Doctor Gannon clashes with the new Chief of the Surgical Service, who has recently returned from working in the Amazon jungles, and who Joe considers 'knife happy'.
A brilliant surgeon is to perform surgery on his critically ill former wife. But he is hiding his diagnosis of epilepsy and when Gannon finds out he feels he must intervene.
After a young woman is assaulted and identifies her attacker, the girls street-gang friends gain vengeance, thereby dumping a seriously-injured patient into Dr. Gannon's hands.
Doctor Gannon is confounded when a colleague insists a patient is suffering from a voodoo curse, and every medical treatment he attempts fails to resolve the patient's illness.
Doctor Gannon races against time to confirm a diagnosis which presents a threat to public health, but the patient is uncooperative and won't reveal any information about where she might have contracted her illness.
A woman committed to a sanitarium is injured, leading to a diagnosis which might allow Doctor Gannon to restore her mental health, but her recovery might reveal a secret.
Doctor Gannon attempts to cure a female artist who has been confined to a wheelchair since an accident in her teens, but her dreams point to a darker truth.