Pratt tends to a patient who is drug seeking. Morris calls on him to help him with a patient named Rocky who says she knows Pratt. He describes her as lonely and will do whatever it takes to stay in the hospital to talk to someone. He tells Morris to page Wendall. Susan approaches Pratt telling him she has a report to do for her chart review. He wishes her good luck and she adds in that it is for both of them to do. Pratt looks at her in disbelief and she tells him she will add his name on the report. He tells her he’s not interested and she explains he should because in a few years he will be looking for a job, staring at a blank spot where he should be listing his articles. He smiles, and tells her that he is writing an article and it’s on ‘The Abusive Powers of Attending’s on Residents’. She gives him the papers and walks away. Abby is going over the chest films with Jake, who is obviously not focusing. He asks her if the problem lies with the fact that he is her student. Abby pretends like she never heard him and heads towards admit. She tells him to stop talking about it or she will give him a failing mark on his evaluation. They both enter the room where an older lady is complaining of nausea. She tells them that her heart doesn’t feel right and Abby orders an EKG. Pratt examines a boy named Thomas. Thomas’s stepmother says he didn’t want to go to school because he didn’t feel well. As Thomas lifts his shirt so that Pratt can listen to his chest, he notices a rather large laceration running across the boy’s stomach. He asks the mother what happened as she doesn’t know and asks Thomas the same question. Thomas shrugs and looks at his brother, then tells them he can’t remember. Susan asks Jane to take inventory of all books and computers for a pharmaceutical grant she’s applying for and Jane agrees to do it. Wendall talks with Rocky who is quite depressed. Ray tells her that he has her discharge papers and she seems upset that she has to leave. As they walk away together, Wendall asks why she was paged for Rocky and Ray tells her that she needed to talk and that he had work to do. She tells him she is not a babysitter and didn’t appreciate being called for that reason. Pratt walks by her and asks her to talk to Thomas and then runs with Luka on his way to a trauma room with a GSV. Wendall tells him they should go in together. Pratt tells her he will be in shortly. As they move the patient, who’s name is Martin over to the bed, they come to find out that he is quite the talker. A police officer handcuffs the patient to the bed and Pratt asks why. The cop tells him that Martin is being charged with assault. Wendall talks with Thomas about how he got the cut on his stomach and he tells her that he got it from climbing a fence at school. He tells her it was a barbwire fence and that he ripped his shirt. He also adds that the reason he didn’t tell anyone was because the shirt belonged to his brother. The stepmother voices her disappointment, while Thomas’s brother says he doesn’t care. Wendall asks if she can talk with Thomas alone and the mother asks if that’s necessary, she states she is already late for work. Sam tells her that he can’t be discharged until they get his test results back. Wendall gets paged and excuses herself. Abby and Jake go over the EKG on the old lady. As Abby walks out of her exam room, Susan stops her and tells her that she will have to start noting start and stop times on all documentations. She also asks her to get the rest of the house staff to fill out the surveys and get them back to her before the end of the day. As she walks into admit, John stops her and asks her what the deal is on the time surveys. Susan tells him that she is applying for a grant with a pharmaceutical company. He states that he thinks the residents should be treating patients and not doing free research for the companies she’s applying for. Susan tells him that if he didn’t spill his guts on TV about the zirictal she wouldn’t have to do this. John defends himself saying that he was right and Susan tells him that he cost County $50,000 in books, computers and educational literature. She also adds that County State Hospital is ‘bleeding out’ and unrestricted grants from pharmaceutical companies pays the bills. Carter denies there is no such thing as unrestricted grants and that it leads to a conflict of interest. Martin looks around as Luka, Pratt and Sam treat him. Dubenko arrives and asks why they are looking at his stomach when he was clearly shot in the chest. Luka tells him that the bullet may have ricocheted and landed somewhere else. Dubenko makes his orders, while Martin asks if he needs an operation. Dubenko tells him no but Luka tells him he might. Luka tells Pratt to order a CT, and Dubenko voices that Luka should trust his clinical judgment. Luka says he does and wants the CT done and that Martin is his patient. Dubenko calls out some orders and writes them in the chart and tells him he just admitted Martin to the surgical floor and his care and that all they are doing is holding him until a bed is ready.