A few months following the death of their daughter, a couple decide to adopt a young girl of the same age in order to help solve their building marital problems. The child's medical problems though only make things worse for all concerned.
A man who has become obsessed with his work to the exclusion of everything else, including his wife and son, is forced to re-evaluate his priorities when a mild coronary is found to be caused by a potentially fatal heart condition.
Consuelo becomes involved in the life of a young patient Paul Sanderson who is asthmatic. The caring nurse even looks into adopting the lad which Welby thinks she's doing to fill an emptiness of her own.
A young English professor develops hypertension while caring for his mentally challenged younger sister. His condition worsens when he realizes she has matured into a young woman and has fallen in love with one of his students.
An aging film director puts off surgery on a potentially fatal heart condition in order to satisfy his ego and the ruthless ambitions of a young graduate student.
A carefree Vietnam vet has to learn about personal responsibility when his rare blood type is the only thing that can keep a young boy suffering from insecticide poisoning alive.
As a child an army officer transmitted a virus to his younger brother that left him mentally handicapped and led to his death. Now he refuses to accept that his oldest son may have minimal brain damage in case it turns out to be his fault.
After the death of their baby from SIDS, a young couple agree to take in a four year-old as a foster child but it soon becomes apparent that the mother is not ready to move on from her baby's death.
Brian Kenny gave up a promising writing career to teach so he could care for younger brother Matthew. But just as prepares to quit he develops incapacitating spasms. Welby can find no physical reason for the affliction.