A woman refuses an emergency operation for fear it will endanger her pregnancy.

An ailing boy's divorced parents can't agree whether to permit surgery.

Sparks fly when Gannon and the newly-appointed chief of surgery begin to clash on medical opinions.

Gannon's patient needs a kidney transplant, and her only hope of a compatible donor is her father — a convict who is serving time for murder.

A husband anguishes over the responsibility he feels toward his ill wife and the love he feels for her best friend.

A Jewish researcher is harassed by young anti-Semites who are led by a hospital orderly (David Macklin).

A pregnant young widow (Brooke Bundy), arrested for unlawful midwifery, learns that she has cervical cancer.

The hospitalized victim of a mysterious attacker suffers from a domineering mother and recurring headaches.