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Desirable nurse Hildie Jackson spends her time at Alden General fighting off the attention of unwanted suitors, but when charismatic architect Fitz Condon becomes a patient, Hildie is unable to resist his charms. They begin an affair, but Hildie soon realizes why she was better off resisting.

Lillian Carroll, the depressed, rejected wife of Dr. Clay Carroll, swallows a bottle pills and phones the hospital to inform her husband of her suicide. Dr. Steffen and the staff at Alden General do their best to keep Lillian talking in order to trace the call and find her before it's too late.

A twist on the ethics of doctor and patient confidentiality highlight this story in which the district attorney's office authorizes an electronic listening device in a hospital room, then wants to use the information overheard. Dr. Steffen refuses, citing patient privilege, but he soon learns that only the medical aspects of the conversation were considered privileged.

Nurse Karen Gardner's new assignment in the psychiatric ward calls into question her professional objectivity when patient Edith Arnold fails to progress in her recovery, and it comes to light that Nurse Gardner, herself once a psychiatric patient, has been using her personal experiences in her treatment of Arnold.

Heart surgeon Dr. Ken Houck's coldness following the death of a child bothers Gail. However, when she sees him breaking down in private, she offers to take him home and finds he's in a deeply troubled marriage. Soon she and Houck develop a more personal relationship.

Student nurse Kitty Lee is a Southern belle with an Electra complex and completely dissimilar to the younger student nurses at Alden General. Left out among her peers, Kitty turns to a mature mental patient similar to her image of her own father.

The staff and patients are witness to an unfolding drama across the street from the hospital as a man on a high ledge threatens to commit suicide.

Appalled that her terminal patient Arthur Devon will likely die alone, Nurse Thorpe disregards her usual objective nature and makes a concentrated effort to locate Devon's family. However, once she does, she soon realizes that there's a reason why Arthur Devon has lived a life apart from others.

While a new patient is dying, he does his best to make everyone hate him, even threatening to sue after he claims a prized medal was stolen. A doctor who's separated from his wife yearns for the company of the widowed head nurse.

Did the nurse commit euthanasia?

Dr. Edgar Miles treats the wealthiest mature women on Park Avenue. When the irascible Mrs. Pierce dies under suspicious circumstances, Dr. Miles finds himself facing the grand jury. Through a series of flashbacks, staff from Alden General recall on the witness stand their observations of Miles and his patient.

Dr. Ahmed Rashid arrives at Alden General from Pakistan to begin his residency. His gentle Eastern demeanor easily wins over Gail Lucas, but Dr. Rashid receives blatant hostility from prejudiced charge nurse Fay Loomis, who is determined to make Dr. Rashid's tenure as unpleasant as possible.

Dr. Joseph DeCarlo, a visiting pathologist from Europe, is invited to perform an autopsy on an unidentified patient bearing a numbered tattoo on his arm. DeCarlo, who spent years tortured in a German Nazi concentration camp and has a similar number in his own arm, worries the staff at Alden General when he becomes obsessed with uncovering the patient's identity.

In the first of a two-part story, high school student Robert Bauer is admitted to Alden General Hospital for observation. Seemingly unable to distinguish between reality and a violent fantasy world, Robert commits an horrific crime against a teacher, a crime he claims he doesn't remember.

In the final case of "The Doctors and the Nurses," Nurse Thorpe grows concerned when young Dr. Hodges continually requisitions morphine, but it isn't being prescribed for any of his patients. She shares her suspicions with Dr. Steffen, and they uncover Hodges' concealed attempts to help drug addict Nancy Landau wean herself off her addiction to narcotics.

Paul and Jean Wheeler eagerly await the birth of their first child. When Jean is checked into the hospital, a bottle of pills from a German pharmacy are among her personal effects. They're identified as thalidomide, and the Wheelers have to accept the likelihood of their child having severe birth defects.

After college student Lucas Kiley discovers that his girlfriend Lauri is pregnant, he is forced to seek help from his estranged father, a physician at Alden General, but is met with rejection. Nurse Thorpe decides to intercede in an effort to reconcile the father and son.

