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Summary for "Chicago Hope," the Premiere 11 page

In Short: An explosion sends a dry cleaner to the ER. Dr. Kadalski is pressured to change his unorthodox methods when he treats a man who compulsively pulls out his hair. A fearful Birch lets off steam at Jeffrey as baby Alicia's condition worsens.

Guest Starring: Allen Garfield (as Dr. Ray Kadalski), Peter Berg (as Dr. Billy Kronk), Janye Brook (as Dr. Diane Grad), Diane Venora (as Dr. Geri Infante), Robin Lively (as Maggie Atkisson), Ann Dowd (as Eleanor Robertson), Leo Burmester (as Dalton Robertson), Todd Graff (as Louis Bagley), Joe Maher, Nicholas Pryor, Thom Barry and John Cappon

Story: David E. Kelley
Teleplay:
Directed By: Thomas Schlamme

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The doctors are stunned by Dalton Robertson, a man wheeled into the emergency room with a 20-inch steel rod sticking through his head. An explosion ripped through the dry cleaning store that Robertson owns, hurtling metal through the air like pieces of shrapnel. Amazingly, Robertson is not only conscious but he does not seem to be in a great deal of pain. As other physicians watch, dumbfounded, Dr. Aaron Shutt describes how he will remove the rod from Robertson's head by pulling it out the same way it went in. The procedure is a success, and afterward Robertson's wife, Eleanor, and the staff from the dry cleaning store surprise Robertson with a get-well party in his hospital room. Robertson then stuns his wife by insisting three of his staff be fired. Eleanor tells Shutt that since the accident her husband's personality has changed radically. After re-examining the x rays, Shutt believes the rod damaged a part of the brain that controls social skills. Robertson, however, claims he likes his new persona. He becomes convinced his new-found aggressiveness will aid him in the dog-eat-dog business world. Meanwhile, Dr. Billy Kronk attends to Louis Bagley, who was rushed to the hospital after he had trouble breathing. Kronk examines Bagley's throat and, using a pair of forceps, dislodges a wad of human hair. With the blockage removed, Bagley begins breathing normally. Dr. Ray Kadalski explains to Bagley that he suffers from an impulse-control disorder every bit as serious as anorexia or bulimia. The doctors are concerned about a mass in Bagley's stomach, and suggest abdominal surgery. Bagley refuses to give his consent. When he sees Camille Shutt for the first time, however, Bagley becomes convinced that she is the reincarnation of Judy Garland's Dorothy Gale character from "The Wizard of Oz." In an effort to win Bagley's confidence, Kadalski asks Camille to dress up like Dorothy. Camille reluctantly agrees, dresses up as Dorothy and serenades the patient with "Over the Rainbow." An Executive Committee probes the decision, accusing Kadalski of embarrassing the hospital. But Camille's efforts ultimately lead Bagley to change his mind about the operation. The Executive Committee decides not to take action against Kadalski. Elsewhere in the hospital, Alan Birch's adopted daughter, Alicia, goes into cardiac arrest. Geiger examines the infant and later tells Birch she suffers from congestive heart failure. Geiger patches four holes in the baby's heart, but is unsure if his measures will be effective. Geiger reopens Alicia's chest when pacemaker wires become loose. Birch looses confidence in Geiger and accuses him of having lost his edge, now that he has become romantically involved with Infante. Eventually, Alicia recovers, and Birch must turn around and thank his friend for saving his daughter's life.



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"Somewhere over the rainbow" from the musical The Wizard of Ozby E.Y. Harburg (sang by Camille to Todd Graff)
and "Ding Dong the witch is dead"(from the Munchkinland musical sequence) from the same musical.
'Somewhere over the rainbow' has been performed by many artists - originally by Judy Garland (who played Dorothy in the movie).
Mandy Patinkin has an interesting version of this song on his self-titled CD.
While Billy operates on Mr. Bagley you hear: "Start the car"by Cole Judd (can be found on the CD with the same title)

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Summary for "Informed Consent"

