A young man, injured in an auto accident, appears to have ceased to live - but is he dead? That's the question facing his physician, who's agonizingly aware that another patient desperately needs a donor for a kidney transplant.
Dr. Hunter joins with research doctor Ralph Simpson in an attempt to develop artificial sight. Dr. Stuart hopes it will help a new patient of his, a young woman Casey Woods, who has recently lost her vision.
An explosion in a chemotherapy lab leaves Dr. Paul Hunter with extensive exposure to radiation, and a severely weakened immune system.
After hotshot malpractice attorney Henry Speiser accuses Dr. Theodore Stuart of misconduct in court, he request that he performs his open heart surgery.
The doctors at the Craig Institute solve a medical emergency on board an Apollo mission to the Moon.
Fervent Doctor Lanier receives a directive to desist when he performs an experimental heart operation which causes him to abandon Craig Institute for another medical facility sparking a competition for a lucrative grant.
The doctors are using experimental tests on a fetus to see if the baby will be born healthy.
In this episode, a young woman is facing serious surgery and she decides if she can't play a musical instrument, she will sing and if she can't sing, she will listen. It was a very powerful and inspiring episode.
The doctors try experimental treatments to save the life of a severely retarded teen with contagious hepatitis.
A friend of David Craig who works for the President of the United States is having psychotic episodes of wanting to kill and the medical team investigates the cause.
Teen-age drug abuse is the subject here. The stories ... Dr. Craig (E.G. Marshall) fights for a drug treatment center; Drs. Hunter (David Hartman) and Stuart (John Saxon) try to save the life of a pregnant girl suffering from a heroin overdose; police search for the thief stealing narcotics from local doctors.
A mysterious virus invades the hospital as the doctors struggle to find a cure.
A tycoon checks himself into the Craig Institute to manipulate the stock of his company, but also actually is concealing a real illness.
The hospital has been receiving patients with previous botched surgeries and Dr. Stuart investigates.
In this episode directed by Jerry Lewis, patients in the neurological unit include a golf pro who is showing symptoms of a possible muscular disease and a boy with muscular dystrophy whose parents disagree as to whether he should be at home or in the hospital.
Dr. Ted Stuart spends an evening helping in Dr. Bartell's low income clinic. After returning to the hospital he is confronted by the effort and cost in keeping Harry Miller, a high profile patient, alive after risky surgery. Dr. Stuart struggles with the ethical dilemma of allocating medical resources.
Dr. Paul Hunter falls for a patient who has a terminal illness and is having trouble on how to break the news to her, while Craig deals with a similar problem with a longtime friend who is dying.
Budget cuts put Craig in the difficult position of deciding which valuable research programs will have to be dropped, including one that is necessary for determining the cause of a young woman's seizures and blackouts. What's more, the young doctor in charge of that program is falling in love with the girl.
Two patients' lives intersect: a singer who is suffering from hearing loss; and a little boy who shows signs of having been battered though his parents deny it.
A caring but cynical paramedic has been treating indigent patients himself in a small inner-city office with very little medical facilities, and removing items from the hospital in order to treat them.
Dr. Karnes and Dr. Hunter fight to restore a sickle cell anemia research program that may save a black child.
A model suffers from sudden excruciating pain in her face. However, she refuses to have the common surgery for her condition---cutting off the nerve---because she fears it will disfigure her. Instead, Dr. Stuart agrees to implant his newly perfected electric stimulator which will stop her pain whenever it starts. But before he can implant it, his hands are severely burned in a lab fire.
A Doctors segment focuses on organ transplants in "The Convicts." Five prison inmates, temporarily released as volunteers for medical research, aid Doctors Craig, Hunter and Stuart in an experiment toward saving lives with transplants from nonmatching donors.
Three people enter a new program at the institute for treating and discovering the causes of alcoholism.
Dr. Stuart is trying to find the cause of his mentor's illness when the man arrives from Europe with his much younger wife. The hospital colleagues began to suspect it's psychological in nature. An anthropologist, who has neglected her heart condition while in the jungle, also checks in for a dangerous operation.
