Boston Med

Renee Peerless has spent nearly nine months of her pregnancy alone while her husband serves with the military in Iraq. His absence is made more difficult by the knowledge that their baby in utero has a serious heart defect and will need surgery within days of being born. A story of courage and hope, viewers will recognize the universal themes of motherhood, duty and determination that summon the best from us in difficult situations. John "JD" Daniels is a chief cardiothoracic resident. His own fathers life-saving heart surgery set him on a course to become a doctor. His commitment to his chosen profession is total but the strains that long hours place on his young family are evident. Amanda Grabowski was ER "nurse of the year." Her innocent good looks conceal a tart-tongued, no-nonsense pro who deploys a lacerating wit when needed to keep colleagues and patients in line.

Jeff Ustin is a fiery sparkplug of a doctor with the unwavering commitment to his patients. A brilliant trauma surgeon, he sometimes uses his temperament to get a point across. When a geriatric patient is overmedicated or a cardiologist is unavailable to view a scan, he explodes in Technicolor. Sara Dumas us a teenager beloved by friends and family. High-spirited and curios about the world, she is hampered by a congenitally diseased heart that will kill her within weeks if a donor cant be found. For any mother, this would be a nightmare. However, Saras mother also has to content with the realization that the family will go through everything twice. Saras brother, Ian, has the exact same ailment as his sister. Andrew "Bardouche" ElBardissi is a fellow intern and best friends with Rick Reish. Together, they spend their precious downtime trying to generate a social life and conspiring about how to date nurses. At work, these two supremely confident rookies are hazed by the senior doctors training them. ElBardissi shows great technical promise as a surgeon and cares deeply about patients.

The Michael Cyr Case is the powerful story of a young couple who bond with a heart surgeon committed to fixing a certainly fatal heart defect in their newborn. Things go awry when the babys surgery doesnt turn out as planned. Now the family must make a choice about whether they will let the surgeon operate on their baby for a second time. Rachel Clark is Kelly Wrights best friend at work. Like Kelly, Rachel is also a second year Ob-Gyn. Her mission is to be a world-class gynecological cancer surgeon. Rachels job leaves her little time for her relationship with Jeff, a venture capitalist, who hopes to marry her. Trying to balance her work and personal life is stressful for this ambitious doctor who could double as a southern beauty queen.

Joseph Helfgot and James Maki have lived in different worlds. Helfgot has been a successful Hollywood marketing executive and the son of Auschwitz survivors. Maki is a mixed Blackfoot Indian and Japanese orphan adopted by an academic Japanese- American family. Makis father was assigned the prestigious duty of helping draft the postwar Japanese Constitution. The son, deeply in conflict with his strict, successful family, dropped out of college to fight in Vietnam. He returned a heroin addict, drifter and criminal, soon abandoning his wife and baby daughter. Fate brings Helfgot and Maki together in the operating rooms of one of Americas top hospitals. In the second face transplant ever performed in the U.S., one man takes part of another mans identity. The surgery is headed by Bo Pomahac, a brilliant plastic surgeon who, two decades ago, fled communist Czechoslovakia to arrive on these shores practically penniless. Pomahac could not have imagined that he would one day make medical history.