Chicago Hope
Season 6 Episode Guide
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Episode Directory
Season 6 episodes
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Episode
1
Team Play
Sep 23, 1999
When a plastic surgeon neglects his patient, Dr. Simon ends up in the position of having to inform the family of his death after what should have b...
Episode
2
Y'Gotta Have Heart
Sep 30, 1999
A heart becomes available for transplant, but there are two patients waiting for it, and Drs. Geiger and Watters must choose who will receive it -...
Episode
3
Oh, What a Piece of Work is Man
Oct 7, 1999
A doctor with Tourette's Syndrome is brought to Chicago Hope to operate on an infant with a severe heart defect; A patient comes into the ER with w...
Episode
4
Vigilance and Care
Oct 14, 1999
Dr. McNeil goes to magnificent lengths to save the arm of a young baseball star, and is sued when he doesn't succeed; A little girl is brought into...
Episode
5
Humpty Dumpty
Oct 21, 1999
All of the doctors go to Herculean lengths to fight to save Cacaci's life after he jumps off the roof of the hospital. However, Cacaci's fiancée cl...
Episode
6
Upstairs, Downstairs
Oct 28, 1999
A man rushes his pregnant wife to the ER when she starts bleeding profusely, but has a heart attack and dies when he learns she miscarries. Despera...
Episode
7
White Rabbit
Nov 11, 1999
The hospital is quarantined after it's inundated with the victims of a mysterious and deadly plague, which spreads to the hospital staff; A five-ye...
Episode
8
The Heart to Heart
Nov 18, 1999
A liver arrives at Chicago Hope---intended for a patient who needs a heart-lung transplant immediately. What to do? Alberghetti has heard of a radi...
Episode
9
The Golden Hour
Dec 9, 1999
On their way to a football game, Aaron and Jack get sidetracked, finding themselves in a hostage situation with 3 wounded patients, a loose gunman,...
Episode
10
Hanlon's Choice
Jan 6, 2000
Hanlon tries to treat a traditional Hmong woman with a cancerous lesion that might have metastasized to her lungs. But she and her family are skept...
Episode
11
Faith, Hope & Surgery
Jan 13, 2000
Simon's neurological operation on her mentor goes awry and the man slips into a coma. But his misfortune proves to be a blessing for others, beginn...
Episode
12
Letting Go
Jan 20, 2000
A railroad engineer with a drug-resistant strain of TB requires surgery that is not performed at Chicago Hope. This necessitates calling in an expe...
Episode
13
Boys Will Be Girls
Feb 3, 2000
A biological male has been raised to live his life as a girl after a 'slip of a knife' as an infant. Now a teenager, and desperate to live in his t...
Episode
14
Gray Matters
Feb 10, 2000
After two children suffer liver failure, the father learns that he can donate part of his liver... but to only one child. His snap decision upsets...
Episode
15
Painful Cuts
Feb 17, 2000
Geiger is under enormous pressure from the hospital board to make drastic cuts, and because his daughter is facing life-threatening surgery. He had...
Episode
16
Simon Sez
Feb 24, 2000
A mentally challenged couple enters the hospital because the husband needs open-heart surgery. The wife confides in Dr. Simon that she is having tr...
Episode
17
Cold Hearts
Mar 30, 2000
McNeil struggles to be civil to an obnoxious female wrestler known as "The Death Angel", who scares a little girl on the way to surgery and complic...
Episode
18
Devoted Attachment
Apr 6, 2000
Pancreatic cancer affects the conjoined twins that Dr. Hanlon had previously treated. But she cannot convince them to be separated, even though it...
Episode
19
Miller Time
Apr 13, 2000
A smooth talking CEO, Hugh Miller, takes charge of the hospital when it is bought by an HMO, and starts shaking things up; A couple won't terminate...
Episode
20
Thoughts of You
Apr 20, 2000
McNeil goes against procedure and red tape and performs a hip replacement surgery; Shutt and Simon transplant a computer into a patient's brain in...
Episode
21
Everybody's Special at Chicago Hope
Apr 27, 2000
A coma victim awakens after 15 years; Miller learns firsthand how his cutbacks have affected the quality of care when a heart attack turns him into...
Episode
22
Have I Got a Deal for You
May 4, 2000
With the hospital proving to be a profit drain, Chicago Hope's new parent company decides to sell, which will mean firing the staff and selling the...
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