Ric's day goes from bad to worse when a newspaper article exposes Ric's operation on Donna's father which went against his own strict procedures. Jayne demanded that he write a press release. Joseph continued to be suspicious of Faye and is only further intensified when a patient displays intense suspicious tendencies about her boyfriend. Daisha recommends a hearing impaired patient for Penny for her portfolio assessment but when Ric couldn't supervise her because of his worsening day she nearly ends up messing up the procedure. A thalidomide patient is diagnosed with inoperable cancer but refuses to believe it is the end and pressures Ric for other ways of extending his life but the only procedure that may work is giving the patient doses of thalidomide - the drug that caused him to be born with deformed limbs. After nearly losing a patient Ric decides that he'd prefer to help patients by being a doctor and withdraws from the Director of Surgery job much to Jayne's horror.
—Anonymous