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In Short: A 12-year-old girl arrives for surgery to correct a severely cleft palate and suffers serious complications from another birth defect. A young nurse interferes in Dr. Shutt's care for the comotose Dr. Antonovich.
Guest Starring: Margaret Colin (as Dr. Karen Antonovich), Robin Lively (as Maggie Atkisson), Jamie Rose (as Det. Stacy Halmora), Stephen Elliott (as Judge Harold Aldrich), Diane Venora (as Dr. Geri Infante), Allen Garfield (as Dr. Ray Kadalski), Ken Lerner (as Jonathan Saunders), Christine Avila (as Mrs. Pertierra), and Jon Favreau (as Dr. Tim Carney)
Story: Dennis Cooper
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Directed By: Michael Schultz
TOP Summary:Camille tells Aaron that Karen is still alive, even though she was put on a morphine drip. Aaron tells Nurse Atkisson to turn up her morphine. She's wary--that would kill her. She tells Phillip. It has to go to the ethics committee now. Jeffrey finds someone parked in his spot; Kadalski tries to calm him down. It's Geri Infante, a former med school colleague and foe of his. She tells him she's taking a job at Chicago Hope as head of Plastics. Jeffrey complains to Phillip, who explains an expanded plastics department will bring in a lot more money. Jeri treats a young third-world girl, Juanita, who has a severely cleft palate. Camille tells Maggie euthanasia is done humanely, but it's not supposed to be talked about. Now that she's said something to Phillip, Karen can't die quietly. Danny asks Maggie out for coffee.
Jeffrey sees Geri doing a press conference and is disgusted. Saunders, the HMO guy, comes back to complain that Karen isn't dead yet. Camille tells Aaron that if he slept with Karen he shouldn't be the one trying to up her morphine. The board won't let Aaron help Karen. He tells them he'll get a court order. Saunders asks Aaron to have Karen transferred to a Texas hospital that will up her morphine. Aaron says OK, but Phillip doesn't. Alan offers to go to court for him. Juanita starts having more problems and Jeffrey has to operate on her.
Aaron tells Judge Aldrich that Karen would have wanted the morphine. Aldrich says he can't allow doctors to decide who shall live and who shall die. Alan tells him that if he gives Aaron a court order euthanasia would be brought out into the open and therefore could become better monitored. "Wrong again, pipsqueak." Saunders tries to present his case; Aldrich makes him declare he's a toad. He denies Aaron's petition. Jeffrey encounters numerous unexpected problems during surgery. Juanita dies. Aaron laments that there's no one to mourn for Karen. Yes there is, Phillip tells him.
Juanita's mother thinks her plastic surgery was done before she died so she can rest in peace. Jeri doesn't want to tell her. She tells Jeffrey this is why she went into plastics--she doesn't want to deal with people dying. Jeffrey tells her she has to tell the mother the truth. Jeri says she'll handle it. Karen finally dies. Phillip rails against Aaron, Camille, Maggie, and Alan, saying he wont have an autopsy done, but if he finds out someone upped her morphine he'll take it to the DA.
Danny and Maggie do it in the hospital. Jeffrey finds Geri doing the plastic surgery on Juanita. He lends her a hand. Aaron says goodbye to Karen. Phillip tells him he's not looking for suspects, he just has to prevent a pattern. It's best to just assume God decided it was time to take her. "Oh my God" Aaron gasps--he realizes it was Phillip. Juanita's mother says goodbye, knowing her daughter won't die cursed. Geri and Jeffrey reach a kind of peace.
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TOP Quotes:JEFFREY: Did you do it?
AARON: I didn't do it.
JEFFREY: I believe you. Are you lying?AARON: Women find all kinds of ways to leave me.
Jeffrey: I'll ask you again Geri, why are you here?
Geri: I have a case. I'm also considering an offer to be the new Chief of Plastic Surgery.
Jeffrey: What?
Geri: We might be working together, Jeffrey. Happy Day.
Geiger to Infante: "You can get into a lot of trouble operating on the dead. I know. I've done it."
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