Chicago Hope
The Ethics of Hope
Season 2, Episode 10 · Aired 1995-11-27

Synopsis
Dr. Austin is to blame when she inadvertently leaves a clamp inside a patient that later dies. Kate struggles over the dilemma of whether to stay silent and protect both herself and the hospital, or tell the patient's parents. Billy and Danny search for a street 'doctor', after one of his patients is brought in with severe internal damage. Dr. Grad successfully inoculates an ape with the AIDS virus using a vaccine she created. Harold Aldrich is temporarily hired as Birch's replacement. Camille asks Nyland to write her a prescription for sleeping pills.
In the series
This episode is part of Chicago Hope (1994–2000) on CBS.
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Key cast
- Mandy Patinkin as Jeffrey Geiger
- Adam Arkin as Aaron Shutt
- Héctor Elizondo as Phillip Watters
- Mark Harmon as Jack McNeil
- Christine Lahti as Kathryn Austin