Doctors' Hospital

Storyline centers around a huge hospital, with Jake Goodwin, a neurosurgeon and chief of services.

Goodwin introduces four interns of varying promise to the pressures of life in the hospital's neurosurgical wing. Over-the-hill Dr. Wilson (Jeff Corey) loses a middle-aged woman on the operating table and young intern Dr. Antonelli (Christina Raines) points up his failures at a staff meeting, putting her on the hot seat. Meanwhile, one intern is having unfaithful problems at home, another chokes up at the sight of illness and a female associate Dr. Purcell (Zohra Lampert) is trying to find out why a young adolescent is a stroke victim,

Two separate stories unfold as a pregnant woman refuses needed brain surgery out of fear for her unborn child, and a nurse becomes a human guinea pig to test an anti-viral serum developed by the doctor she loves.

A staph epidemic threatens the hospital.

Harried Dr. Purcell considers quitting her job for a less hectic, better-paying position with an industrial firm.

A suicidal coed is brought to the hospital after she was hit by a car while wandering down the freeway under the influence of codeine.

The doctors become involved in childbeating cases.

Goodwin questions the quality of work performed by two staff physicians.

A resident suspects that an experience physician has misdiagnosed a concert pianist's condition and insists that the patient be given a definitive test that in itself could prove fatal.

A hospitalized movie magnate rebels at being assigned a homosexual orderly.

A young priest and a strong-willed intern are severely tested by duty in the neurosurgical wing.

A brilliant neurosurgeon avoids grave responsibilities by working himself to the point of exhaustion.

Seeking relief from excruciating pain, a fashion model turns to heroin and eventually to prostitution and thievery.

An empathic resident finds a particular challenge in a policewoman who can't cope with recurring attacks of impaired vision.