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Everyone is relieved that it is Weaver's day off. While Benton's injured finger heals, Carter continues to dazzle the hospital staff, including Harper, with his surgical expertise. Young AIDS patient Chia-Chia comes back, feverish and vomiting. Ross diagnoses him with meningitis and recommends a painful treatment. But Greene tells his mother, Mei-Sun, that the boy only has a few days to live no matter what. This seriously angers Ross. Mei-Sun brings Chia-Chia home to live his last days in peace. Benton treats a battered wife who refuses to have her husband arrested for his repeated beatings, saying she just fell down and hurt herself. The hospital reports the beating. Unfortunately, the police officer who responds is the victim's husband. Benton reports the situation to another cop, who later brings in the husband badly beaten up. The cop tells Benton a story about how the husband just fell down and hurt himself. Benton and Hathaway treat a motorcycle accident victim whose arm was severed at the elbow. After getting caught stealing morphine and injecting it, the victim's wife reveals that they purposefully chopped his arm off with an ax to collect insurance money. To her dismay, the skilled surgeons reattach the arm and ruin the plan. Lewis agonizes over what to do with baby Susie. She consults an attorney about putting her up for adoption, checks with Greene about possibly working part time and makes a futile attempt to get help from her parents, Henry (recurring guest star PAUL DOOLEY) and Cookie (recurring guest star VALERIE PERRINE). Finally, Lewis decides to adopt the baby herself. Carter is ecstatic to discover his first malignant cancer in a patient. The patient is not as excited. |
