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Dr. G: Medical Examiner - Season 4

Dr. G: Medical Examiner: Season 4 - 13 Episode s

4x1 - Toxic Forces
November 23, 2007
A 25-year-old woman dies after breaking out in hives and becoming short of breath. The woman had been working with the Hurricane Katrina relief effort in Biloxi, Mississippi where she may have acquired an infectious disease. She also had a history of complications from insect bites. With a number of possibilities as to the cause of the woman’s mysterious illness, Dr. G must look inside the body to find the answers.A 35-year-old man is found dead by his partner just hours after threatening to commit suicide. With a history of suicide attempts, and a number of medications found at the scene, it appears that the man intentionally overdosed. Dr. G must examine the evidence from her autopsy and toxicology reports to determine whether or not the man took his own life.
4x2 - Derailed
November 30, 2007
A 76-year-old man disappears from a passenger train and is found unconscious by the train tracks. He dies two weeks later in the hospital. The man’s injuries are consistent with a fall from a moving train, but no one knows what caused the man to fall. Can Dr. G find the answer?A 26-year-old woman collapses and seizes while eating at a restaurant with her husband. She dies three days later in the hospital. The husband fears that his wife’s history of drug abuse may have taken its toll. Can Dr. G’s autopsy provide closure?
4x3 - Broken Lives
December 7, 2007
A box found buried in the woods containing the body of a missing 24-year-old woman is brought in into the morgue. As evidence mounts against the woman’s abusive boyfriend, Dr. G tries to prove that the death is a homicide. However, the body’s state of decomposition makes the examination difficult.A 40-year-old transient man is found dead in bed at a halfway house. The man was last seen alive when he was given a weekly allowance. Dr. G must find out if the man’s death was attributed to foul play or an untreated medical condition.
4x4 - Life Interrupted
December 14, 2007
A 19-year-old female private is abducted from an air force base. A retired military officer claims to have murdered the woman and leads police to her body. Dr. G must do an autopsy to determine whether the suspect is being truthful, or making a false confession to gain attention in a high profile case.A 79-year-old woman dies at home three days after undergoing knee replacement surgery. The woman seemed healthy just prior to her death. Dr. G must find out whether or not the woman died of complications from the surgery.
4x5 - Deadly Journeys
December 21, 2007
A 32-year-old woman vacationing in Orlando dies unexpectedly of a mysterious illness. The woman had been coughing up blood, and experiencing chest pains. At first it seems to be a routine pulmonary embolism case, but the true cause of death will surprise Dr. G.Paramedics arrive to treat an unconscious 35-year-old female hitchhiker in a parking lot, but she dies on the way to the hospital. The man who gave her a ride reports that the woman began shivering and collapsed while they were having a beer together. Dr. G must determine what caused the woman to die, and whether or not foul play was involved.
4x6 - Deadly Doses
May 23, 2008
A 36-year-old woman experiencing inexplicable itching all over her body overdoses on antihistamines. The woman appears to be fine for a time at the hospital, but then she goes into cardiac arrest and dies. Dr. G discovers from the woman's medical history that the woman had lupus, an autoimmune disease. Dr. G tries to find out whether the overdose caused the woman's death, or if the woman died of a complication of her condition.A 50-year-old woman collapses at home and dies in the hospital. The woman had been experiencing chronic pain for years due to injuries received in a car accident. The woman experienced depression due to the pain, making suicide a possible cause of death. It's up to Dr. G to find out if the woman took her life, accidentally overdosed on her pain medication, or died in some other way.
4x7 - Twist of Fate
May 23, 2008
A 75-year-old woman dies in the hospital four days after a minor car accident. The woman reported that she experienced severe pain in her neck, chest, and back just prior to crashing. Hospital tests do not find any apparent medical conditions or injuries that would have caused the woman to die. Dr. G searches for trauma and natural causes of death that the hospital may have missed.An 81-year-old man dies in the hospital while receiving medical tests to diagnose his abdominal pain. Although the man has an extensive medical history, there is no obvious cause of death. Dr. G does an autopsy to try and find a cause of death for the man's death certificate.
4x8 - Shock to the System
June 6, 2008
An anonymous tip leads to the discovery of the body of a 60-year-old man in a field. The man had a syringe in his hand and a straight razor was found under his body. The man took daily injections of insulin to treat his diabetes, but his body was found in a high crime neighborhood. Dr. G must find out whether the man's death was a homicide, suicide, accident, or natural death.A charred body is removed from the fiery wreckage of an 18-wheeler on the side of an Interstate highway. Dr. G must try to identify the driver, and find out what caused him to crash.
4x9 - Dangerous Games
June 13, 2008
A 12-year-old boy is found dead in his room with his karate belt wrapped around his neck. The boy had never exhibited suicidal tendencies, but he had been grounded on the weekend of his death for trying to skip school. Dr. G looks for evidence as to whether or not the boy's death was a suicide.A 55-year-old biochemist on sabbatical from Russia collapses and dies while eating lunch with colleagues. When the Russian Embassy and the FBI take interest in the man's death, Dr. G suspects that foul play may be involved.
4x10 - In the Dead of Night
June 20, 2008
A 71-year-old man collapses at home and is dead on arrival at the hospital. The doctor at the hospital refuses to sign the death certificate due to no apparent cause of death, so the body is sent to the morgue for an autopsy. Dr. G first suspects a cardiac death, but then discovers that the man had a toe infection and was taking antibiotics that caused adverse side effects. Because of the man's complex medical history, Dr. G decides that an autopsy is necessary to determine the cause of death. A 25-year-old man is found dead in a motel room after a night of partying and heavy drinking with friends. The man had a history of unexplained grand mal seizures and was obese, but Dr. G suspects that the cause of death may be related to alcohol and/or cocaine use.
4x11 - Twin Terror
July 18, 2008
A mother finds one of her infant twin daughters dead in its crib. Dr. Joshua Stephany, Dr. G's newest medical examiner, must autopsy the baby to find the cause of death, and to see if the surviving twin is at risk of dying in the same manner.A 60-year-old man is found dead in bed by his wife. At first there is no apparent cause of death, but Dr. G finds a hernia during the external exam. When Dr. G looks inside the body, she discovers that the man was not as healthy as originally thought.
4x12 - Deadly Lovers Quarrel
July 25, 2008
A 34-year-old man is stabbed in the arm by his girlfriend during an argument. The man's condition deteriorates over the next two weeks, and he dies in the hospital. The man had a history of drug and alcohol abuse, but the family suspects that the hospital was negligent, and the possibility exists that the death was the result of the stab wound. Dr. G must determine the cause of the death to see if the girlfriend, or possibly the hospital, is at fault for the man's death.A 67-year-old man is found dead on the side of a city street. Dr. G must determine whether the man met with foul play since he was found dead outside, but the morgue is understaffed on that particular day, making it difficult to get the man's medical history. Dr. G's only lead is a piece of paper found in the man's pocket prescribing a cat scan.
4x13 - Once Bitten
August 1, 2008
A 34-year-old man dies while on a business trip to Orlando. The man was an avid rugby player, athletic and presumed to be perfectly healthy. Two days before his death, he developed severe back pain. The man's wife reports she and her husband both received spider bites a few weeks prior, but Dr. G discovers that what the doctors thought were spider bites may have been something far more life-threatening.A 41-year-old father from California dies in a hotel room while vacationing in Orlando with his family. Earlier that day, the man had fallen ill on an amusement park ride on which two other people had previously died. Not only must Dr. G find the cause of death, she must also find out whether the man's death was linked to the amusement park ride.

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