Life Support

Name: Life Support
Released: 1995-02-13
Cast: Vondie Curtis-Hall, Peter Berg, Allen Garfield, Chris Penn, Jon Polito

Series: Chicago Hope

Season: Season 1

Episode Number: 15

Air Date: 02/13/1995

Duration: 60 min

When the gun belonging to a critically wounded police officer drops out of his holster in the E.R., the distraught brother of a man waiting for a donor heart picks up the weapon and threatens the staff unless his brother receives an immediate transplant; as Aaron and Danny operate on the wounded officer, one of the exploding bullets with which he was shot goes off and severs two of Danny's fingers; Geri performs a successful reattachment, but Danny may be facing the end of his career as a surgeon.