Steph was set to be in charge of Ward 17 for several months when Terri went on a retreat; however, on the second day into her new role, she died in a terrible car accident.
Several seasons later, this uncle is being rushed to emergency surgery after being brutally attacked in prison, and begs Bron and his daughter for forgiveness.
Bron got in a massive amount of debt to her bookie and when she couldn't pay him back immediately, he demanded that she steal pethadine from the hospital.
Luke's father was also involved with shady characters and is stabbed when gangsters show up at his garage wanting repayment for a loan.
Terri's order suggested she move out on her own for a while before she came to this realization, and during this time she was stalked by a former patient Neil Phillips (who had been diagnosed with Munchausen Syndrome) who stole several things from her apartment, broke in and decorated a Christmas tree, and sent her a beautiful dress for the hospital ball.
After Terri re-entered public life she warily began dating Malcolm Pussle, a surgical registrar, but always mourned the loss of her relationship with Mitch, who had by then married Rose and had a baby with her.
He had a CT scan and discovered he that a brain tumour which causing his irrational outbursts and memory problems (he started hallucinating Rose showing up at the hospital and yelling at a nurse he thought was her).
Lucy's mum, Rose is murdered shortly after Mitch's death, and her grandmother Victoria who was looking after her for a couple of years dies in surgery.
While sitting her RN exams, a woman is struck by a car when the students are coming in from a break, and Von stays to administer CPR.
After a negligence hearing before the board following a patient falling in the ED and sustaining a head injury, Von leaves to work in Admin for a while.
During one of Von's outpatient visits that a patient with the mental capacity of a 6-year-old (due to an accident as a child) locked her in his bathroom so she would stay and play word games with him.
Mitch opted to have a risky surgery in an attempt to remove the tumour, and although he survived the initial procedure he died following complications.
Nelson has a difficult time coping with Kerry's murder and eventually shows up at Frank's house asking him to section him (get him admitted to a psych ward), so he can get well and be a dad to his daughter.
She told Rhiannon later that "she'd spent years convincing herself that she was gay [because she'd left Vincent for a woman], but realized it was the person you fall in love with, not the gender.
"[3] She had several rescue dogs whom she loved, but one of them had to be put down after he bit a neighbour, and the others were murdered by Vincent's deranged stalker, Beth Chandler, in a later season.
After finding out Travis is dying (of Wilson's disease, not HIV as he suspected), he agrees to help they eventually go forward with the court case only to have it be delayed.
Jack gets his life back in order and moves into the spare room at Gabrielle's place after he starts feeling like a third wheel around Dan and Erica.
Near the end of season 11, Jack treats a patient with mercury poisoning, but because of a computer switch-over, he can't get the lab results to calculate the dosage of the chelation therapy.
He jumps to a worst-case scenario of what's wrong, scaring the patient's wife into not wanting him to run anymore tests, but things get sorted out.
Jessica comes from a solid, happy, thoroughly middle-class family - her dad is a surveyor, her mum is a housewife, and brother Adrian is studying to become an architect.
After having a small breakdown (likely fueled by the friendship she has with her wild, flirty friend Jo Henderson) and ending up in the ED with a GHB overdose.
Dan's father collapses from a heart attack while they are visiting, and while Erica takes charge during CPR while waiting on the ambulance, his mother insists that only family come to the hospital.
Erica was originally going to be found alive, but after the actor playing Dan Mark Priestly died tragically in August 2008, the ending was re-shot.
Dan and Erica almost call off their wedding due to them both working an unexpected night shift right before it was supposed to take place, but decide to go through with it after a few choice words from Frank.
The original plan was to have her found alive, but the end of this episode was re-written after the tragic death of Mark Priestley, so his character could be written off the show.
During this time he had to routinely undergo drug checks and attend regular counselling sessions with Sonia Moore (played by Lucy Bell).
He burns his romantic bridges with Gabrielle, whom he loved dearly and will always have a soft spot for, but comes to the point where he has been able to forgive himself for the sins of his past and look to a more promising future.
Her younger years were tainted with alcohol-fuelled rages from her father, and Claire made the mistake of falling in love with a man who had very similar tendencies.
She has not yet found her professional feet in a new health system and had been agency nursing for a few months now while she looking for the right permanent position in the right place, which ended up being in All Saints.
She's had a few relationships but most have ended prematurely with the man in her life finding her strength and independence, often the things that attracted them to her in the first place, too hard to handle in the long run.