Episode
Chicago Hope: Oh, What a Piece of Work is Man
Overview
A doctor with Tourette's Syndrome is brought to Chicago Hope to operate on an infant with a severe heart defect. A patient comes into the ER with, what he claims to be, Albert Einstein's brain and gives it to Dr. Wilkes. A woman is using plastic surgery to make herself look like a Barbie Doll.
Details
- Series
- Chicago Hope
- Season
- Season 6
- Episode
- Episode 3
- Air date
- 1999-10-07
- Runtime
- 60 min
Episode context
Oh, What a Piece of Work is Man is Episode 3 in Season 6 of Chicago Hope. It aired on 1999-10-07. The runtime is 60 min.
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Episode 2: Y'Gotta Have Heart
A heart becomes available for transplant, but there are two patients waiting and Drs. Geiger and Watters must choose which patient will receive the heart. Jeffrey tries to place Alicia into an exclusive kindergarten. Aaron tries to hold a welcoming party for the new doctors.
Episode 4: Vigilance and Care
Dr. McNeil goes to magnificent lengths to save the arm of a young baseball star. A little girl is brought into the ER after being hit by a car.
More episodes from this season
Episode 1: Team Play
A priest is genitally mutilated during a mugging; a patient dies after a routine liposuction; Jeffrey refuses to perform surgery on a child.
Episode 5: Humpty Dumpty
The doctors fight to save Cacaci's life after he jumps from a six story building in a suicide attempt, although Cacaci's fiancee says that someone pushed him off the building.
Episode 6: Upstairs, Downstairs
A widow wants to be impregnated with the sperm of her former husband. Rats take over the hospital.
Episode 7: White Rabbit
The hospital is quarantined after a deadly virus is discovered; a child is missing in the hospital.
Episode 8: The Heart to Heart
Dr. Alberghetti performs a surgery with another surgeon, who is in Sri Lanka.
Episode 9: The Golden Hour
On the way to a football game, Aaron and Jack get sidetracked... after they find themselves in a hostage situation with 3 wounded patients, a loose gunman, and the police about ready to enter the building.
Episode 10: Hanlon's Choice
Dr. Hanlon must fight against her department heads when they decide they no longer want her to perform pro-bono operations. Dr. Alberghetti tries to help a young man with a staph infection.
Episode 11: Faith, Hope & Surgery
Gina operates on a surgeon who's been diagnosed with Parkinson's disease.
Episode 12: Letting Go
A hepatitis scare forces Dr. Geiger to call for outside help; Dr. Simon's misdiagnosis causes her to doubt herself.
Episode 13: Boys Will Be Girls
A teenager is forced to live his life as a girl after the slip of a knife, and McNeil goes to court to try to help.