Also known as: Immune deficiency disorder
10-year-old girl with immune deficiency disorder requiring isolation in a sterile bubble environment. Her condition worsens to sepsis, and she urgently needs a stem cell transplant. The episode revolves around discovering she was switched at the IVF clinic and finding her biological mother as a donor match.
Also known as: Blood infection
Cora develops sepsis as a complication of her immunodeficiency, with dropping blood pressure and rising lactate levels, making her stem cell transplant more urgent.
Also known as: Leg amputation
37-year-old woodworker who deliberately cut off his own hand with a circular saw due to intrusive thoughts from OCD. The episode focuses on convincing him to allow reattachment by showing him his condition is treatable mental illness, not evidence he's dangerous.
Also known as: OCD Harm (violent obsessions)
Lionel suffers from a specific subset called harm OCD, experiencing intrusive thoughts about strangling people he loves. He amputated his own hand believing he was dangerous, when actually his brain's caudate nucleus is malfunctioning. Dr. Charles uses fMRI to show him his brain processes fear, not pleasure, when thinking of violence.
Also known as: Ruptured spleen
Young woman initially presenting with burns from a kettle explosion develops hypotension from a splenic laceration causing slow hemorrhage into her abdomen. The injury is revealed to be from domestic violence (blunt trauma from her husband), not the accident. Treated with splenic artery embolization.
Also known as: Third-degree burn
Faye presents with superficial partial thickness burns from a kettle explosion, used as a cover story for domestic violence injuries. The burns are treated with irrigation and Silvadene.
Also known as: Intimate partner violence
Faye is a victim of domestic violence by her husband. She initially covers for him but left a red sticker on her urine sample cup (hospital system for signaling abuse). Her husband beat her causing the splenic injury. She refuses help despite Dr. Lenox's intervention.