Gail's ballet performance in the student nurses' annual talent show becomes a huge hit with her colleagues, so much so that she decides to apply for a position with ballerina mistress Madame Orlova. Once accepted, Gail finds herself unable to cope with the rigorous training of two professions and must choose between them.

A brilliant young doctor at Alden General becomes the subject of a hospital inquiry after rumors abound that he cheated on a medical school exam. The rumors against Dr. Harry Warren initially found cannot be proven, but then his wife Sheila has an attack of conscience and decides to reveal what she knows about her husband's past.

Alden General's newly appointed priest Father Damien begins to doubt his vocation when his sensitive nature is unable to cope with all of the pain and suffering the hospital holds. He seeks solace from student nurse Sally Ellis, an equally sensitive sole, but their happiness is short lived.

Alden General's Dr. McClendon provides emergency treatment to a seriously injured woman at the site of an accident. Later, when the patient passes away, McClendon finds himself and the hospital itself exposed to a lawsuit blaming him for the woman's inevitable death.

Talented surgeon Dr. Lillian Bauer joins Alden General but immediately becomes the target of abuse and male chauvinist attitudes from Dr. Mehil who thinks women are inappropriate for surgical careers. Lillian finds an ally and potential love interest in colleague Dr. Campbell.

Maurice Borman, an American man accused of espionage, attempts suicide in an attempt to avoid a protracted trial for treason. The situation becomes even more complex after he's saved by Alden General staff, only to be diagnosed with terminal lung cancer.

In effort to achieve professional respect, black nurse Ginny Bishop disregards her ethnic roots. When her cousin Lonnie Hill is hired as an orderly at Alden General and is soon accused of providing liquor to an alcoholic patient, Ginny must confront issues of prejudice, race and self-acceptance.

Marjorie Ford confides in Nurse Thorpe one recent single extramarital infidelity. The one night stand has left her with a case of syphilis, and now she has to face explaining the situation to her husband Steve, as the doctors and nurses at Alden General attempt to alert the public to rising cases of venereal disease.

Nurse Milo tries to restrain an inebriated and resistant Mrs. Northup, who accidentally takes a fall. After Nurse Milo fails to document the seemingly minor incident, Mrs. Northup comes down with pneumonia, caused by ribs broken in the fall. Milo faces termination and a lawsuit.

Doctors resort to an experimental drug known as "LT" to treat a young man suffering from chronic nephritis. When Nurse Bruno discovers severe and deadly side effects have occurred in others who have taken the drug, she secretly replaces the capsules with ones filled with sugar.

Foreign nurse Frieda Schacht's skill, knowledge, and dedication to Alden General commands the respect of Gail, who finds her worthy of emulation. However, Frieda's reputation is severely threatened when a patient accuses her of having assisted Nazis with medical experiments on concentration camp prisoners during World War II.

Nurse Thorpe takes a particular interest in student nurse Monica James. Although others at the hospital consider Monica to be stupid and incompetent, in reality she's a bright misfit with an exceptional intelligence quotient as well as acceptance into MIT.

Young Angela Bonnell, the daughter of a famous acting couple, checks into Alden General for plastic surgery to reshape her nose. While there she meets jockey Danny Reynolds who faces more serious medical troubles, his leg has been severely injured in a fall from a racehorse.

When a newborn baby need a life saving operation to live the staff must convince the child's father to sign the consent form.

Nurse Thorpe's sympathies lie with the family of patient Parnell Sullivan a hardworking fisherman rushed to Alden General following a heart attack in the Atlantic. Sullivan's wife Mary decides to bring their children to New York during her husband's hospitalization, and Thorpe incurs the wrath of the nurses's quarters superintendent Mr. Durkin when she gives the Sullivan family a place to lodge.

Loneliness and feelings of worthlessness torment widowed psychiatric patient Evald Thorsen. Pushed to the limit, Thorsen creates a homemade time bomb and takes it with him to the waiting room at Alden General to await death. However, when he's called upon to help during an emergency, his spirits are suddenly lifted -but he can't the find the bomb which is set to detonate within the hour.

