Dr. Turk shares her name with another doctor from a different show: Christopher Turk played by Donald Faison in Scrubs (2001).
The title sequence 1994 but in the opening shot of the hospital with several ambulance vans there is a 2008+ Ford Econoline ambulance with the large newer style headlights
Stan Shaw (who played Toomer Smalls in The Great Santini (1979)) plays a patient with a tumor in this episode.