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Ben Casey (1961)
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Sam Jaffe as David Zorba
Episodes 153
To the Pure
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.
After the first of three operations on the boy, Casey is accidentally jabbed with a needle while administering a rabies test to a female patient. During his thirty-day wait for a life-or-death prognosis, he is given permission to resume the surgery.
Read MoreBut Linda Only Smiled
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.
Read MoreThe Insolent Heart
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 opposed.
Read MoreI Remember a Lemon Tree
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.
Read MoreAn Expensive Glass of Water
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 donor to the hospital.
Read MoreThe Sound of Laughter
Tony Romano, a struggling nightclub comic, suffers a cranial seizure. Dr. Casey operates, but Tony is left a paraplegic.
Read MoreA Few Brief Lines for Dave
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.
Read MorePavane for a Gentle Lady
By degrees to the bare facts.
Read MoreMy Good Friend Krikor
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.
Read MoreThe Sweet Kiss of Madness
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 to persuade Dr. Reynolds to receive treatment.
Read MoreA Certain Time, a Certain Darkness
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.
Read MoreA Dark Night for Billy Harris
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.
Read MoreAnd If I Die
""The faith that looks through death."" (Wordsworth)
Read MoreA Memory of Candy Stripes
Recollections.
Read MoreImagine a Long, Bright Corridor
A clean, well-lighted place.
Read MoreA Story to Be Softly Told
Between you, me and the nurse's station.
Read MoreThe Big Trouble with Charlie
He's not quite himself, or is he?
Read MoreGive My Hands an Epitaph
Post-scriptum to a surgeon's operating life.
Read MoreVictory Wears a Cruel Smile
From another point of view.
Read MoreOdyssey of a Proud Suitcase
A piece of baggage.
Read MoreBehold a Pale Horse
""And his name that sat on him was Death.""
Read MoreFor the Ladybug, One Dozen Roses
A decorated aviator with an alias goes into surgery.
Read MoreTo a Grand and Natural Finale
A consummation devoutly to be wished.
Read MoreMonument to an Aged Hunter
Souvenirs and trophies.
Read MoreAll the Clocks are Ticking
As time goes by.
Read MoreAmong Others a Girl Named Abilene
A Texas rose.
Read MoreA Pleasant Thing for the Eyes
A vision of loveliness.
Read MoreAnd Eve Wore a Veil of Tears
Sorrow and pity.
Read MorePreferably, the Less-Used Arm
Might and main.
Read MoreAn Uncommonly Innocent Killing
Qualifications for the deed.
Read MoreSo Oft It Chances in Particular Men
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 pales and forts of reason, Or by some habit, that too much o'erleavens The form of plausive manners—that (these men, Carrying, I say, the stamp of one defect, Being nature's livery, or fortune's star) Their virtues else, be they as pure as grace, As infinite as man may undergo, Shall in the general censure take corruption From that particular fault. The dram of evil Doth all the noble substance of a doubt, To his own scandal.
Hamlet
Read MoreWhen You See an Evil Man
The patient and the ill.
Read MoreMrs. McBroom and the Cloud Watcher
""But one thing is needful.""
Read MoreThe Night That Nothing Happened
It's a long shift that has no surgery.
Read MoreIn the Name of Love, a Small Corruption
A painstaking diagnosis.
Read MoreLegacy from a Stranger
How do you repay such a debt?
Read MoreGo Not Gently into the Night
""Brave in his burning pride.""
Read MoreBehold! They Walk an Ancient Road
To hell and gone.
Read MoreOf All Save Pain Bereft
Last straws.
Read MoreAnd Even Death Shall Die
The tautological imperative.
Read MoreThe Fireman Who Raised Rabbits
A gentle occupation.
Read MoreBetween Summer and Winter, the Glorious Season
""Season of mists and mellow fruitfulness...""
Read MoreI Hear America Singing
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 for work, or leaves off work; The boatman singing what belongs to him in his boat—the deckhand singing on the steamboat deck; The shoemaker singing as he sits on his bench—the hatter singing as he stands; The wood-cutter's song—the ploughboy's, on his way in the morning, or at the noon intermission, or at sundown; The delicious singing of the mother—or of the young wife at work—or of the girl sewing or washing—Each singing what belongs to her, and to none else; The day what belongs to the day—at night, the party of young fellows, robust, friendly,
Singing, with open mouths, their strong melodious songs. Come! some of you! still be flooding The States with hundreds and thousands of mouth-songs fit for The States only.
Walt Whitman, Leaves of Gr
Read MorePack Up All My Cares and Woes
""Oh what hard luck stories they all hand me.""
