Episode 1 A doctor entered the U.S. illegally in the 1980s is now one of the country's elite brain surgeons. Also: A heart surgeon discusses the demands of his job and its effect on his marriage.
Episode 2 A thrice-married woman badly in need of a lung transplant hopes for a donor as doctors determine if an available organ is a good match; a second-year ER physician mulls a colleague's advice about getting married; a heart surgeon's marital problems force him to find other living arrangements.
Episode 3 A woman from a rural background adjusts to working in an ER in an urban hospital; a Bermudan teen in need of a heart transplant drives the staff crazy by refusing to stay in his bed; a heart surgeon and his wife try to repair their troubled marriage.
Episode 4 A team of pediatric cardiologists scramble to find a transplant for a toddler with a damaged heart; a vascular surgeon known for his eccentric behavior expounds on his unorthodox approach to medicine; a resident in emergency medicine takes a vacation to visit her hometown in West Virginia.
Episode 5 A boy's parents reluctantly heed a doctor's advice to perform a risky operation to remove a brain tumor; a plastic surgeon describes reconstructive surgery that aims to transform the face of a boy who was disfigured by the excision of a tumor when he was a baby; a little girl's family considers her future after a near-drowning leaves her with minimal brain function; third-year medical students discuss the appeal of a career in medicine; an ER physician treats a succession of traumatic injuries.
Episode 6 A first-year surgery resident lives with the consequences of a major mistake; a mother requires a complicated heart surgery; a neonatal unit rallies around a young couple who delivered a premature baby; and a woman in need of a kidney becomes part of a three-couple, bicoastal, three-way organ swap.
