Mark goes in for his radiation therapy right before he goes on his shift.  A 58 year old clown has been brought in after collapsing at a party and Malucci is afraid of him.  A woman has come in wanting a clean needle, but Haleh and Carter will not give her one.  She tells them that she always gets a clean needle from a doctor there.  Randi tells Carter that a woman has called to cancel a date for the night.  Carter asks Chuny if she will go with him and she tells him that she already has plans.  Carter and Abby work on the clown.  Carter asks her about her plans for the night, and she tells him that she has a date with her couch.  He would like her to go with him to the charity event.  The clown dies, so she says that it would be the least she could do for someone who just killed a clown.  The woman who wants a clean needle, Janice, sees her doctor walking up to the desk; it is Mark.  He tells Haleh to give her a clean needle, and Janice thanks him.

Bishop Stewart comes in looking for Dr. Kovach.  He needs another prescription to help with his pain.  Luka thinks he should contact his personal physician, but he would rather see Luka.  Mark takes care of Mr. Romerez who has a cold.  He wants Mark to give him a prescription of antibiotics, but Mark will not.  He then takes care of an eighty-five year old woman who is dead by the time she arrives to the ER.  He gets on to the paramedics for bringing her in.  She should have died in her own bed at the nursing home.  Luka tells Abby that the singer she likes will be performing at the hotel tonight, but she tells him that she has already made plans with Carter.  He tells her to go and have fun.  Carter takes care of Jeff, who has mono.  Jeff is concerned about his blood count and such.  He wants to be tested for HIV.  He has been negative, but has been having unprotected sex and has been exposed to the virus.  

Luka tells the bishop that his blood sugar is up to 348.  He learns that the bishop has lupus and did not let him know about it.  Luka is upset because he could have harmed him by giving him the steroids.  He can not continue to take the steroids, but the bishop needs it to help him continue his ministry.  The bishop asks Luka what church he belongs to and Luka tells him that he does not go to church anymore.  A sixteen year old kid with bad congestive heart failure comes in after collapsing at a basketball game.  His name is Nick and he has already had two heart transplants.  The last one was six years ago.  He tells Luka that he does not want another transplant.  Malucci tells Mark about his flu patient and Mark tells him not to give out any antibiotics, they will not do any good.  Carter is on his way out and Kerry has Malucci take over his sick patient with mono.  Carter tells him to be sensitive with him and his HIV testing.  When Malucci comes in , Jeff's partner Sean is in the room with him.  He wants to hear the results.  Malucci tells him that he is HIV negative.  Sean is positive and Malucci asks Jeff if he is trying to catch HIV and learns that is what he is trying to do.  He will need to do a direct measure of Jeff's viral load to see if he has been exposed.  Kovach is concerned that the bishop may have fluid around his heart.  He needs a cardio-echo and needs to be admitted, but he does not want that.  He does not want to die in the hospital.  Luka meets Nick's parents and they tell him about the two transplants and how he always tells the doctor that he does not want a transplant when he is depressed.  They want him to have the transplant.  Cleo tells Mark that her flu patient wants to see someone higher up.  Her name is Sarah Dell and she wants antibiotics.  She thinks that they will not give them to her because she is poor.  He leads her to chairs where she watches him announce to everyone that no antibiotics will be given out to flu patients.  Half of them walk out.  Romano bumps into Mark and tells him not to be giving out needles to junkies anymore.  Mark replies that he would rather give out clean needles then have an outbreak of HIV and hep--heppa (has a hard time saying hepatitis)  and Romano makes fun of him.  Carter goes to pick Abby up and he shows up in a tuxedo.  She is dressed informal and has to go change.  He asks if she is mad at him and she says yes.  Elizabeth tells Nick's parents that he is on the top of the list for a transplant.  Nick tells Luka that he is always tired and has freakish side effects due to the pills he takes; he does not want another transplant.  Romano tells Kerry that he has a problem with Mark and that she needs to straighten him out.  Carter has brought Abby fresh flowers, but she tells him that she prefers dead, dried flowers.  She comes out in a pink bridesmaid dress.  He tells her that she looks nice.  They go outside and to her surprise, a limo is waiting.  Mark tells Elizabeth that a little kid got scared of his scar and he called him humpty dumpty.  She tells him that they changed the wedding to a later time.  It will need to be an evening wedding.  He agrees that it will be okay.  She tells him that he is getting better.  Nick Stevens arrests and Elizabeth goes to intubate him.  They use the paddles to get his heart rhythm back.  Luka tells Nick to open his eyes, but he gets no response.  Carter and Abby arrive at the museum.  She tells Carter that Luka never gets jealous.  They arrive and he tells her that there will only be a few people there, but there are hundreds.  Malucci gets Jeff's viral tests back and he is definitely negative.  He tells Jeff that nothing is worth dieing for and that he needs to be more careful.  Sean can't really love him if he wants him to get HIV.  Jeff tells him that he don't have anyone else and Malucci replies, "You have yourself".  John and Abby go in and she meets his grandfather, John Truman Carter the first.  Carter and Abby go to the dance floor and dance.  She feels like she is at her spring formal from high school, where she dumped her date so that she could be with another guy outside smoking.  Luka goes in to speak to the bishop.  He has seen how Luka worked on Nick and how remarkable he was bringing him back to life.  The bishop tells Luka how scared he really is of dieing.  He does not want to be bedridden and wishes he was as brave as Nick.  Malucci watches as Jeff leaves and asks him if he will protect himself from now on, but he tells him probably not.  The ER gets a paramedic call and Mark answers.  He tells them to not bring in an older gentleman who he pronounces dead over the radio.  Kerry tells Haleh that it is legal.  Bishop Stewart's personal physician comes in looking for Mark.  Abby runs into her ex-husband, Richard, at the charity event.  He is their with Alexis, his new young girlfriend.  He recognized the bridesmaid dress that she wore at his sister's wedding.  This embarrasses Abby.  The bishop's physician, Dr. Frost, chews Luka out.  He has been treating him for over fifteen years.  He tells him that the bishop is drug seeking.  The paramedics bring in the man who had fully arrested that Mark had already pronounced dead over the radio.  The family wanting them to bring him to the ER.  Kerry accepts him since they arrived with him.  Kerry tells them to resume compressions after Mark tells them to quit doing C.P.R.  They have to care for him now that he is there.  The man is dead and the family watches on.  Cleo goes to speak with the family as Mark walks out mad.  Abby is upset about Richard, so she and Carter go looking for his car.  Carter suggest that they may be in his date's car, a Lexus.  He then laughs (get it? Alexis).  When they find it they let the air out of one of his rear tires, until the alarm goes off.  Then they hop back into the limo and drive off.  Romano tells Luka that Nick will have the transplant.  Luka tells him that Nick does not want it, but Romano tells him that he will thank them in a few years.  He is only a kid and does not really know what he wants.  Kerry catches Mark on his way out.  She wants to know if he is ready to be back at work.  She asks him to take some time off, and he tells her no.  Luka tells the bishop that Dr. Frost arranged for him to have more test on Monday.  He thanks him for all of his help and for listening.  Luka gives him more steroids before he leaves.  Carter and Abby watch on as Richard's car gets towed.  She feels bad for ruining Carter's night.  He tells her that he had a really good time and she replies that she did also.  Kerry makes a call to get information about evaluating a physician (Mark) who may be cognitively impaired.  They will meet first thing Monday morning to discuss it.                                         

Reviewed by Tony Conner on 02-10-2001

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