Episode

Chicago Hope: The Heavens Can Wait

Name: Chicago Hope: The Heavens Can Wait
Released: 1999-05-17
Duration: 60 min
Cast: Adam Arkin, Héctor Elizondo, Peter Berg, Jayne Brook, Vondie Curtis-Hall

Chicago HopeSeason 51999-05-17

Overview

The E.R. is flooded with teenagers poisoned by an unknown rave drug; Kate and Sara are hit by a drunk driver; Phillip's fate is decided.

Details

Series: Chicago Hope
Season: Season 5
Episode: Episode 23
Air date: 1999-05-17
Runtime: 60 min

Episode context

The Heavens Can Wait is Episode 23 in Season 5 of Chicago Hope. It aired on 1999-05-17. The runtime is 60 min.

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Episode 22: Kiss of Death 1999-04-28 | 60 min 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.

Episode 24: Curing Cancer 1999-05-19 | 60 min Aaron consults Dr. Gina Simon, a pediatric neurosurgeon after being presented with a 9-week old baby suffering from seizures. Jeffrey Geiger returns to the hospital and promptly fires half the staff, whom then sue to get their jobs back.

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Episode 19: Vanishing Acts 1999-03-31 | 60 min Diane tries to help grieving parents when their three year old child dies; Aaron is institutionalized after an experiment backfires.

Episode 18: Teacher's Pet 1999-03-24 | 60 min Kate confronts a world renowned surgeon who's harassed her in the past; Diane's patient has a flesh-eating bacterial infection.

Episode 17: A Goy and His Dog 1999-03-10 | 60 min 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.

Episode 16: Home is Where the Heartache Is 1999-02-17 | 60 min 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.

Episode 15: Big Hand for the Little Lady 1999-02-10 | 60 min 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 14: Playing Through 1999-02-03 | 60 min 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 13: Karmic Relief 1999-01-20 | 60 min 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 12: Adventures in Babysitting 1999-01-13 | 60 min 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.