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.

One of Gannon's patients desperately needs blood, but the only possible donor is a fugitive from justice.

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.

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.