Seasons & Episodes
Pilot
Camille serves Aaron with divorce papers; Phillip benches Arthur from further surgery when Arthur's resting tremor begin
Over the Rainbow
Jeffrey runs afoul of the trustees when a grieving husband has second thoughts after allowing him to test an artificial
Food Chains
Arthur nearly fires Danny for failing to adhere to triage protocol, thereby delaying the treatment of a critically injur
With the Greatest of Ease
Jeffrey tells Nadine about Laurie's schizophrenia and the death of his son; Aaron and Camille grieve about their impendi
You Gotta Have Heart
Phillip's religious beliefs and Jeffrey's grief over the death of his son put them on opposite sides of whether to convi
Shutt Down
Aaron, the staff, and the patients are caught in the crossfire when Antoine Metcalf, a gangbanger and career criminal, f
Genevieve and Fat Boy
After Karen begins having seizures, Aaron discovers that she is terminally ill from the multiple brain metastases of a m
Death Be Proud
Jeffrey strongly objects when his old nemesis is hired into the plastic surgery department, but they are able to set asi
Heartbreak
Camille has an innocent and unavoidable mishap in the operating room during a heart transplant on the rabbi who performe
The Quarantine
Tensions run high as hard truths ring out when Jeffrey, Danny, Camille, Maggie, Aaron, Arthur and Phillip are quarantine
Love and Hope
The staff has its hands full when a man suffering from the after-effects of taking amyl nitrite suffers one complication
Great White Hope
Phillip is unable to save a promising young boxer who succumbs to the fatal effects of steroids his father gave him to e
Small Sacrifices
Billy Kronk, a hotshot young surgeon and recreational hockey player, arrives in the E.R. with a critically ill teammate
Cutting Edges
Laurie asks Jeffrey for a divorce so that she can marry Gilbert Weeks, a lawyer who is also a patient at the Institute;
Life Support
When the gun belonging to a critically wounded police officer drops out of his holster in the E.R., the distraught broth
Freeze Outs
The staff works to save a young boy who was submerged in a frozen lake for several hours; Jeffrey and Geri have a little
Growth Pains
An explosion sends a dry cleaner to the ER. Dr. Kadalski is pressured to change his unorthodox methods when he treats a
Informed Consent
Dr. Kronk's feelings towards his girlfriend undergo changes when he find out about her past. Geiger's heart patient deve
Internal Affairs
Dr. Kronk makes a rushed decision to rescue a man by amputating his leg with a chainsaw, only to discover later that the
The Virus
When the Board of Health closes the hospital doors after several patients die from a deadly staph infection, the staff s
Full Moon
A troubled Dr. Geiger seeks a blessing from his institutionalized ex-wife so he can continue his relationship with Dr. I
Songs from the Cuckoo Birds
Following Dr. Joseph's witnessing of Dr. Geiger's actions, the medical board suspends him until his case can be reviewed
Hello Goodbye
Dr. Nyland pulls a switch with Dr. Kronk in order to avoid a charity function, but they have to face the consequences ov
Rise from the Dead
Diane helps her friend Allison harvest sperm from Allison's comatose husband before his life support is turned off; Aaro
A Coupla Stiffs
Dennis struggles over whether he should listen to his gut, or to Jeffrey's advice, in treating a man who doesn't speak E
Every Day a Little Death
Billy arrives home just in time to save his dog Gordie from the fire that's engulfed his apartment, and ends up rooming
Wild Cards
Geiger second-guess Austin's choice of a non-surgical treatment for a heart patient. Grad gets a surprise visit from an
Who Turned Out the Lights?
A violent storm on Halloween night knocks out the hospital's power immediately following the arrival of several auto-acc
From Soup to Nuts
Watters blames Birch for their poor showing after they're ambushed by a state senator during televised health-care heari
Leave of Absence
Geiger's bravado is put to the test when hospital counsel Alan Birch is shot by street thugs. Meanwhile, Grad agonizes o
Stand
Shutt finds himself revitalized by a frustrated MS patient who refuses to quietly accept that Aaron can't help him. Dr.