At New York's Alden hospital maternity ward, a group of student nurses take on their first duties. The focus is on head nurse Liz Thorpe and student Gail Lucas, and several patients including a young wife that hates her unborn baby, a first time mother determined to have a medication-free birth, and a sickly Greek immigrant with a problem pregnancy.

Gail becomes friendly with easygoing patient Norman Ruskin who's hospitalized for minor surgery. Things take a dark turn when Ruskin is revealed to be mentally ill and forces himself on Gail. Although the staff are skeptical and the hospital doesn't want publicity, Gail decides to press charges.

Gail, Ted, and Alex are among the guests invited to a dinner party given by Harriet Watts, the distraught slightly deranged mother of a girl who died at Alden General. Unknown to them, Watts holds the hospital responsible for her daughter's death and has arranged an evening of vengeance.

After Alden General nurse Sarah Styles becomes secretly dependent upon narcotics, she does her best to conceal her addiction by stealing drugs from the hospital. Faced with possible exposure, Sarah's husband Lenny turns to street pusher Doc for his wife's fix by pretending he's the one with the problem.

Teenaged patient Dorris Kramer longs to be released from Alden General and return to school. Enthusiastic teacher Mr. Parent convinces Doris to continue her studies during her convalescence. However, when she accidentally learns from another patient that she's dying and won't live to see graduation, Dorris loses all interest in life.

After two decades of service, Elihu Kaminsky, an Army medical corpsman, changes careers by becoming a male nurse at Alden General. Although his skill and performance are excellent, Kaminsky faces disapproval from Dr. Dan Phillips and Nurse Thorpe when he requests duty in obstetrics.

Nurse Liz Thorpe and newly graduated Nurse Gail Lucas are joined by doctors Ted Steffen and Alex Tazinski, who are inundated with appendicitis patients. Meanwhile, a teenage boy admitted to Alden General with significant injuries claims he was hurt in an accidental fall down the cellar stairs, but he could be concealing parental abuse.

Alden General patient Paul Marker has been diagnosed with Hodgkin's disease. When his brother Ben consults with an out of state doctor who prescribes an unorthodox treatment regimen, the hospital refuses to comply because the requested drug isn't approved for use as a Hodgkins treatment.

Sophisticated, alluring party girl Clarissa Robin is admitted to Alden General as a cardiac patient but is in denial about the severity of her condition. Meanwhile, equally lovely housewife Sandra Leonard faces amputation of her leg. When her visiting husband Hal meets party girl Clarissa, the situation becomes complicated.

Gail's cousin Ellen Denby joins Alden General as a student nurse. Resolute in her desire to make it on her own, she refuses help from more experienced staff members. However, in order to cope the mounting demands of her training, she begins taking pills.

After a college fraternity initiation goes too far, student Peter Ross is taken to Alden General nearly beaten to death. Ross' decision to keep quiet about the perpetrator pleases his parents -and good friend Cris Molly who was responsible for Ross' injuries.

Student nurse Terry Collins finds herself in a quandary when a patient deliriously confesses to committing a crime for which a young Puerto Rican immigrant has been arrested. Terry is reluctant to reveal the confession to the police as she fears her own deliberately concealed Puerto Rican heritage would be exposed.

Gail becomes the defendant in a slander lawsuit after witnesses overhear her report an injured child's accusation of parental abuse. The child's indignant father decides to sue, while Alden General gives Gail the choice of either resigning or face termination.

Onboard a moving train to Chicago to attend a medical convention, doctors Tazinski and Steffen meet a cultured young woman who appears to be suffering from amnesia. As the trip advances on, they witness her transformation into a seemingly different personality.

Eccentric young Elaine Radnitz puts her romance with an unemployed actor on ice while she joins the staff at Alden General as a nurse's aide. There she catches the eye of Dr. Tazinski who is drawn to her charmingly frank way of life in this seriocomic tale.

Demand for better wages creates a tense scenario at Alden General. After a delegation of nurses appeal to the hospital administrator and are denied, union maintenance employees decide to go on strike, and nurse Lois Carpenter shows her support by refusing to cross the picket line.

