- After Hawkeye corrects a mistake that Colonel Potter made on a patient, Potter fears he's losing his touch badly enough to summon Dr. Sidney Freeman.
- After Hawkeye corrects a mistake that Colonel Potter made on a patient (Potter left a little shrapnel under the liver which was found out when the patient started feeling severe abdominal pain in post op), Potter fears he's losing his touch. The Chinese have started new offensive and heavy casualties are expected. He feels badly enough to summon Dr. Sidney Freeman (Allan Arbus). Sidney tells BJ & Hawkeye that he is in MASH to write a report on stress handling and hides the real reason.
Captain Schnelker (John O'Connell) from tech intelligence come to MASh 4077 and informs them that the Chinese are using white phosphorus rounds and talks about medical ways to deal with them. These are rounds are burning when they hit the victim. They keep burning till they have oxygen. The procedure is to apply surgical jelly to stop the fire. Potter is frustrated that while we can create new ways to kill humans, but not new ways to end the war.
In front of Sidney, Potter loses his cool at small little things and everybody in the camp notices that Sherman is not himself. when Sidney speaks to Potter, he sounds down and out (he says Hawkeye operated on a boy with the same wounds as his own patient. Hawkeye's patient came through with flying colors, but Potter's patient required a re-look by Hawkeye), but later says that maybe he is tired and just needs some sleep. Sidney thinks there is something more. Potter is still irritable at the small stuff like quality of breakfast at the mess tent. He even blows his gasket when he finds that Hawkeye authorized the release on Potter's patient, the one whom Hawkeye operated on to save his life. Potter chews out Hawkeye in front of everyone in the mess tent. Later, Potter admits to Sidney that now he is afraid of operating as he believes he will cost another boy his life. Potter fears that if he is not a surgeon, he is nothing.
Sidney tells Potter that someday everyone will lose their touch (Sherman is already 62 yrs old), but whether it will be today, that only Potter can say. But Potter should not let fear make the decision for him. Potter returns to the OR and conducts surgeries.
Winchester is tired of cleaning up the swamp after BJ and Hawkeye and decides to be a slob himself. He stop picking up their clothes and starts eating onions and sardines inside the tent. He ups the ante with Swiss cheese. Winchester even uses BJ's Swiss army knife to cut the cheese, and wont even clean it. BJ gives up and starts tidying up after Winchester as he cant stand the stench. BJ cleans up the tent and then puts the whole garbage in Winchester's cot. The matter escalates quickly as the duo (BJ And Hawkeye on one side and Winchester on the other) decide to do messier and messier things to each other. Winchester drops the contents of BJ's footlocker on his cot. BJ cuts open Winchester's pillow. Hawkeye cuts Winchester's toothpaste and puts it inside his shoe. Winchester drops coffee on both their cots. Potter intervenes to put a stop to it and calls truce.
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