CHICAGO HOPE, Season 1, Episode 1.18, "Informed Consent"Teleplay by David E. Kelley and John Tinker and Dennis CooperStory by David E. Kelley and Kim NewtonDirected by Bill D'EliaOriginal air date, March 13, 1995 PRELUDE: GETTING TO KNOW YOU.After getting out of bed, Dr. Billy Kronk's is trying to persuade his newgirlfriend, Annie, to go with him to his hockey game. She agrees but makeshim promise not to fight and not to get hurt. As they walk into Chicago Hopelater, Billy is holding a bandage to his nose and forehead as Annie chastiseshim for fighting, but Billy won't hear it: "This is a no-check league. If Ican't fight, I can't hurt anyone." Geri Infante is waiting to treat hisinjury. She and Annie soon recognize each other, but both seem flustered. Asthey hug, Geri struggles to explain their relationship; Annie helps her outsaying that they used to be friends. Suddenly an ambulance arrives with apatient who lost consciousness after complaining of dizziness. The EMT's tellDr. Danny Nyland that they ran a rhythm strip on the patient, Ned Tannen. Asit turns out, Mr. Tannen is waiting for a heart transplant, and JeffreyGeiger is his doctor. When Dr. Nyland asks Mrs. Tannen if her husband hit hishead, she answers, "He ran out of paper. My husband was in the comfortstation when he fainted. Fell right off the commode." PLOT ONE: A LITTLE KNOWLEDGE IS A DANGEROUS THING.In addition to a bad ticker, Ned Tannen has a large aneurysm at the base ofhis brain. Under normal circumstances, Aaron Shutt would operate but in thiscase the size of the aneurysm and risk of hemorrhage are too great; Mr.Tannen couldn't survive the procedure. On the other hand, if the aneurysmruptures, it will most likely kill him. The aneurysm also means that Tannenis no longer a candidate for a heart transplant; since donor hearts are hardto come by, the transplant committee would never give one to a patient withan aneurysm. The Tannens are stunned, but Mr. Tannen can only stare at Aaron,saying, "So between my head and my heart I have between five minutes and ayear to live." Aaron responds, "That would be one way to put it." That evening, Mrs. Tannen sees Aaron in his office to ask him if they shouldgo to another hospital. As gently as possible, Aaron starts to tell her thather husband's condition is hopeless, but stops and then asks Mrs. Tannen togive him the night to think it over; maybe he can come up with something theyhaven't thought of yet. The following day, Aaron tells Jeffrey he can help Mr. Tannen with aprocedure involving suspended animation, meaning he'd have to freeze his bodytemperature down to 68; with no blood pressure they can fix the aneurysm withless risk of hemorrhage, but his weak heart would start to fibrillate. AskingJeffrey if they could restart the heart, Jeffrey doesn't see any chance.Aaron doesn't want to just let Tannen die. Jeffrey, asking Aaron howaggressive he wants to be, throws out a suggestion: Jeffrey could do acardiomyoplasty which might strengthen his heart, but Aaron points out thathe'd never survive two anesthesias. Jeffrey's suggestion takes an even moreradical turn: one anesthesia, one procedure. Back in Mr. Tannen's room, they explain their idea, pointing out that it isvery experimental but can be done, and is really the only chance at clippingthe aneurysm. Jeffrey goes on to detail the cardiomyoplasty, even saying theword carefully and distinctly, which involves taking a piece of muscle fromTannen's back and wrapping it around his heart so that the muscle functionsas a heart muscle and helps the heart pump. Asking the doctors if either ofthem have ever done either of the operations before, they answer no, but thatthey can do it, and that it can save his life. In the risk management meeting, Aaron insists that what he and Jeffreypropose is Mr. Tannen's only chance. Phillip Watters seems to appreciatetheir ambition but doubts whether or not both could or should be donesimultaneously. Dr. Diane Grad has other concerns: "If we aren't successful,we would look like voodoo witch doctors. This is so radical, so futile."Jeffrey responds, "Are you saying you would never consider a futileexperimental procedure if it were the patient's only hope?" Another member ofthe committee points out that by doing these two procedures, there is noescaping the publicity. "In success we're miracle workers. In failure, webecome Frankenstein's castle. . . . we're already considered miracle workers.We have nothing to gain here." Becoming visibly frustrated, Jeffrey answers,"Well, here's an extremely radical thought: Shouldn't the issue be what thepatient has to gain?" Once the committee determines that Tannen hasconsented, Aaron and Jeffrey are instructed to get the consent in writing,and the surgery is approved and scheduled. Appearing at a joint press conference, Aaron and Jeffrey explain thesituation to the media, as Diane Grad stands in the background, watching andlistening, but the press only wants the juicy details. . . . "How long doeshe stay frozen? So you have to kill him to save him? How many of these haveyou done?" Sheepishly, Aaron answers, "Counting this one I'll have done one." Dr. Grad finally visits the Tannens where she tells them about her father'sheart transplant and how it changed his life. She knows that Tannen isn'thaving a transplant, but has used the topic to open the door so she can askTannen if he knows how risky the operation is. Tannen acknowledges the risk,but also shows his belief in the two doctors, who are supposed to be thebest. Grad agrees that they are the best, telling Tannen that with medicationhe could probably live a year, but that with this surgery, he could dietoday. During the latter part of their conversation, Geiger and Shutt arrivein Tannen's room, and Jeffrey demands to know what she's doing. Aaron callsDiane out of the room for a private talk. In the hallway, Aaron is furiouswith her, saying that he hears she does good work, but that maybe she's beenin the lab too long, telling a patient about to be wheeled into surgery thathe might die. Diane defends herself, explaining that she just wanted to makesure he understood the risks. She goes on to tell Aaron, "Look, I don't meanto interfere but I've spent a lot of time in AIDS research and I know twothings: dying people will try anything, and it's never the patient'sdecision. The patient is desperate; he's looking to be steered by thedoctor." When Jeffrey asks if she thinks they're steering him, she answers,"I think experimental procedures are very exciting. Excitement can becontagious." Aaron finally walks off in disgust, returning to Tannen's room.He tells Mr. Tannen that he wants to be sure he knows that this operation isa monumental risk, and that there is a very real possibility he won't surviveit. Tannen wonders if Aaron is suddenly nervous, but Aaron assures him thathe wants to be positive that Tannen understands. All Tannen knows is thathe's positive he won't survive without it for more than a year, and that hewants to live more than a year. He and Mrs. Tannen