with Mark.  This is a sore spot for him and it just gets everything started on the wrong foot.  Chris Law being in the room doesn't help matters either.  Mark lashes out at him and the meeting has to be stopped.  Elizabeth introduces Peter to Romano.  Romano seems to like him, but Peter doesn't seem to like Romano because of his Chris Rock remarks.  Carol sees that Pablo is still waiting for Haleh, so she cleans him up and checks his lungs herself.  Carter sees Peter outside and he tells him that he is twice the surgeon Dale Edson will ever be.  This makes Carter happy.  Al and Jeanie go to a bar for drinks.  Al's old co-worker comes in later.  He causes a disturbance and Al and Jeanie are asked to leave.  On the way out, he makes a comment to Al and Al comes back and they start to fight.  Jeanie begs him to stop.

             Reviewed by Tony Conner on 10-24-2000