A young heart-attack victim doesn't think he can lead a normal life again; Sorenson's boy friend feels she's spending too much time with a patient and not enough with him.

Gillian is intimidated by his surgeon father and abused by a patient; Sorenson befriends a lonely hypochondriac; Wilson is besieged with homemade remedies for the common cold.

Two infants need life-saving transplants, but there's only one donor; Sorenson treats a young junkie; and Gillian and Wilson scour the hospital for a lost dog.

A convict undergoing a medical exam makes a break for it; Dr. Ryan gets involved in the treatment of a mugging victim, an aging movie star.

Dr. Thomas Ryan, the compassionate new director of interns at a training hospital, takes over shortly after his son, an intern, cracked under the strain and committed suicide.