Transplant
Thursdays 9:00 PM on NBCTransplant Season 1 Episode 8
Birth and Rebirth
Recap
Amira has a nightmare and waits up for Bash. Amira gets off the bus at her old stop by accident and ends up at the old apartment.
Dr. Bishop is evaluating Mags today. He cautions her for over-treating patients. Mags treats an elderly woman, Mia Willis, who has flu symptoms and peripheral neuropathy. Mags wants to do tests. Dr. Bishop tells her to treat for the flu, and have her PCP deal with the rest.
Mags treats a man with a cough, but she doesn't do anything about it until he starts coughing blood. He has a pulmonary embolism.
Mags car, Lenny, dies.
Theo is punched by an angry patient. Bash steps in. Theo's nose is broken. He is shaken. We learn his father is a pastor. He treats a girl with epilepsy who has a religious father.
June is asked to consult on a case of a runny nose that's been going on three years with no sign of infection. The woman is from Trinidad. She keeps waking up with a wet pillow. Her doctors say its allergies, but the medication they prescribe doesn't seem to help. June determines that it is not mucus but brain fluid, but her superior takes the credit.
A man and his pregnant wife ask to see Bash because the wait for OB is long and she isn't feeling well. He complies. The baby is fine, but she has a flesh eating infection on her arm. Her best chance is amputation, but she wants to someday hold her baby. The less effective surgery doesn't work, so they need to do a C-Section, and the couple needs to decide whether to prioritize Maria or the baby. Maria says to prioritize the baby. Both survive.
- Show:
- Transplant
- Season:
- Transplant Season 1
- Episode Number:
- 8