The Ethics of Hope
Kate is stricken when she realizes that her negligence due to exhaustion caused the death of a young woman during surger
Christmas Truce
Aaron is baffled when a seizure lands Camille in the ER. Nyland's holiday vacation plans are suddenly sidetracked by a d
Transplanted Affection
Watters steps in and asks Geiger to take on Austin's transplant patient as she struggles with her ex husband for custody
Three Men and a Lady
Judge Aldrich's tenure as Alan's replacement is cut short by illness; Amy, an old friend of Danny's from medical school,
Right to Life
Hancock's practice and his freedom are threatened when he saves the life of a hemorrhaging pregnant woman by aborting he
Hearts and Minds
A heart-transplant patient returns to the hospital with chest pains and emotional and personality changes that challenge
Women on the Verge
A friend of Kronk's seeks his advice about a health problem she thinks resulted from her sex-change operation. Austin tr
Life Lines
Aaron proceeds with Eric Dipretto's psychosurgery while Austin campaigns for the position of chief of surgery and Bix co
Sexual Perversity in Chicago Hope
Grad and Kronk reluctantly team up to counsel an inexperienced couple on sexual techniques. Dr. Sutton finds himself unn
Sweet Surrender
Dr. Watters befriends a 12-year-old girl when she's admitted with an apparently self-inflected wound to her transplanted
The Parent Rap
Kate loses her control and her compassion when her father is admitted with an operable surgical condition but refuses it
Quiet Riot
The ER looks like the only game in town as avery disturbed family one by one injures each other during a therapy session
Ex Marks the Spot
Sutton's mind rells as wives two and three ask him for a very great personal and professional favor and wife one chacks
Last One Out, Get the Lights
Tommy places a bid to buy out the hospital with the intention of firing Kate as soon as the deal goes through; as Valeri
Out of Africa
Kate returns to Chicago to face possible arrest and her ex-husband, as well as suspension at work. Aaron ponders Philip'
Back to the Future
Kate cares for her dying father and gets some words of wisdom from Tommy when he brings Sara for a visit; Philip recruit
Papa's Got a Brand New Bag
Aaron and Jack join forces in operating on a man who sustained multiple fractures in a parachute jumping accident; Diane
Liver Let Die
Dennis and Jack clash over the best mode of treating the arthritic knee of a world class cyclist; Aaron makes a new frie
Liar, Liar
Kate returns to duty and finds that her reinstatement comes with a cut in title, salary, staff, and office; Jack replace
Higher Powers
Austin sprays a subpoena server with mace, inspiring his fellow servers to wage war on the hospital. Hancock tries to co
A Time to Kill
Aaron faces a huge moral dilemma when he's asked to operate on a death-row inmate scheduled to be executed in two weeks.
A Day in the Life
Austin's cystic-fibrosis patient is just one of four patients needing transplants who have to wait in fear and hope when
Divided Loyalty
Kronk puts himself and Grad into a difficult position when he treats an old hockey pal who turns up after just being rel
V-Fibbing
Austin and Underhill both have to face the consequences when they tell the truth. McNeil contemplates surgery to prolong
Mummy Dearest
Diane is faced with a dilemna when she has an opportunity to examine a 500-year-old Incan mummy temporarily in town for
Split Decisions
Wilkes saves a motorist who was attempting suicide. Austin falls for a politician.
Verdicts
A hit-and-run victim escapes serious injury but her infant twins face a desperate crisis. Hancock faces testifying in co
The Day of the Rope
White supremacists on the run following a failed assassanation attempt against the President hole up in a grocery store
Take My Wife, Please
Aaron's practical joker college roommate arrives for a visit and announces that he wants Aaron to marry his widow, Aaron
Missed Conception
An old friend of Austin's asks for help in getting pregnant. A cancer patient needs marijuana for her well being. Shutt'
Mother, May I?
Kate flies to Washington with Tommy to speak to Congress about health care. Back in Chicago, her friend Marina makes a d
Growing Pains
Aaron and Phillip announce that they are buying the hospital from Wilmette, although their plans for keping the solvent
The Son Also Rises
Aaron discovers that his late father wasn't his biological parent when he meets the eccentric sculptor who is; Phillip l
Second Chances
Kate lobbies for another heart for a prominent author whose first transplanted organ is failing and who also has a conti
Positive I.D.s
Grad tries to persuade a hesitant Kronk to perform a double mastectomy on a healthy woman does not have cancer but who d
Leggo My Ego
Word of Billy's and Diane's engagement receives a mixed reception at the hospital; Jack returns from vacation with a win
Colonel of Truth
Kate finds herself in a no-win situation when a child is injured during one of Sara's softball games. Phillip's Colonel
Lamb to the Slaughter
After a gang member dies in the ER, the boy's mother claims that one of the doctors suggested they ""Let him die"" so a
Love on the Rocks
McNeil doesn't cope well with the demands for attention from Karen, his ""roomate"" and a thereapy patient claiming that
Hope Against Hope
Jeffrey Geiger drops by Chicago Hope to announce that he has bought a controlling interest in the hospital, and to perfo
Guns 'n' Roses
Gang warfare breaks out in the E.R.; Kate refuses to perform a heart transplant; Billy and Diane get back together.
