Season 1 - Episode Guide

Devastating memories haunt Geiger as he readies for a difficult operation; Camille serves Dr. Shutt with divorce papers.

Geiger goes before the executive committee after browbeating a grieving man into approving experimental surgery.

Drs. Geiger and Thurmond don't see eye to eye when it comes to deciding which one of their patients will benefit from a donor baboon.

Members of a high wire act take a fall and land at Chicago Hope; Dr. Geiger is arrested at a local bar.

A potential heart donor, a baby born without a brain, sparks disagreement between Geiger and Watters.

Aaron has a crisis of confidence after feeling no impulse to save a gang kid; a boy sees his mother shot.

Shutt begins a relationship with Antonovich, whose seizures indicate she has brain cancer; Geiger must operate on an obese mobster.

Shutt and Birch go to court to help Antonovich die with dignity; Geiger must work with a nemesis to save a girl's life.

Camille fears she may have mishandled a friend's heart during surgery, causing his death; guest Teri Polo.

Alan is placed in charge of the hospital when most of the staff is quarantined in the OR after being exposed to a deadly virus.

A man trying to impress his new girlfriend winds up at Chicago Hope; the holidays have a wide-ranging effect on the staff.

A man injects his 14-year-old son, a boxer, with steroids; Shutt is audited; Birch is drawn into a pregnant teen's life.

The doctors try to reattach a concert flutist's finger that was bitten off by a mugger; a former patient sues; guest Fyvush Finkel.

Geiger's institutionalized wife wants a divorce so she can marry a fellow mental patient; Hancock treats a 17-year-old with breast cancer.

The brother (Chris Penn) of a patient needing a transplant hijacks a donor heart destined for another.

The doctors attempt to revive a boy who has been frozen for three hours in the waters of Lake Michigan; an AIDS researcher joins the staff.

Alan Birch's new daughter requires surgery to have the hole in her heart repaired, but Alan finds his confidence in Dr. Geiger wavering.Alan Birch's new daughter requires surgery to have the hole in her heart repaired, but Alan finds his confidence in Dr. Geiger wavering.

Kronk is shocked by his girlfriend's past; Geiger and Shutt rely on an experimental procedure to save an aneurysm patient.

Old friends ask Shutt to perform controversial surgery; Kronk's actions at an accident scene are scrutinized.

Terror strikes everyone at the hospital when four patients die of a mysterious virus. With Mandy Patinkin, Adam Arkin and E.G. Marshall.

Dr. Hancock tries to grant a patient's last wish; Dr. Geiger seeks his ex-wife's blessing to pursue Dr. Infante.

Geiger has a sanity hearing after the state medical board suspends his license; Camille tells Aaron her feelings about Geiger.