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Growth Pains

Episode Number: 17    Season Num: 1    First Aired: Monday February 27, 1995    Prod Code: 2M16
After Aaron successfully removes a steel rod driven into a man's head in a workplace explosion, the patient miraculously suffers no motor or cognitive problems, but begins to exhibit severe personality changes that greatly upset his family and employees. A patient who compulsively eats his own hair and is obsessed with "The Wizard of Oz", is in danger of dying from an intestinal obstruction, but refuses surgery. The psychiatrist tries the unorthodox approach of getting Camille to play Dorothy to gain his trust to save his life. Alan's beside himself when his daughter suffers heart failure and other complications from her birth defect and lashes out at Geiger.

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Writer: David E. Kelley
Director: Thomas Schlamme
Star: Adam Arkin (Dr. Aaron Shutt),  Roxanne Hart (Camille Duschene Shutt),  Peter MacNicol (Alan Birch),  Thomas Gibson (Dr. Danny Nyland),  Hector Elizondo (Dr. Phillip Watters),  Mandy Patinkin (Dr. Jeffrey Geiger)
Recurring Role: Diane Venora (Dr. Geri Infante),  Peter Berg (Dr. Billy Kronk),  Robyn Lively (Maggie Atkisson),  Jayne Brook (Dr. Diane Grad),  John Cappon (Paramedic)
Guest Star: Joseph Maher (Dr. David Stadson),  Thom Barry (Walter),  Ben E. King (Himself),  Allen Garfield (Dr. Ray Kadalski),  Todd Graff (Louis Bagley),  Leo Burmester (Dalton Robertson),  Ann Dowd (Eleanor Robertson),  Nicholas Pryor (Board Member)

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Music:
Harold Melvin & The Blue Notes - The Love I Lost
The Temptations - Just My Imagination
Cole Jude - Start the Car
Roxanne Hart - Somewhere Over the Rainbow, and Ding Dong, the Witch is Dead
Ben E. King - Stand By Me (Live performance) (edit)

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Plot: Phineas Gage
The plot of a character having a personality change is an allusion to Phineas Gage, a worker who had a steel rod driven into his head, and had significant personality changes. (edit)
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