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PRIVATE PRACTICE - "Playing God" - The man responsible for endangering Maya's life and killing Dell shows up at Oceanside Wellness with a heart condition, and Sam struggles with his responsibility to help; contrary to Violet's warnings, Pete volunteers at a friend's home medical clinic and ultimately puts a patient's life at risk; and news of Addison's new romance doesn't go over well, on "Private Practice," THURSDAY, OCTOBER 7 (10:01-11:00 p.m., ET) on the ABC Television Network. (ABC/RON TOM)TIM DALY, AUDRA MCDONALD
Playing God
Season 4 | Episode 3 | Aired 10/7/10
Pete’s old war buddy, Gibby, runs a medical clinic out of his house. Shockingly, he also performs surgery in a back room. Violet thinks Gibby has a God complex. Pete believes he’s just helping people who are out of options. But the line between helping people and doing the right thing get blurred when a young girl is shot. The patient will die without the proper medical help, so Pete calls 911.

An ambulance takes the wounded girl away. Pete knows Gibby went too far. He promises to call the cops on his old friend if he ever opens another clinic. Still, Pete can’t shake that desire to help people who are truly in need. He and Violet agree to find a way for Pete to do some emergency room shifts a few days a week. That’ll work.

Naomi knows that the day Sam let that patient die was the beginning of the end for them. They’d never kept secrets before that. But she tells Addison that her relationship with Sam is NOT the beginning of the end for them. Whew!

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  • PRIVATE PRACTICE - "Playing God" - The man responsible for endangering Maya's life and killing Dell shows up at Oceanside Wellness with a heart condition, and Sam struggles with his responsibility to help; contrary to Violet's warnings, Pete volunteers at a friend's home medical clinic and ultimately puts a patient's life at risk; and news of Addison's new romance doesn't go over well, on "Private Practice," THURSDAY, OCTOBER 7 (10:01-11:00 p.m., ET) on the ABC Television Network. (ABC/ADAM LARKEY) TAYE DIGGS, KATE WALSH
  • PRIVATE PRACTICE - "Playing God" - The man responsible for endangering Maya's life and killing Dell shows up at Oceanside Wellness with a heart condition, and Sam struggles with his responsibility to help; contrary to Violet's warnings, Pete volunteers at a friend's home medical clinic and ultimately puts a patient's life at risk; and news of Addison's new romance doesn't go over well, on "Private Practice," THURSDAY, OCTOBER 7 (10:01-11:00 p.m., ET) on the ABC Television Network. (ABC/RON TOM) TIM DALY, AMY BRENNEMAN, PAUL ADELSTEIN
  • PRIVATE PRACTICE - "Playing God" - The man responsible for endangering Maya's life and killing Dell shows up at Oceanside Wellness with a heart condition, and Sam struggles with his responsibility to help; contrary to Violet's warnings, Pete volunteers at a friend's home medical clinic and ultimately puts a patient's life at risk; and news of Addison's new romance doesn't go over well, on "Private Practice," THURSDAY, OCTOBER 7 (10:01-11:00 p.m., ET) on the ABC Television Network. (ABC/RON TOM) DAVID GRANT WRIGHT
  • PRIVATE PRACTICE - "Playing God" - The man responsible for endangering Maya's life and killing Dell shows up at Oceanside Wellness with a heart condition, and Sam struggles with his responsibility to help; contrary to Violet's warnings, Pete volunteers at a friend's home medical clinic and ultimately puts a patient's life at risk; and news of Addison's new romance doesn't go over well, on "Private Practice," THURSDAY, OCTOBER 7 (10:01-11:00 p.m., ET) on the ABC Television Network. (ABC/RON TOM) PAUL ADELSTEIN