Season 5, Episode 7 - My Way Home
January 24, 2006

J.D.'s intern Keith, pages J.D. on his day off. J.D. rushes to the hospital and finds out that Keith could have solved a patient's medical problem on his own. Dr. Cox had set up the intern to call J.D. He tells him that he experienced the same situation when J.D. was an intern and now it's payback time. Dr. Cox has Nurse Roberts and her choir sing "payback is a bitch." J.D. tries to sneak out of the hospital but everyone asks for his help. Dr. Kelso asks him to coordinate the residents' call schedule for the next month. The intern pages J.D. again - this time for good reason. J.D. gives Turk advice on how to be honest with Turk's dying patient's family. Carla tells J.D. she doesn't have courage to go through raising a child. Elliot tells J.D. she doesn't think she's smart enough to speak at a medical seminar.

Ever since her fellowship began, Elliot loved that her interns saw her as an endocrinology expert and she uses it to her advantage. Dr. Cox can't figure out how Elliot knows so much medical jargon but is determined to find out. Meanwhile, Elliot gets her medical information by sneaking medical text book pages in and around the hospital - under tissue boxes, behind doors and in the janitor's closet. Later, to Elliot's surprise, Dr. Cox reveals all of the text book pages on the inside of his lab coat. Dr. Kelso tells Elliot to speak at an intense Q&A seminar regarding endocrinology. She goes to J.D. for advice. J.D. tests Elliot's knowledge and helps her realize that she is smart enough to speak at seminar.

Carla offers to help watch Jordan and Dr. Cox's son. After forty minutes with Jordan's son, she can't take it anymore and gives the baby to The Janitor. Later, Dr. Cox and Carla track down the baby, who has painted himself green, while The Janitor was painting new lines in the hospital hallways. Dr. Cox forgives Carla. He tells Carla stuff happens with children; children smell and parents can't understand them but he explains that everything will be different when she has her own child.

Turk bribes Dr. Kelso - along with 20 other doctor's, into letting him be the first resident to assist performing an in-house heart transplant. Nurse Roberts helps Turk out by sending all of the other doctors to the Zoo so that Turk has the first opportunity to talk to his dying patient's family, The Bolgers. Turk takes J.D.'s advice. Turk tells The Bolgers that if they give permission to donate their son's heart, they will save another person's life and that it will also give Turk the opportunity to assist with the transplant surgery. Later, Dr. Kelso gives Turk the job.