Ben recovers from his mysterious disease in time for Christmas celebration. Stewart and Syphax treat a 12-year-old Somalian girl who is brought in by her older sister; she's bleeding from a ritual circumcision . A kidney becomes available to transplant but the patient can't be found. A husband isn't sure if he wants his wife, who has been badly beaten, to get reconstructive surgery that will make her beautiful; he fears she will become to attractive to other men and leave him. Ben receives two unexpected kisses from two different women.moreless