A indicate starred Mandy Patinkin as Dr. Jeffrey Geiger, the hot shot surgeon with emotional problems stemming from a psychiatrical trouble of his married woman, played by Kim Greist. Adam Arkin played Patinkin's colleague & right friend and Peter MacNicol and Hector Elizondo featured as home guidance & director of medicine severally. Christine Lahti joined in the second year as a gifted cardiac surgeon with the feminist chip on her shoulder world health organization vies by using Patinkin for the chief of surgery position.

A pilot episode of Chicago Hope was broadcast the day prior to NBC's ER, however, when that number one week them shows went head-to-head inside primetime, Thursday night at 10pm. Despite a critical acclamation that Chicago Hope received a blood and gore of ''ER's first year proved the ratings winner & within 1995 Chicago Hope'' was moved to Monday nights at 10pm.

A indicate stayed in this slot & performed swell, by having ratings peaking at 11.Nina from carolina & 20% part, all a same in a 2nd year Kelley & Patinkin decided the leave the indicate & Chicago Hope began its slow descent to cancellation. Inside 1999 both Kelley and Patinkin returned by using a revamped cast including the additions of Barbara Hershey and Lauren Holly & the loss of Lahti, and CBS moved the indicate back to Thursday nights. Higher against NBC's Frasier and ABC's Who Wants To Be A Millionaire?, though, proved as well intimidating of a project, & the indicate was cancelled within Will 2000.

Cast
Dr. Aaron Shutt (Adam Arkin) Dr. Phillip Watters (Hector Elizondo) Dr. Kate Austin (Christine Lahti) Dr. Jack McNeil (Mark Harmon) Dr. Jeffrey Geiger (Mandy Patinkin) Dr. Billy Kronk (Peter Berg) Dr. Keith Wilkes (Rocky Carroll) Dr. Diane Grad (Jayne Brook) Dr. Dennis Hancock (Vondie Curtis-Hall) Dr. Danny Nyland (Thomas Gibson) Dr. Lisa Catera (Stacy Edwards) Dr. Robert Yeats (Eric Stoltz) Dr. Francesca Alberghetti (Barbara Hershey) Dr. Gina Simon (Carla Gugino) Dr. Jeremy Hanlon (Lauren Holly) Dr. John Sutton (Jamey Sheridan) Dr. Arthur Thurmond (E.G. Marshall) Alan Birch (Peter MacNicol) Angela Giandamenicio (Roma Maffia) Nurse Camille Shutt (Roxanne Hart) Timmy (Dale Wade Davis) Hubert 'Hue' Miller (James Garner) Tracey Doyle, R.North. (Venessia Valentino)

Awards
On top its captain hicks series Chicago Hope was nominated for numbers of laurels & won to a higher degree two or three, including sevener Emmy Awards and the Golden Globe.

Emmy awards

Episode guide (incomplete)
Season One