Chicago Hope was a popular CBS drama series created by David E. Kelley that ran from 1994 to 2000. Starring Mandy Patinkin as a hot shot surgeon with emotional problems stemming from the psychiatric condition of his wife (Kim Greist ). Adam Arkin plays Patinkin's colleague and best friend. Peter MacNicol and Hector Elizondo try to hold the hospital together as house counsel and director of medicine respectively. Christine Lahti comes on in the second season as a talented cardiac surgeon with a feminist chip on her shoulder who vies with Patinkin for the chief of surgery position.

Cast (incomplete)

• Dr. Aaron Shutt (Adam Arkin)
• Dr. Phillip Watters (Hector Elizondo)
• Dr. Kate Austin (Christine Lahti)
• Dr. Jack McNeil (Mark Harmon)
• Dr. Jeffrey Geiger (Mandy Patinkin)
• Dr. Billy Kronk (Peter Berg )
• Dr. Keith Wilkes (Rocky Carroll )
• Dr. Diane Grad (Jayne Brook )
• Dr. Dennis Hancock (Vondie Curtis-Hall )
• Dr. Danny Nyland (Thomas Gibson)
• Dr. Lisa Catera (Stacy Edwards )
• Dr. Robert Yeats (Eric Stoltz)
• Dr. Francesca Alberghetti (Barbara Hershey)
• Dr. Gina Simon (Carla Gugino )
• Dr. Jeremy Hanlon (Lauren Holly)
• Dr. John Sutton (Jamey Sheridan)
• Dr. Arthur Thurmond (E.G. Marshall)
• Dr. Angela Giandamenicio (Roma Maffia)

External link

• IMDb entry