kiss tenderly, as Aaronand Jeffrey look away, not wanting to intrude on their private moment. As Jeffrey is doing the first part of the procedure, Aaron and Camille arewaiting in the scrub room. Aaron is nervous, and Camille knows it, asking,"Can you do this?" Aaron answers that he doesn't know, and when Camille tellshim he looks scared, he admits his fear. In the OR, Jeffrey completes thefirst part of the job, then turns it over to Jeffrey (to the tune of the FourSeasons singing "I've Got You Under My Skin"). Aaron finds the aneurysm, andtells Jeffrey that he can stop the heart anytime he wants. Jeffrey does so,and Aaron clips the aneurysm. All seems to go well until both procedures aredone and it's time for the heart to come off bypass. Nothing happens, andJeffrey shocks the heart with the paddles once, then again. Nervously,Jeffrey and Aaron are looking at each other, willing the treatment to work.After Camille insists, "This is going to work," Aaron nods his head, Jeffreyshocks the heart a third time, and the heart starts beating. In post-op recovery, Jeffrey and Aaron are asking Mr. Tannen to move hisfingers, then to wiggle his toes, but he can't. They push him to try, and hefinally wiggles his toes. Aaron asks him, "How about your name? Do you knowyour name?" When they get the response they were looking for, it begins toappear that the procedures have worked, and Jeffrey and Aaron shake handsacross Mr. Tannen's bed. But all is not well. Running into Tannen's room later, Aaron and Jeffrey findMrs. Tannen sobbing on Camille's shoulder, and learn that Mr. Tannen hasdied, apparently of a massive myocardial infarction. Stunned, angry andsickened, Geiger calls out to Mrs. Tannen, "I am so sorry. I'm so sorry."With tears in her eyes, Mrs. Tannen looks up at Aaron and Jeffrey saying,"Thank you. I know you both did everything humanly possible. I will neverforget. Because of you, I know he died with hope. I will always be grateful." PLOT TWO: ORDINARY PEOPLE.After Dr. Dennis Hancock treats one of his elderly patients and walks herout, he notices Jonathan Saunders, the HMO representative, in the waitingroom. Walking back into his office, Hancock asks Saunders why the HMO isterminating their contract with him, adding that 80% of his practice can'tsee him anymore. Saunders realizes that if Hancock isn't HMO-approved,Hancock's patients can't come to see him, but tosses his concerns aside,telling Hancock that there are plenty of other doctors they can see. WhenHancock questions the quality of care those other doctors might give,Saunders is ready with a retort: "Maybe they're simply more cost conscious,allowing them to offer treatment to people who might not otherwise get it." Hancock, Phillip Watters and Alan Birch are discussing the HMO's terminationof its contract with Hancock. Alan offers his opinion that the contract isbinding, and there is no recourse because the terms of the contract areunilateral, that is, the HMO can terminate the contract by giving 30 daysnotice to Dr. Hancock. He adds that he would love -- love -- to take a shotat them and nail them for bad faith, going on to say that HMOs givesweetheart deals to doctors, then once they've got all his patients on board,they dump the doctor. Watters tells him to go for it. In court, Saunders is telling Judge Harold Aldrich, "A contract is a contractis a contract." Alan interrupts, saying, "Except when vitiated by badfaith." Judge Aldrich stops Alan, yelling, "I don't like that word'vitiate.' It's a word only lawyers use. If regular people said vitiate everyonce in a while, that'd be one thing. But they don't. Normal people justdon't walk around saying vitiate. Only lawyers. And I hate the word." Birchtells Judge Aldrich that the HMO entered into the contract with Hancock withpromises that he could treat his patients as he saw fit. Now, after he'sbuilt up his practice mostly with HMO patients, and with Hancock dependentupon the HMO for his practice, they tell him to cut costs or else, and whenhe doesn't do that they fire him, arguing that the HMO's actions constitutebad faith. The Judge wants to hear from Hancock, who testifies that he agreed to lowerhis rates to continue seeing his patients after the HMO enrolled them. Healso says that he agreed to lower his rates, not the quality of care, andthat everything he does he has to be approved -- x-rays, a consult, anything.He tells the court that when the bean counters have to pull up guidelines tosee if his wheezing patient needs a tank of oxygen, he has a problem. The HMOtold him he could treat patients as he saw fit, and at first he could. Thensix months later, with 80% of his practice HMO patients, they start with thesqueeze, ". . . . no x-rays, no consults, no ultrasound, let's go with thecheap antibiotics. You force me to give less treatment, inferior treatment,and it stinks." When Saunders objects to the characterization and theinflammatory nature of Hancock's words, Birch pipes up, "Everyday word,Judge." The judge asks him what he's talking about. "Stinks. Everyday word.Used by regular people, not just lawyers." Judge Aldrich can only growl. In cross examining Hancock, Saunders brings out facts proving that HMOs canhelp people and at lower costs. Hancock doesn't dispute the good that HMOs ingeneral can do; his problem is with non-health care workers making medicaldecisions and dictating what treatment should be prescribed. Addressing thecourt, Saunders says, "Millions of dollars are wasted routinely. HMOs try toreduce waste, which Hancock knew when he signed the contract." Saunderscontinues asking rhetorical questions: "We should leave all the decisions tothe physicians, like it's always been, because health care works so welltoday, doesn't it? Because physicians police each other very well, we shouldjust leave well enough alone?" The Judge has made his decision, however, and denies Hancock's petition for atemporary restraining order. PLOT THREE: THROUGH THE LOOKING GLASS.Being treated for his hockey-related injury, Kronk is pumping Geri fordetails, insisting that he knows Geri enlarged Annie's breasts. Afterwards,Billy goes to wash his face and leaves Annie alone with Geri, who assuresAnnie that she didn't tell him anything. Annie wonders if she should tellhim, and Geri asks Annie if they're serious, saying, "If this is just anaffair, I'd say don't tell him but if this is, you know, if this man is yourfuture . . . " Annie is left to wonder how in the world she can tell herboyfriend she used to be a man. While Annie visits Kronk in his office, we learn that when they met, Billyhad thought he'd played hockey with her brother, Andy. Annie tells him shelikes him a lot -- maybe even loves him, a little -- but that she has to behonest with him. Billy reveals that he knows about her breast implants, butthat he doesn't have a problem "with that kind of stuff." Knowing what shemust say, but struggling with her words, Annie opens the door by tellingBilly that he never played hockey with her brother, that his defense partnerwas her. To