David Greene is trying to repair an old slide projector.  Mark tells his dad that he is concerned about his medical condition.  Mark is reminded by his dad that his cancer is inoperable.  Elizabeth's mother is packing her bags for her return home. During the packing, Elizabeth finds a sock and some shorts that belong to David Greene.  Isabelle tells Elizabeth how much she enjoyed David Greene and tells her that he is very much like his son.  She thinks that Elizabeth and Mark are good together.  They agree to meet later at the hospital for coffee before she leaves.  Carter returns to work.  He is using crutches to help him get around.  He still seems to be in a lot of pain.  Mark arrives at the hospital to find that he is the only Attending working and the place is very busy and rooms are few.   Mark grabs a cart and a cordless phone and he has Carter, Jing-Mei, Malucci and Abby follow him to the patients.  He goes to each one and calls out the order to the nurses over the phone.  He then goes to the lounge for some coffee and he finds Carol in the lounge pumping breast milk for the twins.  She later sees Malucci eating Captain Crunch cereal with the milk that she had pumped.  Mark and Carol take care of a baby named Estrella.  The baby is not responsive and Mark does not know what is causing it.  The baby dies and the lab results reveal that she has amphetamines in her blood system.  The babies mother, Pilar, tells Mark and Carol that she works two jobs and takes medicine to keep her going.  Carol asks her if she is breast-feeding and the woman says yes and starts crying.  She loved her baby and would never hurt her.  Elizabeth is in the ER when David Greene is brought in complaining of shortness of breath.  He tells Mark that he wants Elizabeth to be his doctor.  Elizabeth learns how very sick he is.  She asks him what his wishes are and he tells her that he just wants to live his remaining time out of the hospital and at home.  Mark doesn't like to hear this.  An ICU nurse comes down to the ER after fainting while on duty.  Dr. Chen tells him that they must run some tests to make sure that he is okay to return to work.  He helps out in the ER while waiting for his lab results.  Malucci seems to be a little jealous because Deb seems to like him.  Jing-Mei learns that he has Addison's Disease.  Elizabeth had been working on an 18 year old gun shot victim named Robert Jackson.  He was brought in brain dead and she wants his organs for donations.  Nobody is able to find his parents for consent and he dies without donating his organs.  Carter does not get around in the trauma rooms and he keeps getting in the way.  This is very aggravating to him and he is still in a lot of pain.  When Kerry comes in for her shift, she asks him how he is and he replies that he is doing fine.  She tells him of a couple of treatments that might help with his pain, but he doesn't seem to care.  She wants to know if he has talked with anyone concerning how he is feeling.  He doesn't reply.  He goes to his gamma's for some soup and for some company.  She can see now that medicine is what he loves.  Abby takes care of Mr. Kim Tadlock, a patient that was admitted with colon cancer.  His cancer seems to be spreading.  Abby performs a procedure on him without Mark's supervision and she makes things worse.  She has perforated his colon and Benton tells him that it is a known complication of the procedure.  Peter wants to do surgery, but Mr. Tadlock  decides against it.  He ends up dying later.  When Abby explains to Mark the complications resulting from her mistake, Mark tells her to work with Dr. Upton after her shift to practice her procedures.  She does go, but she has a hard time doing the procedure because the dead body she has to work on is Mr. Tadlock's (what irony).  Dr. Corday didn't get to have the coffee with her mother, because she had taken an earlier flight.  Benton and Cleo are still seeing each other and they finally kiss over playing pool.  Carol has a new nanny for the twins and she receives calls all day.  She even has to sing a song over the phone to get Kate to quit crying. (I haven't heard Carol sing since a Christmas episode during Season 2).  Carol ends up having the nanny drop off Kate and Tess at the hospital for a visit.  Mark and his dad go home and they get to view the slides.  

Reviewed by Tony Conner on 10-06-2000