Dr. Amanda Lee has started a new charting system and Jerry is not too happy about it.  He now has double the charts to keep up with.  Elizabeth will be joining Romano at a surgical gala for the holidays.  Mark isn't having a very good day.  His car has broken down and Jen has sent all the staff a Christmas card and the newsletter from her family.  They have a nice new home and she has made partner and has bought a new BMW.  Jerry catches Dr. Lee snooping around Mark's locker.  Dr. Corday speaks with a patient named David about his prostate surgery.  She tells him that he may want to visit a sperm bank before the surgery.  Carter gets a Christmas card from a patient he does not remember.  He saved this patient's life and Lucy calls him an "instrument of God".  Lucy tells him that she is agnostic.  An eighteen year old boy named Steven Richards has been brought in unconscious.  He went to bed with a bad headache and he never woke up.  Carter goes to speak to his mother, Mrs. Richards.  She tells him that her son is all that she has.  Doug is ready to call the time of death on him, but Carter tells him to give him one more try.  They shock him and they get a heart rhythm.  Doug tells Carter that his brain is probably mush by now.  David ends up in the ER after suffering an anxiety attack.  Kerry recognizes him as a trumpet soloist from the Chicago symphony.  He later tells Elizabeth that the attack was due to knowing that his sperm donation was going to be his last sexual task.  Mark's gloves are missing and Jerry tells him and Kerry about seeing Amanda snooping around his locker earlier.  Amanda tells Mark that this is her first Christmas since her brother committed suicide.  Steven's mom is hoping for a miracle.  Mark has a young patient named Laura who has just found out that she is pregnant.  She is only thirteen years old.  Carol speaks with her and she decides that an abortion is her best option.  Carol has her speak with a priest about it.  A sixteen year old girl is brought in.  She has liver failure and needs a transplant.  She happens to have the same blood type as Steven.  Peter has an over weight patient that he and Yosh are tending to.  He has eaten so much that he has blown a staple from a stomach tuck that he had received earlier.  Carter speaks with Steven's mom about organ donation, but she does not want to donate his organs.  Peter takes his obese patient up to the OR.  He has to start without an attending present.  Romano shows up and tries to kick him out of the OR, but he is drunk and Peter has to ask him to leave.  He goes to hit Peter, but he misses and falls and knocks himself out.  Romano was upset because Elizabeth had never showed up for their date.  She had went out with David instead.  Mark is now missing his lab coat.  Amanda has ordered a lot of food for an impromptu Christmas party.  Stephen's mom bumped in to the girl's mom who need the transplant.  She has decided to donate the liver from Steven.  Lucy introduced them to each other and Carter is happy about it.  Romano tells Benton that he is writing him up for operating without an attending.  Peter tells him that if he does that, he will submit Romano's blood test that shows his blood alcohol level was .12.  Peter was unable to get home in time to see Reese, so Carla brought him by.  Amanda is home alone decorating her Christmas tree.  She is in Mark's lab coat and she is hanging ornaments with her and Mar's picture on them.  She is putting his gloves on and says, "Merry Christmas Amanda".    

Reviewed by Tony Conner on 11-18-2000