Billy's amazement, Annie finally announces that when she was 12,her name was Andy, but now she's Annie, and she's had a sex change operation.Learning that Geri had performed the surgery, Billy is even moreflabbergasted, wanting to know who else knows. "I am just a bit homophobic tobegin with. My God, I've slept with you. We were like the two high scorers onthe team, you were No. 2 in penalty minutes in the league and I've had sexwith you. I'm a doctor, how could I not know?" Although he says he could havehandled her being married, even being a criminal, he's completely revolted bythe fact that she used to have a penis. Annie insists that Billy fell in lovewith whom she is, not who she used to be, but Billy doesn't see it as thatsimple, just because it's not that simple. Running into Geri, Billy starts to ask her how it all happened, but thendoesn't really want to know. Geri tries to tell Billy that Annie was only afreak when she was a man, but Billy wants no part of this "very politicallycorrect" conversation because he slept with "it." Telling him, "Okay, fromme, the doctor -- she suffered from gender dysphoria syndrome, an innateabnormality which results in a female person being trapped in a male body.Through therapy and estrogen and finally surgery it's been corrected. Annieis a woman. Now, me, as your friend, I don't know what your feelings were orare for her, but I do know that love is love." Billy can't believe he couldlook at her without throwing up, but Geri encourages him to give this thing achance. When he answers, "That's the problem. I don't know what this thingis. Freak, mutant, you tell me? How could I possibly be with that?" Geri,walking away, responds, "Fine. I was feeling bad for her, but now I kindafeel sorry for you." FINALE: THE MAN IN THE MIRROR.Dr. Hancock is again treating his elderly patient when she tells him she'sheard he's leaving. Dennis confirms that he's going to CH and that anotherdoctor will be coming in. His patient wants to know, "Who's going to know allthese things about me? How my jawbone gives me headaches and how I burp worsein the winter. Do I gotta go through all this stuff with the new doctor?"Dennis tells her that Chicago Hope is starting a new outpatient clinic, andthat although tecnically her HMO plan doesn't qualify, if she wants to seehim, if she doesn't like this new doctor, she should come on over and he'llget you in. She replies, "Well, that's a long way for me to travel, but I doappreciate it. You're a good doctor, Dr. Hancock, and a good man. I'll missyou." Hancock is a good doctor, and a good man, but he's caught by the redtape and bureaucracy that has become a staple of modern day health care inAmerica. Billy and Annie are talking; he isn't sure if he wants to keep seeing her.When she wants to know why he asked her to come to his office, he first sayshe doesn't know, then admits that he does know: he just wanted to see whetherhe could look at her "without feeling . . . " Annie has to supply the word,"Repulsed?" He nods, and admits it. Billy tells her that she is a fantasticwoman, and a very beautiful woman. Annie wants them to try, confessing thatshe wouldn't have told him the truth if the stakes weren't so high. Almostreluctantly, Billy seems to want to try, too. He leans over to kiss Annie,but he can't hold it, and she knows it. They both realize that it's not goingto work, that her sex change is standing in the way. Billy apologizes toAnnie, saying he wishes she hadn't told him. As Annie leaves, she says,"Well, bye." In their offices that night, Aaron is talking to Jeffrey about Ned Tannen:"We killed him. Diane Grad was right. We said all the right things to NedTannen, explained all the risks, but our tone, our body language, everythingthat oozed out of us told him to go for it because we wanted to go for it.Suspended animation, wrap around heart flap, we wanted him to say yes,Jeffrey. He had maybe a year to live, to be with his grandkids, and we tookthat year. I got to do a suspended animation procedure, you did a heart flap.We took that year." Though Aaron's tone is very matter of fact, it's clearthat he is struggling to keep his emotions in check; but tears are inJeffrey's eyes, about to pour over onto his cheeks. BEVERLY'S RANDOM THOUGHTS & OBSERVATIONS: This show seemed to be all about the doctors' self-examination, of themselvesas people, of themselves as individual doctors and of the profession itself.The final scene between Aaron and Jeffrey shows us their obviousintrospection, and Billy's feelings upon recognizing his bigotry andhomophobia were pretty obvious as well, but as usual Kelley has given us oneplotline that was more subtle: Dennis Hancock. His story begins as aclear-cut contract issue, and winds up as an indictment of our health caresystem in general. More importantly, Hancock has to acknowledge that doctorsin general are partly to blame. On shows like these, where the stars are thedoctors or the lawyers or whatever, I root for the stars to be the good guys,but when an episode comes along and shows me their "feet of clay," it wakesme up. Thus, for my money, the most telling dialogue belonged to JudgeAldrich in handing down his decision: "This is capitalism. Greed is what drives us all. Now, greed is wonderful,greed works. Certainly the public's upset that we can't do a damn thing abouthealth care. We've watched them wobble in Washington, like impotent flaccidlittle rats drowning in hypocrisy and incompetence. The only way that we caninsure the welfare of the nation's people is to make that welfare aprofitable enterprise, and that's why we have HMOs, Mr. Birch, because greedworks. Dr. Hancock, you had to know how HMOs do business when you signed thatcontract, so the petition for the temporary restraining order is denied. GodBless the United States of America. Adjourned." (Having said all that, I still think that Hancock has a cause of action andthe right to an appeal. But I'm not going to get into all that lawyer stuff.If someone wants to correspond with me privately on this issue, let's do it,but I didn't want to bring it to the group as a whole becausecontract law is pretty bizarre, as a whole.) For the first time I'm beginning to wonder if Geiger has lost his edge,especially since during the "Previously on Chicago Hope" portion they reranAlan's speech to Jeffrey saying that he's not angry any more and that hisanger is what made him brilliant. Also, Jeffrey's facial expressions duringthe procedure (he seemed almost unsure of himself) and how reactions toAaron's thoughts in the last scene contribute to this. I have a feeling wehaven't heard the coda to this episode or plotline. Great take: When Aaron comes into Jeffrey's office to tell him he's found away to help Mr. Tannen, and Jeffrey is standing behind the door, Aaron lookedscared to death for real. Wonder if Geiger's placement behind the door was anad lib, unbeknownst to Aaron? Line of the week, Judge Aldrich to Birch and Saunders: "The last time you twoappeared before me you were toads in concert."

