Dr. Michaela Mike Quinn, daughter of a doctor, leaves her stable life in Boston -- answering an ad for a town doctor in Colorado Springs. The townsfolk are shocked, however, that the new medicine man is a woman.
Mike's stoic, disapproving Bostonian mother, Elizabeth, who, after years of estrangement, visits her daughter in Colorado Springs but finds her unconventional life on the frontier difficult to accept.
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