The Incredible Adventures of Baron von Munchausen... by Proxy
A woman may be making her daughter sick purposely. Kronk wants a child. Shutt's patient dies, and McNeil joins gamblers
Brain Salad Surgery
Dr. Shutt views his life as a musical after he collapses from an aneurism.
Sympathy for the Devil
Dr. Kronk must decide whether or not to grant the request of a convicted child molester who wants to be castrated. Dr. S
... And the Hand Played On
Dr. Shutt may have brain damage after his aneurism, so a new neurosurgeon, Dr. Lisa Catera, is brought into the hospital
The Lung and the Restless
Kate suspects that the parents of a boy who needs a liver transplant may have pressured his sister, who has cystic fibro
White Trash
Hancock and the police search trash bins for a newborn; male rape; Drs. Kronk and Grad wed at the airport. A basketball
Winging It
Austin and NcNeil fly to London for a conference and are forced to perform lifesaving surgery with only an airline medic
Cabin Fever
McNeil offers his cabin to Drs. Austin, Catera, and Grad, whom each want to get away from the city for a while. While at
All in the Family
Shutt has his first group counseling session with a family, and tries to help a young man whose brother commited suicide
On Golden Pons
After a little too much holiday cheer Wilkes is charged with a DUI and must serve a community service in Dr. Hancock's c
Broken Hearts
Austin operates on a pregnant patient with a damaged heart and learns that she had taken the controversial diet pill Phe
Memento Mori
The hospital loses electricity in the dead of winter. Austin must do emergency surgery on a close friend. Pregnant, Grad
Psychodrama
Watters is confined to a wheelchair after a basketball injury and witnesses a murder. Austin receives a bird from Danny,
The Ties that Bind
Catera must operate on a 5-year-old who is suddenly stricken with seizures. An HIV-postive friend of Dr. Grad's talks to
The Things We Do for Love
Catera and McNeil cross roads when her facination with his brother becomes personal. Billy begins to feel ""in over his
Liver, Hold the Mushrooms
A family eats poisonous mushrooms and the mother and two sons must receive a liver transplant. A donor is found for the
Waging Bull
Dr. McNeil attends a medical convention in Las Vegas, believing he can control his gambling addiction. After the son of
Objects are Closer than They Appear
After the mysterious death of a seemingly healthy 15 year-old Dr. Wilkes decides to investigate. A lesbian wants her lov
Deliverance
Diane goes into labor unexpectedly and when no one can find Billy she reluctantly asks Kate to be her coach. Wilkes must
Bridge over Troubled Watters
Dr. Watters' son is found dead in his apartment and Phillip must except the fact that he committed suicide. Dr. Austin b
Risky Business
A famous artist has an inoperable brain tumor. She convinces Dr. Shutt to run away to California with her.
Absent Without Leave
Dr. Kronk's mother visits. Aaron spends time with Samara in California. A woman offers Dr. Hancock money to sterilize so
Physician, Heal Thyself
As Dr. Wilkes takes his son to school gunfire errupts. The victims are brought to Chicago Hope and Wilkes finds himself
Sarindipity
A poisonous gas is released in a bank and the doctors try to contain the gas, that is threatening many lives including D
Austin Space
A cardiologist in NASA's Doctors in space program has a heart attack and Kate takes the doctors place in the program. Dr
Wag the Doc
Hancock accuses Watters and Austin of racism when they refuse to operate on a black patient. One of Shutt's patients com
The Breast and the Brightest
Grad accuses a mother are starving her infant to death. Shutt and Catera disagree over a neurological patient. Austin an
One Hundred and One Damnations
The hospital prepares for the Doctor of the Year party, and several old friends drop by. Watters goes into a virus-induc
Viagra-Vated Assault
Kate discovers that a patient is using Viagra to cheat on his wife; Jack gives a blood transfusion even though it's agai
Austin, We Have a Problem
Gordan teaches Kate how to fly. Hancock accuses a police officer of shooting a homeless African-American.
The Other Cheek
A celebrity dies and news crews invade the hospital to cover the story.
