[2] A leading presence on the series in over 4,300 episodes,[3] Beradino received a star on the Hollywood Walk of Fame in 1993, the same year GH celebrated its 30th anniversary.

Steve's first patient is Angie Costello (Jana Taylor), who had been in a severe car accident with her boyfriend Eddie Weeks.

After the surgery, Angie's face is wrapped in bandages, and Steve and Nurse Jessie Brewer (Emily McLaughlin) have to talk her out of suicide.

In February 1964, a young flight attendant named Audrey March (Rachel Ames) comes to visit her sister Lucille and takes a job as a private nurse.

Audrey, thinking Steve is sterile and desperately wanting children, secretly undergoes artificial insemination and becomes pregnant.

[4] In 1976, Terri Webber Arnett comes to town with her younger brothers, Rick and Jeff, after their parents, Lars and Helene, were killed in an accident.

In tribute to Beradino, General Hospital left his image, paired with that of Rachel Ames, in its opening sequence for 18 months after his death.

We still fondly remember John Beradino’s good doctor — or, as we think of him, the foundation upon which General Hospital is built.".