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- A girl from an institution for the severely retarded is admitted to the hospital after suffering minor injuries in a fight. Gannon begins to suspect that the girl is not as severely retarded as is thought and can be helped, but he finds resistance from the doctor and nurse at the institution, and from the girl's own mother.
- The unconventional Dr. Carl Webson frankly informs a young woman suffering from spreading gangrene that her leg may have to be amputated. The girl is far more accepting of this than are her father, or the very conventional Dr. Garson, both of whom want to see Webson dismissed when he performs the amputation.
- Gannon champions a doctor accused of being a sex offender.
- The behavior of a doctor recently returned from service in Vietnam leads Gannon to suspect that he is becoming dependent on alcohol.
- A doctor knows he is exhibiting the symptoms of multiple sclerosis, but is hoping to postpone diagnosis until after he performs necessary surgery on his patient, a young man suffering from thyroid cancer. But it is becoming apparent that he'd be risking the patient's life by performing the surgery himself.
- An overworked Dr. Gannon is forced to take a vacation. He travels to Mexico and falls in love with a woman with a terminal disease.
- Gannon and Lochner's sister are murder suspects. Part two of a two-part episode.
- Dr. Gannon probes his own past to learn how to deal with a dying patient.
- Joe must deal with a forty-year-old doctor has not completed his Residency due to a gambling problem.
- Gannon discovers that a former nurse and one-time girlfriend, now married to an older college professor, may have pancreatic cancer. However, as her condition for giving consent for surgery, she insists that her husband not be informed of the real reason for the operation, a condition Gannon agrees to but later wishes he hadn't.
- Gannon comes to the aid of a student nurse who is efficient but resented by some for taking her own initiative too often. When a bus crash brings in a couple dozen patients, it puts her even more to the test.
- Joe Gannon must choose between jeopardizing a long-standing friendship or violating the confidence of a patient.
- A young woman has herself artificially inseminated to save her marriage, but her husband insists she have an abortion.
- Dr. Martin Lambert is so proud of his eldest son Jerry, a diving champion aiming for the Olympics, that he refuses to believe the boy may have a muscular disorder. And because of his obsession with Jerry's future, he has neglected his younger son.
- An aging star's behavior threatens the career of her husband, a highly-respected surgeon, at Medical Center.
- A college student about to undergo surgery for an abdominal condition is also addicted to shooting up methamphetamine (speed).
- Chad Everett directs and stars in the drama of a marital crisis and its effect on an adopted boy.
- A doctor's new drug may be the last hope for a young woman stricken with leukemia. But that hope may be dashed by rumors that the doctor is a homosexual, which have been delivered to members of the hospital board who must approve his drug to be used.
- Gannon believes a young boy is the victim of a beating rather than a fall.
- When a surgeon's wife is kidnapped, her ransom is the death of one of her husband's patients.
- Gannon suspects a blind girl recovering from a motorcycle accident may have hysterical blindness.
- Former football legend Ollie Wayne checks into the hospital and told that his legs need vascular surgery. If postponed, it could lead to amputation. But he keeps stalling surgery.
- A student nurse, who is planning to be married in only a few days, learns that she has syphilis. She is afraid to tell her fiance, a young doctor who may need to undergo surgery himself due to back pain of unknown origin .
- A false pregnancy threatens an anxious would-be mother and her sterile husband.
- Doctor Gannon goes undercover at a mental hospital to discover why an old friend of his did not receive proper medical care.
- After going through four spontaneous abortions in two years, a young woman wants to be sterilized, but her husband is ambiguous and Gannon feels she is acting too hastily in making her decision.
- When Gannon is unable to save the life of a politician, the man's family threatens him with a malpractice suit.
- A college student stumbles into the hospital with a bullet in his neck and emotional problems.
- A free-spirited aviatrix, haunted by the accidental deaths of her husband and child, becomes suicidal--and Gannon receives a plea for help.
- Gannon determines that his goddaughter is mildly retarded and will need special schooling. But the girl's mother refuses to accept that there is anything wrong with her, and refuses to listen to anything Gannon suggests.
- Dr. Joe Gannon uncovers a murder in which he and Lochner's younger sister are prime suspects. Part one of a two-part episode.
- Two interns (Patricia Quinn and Christopher Stone) are both being considered for a much-prized residency. And one of them is not above manipulation and sabotage to get it.
- A U.S. ambassador (Walter Pidgeon) has a heart condition that could jeopardize a crucial meeting.
