Vera Juarez Doctor Vera Juarez was a surgeon at City General Hospital in the 21st century and briefly a member of Torchwood . She was also Rex Matheson ' s lover and his personal doctor / spy for info gathering . Biography . Miracle Day . In March 2011 , she performed emergency surgery on Rex Matheson , correcting damage to his pericardium , major veins and arteries . She also alerted Esther Drummond to the medical miracle going on around the world . Through her contacts at various hospitals around the United States and Great Britain , she was able to determine that no one had died for over twenty - four hours — a statistical impossibility . ( TV : " The New World " ) The following day , Juarez was overseeing her ER when she had a revelation : the nature of the miracle meant that the entire triage system was now backwards , due to patients being unable to die . Long - term care was now the priority ; patients in " critical " condition would have to be temporarily ignored in favour of getting patients with minor injuries out of the medical system . Hoping to spread this insight , Juarez attended a conference in Washington DC , where she realised that infections would become disastrous due to being able to indefinitely grow inside never - dying hosts . While there , she received a call from Rex , who explained that the only mortal man on Earth had been poisoned with arsenic , and talked Rex and Gwen Cooper through treatment . Once the man , Jack Harkness , had been stabilized , Rex asked Juarez to meet him at the airport when he returned . On her way out , Juarez was accosted by Jilly Kitzinger , who mentioned that Juarez would need to work to repeal legislature restricting antibiotic access and offered Juarez her card . At the airport , Juarez only briefly met Rex , who was being pursued by the CIA , before being left behind . ( TV : " Rendition " ) Later on , Rex , who had joined Torchwood , broke into Vera ' s house for help , as his wound was getting worse . She helped him and Rex proceeded to have sex with her . He then offended her , causing her to throw him out of her house , but later decided to help him infiltrate PhiCorp . ( TV : " Dead of Night " ) She later witnessed Ellis Hartley Monroe and Oswald Danes battle it out for popularity , which disgusted her . ( TV : " Escape to LA " ) Death . After the new categories of life were released and the medical panels were disbanded , Vera decided to join Torchwood — a rag - tag band made up of ex - Torchwood Three and ex - CIA members — to stop the Miracle . Vera went under cover inspecting an overflow camp , despite Rex ' s concerns , but was shot at the leg and the shoulder and put into a module with Category 1 individuals by Colin Maloney after threatening to prosecute him for not looking after the patients in the overflow camp correctly . The modules were actually ovens and the Category 1 patients were being burnt alive . Maloney switched on the module , burning alive all the patients , including Vera . ( TV : " The Categories of Life " ) Vera ' s death was later exposed by Rex and Esther following their escape from the camp . While this prompted the White House to launch an official investigation into the San Pedro camp , the policy for handling category ones was left unchanged . ( TV : " The Middle Men " )