Read MoreSaturday, Surgery and Stanley Shultz
A sabbath diversion.
Read MoreI'll Be Alright in the Morning
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
Read MoreA Cardinal Act of Mercy (1)
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 treatment of injuries received in a beating. (Part 1 of 2)
Read MoreA Cardinal Act of Mercy (2)
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Use Neon for My Epitaph
The business has its allure.
Read MoreHe Thought He Saw an Albatross
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 an Argument That proved he was the Pope: He looked again, and found it was A Bar of Mottled Soap. ""A fact so dread,"" he faintly said, ""Extinguishes all hope!""
Lewis Carroll, The Mad Gardener's Song
Read MoreA Short Biographical Sketch of James Tuttle Peabody, M.D.
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.
Read MoreA Hundred More Pipers
The great rouse.
Read MoreSuffer the Little Children
""Of such is the kingdom of Heaven.""
Read MoreRigadoon for Three Pianos
An old dance.
Read MoreThe White Ones Are Dolphins
The ones that got away...
Read MoreWill Everyone Who Believes in Terry Dunne Please Applaud?
A circle of admirers.
Read MoreFor I Will Plait Thy Hair with Gold
A wandering minstrel, he, with some disfigurement.
Read MoreFather Was an Intern
The occupant and the resident.
Read MoreRage Against the Dying Light
""Do not go gentle into that good night."" (Dylan Thomas)
Read MoreLa Vie, La Vie Intérieure
The well-furnished habitation.
Read MoreMy Enemy is a Bright Green Sparrow
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 on shit, Though the cage fret kings, you may make free with it.
Howard Nemerov
Read MoreLullaby for Billy Dignan
Homage to Millet's Angelus.
Read MoreHang No Hats on Dreams
Castles in Spain.
Read MoreFor This Relief, Much Thanks
A father assaults his son over a youthful fascination with Nazism.
Read MoreJustice to a Microbe
The long arm of the law of nature.
Read MoreWith the Rich and Mighty, Always a Little Patience
""That's an old Spanish proverb.""
Read MoreIf There Were Dreams to Sell
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, And the crier rang the bell, What would you buy?
A cottage lone and still, With bowers nigh, Shadowy, my woes to still, Until I die. Such pearl from Life's fresh crown Fain would I shake me down. Were dreams to have at will, This best would heal my ill, This would I buy.
Read MoreThe Echo of a Silent Cheer (1)
""Unfelt, unheard, unseen..."" (Keats)
Read MoreThe Echo of a Silent Cheer (2)
""Love doth know no fullness nor no bounds."" (Keats)
Read MoreLittle Drops of Water, Little Grains of Sand
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 paths of virtue Far in sin to stray.
Little deeds of kindness, Little words of love, Help to make earth happy, Like the Heaven above.
Julia A. F. Carney, ""Little Things""
Read MoreLight Up the Dark Corners
Fear of the unknown.
Read MoreSix Impossible Things Before Breakfast
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 believed as many as six impossible things before breakfast.""
Lewis Carroll. Through the Looking Glass
Read MoreFire in a Sacred Fruit Tree
""A fence around the void.""—Hawaiian saying
Read MoreDispel the Black Cyclone That Shakes the Throne
The title is reportedly the command of King Admetos in Gluck's Alceste.
Read MoreMy Love, My Love
Irreducible affinities.
Read MoreFrom Too Much Love of Living
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 sea.
Swinburne, ""The Garden of Proserpine""
Read MoreIt Is Getting Dark... and We Are Lost
The indeterminate.
Read MoreThe Last Splintered Spoke on the Old Burlesque Wheel
Those caissons go rolling along.
Read MoreThe Light that Loses, the Night that Wins
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 colleague's fears and coax him back into the operating room.
Read MoreI'll Get on My Ice Floe and Wave Goodbye
A chip off the old block.
Read MoreThe Only Place Where They Know My Name
The imponderables of personality.
Read MoreThere Was Once a Man in the Land of Uz
... whose name was Job; and that man was perfect and upright, and one that feared God, and eschewed evil.
Read MoreOne Nation Indivisible
Rare blood demands a coast-to-coast search.
Read MoreGoodbye to Blue Elephants and Such
Figments.
Read MoreThe Bark of a Three-Headed Hound
MRS. MALAPROP: You are not like Cerberus, three gentlemen at once, are you?
Sheridan, The Rivals
Read MoreThe Sound of One Hand Clapping
Life and the ""stinking fist"".
