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- Season 5

(2004)

Tippy and Captain Doss' wedding day is readily approaching.

Dr. Crane gets a surprise when his old girlfriend, Dr. Gwen Hall, wants to work at the clinic to help get some grants approved. An old patient of Clint's, Rick Fulton, wakes up to find that his daughter is unsure of whether to hug him. Rick later becomes upset when he learns that his wife has had to run the car dealer ship by herself for seven years while her husband was in a coma and has made a huge success of the business. Dr. Crane becomes upset when he learns that Dr. Hall approved someone else's grant before his.

Derek believes he has glaucoma because his blood pressure is too high and he might be losing his sight. Dr. Crane wants to know how Tippy comes up with the sayings that grace the board in the waiting room because he can't come up with any himself.

Clint and Westbury take on a new challenge, with the help of Marcia Rodich who wants to teach African doctors how to operate on children in Africa over the Internet. Meanwhile Tippy and Dr. Crane going to be starring in a play called "The Servant who would be King." But after Barbara, Dr. Crane's leading lady, suddenly quits the play he is shocked to find that Tippy is his leading lady. Later, Major Doss watches his wife in action but begins to get worried when the eccentric director shows Dr. Crane exactly what he is looking for in his leading man.

Clint is asked to help Hank gets his job as a hospital security guard back after being accused of letting a member of the press in to take a picture of the famous actor Parker Pittman after he is found dead in the operating room.

Nate and Major Doss start their own family lineage business.

Nancy feels her life is in a rut. She and Clint go on a ride with the New York Emergency Medical Services Team. Dr. Crane treats a patient for panic attacks but later learns maybe all his patient needs is change in her life.

Nancy is invited to travel with friends to New Zealand. Tragedy is about to strike the clinic as they get word of a plane crash. Colleagues at Westbury start to grieve for Nancy as Derek finds that all the passengers on the flight have perished. What they don't realize is that Nancy missed the flight. Raul has to write a paper on whether under God belongs in the pledge of allegiance as he does his research he learns why the First Amendment was written. His teacher Mr. Adams doesn't agree with what Raul wrote on his paper.

Nancy plans to leave the clinic to offer services in a Third-World country. Clint wrestles with whether to propose to Nancy or head back to Montana to take over Harley's practice with Sarah. Raul faces his own crisis when he learns he has diabetes. Tippy learns that she is pregnant and wants to name the baby after Clint or Nancy.