Hippocratic Oath: Part 1

Episode aired Sep 10, 2007
TV-14
58m

IMDb RATING

7.7/10

198

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Crime Drama Mystery

Harry Cunningham investigates when a car accident reveals two bodies inside one coffin. The coffin contained the body of 80-year-old Ethel Mortimer, who was supposed to be there and also tha... Read allHarry Cunningham investigates when a car accident reveals two bodies inside one coffin. The coffin contained the body of 80-year-old Ethel Mortimer, who was supposed to be there and also that of James Featherton, a high tech sales rep who also had a heavy cocaine habit. Leo Dalto... Read allHarry Cunningham investigates when a car accident reveals two bodies inside one coffin. The coffin contained the body of 80-year-old Ethel Mortimer, who was supposed to be there and also that of James Featherton, a high tech sales rep who also had a heavy cocaine habit. Leo Dalton and Nikki Alexander have to deal with the death of a young child who died post-operative... Read all

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IMDb RATING

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9Hitchcoc

When Is It OK for a Medical Pro to Seek Out Business

The story begins with an accident. A garbage truck hammers the members of a funeral procession. When all is checked out, it turns out that two bodies have been placed in the same coffin. This leads to some close scrutiny. The other issue is a female pediatric surgeon who has been doing benchmark surgeries, many with no success. There are some suspicions about her methods. There is also a nurse who has become a liability.

7Sleepin_Dragon

At least the beginning is very memorable.

It's got to be one of the most memorable openings in the show's history, it's been many years since I've seen it. I could remember that pretty shocking start, I couldn't remember the rest of the episode...

.. That perhaps sums this one up well, it's pretty good, but really does take its time to open up, and to get going.

All of the deaths circulate around the hospital, and two members of staff in particular, Claire and Alice, are either of them guilty of anything?

Natasha Little is very good as Alice Huston, she's a very interesting character, a pioneer or reckless cavalier?

It seems pretty obvious who is behind it all, will be interesting to see.

Pretty good, 7/10.

Trivia
Natasha Little has appeared as two different characters over the course of the series:
.Episode 11.5 Hippocratic Oath: Part 1 (2007) - Alice Huston.
.Episode 11.6 Hippocratic Oath: Part 2 (2007) - Alice Huston.
.Episode 21.9 Family: Part 1 (2018) - Zoe McMorris.
.Episode 21.10 Family: Part 2 (2018) - Zoe McMorris.

Goofs
Huston is referred to as a paediatrician but she is clearly a paediatric surgeon. A paediatrician would be a physician specialising in children. Also as a surgeon she'd be referred to Miss or Ms Huston, not Doctor which is the title used when they look at the list of prescribing doctors in the hospital pharmacy.