T04:C03 - S04:E03 - Start Me Up

It’s the day that her baby Luke might take his first steps, and not only does Alex Reid have to work, she has to babysit junior resident Dr. Cassie Williams while doing it. To make matters worse, their patient, worried his colon cancer returned, isn’t too excited to have two young doctors on the case. But when things get complicated in the OR after Cassie panics and knicks a bile duct, Alex has to talk down her young charge to save their patient’s life. Meanwhile, Shahir is terrified of another heart attack after an intimate evening with his new boyfriend leads to a cardiac event. He asks Dawn to wire him with a heart monitor to observe his heart rhythm while he takes on a patient who has to put her trip to Paris to move in with her boyfriend on hold because of acute facial pain and an ibuprofen overdose. In the ER, Zach and Charlie treat a janitor who turns out to be an old friend of Joel Goran’s while Maggie, Alex, Patrick begin to jockey for position when a Fellowship prize is announced.