The Bold Ones: The New Doctors

- Season 2

(1970)

Joan, a very pregnant woman, is admitted to the hospital needing an operation but she's an addict. Drs. Hunter and Stuart become involved, tracking down the baby's father Jerry, who's also a junkie. Dr. Hunter discovers the teenage neighbor boy, Hal Parker, is also a user. Methods of treatment are examined.

A mysterious virus invades the hospital as the doctors struggle to find a cure.

A tycoon checks himself into the Craig Institute to manipulate the stock of his company, but also actually is concealing a real illness.

The hospital has been receiving patients with previous botched surgeries and Dr. Stuart investigates.

In this episode directed by Jerry Lewis, patients in the neurological unit include a golf pro who is showing symptoms of a possible muscular disease and a boy with muscular dystrophy whose parents disagree as to whether he should be at home or in the hospital.

Dr. Ted Stuart spends an evening helping in Dr. Bartell's low income clinic. After returning to the hospital he is confronted by the effort and cost in keeping Harry Miller, a high profile patient, alive after risky surgery. Dr. Stuart struggles with the ethical dilemma of allocating medical resources.

Dr. Paul Hunter falls for a patient who has a terminal illness and is having trouble on how to break the news to her, while Craig deals with a similar problem with a longtime friend who is dying.

Budget cuts put Craig in the difficult position of deciding which valuable research programs will have to be dropped, including one that is necessary for determining the cause of a young woman's seizures and blackouts. What's more, the young doctor in charge of that program is falling in love with the girl.