No yuletide episode would be complete without some type of holiday miracle, and this episode manages to tie more than a couple in for each of the show's main characters. JD is almost forced to tell the family of an unconscious patient that the outlook isn't good. Just then, the patient wakes up, which gets Turk believing an-honest-to-goodness miracle occurred.

If you're friends with people who work in the medical field, you know how bleak work can get, and how hard it is to believe in magical cures popping out of nowhere. Turk, who professes his devotion to religion, has a crisis of faith that Christmas Eve. Though JD got lucky with his patients, Turk did not, and he starts to wonder why God seems to be ignoring the people put in his care while he's on call.