This one is an interesting drama about a young resident doctor, a talented black who is denied a research grant. The resident suspects Doc Gannon lacks confidence in him and pressures our hero for the chance to perform a gallstone operation. Gannon gives in and then doubts his decision in the climatic surgery scenes.

This series does its best with good guest performers, and in this episode, it's Sharon Farrell's turn to spark the hour. She plays a teaching assistant who wants sterilization, which requires a bit of digging into her background by our own Doc Gannon.

The series opens its second season with a drama about a doctor who has symptons of multiple sclerosis. Just as surgeon Tom Forley (George Grizzard) is perfecting a new technique, he is stricken with a muscular ailment. The doctor cannot hide his crippling condition from his pretty wife Anne (Elizabeth Ashley), and she bares all to hero Joe Gannon.