Alden General hosts Dr. Mai Lind, a beautiful and brilliant Finnish doctor of strict personal standards. Dr. Tazinski receives the responsibility of acclimating Dr. Lind to the idiosyncrasies of American medicine; however, he soon finds himself attracted to her and faces the unenviable task of trying to keep their relationship on a strictly professional level.

This is The Barbara Bowers Story.

Nurse Betty Anderson listens to elderly patient Fred Miller whose issues as a senior citizen take on a personal relevance to the aging caregiver. When Anderson decides to support Miller's advocacy for more programs to assist seniors, she finds herself caught between just watching on the sidelines and actively participating.

Mr. Fox, a black patient who is obsessed with racial matters, balks at receiving treatment from Dr. Farmer, a physician who is also black. Fox treats Farmer with sarcasm and disdain, which draws the attention of wise Nurse Ollie Sutton, herself a proud black woman.

The Mannings, a well-intentioned couple raising a mentally challenged daughter, reject Nurse Thorpe's suggestion that Amy could be better served at a school for children with special needs. The school's pediatrician Dr. Kralik attempts to help the Mannings learn to trust medical professionals.

Nurse Doris Kelly is assigned to the case of patient Arthur Luskin, a despondent man who has become partially paralyzed following a failed suicide attempt. Although Luskin will likely try to kill himself again, an indefatigable Nurse Kelly is determined to give him the will to live.

Widowed nurse Molly Kane focuses all of her attention on her work at Alden General. However, her successful professional life is in stark contrast to her personal one as she often neglects her young daughter Carole, who suffers from severe allergies.

While walking through the park near Alden General, Gail becomes the victim of an attack by a group of hoods. She's rescued by Frank Mitchell, a young man passing by, but Frank is severely injured during the assault, and his mother places all the blame on Gail.

Sheila, an actress hospitalized with a case of the measles, catches Dr. Steffen's eye. Once she's discharged, the pair begin seeing one another, and soon Dr. Steffen is ready to propose marriage. However, his unwavering dedication to his career gives Sheila doubts about the potential for their future happiness.

Felissa Arenas, a nurse from a small South American village, visits Alden General to study the latest advancements in medicine. However, she finds a great deal of waste in the American way of doing things and creates a serious problem by salvaging discarded medical implements for use in her own village.

Dr. David Wicker and employee Carey Sonnenberg develop a special friendship, with Wicker assuming an almost fatherly role for the girl. However, the relationship between the teenage Carey and middle aged Wicker is grossly misinterpreted and ugly gossip forces authoritative intervention.

Young, brash and arrogant doctor Tazinski feels he'll be such a great pediatrician that he doesn't need to show anyone respect- even to Doctor Solow, an honored older doctor who he insists has made a wrong diagnosis in the case of a small boy who goes into surgery needlessly.

Hypochondria and narcolepsy are the afflictions facing a young intern and a self-centered patient. After his roommate overdoses to stop the progression of chronic illness, Dr. Lowry develops unusual symptoms that he self-diagnoses as muscular dystrophy. Meanwhile patient Willa Stern is befallen with sudden attacks of sleeping.

Gail is sent to work in the pediatrics ward under the tutelage of steely chief nurse Ruth Martin who must keep her emotions tightly bound in order to survive the loss of young life around her. Everyone is tested when the baby of Mr. and Mrs. Grant is born with severe birth defects, and Mr. Grant insists that his wife be told that their baby was stillborn.

In the United States to consider an aircraft, the minister of defense of a new African nation is seriously injured during a test flight crash and sent to Alden General for treatment. A clash of cultures and prejudice against Americans ensues with chaos for Nurse Thorpe and other hospital staff.

The staff at Alden General take notice when reliable student nurse Margaret Hunter begins to struggle with her duties. Unknown to anyone, Margaret is pregnant, unmarried, and uncertain about whether or not to keep her child or seek an abortion.

Paul Burke, late of "Naked City", plays a patient at Alden General who complicates the life of one of the hospital's employees by falling in love with Laura Crane (Barbara Barrie), who happens to be his nurse.

