Episode guide
Chicago Hope: Season 4
24 episodes · premiered Oct 1, 1997
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- Episode 1: Guns 'n' Roses Oct 1, 1997 · 1h Gang warfare breaks out in the E.R.; Kate refuses to perform a heart transplant; Billy and Diane get back together.
- Episode 2: The Incredible Adventures of Baron von Munchausen... by Proxy Oct 8, 1997 · 1h A woman may be making her daughter sick purposely. Kronk wants a child. Shutt's patient dies, and McNeil joins gamblers anonymous.
- Episode 3: Brain Salad Surgery Oct 15, 1997 · 1h Dr. Shutt views his life as a musical after he collapses from an aneurism.
- Episode 4: Sympathy for the Devil Oct 22, 1997 · 1h Dr. Kronk must decide whether or not to grant the request of a convicted child molester who wants to be castrated. Dr. Shutt struggles to regain his health after his aneurism. McNeil…
- Episode 5: ... And the Hand Played On Oct 29, 1997 · 1h Dr. Shutt may have brain damage after his aneurism, so a new neurosurgeon, Dr. Lisa Catera, is brought into the hospital. Dr. Austin gets trapped on an elevator with a sexy electrician.
- Episode 6: The Lung and the Restless Nov 5, 1997 · 1h Kate suspects that the parents of a boy who needs a liver transplant may have pressured his sister, who has cystic fibrosis, into being his donor; Diane learns that she's pregnant; Billy…
- Episode 7: White Trash Nov 12, 1997 · 1h Hancock and the police search trash bins for a newborn; male rape; Drs. Kronk and Grad wed at the airport. A basketball player has a heart defect.
- Episode 8: Winging It Nov 19, 1997 · 1h Austin and NcNeil fly to London for a conference and are forced to perform lifesaving surgery with only an airline medical kit. Shutt begins his psychiatric residency.
- Episode 9: Cabin Fever Nov 26, 1997 · 1h McNeil offers his cabin to Drs. Austin, Catera, and Grad, whom each want to get away from the city for a while. While at the cabin they receive a visit from an unexpected and deadly visitor.
- Episode 10: All in the Family Dec 10, 1997 · 1h Shutt has his first group counseling session with a family, and tries to help a young man whose brother commited suicide. Wilkes father comes back into his life. Hancock and McNeil try to…
- Episode 11: On Golden Pons Dec 17, 1997 · 1h After a little too much holiday cheer Wilkes is charged with a DUI and must serve a community service in Dr. Hancock's clinic. Watters discovers that his accountant has left the country…
- Episode 12: Broken Hearts Jan 7, 1998 · 1h Austin operates on a pregnant patient with a damaged heart and learns that she had taken the controversial diet pill Phen-phen. An accident reunites Watters and an old flame, the woman he…
- Episode 13: Memento Mori Jan 14, 1998 · 1h The hospital loses electricity in the dead of winter. Austin must do emergency surgery on a close friend. Pregnant, Grad feels unattractive.
- Episode 14: Psychodrama Jan 21, 1998 · 1h Watters is confined to a wheelchair after a basketball injury and witnesses a murder. Austin receives a bird from Danny, the electrician she's been dating, which causes havoc in the…
- Episode 15: The Ties that Bind Feb 4, 1998 · 1h Catera must operate on a 5-year-old who is suddenly stricken with seizures. An HIV-postive friend of Dr. Grad's talks to Diane about getting pregnant (she wants advice) and Diane (who…
- Episode 16: The Things We Do for Love Mar 4, 1998 · 1h Catera and McNeil cross roads when her facination with his brother becomes personal. Billy begins to feel ""in over his head"" with the impending birth of his child, so at a desperate…
- Episode 17: Liver, Hold the Mushrooms Mar 11, 1998 · 1h A family eats poisonous mushrooms and the mother and two sons must receive a liver transplant. A donor is found for the mother and the father is a match for the two sons. The father…
- Episode 18: Waging Bull Mar 18, 1998 · 1h Dr. McNeil attends a medical convention in Las Vegas, believing he can control his gambling addiction. After the son of a close friend dies, McNeil begins gambling again. Watters, Shutt…
- Episode 19: Objects are Closer than They Appear Mar 25, 1998 · 1h After the mysterious death of a seemingly healthy 15 year-old Dr. Wilkes decides to investigate. A lesbian wants her lover to die with dignity and fights her family to get her wishes.
- Episode 20: Deliverance Apr 1, 1998 · 1h Diane goes into labor unexpectedly and when no one can find Billy she reluctantly asks Kate to be her coach. Wilkes must get a family to safety from an abusive husband/father. McNeil and…
- Episode 21: Bridge over Troubled Watters Apr 8, 1998 · 1h Dr. Watters' son is found dead in his apartment and Phillip must except the fact that he committed suicide. Dr. Austin brings her daughter to the hospital and she becomes fascinated with…
- Episode 22: Risky Business Apr 29, 1998 · 1h A famous artist has an inoperable brain tumor. She convinces Dr. Shutt to run away to California with her.
- Episode 23: Absent Without Leave May 6, 1998 · 1h Dr. Kronk's mother visits. Aaron spends time with Samara in California. A woman offers Dr. Hancock money to sterilize some of his patients.
- Episode 24: Physician, Heal Thyself May 13, 1998 · 1h As Dr. Wilkes takes his son to school gunfire errupts. The victims are brought to Chicago Hope and Wilkes finds himself having to deal with his sons post-tramatic distress. Kronk also…