Chicago Hope

Season 5

24 episodes 6 seasons

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Chicago Hope Season 5 released on September 30, 1998.

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S05E01 Aired September 30, 1998

Sarindipity

A poisonous gas is released in a bank and the doctors try to contain the gas, that is threatening many lives including Dr. Hancock.

S05E02 Aired October 07, 1998

Austin Space

A cardiologist in NASA's Doctors in space program has a heart attack and Kate takes the doctors place in the program. Dr. Shutt has a patient who needs to tell his father, an Orthodox Rabbi, that he is gay.

S05E03 Aired October 14, 1998

Wag the Doc

Hancock accuses Watters and Austin of racism when they refuse to operate on a black patient. One of Shutt's patients commits suicide when the medicine needed isn't covered by insurance.

S05E04 Aired October 21, 1998

The Breast and the Brightest

Grad accuses a mother are starving her infant to death. Shutt and Catera disagree over a neurological patient. Austin announces her plans with NASA, and Watters taked away her status as Chief of Surgery. Yeats uses his ""sixth sense"" to diagnose a patient.

S05E05 Aired October 28, 1998

One Hundred and One Damnations

The hospital prepares for the Doctor of the Year party, and several old friends drop by. Watters goes into a virus-induced coma and gets some words of wisdom from Alan Birch. Camille Shutt returns for the party and Aaron discovers he still has feeling for her. Dr. Nyland returns to the hospital and reveals that he has really changed his life. Geiger also visits the hospital.

S05E06 Aired November 04, 1998

Viagra-Vated Assault

Kate discovers that a patient is using Viagra to cheat on his wife; Jack gives a blood transfusion even though it's against the patient's Jehovah's Witness religion; a musician fears his creativity may be stifled by the medicine Aaron prescribes for his bipolar disorder; Joe's son drives the staff crazy as he roams the hospital behaving exactly like his father.

S05E07 Aired November 11, 1998

Austin, We Have a Problem

Gordan teaches Kate how to fly. Hancock accuses a police officer of shooting a homeless African-American.

S05E08 Aired November 18, 1998

The Other Cheek

A celebrity dies and news crews invade the hospital to cover the story.

S05E09 Aired November 25, 1998

Tantric Turkey

Billy's mother shows up at the hospital and announces she is about to give birth. The star of the road company version on ""Jesus Christ Superstar"" comes to the hospital when the star is ill. Yeats former teacher comes to the hospital with chest pains.

S05E10 Aired December 09, 1998

Gun with the Wind

Wilkes must face the parents of a child brought into the ER when it becomes clear that Raymond was responsible for the child's injury. NASA starts interview Kate's colleagues. One of Aaron's patients is attracted to him.

S05E11 Aired December 16, 1998

McNeil and Pray

A member of Jack's basketball team sustains a near-fatal injury during a game; Bobby disagrees about the need for his patient to have heart surgery.

S05E12 Aired January 13, 1999

Adventures in Babysitting

Aaron struggles with the loss of a patient; Billy is attracted to Emily's babysitter; a couple asks Bobby and Dennis for help in creating a baby with a genius I.Q.; Joe tries to decide who should go into the hospital's fallout shelter in an emergency.

S05E13 Aired January 20, 1999

Karmic Relief

Kate discovers that she has developed an ovarian cyst which could destroy her plans with NASA. After Kate hears this news she agrees to go to a retreat... that Yeats is leading.

S05E14 Aired February 03, 1999

Playing Through

During surgery to resolve an HIV-positive woman's post-partum complications, Diane accidentally cuts herself and is exposed to the virus; problems arise between Jack and Lisa when he discovers that she's been seeing Robert; a homeless man takes shelter in the hospital's main entrance; an unidentified man is hit by a train after trying to save a child; Jack takes up golf in the hospital.

S05E15 Aired February 10, 1999

Big Hand for the Little Lady

McNeil performs a hand transplant on the patient, and uses the patient's dead mother's hand. Kate is accepted by NASA. An old childhood friends visits Watters and asks for one of his kidneys.

S05E16 Aired February 17, 1999

Home is Where the Heartache Is

Jack returns after his brother's death; fearing the impact of HMOs on his practice, Joe begins to sell doorway products; Billy's friend comes to the hospital for a heart transplant, and ends up getting an experimental procedure after the hospital receives the wrong organ.

S05E17 Aired March 10, 1999

A Goy and His Dog

Billy ponders euthanasia when Gordy is diagnosed with rheumatoid arthritis; Lisa tries to help a woman with metastatic breast cancer get into an experimental group even though the woman doesn't fit the study parameters; Aaron's patient confesses to murder.

S05E18 Aired March 24, 1999

Teacher's Pet

Kate confronts a world renowned surgeon who's harassed her in the past; Diane's patient has a flesh-eating bacterial infection.

S05E19 Aired March 31, 1999

Vanishing Acts

Diane tries to help grieving parents when their three year old child dies; Aaron is institutionalized after an experiment backfires.

S05E20 Aired April 14, 1999

From Here to Maternity

A mother gives birth to twins, one black and one white. Kate is threatened with a lawsuit after making a rude comment.

S05E21 Aired April 21, 1999

And Baby Makes 10

Dr. Hancock's patient, who was using fertility drugs, gives birth to 8 babies.

S05E22 Aired April 28, 1999

Kiss of Death

Kate meets up with an old boyfriend, who turns out to be an ex-husband. Lisa tried to prolong the like of a pregnant woman with brain cancer. Cacaci forces Aaron to investigate his charge that Phillip had an affair with a patient.

S05E23 Aired May 17, 1999

The Heavens Can Wait

The E.R. is flooded with teenagers poisoned by an unknown rave drug; Kate and Sara are hit by a drunk driver; Phillip's fate is decided.

S05E24 Aired May 19, 1999

Curing Cancer

Aaron consults Dr. Gina Simon, a pediatric neurosurgeon after being presented with a 9-week old baby suffering from seizures. Jeffrey Geiger returns to the hospital and promptly fires half the staff, whom then sue to get their jobs back.