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All I read anymore is how much ER sucks and it’s the worst show on television, blah blah blah…but it still hovers around the Top Ten each week so, why all the hatin’ going on? I still watch it…

I think ER’s great this season, but I could really, really, really do without the whole subplot with Neela having a crush on Luka. I understand the appeal and attraction of someone who is teaching you, protecting you, guiding you…and that whole authority and admiration thing but I prefer to think of Neela as asexual.

Although, I was mildly amused when she told Abby of an affair she’d had with a 3rd-year med school instructor who had a knack for doing something medicalitisthaticouldnotpronounceitis. “You still call him Doctor?” Abby asks. “Only in bed,” Neela quips back. Awww.

Abby confesses that the last time she had a case of “No pill’s gonna cure my ills” was with the Mysterious Motorcycle Man we saw her ride off with once last Spring. Bummer. She needs to hook up with her cute medical student but there’s that teacher/student thing getting in the way again. And, it’s pissing Sam off. And, Sam’s pissing me off. Lady, if you don’t trust your man, let him go.

And of course, we have the long-underdue return of County General’s Most Inept Medical Student Ever, Dr. George Henry. Chad Lowe just slipped effortlessly back into his role and…giggle…the guy’s a neurologist now! In order to proudly claim the private practice salary that is triple what he would have made at County General, he puts patients into clinical trials for drugs! The only problem is, the anti-seizure medication he put a young woman on awhile back has put her into kidney “donated by dad” failure…and…wait for it…wait for it…Dr. Death knew the drug might cause kidney failure.

He’s a dweeb, but it wasn’t intentional and Carter went all berzerko in front of Kerry and Susan and then there was some awkward scene where we played “Guess the drug’s side effects” and then Dad blew his brains out in front of Luka, Dr. Death and Carter because he couldn’t handle the guilt of his daughter being on dialysis forever and “ethically,” Carter couldn’t let the guy donate his remaining kidney. Problem solved.

So, the girl gets Dad’s remaining kidney, Susan & Carter mentally smooch and make up and it was terribly refreshing to go through an episode without having to listen to Pratt yap about a single thing.