Episode
Chicago Hope: Brain Salad Surgery
Overview
Dr. Shutt views his life as a musical after he collapses from an aneurism.
Details
- Series
- Chicago Hope
- Season
- Season 4
- Episode
- Episode 3
- Air date
- 1997-10-15
- Runtime
- 60 min
Episode context
Brain Salad Surgery is Episode 3 in Season 4 of Chicago Hope. It aired on 1997-10-15. The runtime is 60 min.
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Episode 2: The Incredible Adventures of Baron von Munchausen... by Proxy
A woman may be making her daughter sick purposely. Kronk wants a child. Shutt's patient dies, and McNeil joins gamblers anonymous.
Episode 4: Sympathy for the Devil
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 refuses an ""easy cure"" to a heroin addict, and Dr. Grad treats an HIV positive 14-year-old.
More episodes from this season
Episode 1: Guns 'n' Roses
Gang warfare breaks out in the E.R.; Kate refuses to perform a heart transplant; Billy and Diane get back together.
Episode 5: ... And the Hand Played On
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
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 announces that he's going to South America; Aaron tries biofeedback.
Episode 7: White Trash
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
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
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
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 treat a boy whom he suspects is abused, even though the child and his father deny the abuse.
Episode 11: On Golden Pons
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 with Watters money. Shutt turns over a patient to Catera, and the two clash over whether she should perform a dangerous surgery on the patient. Dr. McNeil is elected to play Santa and is a huge hit in the childrens ward. Grad receives her Christmas present a little early.
Episode 12: Broken Hearts
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 had an affair with. Shutt has his first breakthrough. McNeil and Catera grow closer.
Episode 13: Memento Mori
The hospital loses electricity in the dead of winter. Austin must do emergency surgery on a close friend. Pregnant, Grad feels unattractive.