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.
Colonel Potter returns from Korea and becomes the Chief of Staff and Surgery for the General Pershing Veterans Hospital. Klinger returns as his clerk and Father Mulcahy becomes a chaplain with the 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.