St. Elsewhere

A man creates problems for the hospital staff with his demands for instant and constant attention when his wife suffers a stroke. He drives his car straight through the front doors in his effort to get instant medical care for his wife. The staff has him hauled off to jail for refusing to leave the treatment room but he soon returns with more demands.

Jerry Singleton is still making life miserable for everyone in his effort to see that his wife Fran gets the best medical help. However, he is so overbearing that finally even his wife rebels against his dictatorial efforts to help her recover.

Tension mounts as Jerry Singleton waits for his ill wife to lift the order banning him from her hospital room, and Dr. Craig tries to keep a beloved patient alive while awaiting a donor for heart transplant surgery.

Young Dr. Morrison sinks deep into depression, blaming himself for his wife’s accidental death.

Dr. Auschlander, weary from his battle against cancer, begins to contemplate suicide when he learns that a bright, trusting and lovable eleven-year-old-patient is an apparent leukemia victim.

Two young men, Eddie Carson and Patrick Brennan, are rushed to the hospital, near death, after a fight. They are discovered to be opposing Irish terrorists who bring “The Troubles” to Boston.

Dr. Peter White, trying to be kind to an indigent patient (Mrs. Russ) finds himself facing a drug charge when she turns out to be a policewoman.

The resignation of his long time housekeeper forces Dr. Westphall to make some decisions about the daily care of his 10-year-old autistic son.

A happily married and highly successful young politician, finds his future shattered when he learns that he is suffering from AIDS and he must admit his homosexuality. Dr. White’s wife is so fearful of the disease that she forces him to ask to be removed form the case, and St. Eligius’ blood drive collapses when it is learned that the hospital is treating an AIDS victim.

Romance-hungry Dr. Ehrlich can’t figure an easy way to break through his girlfriend’s sexual reserve, so he decides to propose marriage.

A snow storm creates multiple problems; the randy Dr. Cathy Martin decides to seduce psychiatrist Ridley; Dr. Cavanero winds up as a patient when snow causes the hospital’s ceiling to collapse on her head; staff members become concerned after learning that Dr. Craig is missing in deep snow; and Dr. Ehrlich is overjoyed when is girlfriend accepts his proposal.

Elderly Dr. Auschlander has some very surprising results when he experiments with marijuana to control the nausea caused by his chemotherapy treatment.

Joan Halloran makes some special plans to bring a moment of happiness to her dying father whose terminal illness threatens to engulf his one big dream. Dr. Chandler decides to run the Boston Marathon course all alone.

A beaming Dr. Craig is the willing subject of an intrusive television documentary crew that has the run of the hospital but he begins to have second thoughts when they insist on staging scenes and poking into private matters.

When a ski-masked rapist continues to terrorize St. Eligius, the female staff members grow increasingly restless with hospital security and paranoia reigns as the rapist boldly assaults women of all ages in and near the hospital.

Dr. White is becoming increasingly obnoxious in his attitude toward the women of St. Eligius. And a construction worker’s blackouts are traced to a malady that will affect his family’s economic future.

Dr. Craig is livid when a television documentary casts him in an unflattering light and rails against the ‘slanderous’ treatment he received.

Rosenthal, who recently received a breast implant, ignores orders and returns to work too soon; the blunders of Elliot, an accident-prone young resident, cost him his only friend; and Martin gets professional help as she tries to cope with the effects of having been sexually assaulted some weeks earlier.

Three patients with different maladies and distinctive personalities share a room at St. Eligius, where they become friends and must face new realities forced upon them by their ailments.

Pressure mounts on the young residents when the dreaded National Board exams approach.

The first year residents sweat out their exam results, knowing that some of them will be cut from the program. Armstrong shows some alarming personal habits by withdrawing further into a bulimic (unnaturally constant hunger) depression.

A structural deficiency in one wing of St. Eligius closes down the emergency room. Having called off her wedding to Caldwell, hospital administrator Joan Halloran sacrifices herself to secure funds to re-open the emergency facility.