Synopsis

Jeffrey finds himself in trouble with the hospital trustees when a bereaved husband, regretting his decision, withdraws permission for him to experiment with an artificial heart on his wife’s recently deceased body. Alan intervenes when a patient’s HMO denies coverage for Aaron’s surgery to remove a highly complex and potentially fatal brain tumor. Jeffrey visits his wife Laurie, a patient confined to a straitjacket in a mental institution, who apologizes for drowning their son, Joey. During a h