- Col. Potter's blood pressure is too high and he has two weeks to get it back down, causing everyone to mollycoddle him, much to his dismay. Meanwhile, the malaria medicine they are sent makes Klinger sick.
- Colonel Potter's blood pressure is too high after an annual check up, so Hawkeye tells Klinger, to treat the colonel with "kid gloves" to keep Potter from blowing up, but as a result the entire camp tries pampering the colonel to the point of blowing up from the pampering. Meanwhile, a malaria outbreak forces the camp to take their annual primaquine tablets, but Klinger becomes reacting to the drug and the camp thinks he's pulling a fast one till another orderly Goldman comes down with the same symptoms, then they take him seriously. In the meantime Potter is agitated by the kid gloves and becomes fed up with the camp babying him, and trying to prevent him from seeing the mess in his office after, Klinger and his issues left the office a disaster for Margaret and Winchester to fix, till Potter walks in and blows his top.—Jared Johnson
- Colonel Potter's blood pressure is too high (165/93) after an annual check up (Hawkeye wants to report the figures, but Potter fears he will be taken off surgery thus asks Hawkeye for 2 weeks to bring his numbers under control. The original physical was not supposed to be for 2 weeks, so Potter feels it is within regulations to do the test again at the stipulated time). Klinger wants a 2 day pass to Tokyo, but Potter refuses that army changed the daily report forms 60 days ago and Klinger has still not used the correct forms and has to redo 60 days of reports. HQ wants the reports in the new forms in 3 days. Hawkeye tells Klinger, to treat the colonel with "kid gloves" to keep Potter from blowing up. As a result the entire camp tries pampering the colonel to the point of blowing up from the pampering (they hide the salt, the coffee, no booze, no cigars and all other things that could spike Potter's BP). Potter knows Hawkeye blabbed to the entire unit about his physical condition, including the priest. BJ, Houlihan and Mulcahy all bring him breakfast in bed, on the same day, minutes after each other. BJ and Hawkeye drink lemonade with Potter in the O Club, to keep him away from the booze. Houlihan wont allow Potter to poker for cash, as it leads to too much tension. They play for pretzels.
Meanwhile, a malaria outbreak forces the camp to take their annual Cloroquine tablets (But quartermaster was out of Cloroquine and sent back Primaquine tablets instead. Sometimes native Americans have an adverse reaction to the Primaquine tablets). Hawkeye says that it should be safe if they control the dosage, so Potter orders only one of tablets to be given to each person, daily.
Meanwhile Klinger has not made enough progress with the reports even after a day as he is coming down with symptoms of the Primaquine tablets (he has back pain and is feeling tired). Klinger is having a reaction to the drug and the camp thinks he's pulling a fast one till another orderly Goldman (Roy Goldman) comes down with the same symptoms, then they take him seriously. Klinger insists he has never pulled a stunt on the job and he would never do anything to hurt Potter. Both Klinger and Goldman are found to be Anaemic. The entire office is a mess with papers strewn all over the floor. To avoid Potter further aggravation to delay in filing the correct reports, Margaret and Winchester take over Potter's office and start filling out the reports. Mulcahy is on guard to keep Potter away from the office at all costs. In the meantime Potter is agitated by the kid gloves and becomes fed up with the camp babying him, and Mulcahy trying to prevent him from seeing the mess in his office. Potter barges into his office and blows his top. The doctors stop the Primaquine course for Klinger and Goldman.
2 weeks later, Klinger has recovered from his anemia. Potter has passed his physical (137/88). He drinks booze and smokes a cigar. Klinger is back from for a 2 day pass to Tokyo Army research in 1950's concluded that anemia from Primaquine affected not only Native Americans, but also whites of Mediterranean decent.
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