Medical Center Season 7, Episode 7: The Price of a Child

1

The Fourth Sex (1)

A famed surgeon (Robert Reed) shocks family and colleagues by requesting a sex-change operation. First of two parts.

60 min

2

The Fourth Sex (2)

A noted surgeon's request for a sex-change operation is denied.

60 min

3

Torment

On his 36th birthday, Gannon is suddenly beset by peculiar emotional and physical symptoms.

60 min

4

No Hiding Place

A delirious war veteran accuses a doctor of slaughtering women and children in Vietnam.

60 min

5

The Velvet Knife

Gannon's new girlfriend makes impossible demands on his time.

60 min

6

Street Girl

A study of teen-age prostitution: the daughter of a successful surgeon takes to the streets in a desperate bid for attention.

60 min

7

The Price of a Child

The son of a wealthy Middle Eastern oil magnate upsets Medical Center operations with his "money buys everything" attitude.

60 min

8

Too Late for Tomorrow

Learning that he is suffering from a terminal disease, a brilliant surgeon abandons medicine to live out his unfulfilled dreams.

60 min

9

The Last Performance

Lochner's former sweetheart (Roberta Peters), a celebrated singer, enters Medical Center suffering from unexplained fainting spells.

60 min

10

Two Against Death

An 18-year-old girl needing a critical operation is the key to bringing a doctor's son out of a catatonic state.

60 min

11

One Last Rebellion

A young woman confined to a nursing home encourages her elderly fellow inmates to rebel against the home's poor conditions.

60 min

12

The Eighth Deadly Sin

An aging surgeon who has begun to make serious mistakes plans to operate on his granddaughter.

60 min

13

Gift from a Killer

One of Gannon's patients desperately needs blood, but the only possible donor is a fugitive from justice.

60 min

14

The High Cost of Winning

A hospitalized tennis player is attracted to an unhappy girl who is facing heart surgery.

60 min

15

The Silent Witness

A lonely nurse stubbornly refuses to press charges against a man who brutally beat her.

60 min

16

A Very Private War

Gannon is attracted to a Soviet doctor (Victoria Fedorova) visiting Medical Center on a special assignment.

60 min

17

You Can't Annul My Baby

Gannon treats a childlike teenager who's the mother of a baby with a congenital heart defect.

60 min

18

Child of Conflict

The adoption of a Vietnamese orphan is complicated when the real mother shows up.

60 min

19

The Stranger

The hospitalized victim of a mysterious attacker suffers from a domineering mother and recurring headaches.

60 min

20

A Touch of Sight

Gannon treats a young doctor blinded in a shooting accident.

60 min

21

Life, Death and Mrs. Armbruster

The mother (Totie Fields) of a dismissed young resident refuses to have a lifesaving operation unless her son is reinstated.

60 min

22

Major Annie, M.D.

An Army doctor (Lois Nettleton) searches for answers when her assistant suffers an inexplicable seizure.

60 min

23

The Happy State of Depression

A misanthropic con artist and an awkward innocent share an offbeat relationship while being treated at the hospital.

60 min

24

If Wishes Were Horses

A much-needed clinic is threatened with closure because the doctors refuse to turn wounded street fighters over to the police.

60 min