Meanwhile, Dr. Douglas Ross (GEORGE CLOONEY) risks his career when he loses his temper with the abusive parent (CHRISTOPHER DARGA) of a baby girl. Ross also helps a curious boy who got stuck between the sharp teeth of a stuffed Siberian tiger. Nurse Carol Hathaway (JULIANNA MARGULIES) and Ross are sad to see the young Russian AIDS victim, Tatiana (MILANA VAYNTRUB), leave the hospital to enter a pediatric AIDS hospice. Hathaway wants to adopt the girl, but her fianci disapproves. Ross continues to have relationship problems when he sleeps with a woman whose name he doesn't even remember.

Dr. Susan Lewis (SHERRY STRINGFIELD) tries to help a patient (JOHN CHANDLER) whose love of cigarettes hasn't abated despite his terminal lung cancer. Dr. Mark Greene (ANTHONY EDWARDS) saves the life of a teenage drug-overdose victim who's being abused by her boyfriend. Greene's marriage problems worsen when his wife, Jennifer (CHRISTINE HARNOS), announces that she'll continue to clerk in Milwaukee next year.