
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, deeply concerned about his son's new love interest and stuck home with a broken leg, takes to eyeing his neighbors through binoculars, a la Alfred Hitchcock's "Rear Window."
Mark, deeply concerned about his son's new love interest and stuck home with a broken leg, takes to eyeing his neighbors through binoculars, a la Alfred Hitchcock's "Rear Window."
Mark's investigation of a hit-and-run death leads him to a priest; Mark is criticized for treating an elderly patient for free.
Mark attempts to help an amnesia victim, unaware she is a mob killer who is faking her condition as an excuse to be admitted to the hospital.