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At the beginning of the episode, Doug tardily keeps an appointment with Morganstern, who, backed up by Mark Greene and (reluctantly) Neal Bernstein, offers Doug his job back. Doug is in the public limelight now thanks to his rescue of a little boy last week, and Morganstern assesses the hospital's prestige is helped by Doug's presence. Without much visible enthusiasm, Doug accepts the offer, also acknowledging an award dinner scheduled for the evening in his honor. One of the first patients of the day is Alan, a young asthmatic boy whose guardian recognizes Doug from television. Alan's HMO wants him transferred to their care, which Doug revolts against by exaggerating Alan's condition on the chart, thus ensuring that Alan isn't going anywhere. When Mark finds out, he confronts Doug. "This cowboy crap has got to stop." He realizes the problem: "You can't take the fact that I'm your boss?" Doug replies sourly, "That's typically narcissistic of you, Mark. I can't take the fact that anyone's my boss." Later in the day, Mark and Doug clash again, over the emergency treatment of a pair of injured motorcyclists, and Mark orders Doug to go home, warning as well that he will write Doug up for his insubordination.
There isn't much to say about Susan's encounter with the "Hail Brittania"-humming Ms. Ransom, except that I expected Ms. Ransom to be another fugutive from the erstwhile Turkey File. On the other hand, I liked the meeting with her father. From Paul Dooley's brief appearance weeks ago in "And Baby Makes Two," I wasn't expecting this change of heart. Aside from the tone of hopefulness in the ending to this subplot, I think what pleased me most about it is that Susan at last has some other source of support for her Susie-related ordeals, thus freeing her up for other storylines at last. :-) PLOT THREE: IS THERE A NANNY IN THE HOUSE? A teenager named Julia is brought in as an attempted suicide by her brother Kyle. Julia swallowed two bottles of pills, it's later revealed, and she refuses to talk initially. Kyle reveals to Carol that their mother is recently deceased, and their dad "isn't around" much. Julia finally decides to talk when Carol confides in her that she too tried to kill herself with pills. Julia is pregnant, and Julia reveals that it was caused by a sexual encounter with Kyle that began when she innocently tried to comfort Kyle over their mother's death. Both Julia and Kyle are extremely uncomfortable about this incident, naturally enough. Kyle explodes when he finds out that Carol knows about it, and predicts that their gun-toting father will literally kill him when he finds out. Carol tries to assure Kyle that their situation will be treated with utmost confidence; however, Carol herself blabs about it to Lydia later, not realizing that Kyle and Julia's father is standing nearby. Security is provided for the teenagers, and Carol finds Mr. Kaslaw in the lounge. The man morosely brandishes a handgun, which Carol flinches at, but he then asks Carol to take it from him, which she gently does. Doug: "Does it include a bankstatement?" Along that subject, I hope we see more of Dr. Vuselich as well. His authoritarial presence provides a refreshing balance for the Benton & Carter show, although it'd also be nice to see Dr. Hicks again too.
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Shep Shep's, Shep Carol, Ms Ransom, Neal Bernstein, Mark Doug's, DOUBLECHECKING Carter, Mark Doug, Kyle Julia, River Phoenix, Harper Carter, ms ransom, suicide attempt, night nanny, it's plot, line week, harper carter, mark doug, little susie, julia kyle, kyle kaslaw,
Approximate Word count = 2286
Approximate Pages = 9 (250 words per page double spaced)
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