The new team deal with incidents including a patient who dies following a routine liposuction procedure and a priest with a genital mutation.

Geiger and Waters argue over which patient is more deserving of a donor heart.

A newborn's life is in the hands of a heart surgeon who has Tourette's Syndrome.

Dr. McNeil puts the life of a young ballplayer in jeopardy while trying to save the boy's arm.

The surgeons of Chicago Hope work together in an attempt to save the life of Dr. Cacaci.

A killer virus sweeps through the hospital, killing everyone who catches it.

Dr. Alberghetti performs experimental lung surgery with help, via satellite and the internet, from a doctor in Sri Lanka. Dr. Geiger helps his daughter Alicia prepare for her Thanksgiving play.

A woman refuses treatment because of religious beliefs; Dr. Hanlon fights to provide free treatment; multiple piercings cause a young man's staph infection and heart problems; the hospital's Web site stirs angst among the staff members.

Keith's estranged aunt, Dr. Odelia Wilkes, is brought in to perform surgery on a tuberculosis patient. Dr. Simon struggles to diagnose a patient whose twin sister died from leukaemia.

Jack and Jeremy help a teenage girl who was born a boy. Gina and Francesca treat an elderly woman suffering from Alzheimer's.

A father must choose which of his two dying children will get his liver donation. Dr. Rose Weber suffers a seizure at work. Aaron and Gina deal with their budding relationship.

Gina helps a mentally challenged couple after discovering a surgeon at the hospital had sterilized the woman years earlier.

Chicago Hope is bought by an HMO and new CEO Hugh Miller starts making cuts. A young couple learns their pregnancy is not progressing normally.

Hoyt Hospital Services wants to buy the hospital as an empty facility; Dr. Simon has an ectopic pregnancy; Dr. McNeill performs a miraculous surgery