Medicine and Malpractice 25 Law & Order episodes
Doctors, hospitals and medical decisions under criminal investigation.
- Season 1 · Episode 1
Prescription for Death
When a teenage girl dies hours after an emergency-room visit, her father demands a homicide investigation into the hospital that treated her.
- Season 1 · Episode 21
Sonata for Solo Organ
An apparent mugging victim turns out to be missing a kidney, removed by someone with surgical skill.
- Season 3 · Episode 4
The Corporate Veil
A teenager dies when his pacemaker fails, and the investigation moves from a dealer in recycled devices to the family that runs the manufacturer.
- Season 3 · Episode 6
Helpless
The squad’s own psychiatrist accuses a prominent gynecologist of sexual assault, and her decision to gather evidence herself puts the case at risk.
- Season 3 · Episode 14
Promises to Keep
A surgical resident’s murder reveals that her fiancé was sleeping with his psychiatrist, and Stone tries to hold the doctor criminally responsible.
- Season 3 · Episode 19
Virus
Patients at a diabetes clinic die of insulin overdoses after someone tampers with its computer, and the trail leads to a teenage hacker with a grudge.
- Season 5 · Episode 1
Second Opinion
A teacher with breast cancer dies after skipping surgery for an unapproved treatment, and the DA’s office tries to hold the woman who sold it responsible for her death.
- Season 5 · Episode 2
Coma
A part-time newspaper columnist is shot in the head on Riverside Drive, and the investigation zeroes in on the controlling husband she was planning to divorce.
- Season 5 · Episode 15
Seed
A woman shot in a bank leads detectives to a fertility doctor who faked pregnancies and secretly fathered dozens of his patients’ babies.
- Season 5 · Episode 19
Cruel and Unusual
The death of an autistic teenager at the precinct leads to a clinic director whose aversion therapy crossed into abuse.
- Season 7 · Episode 6
Double Blind
A former university janitor is shot with homemade mercury-tipped bullets, and the student who confesses turns out to be a subject in a psychiatrist’s experimental drug study.
- Season 8 · Episode 4
Harvest
A young mother shot during a random street encounter dies on the operating table, and the case widens from the gunman to the transplant surgeon who took her organs.
- Season 8 · Episode 14
Grief
An orderly left for dead in Riverside Park was beaten by brothers who say he raped their sister, and the case leads to a pregnant coma patient and a mother who kept a terrible secret.
- Season 8 · Episode 17
Carrier
The accidental shooting of a teenage girl at a party leads detectives to a young man accused of deliberately infecting girls with HIV, and McCoy pushes a case that tests medical privacy.
- Season 8 · Episode 20
Burden
The death of a 12-year-old quadriplegic boy puts his strained family under suspicion until the trail leads to his doctor, who defends the killing as an act of mercy.
- Season 9 · Episode 16
Harm
The beating of a retired divorce lawyer leads Carmichael to a busy gynecology practice where a patient died after an equipment saleswoman ran an unapproved fluid pump during routine surgery.
- Season 11 · Episode 2
Turnstile Justice
A woman is struck down with a paving stone in a subway station by a psychotic man freed from Rikers Island the night before, and McCoy charges the executive whose company ran the jail’s medical care.
- Season 13 · Episode 21
House Calls
A Russian immigrant model who supports her family dies in a store dressing room, and the trail leads to a self-styled “Doctor to the Stars” who sees patients in a restaurant and pays house calls.
- Season 15 · Episode 6
Cut
A best-selling thriller writer is found dead in a hotel room the day after cosmetic surgery, and the trail leads to her plastic surgeon, who prescribed a painkiller that proved lethal with her antidepressant.
- Season 16 · Episode 6
Birthright
A 16-year-old murder suspect dies in a holding cell, and her autopsy points to a free-clinic nurse who has been quietly sterilizing young women she considers unfit to raise children.
- Season 16 · Episode 19
Positive
A 14-year-old’s attack on a hospital official leads detectives to his little sister’s death from AIDS and to the doctor who secretly gave her an experimental vaccine meant only for animals.
- Season 17 · Episode 11
Remains of the Day
A former street addict collapses and dies in his mother’s hospital room, and the autopsy traces his death to cancer carried in leg-bone grafts taken from corpses without consent.
- Season 19 · Episode 4
Falling
A crane collapse that kills a passerby exposes a bribed inspector, then leads to the near drowning of the dead man’s wife and a fight over a controversial procedure to keep a disabled girl small.
- Season 20 · Episode 20
The Taxman Cometh
An heiress’s heroin death points detectives to a fringe cancer clinic where wealthy patients all died in 2010, the one year their heirs owed no federal estate tax, and to the accountant who sent them there.
- Season 20 · Episode 21
Immortal
A Bronx father’s fatal stabbing exposes a drug company’s hunt for the descendants of a Black man whose cancer cells it has sold for decades without ever paying his family.