MDA
TV ShowEnded

MDA

2002
3 seasons
56 episodes
Drama

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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Seasons

  • Ep 1

    1.Damage Control

    23-07-200255m

    Ella 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

    30-07-200255m

    Ella 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

    06-08-200255m

    When 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

    13-08-200255m

    A 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

    20-08-200255m

    Deanna 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...

    27-08-200255m

    Smooth, 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

    03-09-200255m

    Ella 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

    10-09-200255m

    Ella 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

    17-09-200255m

    Happy 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

    24-09-200255m

    Caitlin 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

    01-10-200255m

    All 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

    08-10-200255m

    Ella 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

    15-10-200255m

    Happy 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

    22-10-200255m

    The 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

    29-10-200255m

    MDA 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

    05-11-200255m

    Richard 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

    12-11-200255m

    As 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

    19-11-200255m

    Ella 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

    26-11-200255m

    Ella (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

    03-12-200255m

    Jamie (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

    10-12-200255m

    As 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

    17-12-200255m

    Ella 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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