Beds are at a premium in Post-Op so Major Frank Burns orders a wounded POW sent to a prison camp. Hawkeye, protesting he's not well enough to move, finds a solution by moving the POW into the Swamp. The POW needs a blood transfusion and his blood type is rare, AB negative. Radar checks the records and finds that Major Burns is the only one in the camp with the same blood type. While the Major sleeps, Hawkeye and Trapper "borrow" a pint of blood. The next day the POW shows symptoms of hepatitis. Major Burns needs to be tested for the disease, but no amount of tricks will get him to give up a drop of blood. Finally, Hawkeye gets Major Burns to drink a lot of beer and when he heads for the latrine finds that it is dosed for redecorating. The "temporary" latrine that has been set up is designed to get a necessary specimen that is then sent to a Seoul laboratory. While waiting for test results, the entire camp is mobilized to keep Major Burns and Hot Lips from completing a tryst so that she won't become infected. Hawkeye, however, resorts to handcuffing Burns with his arms around Hot Lips as she helps him into his surgical gown in Pre-Op. At last Radar bursts in with the test results: Bums does not have the disease, but he is anemic.

Hawkeye Pierce Alan Alda

Trapper John Wayne Rogers

Henry Blake McLean Stevenson

Hot Lips Loretta Swit

Frank Burns Larry Linville

Radar Gary Burghoff

Father Mulcahy William Christopher

Spearchucker Timothy Brown

Boone Robert Gooden

Ho-Jon Patrick Adiarte

Lt. Dish Karen Philip

P.O.W. Byron Chung

Ginger Odessa Cleveland

Producer Gene Reynolds

Executive Story Consultant Larry Gelbart

Associate Producer Burt Metcalfe

Director Terry Becker