An argument Dr. Hunter has with his girlfriend Amanda has her first getting drunk, than causing a school bus accident. Dr. Craig is dealing with a board member who is determined to replace him with a prejudiced surgeon. That becomes secondary as the crash victims arrive, including his granddaughter who is severely injured.
The boastful, heavy-drinking father of Dr. Hunter's date is severely injured in a shooting. With a bullet fragment dangerously floating in the brain, Hunter and Stuart look to space-age technology to save the patient's life.
A 37 year old surgical nurse is having a baby and she has decided to sell it once it's born.
Young Corey is found to have an ulcer and Dr. Fallon is determined to find the cause. It seems a secret visit to his estranged father has exposed lies his mother told him and Corey worries he is just like dad.
Sgt. Ed Brown decides to go through with the surgical procedure that will hopefully restore mobility to his legs. The procedure involves the a process where his nerves will be reconnected in a procedure invented by Dr. Ritter as well as an infusion of polypeptides administered by Dr. Paul Hunter. However, a complication arises when the daughter of Dr. Ritter, the man who will be performing the surgery, is kidnapped by someone who was hired by the person who wants to see Ed dead. Also, Chief Ironside has flashbacks to the events surrounding his own paralysis and ...
Gritty story of an aging gynecologist, portrayed credibly by Richard Basehart, who is accused by Dr. Hunter(David Hartman)of performing unnecessary operations. Dr. McLain, the besieged doctor, is promoting lake side property investments which requires substantial capital. Dr. Craig (E.G. Marshall) is a long time friend of Dr. McLain and defends the renown surgeon until it becomes evident that his practice must end. Dorothy Malone plays Basehart's wife and Vic Tayback is featured as a man who loses his wife when she is subjected to an unnecessary operation.
Arthur Gravis (Carl Reiner) advances acupuncture as a treatment, while Ira Goldberg worries about the cost of medical care.
Dr. Frank Stedman is a cardiac specialist who himself has a heart attack.
A man suffering from impotence learns that a brain tumor is the cause. The benign tumor is successfully removed, but that does not solve the impotence or the emotional problems between him and his wife.
Julie Garner is a pregnant, thirty-something wife who longs for a child. But a heart condition means any pregnancy may result in her death. Drs. Hunter and (Belasco?) present the couple with an alternative: Would Mrs. Garner be willing to allow them to transplant her present embryo into another woman's uterus? Mrs. Garner nominates her kid sister to be the surrogate, and the operation is a success. But, in short order, the sisters fall out.
Dr. Cohen is interested in a relationship with Valerie, a nurse, unaware that she is already in one with a woman named Eleanor. Valerie starts seeing a psychiatrist to help her deal with her feelings. Professionally Dr. Cohen tries to find out why a young woman was admitted due to a drug overdose.
Dr. Hunter interacts with cancer patients with different attitudes toward their disease which are not always commensurate with the patients' prognoses while dealing with medical professionals not always in alignment with the doctor.
Janice, a TV reporter, incurs permanent paralysis during a speedboat accident. Facing a future she finds hopeless, the quality of her life and medical care is debated by her husband, her doctor, and a hospital review board. The ultimate decision though belongs to Janice.
Harry Burke has violent psychotic episodes and the doctors want to perform psycho surgery.
A recording artist goes into a depression, and decides to fight it by taking amphetamines to perform to his own satisfaction. He then refuses to take the lithium medication Hunter subscribed for him.
Marcus, a hemophiliac, requires an appendectomy and falls under the care if Dr. Hunter. The doctor learns the disease has led to his father being estranged and his mother overprotective, so he becomes over involved to give Marcus a bit of normality.
Dr. Hunter's most recent girlfriend, a resident at the Institute who is on the verge of obtaining her license, has an intense fear of dealing with patients which is obvious in her very poor bedside manner. When she is tasked with informing a patient that he is in the initial stages of ALS, she is forced to ask herself if she really has what it takes to be a doctor.
Four candidates experiencing chest pains undergo stringent tests for a bold new heart procedure to relieve their pain: Coronary bypass surgery.
After saving a pregnant 16-year-old from a fiery car wreck, Dr. Amanda Fallon attempts to mend a deep rift between the troubled girl and her divorced mother, who is insisting she have an abortion.