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Episode 218 "The Student"
Original Air Date: 04/0104
Written by: David Zabel
Directed by: Paul McCrane
Guest Stars:

Oliver Davis - Alex
Steven Culp - Dave Spencer
Rocky Carroll - Mr. Walker
Angela Meryl - Danitra Walker
Alex Locke - Tevin Walker
Kali Majors - Sydney
Toni Sawyer - Lucy Kilmer
Richard Tanner - Dad
Cletus Young - Elderly Patient
Persephone Apostolou - Dead Head Girl
Brittney Baird - Ella #2
Louise Claps - Mrs. Jenkins
Cisco Xavier Rodriguez - Vern
Kristin Hera - Frederika Meehan
Daniel S. Hong - Bobby
Kurt Caceres - Luis Sanchez
Zilah Mendoza - Mrs. Sanchez
Patrick Kerr - George Deakins
Peter Jacobson - Pervert
Jeanne Sakata - Lucia

Staff:

Troy Evans - Frank Martin
Brian Lester - Paramedic Dumar
Monte Russell - Paramedic Zadro
Louie Liberti - Paramedic Bardelli
Abraham Benrubi - Jerry
Laura Ceron - Chuny
Donal Logue - Chuck Martin
Kyle Richards - Dori

The ER attendings are having a meeting with Kerry about where to place the medical students. Chen, Kovac, and Lewis question Neela’s competency as an ER physician because she is indecisive. Carter stands behind her, saying that she is the smartest person on the floor. Chuck and Susan go to a restaurant for breakfast. A strange man hits on Susan as she waits. Chuck becomes angered and pops the guy in the jaw.

The guy threatens to sue Chuck as Kovac sews up his lip. Sam is struggling to find a way to throw Alex a birthday party. Carter confronts Neela about being more assertive. Doctor Chen’s father’s nurse comes by to resign. Gallant and Neela talk about what she should do with her career as they wait for an ambulance. Paramedics bring in a nursing home patient named Louie Sanchez who fell off the roof. Neela takes care of him. Chuck refuses to apologize to the perverted man. Neela calls the nursing home to get a medical history on Louie Sanchez but is unable to persuade the desk clerk to fax over the history. Neela gets a discharge summary from a previous hospital visit of Louie Sanchez. She tells Abby not to push the Morphine that Gallant ordered. Chuck agrees to apologize to the pervert. Neela pushes Demerol instead of Morphine. Chuck gets in a fight with the pervert as he is apologizing. Louie is feeling better as Neela presents to Carter. Susan goes to talk to the pervert to avoid a lawsuit. Abby asks Corday about her date with Dr. Lawson. A tennis player is treated by Kovac and Sam after she twisted her ankle while beating up a man that has been flashing her team.

Louie Sanchez is seizing and unconscious. The Demerol Neela pushed is causing Serotonin Syndrome, which can be fatal. A man in a raincoat who claims to have been mugged is treated by Kovac and Sam. He is naked under his raincoat and has a tennis-racket mark on his face. Gallant defends Neela by saying that he gave the order to push Demerol. The raincoat man bolts when he sees the police coming. One of the girls from the tennis team notices him and the entire team commences to putting the smack-down on him in the ambulance bay. Gallant falsifies Louie Sanchez’s chart with an order for Demerol.

Mr. Deacons, the raincoat man, is put in the same room with Susan’s pervert, a room which Sam now calls ‘The Pervert Ward’. Luka tells Sam that he has solved the problem with Alex’s birthday party. Frank comes back from rehab to visit the ER. He says he is still a few weeks from coming back to work but is thankful to everybody in the ER, especially Pratt. A man and his father come in. The kid’s spleen is soaking up all of his blood, causing him to be altered. Luka thinks it could be Sickle-Cell Anemia. Gallant and Neela talk to Louie Sanchez’s wife about his chances. Neela tells Carter that she ordered the Demerol. Kovac tells the kid’s father that the kid has Sickle-Cell. Sickle-Cell Anemia can only be contracted if both parents have the Sickle-Cell gene, and the father says that he doesn’t have it but his wife does. He wants to be tested again. Louie goes into V-Tac.

Louie Sanchez dies. Neela is distraught about losing him. Luka tells the father that he doesn’t have the Sickle-Cell gene. The father lies to his wife about having the gene. Weaver, Gallant, Carter, Abby, and Neela have a talk about how Louie Sanchez’s case was handled. Neela and Gallant describe differing situations, which angers Kerry. Luka and Alex show up with a boat and an RV. Corday is concerned about dating two men. Abby tells her to stop worrying. Carter tells Neela not to give up on emergency medicine as a choice for her match list. Neela goes to see Gallant, who is sitting in Louie Sanchez’s room. He tells her that he was thinking of asking her out in the morning. She says the feeling is mutual. Corday is about to leave after her date with the teacher. She goes to get her coat and ends up sleeping with him. Gallant is confronted by Carter as he leaves the ER. Carter tells him he only backed him up because he is his responsibility. Carter gets in a cab to go to the Congo to visit Kim.

Reviewed by Taylor Shull on August 10, 2004

NBC Review

WILL WELL-MEANING DR. CARTER PUSH PROTEGEE NEELA TOO FAR IN ASSERTING HERSELF? -- When Dr. Weaver (Laura Innes) and other attending doctors rate the residents, Dr. Carter (Noah Wyle) feels obliged to defend the potential of his protegee Neela (Parminder Nagra), but when he urges her to be more pro-active in the E.R., she goes too far in treating a brain-injury patient -- and a sympathetic Dr. Gallant (Sharif Atkins) errs further by falsifying a medical report. Elsewhere, a pregnant Dr. Lewis (Sherry Stringfield) is harassed by a sexual pervert which prompts Chuck to defend her, while Dr. Kovac (Goran Visnjic) treats the disoriented young son of a man who fears that tests will reveal he's not the boy's father. In addition, Dr. Chen (Ming-Na) is at wit's end over finding a caretaker for her combative father and Dr. Corday (Alex Kingston) is uneasy about dating two men. Maura Tierney, Mekhi Phifer and Linda Cardellini also star. Former cast member Paul McCrane (Dr. Romano) directs.

TV Guide Review

April 1, 2004: The Student: Carter's efforts to push Neela trigger a crisis that threatens not only a head injury, but also a fellow doc. Meanwhile, it's Chuck to the rescue after a sexually deranged patient targets Susan; and Chen scrambles to find an appropriate caregiver for her ailing father.