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The Worst Episodes of Dr. G: Medical Examiner

Dr. G: Medical Examiner documents cases handled by deputy chief medical examiner Dr. Jan C. Garavaglia (aka Dr. G) of Florida's District Nine Medical Examiner's...

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    #1 - Death on the Road

    S2:E1

    A 48-year-old man is found in motel room hundreds of miles from home with his head blown off by a shotgun. Clues found in the room point to suicide, but an additional shotgun shell and blood inconsistent with the man’s wounds suggest foul play. It is up to Dr. G to piece together this puzzle. Dr. G and forensic technician Gene Conus give a tour of the morgue and explain how certain tools and procedures work. A 66-year-old man is killed in a car accident while driving to his daughter’s house. The man’s wife feels guilty since he was making the drive as a favor to her, but she suspects that his heart condition may have played a role in the crash. Dr. G works to find whether the man would have died from natural causes regardless of the injuries he received in the accident.

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    #2 - The Mourning After

    S2:E2

    A 43-year-old man’s ex-wife finds him face-down in a hotel bathtub on the morning that they were supposed to embark on a cruise. The ex-wife reports that the man was shivering violently before his apparent drowning. When Dr. G concludes that the man did not drown, she must delve deeper to find the real cause of death. After a night of partying, a 29-year-old man is found dead in bed by his father. A bag of pills and a bottle of liquor are found in the room, but the father insists that his son did not abuse drugs or alcohol. Will Dr. G’s findings bring piece of mind for the grieving parents?

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    #3 - A Shot in the Dark

    S2:E3

    While at the apartment of a longtime friend, a 24-year-old man is shot in the head. The friend claims they were examining his gun collection when a gun was knocked off the ironing board and went off when it hit the floor. Everyone in the apartment was intoxicated at the time of the shooting. It is up to Dr. G to determine whether this was in an honest mishap or an intentional shooting. Dr. G shares professional insights about the causes of car accident fatalities including speeding, improper use of seatbelts, and intoxication. A 32-year-old man suffers a heart attack at the hospital and dies a week later. The hospital finds traces of amphetamine (also known as speed) in the man’s urine and concludes that the man’s heart attack was due to amphetamine abuse. The man’s mother claims that he would never use illegal drugs. Dr. G must find out whether drug abuse actually played a role in the man’s death.

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    #4 - Prescription For Change

    S2:E4

    A 42-year-old woman dies at a friend’s house. The woman was depressed and abusing prescription drugs. Her supply of pills was depleted when her body was found, so it seems to be a suicide attempt. Dr. G must determine whether the woman’s death was an accident or a suicide. Paramedics respond to a man’s 911 call to find his 55-year-old wife unconscious in a hotel room. The woman inexplicably dies on the way to the hospital. The woman has no medical history, but Dr. G can tell that she was not in good health. There is also a narcotic ulcer on the woman’s foot indicating a bacterial infection. Only Dr. G’s autopsy will reveal what caused the woman to die.

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    #5 - Burning Questions

    S2:E5

    After a night of drinking, a 23-year-old man is found dead in a burning car in a parking garage. Since the man was not able to get out of the car, investigators hypothesize that he was dead or unconscious when the fire started. Dr. G and crime scene investigators work to find out how the man died and who or what started the fire. A 58-year-old man suffering from kidney failure dies in the hospital with his ex-wife by his side. The hospital marks the cause of death as kidney disease, but the man’s roommate claims that he was strangled by his ex-wife. Dr. G must either confirm or deny the roommate’s accusations.

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    #6 - A Fatal Attraction

    S2:E6

    This episode looks at two of Dr. G’s past cases involving domestic abuse. A 30-year old man and his 35-year-old girlfriend are found dead in a car in the parking lot of a church. Both victims were stabbed to death. Dr. G’s autopsy of the female victim shows that she was brutally attacked, and the violent nature of her death suggests a crime of passion. The male victim, who was stabbed in the heart, has additional injuries that suggest suicide. Was this a murder-suicide, or was a third party involved? A 50-year-old sheriff’s deputy is shot in the head by his girlfriend. The woman claims self defense, but everyone who knew the man claims that he was not a violent person. The couple had a rocky relationship, and they had been known to threaten each other with guns. Can Dr. G determine whether or not the shooting was really self defense?

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    #7 - The Things Men Do

    S2:E7

    An overturned pickup truck is discovered by the side of the highway with a deceased 24-year-old man inside. The victim was not wearing his seatbelt, but the external trauma does not seem fatal. Dr. G expects to find serious internal injuries, but is surprised by the results of her autopsy. In the Texas desert north of the Mexican border, two men flag down a motorist and flee after leading him to the decaying body of a 20-year-old man. No suspicious items on are found on the body other than a bag of an illegal drug called dipyrone from Mexico. Other belongings found with the victim indicate that he was on a hiking trip in the desert. Dr. G must find out whether or not the man met with foul play. Also, a look at the techniques and routines of Dr. G’s medical investigators.

