![]() ![]() His delivery of his resignation (in which he told John Gideon, "You can kiss my ass, pal") is one of the most famous and controversial scenes in American television, as it shows Westphall with his pants down and his rump exposed. The scene was preserved by NBC censors as it was not considered erotic (the episode was titled "A Moon for the Misbegotten"). Westphall made recurring appearances during that 6th and final season, including the series finale in which he was asked to take charge of St. Eligius again he also appeared in that episode's famous final scene, which suggested that the entire world of St. Elsewhere was, in fact, just the product of his autistic son Tommy's imagination. Mark Craig was the hospital's lone superstar. An arrogant but brilliant heart surgeon, Craig's tenure with the hospital went back to the 1950s when he was an intern under the similarly intolerant Dr. ![]() Eligius, he initially took a position at rival Boston General. Eligius in the mid-1960s with the promise of high-tech equipment and a higher salary. While he could have left at any time after that, he chose not to and stayed on to act as mentor to and tormentor of the hospital's young doctors, especially to his protege Dr. Craig did not hesitate to toss a bullying and sarcastic barb at any doctor, nurse, administrator or patient who happened to pass his way - although it must be noted that when it came to his professional duties, he was undeniably excellent, and just as demanding of himself as he was of everyone else. Craig's celebrity status and exposure should have been boosted when he performed a heart transplant on Eve Leighton ( Marian Mercer). Though the transplant was initially successful, Leighton died from complications of the surgery. Craig developed an artificial heart (the "Craig 9000"), which he eventually tested on a human subject. ![]()
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