Chicago Hope
Painful Cuts
Season 6, Episode 15 · Aired 2000-02-17
Synopsis
Geiger is under enormous pressure from the hospital board to make drastic cuts, and because his daughter is facing life-threatening surgery. He had operated on her when she was born (with congenital heart defects), but that was before she was his daughter. Now he's insisting on doing the surgery again, even though it's not permitted under hospital policy; Dr. Hanlon performs an appendectomy on an uninsured conjoined twin.
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