On his first day as a resident Kildare struggles with the question of whether to tell a patient---and the patient's wife, an old school friend---that he has been diagnosed with leukemia.

Kildare is assigned to work with the highly frugal, penny-pinching veteran central supply nurse to clean out obsolete equipment. But the nurse doesn't think most of the equipment in the "Elephant's Graveyard", as the downstairs storage area…

Kildare is concerned by a number of careless professional mistakes veteran doctor Harvey Gruboldt has made lately, but Gruboldt accuses Kildare of trying to undermine him, and even becomes defensive when Gillespie calls him out for the mist…

Yvette Mimiuex plays the part of a girl who is totally smitten with surfing and is hell bent on being the BEST surfer. She is in Blair and Gillespe diagnoses her with epilepsy. She is warned not to surf OR drive a car until the siezures are…

Yvette Mimieux continues her surfing. She and Kildare go to the beach at night and they ""make out"". He is infatuated with her but cant get her to accept the epilepsy. She has many smaller siezures. Kildare meets all the beach bums and …