Chicago Hope (Season 6)

Team Play (Episode 1)

Writer: David E. Kelley

Air date: 1999-09-23

Runtime: 60 min

Overview: A priest is genitally mutilated during a mugging; a patient dies after a routine liposuction; Jeffrey refuses to perform surgery on a child.

Y'Gotta Have Heart (Episode 2)

Air date: 1999-09-30

Runtime: 60 min

Overview: A heart becomes available for transplant, but there are two patients waiting and Drs. Geiger and Watters must choose which patient will receive the heart. Jeffrey tries to place Alicia into an exclusive kindergarten. Aaron tries to hold a welcoming party for the new doctors.

Oh, What a Piece of Work is Man (Episode 3)

Writer: Marjorie David

Air date: 1999-10-07

Runtime: 60 min

Overview: 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, what he claims to be, Albert Einstein's brain and gives it to Dr. Wilkes. A woman is using plastic surgery to make herself look like a Barbie Doll.

Vigilance and Care (Episode 4)

Air date: 1999-10-14

Runtime: 60 min

Overview: Dr. McNeil goes to magnificent lengths to save the arm of a young baseball star. A little girl is brought into the ER after being hit by a car.

Humpty Dumpty (Episode 5)

Air date: 1999-10-21

Runtime: 60 min

Overview: The doctors fight to save Cacaci's life after he jumps from a six story building in a suicide attempt, although Cacaci's fiancee says that someone pushed him off the building.

Upstairs, Downstairs (Episode 6)

Air date: 1999-10-28

Runtime: 60 min

Overview: A widow wants to be impregnated with the sperm of her former husband. Rats take over the hospital.

White Rabbit (Episode 7)

Air date: 1999-11-11

Runtime: 60 min

Overview: The hospital is quarantined after a deadly virus is discovered; a child is missing in the hospital.

The Heart to Heart (Episode 8)

Air date: 1999-11-18

Runtime: 60 min

Overview: Dr. Alberghetti performs a surgery with another surgeon, who is in Sri Lanka.

The Golden Hour (Episode 9)

Air date: 1999-12-09

Runtime: 60 min

Overview: On the way to a football game, Aaron and Jack get sidetracked... after they find themselves in a hostage situation with 3 wounded patients, a loose gunman, and the police about ready to enter the building.

Hanlon's Choice (Episode 10)

Writer: Marjorie David

Air date: 2000-01-06

Runtime: 60 min

Overview: Dr. Hanlon must fight against her department heads when they decide they no longer want her to perform pro-bono operations. Dr. Alberghetti tries to help a young man with a staph infection.

Faith, Hope & Surgery (Episode 11)

Air date: 2000-01-13

Runtime: 60 min

Overview: Gina operates on a surgeon who's been diagnosed with Parkinson's disease.

Letting Go (Episode 12)

Air date: 2000-01-20

Runtime: 60 min

Overview: A hepatitis scare forces Dr. Geiger to call for outside help; Dr. Simon's misdiagnosis causes her to doubt herself.

Boys Will Be Girls (Episode 13)

Air date: 2000-02-03

Runtime: 60 min

Overview: A teenager is forced to live his life as a girl after the slip of a knife, and McNeil goes to court to try to help.

Gray Matters (Episode 14)

Air date: 2000-02-10

Runtime: 60 min

Overview: A father is told he can only donate his liver to one of his children, after both go into liver failure. Rose Webber comes back to Chicago Hope and finds that Aaron has started a new relationship -- with Gina.

Painful Cuts (Episode 15)

Air date: 2000-02-17

Runtime: 60 min

Overview: Keith discovers a heart murmer while giving Alicia a physical. Jeremy performs an appendectomy on Siamese twins.

Simon Sez (Episode 16)

Air date: 2000-02-24

Runtime: 60 min

Overview: A mentally challenged couple enters the hospital. The husband needs open heart surgery. The wife discovers that she can't become pregnant after she was sterilized without her consent.

Cold Hearts (Episode 17)

Air date: 2000-03-30

Runtime: 60 min

Overview: Shutt and Simon invent a procedure and use it to save the life of a girl. McNeil treat a wrestler who's been using steroids.

Devoted Attachment (Episode 18)

Writer: Henry Bromell

Air date: 2000-04-06

Runtime: 60 min

Overview: McNeil's friend is shot. Pancreatic cancer effects one of the conjoined twins that have entered the hospital.

Miller Time (Episode 19)

Writer: David E. Kelley

Air date: 2000-04-13

Runtime: 60 min

Overview: The hospital is purchased by an HMO, and immediately suffers budget cuts. During an operation that Miller is filming for a documentary, the heart stops beating on both the patient and her unborn child.

Thoughts of You (Episode 20)

Air date: 2000-04-20

Runtime: 60 min

Overview: McNeil goes against procedure and red tape and performs a hip replacement surgery. Shutt and Simon transplant a computer into a patients brain. Alberghetti tries to ignore her feelings for Miller.

Everybody's Special at Chicago Hope (Episode 21)

Writer: Marjorie David

Air date: 2000-04-27

Runtime: 60 min

Overview: Shutt's patient wakes up after being in a coma after 15 years. A man is denied health coverage, after saving Miller's life.

Have I Got a Deal For You (Episode 22)

Writer: Marjorie David

Air date: 2000-05-04

Runtime: 60 min

Overview: Rumors fly that the hospital is about to be sold again; a man seriously injured in an accident wants to be the guinea pig for the computer program he's invented that can help him move again.