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Before “ER,” “Chicago Hope” and “The Good Doctor,” there was a great little medical drama called “St. Elsewhere.” Today, it’s not unusual to have topics like rape, abortion, domestic abuse, breast cancer discussed. But 40 years ago, such issues were taboo. Much as “Hill St. Blues” revolutionized police dramas in the early 1980s, “St. Elsewhere” pushed boundaries and opened discussions about issues that affected viewers everywhere.

“St. Elsewhere” refers to hospitals who take in the patients no other hospital wants to deal with; the fictitious St. Eligius is such an institution in Boston, a teaching hospital with more budget issues than personnel. But within the crumbling walls is a staff of doctors and nurses who struggle to provide the best care possible for the string of often difficult to diagnose, difficult to understand and difficult to tolerate patients who come through the doors, while balancing their personal lives and own...

Sagan Lewis, who played Dr. Jacqueline Wade on NBC’s St. Elsewhere, died Sunday of cancer, our sister site Variety reports. She was 63.

Lewis had been sick for several years. She passed away at her home in New York.

Lewis played St. Elsewhere‘s Dr. Wade, who started as a naive surgical resident and remained on the series for seven seasons. Her other TV credits include M*A*S*H, Moonlighting and Homicide: Life on the Street.

She is survived by her husband, St. Elsewhere producer Tom Fontana, whom she divorced in 1993 but remarried in July 2015; son Jade Scott Lewis,...

Sagan Lewis, who starred as Dr. Jacqueline Wade on the hit 1980s medical drama “St. Elsewhere,” died Sunday after a six-year battle with cancer, her husband, “Oz” creator Tom Fontana, said Tuesday. She was 63. According to Fontana, Lewis died at her home in New York City. Born Susan Jane Lewis in Omaha, Nebraska, in 1953, Lewis began her career in acting as a young adult. She joined the cast of “St. Elsewhere,” for which Fontana was a writer, after the series’ showrunner Bruce Paltrow created a regular role for her. Also Read: David Huddleston, 'Big Lebowski' Star, Dies at 85 Lewis’ other television.

Sagan Lewis, a co-star on NBC medical drama St. Elsewhere and wife of Emmy-winning TV creator Tom Fontana, died of cancer Sunday at her home in New York City, according to UTA. She was 63. The Omaha, Nebraska native began her acting career in the late 1970s. She was auditioning for the acting company at the Williamstown Theatre Festival in 1978 when she met her future husband Fontana, who at the time was an aspiring writer and assistant to the festival's artistic…...