Directed by Creator/JohnWhitesell

Written by Creator/EdZuckerman & Creator/DavidBlack

A teenage girl named Suzanne Morton dies in a hospital emergency room during a busy night shift. Her father, a former medic himself, says she only came in with a fever and accuses the hospital of negligence. Detectives Mike Logan and Max Greevey are called in to investigate. They soon discover a doctor made adjustments to her chart about which medication she was given, and from that are led to Dr. Edward Auster, one of the most experienced and respected doctors at the hospital. They find out from several witnesses that he was in fact a heavy drinker, and from what several of the other doctors there on the night Suzanne died said assume that he was drunk on duty and gave her the wrong medication, which killed her.

Unfortunately, the other residents are reluctant to speak for fear their jobs may be in jeopardy, and [=EADA=] Ben Stone is faced with the awkward job of prosecuting a revered physician. The trial quickly turns into question of whether Dr. Auster is still able to perform his duties competantly whilst under the influence of what he claims is a small amount of alcohol, and Stone has trouble proving he isn't. However, during a recess in the trial, Greevey notices that Auster had a fair bit to drink at lunch. He tells Stone, and during cross-examination, Stone asks Auster if he's had anything to drink. Auster replies in the affirmative, and Stone then asks him to perform a test police officers use on suspected drunk drivers - namely, attempting to touch his nose with his eyes closed. He fails miserably, and is found guilty.
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!!This episode contains examples of:
* TheAlcoholic: Edward Auster
** Cragen in his backstory as well
** Stone did as well, at the end of the episode. His questions of Auster after the lunch break came from Stone's father's drinking habits.
* IdiotBall: On trial where his alleged alcoholism is a key factor, what does Dr. Auster do during the recess for lunch? Go to a bar and down ''six'' glasses of bourbon in the span of less than an hour.
* OutlivingOnesOffspring: Mr. Morton accuses the hospital of murdering his daughter.
* PoliticallyIncorrectHero: In discussing the suspects with Cragen, Greevey casually refers to the doctor from the Indian subcontinent as "[[Film/GungaDin Gunga Din]]".[[note]]Ironically, the original poem was from the point-of-view of a British soldier realising that the titular Gunga Din, an Indian servant who died to save him despite the narrator abusing him, was a better man than him[[/note]]
* PoliticallyIncorrectVillain: Downplayed, but the defence attorney's only questions for the same doctor (who is from Pakistan) consist solely of asking him if he knows where Auster was trained (Harvard) and how long Auster has been a doctor, then asking where he was trained (Peshawhar) and how long he has been a doctor, making zero comments on his answers, implying he thinks the doctor's statements shouldn't hold merit simply due to him being educated in his home country.
* RippedFromTheHeadlines: The episode was based on the case of Libby Zion, whose death in 1984 led to a New York State law limiting working hours for medical residents.
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