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Twenty-two children, ranging in age from six months to nine years, are found in a single apartment. The emergency room doctors find that one of them has cerebral palsy and all suffer from abuse, malnutrition, lice and a variety of other maladies. Later, a child welfare representative explains that they are from a number of different families whose parents are crack abusers. Jeanie reminds Benton not to express his frustration by mistreating one of the young patients. Greene won't let any of the children go until he is sure they are okay. Shep makes another inadvertently offensive comment, bothering Benton. Carter struggles to solve a dilemma posed by Vucelich, who wants a patient's cardiac output to increase so she can be transferred to a long-term care facility. Finally, Carter realizes that there is no solution. He befriends the woman's husband, Mr. Rubadoux (recurring guest star RED BUTTONS), known as Ruby, which is disturbing because he can't help Ruby's wife. Jennifer serves Greene with divorce papers at the hospital. Jeanie thinks that Benton gave her a bad evaluation, but it's actually Hathaway who thinks that she's not aggressive enough for the emergency room. Jeanie rebuffs her conciliatory husband, Al (recurring guest star MICHAEL BEACH). Vucelich promotes Benton to research associate, with his own office and a substantial raise in pay. A grossly obese 51-year-old woman thinks she has food poisoning, but her abdominal pains are caused by being pregnant with twins. |
