Dr. Turner faces a dilemma as she performs surgery on a Jehovah’s Witness, who has forbidden any blood transfusions; Griffin takes positive steps to blame Birch for the patient’s death;…

Lizzie gets involved with Griffin; a man falls while trying to scale the hospital; Luther befriends a bag lady with Tourette’s Syndrome; and John Doe #6 disappears with Dr. Craig’s…

Mandatory drug testing causes a deep division of opinion; Morrison is haunted by his day at the prison; Axelrod is assigned to guide a 14-year-old medical student around; Griffin gets…

Dr. Fiscus is shot. Afterwards, he experiences the afterlife and meets some old friends. Such people include old patients who died in the hospital, a few in limbo and a…

Fiscus awakens but is deeply depressed, despite a visit from his father; Dr. Craig returns to work and his office, disregarding Dr. Kiem’s feelings; Dr. Westphall decides to stop seeing…

Dr. Westphall tries to help an alcoholic poet he once admired; Dr. Craig puts his usual worst foot forward as he tries to persuade the Soviets to release Masha’s husband;…

Dr. Turner finds her confidence shaken when she learns her new patient, about to undergo a risky transfusion procedure, has a malpractice suit pending at another hospital; Dr. Peltrovich arrives…

Dr. Craig becomes jealous when Dr. Peltrovich is finally allowed to pursue his work with lasers; Fiscus experiences an emotional rollercoaster as he returns to work with a critical leukemia…

Axelrod allows Novino and Griffin to override his judgement; Dr. Kiem worries about her long distance marriage as she tries to help an inseparable couple make a final farewell; Luther…

Novino uncovers a pathologist selling body parts when one of her patients dies; Dr. Westphall learns that Lizzie is pregnant; Chandler and a visiting private practitioner learn something from each…

Novino tangles again with Chandler about admitting a blind street person who’s not really sick; Dr. Auschlander learns he has a son he never knew; the Craigs face their grief…

Rosenthal tries to help her obese daughter cope with her problems; Axelrod’s father brings a dog to the hospital for chemotherapy; Dr. Turner reluctantly reveals the ultrasound results to a…

Morrison testifies at Nick Moat’s parole hearing; Dr. Kiem buries herself in work when she learns her son has taken off from home and is missing; Fiscus diagnoses multiple sclerosis…

Fiscus waits for a woman artificially inseminated with his sperm to give birth; three young men explore life and the hospital to relieve the boredom of their stay; Dr. Westphall…

Shirley Daniels returns to the hospital as a patient; Mrs. Craig offers Griffin a place to stay; Chandler and Novino compete to see who can correctly diagnose a difficult patient;…

The representative of a foreign medical group interested in the hospital visits to absorb the psychic `aura’ of the place (via flashbacks) but collapses from a heart attack before he…

Luther turns sleuth to find out who is responsible for the mercy-killings; Dr. Turner takes a chance doing experimental fetal heart surgery; Axelrod gets back at Novino and Griffin; Morrison…

Auschlander tries to stop the demolition of St. Eligius.

Dr. Craig arranges to take Yvonne home to her parents; Ehrlich advises a plastic surgery patient behind Dr.Caldwell’s back; Capt. Neal arrives to evaluate the astronaut’s condition and to supervise…

Mr. Galecki brings Barbara back to the Craigs; Dr. Turner leaves unexpectedly for her sleepy hometown down South; Rosenthal slaps Lucy; Jack takes his remedial exam and Colonel Cochrane reconciles…

Dr. Westphall learns that his new housekeeper is an illegal immigrant who was tortured by the death squads in El Salvador; a nervous Ehrlich tries to get out of his…

Life goes on as the generator fails during a city-wide blackout; Caldwell takes leave to visit a dying friend; Westphall shares a stuck elevator with an Irishman; Dr. Craig and…

Axelrod tries to keep Santa Claus alive after he collapses at a children’s party; Ehrlich tries to brighten the holiday for his only obstetrical patient; Lizzie’s boy friend finds the…

An anti-abortionist targets the hospital for bomb threats and Chandler is involved in trouble at the Boston Women’s Clinic; Rosenthal decides what she must do with her youngest son; Luther…

Fiscus reluctantly does his outreach work with a couple of feisty old people; Chandler is near yet another explosion; John Doe #6 is claimed by a couple who seem as…

Dr. Auschlander resents the wealth and influence of the matriarch of an old Massachusetts family admitted for tests; Morrison feels his impending knee surgery; Axelrod tries to get to know…

The Endicotts learn that their family’s medical problems are hereditary; Dr. Caldwell prepares for surgery to eliminate his facial scar, but learns that he carries a more permanent reminder of…

The Endicotts try to adjust to losing a family member but gain good news about another; Dr. Caldwell’s diagnosis of AIDS causes concern for his friends and a cooling in…

St. Eligius’ 50th anniversary spurs memories, including: it’s opening in 1935 under the leadership of Father Joseph McCabe, the arrival of recently emigrated Helen Rosenthal and Mark’s return as chief…

St. Eligius’ 50th anniversary spurs memories, including: the growing up of Donald Westphall, the arrival of young Daniel Auschlander and his first meeting with Katharine, a drunken and embittered Father…

A former nurse returns to St. Eligius as a medical student; a jock desperate to prolong his mediocre career learns the steroids he’s using are killing him; Morrison has difficulty…

Chandler does his outreach work at a crisis hotline, where he draws a suicide on his first night; Ehrlich earns Dr. Craig’s approval after he performs well during an emergency;…

Novino treats a famous cartoonist whose hands are being crippled by arthritis; Ehrlich ends his OB-GYN stint by examining Mrs. Craig; and Morrison’s outreach work at a state prison ends…

Dr. Turner returns to St. Eligius in time to deliver the baby of an old patient; Chandler has very bad luck as he searches for her all day; and Dr….

Rosenthal’s first husband and youngest son both return to her life; Chandler comes under fire for his activism against apartheid; Dr. Turner finds it hard to let go of the…

The residents worry over who will be asked to return next year; the Craigs worry over the “”Doctor of the Year”” award dinner; Fiscus grows obsessed with opening a locked…

The hospital review board acquires a new member from the psychiatric floor; Chandler experiences long-suppressed resentments when he treats a Vietnamese patient; and Dr. Turner counsels an upwardly mobile couple…

The Craigs meet their pregnant daughter-in-law, Yvonne; the Valeres continue to explore ways of having a child; Westphall’s new policies irritate the residents and Auschlander; and Luther rides with a…

The Craigs face a tremendous loss as their first grandchild is born; a newly inspired Dr. Westphall returns to work full of ideas; and Fiscus invites himself up to Dr….

Dr. Westphall tries to deal with his critical sister-in-law and a reluctant hospital board; Luther becomes Axelrod’s personal trainer; Roxanne asks Chandler to her recital; Rosenthal worries over the threats…