Loriss is a sinister professor of South American anthropology whose comely academic assistant is in critical condition— mental and physical— due to a possible voodoo curse. 

Dr. Iris Cameron, a famed woman surgeon, whom Dr. Gannon considers to be "knife-happy" is appointed the Medical Center's chief of surgical services, and thereby becomes his superior. Dr. Gannon finds himself immediately at odds with Dr. Cameron over her tendency to decree instant surgery for seriously ill patients, whose fate now seems to hinge upon whether her free-swinging surgical philosophy or Dr. Gannon's conservative one is applied to them. 

A drama about the relationship between an ailing prostitute and the idealistic young resident who is falling in love with her. 

Shattered trust and an emotional crisis open a fifth season of medical and psychological dramas. Dr. Gannon's patient is a young woman who is stricken with hysterical paralysis after seeing her mother with a lover. Julie Harris plays her guilt-ridden parent.