Surgeon Parker Dawson finds his many years of medical training have not prepared him for the real world of practice he encounters in Palm Beach County, Florida when he operates on a drug courier on his first day of surgery. His budding surgical career is threatened when a political hospital dispute charges him with medical misconduct, forcing him to fight to save his career. His personal life is shaken when he meets up with a past love, nursing supervisor, Judy Keller. Struggling to stave off the consequences of all these challenges he learns about true love, loyalty and the price one pays to defend one's integrity.