Episode
Chicago Hope: Home is Where the Heartache Is
Overview
Jack returns after his brother's death; fearing the impact of HMOs on his practice, Joe begins to sell doorway products; Billy's friend comes to the hospital for a heart transplant, and ends up getting an experimental procedure after the hospital receives the wrong organ.
Details
- Series
- Chicago Hope
- Season
- Season 5
- Episode
- Episode 16
- Air date
- 1999-02-17
- Runtime
- 60 min
Episode context
Home is Where the Heartache Is is Episode 16 in Season 5 of Chicago Hope. It aired on 1999-02-17. The runtime is 60 min.
Previous / Next
Episode 15: Big Hand for the Little Lady
McNeil performs a hand transplant on the patient, and uses the patient's dead mother's hand. Kate is accepted by NASA. An old childhood friends visits Watters and asks for one of his kidneys.
Episode 17: A Goy and His Dog
Billy ponders euthanasia when Gordy is diagnosed with rheumatoid arthritis; Lisa tries to help a woman with metastatic breast cancer get into an experimental group even though the woman doesn't fit the study parameters; Aaron's patient confesses to murder.
More episodes from this season
Episode 14: Playing Through
During surgery to resolve an HIV-positive woman's post-partum complications, Diane accidentally cuts herself and is exposed to the virus; problems arise between Jack and Lisa when he discovers that she's been seeing Robert; a homeless man takes shelter in the hospital's main entrance; an unidentified man is hit by a train after trying to save a child; Jack takes up golf in the hospital.
Episode 18: Teacher's Pet
Kate confronts a world renowned surgeon who's harassed her in the past; Diane's patient has a flesh-eating bacterial infection.
Episode 13: Karmic Relief
Kate discovers that she has developed an ovarian cyst which could destroy her plans with NASA. After Kate hears this news she agrees to go to a retreat... that Yeats is leading.
Episode 19: Vanishing Acts
Diane tries to help grieving parents when their three year old child dies; Aaron is institutionalized after an experiment backfires.
Episode 12: Adventures in Babysitting
Aaron struggles with the loss of a patient; Billy is attracted to Emily's babysitter; a couple asks Bobby and Dennis for help in creating a baby with a genius I.Q.; Joe tries to decide who should go into the hospital's fallout shelter in an emergency.
Episode 20: From Here to Maternity
A mother gives birth to twins, one black and one white. Kate is threatened with a lawsuit after making a rude comment.
Episode 11: McNeil and Pray
A member of Jack's basketball team sustains a near-fatal injury during a game; Bobby disagrees about the need for his patient to have heart surgery.
Episode 21: And Baby Makes 10
Dr. Hancock's patient, who was using fertility drugs, gives birth to 8 babies.
Episode 10: Gun with the Wind
Wilkes must face the parents of a child brought into the ER when it becomes clear that Raymond was responsible for the child's injury. NASA starts interview Kate's colleagues. One of Aaron's patients is attracted to him.
Episode 22: Kiss of Death
Kate meets up with an old boyfriend, who turns out to be an ex-husband. Lisa tried to prolong the like of a pregnant woman with brain cancer. Cacaci forces Aaron to investigate his charge that Phillip had an affair with a patient.