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Carter, nauseated by a patient’s stab wound, goes outside for air. He is counseled by Greene, who assures him that he feels sick because he is a doctor who has chosen to keep his feelings, and that Benton was also sick as a med student. Hathaway remains in a coma. Greene forcefully assures a patient with an ulcer that he does not have cancer.
In addition Croatian doctor Luka Kovač joins the team and struggles to gain the respect and trust from his new colleagues in the ER. Hathaway struggles to begin parenting on her own, then decides to leave Chicago to begin a new life with Doug Ross. Greene and Corday begin their relationship and he deals with the death of his father.
Carter comes to grips with the fast-paced life of an ER doctor, while trying to win the approval of his demanding supervising resident, Dr. Peter Benton. Hathaway gets back on her feet in the aftermath of her suicide attempt; she gets engaged and tries to adopt an HIV-positive Russian orphan, but is denied due to her suicide attempt.
Hathaway cares for a man who is going to die from chemical burns and comes to a decision about herself and Ross. Dr. Edward Hurvitz (University of Michigan) provided medical advice and expertise regarding cerebral palsy.
Dr. Julia Wise (Alexis Bledel), new to County General, treats a gay HIV-positive patient who has severe breathing difficulties. It is discovered he has terminal cancer. With the support of his partner, he decides not to seek treatment, as he has already outlived most of his friends who died at the height of the AIDS epidemic in the 1980s.
Matt Purdy, the deputy executive editor in charge of enterprise and investigative reporting, defended the story in an email: “Our article was a nuanced portrait of an addiction treatment,” he said. Dr. Robert Newman, a longtime advocate for the use of methadone to treat heroin addiction, was quoted in the Times article as saying that ...
Corday's malpractice suit is settled on terms that leave her career and finances intact; Mr. Patterson later visits her at the hospital to remind her that her failures led to his paralysis, causing Corday to panic with another patient.
Fischer is going to an opioid addiction treatment clinic. In Fort Collins, a doctor will meet with him for a half hour and write him a prescription for a month’s supply of buprenorphine, a medication that blunts his cravings for heroin and other short-acting opioids. Fischer has spent a dozen or so years dealing with his addiction.