Doc Gannon hasn't had time for nurses this season, but in this episode he extends a helping hand to a student, with a feeling for her trouble. Belinda Montgomery plays a bumbling, well meaning nurse in need of a second chance.

Gannon gets a mysterious turndown when he asks the mother of a girl needing a kidney transplant to become her daughter's donor. He then discusses the case with the girl's father and begins to unfold tne reasons for the mother's strange attitude.