Also known as: Tubal pregnancy
Dawn presents with internal bleeding from a ruptured Fallopian tube during an ectopic pregnancy, which leads to emergency surgery and reveals her husband's vasectomy, becoming central to the episode's exploration of trust and medical versus personal betrayal.
Also known as: Dislocated hip
Todd sustains a hip dislocation in the motor vehicle accident that brings him and his wife to the hospital. Shaun performs a reduction using the Captain Morgan maneuver.
Also known as: Split spinal cord
Finn is discovered to have a rare congenital condition where his spinal cord is split in two. As he hit puberty, the split cords became tethered, causing progressive leg weakness requiring emergency surgical intervention to prevent permanent paralysis.
Also known as: Post-op infection
Following his spinal surgery, Finn develops a staphylococcus infection at the surgical site requiring antibiotics and repeat surgery to wash out the wound.
Dawn has a chest tumor that produces a protein affecting her brain, causing a paraneoplastic syndrome that manifests as complete loss of inhibitions. This drives her compulsive charitable donations, multiple affairs, and inability to control impulses, which becomes the episode's central medical mystery.
Also known as: Radiation-related memory loss
Glassman experiences progressive memory loss as a side effect of his ongoing radiation treatment for brain cancer, including forgetting where he left items and struggling to recall basic information, prompting him to seek secret cognitive testing from Shaun.