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    #8 - Truth of the Matter

    S2:E8

    A 35-year-old woman is shot by her husband on a hunting trip. The husband claims it was an accident, but fatalities due to hunting accidents are statistically unlikely. Also making the man look suspicious is the fact that he and his wife were recently in marriage counseling. It’s up to Dr. G to find out whether foul play was involved. Dr. G and her co-workers speculate as to why men are more likely than women to fall victim to accidents resulting from stupidity. A 38-year-old man dies at home two weeks after suffering a severe beating. The man had numerous medical problems including alcoholism and sorosis of the liver. If the man died from complications of the beating, then his death would be considered a homicide. Dr. G must find out whether the man’s death was a result of the attack or brought about by something else.

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    #9 - Truth of the Matter

    S2:E9

    A 53-year-old Vietnam veteran is taken to the hospital after shooting himself in the head. Eighteen days after surviving the suicide attempt, the man is found dead in the bed at the hospital. An external examination shows that the man had constricted pupils, which means that he could have died from a drug overdose. Dr. G must open the body to see if the man made another attempt to take his own life. Three days after going on a drinking binge, a 32-year-old mother is found dead in her apartment with a white frothy fluid foaming from her mouth. The woman had also recently suffered complications from gastric bypass surgery. Dr. G must find out what caused the young mother’s untimely death.

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    #10 - Paths of Destruction

    S2:E10

    A 27-year-old mentally challenged man collapses while eating lunch and dies soon afterwards. The family believes he choked while unsupervised, and they wonder if they could have done something to save him. Dr. G hopes to answer their question with her autopsy, and ends up finding something she has never before seen in the history of her career. After disappearing for five days, a 45-year-old man is found decomposing in his unlocked apartment. Ten years earlier, he suffered a severe back injury while doing construction work and has suffered from chronic pain ever since. He was known to abuse alcohol. Syringes, prescription painkillers, and beer bottles were found in the man’s trashcan. Did the man intentionally take his own life? Dr. G must take this body to the “Decomp Room” to get to the bottom of the case.

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    #11 - Needle in the Haystack

    S2:E11

    A woman shoots her abusive husband and claims self-defense. The angle of the gunshot wound and other conflicting details with the woman’s story seem to suggest that she is lying. The woman is indicted and the medical investigation seems to be over. However, the case is later re-opened when witnesses claim the man was very ill near his time of death. Did the man’s wife, or possibly someone else, try to poison the man before he was shot? A 44-year-old diabetic woman is found dead and naked in the trailer of a convicted sex offender. There are no external clues to suggest that the woman was raped or murdered. Dr. G must open the body to see what caused the woman’s death. Was she murdered, did she overdose on drugs, or did she die of natural causes?

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    #12 - A Lingering Question

    S2:E12

    A 34-year-old woman is brought into the morgue with her body covered in a strange rash. She came down with the illness a week before her death and eventually died in the hospital despite being treated with antibiotics. Two weeks before the woman died, she reported being bitten by a stranger who kissed her in a bar and believed that was how she contracted the illness. With a cervical cancer relapse and chicken pox as possible culprits, Dr. G must conduct an internal examination. A 56-year-old man dies after suffering an apparent epileptic seizure in his yard. At first it seems as if the man died of Sudden Unexpected Death In Epilepsy, but Dr. G’s autopsy reveals that epilepsy was not the only condition putting the man’s health at risk.

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    #13 - Kiss of Death?

    S2:E13

    A 39-year-old quadriplegic woman is found dead in a park over 100 feet away from her wheelchair. Marks on the ground indicate that she may have been dragged across the park. It’s up to Dr. G to determine whether the woman was a victim of foul play of if she died of something else. A 50-year-old man dies en route to the hospital. Then man was diabetic and had a bad heart, but he had recently been suffering from back and shoulder aches and a sore throat. Dr. G. must find out whether he died from a long term health problem or complications from his recent ailment.

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    #14 - The Desperate Crossing

    S2:E14

    Dr. G tries to unravel a case in which a quadriplegic woman was found dead in a park, 150 feet away from her motorized wheelchair.

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    #15 - Dangerous Forces

    S2:E15

    A young girl collapses and dies while with her family in a wave pool at a theme park, and Dr. G must determine the cause.

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    #16 - Poison Control

    S2:E16

    Dr. G must determine whether a decomposed body found in a van was murdered, a suicide or a victim of an accidental drug overdose. Another case involves the body of a homeless man found in the back of a car.

