Episode

Chicago Hope: Split Decisions

Name: Chicago Hope: Split Decisions
Released: 1997-01-06
Duration: 60 min
Cast: Adam Arkin, Héctor Elizondo, Peter Berg, Jayne Brook, Vondie Curtis-Hall

Chicago HopeSeason 31997-01-06

Overview

Wilkes saves a motorist who was attempting suicide. Austin falls for a politician.

Details

Series: Chicago Hope
Season: Season 3
Episode: Episode 12
Air date: 1997-01-06
Runtime: 60 min

Episode context

Split Decisions is Episode 12 in Season 3 of Chicago Hope. It aired on 1997-01-06. The runtime is 60 min.

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Episode 11: Mummy Dearest 1996-12-09 | 60 min Diane is faced with a dilemna when she has an opportunity to examine a 500-year-old Incan mummy temporarily in town for an exhibition. An accident victim loses his memories but gains a much nicer personality, presenting Shutt and McNeil with a dilemmna.

Episode 13: Verdicts 1997-01-13 | 60 min A hit-and-run victim escapes serious injury but her infant twins face a desperate crisis. Hancock faces testifying in court against his brother-in-law. Patient Linda Fortin's heart continues to grow weaker as her pregnancy progresses, endangering herself and her baby.

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Episode 10: V-Fibbing 1996-11-25 | 60 min Austin and Underhill both have to face the consequences when they tell the truth. McNeil contemplates surgery to prolong a jockey's career. Kronk lies to a teenage smoker with a cough.

Episode 14: The Day of the Rope 1997-01-20 | 60 min White supremacists on the run following a failed assassanation attempt against the President hole up in a grocery store with an injured member and demand a doctor from Chicago Hope to treat him.

Episode 9: Divided Loyalty 1996-11-18 | 60 min Kronk puts himself and Grad into a difficult position when he treats an old hockey pal who turns up after just being released from jail with a bullet in him. Wilkes and his wife face some basic decisions about their lives when they must decide what sort of neighborhood to move to.

Episode 15: Take My Wife, Please 1997-02-03 | 60 min Aaron's practical joker college roommate arrives for a visit and announces that he wants Aaron to marry his widow, Aaron's former girlfriend, when the malignant and inoperable tumor in his brain finally takes his life in a few weeks; Keith and Danny continue to clash; Aaron runs into an old friend as he stumbles home after a night of drinking with his college roommate; Gina has a miscarriage, but a grieving Keith wonders if it wasn't deliberate; Karen suspects that Jack's gambling again, an accusation which he denies; Maricela puts the moves on Aaron; Karen is wary when Jack finally comes to her for help.

Episode 8: A Day in the Life 1996-11-11 | 60 min Austin's cystic-fibrosis patient is just one of four patients needing transplants who have to wait in fear and hope when a potential donor appears but is prematurely pronounces dead and entered into the donor system by the inexperienced Eggert.

Episode 16: Missed Conception 1997-02-10 | 60 min An old friend of Austin's asks for help in getting pregnant. A cancer patient needs marijuana for her well being. Shutt's friend returns from Italy without his wife.

Episode 7: A Time to Kill 1996-11-04 | 60 min Aaron faces a huge moral dilemma when he's asked to operate on a death-row inmate scheduled to be executed in two weeks. McNeil treats a feisty old lady whose daughter is an old flame os his. Dr. Watters entertains an amnesiac, believing that he's a distinguished visiting doctor.

Episode 17: Mother, May I? 1997-02-17 | 60 min Kate flies to Washington with Tommy to speak to Congress about health care. Back in Chicago, her friend Marina makes a decision about adoption. McNeil's patint Harriett Owens is hospitalized again.

Episode 6: Higher Powers 1996-10-21 | 60 min Austin sprays a subpoena server with mace, inspiring his fellow servers to wage war on the hospital. Hancock tries to counsel a woman in her late forties whose health is severely threatened by her pregnancy but who refuses to let the baby be delivered early. Kronk finally returns to Chicago, dressed in Masai garb, and tries to reconnect with Diane.

Episode 18: Growing Pains 1997-03-10 | 60 min Aaron and Phillip announce that they are buying the hospital from Wilmette, although their plans for keping the solvent do not please any of their colleagues. An HMO lawyer obsessed with ""patient responsibilty"" holds the reins on some lucrative coronary-bypass business. A patient with private insurance receives test after test for all of his petty complaints.