While preparing for a lecture, Stacy Vasquez finds a racist term on a skin slide, and while learning about Lyme disease in medical school, LaShyra Nolen isn’t satisfied when the professor can’t tell her what the rash would look like on dark skin.

After ending up in the ER for the third time, Rachel Alvarez struggles to understand what’s going on with her health, and as a young adult with muscular dystrophy, Monkol Lek refuses to give up on his ambitions.

Neuroscientist Rebecca Brachman is working late one night alone in the lab when she accidentally sticks herself with a needle full of deadly toxin, and Ali Mustafa finds that the scars of war stay with him even at his new job in the lab.

Documentary filmmaker Caitlin Starowicz is so focused on making her movie about endangered Mountain Gorillas a success that she fails to see what’s in front of her, and for a story on escape rooms, journalist Danny Wicentowski studies the trials, triumphs, and strategies of the players.