
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.
Dr. Sloan must clear a man convicted of murdering his wife 10 years earlier; then he puts together a barbershop quartet for the Christmas party.
While filling in as the ship's physician on a cruise, Dr. Sloan discovers a woman's plot to murder her husband.
A newspaper reporter goes to Mark for help when she suspects a New Age religion is responsible for the stabbing of her dance partner.
Dr. Sloan tries to help Amanda when she becomes involved in an incident involving the Chinese government.