
Dr. Mark Sloan is chief of Internal Medicine at Community General Hospital -- and sometime consultant to the local police department. When he's drawn into a case, he combines sleuthing and medicine to solve the crime. That crime is usually one his detective son, Steve, is working on as a member of the local police department. Dr. Sloan's medical colleagues, including doctors Amanda Bentley, Jack Stewart and Jesse Travis, are also frequently drawn into his investigations.
Mark investigates the murder of a woman who died due to a malfunction in the computer system in her home; Steve decides to find a place of his own.
A murder and attack at his beach house prompt Mark to investigate a hospital staff member who was having an affair with the deceased's young wife.
Dr. Sloan investigates a controversial attorney who confesses to murder while near death but recants after he recovers.
When a filmmaker begins using Community General Hospital as the location for an eerie documentary, Dr. Sloan discovers it may be haunted.