Watch Gideon's Crossing Season 1 Episode 17 Flashpoint

Flashpoint

Season 1 Episode 17

Aired date: Mar 12, 2001

Plot: In the second part to a crossover with The Practice Ellenor is diagnosed with a disease that complicates pregnancy. She appoints Jimmy as (from The Practice) her baby's guardian and makes Dr. Gideon promise that he will put the baby's life ahead of her own. Legally, this is unethical, and poses problems in the surgery to also remove her rupturing appendix. Her health declines (several seizures), and it doesn't seem that she or the baby will survive. Worse still, due to Ellenor's condition, she will die if t... MORE

Plot: In the second part to a crossover with The Practice Ellenor is diagnosed with a disease that complicates pregnancy. She appoints Jimmy as (from The Practice) her baby's guardian and makes Dr. Gideon promise that he will put the baby's life ahead of her own. Legally, this is unethical, and poses problems in the surgery to also remove her rupturing appendix. Her health declines (several seizures), and it doesn't seem that she or the baby will survive. Worse still, due to Ellenor's condition, she will die if they deliver the baby. Pulling at straws, Dr. Gideon prescribes heparin (an act of hope rather than medical evidence). After a long night, Ellenor recovers, and Gideon attibutes it to ""dumb luck"", but is glad never the less. Throughout the episode we learn that Ellenor and Gideon's wife were best friends, and he offers advice on how to be a single ""mom."" Cherry gets a young boy patient, an absolute terror, whose multitasking, inattentive, rich, but likable mother brings him in to have LESS