Dr. Tazinski's father, a drugstore owner in a rapidly declining neighborhood, refuses to leave despite increasing crime and the mugging of his friend Harry, a local candy store owner. Mr. Tazinski is prepared to take desperate action against the drug addicts and thugs threatening his store, and it culminates in an act of horrific violence.

In this comedic tale Nurse Thorpe suffers from a literal pain in the neck and winds up a patient in her own hospital, proving that the old age "doctors make the worst patients" is equally true for nurses. She makes life miserable for her colleagues who quickly realize she's the worst patient they've ever had.

Nurse Margaret Connell appears to be the ideal nurse in every way and an idol for young nurses to emulate. However, Gail observes disturbing behavior in Connell that suggests she's not only far from ideal but a potential threat to the hospital's patients.

Dr. Tazinski's former medical school friend Dr. Roy Hartwell invites him to join his clinic. Hartwell has a reputation for his selfless dedication to helping the indigent of the community. Tazinski accepts the offer but then experiences second thoughts after witnessing Hartwell's unexpected behavior in his dealings with patients.

An unexpected ethical conundrum perplexes student nurse Gail Lucas when seriously ill William Taylor is admitted under the care of Dr. Lou Maxwell. Taylor has been transferred from a local prison by authorities who want to extend his life long enough for him to reach his execution date.

Dr. Tazinski faces an ethical dilemma when he's caught between professional and personal roles in this two part story. He receives a desperate phone call from former girlfriend Edith Robertson who confides that she's pregnant and needs his assistance. Later, when Robertson is discovered dead from complications of an illegal abortion, Tazinski becomes the chief suspect and is arrested for the crime.

In the conclusion of this two part story, Dr. Tazinski faces a criminal trial for the death of former girlfriend Edith Robertson, who died during an illegal abortion. He's supported by colleagues Dr. Steffen and student nurse Sally Foster, while his exoneration remains in the hands of Mr. Saunders, a hotel clerk who may or may not know more about Edith's death than he admits.

Nurse Dory Spencer enters Alden General to give birth to her sixth child in eight years of marriage. With her husband Hap a perpetual failure at business and unable to support his growing family, Nurse Spencer makes the difficult decision of requesting surgery to prevent additional children.

Liz becomes the target of a series of anonymous phones calls. The caller refuses to speak or answer any of her questions. As the frequency of calls begins to escalate, the frightening situation exacts an emotional toll on her, affecting all areas of her life, including her work at the hospital.

Young street hood Ben is schooled by mentor Julio into faking an illness in order to get prescription pills they can sell on the street. When Ben attempts the trick at Alden General but fails at the hands of Nurse Thorpe, she seeks assistance from social worker Mr. Hudson. Although working toward the same goal, Thorpe and Hudson are soon at loggerheads over their approach to Ben.

An older nurse can no longer care for her patients and is let go from the hospital.

A blind priest is hospitalized with an ulcer. He is then asked to help a blind Jewish boy prepare for his bar mitzvah.

Dr. Juan Cortez is a refugee who was once a brilliant surgeon in Cuba but finds he has to put in additional four years as an intern in order to practice medicine in America. Cortez can't wait four years; he has a brother wanting to leave Cuba and cannot afford to help him on an intern's salary.

Overworked at Alden General, Nurse Thorpe decides to take a leave of absence to pursue private nursing which is considered a softer touch than her rigorous duties at the hospital. However, when she's assigned to care for the cantankerous patriarch of a peculiar family, she realizes that the grass isn't always greener elsewhere.

Nurse Thorpe's elderly former mentor Nurse Charlotte Pope is admitted to Alden General, bringing three generations of nurses to the ward. As Nurse Thorpe cares for Charlotte, Gail becomes involved with a downtrodden patient who thinks his family would be better off if he committed suicide.

While vacationing Nurse Thorpe meets Ernie Bass, a genial salesman and war veteran who lost his leg in service. She finds herself in a sudden romance during the holiday, but when she later returns to work, Ernie wants the relationship to continue. A reticent Nurse Thorpe begins to suspect that Ernie is more interested in a caregiver than a lover.