"Informed Consent"

In Short: Birch goes to court when Dr. Hancock is dropped from an HMO's list of providers. Shutt and Geiger offer to perform two experimental procedures simultaneaously to save an elderly patient. Dr. Kronk finds out that his new girlfriend has been keeping an important fact about herself a secret.

Guest Starring: Diane Venora (as Dr. Geri Infante), Peter Berg (as Dr. Billy Kronk), Janye Brook (as Dr. Diane Grad), Vondie Curtis-Hall (as Dr. Dennis Hancock), Stephen Elliott (as Harold Aldrich), Mia Sara (as Annie Ruemann), Carroll Baker (as Sylvie Tannen), Allan Rich (as Ned Tannen), Ken Lerner (as Jonathan Saunders), Montrose Hagins and Darryl Rocky Davis

Story: David E. Kelley and Kim Newton
Teleplay: David E. Kelley, John Tinker and Dennis Cooper
Directed By: Bill D'Elia

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TOP Facts:

Mia Sara appeared in many movies, she played (i.e.) opposite Mathew Broderick in "Ferris Bueller's day off" and with Melanie Griffith in "Strangers among us".

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Summary for "Internal Affairs"

CHICAGO HOPE, Season 1, Episode 1.19, "Internal Affairs"Teleplay by David E. KelleyStory by David E. Kelley and Wayne W. Grody, M.D., Pd.D.Directed by Michael DinnerOriginal air date, March 20, 1995 PRELUDE: CUTTING EDGE MEDICINE.Drs. Billy Kronk and Dennis Hancock are having a beer at the local wateringhole when the topic of Dr. Jeffrey Geiger comes up. Hancock is under theimpression that Kronk doesn't particularly like Geiger, but Kronk says hedoes, he just thinks "the man is mentally ill." Looking ahead on the road,both doctors abruptly realize that they're approaching the scene of a seriouscar wreck; one vehicle is on fire and a man is trapped inside another.Stopping the vehicle, Billy gets out and trots over to the trapped man, asHancock arrives behind him, finding one victim already on a stretcher, dead.Quickly evaluating the man in the car, Kronk asks the paramedics for thevictim's vital signs and learns that among other things, the man's leg istrapped. Kronk finds a pulse, but the trapped man has asymmetric pulses, acrushed chest and no blood pressure; on top of that, Kronk thinks he'stranssected his aorta. The victim will die if they can't get him outimmediately, but the police and paramedics tell Kronk it will take time --the one thing this man doesn't have. Billy has a solution: amputate the man'strapped leg. At first Hancock can't believe what Billy is planning; whenBilly explains the situation and his reasoning, Hancock, standing in the doorof the car, wavers. Billy asks the medics to make a tight tourniquet on thevictim's leg and grabs a chain saw from a nearby fireman, directing everyoneto move out and demanding the ambulance to move closer in. A disgustedpoliceman, Officer Plum, tries to stop Kronk. Billy orders him to move out ofthe way, and Hancock, finally giving Kronk his tacit support, does the same.Billy revs up the chain saw, steps in, and starts cutting as blood flies overhis face, neck and chest. PLOT ONE: KICKIN' ASS AND TAKIN' NAMESBilly arrives at Chicago Hope with the accident victim and his amputated leg.Other members of the hospital staff take the patient to surgery, as Billyhands the leg off to Dr. Danny Nyland. Geiger is ready and waiting for thevictim in the OR. The leg is probably too crushed for reattachment, but Billyasks Nyland to put it on ice anyway and to have a vascular specialistavailable. Turning to head for his patient's surgery, Billy runs into Officer Plum, whoarrests him for suspicion of drunk driving. Kronk is amazed: "What? Are youout of your puny little mind?" Officer Plum smells alcohol on Billy's breathand wants Billy to come to the station house for a breathalyser test. "Theonly reason I didn't take you down before is because you were saving thatguy." As the cop drags him away, Billy turns to Nyland, "Danny, call theEel." In surgery, Geiger is operating on the amputee, Hancock standing by. Dr.Phillip Watters, scrubbed and ready, enters the OR and when he asks Geiger ifhe needs any help, Geiger answers that he'd had to put a graft in thepatient's aorta. Incredulous at Billy's chain saw technique, Jeffreycomments, "Lucky man, Mr. Whoever." Watters answers, "Mr. Sagonner." Jeffreyrepeats the name:"Sagonner," with a flash of recognition. Watters continues,"He's not going to feel so lucky in the morning. You see, he's a footballplayer, the Bears' 3rd round draft pick. He's in town for rookie camp. He'sthe kicker." It's all Jeffrey can do not to burst out laughing at the ironyof his patient's situation. At the station house, Billy passes the breathalyser test, to Alan Birch'srelief. Even so, Billy wants to challenge Plum, approaching him with, "Youknow what?" Alan wraps his arms around Billy and forces him out of thestation house saying, "Billy, your lips do not move in here. Let's be gone.Officer Plum will never know 'what'." Phillip and Alan want to know how many beers Hancock and Billy'd had. Dennistells them they split a pitcher -- two beers each, tops. Alan reveals thatthe district attorney is evidently investigating, but he's sure nothing willcome of it. When Phillip asks Dennis if, in his own mind, Billy was justifiedin using the chain saw, Dennis wavers again, "The guy had minutes to live,his pressure was ..." Phillip just wants a yes or no answer; Dennis answers,"Yes," even then seeming to falter. Dennis will need to tell that to thedistrict attorney, and Dennis agrees, still somewhat hesitant, "Okay. Okay.He was justified. It needed to be done." Phillip finally asks the importantquestion, "Why didn't you think to do it? Would you have made the samechoice?" Following Sagonner's surgery, Hancock stops in to visit him. Sagonner, notknowing all the circumstances, complains that his leg and foot hurt. It's upto Hancock to break the news that they'd had to amputate his leg, just abovethe knee, in order to free him from the wreckage, and that he is experiencingphantom pain. Dazed, John finally lifts the bed sheet to see what remains ofhis leg. Hancock tries to explain that it was the only way to save him. Kronk, Hancock and Alan meet with the district attorney, who grills Kronkabout the incident and whether he'd tried to examine other possibilities.Billy is hostile, and the district attorney makes it clear that his attitudeisn't helping. Hancock interrupts her, "I think the hostility is wellmotivated; we didn't have to go to Mr. Sagonner's rescue, but we did. Andbecause we did, Mr. Sagonner is still alive. If this man didn't pick up thatchain saw, Mr. John Sagonner would be dead now. How do you think it feelshaving to account for ourselves to the district attorney?" Protesting thatshe also has a job to do, Dennis asks, "Yeah? And what is it? To make surethe next time we see an accident we just keep driving by? If that's itmission accomplished." Later, a cheerful Billy tells Dennis that the district attorney won't befiling any charges. Dennis doesn't seem to be quite as thrilled with thenews, and when Billy asks him if there's is a problem, Dennis tells him, "Youwere a little quick to pick up that saw, Billy. I'm not saying you didn'tmake the right call. But you could've looked for a knife to cut to the bonefirst, could have minimized infection, certainly would've made it easier forortho to close the wound." Billy is offended, reminding Dennis that he'd hadmaybe two minutes to free John Sagonner. Dennis seems to agree, in a way,telling Billy that he's sure Billy did the right thing, but, "You just seemedto be having too much fun." Passing by John's room, Billy finds him doing arm pushups between two chairs,already training. Kronk tries to stop John (after all, he just had his aortarepaired), but John insists that his heart is fine. John learns that Kronk isthe one who cut off his leg, tells him he'd rather have died, and punchesKronk in the nose. Hopping around on one leg, John wants to fight "the bigman with the chain saw. I'll take you on one leg. Big man with the powertools." Orderlies finally arrive and fight John back into bed while Kronkchecks his nose: "Son of a bitch reminds me of me." The next day, Billy checks on John, who tells Billy that he wants the foot,but Billy doesn't understand why. John explains, "Money. Look, I'm not proud,I've gotta make a living, which I thought I'd be doing kicking field goals,only now I won't. At least until I make a comeback with that prostheticthing." One of the tabloids has offered John $100,000 to pose with the foot,smiling nostalgically and remembering the 52-yard field goal he'd kicked inthe Cotton Bowl. John knows it's sick but it pays the bills. And they wantKronk, "Doc Hacksaw," in the picture. When Billy hesitates, John is