Hard Rock Medical

What do medical schools look for in a prospective doctor? You’d think it would be book smarts, high marks, and a basic type-A personality. Then why the crazy interview questions? Most of the candidates are baffled by the process. All they can do is hope to find the right answers—and that who and what they are will get them over the bar and on their way to being a doctor.

The first day of anatomy class has everyone’s undivided attention, except for Charlie’s—he has pressing family business to attend to. Gina almost becomes the early first victim of medical school’s high attrition rates until an unlikely rescuer talks her off the ledge and back into class.

The students are introduced to one of their constituencies—a First Nations community—by participating in a moose hunt complete with ritual preparations, the dispatching of the animal, and the enjoyment of the spoils. Gary and Farida’s beliefs clash, and, back in town, Gina walks in on a pharmacy robbery.

A clinic is set up in a former construction trailer in a remote community. Melanie oversteps her authority and confronts a miner she believes is abusing his wife. Eva is surprised when one of the clinic’s patients is her ex-lover and band mate, and a goat is Charlie’s reward for a job well done. Strapped for cash, Gina takes a job modeling for a life-drawing class.

Students have their first encounter with difficult medical conditions— dementia and terminal cancer. While caring for an elderly dementia patient, Gina and Melanie have an argument over Melanie’s apparent reporting of a wife abuser. Charlie and Farida have different ideas about how to help a single mom with cancer deal with her kids.

Dr. Helvi’s sister is in prolonged labour, and Gary and Cameron are brought in to assist. Eva and Nancy are on rotation in the maternity ward at the Sudbury hospital, where Eva helps a couple of young Aboriginal teens through their ordeal. Nancy comes face to face with her past, while Gina gets a reminder from the registrar that her tuition is overdue.

With school on hiatus, the students pursue personal interests - but the break is anything but quiet. Trouble lurks as Charlie and Gina search for the missing diamonds, Farida tries to shake off her past, and Dr. Healy and Nancy appear to be on a self-destructive journey.

Half the class visits a, tent city, on the outskirts of Sudbury where they endeavour to help a host of people living in a makeshift shanty town. From a pregnant intravenous drug-user to a man stuck with porcupine quills, the students do what they can to help. Charlie finds financial relief (or so he thinks), and Melanie comes face-to-face with the man she wrongfully accused. Dr. Helvi tries to prevent Dr. Healy from descending further into a personal hell.

Charlie's unauthorized prescription to a prisoner puts both he and Farida in jeopardy, Melanie is intrigued by an inmate's cannabis cure for White Hand Syndrome; Eva and Gary have a confrontation with a racist police officer and Dr. Cardinal rekindles an old friendship, all while trying to talk Dr. Healy through a recurring nightmare.

Gary and Cameron find themselves trapped at a fly-in only camp with television fishing show icon, Sam Pisano. Charlie tries to make good on a promise to a prison inmate, while Melanie tries to patch things up with a miner she wrongly accused, and Gina learns something about Dr. Dallaire's personal history with Dr. Healy.

During a Tornado disaster simulation in an isolated campground, Dr. Helvi's patience is tested by both the students, the role playing actor's and a real casualty that turns up with unusual symptoms. Charlie and Farida help out a victim of a roadside accident, and while attending to her ex-husband who is in a coma, Nancy gets a surprise visitor.

Melanie and Gina try to help a wheelchair-bound octogenarian through a suicidal crisis. Charlie tries to make good on a promise to an inmate but gets inadvertently drawn into a financial mess. Nancy learns some unsettling news from Warren's fiancée while Gary tries to help out a junkie, inspiration strikes Cameron and Dr. Healy's isolation takes its toll.

Sent out in pairs, the students shadow an emergency medical team, do shifts in a hospital ER, attend to a street kid with frostbite, and keep a watchful eye on Mylo, a teenage cancer patient who has a steroid induced vision during a First Nations Full Moon Ceremony.

While on patrol with a law officer, Gary gets a taste of northern justice and a heaping helping of racism. Cameron and Gina discover that drug addiction isn’t just for the young. Eva and Melanie try to talk Mylo into resuming chemotherapy, and Charlie’s marital counseling session goes off the rails.

Charlie and Gary perform a snowmobile rescue of a lumberjack with severed fingers. Gina and Cameron come face to face with an elderly, over-prescribing doctor, and Farida deals with the death of a patient and close friend. Nancy suspects two monks of having AIDS.

Cameron and Gina look in on a patient with a broken leg only to discover a couple of junkies dealing drugs and running a surprising illegal enterprise. Charlie is forced to move in with his father and Farida struggles with grief, while Cameron’s secret sideline as an art forger is threatened. Nancy gets “schooled” by Helvi for jumping to conclusions.

Farida’s surprisingly poor performance assessment puts her on the faculty’s radar. Nancy deals with a former cup winning hockey enforcer who comes into the ER with signs of PTSD. Charlie steps in between Gary and a racist cop, Eva mishandles confidential information, and Gina’s animal rescue project is “outed” to Cameron.

Eva eases Amanda’s return to the Rez to meet the baby she ran out on. Melanie helps Mylo find her way back to treatment for her leukemia and Healy confronts Farida about her drug use, while Gina’s animal rescue operation is busted.

In the season premiere, Farida treats a child with a superficial injury, and gets a front-row seat to a custody battle. Charlie comes clean to Dallaire about the encounter between Gary and a dirty cop. Following a bone-marrow donation, Eva asks for a transfer out. Dawn arrests on Cameron’s watch, Gina is wheeled into the ER after her assault, and Nancy deals with the aftermath of a patient’s suicide.

Charlie wants to keep things as normal as possible while Tara begins chemo treatment. A judge orders Gary into reconciliation classes with a racist cop. Farida crosses the line with Erica’s ex-husband, Nick. Recovering from a bone-marrow donation, Eva ends up doing more caregiving than self-care, and Cameron checks in with Gina, who is suffering retrograde amnesia after her assault.

Mel and Gina begin their placement with the disorganized, addicted and cranky Dr. Kesler. Mylo boomerangs back into Eva’s care as Bonnie begins treatment for her hepatitis C. Farida skips therapy and chooses to unburden herself to a long-suffering Dr. Healy. Mould in Charlie’s house has him turning up with his family on his father’s doorstep moments after Eddy shows a home invader the business end of his shotgun.

Farida tries to care for a little girl while fending off her warring parents. Dr. Kesler reveals his Achilles heel to Gina. Charlie and Gary respond to a distress call at a hoarder’s apartment. Nancy receives a special delivery from Sergio from beyond the grave. Mel suspects a case of elder abuse, and Cameron makes a questionable diagnosis.

Gina and Cameron get a shock after treating a gunshot victim. Nancy receives a surprise visit and request from her eldest son, Sean. Marley’s biological grandmother shows up on Eva’s doorstep, sending Amanda and Trevor into a tailspin. Mylo learns the truth behind her father’s death.

Nancy’s finds herself at odds with Dr. Helvi over her handling of a teenage girl’s case. Farida discovers the reason behind Krista’s mysterious rash. Dr. Kesler brings Gina on a house call with disastrous consequences. Eddy finds yet another way to get into trouble with the cops – and Charlie. Cameron’s multiple missteps land him in disciplinary trouble with Dean Dallaire, and Melanie rescues an elderly patient abandoned in the ER.