Trapper and Gonzo are nose to nose and eyeball to eyeball over the matter of the heart of a hospitalized professional hockey player, in the sixth-season premiere of “Trapper John, MD." Sunday, Sept. 30, 1984, on the CBS Television Network.
Trapper's patient, 12-year-old Jamie Bruce, needs a heart transplant in order to survive. Gonzo's patient, the critically injured young athlete Loop LaSalle, appears to have a sound heart, and also appears to have died, in a medical sense.
Desperate to find a suitable heart donor for Jamie, Trapper is arguing with Gonzo, pleading with him to pronounce LaSalle dead so that his heart can be legally available to Jamie. An unexpected and startling element is injected into the dispute with the arrival of a court injunction that forbids Gonzo to pronounce LaSalle dead under any circumstance.
Written by TVgy1960wXc on Oct 31, 2025