Tantric Turkey
Billy's mother shows up at the hospital and announces she is about to give birth. The star of the road company version o
Gun with the Wind
Wilkes must face the parents of a child brought into the ER when it becomes clear that Raymond was responsible for the c
McNeil and Pray
A member of Jack's basketball team sustains a near-fatal injury during a game; Bobby disagrees about the need for his pa
Adventures in Babysitting
Aaron struggles with the loss of a patient; Billy is attracted to Emily's babysitter; a couple asks Bobby and Dennis for
Karmic Relief
Kate discovers that she has developed an ovarian cyst which could destroy her plans with NASA. After Kate hears this new
Playing Through
During surgery to resolve an HIV-positive woman's post-partum complications, Diane accidentally cuts herself and is expo
Big Hand for the Little Lady
McNeil performs a hand transplant on the patient, and uses the patient's dead mother's hand. Kate is accepted by NASA. A
Home is Where the Heartache Is
Jack returns after his brother's death; fearing the impact of HMOs on his practice, Joe begins to sell doorway products;
A Goy and His Dog
Billy ponders euthanasia when Gordy is diagnosed with rheumatoid arthritis; Lisa tries to help a woman with metastatic b
Teacher's Pet
Kate confronts a world renowned surgeon who's harassed her in the past; Diane's patient has a flesh-eating bacterial inf
Vanishing Acts
Diane tries to help grieving parents when their three year old child dies; Aaron is institutionalized after an experimen
From Here to Maternity
A mother gives birth to twins, one black and one white. Kate is threatened with a lawsuit after making a rude comment.
And Baby Makes 10
Dr. Hancock's patient, who was using fertility drugs, gives birth to 8 babies.
Kiss of Death
Kate meets up with an old boyfriend, who turns out to be an ex-husband. Lisa tried to prolong the like of a pregnant wom
The Heavens Can Wait
The E.R. is flooded with teenagers poisoned by an unknown rave drug; Kate and Sara are hit by a drunk driver; Phillip's
Curing Cancer
Aaron consults Dr. Gina Simon, a pediatric neurosurgeon after being presented with a 9-week old baby suffering from seiz
Team Play
A priest is genitally mutilated during a mugging; a patient dies after a routine liposuction; Jeffrey refuses to perform
Y'Gotta Have Heart
A heart becomes available for transplant, but there are two patients waiting and Drs. Geiger and Watters must choose whi
Oh, What a Piece of Work is Man
A doctor with Tourette's Syndrome is brought to Chicago Hope to operate on an infant with a severe heart defect. A patie
Vigilance and Care
Dr. McNeil goes to magnificent lengths to save the arm of a young baseball star. A little girl is brought into the ER af
Humpty Dumpty
The doctors fight to save Cacaci's life after he jumps from a six story building in a suicide attempt, although Cacaci's
Upstairs, Downstairs
A widow wants to be impregnated with the sperm of her former husband. Rats take over the hospital.
White Rabbit
The hospital is quarantined after a deadly virus is discovered; a child is missing in the hospital.
The Heart to Heart
Dr. Alberghetti performs a surgery with another surgeon, who is in Sri Lanka.
The Golden Hour
On the way to a football game, Aaron and Jack get sidetracked... after they find themselves in a hostage situation with
Hanlon's Choice
Dr. Hanlon must fight against her department heads when they decide they no longer want her to perform pro-bono operatio
Faith, Hope & Surgery
Gina operates on a surgeon who's been diagnosed with Parkinson's disease.
Letting Go
A hepatitis scare forces Dr. Geiger to call for outside help; Dr. Simon's misdiagnosis causes her to doubt herself.
Boys Will Be Girls
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.
Gray Matters
A father is told he can only donate his liver to one of his children, after both go into liver failure. Rose Webber come
Painful Cuts
Keith discovers a heart murmer while giving Alicia a physical. Jeremy performs an appendectomy on Siamese twins.
Simon Sez
A mentally challenged couple enters the hospital. The husband needs open heart surgery. The wife discovers that she can'
Cold Hearts
Shutt and Simon invent a procedure and use it to save the life of a girl. McNeil treat a wrestler who's been using stero
Devoted Attachment
McNeil's friend is shot. Pancreatic cancer effects one of the conjoined twins that have entered the hospital.
Miller Time
The hospital is purchased by an HMO, and immediately suffers budget cuts. During an operation that Miller is filming for
Thoughts of You
McNeil goes against procedure and red tape and performs a hip replacement surgery. Shutt and Simon transplant a computer
Everybody's Special at Chicago Hope
Shutt's patient wakes up after being in a coma after 15 years. A man is denied health coverage, after saving Miller's li
Have I Got a Deal for You
Rumors fly that the hospital is about to be sold again; a man seriously injured in an accident wants to be the guinea pi
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