

The pressure got to be too much for some. Eligius was also a well-known teaching hospital, and young interns came and went over the show’s run. Elsewhere prided itself on its realistic portrayal of life on the edge of death-patients didn’t always make it, doctors sometimes screwed up, and the staff’s lives didn’t begin and end inside the hospital walls. Daniel Auschlander (who battled his own medical problems after being diagnosed with liver cancer), and many, many more. Annie Cavanero, hospital administrator Dr. Wayne Fiscus, Nurse Helen Rosenthal (who had a long fight with breast cancer), kind-hearted Dr.

Craig’s most caustic comments), workaholic Dr. Ben Samuels was another first-season star, and the wide ensemble cast also featured young surgeon Dr. Mark Craig may have been a semi-heartless egomaniac, but his skills were unquestioned. Eligius’ chief of staff, was as highly praised as any physician in the area, and chief of surgery Dr. Eligius was any less competent or caring than those of other hospitals. Elsewhere.” Not that the medical staff of St. Eligius hospital-when patients couldn’t afford pricier medical treatment, they were shipped to “St. The show’s title came from the nickname of Boston’s St. The show was hyped as “Hill Street in a hospital,” and much like Hill Street Blues, this medical drama completely changed the rules for one-hour television, setting the stage for every ER and Chicago Hope that would follow. It was gritty, it was poignant, it would break your heart time and time again, but you couldn’t take your eyes off of St.
