John Dorian, J.D. (Zach Braff) to friends, is a boyishly handsome, self-deprecatingly funny, likeable guy who would be confident if he only realized his assets. Four years of medical school have prepared J.D. for his first day as an intern at Sacred Heart Hospital — but he has his doubts. As J.D. is thrown into [...]

J.D. (Zach Braff), Turk (Donald Faison) and Elliot (Sarah Chalke) are two weeks into their hospital intern program and things are going well. The procedures are becoming easier and no one’s life has been endangered, yet. J.D. and Turk’s apartment has become a safe haven away from the stresses and challenges at the hospital. Elliot [...]

Although they are roommates, J.D. (Zach Braff) and Turk (Donald Faison) lead separate lives at the hospital. J.D. is on the medical rotation and Turk works the surgical rotation. After spending long hours at the hospital together, J.D. and Elliot (Sarah Chalke) start to develop romantic feelings. While standing over a sleeping patient and discussing [...]

The three interns are each assigned patients with various illnesses. Statistically speaking, one of the three will die. J.D.’s (Zach Braff) patient is 86-year-old Mrs. Tanner (Kathryn Joosten), who is in renal failure; Twenty-year-old David Morrison (Travis Webster) is Turk’s (Donald Faison) hernia patient and Elliot’s (Sarah Chalke) patient Mrs. Guerrero (Esther “Tita” Mercado) only [...]

Elliot Reid?s (Sarah Chalke) 13-year-old patient Jared, who is very sick with leukemia, has an unusual request: he wants to see the boobs of a real, live girl. With J.D.?s (Zach Braff) prodding, but still against her better judgement, Elliot bares her breasts, which causes Jared?s condition to improve. Thinking this might work with other [...]

J.D. (Zach Braff) is assigned a VIP patient, Jordan Sullivan (Christa Miller) a spoiled, beautiful, young woman with an undetermined illness, who happens to be a hospital board member. Thinking she might have some influence on the board, J.D. enlists her help in getting Dr. Cox?s (John C. McGinley) suspension lifted. When she tries to [...]

Now that J.D. (Zach Braff), Turk (Donald Faison) and Elliot (Sarah Chalke) are more familiar with the hospital and its procedures, they have an air of confidence and cockiness. But a rival intern Nick Murdoch (Sean Hayes of “Will & Grace”), also smart and well-liked shows them that being confident is sometimes a mask for [...]

During a rare lunch break, J.D. (Zach Braff) and Turk (Donald Faison) stop by the neighborhood strip joint. But a TV crew and a bunch of protesters picketing the club block their way in. Just as J.D. and Turk explain that they are against the club, the cameraman collapses. J.D. and Turk rush to his [...]

It’s Thanksgiving and J.D. (Zach Braff) and Turk (Donald Faison) are letting off a little steam at the local bar, The Free Clinic. A sharp pain in J.D.’s side sends him back to the hospital. Elliot (Sarah Chalke) performs a rather rough exam on J.D. but can’t determine the cause of his pain. He is [...]

After working at the hospital for a few months J.D. (Zach Braff), Turk (Donald Faison), Carla (Judy Reyes) and Elliot (Sarah Chalke) have bonded and even start sticking up for each other. J.D. and Carla attempt to take their relationship beyond their professions and actually try to become friends. Carla even sticks up for J.D. [...]

It’s Christmas Eve and the holiday season produces mixed feelings in everyone. J.D. (Zach Braff) is feeling a little down about having to spend the holidays in the hospital and then Dr. Cox (John C. McGinley) asks him to videotape the birth of his friend’s, The Wheelers, baby. Elliot (Sarah Chalke) is spending her holiday [...]

It’s an unusually hectic night at the hospital, with the doctors busy juggling patients and Dr. Cox (John C. McGinley) barking orders at them. Cox is more gruff than usual because he is trying to have the equivalent of a pitcher’s no hitter - having no patients die during his twelve-hour shift. Meanwhile, hospital social [...]

Continuing from the last episode, Alex (Elizabeth Bogush) is about to emerge from the M.R.I. machine. J.D. (Zach Braff) is waiting in anticipation because he just asked her out but he doesn’t know what she looks like. She’s hot. The two of them have a romantic dinner at a restaurant one night and are enjoying [...]

The relationships between the interns, doctors and the nurse are developing into some unlikely combinations. J.D. (Zach Braff) has a crush on Alex, one of the social workers in charge of his drug addict patient, Mr. Barnes. Fortunately for J.D., she feels the same about him. This new relationship strains J.D. and Elliot’s (Sarah Chalke) [...]

J.D. (Zach Braff) and Elliot (Sarah Chalke) decide to take their relationship into a different direction - so they end up spending a whole day in bed together. After the initial awkwardness passes, they realize that the two of them are very compatible. But later, Elliot is reluctant to share their relationship with their friends. [...]

Since J.D. (Zach Braff) and Elliot’s (Sarah Chalke) short-lived romance ended badly, they can barely be in the same room together. It has definitely changed their friendship forever. Making things worse, Turk (Donald Faison) is co-writing a medical study with Elliot, so she is at the apartment all of the time. Elliot later finds out [...]

Now that they know a little more than they did three months ago, the interns are given the chance to supervise their own medical students. Elliot’s (Sarah Chalke) student is Philip Chambers (Adrian Wenner), who starts out being rude and annoying. Better still, he’s the son of the CEO of the corporation that owns the [...]

Dr. Cox’s (John C. McGinley) hospital romance with medical student Kristin (Kelli Williams) continues to heat up. They are even holding hands in public. But things get derailed when their special evening is postponed due to a situation that Dr. Cox has to attend to. His situation is helping Carla (Judy Reyes) pick-up a dresser [...]

Elliot (Sarah Chalke) and Turk (Donald Faison) are down in the dumps because their parents, Diane (Markie Post) and Spencer Reid (Lane Davies), and Martha Turk (Hattie Winston) are coming to see them present their joint paper on peripheral vascular disease at a medical conference. J.D. (Zach Braff) half-heartedly sympathizes with them, until his own [...]

Elliot (Sarah Chalke) meets a new patient, Sean Kelly (Scott Foley), who she is immediately attracted to. They’re both anal retentive, neurotic and single. Elliot gives off plenty of hints that she’s interested in him, but Sean doesn’t seem to notice. As a last ditch effort, she chases after him when he gets discharged from [...]

J.D. (Zach Braff) is accidentally stuck with a needle that was just used to test a patient for Hepatitis B. He’s pretty calm considering the fact that he may contract a dangerous disease. The wait for the test results is a long one. During the waiting period he meets four doctors, Dr. Bailey (Ed Begley, [...]

Dr. Cox’s (John C. McGinley) friend and former brother-in-law Ben Sullivan (Brendan Fraser) is at the hospital to have a two-by-four removed from his hand. Ben is Jordan’s brother (Christa Miller), but he sided with Cox in the divorce and they’ve remained good friends every since.
Later, Turk (Donald Faison) and Elliot (Sarah Chalke) run into [...]

Ben (Brendan Fraser) takes the news of his leukemia diagnosis pretty well. But it’s his sister Jordan (Christa Miller) who is having problems dealing with it. Also having a problem is J.D. (Zach Braff), who, unaccustomed to developing close friendships with patients, is not sure what to do. Remarkably, it is Dr. Cox (John C. [...]

It’s June and the interns are one day away from becoming full-fledged residents. They’re excited, but there is something else in the air. Carla (Judy Reyes) and Turk (Donald Faison) are arguing about dating other people. Elliot (Sarah Chalke) finally rebels against being everyone’s doormat and J.D. (Zach Braff) is just trying to stay out [...]