HeartBeat — Season 2
Doctors who give a damn.
About this season
The professional and private lives of the predominantly female staff of the Women's Medical Arts, a progressive clinic with a mandate to breathe new life into the doctor-patient relationship.
Episodes (12)
1. Paradise Lost
Aired 3 January 1989 • 60 min
A looming malpractice suit threatens to ruin the clinic financially. Doctors Eve and Cory accept to work for free.
2. Bivouac Babies
Aired 5 January 1989 • 60 min
Nurse practitioner and founding partner Marilyn McGath is feeling more and more as just another nurse, and less and less as a founding partner. Meanwhile, doctors Rosetti and Halloran resolve their issues in the most childish way possible.
3. Critical Overload
Aired 12 January 1989 • 60 min
Doctors Joanne and Eve must locate and help a pregnant woman trapped in a school badly damaged in a construction accident, while the kids are being evacuated from the building.
4. Stress
Aired 19 January 1989 • 60 min
Dr. Cory is plagued by increasingly debilitating panic attacks, while the clinic's pediatrician, Dr. Leo Rosetti, must decide whether or not he is absolutely sure that one of his friends is a child abuser.
5. Baby, Maybe
Aired 26 January 1989 • 60 min
Gynecologist, doctor Joanne Halloran, is having difficulties treating her latest patient - a pregnant woman well above safe age to have a normal pregnancy and a healthy baby. Staff's relationships and family life are further explored.
6. Prison
Aired 2 February 1989 • 60 min
Fertility specialist, doctor Paul Jared can't get a permission to treat an ill prisoner, but he's not giving up. Meanwhile, doctor Joanne and nurse Marilyn are fighting to give a former nurse her old job back.
7. South and a Little to the Right of Eden
Aired 16 February 1989 • 60 min
Doctor Joanne vehemently opposes the use of shock treatment to cure a patient suffering from postpartum depression causing conflict with Nathan. Nurse Marilyn becomes seriously ill because of appendicitis. Leo and his brother confront their feelings about their father.
8. Last Tango
Aired 23 February 1989 • 60 min
A mother who lost a baby during surgery doesn't want to allow the doctors to perform the same necessary surgery on her other, also sick, child. Doctor Eve babysits her teenage niece. Nurse Marilyn, a lesbian, is propositioned by a man.
9. From Russia with Love
Aired 9 March 1989 • 60 min
Gynecologist, doctor Joanne Halloran, is suspicious of her colleague from the USSR prone to prescribe removal of uterus in most of his treatments. A new patient claims to have healing psychic powers.
10. Gestalt and Battery
Aired 16 March 1989 • 60 min
A hospital administrator is accused of abusing his pregnant wife, but is there any proof? The staff's love life and family relationships are developed further.
11. Confidentially Yours
Aired 23 March 1989 • 60 min
The clinic's founder and gynecologist, Dr. Joanne, is pregnant. Now what? Clinic's surgeon and founder, Dr. Eve, thinks about leaving the clinic for a better position. The third founder, nurse Marilyn, helps a dying friend one last time.
12. What the Inspector Saw
Aired 30 March 1989 • 60 min
An insurance inspector is visiting the clinic. Doctor Cory has to determine what's wrong with an ill cop. Fertility expert Paul Jared is visited by a loan shark when he skips a payment. Doctor Joanne can't escape her birthday party.