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In Short: A teenage boxer whom Dr. Watters helped train suffers a seizure. Birch lends support to a pregnant girl. Dr. Shutt is audited by the IRS and gets an unpleasant surprise.
Guest Starring: Thomas Gibson (as Dr. Daniel Nyland), Karen Ludwig (as Dr. Susan Reichert), Heather McComb (as Melissa Connel), Ivory Ocean (as Martin Sutton), Vicellous Shannon (as Lannie Sutton), Alvin Walker, Doug Yasuda, Joyce Guy and Carlease BurkeStory: John Tinker
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Directed By: Claudia Weill
TOP Summary: Drs. Phillip Watters and Jeffrey Geiger come to the aid of Lannie Sutton, an African-American teenager with aspirations of becoming a professional boxer. While sparring in the ring, Lannie suddenly suffers a seizure and stops breathing. He is rushed to the emergency room, where a chemical analysis of his blood reveals the possible presence of steroids. Lannie denies taking drugs, but admits his father gives him vitamin shots to boost his stamina. Martin, his dad, vehemently denies giving his son steroids. Watters suspects the worst and posts a guard near Lannie's door so his father cannot visit him. Alan Birch warns Watters that the hospital will be held liable if his diagnosis proves inaccurate. Lannie, outraged at the charge directed toward his father, punches Watters. But Watters insists that steroids can prove extremely damaging to the human body. Lannie is discharged from the hospital after Child Services determines that the case against Martin is shaky at best. Before he leaves the hospital, Martin tells Watters he will do whatever is necessary to give his son the advantages he needs to win. Birch becomes depressed when he fails to locate suitable adoptive parents to care for the baby of Melissa Connel, a 15-year-old pregnant girl. He helps the girl through uncomfortable moments leading up to labor. Without consulting Dr. Aaron Shutt first, Camille suggests to Birch that she and Aaron adopt the child. But the couple decides to wait and have children of their own. As Birch lends a helping hand, doctors successfully deliver Connel's infant, a healthy baby girl. Because of his closeness to Melissa before she went into labor, Birch feels a fatherly bond with the child. Meanwhile, Shutt is subjected to a grueling federal tax audit. His auditor, Mr. Grimm, finds a multitude of discrepancies in the returns — at which point Angela begins acting strangely, as if her days at the hospital are numbered. Grimm connects the missing money to Angela; she has been embezzling from Shutt, Camille and Geiger. Angela suddenly walks out of the hospital and never returns. To make matters worse, a window of the skyway tunnel suddenly implodes, spraying shattered glass inside the corridor. Birch speaks with engineers about replacing the faulty windows and learns there was an oversight in the hospital's design.
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TOP Quotes:Phillip: I miss Arthur. The old fart didn't make much sense half the time, but I could always count on him.
Jeffrey: When's he coming back?
Phillip: Soon I hope.
Jeffrey: Must be cutting grass.
Phillip: I never opened his Christmas gift. Maybe I should do that now. Let him cheer me up, in absentia. The kid was 15 years old and he's dead. I don't care how much it hurts. He killed him (re Martin Sutton, Lennie's father).
(Opening the box) Cigars. Look at that. I could always count on Arthur... You know, I feel it's in my job description to hold all you people together, but I shouldn't have to tell fathers not to give their kids steroids. I can't do everything, Jeffrey. I can't be expected to hold everything together.
Jeffrey: (whispers understandingly) No.
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