offended,"What? You can cut my leg off but you can't pose for a lousy snapshot?"Leaving the room, Billy tells John maybe he'll do it, as John calls afterhim, "Hey, doc, just wear your blue doctor suit. They say the white one don'tphotograph good." Apparently Billy has decided to go through with the photo session. John holdsup a prosthetic leg, while Billy hoists a chain saw for the photographer.Walking by, Dennis stops in amazement, "You've got to be kidding?" He andBilly leave John's room, where Dennis asks Billy what he's doing. Billyexplains that he agreed to the photos to help John make some money, and thathe didn't make a cent, but Hancock snorts in disgust. Irritated, Billyreminds Dennis that he saved a kid's life, and that's what matters. Billy iswhat matters to Dennis: "You got something goin' on inside, man. Thefighting, the chain saw, since you came to this hospital ..." Billy deniesthat anything is wrong, while Dennis wonders out loud if Billy has some sortof conformity crisis, telling him, "Look, if you don't want to fit in, fine."Kronk grows even more annoyed, telling his friend, "Why don't you borrowKadalski's guitar and sing to me." With Hancock's final words, "You don'tneed to run around proving you don't fit in," still hanging in the air,Hancock turns and leaves, then Billy gets on the elevator with the chain saw,startling a technician. PLOT TWO: SEIZE THE DAY!While Billy is being dragged away by Officer Plum, paramedics brings anotherpatient to the trauma center, a young woman complaining of chest pains,headache and high blood pressure. Nyland, realizing the patient is his formergirlfriend, Allison, takes her to the cardiac examining area, promising totake good care of her. In the CCU following tests, Danny and Jeffrey Geiger talk to Allison, whoinsists that she feels fine. A former nurse, she knows that hospitals want tokeep their beds filled, but still calls Danny "sweetheart." Geiger remindsher that, "It is not normal to have chest pains and hypertension on a weeklybasis. That we don't know what your ailment is does not mean you're notsick." Danny leans in and kisses her lightly, again assuring her that he'll takegood care of her, then she reaches up and kisses him full on the lips. Leaving Allison's room, Geiger asks, "What's with the kiss?" Danny admitsthat he and Allison used to be a couple. Geiger isn't completely surprised:"Right, your little nurse fetish. Schedule an MRI. With these symptoms whoknows what she's got. Could be intercranial lesions, something renal, even aprimary cardiac abnormality. She take drugs?" When Danny says she doesn'ttake drugs that he knows of, Geiger raises his voice: "Well, ask thequestion. Do a toxicity test and stop kissing her. She's a patient now." All the test results are in, but Nyland can't believe Geiger's diagnosis --in fact he thinks "it's a little bit from Mars." An orderly returns Allisonto her room while the two doctors argue. Geiger thinks she haspheochromocytoma, a tumor that secretes adrenalin, also known as epinephrine,causing the severe headaches and the high blood pressure. Unfortunately,though such tumors are typically found in the adrenal glands, they can't besure since her X-rays don't show anything. Her catheritization did revealthat the epinephrine levels in her right renal vein are double those in theleft. Recognizing the fear on her face, Nyland assures Allison that he willpersonally review the test results. After Geiger leaves her room, Allisonreflects that as a nurse she'd always wondered what it would be like to be onthe other side; she certainly knows now. Once again Danny promises to takecare of her; she tells him, "You always did," kissing him again. As theypart, Maggie stomps into Allison's room, asking "Everything okay here? Pillowneed fluffing?" Sensing the tension in the room, Allison asks if she'smissing something. Danny answers, "No, Nurse Atkisson is one of our morethorough nurses. She's just ever diligent." Danny returns to Allison's room to confirm Geiger's diagnosis, telling herthat her only option is surgery to remove the entire right adrenal gland.Nyland will do the procedure, along with Geiger. Allison seems resigned,telling Nyland, "I guess I'll have to trust you. You're the doctor." Nylanddoes the procedure, assisted by Geiger, but after surgery, Allison suffersanother attack of chest pains. Danny attends her with assuring words again,"Okay, honey, I've got you. Lie calm, I've got you." Nyland, reviewing Allison's test results with Geiger, knows there's aproblem, but Geiger wonders if it could have been triggered by the procedureitself. Pathology had found no evidence of a tumor in the gland they tookout, and another test just showed that Allison is still putting outepinephrine metabolites. Geiger is stunned when Danny says, "The tumor isstill in her. It must be in the left gland," even though the right gland'sepinephrine levels were elevated, not the left. Danny finally accuses Jeffreyof removing the wrong gland, but Geiger answers that he was just assisting.Nyland won't back down: "Yeah, but you took it out and you said it was theright gland and you were so proud of your diagnosis, so why don't you takeresponsibility for your diagnosis, doctor?" Geiger won't hear of it,answering, "It was your operation. It's your malpractice, not mine." Geiger and Nyland have to tell Allison that she needs another operation toremove the left gland. Incredulous, Allison says flatly, "You took out thewrong gland." She reminds Danny of his promise to take care of her, which hereiterates. When Geiger leaves the room, head down, Danny promises, "We'regoing to fix you, Allie. I will." Her only question now is when will she havethe operation. After Geiger leaves Allison's room, Alan Birch stops him in the hallway,getting right up in his face: "Wait, whoa, whoa, whoa, whoa, what do you meanyou have to take out her other gland?" Geiger, immobile, calmly says, "Pleaseget out of my eyeline," and tries to get by Alan, who won't let him pass."I'll ask you once more nicely. Please get out of my eyeline." Alan refusesto budge, wondering out loud, "How can a person live without either adrenalgland? This is not a healthy way to live." Finally, Geiger feints left, thenducks and sprints to the right, around Alan, who can only look aroundhelplessly to "Raindrops Keep Falling on My Head." Danny has also left Allison's room, and she is now alone. Grabbing herhandbag from the nightstand, she pulls out a vial and a needle, fills thehypodermic, wipes her leg with an alcohol swab and jabs herself on thesterilized spot with the needle. That afternoon, Geiger and Nyland enter Allison's room, where Geiger says,"See up there in the corner? There's a camera. It records things that go onin the CCU. It's installed for the patient's protection. We got someinteresting footage today." Danny goes for her handbag as she tries to stophim, but he finds a vial of epinephrine in her purse. Geiger walks to thehead of her bed, leaning over the pillow right near her face: "That's why thetumor didn't show up on X-rays. You don't have a tumor. You're a wacko." PLOT THREE: A REAL NO-BRAINER (sorry; I couldn't resist).Stephen and Barbara Tomilson, friends of the Shutts, are with Aaron andCamille in Aaron's office. Stephen has Parkinson's disease, and his healthhas declined to the point where he's in a wheelchair pretty much all thetime. His speech is degenerating, along with pretty much everything else.Reluctantly, Stephen tells Aaron that he wants a fetal tissue transplant, anextreme measure, although he knows the risks. Aaron will have to run sometests and gather the fetal tissue, but he won't be able to get any tissue --Stephen also suffers from hypertension, which disqualifies him as a suitablecandidate for a transplant, but they've procured their own donor fetus.Barbara reveals that she is pregnant. Stunned, Camille tells them it'sillegal, but they have a court order. The judge ruled that the NIH guidelineswere in violation of precedent law, so they can legally use Barbara's fetaltissue for the transplant, and they want to. Camille is paralyzed, and Aaroncan only answer, "Uh huh." Camille and Barbara are in Barbara's room, and while she unpacks, she tellsCamille that she feels like a criminal and asks Camille, "Why are you makingme feel like one?" Camille is wondering, if her friend had planned onaborting from the beginning, why they waited, since Barbara is nearly threemonths pregnant, but Barbara explains that it takes time to get a courtorder. Barbara, with tears in her eyes, can only say, "I am doing everythingI can to give Stephen a chance. Our kids need ... " The sentence is leftunfinished, and Camille fills the gap, "Hey, you don't have to make anyapologies. Certainly not to