Thu, Jan 4, 1962
Dr. Simon Agurski's older brother has been paying for his medical education, delaying his own career as an accountant, and his marriage, in the process. Upset by this sacrifice, Simon announces he will drop his plans to become a pediatrician and take a job with an insurance firm. He reconsiders, but the conflict with his brother continues to escalate.
Thu, Feb 15, 1962
When he makes a serious mistake with one of his patients, Dr. Eddie Moore asks Kildare to cover up for him. When Kildare refuses to do so, Moore tries to manipulate a vulnerable young nurse into taking the blame. Meanwhile, the young nurse's strict supervisor, Mrs. Fain, is surprised to find her husband back home after he abandoned her seventeen years earlier.
Thu, Feb 22, 1962
Maxwell Keller is admitted to Blair after collapsing from malnutrition at a surgical instrument store. Gillespie recognizes him as a veteran medical researcher who pioneered in attempting to eradicate polio. Keller still does his research now - out of the basement at the apartment he rents. Meanwhile a younger pathologist angers both Gillespie and Kildare by his lack of respect for Keller, and by his actions such as asking another elderly patient for permission to perform his autopsy.
Thu, Mar 1, 1962
Kildare's rodeo rider cousin Lucky Elcott brings in his son who has been stricken with appendicitis. The boy is fine after surgery, but Kildare then notices symptoms in Lucky which turn out to be from rheumatoid arthritis. He tries to persuade Lucky to quit the rodeo, but is it just for his health, or also because Kildare is embarrassed by his cousin's happy-go-lucky, back-slapping style?
Thu, Mar 8, 1962
A young woman is admitted to Blair and discovered to be suffering from a subdural hematoma. Fearful of hospitals, she asks to be released, though Kildare tells her she needs to be operated on within days or she will die. Instead of returning to Blair, however, she seeks help from a charlatan who feeds on people's mistrust of the medical profession.
Thu, Mar 29, 1962
Kitty, a nurse from Blair General Hospital, is ready to deliver a baby after suffering several miscarriages in the past. Winona Pine, a woman estranged from her husband, is also giving birth to a baby. When Mrs. Pine states she does not want to keep her newborn, Dr. Kildare gets caught up in a plan to help the baby find a loving home.
Thu, Apr 5, 1962
A highly tenacious yet compassionate nun is determined to continue her social work at the hospital despite having medical issues herself. When finally admitted, she tries to help her roommate, a woman suffering from bone cancer who stubbornly refuses to let doctors amputate her leg and has become bitter toward God because of her situation.
Thu, Apr 12, 1962
Dr. Paul Probeck, a recovering alcoholic himself, decides to start an alcohol rehabilitation program at Blair, with Kildare as one of his assistants. However, one of the men they are treating is highly uncooperative and doesn't even give his name. After talking to him Probeck starts to wonder if he may be the son he has never met.
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Thu, Apr 26, 1962
Kildare is assigned to intern under Dr. Nicholas Keefe, a brilliant, highly driven, and extremely thorough resident who is admired for his skill, but not for his belligerent and inflexible intolerance of any imperfections from interns and staff. It is due to this difficulty that Gillespie turns down Keefe's application for the position of chief resident.
Thu, May 24, 1962
Kildare is assigned to work in a psychiatric ward to help treat severely schizophrenic patients with a new experimental drug. He recognizes one of the patients as a brilliant orthopedist. However, when Kildare tells the man's wife about the promising breakthrough, she is less than enthused, as she has given up hope for his recovery, and thinks the hospital is just using her husband as a guinea pig.
Thu, Oct 11, 1962
The anti-Western son of the ruler of an Arab nation is found to be suffering from a brain tumor. Doctors at Blair tell him it must be removed surgically and that they believe they can successfully operate, but the young man asks that a Communist-trained surgeon be called in to do it. When the surgeon arrives and talks to the son, he advises him to not have the surgery---for political reasons.
Thu, Nov 22, 1962
Veteran nurse Jenny Freesmith, newly returning to duty after successfully battling morphine addiction, recognizes all the signs in younger nurse Cathy Benjamin and tries to get her to also overcome it. When Cathy steals morphine from the hospital supply room, Jenny plans to take her for cold-turkey withdrawal.
Thu, Dec 6, 1962
While Kildare is visiting his hometown along with Gillespie, a young mother finds her newborn baby dead in his crib. The longtime coroner quickly rules, without an examination, that the baby suffocated in his blankets, causing the mother to blame herself. Kildare believes that the ruling was premature and that an autopsy should be conducted, causing friction between him, the coroner, and the baby's father.