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"Prescription For Death" Episode One Sep, 13, 1990


 EPISODE ONE:
PRESCRIPTION FOR DEATH



Episode starts up with an ER(Emergency Room) setting. It looks like chaos everywhere and doctors and nurses kinda look like they are upset or embarrassed about something. Guest Actor John Spencer(later on to be on The West Wing) is looking for his daughter who only came in to get antibiotics. According to him and his vet army experience, Someone in that emergency room did something to the poor girl.

So here comes the investigation because of the covinced Vet Army Doc.  Seargent Max and Detective Mike find out the CHEIF OF MEDICINE was indeed drunk.  That was the result of the poor girls death. So an arrest was made on the Doctor.

DA Ben Stone sure made him to be the drunk doctor that he was when he failed something very important.

In my opinion, one of the best pilot episodes ever from a tv series(although this was the first aired, not the first made, check in future episode in this season), and I give this episode 10 stars all the way.

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