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.

While Father Mulcahy frantically tries to prepare for a visit from a respected cardinal, Hawkeye has to deal with a soldier who cannot donate blood for his buddy because it turns out that he himself has leukemia.