Heartwarming / Doc

• "'Tis the Season":
  • Dr. Hebert and Nellie's joy and relief at seeing their baby for the first time. They've been waiting for the birth a long time, and when it finally arrived, it turned into an emergency. However, everything works out all right, and they get to take their little girl home. The episode ends on Dr. Hebert rocking and cuddling his daughter.
  • Dr. Crane has been driving everyone in the clinic nuts with his increasing unbearableness, even lashing out at Doc Cassidy despite his colleague's efforts to reach out to him in light of his medical situation. However, he's actually legitimately, non-maliciously happy during the clinic Christmas party. Later, he and Doc Cassidy end up having to perform an emergency C-section on Mrs. Hebert. Even after the emergency is over, Dr. Crane is friendlier than usual, waxing poetic to Doc about the wonder of a child coming into the world and not chasing him out when Doc tries to provide support while Crane opens his test results.
• In "My Secret Identity", Dr. Hebert goes into a mid-life crisis after receiving an invitation from an older adults' organization, making Nellie fear that he's going to leave her for a younger woman, especially after she sees his young, pretty fitness trainer. When they finally discuss it at the end, Dr. Hebert says he has no plans to trade her in for anyone else, ever. He wants them to grow very old together.
• "On Pins and Needles":
  • Doc Cassidy goes into a Heroic BSoD after his accidentally sticking a nurse with a needle gets her a diagnosis of Hepatitis C, depriving her of her dream of becoming a doctor just after she got into med school. After this minorly affects his work, Dr. Crane confronts him, telling him that there was nothing different he could have done and giving him some advice passed down from Crane's mentor. Even though Crane on some level wants him to get back to normal so that the clinic isn't disrupted, it seems as though he was also trying in his own way to give his nemesis a pep talk.
  • The clinic is up for a prestigious patient-care award that will be decided based on the testimony of a "secret sick person", driving most of the clinic crazy. Tippy wishes she were a doctor so she could help Westbury win. At the end, it turns out that the "secret sick person" came in two weeks before Ms. DeWitt even knew about the competition and her glowing commendation of Tippy's waiting-room manner led to Westbury winning the award, for the first time in Ms. DeWitt's tenure.
• In "Nobody", a baby left on the steps of the clinic becomes ill. The entire office, from Tippy to Dr. Hebert to Dr. Crane, takes turns carrying her around, reading to her, and caressing her.
• "Man's Best Friend"
  • Dr. Crane gets a whole episode of Pet the Dog moments due to bonding with Elliot, who shares his love for Shakespeare and appreciates his summaries. Other than looking down on his coworkers for not "getting" modern art, he doesn't really have a mean moment. He politely asks Doc to tell Justin and Raul when Elliot takes a turn for the worse and when Doc ultimately breaks the rules by bringing Elliot's dog in to see him, Dr. Crane comments that if he can't rely on Dr. Cassidy to break the rules, he can't rely on anyone.
  • Dr. Crane's connection to a museum gets the clinic stuck with two pieces of modern art that everyone else finds too atrocious to bear; some of the patients complain and Nancy ultimately finds the second so ghastly she covers it up with packing paper and duct tape. The curator takes back the art and forces Dr. Crane to resign in a huff over his not recognizing this. Afterwards, the clinic decides to rotate their favorite pieces of art in the same space. Nancy's first choice is an old-style portrait that looks rather like Dr. Crane. He's initially too moved to speak, and when he finally manages a "thank you", he sounds very choked up.
• In one two-parter, Doc encounters a young couple of immigrants, Calixte and Maria, whose lives are derailed when it turns out that Maria is illegal. Initially, Calixte plans to marry her early so that she can stay in America as a citizen's wife. However, a lawyer Doc hires to help tells him that one way or another, Maria will have to be sent back to her old country for a while, though being a citizen's wife would shorten the waiting period to a year. Calixte then decides to go back to the old country with her and eventually return as husband and wife, saying that he'd rather be in Haiti with her than anywhere else without her.