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"Dead
of Winter"
Original Air Date: January
4, 1996
Episode
Number: #37
Director: Whitney
Ransick
Writer: John Wells
Description: 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.
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