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“Paging Dr. God”

Picket Fences returns to the world of religious freedom with the episode “Paging Dr. God.” This time, the show looks at Christian Scientists and their belief that prayer is a better option than medicine.

A pregnant woman starts choking at a restaurant and Jill helps her. She then started going into labor. Jill wants to take her to the hospital, but the husband says that going to the hospital is against their religion.

Jill took her anyway and helped the baby be born. The woman had an attack during the birth. Her husband refused her treatment on her brain and they brought in Judge Bone a second time. The first, he ruled that saving the baby superseded the religion. This time, he said they could not operate on the woman.

Jill did it anyway.

Meanwhile, Zack wants to become Jewish. His teacher had talked about Judaism and Zack liked some of the ideals of the religion. This lead to the school board asking questions about Zack’s teacher.

As always, the religions are presented and it feels like everybody was right. It presented an impossible situation for Henry Bone to decide.