Doctor Griff Wooden, is a tall, handsome, schmoozer who lives by himself in a high-rise condo overlooking Chicago's Lake Shore Drive. He practices cardiology in the oldest hospital in Chicago, Chicago General Mercy Hospital. Previously a mental hospital, it's a quaint, soft red-brown structure with ornate trim that seems out of date among the new buildings in a glitzy health-maintenance plaza.
The look of the hospital suggests home-spun, straight talk medicine and indeed each day lives are saved with the help of a miracle drug developed by Doctor Wooden that prevents heart attacks.
However, what goes on behind these sterile walls is anything but trusting and warm, for a psychopath is at work maneuvering to get what he wants, taking the lives that have been saved, even if it means harming and killing some patients along the way.