Gideon's Crossing
Ben Gideon is a doctor of great skill, he also has a great bedside manner. He heads the experimental oncology ward at a fictional teaching hospital in New England. Based on the work of Dr. Jerome Groupman, Gideon fights to inspire the next generation of doctors.
- Metascore78
- 2000-2001
- 1 season
- ABC
- Drama
- TV-PG
Ben Gideon is a doctor of great skill, he also has a great bedside manner. He heads the experimental oncology ward at a fictional teaching hospital in New England. Based on the work of Dr. Jerome Groupman, Gideon fights to inspire the next generation of doctors.
Season 1 Episode Guide
20 Episodes 2000 - 2001
Episode 1
The Gift
Tue, Oct 10, 2000
While coping with his wife's death from cancer, Dr. Ben Gideon deals with an arrogant cancer patient who dares him to cure him.
Episode 2
The Way
Wed, Oct 18, 2000
Gideon tries to help a breast-cancer patient who doesn't trust Western medicine. Meanwhile, Ollie attempts to treat a middle-aged man who has daily headaches from his job and Cooper has a patient with a rather embarrassing condition.
Episode 3
A Routine Case
Wed, Oct 25, 2000
A cleaning lady Gideon has known for years comes to the hospital with leukemia.
Episode 4
The Race
Wed, Nov 1, 2000
The mayor of Boston, a patient of Gideon's, is diagnosed with cancer, so he has to consider his treatment options before his planned race for the Senate, as well as treatments that could have an effect on his sex life.
Episode 5
The Mistake
Wed, Nov 8, 2000
A man comes to the hospital on a Saturday morning, gets treated by six residents and dies on a Sunday night. His case his examined on a Monday morning at an "m and m" conference, and has a profound impact on those involved.
Episode 6
Freak Show
Wed, Nov 15, 2000
Gideon has developed a drug that could revolutionize treatment for melanoma. The drug is given approval for trials and he offers it to one of his patients before learning that trial subjects must be chosen by a lottery.
Episode 7
The Lottery
Wed, Nov 22, 2000
Gideon has developed a drug that could revolutionize treatment for melanoma. The drug is given approval for trials and he offers it to one of his patients before learning that trial subjects must be chosen by a lottery.
Episode 8
Father Knows Best
Wed, Dec 6, 2000
A rich woman with a blood disease picks on the staff, including Gideon and Cabranes. In the meantime, the residents set out to fulfill a dying patient's last wish to be mummified.
Episode 9
Is There a Wise Man in the House?
Wed, Dec 20, 2000
During the holidays, Gideon attempts to treat an anemic astronomer who disagrees with the hematology chief. Also, Cabranes volunteers to sing for the hospital's "holiday extravaganza", but Stiles doubts his talent.
Episode 10
Clinical Enigma
Wed, Dec 27, 2000
A man whom Gideon once treated for cancer comes back to the hospital with a fever and a son who has a chip on his shoulder. Meanwhile, Boies is unable to determine what caused a 35-year-old woman to have a stroke.
Episode 11
Hinkytown
Mon, Jan 15, 2001
Staffers look for bacteria that are causing infections in patients who have no connection other than the fact that they're sick.
Episode 12
Dr. Cherry Must Be Stopped
Mon, Jan 22, 2001
The flirtatious daughter of the hospital's psychiatry chief commits suicide - after she leaves a note accusing Cherry of sexual misconduct. Also, Boies grows more anxious as preparations for the Porter malpractice trial heat up.
Episode 13
Orphans
Mon, Jan 29, 2001
A deaf 14-year-old girl asks for a cochlear implant, but her parents, who are also deaf, are against it. A lawyer for the hospital asks Gideon out and a patient Sid pronounced dead turns out to be alive, but in a vegetative state.
Episode 14
Life Sentences
Mon, Feb 5, 2001
A frequent drug-test volunteer to whom Ollie has gotten close is diagnosed with leukemia. He responds to an experimental treatment, only to get arrested for robbery, but the bright side is that he can't be treated in jail.
Episode 15
Prodigal Dad
Mon, Feb 12, 2001
Boies' father comes to the hospital as a visitor, then ends up as a patient after coughing incessantly in front of Sid. In the meantime, Gideon wonders how a teenage hemophiliac has developed a resistance to the clotting factor.
Episode 16
The Others
Mon, Mar 5, 2001
Cabranes has a psychiatric session with a multiple-personality disorder patient who threatens the hospital with a gun.
Episode 17
Flashpoint
Mon, Mar 12, 2001
Ellenor Frutt is brought to Metropolitan General after collapsing and tells Ben that her baby comes first if anything happens to her.
Episode 18
Filaments and Ligatures
Mon, Mar 19, 2001
Two patients are in desperate need of a liver transplant when a brain-dead accident victim shows up at the hospital, so Brucie must convince her parents to donate her organs. In the meantime,
Episode 19
The Crash
Mon, Apr 2, 2001
Gideon is having a bad day. His son Eli has hit another boy in the head with a brick at school and one of Cabranes' patients wants a fetal-cell transplant that Ben is strictly against.
Episode 20
Heart of Glass
Mon, Apr 9, 2001
Gideon gets severe heartburn and faints in an exam room. His EKG results are "ambiguous," but he refuses to believe there is something wrong with him, even as Cabranes says it could be a heart attack.