Ben Casey

Dr. Ben Casey is at odds with the medical board, particularly Dr. Zorba and Dr. Jensen, because of his manner toward interns. Under a reprimand, Casey tries to persuade the board to approve neurosurgery on nine-year-old Pete Salazar.…

Little Cathy Reed is brought to the hospital for emergency treatment after an auto accident. Casey prepares a blood transfusion, but her mother won't consent.

Dr. Michael Waldman, a former professor of Casey's and a former colleague of Zorba's, comes to the hospital with a cardiovascular ailment diagnosed as fatal. Casey and Zorba want to try a new surgery on him, but the medical board is…

Dr. Karl Anders is a brilliant surgeon, and Zorba wants to keep him on at the hospital. But Anders is concerned with illnesses of his own—he's addicted to morphine, and suffers from leukemia.

Casey has Walter Tyson for a patient, the president of a large corporation in difficulties, who makes treatment impossible by ordering him about. Zorba and Dr. Jensen try to dissuade him from withdrawing, because his patient is a big…

Tony Romano, a struggling nightclub comic, suffers a cranial seizure. Dr. Casey operates, but Tony is left a paraplegic.

Dr. Dave Taylor returns to the hospital to do research, but Dr. Casey diagnoses him as a ""hospital bum"" afraid of competition, and also treats a woman's hypochondria.

By degrees to the bare facts.

Orderly Nick Kanavaris' good friend Krikor Dakopian is committed by his family to the psychiatric ward. Dr. Casey, however, thinks the ailment is likely to be responsive to neurosurgery.

Dr. Alan Reynolds' mental state is not improved by constant pressure from his wife to be a successful neurosurgeon. The strain increases when he treats an abused 10-year-old boy. Dr. Casey forestalls an unnecessary operation, and tries…

Expectant mother Ellen Parker loses her child after an auto accident. Casey examines her and finds that she is subject to chronic seizures, and these, not the accident, are responsible for the loss of her baby.

Dr. Casey operates on Billy Harris, a holdup man shot and paralyzed, but he's also concerned about the policeman, who may have been too keen and might be mentally hampered.

""The faith that looks through death."" (Wordsworth)

Recollections.

A clean, well-lighted place.

Between you, me and the nurse's station.

He's not quite himself, or is he?

Post-scriptum to a surgeon's operating life.

From another point of view.

A piece of baggage.

""And his name that sat on him was Death.""

A decorated aviator with an alias goes into surgery.

A consummation devoutly to be wished.

Souvenirs and trophies.

As time goes by.

A Texas rose.

A vision of loveliness.

Sorrow and pity.

Might and main.

Gene Bilstrom is a leading business man of the community but a series of incidents causes his family concern. Bilstrom is admitted to the hospital for a complete mental evaluation but there is a fear of the stigma involved.

So oft it chances in particular men That (for some vicious mole of nature in them, As in their birth, wherein they are not guilty, Since nature cannot choose his origin) By the o'ergrowth of some complexion, Oft breaking down…

The patient and the ill.

""But one thing is needful.""

It's a long shift that has no surgery.

A painstaking diagnosis.

How do you repay such a debt?

""Brave in his burning pride.""

To hell and gone.

Last straws.

The tautological imperative.

A gentle occupation.

""Season of mists and mellow fruitfulness...""

I hear America singing, the varied carols I hear; Those of mechanics—each one singing his, as it should be, blithe and strong; The carpenter singing his, as he measures his plank or beam, The mason singing his, as he makes ready…

""Oh what hard luck stories they all hand me.""

A sabbath diversion.

It is of the Lord's mercies that we are not consumed, because his compassions fail not. They are new every morning: great is thy faithfulness. The Lord is my portion, saith my soul; therefore will I hope in him. Lamentations

Dr. Casey tries to help a lawyer kick her morphine habit, but encounters resistance, lies and manipulation when she gets a guileless young man to smuggle dope into her hospital room. He is visiting his mother, who is in the hospital for…

No synopsis

The business has its allure.

He thought he saw an Albatross    That fluttered round the lamp: He looked again, and found it was    A Penny-Postage Stamp. ""You'd best be getting home,"" he said:    ""The nights are very damp!"" ... He thought he saw…

Although he's still an intern, Jimmy Peabody is raising funds to finance a medical clinic of his own, and one of the sources he's depending on is wealthy Adam Garrett, an elderly patient at County General.

The great rouse.

""Of such is the kingdom of Heaven.""

Greta Bauer wants to marry fiancé Kevin Blake; however, her mother opposes the marriage and insists that Greta concentrate on a career as a concert pianist.

The ones that got away...

A circle of admirers.

A wandering minstrel, he, with some disfigurement.

The occupant and the resident.

""Do not go gentle into that good night."" (Dylan Thomas)

The well-furnished habitation.

The Sparrow in the Zoo No bars are set too close, no mesh too fine To keep me from the eagle and the lion, Whom keepers feed that I may freely dine. This goes to show that if you have the wit To be small, common, cute, and live…

Homage to Millet's Angelus.

Castles in Spain.

A father assaults his son over a youthful fascination with Nazism.

The long arm of the law of nature.

""That's an old Spanish proverb.""

A character out of the movies.

If there were dreams to sell,       What would you buy? Some cost a passing bell;       Some a light sigh, That shakes from Life's fresh crown Only a rose-leaf down. If there were dreams to sell, Merry and sad to tell,…

""Unfelt, unheard, unseen..."" (Keats)

""Love doth know no fullness nor no bounds."" (Keats)

Little drops of water, Little grains of sand, Make the mighty ocean And the pleasant land. So the little moments, Humble though they be, Make the mighty ages Of Eternity. So the little errors Lead the soul away From the…

Fear of the unknown.