me." Meeting with Stephen, Aaron tells him that all the tests have been done andthe tissue match looks good. It will take a day to harvest the fetus but he'sready. Stephen asks how the transplant actually works, and Aaron outlines theprocess, "We inject the fetal brain cells directly into your brain and thenthe new cells start producing dopamine which is the chemical that controlsmotor control." Philip, entering the men's room, hears Alan singing "Raindrops Keep FallingOn My Head." Opening a stall door, he finds Alan sitting on the throne, fullyclothed, head laying on the TP dispenser, singing. Alan looks up, "I sing itwhen I feel stress, all right? When it becomes acute I do it in here becausethe acoustics are better, so don't look at me with incredulity because allthat's important is that I remain functional." Phillip asks Alan why he'sunder so much stress, and Alan rants and raves over the various goings-on atChicago Hope, one of which is the fetal tissue transplant, the first timePhillip's heard of it. An enraged Watters faces Aaron in his office, yelling, "You're not going todo this ... It's against the law!" Aaron points out that they have a courtorder, but Phillip insists that there's a difference between using a fetusand harvesting one, that this is obscene. Despite Aaron's argument, Philliprefuses to permit Aaron to go through with the procedure. Aaron has to tell Stephen and Barbara that Phillip has refused permission forthe procedure. There is still a chance that the Internal Review Board willgrant permission in tomorrow's meeting, but Aaron reminds them that what theyare doing violates almost every rule of fetal tissue transplant, an alreadycontroversial issue. Even the court order, where a judge has made anexception and overruled all the guidelines, cannot force a hospital to gothrough with it. Aaron will know after the IRB meeting, and if they say yes,he will be ready to go. Leaving Stephen and Barbara, Camille and Aaron walk together through thehallways, and Camille tells him that if the IRB approves the procedure, shedoesn't want to be in on the transplant. When Aaron asks if there's anyparticular reason, she reluctantly explains that she'd seen the ultrasound,leaving unspoken words hanging in the air. In the Internal Review Board meeting, Aaron is telling his peers that Stephencannot get any other fetus, and that no one will even put him on a list.Though Phillip insists that isn't the point, Aaron counters that, "He coulddie from this disease, that's very much the point." With a court order, allthe NIH guidelines have been overcome, but Phillip feels that by doing theprocedure, Chicago Hope would be rewarding someone for having an abortion, which is immoral. Aaron claims that neither the hospital nor the doctorsshould be occupied in setting moral policy, finally charging that Phillip, asChief of Staff, is imposing his Catholic beliefs upon the staff. DespitePhillip's denial, Aaron brings up Phillip's actions with the anencephalicbaby. Enraged, Phillip answers back, "And as a doctor you always come down onthe side of 'do the procedure.' Do the procedure. Justified the suspendedanimation last week, didn't you Aaron? 'Do the procedure.' Patient's dead!Maybe I've got a moral problem with that." Once again, Aaron and Phillipnearly come to blows, Phillip daring Aaron to take a swing at him, when DianeGrad insists on speaking her mind -- they're not dealing with a normalsituation, but one in which a patient has no other means of finding help, andin which a court order would permit them to go forward with the transplantand still not risk their grants and funding. Diane reminds everyone that as aresearcher, she'd be the last person to risk the hospital's credibility, butthat Stephen's health has to take precedent over Phillip's moral or ethicalintegrity, especially in light of the aberrational nature of this particularsituation. "Our reputation will survive," she says. "Without this transplant,Stephen Tomilson won't." As Aaron smugly listens, Phillip, defeated, yells,"Fine. Blood's on your hands, not mine." He leaves, slamming the door behindhim. Camille returns to Barbara's room to tell her that Aaron will be doing thetransplant for Stephen. In the meantime, Barbara has learned that Camillerefuses to participate. Camille can't believe that Barbara expects her to beinvolved, although Barbara believes she gave Camille a way out earlier,wishing she'd taken it then, "instead of waiting to blind side me." Barbarareminds Camille that she'd been there for her, which Camille acknowledges --and that Barbara got her through it. Barbara asks Camille if she's over it;Camille tells her no, even though her life has gone on, and most days shedoesn't even think about it. Barbara asks Camille if she regrets it,confessing her fear that she won't be able to get over what she's about todo, but Camille comforts her, telling her that she will. Crying openly,Barbara tells Camille that she has to remind herself not to get attached: "Ican't bear to think of it as a he or a she, it has to be an it. That's theonly way I can get through this. I'm at three months, Camille .... I can feelit. Stephen can't even put his hands on my stomach. It has to be an it. Ithas to be an it." Barbara is on her way to surgery, Camille walking alongside the gurney,holding her hand, when Aaron stops to wish Barbara good luck. As the gurneyrolls away, Camille tells Barbara she'll be there in a moment, to Aaron'ssurprise, who thought that Camille was against the whole procedure. Sheadmits that she is, but that she needs to be at Barbara's side, becauseBarbara can't go through this alone. Even though Stephen will be with her,Camille thinks Barbara will need more than that. Hearing Camille say this,Aaron asks, "You needed more, didn't you? From me?" Despite Camille'sassurances that he was great, ".... you don't know what it's like to have alife grow inside of you. And trust me you couldn't know what it's like to beup in those stirrups while some doctor .... there are certainly experiencesthe male species is spared. She needs me holding her hand." Aaronacknowledges that it was "a very painful experience for both of us. Now, I'mworried that if you go into that room, it's going to bring up all kinds ofthings that ... Can you do this?" Camille answers, "Umm hmm. She needs methere, I know that. And as for things coming up, we both wanted to pretend itdidn't happen. We never really talked or ... maybe we need things to comeup." Aaron nods his head imperceptibly as Camille walks away, towardsBarbara's abortion. FINALE: DENIAL IS NOT A RIVER IN EGYPT.Danny, sitting on Allison's bed, asks her, "What if we had taken out thesecond adrenal gland? Do you know how sick you would've become?" Allisonanswers, "I can see how much you care. I know you never stopped loving me,Danny." When Danny tells her that she has a psychological disorder calledMunchausen's syndrome, a disorder that causes people to fake their symptomsin order to get attention, she insists that she's better now and won't do itagain. But Danny knows Allison is a sick young woman: "You're not better.You're very, very sick, mentally sick. You knew exactly what you were doingdidn't you. You knew that we would think tumor. You knew the epinephrinewould send us scurrying." Allison persists, "I won't do it anymore. I'mbetter just being with you again. I won't do it anymore. Just hold me, Danny.Hold me." He allows her to put her arms around him, and sits, a reluctant yettemporary prisoner. In the bar, Watters is playing a video game. Diane Grad approaches him, toPhillip's surprise: "What are you doing here?" Diane reminds him, "It's notboys' night out. We were all invited. I can go get a beer just like anybodyelse." When Phillips asks if she's spying on him, she answers, "I wasn'ttrying to undermine you, Phillip. I do hope you know that." Phillip is stillupset, but less so than when he left the IRB meeting: "A hospital can have aconscience. This crap about us being neutral robots, no emotions, no morals,it's a lot of crap. A hospital should have a conscience." Diane tells him shethinks this one does. He asks if he can buy her a beer, and she accepts. At the bar, Danny is tortured, thinking he should have known what Allison wasdoing. Geiger knows that she fooled everyone, "She's a nurse, she has medicalknow-how. And she's sick. Very sick. But a good kisser." Kronk arrives andsays to Dennis, "Umm, I've been thinking about stuff and you might be right.I'm sorry." Geiger immediately wants to know, "Sorry about what?" Dennis putshim off, "Nothing." Geiger is insistent, "What nothing? He says sorry, I gota right to know. Sorry about what?" Finally, Billy asks about Alan, since hewas going to meet everyone there. Geiger says he told