Dierdre Friel

Max creates chaos when he volunteers New Amsterdam to take over for a short-staffed neighbouring hospital. Frome has a crisis of conscience about the funding for a hospital garden. An eager resident learns a secret about Bloom.

Max faces the pressure of his first fundraising gala at the hospital. Frome struggles to break difficult news to his daughter. Bloom and Reynolds deal with the fallout of their argument. Kapoor and Sharpe work to help a sick father and son.

When Iggy and Kapoor discover a patient might be suffering from lead poisoning, they are forced to take on the city; Max's unsolicited attempts to help a patient backfire.

Reynolds confronts a troubling experience from his past, while Max turns his attention a frequent-flyer patient, rather than think about chemotherapy. At the same time, Frome comes to the aid of a young man suffering from severe delusions.

Despite his struggles with treatment, Max continues to try and solve the many problems within the hospital. Meanwhile, Reynolds makes the bold decision to do an expensive surgery to pin-point an elusive diagnosis.