A priest is genitally mutilated during a mugging; a patient dies after a routine liposuction; Jeffrey refuses to perform surgery on a child.
Guest Stars:
Phill Lewis, Bruce Davison, Jessica D. Stone, Alan Rosenberg, Veronica Cartwright
A heart becomes available for transplant, but there are two patients waiting and Drs. Geiger and Watters must choose which patient will receive the heart. Jeffrey tries to place Alicia into an exclusive kindergarten. Aaron tries to hold a welcoming party for the new doctors.
Guest Stars:
James Sloyan, Randee Heller, Jessica D. Stone, Regan Burns, Jack McGee
A doctor with Tourette's Syndrome is brought to Chicago Hope to operate on an infant with a severe heart defect. A patient comes into the ER with, what he claims to be, Albert Einstein's brain and gives it to Dr. Wilkes. A woman is using plastic surgery to make herself look like a Barbie Doll.
Guest Stars:
Octavia Spencer, René Auberjonois, Debra Christofferson, Jeanie Hackett, Shishir Kurup
Dr. McNeil goes to magnificent lengths to save the arm of a young baseball star. A little girl is brought into the ER after being hit by a car.
Guest Stars:
Shawn Weatherly, Neil Flynn, Keith MacKechnie, Alan Rosenberg, Earl Billings
The doctors fight to save Cacaci's life after he jumps from a six story building in a suicide attempt, although Cacaci's fiancee says that someone pushed him off the building.
Guest Stars:
Molly Hagan, Graham Beckel, Doran Clark, Myra Turley, Michelle Wolff
A widow wants to be impregnated with the sperm of her former husband. Rats take over the hospital.
Guest Stars:
Time Winters, Paul Collins, John Lafayette, Alan Rosenberg, BD Wong
The hospital is quarantined after a deadly virus is discovered; a child is missing in the hospital.
Guest Stars:
Maz Jobrani, Grand L. Bush, Eddie Kehler, Alan Rosenberg, Rosie Malek-Yonan
Dr. Alberghetti performs a surgery with another surgeon, who is in Sri Lanka.
Guest Stars:
Nathan West, Kavi Raz, Jessica D. Stone, Laurie O'Brien, John Cappon
On the way to a football game, Aaron and Jack get sidetracked... after they find themselves in a hostage situation with 3 wounded patients, a loose gunman, and the police about ready to enter the building.
Guest Stars:
Phill Lewis, Stephen Lee, Scott Klace, Karina Arroyave, Linda Klein
Dr. Hanlon must fight against her department heads when they decide they no longer want her to perform pro-bono operations. Dr. Alberghetti tries to help a young man with a staph infection.
Guest Stars:
Aki Aleong, Bruce Davison, Beulah Quo, Eric Balfour, Paul Eiding
Gina operates on a surgeon who's been diagnosed with Parkinson's disease.
Guest Stars:
Anne Haney, Joel Polis, James Sutorius, Rob Benedict, Alan Rosenberg
A hepatitis scare forces Dr. Geiger to call for outside help; Dr. Simon's misdiagnosis causes her to doubt herself.
Guest Stars:
Jane Clark, Zach Selwyn, Fran Bennett, Meagen Fay, Michael Holden
A teenager is forced to live his life as a girl after the slip of a knife, and McNeil goes to court to try to help.
Guest Stars:
George D. Wallace, Haylie Duff, Patience Cleveland, Christine Estabrook, Alan Rosenberg
A father is told he can only donate his liver to one of his children, after both go into liver failure. Rose Webber comes back to Chicago Hope and finds that Aaron has started a new relationship -- with Gina.
Guest Stars:
Joanna Miles, Charlayne Woodard, Tom Wood, Amy Stewart, Hildy Brooks
Keith discovers a heart murmer while giving Alicia a physical. Jeremy performs an appendectomy on Siamese twins.
Guest Stars:
Rosemary Forsyth, Paul Vogt, Jessica D. Stone, Rob Benedict, Monique Edwards
A mentally challenged couple enters the hospital. The husband needs open heart surgery. The wife discovers that she can't become pregnant after she was sterilized without her consent.
Guest Stars:
Wyatt Knight, Alan Oppenheimer, John Ritter, Mary B. Ward, Emily Kuroda
Shutt and Simon invent a procedure and use it to save the life of a girl. McNeil treat a wrestler who's been using steroids.
Guest Stars:
W. Earl Brown, Elizabeth Dennehy, Dot-Marie Jones, Hilary Duff, William Bumiller
McNeil's friend is shot. Pancreatic cancer effects one of the conjoined twins that have entered the hospital.
Guest Stars:
Rosanna DeSoto, Paul Vogt, Robert Culp, Louis Mustillo, Fran Elliot
The hospital is purchased by an HMO, and immediately suffers budget cuts. During an operation that Miller is filming for a documentary, the heart stops beating on both the patient and her unborn child.
Guest Stars:
James Garner, Kevin Brief, Ariel Felix, K.K. Dodds, Gary Hershberger
McNeil goes against procedure and red tape and performs a hip replacement surgery. Shutt and Simon transplant a computer into a patients brain. Alberghetti tries to ignore her feelings for Miller.
Guest Stars:
James Garner, Alyson Reed, Jesse James, Steve Eastin, Scott Allegrucci
Shutt's patient wakes up after being in a coma after 15 years. A man is denied health coverage, after saving Miller's life.
Guest Stars:
James Garner, Kathy Baker, Ali Marsh, Michael O'Neill, Brian Leckner
Rumors fly that the hospital is about to be sold again; a man seriously injured in an accident wants to be the guinea pig for the computer program he's invented that can help him move again.
Guest Stars:
James Garner, Charles Cioffi, Judd Trichter, Mark Clayman, Alan Rosenberg