Sent out in pairs, the students shadow an emergency medical team, do shifts in a hospital ER, attend to a street kid with frostbite, and keep a watchful eye on Mylo, a teenage cancer patient who has a steroid induced vision during a First Nations Full Moon Ceremony.

Gary gets a taste of northern justice with a side helping of racism, Cameron and Gina find out drug addiction isn't just for the young, Eva and Mel try to talk Mylo into resuming chemo, and Charlie's marital counseling session implodes.

Charlie and Gary rescue a lumberjack with severed fingers. Gina and Cameron come face to face with an elderly, over-prescribing doctor, and Farida deals with the death of a patient and close friend. Nancy suspects two monks of having AIDS.