[1] Dr. Sam Bennett, or "Dr. Feelgood" as he's known to patients across the globe, is another founding partner of the Oceanside Wellness Group and the practice's internist.
Oceanside Wellness Group, with its co-operative and whole-body approach to medicine, is illustrative of the views advocated in the book.
Sam is thrown when he sees Dee kissing the married Raymond and realizes they're having an affair.
Raymond replies that he is proud of that man, he and Sam shaking hands to part on good terms.
In "The Other Side of This Life", Sam professes to Addison that he had "no good reason" for requesting the divorce.
In the episode, In Which We Meet Addison, a Nice Girl From Somewhere Else, Sam states that he was "unhappy" and wanted Naomi to fight for their relationship.
Although Sam and Naomi called the conference-room sex a "slip up," the couple sleep together again in In Which Cooper Finds a Port In His Storm.
In the episode In Which Addison Finds the Magic, Naomi states that Maya had asked to spend the entire week at Sam's home.
It was revealed in season 3, episode 7 of Private Practice that Sam and Addison might be harboring feelings for each other after sharing a kiss at the end of a terrifying ordeal.
Sam deals with this much better than Naomi, even supporting the marriage between Maya and Dink (the father), though he is certainly not pleased with the circumstances.
During the season 4 opener Sam and Addison's relationship seemed to have not worked out, but at the end of the episode they are sharing a bathtub, showing that they are a couple indeed.
Shawna Malcom of the Los Angeles Times deemed Sam and Bailey her favourite pairing of the Grey's Anatomy and Private Practice crossover, praising: "The grief he gave her about becoming a pediatric surgeon … the grief she gave him for letting ex-wife Naomi go and wind up in the arms of Archer … the fist bump.