Doctor Finlay - Season 3 (1995)

Dr. Napier starts to promote women's health issues by holding seminars and giving out information to her new patients. She particularly wants to ensure that they know about various approaches to birth control. Doctor Finlay is supportive but warns her to go slow. Not surprisingly, she gets a somewhat frosty reception from some of the older members of the community but some of the younger women seem more receptive to what she has to say. She also treats Greta Johnstone, someone who for years has suffered humiliation and pain for a condition that can easily be corrected...

Angus Livingston and Dr. Cameron have a set to over a prescription the Doctor wrote. As a result of Cameron's scribbles, Angus gave a larger dose that he wanted. Neither agree to back down on the matter and Janet finds herself stuck between them with both expecting her support. Doctor Finlay is concerned when a new arrival in Tannochbrae, Michael, is severely beaten by three local ruffians who believe he is a homosexual. Michael works as a cook for Findlay's childhood friend George Renfrew who is afraid to call the police as it may bring his own sexual preferences ...

When Dr. Finlay is called to the manse by Rev. Derek Gill, he arrives to find Martha Manderston, a teenager, in obvious discomfort on his sofa. Although discreet and avoiding any comment, he clearly comes to conclusions about just what Martha and Gill may have been up to and casts a wary eye on the older, but apparently not wiser, man of the cloth. When Martha comes to visit him at Arden House one evening, he realizes he may have gotten the wrong end of the stick. With Angus ill, Janet arranges for a temporary chemist to take over the shop for a few days. Dr. Napier ...

Dr. Napier continues to lament that most of her patients are women and children but John feels it's up to her to establish herself in the community. When she's told that her first patient of the day, Mrs. Kennedy, is a bit of a fusspot she only cursorily checks her son who is anything but cooperative. When she is later called to the house because of his worsening condition, she realizes the boy has diphtheria. Everyone is pleased beyond words when Brenda Maitland, John Finlay's one time fiancée shows up to help immunize the local children. At the chemists, Angus is ...