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Three Rivers · S1 · E2

Ryan's First Day

  • TV-14
  • Oct 11, 2009
  • 44 min

An 18-year old in need of a double-lung transplant, struggles to survive as the team runs into an obstacle that may prevent her from being eligible for the procedure.

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About this episode

An 18-year old in need of a double-lung transplant, struggles to survive as the team runs into an obstacle that may prevent her from being eligible for the procedure.

Season 1

13 episodes
  1. 1Place of Life

    44 minOct 4, 2009

    After suffering a heart attack, Andy tells a young pregnant woman that in order to save her and her unborn child she must get a heart transplant. However, unexpected complications with the donor's family place the transplant in jeopardy.

  2. 2Ryan's First Day

    44 minOct 11, 2009Now viewing

    An 18-year old in need of a double-lung transplant, struggles to survive as the team runs into an obstacle that may prevent her from being eligible for the procedure.

  3. 3Good intentions

    44 minOct 18, 2009

    Claiming he has turned his life around, Andy (Alex O'Loughlin) convinces UNOS to give a former drug addict names Scott (Shiloh Fernandez) a new heart.

  4. 4Code Green

    44 minOct 25, 2009

    Following a bus crash, the parents of a football player must make a heartbreaking decision whether to donate his organs. Meanwhile, Andy and Ryan rush to find a procurement team to give a boy a heart transplant he desperately needs.

  5. 5Alone Together

    44 minNov 1, 2009

    In order to save his life, Andy tries a risky new procedure on his wife's partner who suffers from an aortic aneurysm.

  6. 6Where We Lie

    44 minNov 8, 2009

    Lisa becomes very attached to an 8-year-old boy who she witnesses being crushed by a ride at a fair. Meanwhile, Andy and David try to get a VAD (ventricular assist device) for one of their patients.

  7. 7The Luckiest Man

    44 minNov 15, 2009

    Andy and Sophia treat a car crash victim named Victor dying from ALS who asks to be to taken off of life support so his organs can be used to save others. Meanwhile, David tends to a foster parent with pulmonary hypertension who refuses admission to the hospital.

  8. 8The Kindness of Strangers

    44 minNov 22, 2009

    The wife of a billionaire suffers the consequences after a setback leaves her without a new liver and her husband resorts to buying one on the black market. Meanwhile, a friend from Andy's past resurfaces.

  9. 9Win-Loss

    44 minJun 5, 2010

    When a woman's husband needs a new kidney, she contemplates beginning a "Daisy Chain"; which means she will donate a kidney to someone and they in turn will donate their kidney until the chain is completed with her husband getting his kidney. Andy is not sure he wants to support such an action and he is concerned that another patient is rejecting his recently transplanted heart.

  10. 10A Roll of the Dice

    44 minJun 12, 2010

    A firefighter must decide whether to be a living donor to her captain, a man who has mistreated her. Meanwhile, Andy's uncle turns up with a stab wound and asks him not to report the incident for fear it will violate his parole.

  11. 11Every Breath You Take

    44 minJun 19, 2010

    When Dr. Luc Bovell returns to Three Rivers, Andy is annoyed at his rival's status and popularity since he is rude to his patients.

  12. 12Case Histories

    44 minJun 26, 2010

    An plane accident leaves a Korean woman blind, requiring a cornea transplant. A woman discovers that she is not pregnant and, instead, suffers from Ascitis. Miranda does everything to save her. Andy is bothered with Luke for trying to experiment with one of his patients.

  13. 13Status 1A

    44 minJul 3, 2010

    Andy puts his patient Kuol at the top of the donor list to receive a new heart after his condition takes a turn for the worse. His transplant is put in jeopardy when police threaten to seize the money raised for Kuol's surgery.

Guest stars

Marina Sirtis
Hillary Tuck
P.J. Byrne
D. C. Douglas
Janina Gavankar
Bernard White
Sabra Williams
Michael Mosley
Rizwan ManjiDr. Dev