The doctors of County General Hospital in Chicago experience a difficult 24 hours in the series permiere.
Carter makes a serious error on his first unsupervised surgery. Dr. Ross treats a 4 year old AIDS patient whose condition was made worse by the wrong medication.
Benton cares for a patient who has been abused by her police officer husband and Lewis decides to keep Suzie.
Carol is suffering because she has to fire two of the nurses. At that night, the girl whom Dr.Ross care about arrives ER by raping incident. Dr. Carter spends the last night with Abby at her office.
The Halloween shift starts and restrain an injured Frankenstein patient. About that time, an old woman who refuses life-sustaining medical treatment arrives to ER. Benton is keeping very busy with the care of children.