Also known as: Eye laceration
A patient presents with a corneal laceration that Dr. Roman examines as a learning opportunity. The patient is treated with drops and offered an eye patch, which he refuses.
Also known as: Strained wrist
A patient sustains a wrist sprain from moving furniture. X-rays are clear, confirmed as a sprain rather than a fracture, and the patient is sent home with pain medication.
Also known as: Broken neck with paralysis
NYU student Jonathan Vega fell from a loft bed four feet up while heavily intoxicated and sustained a cervical spine injury resulting in paralysis from the neck down. Jackie uses this case to educate her daughter Grace about the dangers of substance abuse.
Also known as: Heart attack
A man arrives at the ER entrance experiencing chest pain and arm numbness. He goes into cardiac arrest and loses his pulse. Jackie directs Grace to call for help while she provides care. The patient is successfully resuscitated with defibrillation and brought inside for treatment.
Also known as: Heroin addiction
Jackie's ongoing recovery from substance use disorder is central to the episode. She has been sober for 364 days but keeps a single pill as a reminder of what she's lost. When her daughter Grace is caught with Adderall, the discovery triggers Jackie's concerns about her daughter inheriting her addiction vulnerabilities. By episode's end, Jackie asks Kevin to take primary custody of their daughters because she fears Grace shouldn't be around her given her drug history.
Also known as: Adderall use
Grace is discovered with Adderall pills obtained from a classmate, which she admits to using with her boyfriend Danny while studying. This drives the main conflict of the episode as Jackie confronts her teenage daughter's drug experimentation while grappling with her own history of addiction and concerns about hereditary risk factors.