TV Plot Shows Mercurial Side of Foundations

By VINCE STEHLE

Carol Hathaway -- the beautiful and compassionate nurse on the hit television show ER -- wants to establish a clinic to provide follow-up care to poor people who come to the emergency room at the fictional County General Hospital.

Since the hospital can't finance the clinic, Ms. Hathaway starts looking through grant-application manuals. When John Carter, a doctor at the hospital and the scion of a wealthy family, runs into her and senses her frustration, he suggests that she