JD makes it through his first day at a hospital full of odd characters with the help of his friend Turk even though his superiors Dr. Kelso and Dr. Cox give him a hard time.
JD tries to get a cancer patient to stop smoking. Turk is after Carla for a date. Elliot makes enemies with her coworkers by her mannerisms.
J.D. becomes jealous when Turk starts spending all his time with his new girlfriend.
JD has to cope with the looming loss of a patient. Elliot and Carla differ in opinion on how to treat a patient.
J.D. finds himself in an ethical dilemma when he catches Dr. Cox misappropriating funds from a deceased patient.
J.D. treats one of the board members, a demanding and difficult patient and the only one who can save Dr. Cox from suspension.
JD competes with a new golden boy intern. Turk has a surgical confidence problem.
When J.D. and Turk save a protester in front of a strip club, news cameras capture the entire event.
Thanksgiving day approaches and JD admits himself to the hospital with appendicitis. But when he finds out that Turk will perform the surgery, he'll do anything to keep his friend from operating on him.
Dr. Cox takes out his anger on J.D. in front of the entire hospital. After Carla butts in, J.D. asks her never to protect him again. The entire fiasco results in a new nickname for J.D.
Turk has a crisis of faith after working the Christmas Eve shift. J.D. does a delivery room videotape for a friend of Dr. Cox.
Dr. Cox challenges his staff not to lose a single patient before his shift ends. Meanwhile, J.D. becomes infatuated with an unseen patient stuck in the MRI machine.
J.D. attempts to woo a former patient, but all his efforts are thwarted when he's repeatedly called into the hospital.
Elliot becomes jealous of J.D.'s budding romance with a social worker.
JD and Elliot's relationship becomes public knowledge at the hospital when they're caught in a public display of affection. Dr. Kelso has the staff undergo a psych study where honesty about their feelings is critical.
When Dr. Cox shows up on J.D.'s doorstep in a rage, J.D. hopes he can turn the situation around to improve their relationship. Carla fulfills a comatose patient's last wish to have heavy medal music played in his room.
A new crop of medical students arrive and J.D. plans to make his student as miserable as he once was. Meanwhile, Elliot is partnered with the son of the hospital's Chief Executive Officer.
When a mean patient dies, J.D. worries that somehow he's to blame since he avoided the patient as much as possible. Meanwhile, Elliot and Turk discover that Dr. Kelso is hiding a musical past.
The three interns are visited by their parents.
JD asks Turk to help him persuade one of his patients to choose medical over surgical treatment. Elliott falls for a hot patient who is just like her.
Elliot and Sean's relationship seems to be doomed by Elliot's demanding work schedule.
Dr. Cox's good friend, Ben, comes to the hospital after an accident with a nail gun. But when further tests point to leukemia, J.D. has to break the horrible news.
Dr. Cox has trouble dealing with his friend's illness. Turk is dismayed to learn that he is not the best surgical intern on the team.
Elliot and J.D. help an elderly patient with no medical insurance get an operation that he desperately needs.