Mark and Elizabeth are playing racquet ball as they discuss the Trauma Fellowship.  Carol goes for an O.B. check up.  Nobody but Mark knows that she is pregnant.  She is asked if anyone on her side of the family or the father's side of the family have any genetic disorders.  She is unsure about Doug's family.  She calls him and leaves a message on his answering machine.  She has sent him a fax telling him what is going on.  Carter removes a cockroach from a woman's ear.  The F.B.I. bring in a woman who they will not give out the identity of.  She has been shot in the chest.  Three teenagers are brought in from an accident.  They were on the way to their senior prom. Carter, Lucy and Mark take care of the  boy suffering from third degree burns over 80% of his body. Elizabeth tends to his sister who may be paralyzed.  The driver is not badly hurt.  His blood alcohol level was .09.  He was changing a CD in the player when the accident happened.  Apparently one girl that was suppose to be with them is still missing.  A woman with AIDS and her son are brought in by helicopter.  She crashed her boat into a dock when she became sick.  She has a fishing pole through her mid section.  Carol does not want to be close to her because of her illness.  Kerry picks up on this and asks her if she is pregnant.  Carol is surprised that she had figured it out.  Kerry is very understanding of her condition.  Carter shows Lucy a procedure where they slice open the burn victim to relieve pressure.  Romano and Elizabeth take the paralyzed girl up to surgery.  Carol goes to apologize to the woman with HIV.  The woman tells Carol that she no longer wants to take any medication.  She wants her son to have a sick mother who is well for a short time than a well woman who is sick for a long time.  Anspaugh tells Kerry, Mark and Romano that Peter Benton receives the ER trauma fellowship.  Lucy tells the burn victim that she is going to have to put a tube down his throat to help him breathe.  She has his parents on the phone so that he will be able to talk to them before he dies.  Lucy cries as she listens.  Peter tells Lizzy that she did not get the fellowship.  She only has three weeks left on her internship.  Romano is upset at Peter for not taking what he had offered him.  He offers it to Elizabeth and she is considering it.  Carol gets a phone call from Doug.  Lucy tells Carter that she is on Ritalin.  He tells her that she needs to come off of it.  Mark goes in to check on Carol.  She tells him that Doug is not coming back.  She told him not to come.  She didn't want him to come back just because she is having a baby.  She still expected him to come though.  

Reviewed by Tony Conner on 09-07-2000