Pure Genius (2016–2017)
Plot
Pure Genius is a unique medical drama centered around a young Silicon Valley tech billionaire who builds the ultimate cutting-edge hospital that treats only the most rare and insurmountable medical mysteries - at no cost. Lending credibility to this new venture is a maverick surgeon who's the first to discover that his boss's mission is to get bureaucracy out of medicine, use the most forward thinkers in technology, and just save lives - including his own.
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- 01
Fire and IceJames convinces a hockey player with a severe spinal injury to undergo risky surgery that could enable him to walk again. Also, James invites Walter’s wife, FDA executive Julianna Wallace, to Bunker Hill to persuade her to approve a new skin bio-printing trial. - 02
Around the World in Eight KidneysJames and the Bunker Hill surgeons attempt to make medical history with the largest chain of internationally paired kidney donations ever, comprised of eight simultaneous organ transplants and 16 surgeries. - 03
Lift Me UpAngie tries to target her mother’s illness using radical nanobot technology, but she looks to Scott for help when her mother prefers using traditional methods. Also, when a graffiti artist with a clotting disorder falls from a bridge, Walter, Malik and Zoe attempt to use suspended animation to stop his internal bleeding.
Episodes by season
Season01
- S01E01
PilotOctober 27, 2016Silicon Valley tech titan James Bell enlists Dr. Walter Wallace, an exceptional veteran surgeon with a controversial past, to run his state- - S01E02
It's Your Friendly Neighborhood Spider Silk SurgeryNovember 3, 2016Malik and Zoe don't see eye to eye when it comes to using a revolutionary procedure involving spider silk to save a boy's crushed legs versu - S01E03
You Must Remember ThisNovember 10, 2016James wants to treat a police officer who suffered a brain injury in a car crash and lost all of his memories with a cutting-edge method to - S01E04
Not Your Grandmother's Robotic SurgeryNovember 17, 2016When James' beloved elementary school teacher is diagnosed with an aggressive cancer, he tries to employ a risky robotic surgery to save her - S01E05Season's bestFire and IceNovember 24, 2016James convinces a hockey player with a severe spinal injury to undergo risky surgery that could enable him to walk again. Also, James invite
- S01E06
Bunker Hill, We Have a ProblemDecember 1, 2016Walter and the Bunker Hill surgeons must perfect a revolutionary remote surgery when someone on the International Space Station needs an eme - S01E07
A Bunker Hill ChristmasDecember 8, 2016—When a young leukemia patient comes to Bunker Hill in need of a miracle, James hopes a new t-cell cancer treatment will save her life, as he - S01E08Around the World in Eight KidneysDecember 15, 2016James and the Bunker Hill surgeons attempt to make medical history with the largest chain of internationally paired kidney donations ever, c
- S01E09
GraceJanuary 1, 2017When a young man comes to Bunker Hill ravaged by a drug-resistant strain of HIV, James attempts a radical anti-viral treatment. Also, Walter - S01E10
Hero WorshipJanuary 5, 2017When a woman arrives at Bunker Hill with a mysterious lung ailment, James is conflicted after he connects other respiratory cases in her are - S01E11
Touch and GoJanuary 12, 2017James and Zoe work to help a teenage girl with a rare skin blistering disorder, employing radical treatments to heal her skin in time for he - S01E12
I Got ThisJanuary 19, 2017Talaikha and Malik treat Georgia Ray, one of the world’s biggest pop stars and friend of James’s, for laryngeal cancer, but when gold partic - S01E13Lift Me UpJanuary 26, 2017Angie tries to target her mother’s illness using radical nanobot technology, but she looks to Scott for help when her mother prefers using t
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