22 episodesFirst aired 23 September 1999
E1Sept 19991h
A priest is genitally mutilated during a mugging; a patient dies after a routine liposuction; Jeffrey refuses to perform surgery on a child.
E2Sept 19991h
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.
E3Oct 19991h
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.
E4Oct 19991h
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.
E5Oct 19991h
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.
E6Oct 19991h
A widow wants to be impregnated with the sperm of her former husband. Rats take over the hospital.
E7Nov 19991h
The hospital is quarantined after a deadly virus is discovered; a child is missing in the hospital.
E8Nov 19991h
Dr. Alberghetti performs a surgery with another surgeon, who is in Sri Lanka.
E9Dec 19991h
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.
E10Jan 20001h
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.
E11Jan 20001h
Gina operates on a surgeon who's been diagnosed with Parkinson's disease.
E12Jan 20001h
A hepatitis scare forces Dr. Geiger to call for outside help; Dr. Simon's misdiagnosis causes her to doubt herself.
E13Feb 20001h
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.
E14Feb 20001h
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.
E15Feb 20001h
Keith discovers a heart murmer while giving Alicia a physical. Jeremy performs an appendectomy on Siamese twins.
E16Feb 20001h
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.
E17Mar 20001h
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.
E18Apr 20001h
McNeil's friend is shot. Pancreatic cancer effects one of the conjoined twins that have entered the hospital.
E19Apr 20001h
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.
E20Apr 20001h
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.
E21Apr 20001h
Shutt's patient wakes up after being in a coma after 15 years. A man is denied health coverage, after saving Miller's life.
E22May 20001h
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.
