- Encouraged by Carol, Mark finally asks Susan out. Benton tries to save a boy, despite the fact Doug thinks he's brain dead.
- Mark Greene finally works up the courage to ask Susan Lewis out on a date. She turns him down and he soon comes to the conclusion that she is seeing Dr. Morgenstern. The truth however is even more shocking. With little Megan still in intensive care, Dr. Benton fears making other errors so he goes to extraordinary lengths to save a young man who is very likely brain dead. Nurse Rhonda Sterling is again rotated to the ER and reveals to a skeptical Nurse Hathaway just why hospital administration is assigning her to jobs for which she is not qualified. Dr. Carter doesn't believe that a patient awaiting surgery, Mr. Percy, is mentally competent but he doesn't have the gumption to tell Dr. Anspaugh. Drs. Carter and Keaton take an interest in one another.—garykmcd
- It's a busy day at County, and almost every character is facing issues that are being driven by what they're thinking at a specific moment. Carol Hathaway believes that Rhonda, the nurse who was a complete incompetent when she was floated from another part of the hospital to the ER, is dangerously unsuited to have been floated there again. And between Rhonda's rude attitude and disastrous mistake that costs a patient his severed foot, it looks like a just outcome when Carol's decision to write up Rhonda for her idiocy leads Rhonda to quit--until they find out that Rhonda's claim of being floated to the ER precisely to get her to quit may have been true, because Lydia's earmarked for floating to a hospital area she knows nothing about. Dr. John Carter is both excited about being a potential participant in a groundbreaking surgery led by a famous Japanese doctor, but he's also worried that the patient is not mentally capable of understanding how dangerous the operation is and giving informed consent. Carter does get the consent, and impresses all the senior doctors in the operating room, but the patient strokes out and nasty Dr. Edson insults Carter over not standing up for his concerns. Carter punches Edson, who punches Carter, but Carter gets the last laugh because this somehow leads Dr. Abby Keaton to kiss Carter quite a lot while treating his injuries. Doug Ross thinks that Mark Greene is being a total dick to him, and when Greene keeps overruling or not supporting Ross' correct decisions, Doug tells Mark he won't work with him anymore and then gets Mark to admit he's been treating Doug like shit because of the aftermath of the Nadine Wilkes tragedy. Mark later tells Doug he's right and apologizes, and their personal and professional relationships get back on solid ground. Peter Benton tries to compensate for his disastrously botched surgery on an infant last week by taking on the case of a kid Doug correctly declared to be brain-dead, and spends all day operating on the kid before breaking the mom's heart by confirming that he is in fact brain dead. But to Peter's shock, the baby he thought he'd killed is making a miraculous recovery and will survive her injuries. Jerry and Nurse Wendy try to covertly use an MRI machine to "cure" desk clerk E-Ray's magnetic personality, and it doesn't go well. And Mark thinks that Susan Lewis covertly dating Dr. Morgenstern, only to find out the truth: Susan's been working with their boss to get her transcripts ready because she's going to resign from County and take on a new job in Phoenix.
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