Robert Caldwell’s ( Mark Harmon) HIV diagnosis, which made him one of the first main characters of a TV series and one of the first heterosexual characters to be diagnosed with HIV. Many made television history with revolutionary storylines, most notably Nurse Helen Rosenthal’s ( Christina Pickles) battle with breast cancer and her mastectomy, which was one of the first such storylines in TV history, and Dr. In a rotating ensemble cast of veteran actors and younger actors alike, staff comes and goes throughout the years, with many facing hardships of their own that sometimes affects their judgements and decisions. Three veteran doctors who have long histories with the hospital lead the team: the kind Donald Westphall ( Ed Flanders), the Director of Medicine who is also a widowed father of two, including a young autistic son the arrogant and irascible Mark Craig ( William Daniels), whose superiority complex causes conflict with staff and with his wife Ellen (Daniels’ real-life wife Bonnie Bartlett) and son, who is a medical student and the beloved Chief of Services Daniel Auschlander ( Norman Lloyd), who battles liver cancer and anti-Semitism throughout his many years at St. But within the crumbling walls is a staff of doctors and nurses who struggle to provide the best care possible for the string of often difficult to diagnose, difficult to understand and difficult to tolerate patients who come through the doors, while balancing their personal lives and own medical issues with the work that they at times love and other times loathe. Eligius is such an institution in Boston, a teaching hospital with more budget issues than personnel. Elsewhere” refers to hospitals who take in the patients no other hospital wants to deal with the fictitious St. Elsewhere” pushed boundaries and opened discussions about issues that affected viewers everywhere. Blues” revolutionized police dramas in the early 1980s, “St. But 40 years ago, such issues were taboo. Elsewhere.” Today, it’s not unusual to have topics like rape, abortion, domestic abuse, breast cancer discussed. Before “ER,” “Chicago Hope” and “The Good Doctor,” there was a great little medical drama called “St.
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