Medivac

Season 3

Medivac, also known as Adrenalin Junkies, is the story of the emergency ward of Brisbane's Bethlehem West Hospital.

Where to Watch Season 3

13 Episodes

  • Duty of Care
    E1
    Duty of CareSean's best friend is diagnosed with a progressive nerve disorder and lapses into a coma. Julia passes over Gosia for the new Nurse Manager and instead appoints the unpopular Eric Frost to the position. A professor of Jewish studies overdoses on his housekeeper's pills trying to induce vomiting after eating pork. His asthmatic housekeeper is then brought in after having run out of her medication. Evie and Sean end their relationship.
  • Sharing the Blame
    E2
    Sharing the BlameWith growing opposition to Eric Frost as Nurse Manager, Julia reluctantly gives way and suggests to Gosia that the job could be hers if she could find a way to get Eric to leave on his own. Gosia springs in to action and Eric soon announces that he is quitting so that he can accept a ""better"" job at another hospital. Marina and Stella's medivac is used to smuggle drugs into the country.
  • Protection
    E3
    ProtectionStella's brother comes into the ER suffering from a gunshot wound and, with assistance from Gosia and Arch, Stella tries to treat him covertly. When Julia discovers what is going on, she demands Stella inform the police. Stella places her career in jeopardy by refusing to turn in her brother but a good word on her behalf to Julia by Arch keeps her from losing her job. Stella and Marina disagree about the morality of putting a fourteen-year-old patient on the pill. Julia invites Tom to the track to watch her horse, Fine Young Hero, run. Evie is accepted into Pre-med
  • Pity
    E4
    PitySean brings in Ernie, a homeless man whose illness is exacerbated by his heavy drinking. A woman, brought to the hospital via medivac after her husband attacked her with a shovel, instigates a frantic search when she cuts off her finger in order to remove her wedding ring. While looking through old patient records for information on Ernie, Sean learns of Tom's illness
  • Calling the Shots
    E5
    Calling the ShotsErnie is readmitted to hospital with a dislocated shoulder and Sean is able to get him into a detox programme. Stella's treatment of a patient she believes to be a drug addict is questioned by Evie who asks for another doctor's opinion. A year after having left her order, Marina prepares for a visit by Monsignor Duval who is coming to determine her conviction. Julia has Arch ask Gosia to be ""nicer"" to the doctors. Arch extracts a man from a horse costume.
  • Denial
    E6
    DenialTom and Arch bring in a cancer-ridden patient by medivac. Tom takes a special interest in the woman and wants her to receive whatever palliative care is available while Arch, recognising the hopelessness of her situation, tries to have her accept her imminent death so that she can help her children face what lies ahead. Tom takes out his frustration with the case on Sean who in turn lashes out at Ernie. Dave proposes to Marina, but feeling rushed and uncertain of her future, she says no. Arch stumbles upon Tom and Julia's now intimate relationship
  • Feet of Clay
    E7
    Feet of ClayTimmy O'Shaugnessy's life had turned around: he's in a relationship, a ready made family, a good job and a new beginning. Then a senseless altercation outside a coffee shop leads to Timmy being brutally beaten.
  • Code Purple
    E8
    Code PurpleTom and Julia's medivac brings in a man who swallowed a fish hook on a drunken dare. Marina, Evie and Stella coax a quick recovery out of a young boy who is faking an illness so as not to have to go to church and confess his ""sins."" Tom collapses in the ER prompting the revelation of his illness to his co-workers. Sean's phobia surfaces when a young girl, along with her pet spider, is admitted. Arch is upset he was never told about Tom's condition and that Julia allowed him to continue to work in the ER.
  • Wants and Needs
    E9
    Wants and NeedsSean, Evie, and Gosia are called out on a medivac to treat a nine-year-old boy with a broken leg but instead find a group of homeless kids living in an underground sewer complex and a middle-aged man with an unknown illness.
  • Boy Scout
    E10
    Boy ScoutAfter being called out on a medivac to an isolated farmhouse, Sean and Evie's pilot is murdered and their helicopter is stolen, leaving them to contend with the injured, and dangerous, partner of the man responsible. Marina continues to encounter her suitor, he conveniently appears to help her with a flat tire and then takes the opportunity to fix up her car. As Tom returns to work, Arch considers going to the medical board to have him placed on the impaired practitioners register.
  • True Colours
    E11
    True ColoursMarina is surprised to discover that Mark Best, the strange man who's been pursuing her, has gotten a job as an orderly in the hospital. Responding to Marina's concerns about Mark's intentions, Arch steps in to confront Mark and tells him to stay away from Marina. However, to the bewilderment of Arch, when Marina hears Mark's side of the story, she begins to defend the behaviour of the man whom she once feared. When Tom collapses while working on a patient, Dr. Peter Michaels tells him that the time has come for him to leave his job. Stella informs Tom of a new experimental cancer trial that he may benefit from
  • When People Love You
    E12
    When People Love YouWhen a gambling addict is brought into the ER following a failed suicide attempt, Evie encourages him to turn his life around, which he does, but only to have his hopes for the future dashed when he is diagnosed with terminal kidney failure that leaves him with less than a day to live. Marina is unsure about how to proceed with her budding relationship with Arch and resigns from her job for reasons of emotional turmoil. Julia and Tom are married.
  • God's Greatest Gift
    E13
    God's Greatest GiftTom goes into cardiac arrest and is rushed to the hospital where he is revived by the staff. Dr. Michaels must quickly operate to relieve the increasing pressure the growing tumour is applying to Tom's heart. Having come through the surgery successfully, Tom begins his cancer treatments. Marina is unable to go through with her commitment to join a closed order and decides to give her relationship with Arch a second chance. Sean and Evie get back together and Evie learns she has received a scholarship that will allow her to study medicine full time

Cast of Season 3

  • Rena Owen
  • Melissa Tkautz
  • Nicholas Eadie
  • Dieter Brummer
  • Andrew McKaige
  • Graeme Blundell
  • Grant Bowler
  • Simone Kessell
  • Stephen Lovatt

 

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