As part of her public health training, Gail receives an eye-opening assignment with the troubled Fuentes family, who live in an impoverished city tenement. The ailing matriarch of the family is pregnant with her eleventh child, while her eldest daughter Helena is also pregnant, and son Damon an addict. To complicate matters, Gail finds hostility and resentment among those she's trying to serve.

Ginny Nemets, a dedicated nurse at Alden General, has devoted herself to putting husband Adam through medical school and supporting him during his internship. Now an excellent ophthalmologist Adam is invited to join an elite practice. But as Adam's success soars to new heights, Ginny's spirits plunge to new lows.

Car crash victim Sergeant Burt Andrews is brought to Alden General where he's recognized as the estranged husband of nurse Carrie Hayes, who learns he has begun a new life with a woman named Sylvia. He's also considered an Army deserter who must be guarded by military police.

Battleaxe nurse Irm Downey of Alden General's Ward D for difficult men must deal with new patients Clarence O'Farrell, an overeater who has been diagnosed with diabetes, and Carl Schultz, a young man with an unfortunate compulsion to want to leap out of windows.

While in a bar and grill Nurse Thorpe and Dr. Tazinski are witnesses to a shocking act of violence committed by Carl Garson, an off-duty policeman who's injured in the melee and brought to Alden General for treatment. The staff hope to get to the bottom of Garson's problems before another violent incident occurs.

After spending ten years as a housewife, former nurse Lora Stanton decides to return to work at Alden General and is assigned duty in the geriatrics ward. When a patient she cared for dies, she attempts to turn all of her attention and devotion to an elderly man in the ward, but he rejects her. Meanwhile, Nurse Thorpe uncovers the reason why Lora has come back.

Annie Cloyne, the committed and loving aunt of nephews Larry and Tom, seeks help at Alden General for the boys' blindness which stems from congenital cataracts. The boys each undergo surgery, but unfortunately, it only proves successful for one of the two.

Nurse Thorpe can't chaperon a group of nurses on a weekend at a ski lodge due to a prior commitment with Dr. Kiley. When she impulsively cancels their date and goes skiing with the girls instead, Kiley follows her to lodge in attempt to understand her motives, which she herself is trying understand.

Gail violates hospital protocol by ordering a test without physician approval for a little girl she theorizes could have cystic fibrosis. When test results confirm an unwanted diagnosis, the girl's mother blames the physician for not diagnosing the illness sooner.

Dr. Lowry experiences a crisis during his first surgical experience and is saved by head nurse Cleo Tanner, who takes a personal interest in his success. However, her devotion to him quickly turns to frightening vengeance when she develops romantic feelings for him, too, but is rejected for Gail.

A comatose patient brought into Alden General catches the attention of Nurse Ayres after a voodoo doll in human form is found in the patient's pocket. Nurse Ayres speculates that he has been placed under a spell, and her unorthodox theory is surprisingly supported by psychiatrist Dr. Fuller.

With graduation just weeks away, Gail is summoned home to be with her mother, who is to undergo an operation. And while there, Gail must make an important decision about the future.

Fear and paranoia spread throughout the wards of Alden General after a female patient claims that she was the victim of an attempted sexual attack by a man dressed in hospital garb. Elihu Kaminsky, the hospital's male nurse, finds fingers pointing at him as the attacker.

Self parody is the affliction as a television crew takes over Alden General to film a fictional nursing drama. Nurse Thorpe reluctantly accepts the role of technical advisor to director Peter Malone, while student nurse Anna Faye reveals her secret aspirations to emote.

Popular comedian Ray Gifford arrives at Alden General for routine tests and instantly creates chaos for the hospital staff with his self-importance and demanding nature. Nurse Thorpe becomes the target of his dissatisfaction when she develops an innocent flirtation with Gifford's headwriter Charlie Noyes.

Dr. Tazinski begins a research program on lysergic acid. Among his patients are Nurse Thorpe, who reveals hidden secrets about her past, an a comedian in possession of a disturbed mind.