Meanwhile, Dr. Douglas Ross (GEORGE CLOONEY) and Nurse Carol Hathaway (JULIANNA MARGULIES) try to help a young Russian girl, Tatiana (MILANA VAYNTRUB), who speaks no English. They discover that she has AIDS. Unable to cope with her daughter's illness any longer, the girl's adoptive mother (MEG FOSTER - "Cagney & Lacey") abandons her at the hospital. A humane policeman, Grabarsky (MICHAEL GENOVESE - "Falcon Crest," "The Flash"), hauls in a dog he struck with his car and pleads with the doctors to save the poor animal. They do, and Tatiana befriends the dog.

The boy (ZACHARY BROWNE) whom Ross befriended while playing basketball fakes an appendicitis attack in order to help get his single mother, Diana (LISA ZANE), and Dr. Ross together romantically. But his plan fails when Ross and Diana discover his intentions.

Finally, two prostitutes bring in a client who collapsed in a hot tub. While Dr. Mark Greene (ANTHONY EDWARDS) treats a meat-packer (STEVE EASTIN) with a meat-hook imbedded in his arm, Dr. Peter Benton (ERIQ LA SALLE) helps a senile old lady (old-time actress EDA REISS HERIN) who might remind him of his own mother.

John Carter (NOAH WYLE) treats three high school cheerleaders who ate Valentine's Day chocolates soaked in LSD. Deb (MING-NA WEN) unknowingly eats a piece of the candy and botches a cast she puts on a patient.