
MDA
MDA is an Australian television series that aired between 2002 and 2005 on the Australian Broadcasting Corporation. It concerned the day-to-day operation of legal firm MDA, which specialised in medical defence.
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- Ep 1
1.Damage Control
23-07-200255mElla Davis' long time friend Olga Stiles, an obstetrician, is facing charges in the Supreme Court for contributing to the massive brain injuries of a young woman, Kim Cusack, follo...
- Ep 2
2.Fire and Rain
30-07-200255mElla must get to the bottom of a tragic case in which an elderly man dies inexplicably, while the young doctor on duty insists he can't be held responsible for the death. Caitlin...
- Ep 3
3.Truth or Dare
06-08-200255mWhen a GP is caught having sex with a beautiful blonde patient in his surgery, Ella must make a decision about whether MDA should fight to save his practice. He claims it was a one...
- Ep 4
4.The Certainty
13-08-200255mA young mum is suing her doctor after losing the sight in her good eye following surgery on the other. Is the surgeon to blame for not warning her of the one in 14,000 chance of sy...
- Ep 5
5.A Spoonful of Sugar
20-08-200255mDeanna Raye, a very recent gender reassignment patient is rushed into Dr Ella Davis' hospital Emergency Department after a suicide attempt. Now Ella finds herself in a conflict of...
- Ep 6
6.Damned If You Do, Damned If...
27-08-200255mSmooth, plausible psychiatrist Dr Oliver Maudsen is up before the Medical Practitioners Board on a charge of sexual misconduct. When a second victim comes forward, Ella clashes wit...
- Ep 7
7.When it Rains, it Pours
03-09-200255mElla calls on the services of a long lost love Paul Bennett, a romance from Uni days to provide an Expert Opinion in the tragic case of a woman claiming damages because her doctor...
- Ep 8
8.Bowels, Bosch And The Whole Damn Thing
10-09-200255mElla becomes increasingly ambivalent about fighting a case against the mother of twin boys, one of whom has spina bifida. Her expert witness, Paul Bennett, seeks to rekindle their...
- Ep 9
9.One Small Step
17-09-200255mHappy represents Dr Wendy Rossi at the Coronial Inquest into the patient who accidentally died at her hands in ICU. Jamie is frantic: he's Wendy's case manager, but he's fallen in...
- Ep 10
10.Quid Pro Quo
24-09-200255mCaitlin and Jamie are in conflict when they represent a young anaesthetist, whom Caitlin is sure is not what he seems. For Ella and Happy, it's a feeling of ""here we go again"" w...
- Ep 11
11.Break it Gently
01-10-200255mAll on the one night: As Ella and Tony deal with one emergency after another at St Albans Hospital, Layla makes her first public speech to first year med students - and wins a hear...
- Ep 12
12.Minder Games
08-10-200255mElla persuades Richard to defend Wendy Rossi and takes on the case of neurosurgeon Dr Phil Jacobs, whose brain-damaged patient suffered an unknown trauma in a neuro recovery ward....
- Ep 13
13.Human Error
15-10-200255mHappy represents Ella and Tony at the Coronial Inquiry, discovering that Sam, Layla's med student boyfriend, witnessed the incident in question. But Happy also strongly suspects th...
- Ep 14
14.The Hippocratic Oath
22-10-200255mThe MDA team have the strange experience of barracking for Richard Savage as he defends Dr Wendy Rossi against a charge of manslaughter. Just as Ella and Paul Bennett are drawing...
- Ep 15
15.Love You to Death
29-10-200255mMDA and Richard Savage actually work together to sort out an angry and guilty young man, who is desperate to blame a palliative care doctor for the loss of his cancer sufferer fath...
- Ep 16
16.Rites of Passage
05-11-200255mRichard goes up against MDA, representing a model and dancer who claims her breast enhancement looks unnatural. A country doctor mistakes pregnancy for menopause in an older woman....
- Ep 17
17.Eye of the Beholder
12-11-200255mAs Happy is pre-occupied searching the city for his estranged son Jason, Caitlin takes over the breast enhancement case against Richard - with some surprise help from Jamie. A cou...
- Ep 18
18.Fight or Flight
19-11-200255mElla and the MDA team must move fast when the case of young mother Debbie Shanahan, dying of cancer, is brought forward. Richard Savage plays the sympathy card for all it is worth....
- Ep 19
19.Win; Win, Lose; Lose
26-11-200255mElla (Kerry Armstrong) must play medical fact against a tough judge and enormous public sympathy when the Debbie Shanahan (Suzi Dougherty) case against breast surgeon Teresa Common...
- Ep 20
20.Scylla And Charybdis
03-12-200255mJamie (Angus Grant) is dismayed when a very depressed Wendy Rossi (Daniela Farinacci), back in town for her Medical Board hearing, rejects his help. Ella (Kerry Armstrong) confron...
- Ep 21
21.Line Ball
10-12-200255mAs Ella and Tony wait for the verdict in the negligence case against them, MDA receives a class action writ from 72 of their members, alleging MDA lied about the organisation's fin...
- Ep 22
22.Divine Intervention
17-12-200255mElla must talk inexperienced nurses in a remote rural area through life-saving procedures by phone. She and Caitlin clash with Richard (Jason Donovan) over the ethical issues invol...
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