- A young, ambitious black resident thinks that Gannon is too reluctant to allow him to perform surgery, and that his assignment to a low income elderly white Southern patient is somehow meant as an insult.
- A heart condition threatens a woman's pregnancy. She wants to risk the pregnancy while her husband wants her to have a therapeutic abortion.
- An aging surgeon develops a combative attitude which threatens to wreck his career and his marriage, and endangers a patient's life.
- A chronic invalid refuses to be cured in order to protect her son.
- Dr. Paul Lochner (James Daly) must tell his daughter Jennifer (Tyne Daly) that she has a serious arterial condition which may require surgery and possibly delay her upcoming wedding.
- The hunt for a girl exposed to the plague brings a clash between Gannon and an officious public health officer.
- Paralyzed after a car crash, a young man can no longer care for his intellectually disabled brother.
- A selfish, ambitious doctor risks his father's life to get an important position.
- A reclusive widow (Lee Grant) tentatively reaches out to a newly orphaned Mexican boy.
- A woman is admitted to the hospital after a series of strokes. Gannon finds that she may need a new surgical procedure to save her life. She asks to see her ex-husband, formerly a top surgeon, who has become a pathologist and now has little contact with patients. She wants him to perform the operation, but due to a past tragedy which ended their marriage he is unwilling to.
- Gannon butts heads with the new acting chief of surgery (John Marley), believing he is too quick to schedule surgeries.
- Just before he is supposed to perform a life-saving operation on a young woman who is counting on him, Gannon is blinded in a car accident after his brakes fail. And he does not realize that the orderly whom he trusts and requests to work with him is the one working against him.
- A girl is found to be suffering from Addison's Disease (adrenal insufficiency) after going into a panic and collapsing at the university. Gannon finds a strange pendant in her hand, and she suddenly leaves the hospital after a visit from a woman who seems to hold a strange control over her. Both Gannon and a superstitious intern investigate, fearing for the girl's health and suspecting the woman of being into witchcraft.
- Gannon helps a young intern overcome the guilt that motivated an unhealthy relationship with a colleague's widow.
- Nurse Marge Bowen (Mercedes McCambridge) successfully convinces a young singer (Cliff Potts) to have surgery that could affect his voice. But she steals pain pills rather than face her own health problems.
- A Russian woman surgeon makes medical misjudgments--endangering the life of a patient--for political reasons.
- Gannon has to treat two patients, a student with a bullet wound, and the campus policeman who shot him and suffered a severe abdominal injury. The cop, who claims the student provoked him, turns out to be in more critical condition than the student, who claims the shooting was unjustified. When Gannon refuses to let the student's lawyer interview the cop, the lawyer tries to use this to start a campus protest against Gannon and the medical center.
- An elderly doctor who recently underwent a heart transplant is determined to keep doing surgery, though Gannon doesn't feel he is strong enough. The old doctor's first operation is on an 18-year-old girl who is found to be suffering from melanoma, for which he wants to take a conservative approach, while Gannon believes she must have a full mastectomy.
- Doctor Gannon's assistant is torn between love for her ailing brother and love for a suitor.
- A determined researcher is overly eager to test a promising new drug on a 19-year-old patient with Hodgkin's Disease, but Gannon is reluctant because of a lack of information about the possible side effects.
- In a twist of fate, Gannon is forced to destroy the career of a beloved general practioner who once saved his life.
- In seeking the cause of hysterical deafness in a 16-year-old patient, Dr. Gannon must force the boy's parents to acknowledge some deep-rooted guilt.
- Two young women have been attacked on the medical center grounds, one of them fatally, and a police inspector's main suspect is a brash, brooding intern whose behavior does not help matters.
- A former comic who now entertains patients at the hospital tries to help a young woman who has tried to commit suicide. But he has problems as well: he is suffering from violent spells which he loses all memory of afterward. The two wind up having to help each other.
- A reformed alcoholic backslides when his wife becomes fatally ill.
- Financial pressure from her husband and her education drive a young medical student to prostitution.
- Gannon protects a young student wife suffering from VD and faces a medical board hearing for violating hospital code.
- Doctor Gannon tries to rein in a Resident who has a history of becoming emotionally involved with patients, while attempting to diagnose and treat an abused fashion model.
- A young high-wire performer with a serious heart defect tells Dr. Gannon that the show must go on to save her grandfather's circus.
