Frank Jessup es un enfermero de urgencias que acude a una mansión para atender a la señora Tremayne que, según parece, ha intentado suicidarse. Sin embargo él sospecha que en realidad alguien ha intentado asesinarla. Allí conoce también a Diane, la hijastra de la señora Tremayne, una joven delicada, sensual y un tanto inestable, ante la que cae rendido inmediatamente.
En 1993, un corto de Jim Jarmusch titulado "Coffee and Cigarettes" recibió la Palma de Oro del Festival de Cannes. Once años depués Jarmusch rueda "Coffee and Cigarettes", un conjunto de episodios cortos. Cada secuencia muestra a diversos personajes sentados a una mesa, tomando café, fumando cigarrillos y discutiendo sobre temas tan diversos como la preparación del té inglés, las teorías sobre la conspiración contra Elvis Presley, Abbot & Costello, la ficticia banda de rock SQÜRL, París en los años veinte o el uso de la nicotina como insecticida...
A patient in an hospital dies under mysterious circumstances. The attending doctor Frank Holt gets under suspect - he'd been fired already from his last position due to malpractice. For his defense he investigates with help of doctor Anna Lang. Soon they find out that half of their colleagues were betting on the patient's diagnosis - was someone trying to increase his chances? But when Frank's friend, dissector Mary Connor, becomes deadly sick, he suspects there's even more to it.
Judith is a doctor who is very committed to her profession. Aiming to become a cardiologist, she performs part of her residency in a chronically understaffed hospital emergency room. During a particularly difficult shift, she makes a mistake that causes the death of a patient. Judith is devastated and doubts whether she is suited to the profession. Her fellow doctors, including her partner Mark, advise her to just carry on as before. While Judith’s actions are investigated, she is assigned to ambulance duty. Being in a new environment and having some distance to the clinical routine allow her to see things in a new light.
Dora, a young woman at the center of an unusual murder trial, is subjected to a psychiatric evaluation, and as the tests become more personal — and frightening — she begins to question the true motives of her doctor and is forced to live through the recreations of her past.
Emergency medicine intern Margaux can no longer stand it. During another very hectic and patient-filled shift, she forgets a homeless woman on a stretcher who then dies. Shocked Margaux has no choice but to continue working. But suddenly, her body starts sweating blood uncontrollably.
Crime drama starring Richard Cromwell as a young medic who becomes the private physician to an underworld gang.
Traumatised by her daughter's death a Ukrainian nurse takes retribution, but is conflicted by her faith and unprepared for the consequences.
The tree surgeon (a donkey) races to the giant sequoia, which isn't feeling well. His techniques, though, seem better suited to treating a person.