Four Los Angeles doctors run a practice in this drama that focuses as much on the problems in the American medical system as it does on the patients.
Created by
John Lee Hancock
Network
CBS
Status
Ended
Type
Scripted
First Aired
1998-09-21
Last Aired
1999-05-10
Ken Olin
Roger Cattan
Matt Craven
Tim Lonner
Rick Roberts
Evan Newman
Sheryl Lee
Sarah Church
1. Pilot
60m
2. Under the Radar
1998-09-28
Tim's old friend Billy Andrews is dying from AIDS and asks Tim to get him marihuana as it helps with the pain. Knowing that Suzanne went to Woodstock, Tim asks her but Suzanne is concerned the partners will wrongfully suspect she uses drugs and decides to keep her mouth shut. A nervous woman, Alice Springs, comes to Evan for a physical to give to her boss as she is to start working full-time. Roger takes Tim to a dealer to get marihuana but they are busted by the cops and arrested. Late at night, Sarah catches Alice going through the archives, looking for her patient's file. Evan learns through Alice's test results that she has lupus. Alice tells Evan that if her boss finds out, she'll never get the full-time job she so desperately needs. Kelly worries the divorce is affecting Nick and asks Evan to talk to him. The media-happy Roger and his equal-minded attorney, Warren Spillman, go out to the media and make a speech on how important it is to get marihuana to sick people. Tim and Evan
3. A Prayer for the Lying
1998-10-05
After much fuss, Roger convinces the other partners they should buy a patient list from Dr. Daniel Dalsky, who's about to retire. Roger pays a great deal for the list but figures it'll be lucrative anyway as there are lots of celebrities on the list. Sarah examines her patient, Rosalind, who's finally pregnant after trying for seven years. Sarah discovers Rosalind has a serious infection that needs surgery but this may jeopardize the baby's life. Evan is called to the home of Robert and Carol Edwards to check on their daughter, Tiana. Tiana, a former wild rebel, almost died in an accident some time back and has since become a strict religious. Now she's sick but she believes that only God can save her and gets Evan to promise not to take her to the hospital. Roger celebrates the new patient list at a fancy restaurant with his date Alyssa, Tim and Julie, Evan, and Sarah and her unsympathetic husband Steven. An awkward situation arises as Kelly comes into the same restaurant with a date.
4. Fear of Flying
1998-10-12
Evan has a bizarre sexual fantasy about Kelly. Roger thinks it has to do with the fact that Evan hasn't had sex since the divorce. Kelly brings Tim bad news: the twins' alcoholic mother has cleaned up her act and may get the parental right back. Tim is frustrated but Kelly reminds him he knew this could happen when he agreed to be foster parent. Roger's stepmother Mildred is hospitalized with some gall bladder problem. However, Roger soon clashes with the obnoxious second year resident that treats her as he finds evidence that Mildred's real problem is a cardiac infarction. Roger has never really gotten along with his stepmother, and his dad, Vincent, is no man of emotions and dislikes it when Roger announces that Mildred needs surgery. A depressed Tim loses it when Nina tells him the insurance company SteadyCare refuses to cover the medical bills for one of their patients so they must send the patient a bill. Despite submitting a claim form several times, it has been declined each tim
5. Whither Thou Goest
1998-10-19
Kelly goes to Roger with her fear of cancer, which is common in her family. Just as Roger is examining her breasts, Evan walks in for what becomes a very awkward moment. Kelly wants Roger to perform a test, which will show how big her chances are of getting cancer. Evan is angry that she has gone to Roger with this instead of him and thinks the test is a bad idea. Tim's patient, Mark, is hospitalized and put under the care of Dr. Meyer. Tim notices a big, alarming bruise on Mark and calls for a duplex scan. But Dr. Meyer won't hear of it; she refuses to waste any money on a needless scan. Sarah prescribes some anti-depressive drugs for her ex-boyfriend John, but perhaps Sarah could need some of those herself as her domestic situation is deteriorating. Steven finally gets a job writing a screenplay for a movie but even though he hasn't worked in ages, he turns it down. Sarah is greatly frustrated. In order to scan Mark, Tim bribes a hospital technician named Jared. It turns out that Mar
