Elizabeth has spent the night at Mark's.  Carol stops by Doc Magoo's for breakfast.  She meets a pregnant waitress named Meg and tells her to come into the ER for prenatal care.  Elizabeth stops off at the news stand on her way into wok and her picture and an article that the reporter wrote is splashed on the front page.  The article isn't very good.  Romano tells her that she was suppose to toot his horn in the article and not to have made an embarrassment of him.  Romano tries to get Elizabeth to do his dirty work.  He wants her to tell Anspaugh and Benton not to come into the OR or make their own surgery schedule.  Meg comes in to get checked by Carol and Carol sees that she has been smoking.  She tells her that she needs to quit.  Meg tells her that she has lost her job at Magoo's and carol tells her that she will help her get a job in the hospital cafeteria.  Cleo and Yosh get to tend to a very wild and hyper little girl.  She terrorizes everyone in the ER.  What Cleo doesn't realize is that the four year old girl is in the second stage of iron poisoning and dies after she misdiagnoses her.  Carter goes upstairs to see Elaine.  She is there for a post-op checkup.  She tells him that the cancer hasn't spread and they agree to get together later.  Mark's dad calls all day long.  He has had a minor accident with his car and the neighbor's tree.  A man is brought in with major head trauma from a parachuting accident and is not expected to live.  Dr. Dave calls for his wife to come, but she will not be able to make it in time.  Dave dictates a message to the man from his family, but he dies before he can read it to him.  He feels guilty about it and ends up reading the message to the dead man anyways.  Dr. Lawrence makes a mistake while giving Lucy orders on a patient.  She asks him about it, but he denies saying it.  No one will believe Lucy because Dr. Lawrence is so knowledgeable.  Meg misses her interview for the cafeteria job, but Carol helps her get another one.

Reviewed by Tony Conner on 09-23-2000