Joe Bosco is a hard-charging transplant surgeon whose ambition knows no bounds. He pursues his job with a take no prisoners approach and saving patients is not just his job, or even his passion — it’s his religion.
Joe takes a position at a private hospital in San Francisco which pays Joe an exorbitant salary and where the bottom line is… the bottom line. Joe leaves behind academic medicine, much to the chagrin of his father — a German Jewish Holocaust survivor who is a neuroscientist and Nobel Prize winner — and his girlfriend, Kate, who sees Joe turning into a different man than the one she met in medical school.
Dr. Bosco realizes that the new world he inhabits is fraught with moral and ethical transgressions. The hospital blames a catastrophic operating room mistake on Joe, who is left with a career in shambles, a girlfriend who wants nothing to do with him, and a father who can’t hide his disappointment — leading to a search for his true identity.
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