Chicago Hope
Season 4 Episode Guide
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Season 4 episodes
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Episode
1
Guns 'n' Roses
Oct 1, 1997
Watters' old romantic rival checks into the hospital in need of a heart transplant. When a heart finally arrives, Austin performs the transplant ag...
Episode
2
The Incredible Adventures of Baron von Munchausen... by Proxy
Oct 8, 1997
Billy removes the kidney of a 9-year-old girl with an extensive medical history, and discovers signs that she's being abused. He suspects the girl'...
Episode
3
Brain Salad Surgery
Oct 15, 1997
Aaron announces he's leaving Chicago Hope for a teaching position at Harvard. Shortly thereafter he begins to suffer from a brain aneurysm. The ane...
Episode
4
Sympathy for the Devil
Oct 22, 1997
The staff worries about Aaron when he has a series of seizures, threatening his chances to survive another operation. Jack refuses to allow a drug...
Episode
5
... And the Hand Played On
Oct 29, 1997
Dr. Shutt may have brain damage after his aneurysm, so a new neurosurgeon, Dr. Lisa Catera, is brought into the hospital. Dr. Austin gets trapped o...
Episode
6
The Lung and the Restless
Nov 5, 1997
Austin struggles when a girl with Down's Syndrome offers to donate a lung to her needy brother. Dennis surprises a benefactor with the news that on...
Episode
7
White Trash
Nov 12, 1997
Billy and Diane are married as Billy rushes off to South America. Diane is horrified by a teenage girl who dumped her newborn child into the trash....
Episode
8
Winging It
Nov 19, 1997
Jack and Kate operate at 20,000 feet on a pregnant woman while the two are flying to a medical conference in London. Aaron begins his psychiatric r...
Episode
9
Cabin Fever
Nov 26, 1997
A 'girls only' weekend getaway at McNeil's cabin goes horribly wrong for Kate, Lisa and Diane, when Grad is assaulted by a native backwoodsman. The...
Episode
10
All in the Family
Dec 10, 1997
Dr. Shutt counsels the family of a teenage suicide. McNeil and Hancock try to determine whether a young patient is the victim of parental abuse. Wi...
Episode
11
On Golden Pons
Dec 17, 1997
Phillip is disturbed to learn that his accountant has stolen every cent he owns. Watters' pride doesn't let him accept offers to help from both Jac...
Episode
12
Broken Hearts
Jan 7, 1998
Phillip reconnects with an old flame when her son is hospitalized. Jack decides to pursue a relationship with Lisa, dumping Karen Wilder. Grad is b...
Episode
13
Memento Mori
Jan 14, 1998
Chicago Hope's doctors struggle with adversity when the power goes out on a blustery, winter night. Keith endures a drunken Irish engineer to try t...
Episode
14
Psychodrama
Jan 21, 1998
Phillip, temporarily hobbled with a leg injury, spies a murder through his telescope and tries vainly to convince police he really witnessed a kill...
Episode
15
The Ties That Bind
Feb 4, 1998
Diane faces her impending motherhood full of doubts, inspired by an HIV-positive patient who wants to have a child, and the discovery of a mass in...
Episode
16
The Things We Do for Love
Mar 4, 1998
Phillip decides to take a stab at open-mike comedy, to his colleagues horror. Lisa finds herself attracted to Jack's incarcerated brother. Austin a...
Episode
17
Liver, Hold the Mushrooms
Mar 11, 1998
Billy treats a family with damaged livers via poisonous mushrooms. The father, the only unaffected family member, must choose which of his two sons...
Episode
18
Waging Bull
Mar 18, 1998
Phillip, Jack, Aaron, and Keith travel to Las Vegas for a medical conference. Jack, confident he's beaten his gambling addiction, runs into an old...
Episode
19
Objects Are Closer Than They Appear
Mar 25, 1998
Dr. Wilkes treats identical teenagers with the same rare heart ailment, losing one in the process. Kate treats a 10-year-old who nearly died after...
Episode
20
Deliverance
Apr 1, 1998
Diane, several weeks overdue, finally goes into labor. Wilkes tries to keep an abusive man away from his family by admitting him for back pain and...
Episode
21
Bridge Over Troubled Watters
Apr 8, 1998
Phillip searches for answers after his son is shot in the head and dies. Jack continues his pursuit of Lisa. Sara Wilmette meets a young cancer pat...
Episode
22
Risky Business
Apr 29, 1998
Aaron supervises a famous painter when she's admitted with a brain tumor. Dennis treats a young boy who believes himself to be a girl. Dr. Wilder c...
Episode
23
Absent Without Leave
May 6, 1998
Aaron and Samara vacation in LA, where Aaron learns a valuable lesson about savoring life. Keith clashes with Dennis when a wealthy woman tries to...
Episode
24
Physician, Heal Thyself
May 13, 1998
Raymond Wilkes is traumatized when he's caught in the middle of gunfire at his school's playground. Keith questions his parental instincts when his...
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