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    #17 - A Most Terrible Tragedy

    S2:E17

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    #18 - Deadly Adventure

    S2:E18

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    #19 - A Fatal Mistake

    S3:E1

    A 12-year-old girl collapses and dies at an Orlando water park. With the case thrust into the national media, Dr. G is under pressure to determine if the girl’s death had anything to do with the nature of the rides at the amusement parks she visited.A 45-year-old widow is found dead and nude next to her ATV at her ranch outside of Orlando. The woman was known to have been a heavy drinker, and foul play is a possibility. Dr. G must get to the bottom of this woman’s unexplained death.

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    #20 - Deadly Consequences

    S3:E2

    A 45-year-old construction foreman is found dead and decomposing in his van. Earlier in the week, the man had been hit in the head by a board at work. In addition to this, the man owed friends money and was reportedly a methamphetamine user. With a head injury, foul play, and drug overdose as possible culprits, Dr. G must take this case to the morgue’s decomposition room. A homeless man is found dead and bloody in the back of his car. While removing the body, one of the medical investigators rips his glove and gets the dead man’s blood on an open cut. Not only must Dr. G find the cause of death, she must also find out whether her medical investigator is at risk of contracting a blood borne illness. A 30-year-old woman is found dead and bruised in a drainage ditch. The woman was a recovering heroin addict, and the area she was found in was known to be popular spot for drug users. Dr. G must find out if the woman fell victim to foul play.

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    #21 - Deadly Arrest

    S3:E3

    A 21-year-old man arrives at his friends’ house, apparently drunk, and spends the night on the couch. The man is found dead the next morning. The man had attempted suicide multiple times in the past, and was known to abuse alcohol and Xanax. Dr. G must determine whether the man killed himself, accidentally died from a deadly combination of drugs, or died from some other cause.A hotel manager is found dead at the bottom of the stairs of his living quarters. At first it appears that the man accidentally fell, but wounds are found that could be consistent with an assault. Adding to the suspicion of investigators, the man was not popular in town. With possible evidence and motive, Dr. G must determine whether foul play was involved in the man’s death.Also, Dr. G accepts a marriage proposal from her old med-school sweetheart.

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    #22 - On the Run

    S3:E4

    A 45-year-old man with full blown AIDS collapses and dies in a bar a week after being treated at the hospital for a throat infection. In addition to medical problems, the man was known to abuse drugs and alcohol. Dr. G must do an autopsy to find the cause of death, and to see if the hospital missed key diagnosis that could have saved the man’s life.A 40-year-old man with kidney disease is found dead at home in a pool of blood with his wrist slashed. The case appears to be a suicide at first, but Dr. G’s examination of the wound reveals that it is a ruptured dialysis fistula.Dr. G prepares for her upcoming wedding.

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    #23 - Old Wounds Run Deep

    S3:E5

    A 30-year-old man dies after being subdued by police. The man was known to abuse drugs and had been hinting at suicide. Dr. G must do an autopsy to determine whether or not the man’s death was the result of police brutality.An 18-year-old woman dies a week after having what seems to be a miscarriage. Dr. G must determine whether the woman’s death was a result of complications from the miscarriage, and if the hospital missed a key diagnosis that could have saved the woman’s life.Also, Dr. G’s wedding day finally arrives.

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    #24 - A Deadly Business

    S3:E6

    A 32-year-old man dies in a group home for mentally challenged adults on Thanksgiving. The man had a history of seizures. With no obvious clues, Dr. G must conduct an autopsy to rule out foul play and determine what caused the man’s untimely death.A burning car is found on the side of the road in which a body has been incinerated. The car was registered to an Irish immigrant whose visa was about to expire. With only a charred torso to work with, Dr. G must identify the victim and determine whether or not foul play was involved.

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    #25 - Dangerous Speeds

    S3:E7

    A 92-year-old man with dementia is discovered dead in his back yard the morning after an ice storm. His front door is standing open and the man has several severe cuts and bruises. Dr. G must determine whether the man fell off his patio or if he was attacked.A 55-year-old man paraplegic man dies at home a week after leaving the hospital. The man has severely infected bedsores, which are a complication of his paralysis. Because the man’s paralysis was the result of a gunshot he received in his 20’s, his death will be considered a homicide if it resulted from the bedsores. Dr. G must find out whether his death was a complication of his paralysis and therefore a homicide, or the result of natural causes.

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Worst Episodes Summary

"Death on the Road" is the worst rated episode of "Dr. G: Medical Examiner". It scored /10 based on 0 votes. Directed by Unknown and written by Unknown, it aired on 7/15/2005. This episode scored 0.0 points lower than the second lowest rated, "The Mourning After".