physician and patient

Dr. Michael Stein provides an account of the treatment, relapse, and long-term recovery of Lucy, a young woman who came to him for help in ridding herself of a prescription drug addiction, and provides insights into how doctors think about addiction, their decision-making process, and how addiction should be regarded and treated.

Forty-three-year-old surgeon Dr. Ted Cogan struggles to clear his name when he is accused of statutory rape and manslaughter after seventeen-year-old and former patient Kristen Kroiter kills herself, leaving behind a diary that provides details describing a sexual encounter.

While prison psychiatrist Louise Forrest tries to help female inmate Helen--who blames the voices in her head for the murders of her children and believes that Hollywood starlet Angie Mills is her sister--she copes with her own problems with the actress, who coincidentally is dating her ex-husband and caring for her son.

A sick child is afraid of going to the doctor, but when her father takes her and she takes her medicine, she begins to feel better quickly.