Malpractice on Channel 7 and 7plus S1E5 – What happens if you can’t trust the people who hold your life in their hands?
Medical thriller Malpractice combines a searing insight into the pressures and politics of hospital life with a gripping story about a damaged doctor caught up in a dangerous conspiracy.
Dr Lucinda Edwards is a smart, battle-hardened doctor, but we meet her on a nightmare shift that ends in the death of an opioid overdose victim.
When the patient’s grieving father demands an enquiry into Lucinda’s actions, she is plunged into a malpractice investigation, led by Dr Norma Callahan and Lucinda’s former colleague Dr George Adjei. While George feels this was an unavoidable tragedy, Norma is suspicious of Lucinda’s behaviour.
As the pressure of the investigation intensifies, Lucinda’s confident professional exterior begins to crack. Is she hiding something?
Episode 5
Lucinda’s search for the truth becomes dangerous, and she needs help from unexpected places. George and Norma must decide whether they can trust Lucinda. Lucinda needs George to help her uncover the truth; she tells him about the lengths she has gone to so far.
Norma isn’t impressed but reluctantly agrees to help, if Lucinda drops her investigation. Unfazed, Lucinda continues her hunt for answers, and things finally fall into place. Now she must find out who is responsible for what she has uncovered.
As the MIU continues to investigate, Lucinda finds herself in grave danger. Norma and George realise that Lucinda has been betrayed by someone closer than she could have imagined. Justice comes at last, but Lucinda must face her own issues.
Malpractice on Channel 7 and 7plus – Sunday 1 August at 9.25pm (final episode)
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Malpractice on Channel 7 and 7plus S1E5
