Drs. Pfieffer and Potter both consider leaving the VA, but an urgent case involving exposure to A-bomb radiation, together with their sense of dedication to medicine and to the patients, keeps them at the hospital.
Klinger writes a letter to Radar about life working at the VA hospital with Potter and Father Mulcahy. Dr. Boyer, a good surgeon with a bad reputation and attitude -- and a prosthetic leg -- starts at the VA hospital.
Pfeiffer is annoyed by a nagging patient named Kraus who may be faking his back injury. He finally snaps at Kraus when one of his patients dies. Klinger becomes hostile towards a war buddy when he realizes that the man had lost a leg.
Klinger tries to prove he is crazy to the new psychiatrist on whom Dr. Boyer makes a pass then is shocked all while Potter writes a letter to Sydney Freedman.