Synopsis

With no physician present and the nursing staff severely depleted, nurse Lynn Buchanan elected to administer medication to alleviate a patient’s suffering. The patient subsequently died, and Nurse Buchanan was suspended, despite the doctor's notes containing no prohibition against such action. This incident proved the final provocation for the remaining nurses, who then initiated a strike. Asten urged Quincy to conduct an unusually thorough autopsy, as Quincy’s own wife had been treated at the s