6. Classic Evan
1998-10-26
Tim is frustrated that the twins' mother, Rosie, seems to be cleaning up her act and starts visiting the twin girls. He and Julie argue about it. Tim also faces another problem: his patient Ruth is very ill but just as she is about to go into surgery, she gets hysterical and puts up a violent struggle. Why is she so scared of operations? Evan punches popular radio host Jay Johnson right in the face after he provokes him greatly during a hockey game. As Evan later examines him, they make friends and Jay persuades Evan to appear on his radio show. Roger is auctioned away to a woman at a charity auction. One of Roger's celebrity patients, Reggie Miller, has also been auctioned away - for $10.000 - and Roger keeps his mouth shut about the fact that he himself went for $1.500. Jay, who has an obvious drug problem, embarrasses Evan during the radio show and later steals his prescription pad and uses it to get drugs for himself. Tim wonders if some sort of childhood trauma could be the root t
7. Maybe It's You
1998-11-02
Evan is stunned when he accidentally sees Steven kissing another woman. He wonders if he should tell Sarah but Roger doesn't think it's a good idea. Sarah's patient, Phoebe Mosely, is frustrated: she hasn't had sex with her husband in months. Things just haven't been the same since they got married. Meanwhile, Evan treats Phoebe's husband, Pete, who reveals he has problems getting a proper erection. Evan gives him Viagra. Patrick is frustrated to find Suzanne, Nina and Felicity drooling over a bunch of fireman that come to consult Tim. Their fellow fireman, Bob Wyczenzki, snores so terribly that none of them are able to sleep. Roger is concerned when he discovers big bruises on his patient, Sandy Rowlands. He fears she's being beaten by her husband, Ron, and goes by their house to confront Ron. But it turns out Roger was wrong: Ron didn't give Sandy those bruises - it was their autistic teenage son Denny. Evan doesn't tell Sarah anything about Steven. However, Sarah is worried none the
8. The Code
1998-11-09
Roger's patient Rebecca Williams has agreed to undergo a fat suction. Dr. Keith Burke, the chief of plastic surgery and also an old colleague and friend of Roger, performs the surgery on Rebecca and everything seems to go smooth. But shortly after, complications arrive and Rebecca almost dies. Her worried father, Corbin, asks Roger to find out if Keith screwed up? Rosie keeps spending time with the twin girls but she's unable to stay clear of the drugs and nearly ODs. Tim saves her life and later, Rosie asks him if he can get her into one of those detoxication programs. Tim agrees to help but only if she waves her parental rights. Rosie is devastated but has to accept the deal. Suzanne goes through an old issue of 'Playgirl' and is suddenly alarmed: one of the impressively ""equipped"" models bears an uncanny resemblance to Patrick. Suzanne bets with Nina and Felicity and reluctantly they ask Evan if he can settle the bet by peeking at Patrick in the lavatory. Evan absolutely refuses and
9. What About Bob?
1998-11-16
Roger is very happy with his sexy date Autumn but out of the blue she tells him she's getting married! An elderly black man named Bob arrives at the practice. He doesn't sign in; just sits there. Nina starts asking him question and Bob tells her there's nothing wrong with him. He's just come there to die! Don Claybourne arrives at the practice for treatment but his hateful attitude and racist remarks towards Nina make him an unpopular guy. In fact, Tim is so provoked by Don's racist attitude that he has troubles treating him at all. Bob is spreading his words of wisdom to Roger and the others. It turns out that Bob used to live in this very building when he was a kid back when it was an apartment building. Now he's come back to die. Sarah is filling in for another doctor and has to deal with a couple of childbirths. One of her patients, the very young Courtney Wilkes, is about to give birth and she is not very cooperative. However, Sarah is worried about Courtney and orders some tests.