Alan, "unless I saidthe Dugout. Maybe I told him the Puddle, no, I said the Puddle ....." We lastsee Alan at the Dugout, sitting alone at a large table covered with frostedmugs, a full pitcher of beer at his elbow. Barbara is in the operating room, ready to abort her fetus, with Stephen andCamille on either side of her. The attending physician tells Barbara thatshe'll hear the vacuum operating and that she'll feel a lot of pressure. Theprocedure has begun. The following day, as Aaron transplants the fetal tissue from Barbara's wombinto Stephen's brain, Camille and Barbara watch from the theater. They don'tseem capable of speaking, only watching, their hands clasped togethertightly, trying not to feel -- anything. RANDOM THOUGHTS & OBSERVATIONS: An excellent episode, second only to "Quarantine," with three strongplotlines and not one, but three secondary subplots (Kronk's nonconformity,Alan's loneliness and stress, and Phillip's morality). And again one threadruns through the entire episode: for me, it was denial -- Allison's denialthat she's a sick young woman; John Sagonner's denial that he is now anamputee and will never kick again; Kronk's denial that he's "got somethinggoing on inside"; and the Tomilson's belief that they can carry out theirplans with a minimum of negative emotion (at least, I thought that wasimplied throughout their story line). We're given two very strong viewpoints on the fetal tissue transplant issue,but once again Kelley leaves it in our hands to decide for ourselves how wefeel about the issue in general. We've also got ourselves a mystery! There has been a lot of speculation asto what happened to Camille: did she have an abortion? A miscarriage? What?When? Where was Aaron? And most importantly, why? There are clues: Camille'sobvious reluctance to be involved in the transplant or the abortion in anyway; the conversation between Camille and Barbara and Barbara's questions toCamille -- "Do you regret it?" and "Are you over it?" -- as well as Camille'swords to Barbara, "You get over it; you just do." Delicious irony in the interaction between Officer Plum and Billy Kronk: thecop would let Billy, smelling of beer, amputate a man's leg with a chain saw,but then arrests him for suspicion of drunk driving. I knew Allison was up to something and that she was really playing on Danny'ssympathy for her in an effort to regain his affections, but the needle in theleg really caught me by surprise. At first I wondered if Danny had ignoredGeiger's instructions to run a toxicity test, which would have meant that shecould have been taking narcotics, but the epinephrine soon became evident.Also, magnificent and subtle camera work (and editing) with the overhead shotturning to black and white (also used in the photo shoot with John Sagonnerand Billy Kronk; very clever). I liked the fact that Geiger referred to Nyland's injured hand -- "Firstprocedure since your fingers healed." The continuity was welcome. Sometimes Hancock seems very sure of himself on any given matter to beginwith, but his certainty seems to waver later on. Here he vacillated over hisdecision to back Billy, but this trait has also been evident in otherepisodes, IMHO. I like to figure out if the music that Geiger plays in the operating roombears any relation to the story line. Here, we had him operating to the tuneof "The Way You Do the Things You Do" while operating on Allison; well, shecertainly does certain things a certain way -- like manipulate, lie, etc. AndGeiger was operating on Sagonner while listening to "Give Me Money," whichSagonner won't have much of any more. The interaction between Nyland and Geiger during their argument over whoperformed the procedure and removed the wrong gland was interesting; each onewas trying to cover his own ass. Is this a commentary on medical care ingeneral? I thought Geiger looked ashamed twice, both in the scene Allison when he andNyland had to tell her that she needed another operation, and immediatelyafter that when he met Alan in the hallway. We saw Geiger make an athletic move -- feint, duck and run -- although hetold Phillip (in the boxing gym) that he's not athletic. Of course, we knowbetter (that Mandy Patinkin is much more athletically inclined and built thatGeiger appears to be). Wonderful Pythonesque scene with Sagonner trying to vent his wrath on Billy,hopping around on one leg. ("Come back and fight you coward! It's only aflesh wound!") Lastly, I felt that Barbara was using her friendship with Camille toblackmail her into (1) not condemning her and/or giving her implied approvalto the Tomilson's plans, and (2) being present for the abortion. Just basedon my personal experience, if you're going to be there for someone, you don'tthrow it back up in their faces at some later point hoping to get what youneed and/or want (although I recognize that Barbara seemed to be caught, atleast in her own heart and her own mind, between a rock and a hard place). Minor points: How come Kronk hardly ever wears any hospital ID? I know he's anonconformist but ... If the camera in CCU caught Allison the last time she shot herself up, howdid she have another episode after surgery without being caught on camera? Why didn't Stephen know how the transplant worked? He knew all the risks andwhat he had to do to get the tissue. The writers probably felt they toexplain it to us, the viewers. How could Hancock have grabbed Kadalski's guitar? He's gone! Not at ChicagoHope anymore! DIALOGUE: A brief rundown of what I felt were some of the best lines/dialogue of thisepisode: Kronk to Hancock: You heard about him eating one of Geri Infante's earrings?"Hancock: "That really happened?" "Yes it did. Sucked it into his bowels.Passed it on the throne doing the crossword puzzle." "Does she still wearit?" Yes, she wears it, and not only does she still wear it, earring, shethink's it's become more valuable, like an antique or something." "There, you happy? Maybe you'd enjoy blowing into it now." "Hey, I had tocheck, all right. You looked a little bit psycho with that chain saw." "Hesaved a man's life." "Smelling like beer." "Because He just consumed a beermoments prior to. He was not intoxicated, as your test confirms." "Fine, allright, he can go." "You know what?" "Billy, your lips do not move in here.Let's be gone. Officer Plum will never know 'what'." as Alan wraps his armsaround Billy from the back and forces him out. Maggie, "I hate it when people milk their tumors." Alan and Philip in the men's room: Alan, "I sing it when I feel stress, all right? When it becomes acute I doit in here because the acoustics are better, so don't look at me withincredulity because all that's important is that I remain functional."Phillips asks Alan why he's under so much stress, and Alan starts to rant,"Oh, that's good, Phillip. Yeah, That knocked me out, you're really ... oh,yeah. One of our doctors hacks off the leg of the Chicago Bears' place kicker...." Phillip, "Well it wasn't his kicking leg." Alan, "You think that's funny? You get my memo?" Phillip, "Yes, but this isn't a public area." Alan, "Oh, that's cute. Yeah, that's ... yeah, I can't wait for thepro-lifers to find out about Aaron's fetal tissue transplant. Your addresspublished Phillip? Because mine is. Yeah, no security gate here. No,driveway's right open. Come on in!" Phillip, "What fetal tissue transplant?" Alan, "Oh you didn't hear? Well, maybe you couldn't over the din of thechain saw. Pregnant couple comes in seeking abortion to use the fetus to cureP's disease. Yeah, it happens, P. Well, it happens here tomorrow. [startingto sing again, heading back into the stall] So I just did me some talking tothe sun, and I said I didn't like the way he got things done, sleeping on thejob ...." Geigerisms: Geiger to Kronk, grinning impishly, "With a chain saw?" Kronk, "Yeah, a chainsaw. How's he doing." Geiger, "Critical. I think he'll make it but he'skicked his last field goal." Alan, "That isn't funny. I put out a memoregarding coarse humor in public areas. Maybe you didn't get it?" Geiger,"Yes, but I'd run out of toilet paper, I had to put your memo to emergencyuse. Sharing that here was probably a violation of your directive wasn't it.Sorry, I'm chagrined. Let's wipe the slate clean. You got another memohandy?" Alan walks away in disgust, while Geiger goes in the other direction,and Kronk, looking at Geiger walking off, says, "Not respect." When Kronk arrives at the bar in the next-to-last scene and apologizes forbeing late, Geiger answers, "Tell the truth, we were enjoying your absence." Last but not least: I WANT SOME OF THOSE CHICAGO HOPE PILLOWCASES!!!!AND SURG GREENS, WORN BY GEIGER!!!!AND A MASK, DEFINITELY A GEIGER MASK, DEFINITELY!!!

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