- A young woman (Carrie Snodgress) is is need of a kidney but family secrets prevent a donation from her parents (Inga Swenson and Pat Hingle)
- A young, depressed patient postpones essential surgery to go on a romantic voyage with a phony "world traveler", whom Gannon has unsuspectingly introduced to her.
- Gannon looks for the cause of hysterical paralysis in a young woman whose parents have a secret which could prove destructive to all three of them.
- Shirley, a victim of a stabbing, and her self-obsessed mother raise suspicion at the hospital. Questions start to arise if either of them is capable of such a violent act and what would be the psychological motivation behind it.
- Gannon rekindles an old flame with a torrid past.
- A student (Michael Burns) violently attacks a psychology professor (Lloyd Bochner). Gannon suspects the student has a neurological disorder.
- Doctor Gannon receives death threats which appear to be coming from inside the hospital.
- A teenage girl is suffering fainting spells, but her estrangement from her parents threatens Doctor Gannon's ability to treat her.
- A young physician must choose between a career in hospital administration and general practice in a rural area where his services are badly needed.
- When her husband recovers from a long coma, a doctor's wife must choose between her new life-style and her unhappy marriage.
- Doctor Gannon struggles to reach, and treat, a child refugee from 'The Troubles' in Northern Ireland.
- Dr. Gannon loses the trust of a 13-year-old patient when the boy's young roommate dies of a terminal illness.
- Gannon tries to bridge a gap between a homeless17-year-old (Richard Thomas) suffering blackouts and his immigrant father (Simon Oakland).
- A dedicated nurse has a difficult pregnancy and a strained relationship with the baby's father, which causes stress for her preteen daughter.
- A student dies after an illegal abortion, and soon another is hospitalized. Gannon, who is head of student health at the university, believes the rule that all abortions must be reported is actually preventing young women from seeking medical attention after they've had one. But on this matter Gannon locks horns with Dr. Gloria Howell, who is so determined to not be seen as stereotypically soft and emotional that she has an unbending rigidity when it comes to rules.
- A young pregnant woman with a hemorrhaging kidney is rejected by her angry father and gets little support from her feckless boyfriend.
- A woman being treated for cervical cancer, unable to accept the death of her newborn baby, removes a radium implant and leaves it somewhere in the hospital after running from her room. Until she can accept her baby's death she has no memory of where she put the implant, which could result in radiation poisoning for the entire hospital if it is broken and must be located.
- A quack doctor romances a Medical Center patient whose life is in danger.
- Dr. Gannon is caught in a father-daughter battle over the adoption of the 15-year-old girl's baby.
- Tom Desmond abruptly quits his job as an orderly, even though he has a sick wife and a baby daughter to support. And his prospects for finding a new source of income keep falling through, in part because of his past record and in part because of his chip-on-shoulder attitude.
- Gannon is given 24 hours to get an inner city free clinic shaped up before authorities decide to cut off its funding. He needs to convince the unconventional doctor who runs it to work with him, and to keep in touch with the police regarding any reportable incidents, which the clinic doctor fears will cause his patients to lose trust in him.
- Young executive Maggi Spencer is seriously injured while horse riding with her younger sister. Gannon diagnoses a resulting aortic aneurysm, and is forced to operate when she loses consciousness. But after surgery Maggi is unable to move her legs, though no doctors can find any reason for the paralysis.
- Before he can perform life-saving surgery, Dr. Gannon must separate a rebellious teenager from her only confidante--and jeopardize her parents' marriage.
- Lochner's college flame, whom he briefly married until her father had it annulled, is suffering from a heart ailment. But she refuses to have an angiogram which could pinpoint the problem. And she gives Lochner some unexpected news.
- When his wife becomes a tragic mental case, a brilliant surgeon must choose between abandoning his career and institutionalizing her.
- A Veitnam vet, suffering from PTSD, tries to reconnect with his wife and child who started a new life while he was in a prisoner of war camp, placing the child's life at risk.
- Dr. Gannon is astounded when a world-famous surgeon asks for gender reassignment surgery. Second of two parts.
- An aspiring football star (O.J. Simpson) refuses treatment that may harm his budding career.
- A girl that Gannon has known for years is suffering from blackouts, and also from a delusion that she and Joe are in love with each other. When she learns she is pregnant, she claims he is the father, and her protective older brother believes it.
- A seriously ill surgeon continues his work, risking a patient's life.
