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"And
Baby Makes Two"
Original Air Date: October 19, 1995
Episode
Number: #31
Director: Lesli
Linka Glatter
Writer: Anne Kenney
Description: 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.
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