New medical student, Lucy Knight, is on her way in to report to her first day in the ER.  A man has slipped and fell and hurt his head.  She stops to try and help him, but she really doesn't know exactly what to do.  She puts her lab coat under his bleeding head and then Carol and Mark walk up to assist.  They take him to the ER and Lucy follows.  Mark tells Carol that Jen has gone to St. Louis for a couple of months and he has Rachel until then.  They take there patient to the exam room and Lucy follows them.  Mark tells her that family members have to wait in chairs, but she tells them she is not related.  She then tells them that she is a third year resident and that she is starting today.  Mark tells her to go to chairs anyways.  The ER is really busy.  Lucy sees another third year medical student who is starting today also.  His name is Bernard and he is taking Dr. Weaver's audio tour of the ER.  She then bumps into Jerry and he introduces himself to her.  She goes to the lounge to get her locker and she meets some of the nurses.  They are trying to hide Jerry's birthday cake.  They set her straight about Jerry being just a desk clerk.  She goes to the front desk and meets Rachel.  She gives her the low down on Jerry eating to much and tells her where she can get a clean lab coat.  Mark shows up and he shows her the board and gives her a quick tour of how things are done.  He introduces her to a bearded Dr. Carter.  He is working another job now on the side as a R.A. and he is sleeping.  She ten meets Maggie Doyle and Doug Ross.  Doug is impressed with her knowledge.  Dr. Corday has just arrived back from interviewing for a position in Denver.  Mark takes Lucy to am exam room where she meets Kerry, Peter and some of the nurses.  Their patient has just died from some gun shot wounds.   This is the first patient she has seen dead and she is alone in the room with him.  His cell phone rings and she answers it.  She tells the person on the other end that he can't come to the phone at this time.  It is now time for Lucy to take Kerry's audio tour.  She can't seem to follow it very well and ends up in the wrong areas during the tour.  Bernard sees her and he is working with Doyle doing her urine test labs.  He doesn't seem too happy about it.  Doug is having to have Kerry sign off on his procedures while he is still being punished for ulta-detoxing baby Josh a few months earlier.  She tells him that this is Anspaugh's rule and she isn't too happy about having to baby sit him either.  Jerry is decorating for his own surprise party.  Mark tells Lucy to follow Carter around for the day.  Carter lets her lose on her own patient.  Carter sees her use a small computer to diagnose a patient's symptoms.  He is not too happy about it, but it is accurate.  The next patient that they see has had blood in his urine.  They tell him that this could be serious and they want him to have more tests.  His name is Mr. Zwicki and they tell him that it could be cancer.  They decide to speak to his wife, hoping that she will make him stay.   Carter gets called away on another patient, so Lucy takes it upon herself to talk with his wife.  She uses a lot of medical terms and confuses her.  The man decides he is leaving.  Carter comes up as he is leaving and asks Lucy what happened.  Mark is there also.  He is upset to find that Lucy spoke with his wife without having him present and Mark is upset with Carter for not observing his student.  Mark has Lucy follow him and Carol to the roof to meet a helicopter carrying a patient.  The patient is a firefighter who has fallen twenty foot on to concrete.  Lucy chases after her paper and she gets locked out on the roof.  Lucy finally makes it to the trauma room and Carol tells her that it has happened to her before also.  Emile Fernandez, is the fire fighter that they are working on.  Mark tells her to stick with him on this case.  Carter sees Lucy again in the lounge at her locker.  The locker belonged to Anna Del Amico, who is back in Philadelphia working in a pediatric ER.  He tells her that she has family and a boyfriend there and he seems to be hurt by her leaving.  Lucy has a hard time finding a place to do her charts, so she goes to an empty exam room to work.  Peter and Elizabeth come in and they do not know that she is there.  She overhears them talking and then kissing.  She sneaks out the other door.  She bumps into Malik as she is exiting the room and he tells her that Carter has been looking for her.  She helps him and Carol with a lady, Mrs. Draper, who is nine weeks pregnant.  She has been bleeding and has had two miscarriages before.  Mark gets the results on the firefighter and sees that he has had a severe head trauma and will probably not recover.  There isn't anything that they can do for him.  Another paramedic comes in and he tells Mark about a position that has come open as a District Medical Director for EMS.  It is for a few hours a week with very little pay.  Carter examines his patient and tells her that she has had a miscarriage.  She will need to be observed for bleeding and will need to wait for someone from OB/GYN to take a look at her.  Carter has Lucy stay with her until then.  Lucy is going to observe Doug with one of his patients.  She notices that he has to get Kerry's permission to do a procedure on him.  His tonsil are infected.  Doug tells her the story about why he has to have Kerry or another attending to sign off on his procedures.  A young lady named Roxanne comes in after dropping a barbell on her foot.  Lucy takes the firefighter's wife to see her husband.  She tells her that she can speak to him if she wants to.  Lucy helps Carter and Carol with a man who cut himself during a dive.  Carter tells Lucy to start an IV on the man and then he walks out of the room.  Carol sees that she does not know how, so she shows her how it is done.  Lucy then gets to tape Roxanne's toes together.  She learns that she sells insurance and Jerry seems to be fond of her.  Carter compliments Lucy on the IV in front of Carol and she accepts credit for it.  Kerry tells Jerry that she is tired of telling him to take a body to the morgue.  Jerry seems intimidated about it as she walks him to the body.  When she lifts the sheet, Malik is lying there with the cake in his hand.  They finally surprised Jerry.  Lucy learns that she has been assigned to Carter and Bernard has been assigned to Doyle.  She then goes to the firefighter's room and waits.

Reviewed by Tony Conner on 11-08-2000