NY Med

In the first episode, Oz suddenly finds himself in a desperate fight to save a young actor's life after a chance encounter in the ER morphs into a full-blown medical crisis.

As a Mexican-American, ER doctor Hugo Razo says "no one ever thought I'd amount to anything" and it's his mission to prove them wrong. Transplant surgeon Jonathan Chen is stunned by the grotesquely enlarged heart of a young Marine. If he can't find a solution to bring Chris Molnar back to health, this gung-ho youngster will lose more than his dream of serving in the armed forces--he'll possibly lose his life. ER doctor Debbie Yi recounts the family trauma that drove her into medicine and proves that there are silver linings to every decision. Strong-willed ER nurse Marina Dedivanovic is back in the ER confronting everything from tough men afraid of needles to feisty New Yorkers.

"Fast-thinking trauma surgeon Ziad Sifri can't believe his eyes when a 19-year-old plane crash survivor arrives in the ER.As a third year urology resident, Ashley Winter is hopeful that chemotherapy will work wonders on her patient's cancer-filled bladder, but quickly learns he will need a life-altering surgery. A cardiac surgeon at the top of his game, Leonard Girardi meets a mother of three who was sent home to die when a top hospital decided the tumor on her heart was inoperable. Dr. Girardi attempts the surgery that others say is impossible. Surgeon Dr. Oz is back in the operating room to deal with a perplexing case of a motorcycle cop who suffers a mysterious stroke while on vacation with his family.

A young couple with big wedding plans has their future together thrown into doubt when cardiac surgeon Leonard Girardi delivers the news that the groom could drop dead at any time without a complex operation. Popular ER nurse Diana Costine has been coming to work with contusions on her face and head. How she got these injuries turns out to have nothing to do with her personal life. Trauma surgeon Ziad Sifri thought he had seen it all growing up in war-torn Beirut. But in Newark he learns that violence doesn't have to be political. Neurosurgery resident Brad Zacharia must operate on Alexander Harrington, a homeless man, who could end up completely paralyzed if damaged vertebrae in his neck aren't repaired.

Brought to the hospital with a tearing aorta, Penny Goldsmith--who has finally met the "love of her life"--worries that fate has played a cruel trick on them both and their future together won't happen. But cardiac surgeon Allan Stewart makes her a promise he feels bound to keep--if he can. Her grown children are not ready to let go of Rita Respass-Brown, but with her kidneys failing and 100,000 people on the transplant waitlist, her chances are not good. Doctors Joseph Del Pizzo and Sandip Kapur will also do everything they can to help. ER doctor Debbie Yi relates to her patient after facing similar heartbreaking disappointment.

Amy Caggiula is an ER resident who deploys her sharp tongue and medical instincts to handle any situation--from a woman whose heart arrests, to a man tasered by police. Neuroradiologist Alejandro Berenstein helps the two year old daughter of a coast guard officer who could suffer a catastrophic cerebral event if Berenstein can't alter the blood flow in her brain. His partner in this effort is pediatric neurosurgeon Saadi Ghatan, who is ice to Berenstein's fire. Craig Forleiter is a young surgical resident who talks a mile-a-minute and can turn the most skeptical patient into a believer. In Newark, Dr. Fox returns to treat patients grievously injured by gunfire--some with good outcomes, and some not.