Alice laughed. ""There's no use trying,"" she said: ""one CAN'T believe impossible things."" ""I daresay you haven't had much practice,"" said the Queen. ""When I was your age, I always did it for half-an-hour a day. Why, sometimes I've…

""A fence around the void.""—Hawaiian saying

The title is reportedly the command of King Admetos in Gluck's Alceste.

Irreducible affinities.

From too much love of living, From hope and fear set free, We thank with brief thanksgiving Whatever gods may be That no life lives for ever; That dead men rise up never; That even the weariest river Winds somewhere safe to…

The indeterminate.

Those caissons go rolling along.

Dr. Ernest Farrow, a once brilliant neurosurgeon, is sent to County General for a refresher course. Learning that Farrow is paralyzed by self-doubt and recurring nightmares from the death of a patient, Casey attempts to assuage his…

A chip off the old block.

The imponderables of personality.

... whose name was Job; and that man was perfect and upright, and one that feared God, and eschewed evil.

Rare blood demands a coast-to-coast search.

Student nurse Kathy Evans becomes the victim of an assault in a park near County General. The police are stymied in their search for the perpetrator as the attack has left Kathy with amnesia, which she is secretly faking in order to…

MRS. MALAPROP: You are not like Cerberus, three gentlemen at once, are you? Sheridan, The Rivals

Life and the ""stinking fist"".

Rx for a medico.

Isolation.

Wise in their own conceits.

A peculiar treatment plan.

The seed of Mustard is the smallest grain, And yet the force thereto is very great, It hath a present power to purge the brain, It adds unto the stomach force and heat: All poison it expels, and it is plain, With sugar 'tis a…

An original.

Caroline Bulllard, a dynamic businesswoman, fears her illness is terminal. She decides to liquidate the assets of her company to use as an endowment to County General's research department. The members of Bullard's firm then accuse Casey…

...and riseth up again.

The substance of things hoped for.

It being reckoned that Jesus was actually born in September.

From the wreck of my past, which hath perish'd,    Thus much I at least may recall, It hath taught me that which I most cherish'd    Deserved to be dearest of all: In the desert a fountain is springing,    In the wide waste…

""There is a march of science; but who shall beat the drums for its retreat?"" (Charles Lamb)

""The summer is over...""

The proverb put to the test.

The power of personality.

The punctuated forest. Autism and deafness in children.

A picture is most eloquent.

The classical Rx, yet Dr. Swanson fails to inspire respect.

L'amour et la mort.

The Freudian prescription.

""As to moral courage, he [Napoleon] had very rarely found it, he said, that of two hours past midnight; which is to say, courage unawares.""

The whirligig of 3/4 time.

The threshold of knowledge.

Australian veterinarian Dr. Geoffrey Collicott inspires his ward mates at County General. Although diagnosed himself with a terminal illness, his expertise could save the life of young Luke Creely, whose mysterious medical malady has…

A romantic ballet.

Working in the hospital milieu.

Cleopatra and the clepsydra.

Looking Forward When I am grown to man's estate I shall be very proud and great, And tell the other girls and boys Not to meddle with my toys. Robert Louis Stevenson

Various strings and attachments.

Wesley Boone, a strapping dockworker and the sole breadwinner for his parents and brother, is admitted to County General suffering from muscular problems. The case becomes complicated for Casey when Boone's indomitable mother accuses her…

Dr. Green practices the best medicine, but Dr. Zorba and Dr. Casey are rather saturnine on his manner.

Modern medicine.

The key of mourning.

""To a close shorn sheep, God gives wind by measure."" (George Herbert)

Casey's colleague, surgeon Dr. Bill Justin, finds his work affected by several personal problems including his wealthy but inattentive wife Jeanne and his lover Felice. When Bill develops symptoms of a nervous disorder, Casey is on hand…

Euthanasia. ""Journeys end in lovers' meeting, Every wise man's son doth know.""—Twelfth Night

A change of management.

A son of the auld sod.

A memorable rapprochement.

A mount with a legendary moniker.

The surgeon's secret.

No synopsis

""Were I a nightingale, I would act like one."" (Epictetus)

Le Médecin Malgré Lui

A proverb of great pith.

An academic debate.

Introduction and variations.

Rules of the game.

A lifetime of hard work seems undesirable for an intern.

It couldn't be called ungentle, But how thoroughly departmental. Frost

Rich gifts wax poor, to the noble mind.

Another county heard from.

To see the night before.

""Like a patient etherized upon a table.""

""Tell the truth or trump—but get the trick."" (Twain)

""And let slip the dogs of war.""

Meantime we shall express our darker purpose. Give me the map there. Know that we have divided In three our kingdom: and 'tis our fast intent To shake all cares and business from our age; Conferring them on younger strengths,…

You can get there from here.

The agony and the estimate: trigeminal neuralgia, the tic douloureux.

Whistling in the dark.

Courts adieu, and all delights, All bewitching appetites; Sweetest breath, and clearest eye, Like perfumes go out and die; And consequently this is done, As shadows wait upon the sun. Vain the ambition of kings, Who seek by…

The unmoved mover.

""No gardener has died within rosaceous memory."" (Beckett)

You pays your money and you takes your choice.

Self-diagnosis.

""Fear in a handful of dust."" (Eliot)