- Dr. Gannon is astounded when a world-famous surgeon asks for gender reassignment surgery.
- Doctor Gannon clashes with the new Chief of the Surgical Service, who has recently returned from working in the Amazon jungles, and who Joe considers 'knife happy'.
- A Medical Center surgeon is in conflict when he must operate on a patient whose life is the key to his own son's recovery.
- To save her own life, a woman evangelist must make a decision that might destroy her career, her marriage and her faith.
- An injured Vietnamese girl is brought to the United States for treatment, then resists it.
- An impotent husband confronts his overpowering father-in-law to save his marriage.
- When a Medical Center resident is permanently blinded in an accident, Dr. Gannon, feeling indirectly responsible, tries to help him continue his career.
- A female convict, recommended by Gannon to a physician's assistant's program, refuses to believe his interest is strictly professional.
- A young Indian hoping to be accepted into the physician's assistant program deals with prejudice among doctors and patients, as well as the conflict between modern medicine and his tribe's traditions, which his ailing grandfather still holds more faith in.
- A college grid star, potential Heisman trophy recipient and big pro football draft choice, is plagued by a mysterious ailment, but refuses treatment in fear of jeopardizing his career.
- Gannon is shocked to discover that the gifted 16-year-old daughter of his longtime friends is addicted to heroin.
- A tough cop helps Gannon restore a young nun's faith after she is sexually assaulted.
- Pressured by his business associates, a young tennis pro seeks escape through surgery.
- Doctor Gannon faces a challenge in convincing a young rock star to undergo surgery which might result in the young man's loss of hearing.
- Gannon bargains with a fugitive to save the man's dying son.
- A new doctor at the Medical Center, and an old friend of Doctor Gannon's, arrives at Medical Center. But what is he hiding?
- A small town doctor calls Dr. Gannon for help on a strange medical case, but is murdered before he can tell his story.
- Dr. Gannon suspects a noted psychic's visions of his wife's death are wishful thinking.
- A brilliant surgeon is to perform surgery on his critically ill former wife. But he is hiding his diagnosis of epilepsy and when Gannon finds out he feels he must intervene.
- A young minister needs to undergo heart surgery as soon as possible, but he wants to put it off because he is more concerned with keeping one of the parolees he is working with out of trouble.
- A young woman is admitted to the hospital and her symptoms lead Doctor Gannon to a difficult diagnosis.
- Doctor Gannon struggles to rein in an unorthodox third-year Resident.
- A Resident at Medical Center discovers a disturbing secret about his wife.
- Doctor Gannon struggles to save patients and coworkers after a gas explosion severely damages another hospital.
- A world-famous scientist struggles with health issues while rekindling an old flame.
- Gannon must force a prominent surgeon through morphine withdrawal when the man is faced with operating on his own wife.
- While treating a former VIetnamese prostitute for a heart ailment, Dr. Gannon discovers that her missing child has found a new home with his close friends.
- Doctor Gannon struggles to convince a middle-aged man suffering from an aneurysm to undergo a life-saving procedure which might leave him impotent.
- A mother who loses a child to SIDS finds herself pregnant, and struggles with health issues while trying to decide whether to keep her baby.
- The career of a young female intern is threatened when her fiance confesses to a rape he did not commit.
- Doctor Gannon falls in love with a beautiful young patient who is not who she seems to be.
- The ailing homeless widow of a baseball star, has difficulty reconciling with a daughter she hasn't seen in thirteen years.
- A faith healer's wife is taken ill and he is confronted with a shocking revelation.
- To save the career of a talented woman doctor, and the life of her critically ill husband, Dr. Gannon must help the man accept his limitations--and her paycheck.
- Dr. Gannon must convince an escaped convict to risk capture in order to save the life of a dying child.
- To protect the health of a football star, Gannon challenges the "win at any cost" mentality that condones the use of drugs by athletes.
- Doctor Gannon confronts a neo-Nazi hospital employee and his mother.
- Doctor Gannon is confounded when a colleague insists a patient is suffering from a voodoo curse, and every medical treatment he attempts fails to resolve the patient's illness.
- A sex offender is stabbed in prison and while he's being treated by Doctor Gannon, his wife tries to get him to take an experimental drug which would reduce his sexual urges.
- Skill, cunning and some good-hearted larceny help three ex-Medical Center physicians keep their ramshackle community hospital operating in a tough part of town.
- To save her son's life, Dr. Gannon must persuade a divorced mother to bare the guilty secret that destroyed her marriage.