10. Nate Expectations
1998-11-30
Tim is sad to inform his long-term patient and friend, Nate Bergold, that he is dying from cancer. Frustrated that there's nothing he can do for Nate, Tim suggests alternative treatment and they agree on a clinic in Mexico. However, Nates' wife Phyllis and their daughter Melanie dislike the idea and think the clinic is bogus. Nick is living with Evan while Kelly is out of town with Winnie. Evan is busy right now with many patients and Nick is getting bored. He announces that he certainly doesn't want to become a doctor, and Evan feels like a lousy dad. However, Nick reassures him he's a good father. Sarah's 42-year-old patient, Louise Gorman, has four sons and is desperately trying to get a girl. She and her husband are sort of disappointed to learn that Louise is carrying a boy. Roger agrees to temporarily take over for a ""hotel doctor"" at a fancy hotel where several models hang out. Despite objections from Phyllis and Melanie, Nate and Tim go to Mexico, and Nate seems better than eve
11. Leap of Faith
1998-12-07
Roger is having an affair with Jill, one of the doctors on his rounds. Jill is very talented but Roger is still being kind of hard on her. Evan asks Kelly out on a date to see what happens and she agrees. Tim and Julie are crushed when they have to send the twin girls with Rosie for two weeks. Rosie has really cleaned up her act and Tim is convinced she'll soon have the girls back for good. Sarah is thrilled to discover that she is pregnant and shares the happy new with everyone at the clinic. Tim is approached by Robert Brooks, whose mother Mrs. Brooks keeps talking to her dead husband. She is aware that he is dead but she is still convinced that she can see him and talk to him. Mrs. Brooks also suffers headaches and Tim takes some tests. All of a sudden, Sarah suffers from stomach cramps and she is rushed to the hospital, where she is put under the care of Dr. Weiss. Sarah receives bad news; the fetus isn't in the uterus, it's in the tube and has to removed right away. Roger asks Jil
12. Endless Bummer
1998-12-14
Tim suddenly starts shaking while examining a patient and can hardly hold on to his balance. Suzanne and Evan are worried about him but Tim just brushes it off. Roger is surprised when he bumps into and old acquaintance at the hospital; Eleanor Riggs, who is an old college girlfriend that he once loved passionately. Roger is excited about seeing her again but then he finds out from Eleanor's former doctor that she suffers from a terminal, inoperable tumor. Trying to compensate as he's probably losing the twin girls, Tim goes to donate his bone marrow to a very sick young boy. However, the kid's doctor, Dr. Grant, refuses to let him go through with it because Tim's blood pressure is way too high. Roger confronts Eleanor about not telling him of her illness. He insists on trying to help her but Eleanor has come to terms with the fact the's going to die and just wants to spend time with Roger instead. Meanwhile, Tom Arnold drops by the clinic and Felicity scares him with her depressing Y2
13. Been There, Done That
1999-01-11
14. Just Duet
1999-01-18
Sarah's patient Patricia Kingsley is close to dying from cancer when Sarah discovers she has a husband, Hugo. Sarah locates Hugo to convince him to be at his wife's deathbed and soon discovers why he has stayed away; Hugo is horribly disfigured (looking a lot like the Elephant Man). Roger is happily surprised when Eleanor unexpectedly reappears. She is getting sicker, though, and Tom Florin says she needs to have the tumor removed right away. To Roger's great relief, Eleanor agrees to the operation; she wants to live so she can be with him. Evan finds Patrick's behavior towards a patient, opera singer Francesca Lucchesi, inappropriate. Francesca has problems with her voice, and Patrick (who seems to have a crush on her) suggests to Evan that she may have tuberculosis like the character she is to play in the LA Opera. Evan gets her to take a test to find out, and Francesca worries. Everyone looks strangely at Hugo but he gets to be with his wife as she dies. Afterwards, he collapses due
15. True Believers
1999-01-25
Roger is forced to hurriedly perform an operation in order to save the life of a young boy, Kevin. But in order to same Kevin, Roger must amputate the boy's leg, something which greatly upsets both the Kevin and his father. Meanwhile, Evan must take care of his insane patient Charlie, who believes aliens are going to come to his aid.
