Doctors play many different roles in the lives of their patients.
Patients look to doctors to be healers, heroes, miracle workers, advocates, friends, spiritual guides, and educators. Doctors are taught that they should act for the benefit of their patients first and foremost. In tonight's episode of ER, a little girl with a rare blood type is in desperate need of a blood transfusion. Unfortunately for this little girl, her one potential donor, her father, leaves the hospital in the attempt to flee from the law. Armed with the knowledge that if he could find this girl's father, her life could be saved, Dr. Carter begins to scour the city of Chicago in hopes to track this man down and convince him to return to the hospital to save his dying child.