- When a young patient goes on a hunger strike, Dr. Gannon tries to persuade a lonely hospital volunteer to care for the girl's illegitimate child.
- A scheming young woman latches on to a wealthy man in the hospital.
- The proud mother of a Medical Center resident refuses vital surgery when Dr. Gannon is forced to fire her irresponsible son.
- A female Army major and surgeon investigates an unauthorized military drug experiment.
- An old friend of Doctor Gannon's who left the priesthood, befriends a down-on-her-luck singer.
- A respected gynecologist clashes with an unlicensed midwife, while Doctor Gannon works to save the life of one of her patients.
- Gannon confronts a hard-nosed businesswoman who refuses to help the illegitimate son of her late husband.
- A prisoner offers his kidney to a young women in dire need of a transplant, causing serious consternation for her mother.
- Dr. Gannon discovers that his trusted protégé is accused of conspiring in a brutal VIetnam massacre.
- A patient arrives with explosives in his chest putting the staff on edge and the hospital in lock down. The emergency postpones an operation on a noted woman physician, putting her life in danger.
- A young doctor suffering from an incurable disease must make a choice to marry a millionaire or spend her remaining years in medicine.
- Rebelling against the intolerable conditions in a nursing home, the residents decide to take matters into their own hands and demand Dr. Gannon's help.
- After a fellow diver dies, a young woman diver struggles with the stress of competitive diving, resulting in health problems. Her coach, who is also her fiancée, objects to Doctor Gannon performing tests on her.
- A study of teen-age prostitution: the daughter of a successful surgeon takes to the streets in a desperate bid for attention.
- A brutal competition for a limited number of internships drives unhealthy competition between aspiring medical students.
- Doctor Gannon counsels a friend who has life-changing surgery, and supports her attempts to keep her job.
- Doctor Gannon struggles with a controlling and overprotective socialite whose daughter has given a prognosis with which he disagrees.
- After a young woman is assaulted and identifies her attacker, the girls street-gang friends gain vengeance, thereby dumping a seriously-injured patient into Dr. Gannon's hands.
- Dr. Gannon must help a leading surgeon accept the limitations of his advanced age.
- Doctor Gannon takes responsibility for an adopted child with a very high IQ, and whose adoptive mother is in need of life-saving surgery.
- Doctor Gannon races against time to confirm a diagnosis which presents a threat to public health, but the patient is uncooperative and won't reveal any information about where she might have contracted her illness.
- Ruth Buzzi and Don RIckles portray two comically depressive characters who fall in love at Medical Center.
- Matters of the heart intertwine the lives of a critically ill patient, his adoptive parents, his social worker, her boyfriend, and Doctor Gannon.
- The wife of a candidate for the US Senate is taken ill, and attempts to hide her illness from her husband and the Press.
- Tragedy prevents Dr. Paul Lochner from reviving his youthful romance with an opera star.
- A cancer researcher, once convicted of second-degree murder in a mercy killing, is suspected when a patient's life-support systems are cut off.
- The son of a wealthy Middle Eastern oil magnate upsets Medical Center operations with his "money buys everything" attitude.
- Doctor Gannon enlists a prisoner to aid a wealthy woman in need of a miracle cure.
- Doctor Gannon attempts to cure a female artist who has been confined to a wheelchair since an accident in her teens, but her dreams point to a darker truth.
- A lonely nurse is brutally attacked but refuses to identify her assailant.
- An intern marries a patient, knowing she is terminally ill, yet her death leaves him broken enough to quit medicine.
- Dr. Gannon unwillingly becomes the object of a young woman's all-demanding attention.
- Doctor Gannon struggles to save a young boy who is in the care of a down-in-his-luck vaudevillian who is not his legal guardian.
- A mentally challenged young man falls in love with one of Doctor Gannon's patients, leading to conflict with the man's overprotective sister,
- A woman committed to a sanitarium is injured, leading to a diagnosis which might allow Doctor Gannon to restore her mental health, but her recovery might reveal a secret.
- An Hispanic herbal healer and his son, a young M.D., clash over the treatment of a superstitious Mexican woman at Medical Center.
- Dr. Tarkington, an esteemed surgeon, learns he has a terminal illness. He decides to spend his last days doing things he put off while pursuing his career.
- To save the life of a 19-year-old girl, Gannon is forced to jeopardize Dr. Lochner's "September" romance with the girl's mother.