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Private Practice

Private PracticeABC

Season 4, Episode 3

7 medical diagnoses portrayed

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Also known as: Heart attack

Troy Hagen, the drunk driver who killed Dell and injured Maya, presents with chest pain and EKG changes indicating acute MI requiring bypass surgery. He initially refuses treatment due to guilt.

Private Practice — S04E03Patient: Troy Hagen

Also known as: Tear in the aorta

Pseudoaneurysm

A school theater teacher presents with chest pain and is found to have a dissecting aortic aneurysm requiring complex surgery. Sam performs the surgery after the patient confesses to being a pedophile, and Sam lets him die on the table.

Private Practice — S04E03Patient: Mr. Yates
Appendicitissupporting

Also known as: Inflamed appendix

PerforationPeritonitis

Pete and Gibby perform emergency surgery in a house on a patient with a perforated appendix and belly full of pus, avoiding hospital transport.

Also known as: Dislocated shoulder

A young girl at Gibby's clinic has a shoulder that has popped out of its socket, which Pete reduces.

Also known as: GSW to abdomen

Hemorrhagic shockMultiple organ injury

A teenage girl suffers three gunshot wounds to the abdomen with massive hemorrhage. Pete and Gibby attempt to treat her at the clinic but must ultimately call an ambulance as she bleeds out faster than they can control.

Also known as: Pedophilia

The school theater teacher confesses to being unable to stop himself from inappropriately touching children, creating a moral dilemma for Sam during surgery.

Private Practice — S04E03Patient: Mr. Yates

Also known as: Blocked arteries

Crescendo anginaUnstable angina

Troy Hagen's underlying condition requiring a three-way coronary artery bypass graft surgery.

Private Practice — S04E03Patient: Troy Hagen