A famed surgeon (Robert Reed) shocks family and colleagues by requesting a sex-change operation. First of two parts.

A noted surgeon's request for a sex-change operation is denied.

On his 36th birthday, Gannon is suddenly beset by peculiar emotional and physical symptoms.

A delirious war veteran accuses a doctor of slaughtering women and children in Vietnam.

Gannon's new girlfriend makes impossible demands on his time.

The son of a wealthy Arab shows unusual concern over the plight of an ailing Jewish boy.

The teenage daughter of a busy surgeon turns to prostitution in a bid for attention.

Learning that he is suffering from a terminal disease, a brilliant surgeon abandons medicine to live out his unfulfilled dreams.

Lochner's former sweetheart (Roberta Peters), a celebrated singer, enters Medical Center suffering from unexplained fainting spells.

An 18-year-old girl needing a critical operation is the key to bringing a doctor's son out of a catatonic state.

A young woman confined to a nursing home encourages her elderly fellow inmates to rebel against the home's poor conditions.

An aging surgeon who has begun to make serious mistakes plans to operate on his granddaughter.

A hospitalized tennis player is attracted to an unhappy girl who is facing heart surgery.

A lonely nurse stubbornly refuses to press charges against a man who brutally beat her.

Gannon is attracted to a Soviet doctor (Victoria Fedorova) visiting Medical Center on a special assignment.

Gannon treats a childlike teenager who's the mother of a baby with a congenital heart defect.

The adoption of a Vietnamese orphan is complicated when the real mother shows up.

The hospitalized victim of a mysterious attacker suffers from a domineering mother and recurring headaches.

Gannon treats a young doctor blinded in a shooting accident.

The mother (Totie Fields) of a dismissed young resident refuses to have a lifesaving operation unless her son is reinstated.

An Army doctor (Lois Nettleton) searches for answers when her assistant suffers an inexplicable seizure.

A misanthropic con artist and an awkward innocent share an offbeat relationship while being treated at the hospital.

A much-needed clinic is threatened with closure because the doctors refuse to turn wounded street fighters over to the police.