Read MoreA Falcon's Eye, a Lion's Heart, and a Girl's Hand
Rx for a medico.
Read MoreThe Lonely Ones
Isolation.
Read MoreKeep Out of Reach of Adults
Wise in their own conceits.
Read MoreDress My Doll Pretty
A peculiar treatment plan.
Read MoreOnions and Mustard Seed Will Make Her Weep
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 passing sauce for meat. She that hath hap a husband bad to bury, And is therefore in heart not sad, but merry, Yet if in show good manners she will keep, Onions and Mustard-seed will make her weep.
The Englishmans Doctor. Or, The School of Salerne, Or, Physical observations for the perfect Preserving of the body of Man in continual health
Sir John Harington, 1608
Read MoreMake Me the First American
An original.
Read MoreHeap Logs and Let the Blaze Laugh Out
The good-humored M.D.s.
Read MoreFor a Just Man Falleth Seven Times
...and riseth up again.
Read MoreEvidence of Things Not Seen
The substance of things hoped for.
Read MoreAugust is the Month Before Christmas
It being reckoned that Jesus was actually born in September.
Read MoreA Bird in the Solitude Singing
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 still is a tree, And a bird in the solitude singing, Which speaks to my spirit of thee.
Lord Byron
Read MoreBut Who Shall Beat the Drums?
""There is a march of science; but who shall beat the drums for its retreat?"" (Charles Lamb)
Read MoreAutumn Without Red Leaves
""The summer is over...""
Read MoreYou Fish or You Cut Bait
The proverb put to the test.
Read MoreFor Jimmy, the Best of Everything
The power of personality.
Read MoreWoods Full of Question Marks
The punctuated forest. Autism and deafness in children.
Read MoreA Thousand Words are Mute
A picture is most eloquent.
Read MoreMoney, a Horse, and a Knowledge of Latin
The classical Rx, yet Dr. Swanson fails to inspire respect.
Read MoreA Disease of the Heart Called Love
L'amour et la mort.
Read MoreKill the Dream, but Spare the Dreamer
The Freudian prescription.
Read MoreCourage at 3 A.M.
""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.""
Read MoreThis Wild, Wild, Wild Waltzing World
The whirligig of 3/4 time.
Read MoreA Boy is Standing Outside the Door
The threshold of knowledge.
Read MoreWhere Does the Boomerang Go?
The parabolic return. A scientist from Australia on his last legs.
Read MorePas de Deux
A romantic ballet.
Read MoreEvery Other Minute, It's the End of the World
Working in the hospital milieu.
Read MoreA Rambling Discourse on Egyptian Water Clocks
Cleopatra and the clepsydra.
Read MoreWhen I am Grown to Man's Estate
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
Read MoreA Man, a Maid, and a Marionette
Various strings and attachments.
Read MoreA Dipperful of Water from a Poisoned Well
Shadow and substance.
Read MoreA Little Fun to Match the Sorrow
Dr. Green practices the best medicine, but Dr. Zorba and Dr. Casey are rather saturnine on his manner.
Read MoreMinus That Rusty Old Hacksaw
Modern medicine.
Read MoreEulogy in Four Flats
The key of mourning.
Read MoreThree Li'l Lambs
""To a close shorn sheep, God gives wind by measure."" (George Herbert)
Read MoreA Slave is On the Throne
Gen. 41:41
Read MoreJourneys End in Lovers Meeting
Euthanasia.
""Journeys end in lovers' meeting, Every wise man's son doth know.""—Twelfth Night
Read MoreThe Day They Stole County General
A change of management.
Read MoreDid Your Mother Come From Ireland, Ben Casey?
A son of the auld sod.
Read MoreFrom Sutter's Crick...and Beyond Farewell
A memorable rapprochement.
Read MoreA Horse Named Stravinsky
A mount with a legendary moniker.
Read MoreWar of Nerves
The surgeon's secret.
Read MoreO the Big Wheel Turns by Faith
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A Nightingale Named Nathan
""Were I a nightingale, I would act like one."" (Epictetus)
Read MoreRun For Your Lives, Dr. Galanos Practices Here
Le Médecin Malgré Lui
Read MoreBecause of the Needle, the Haystack was Lost
A proverb of great pith.
Read MoreWhat to Her is Plato?
An academic debate.
Read MoreFrancini? Who is Francini?
Introduction and variations.
Read MoreThen I, and You, and All of Us Fall Down
Rules of the game.
Read MoreNo More, Cried the Rooster—There Will Be Truth
A lifetime of hard work seems undesirable for an intern.
Read MoreThe Importance of Being 65937
When Givers Prove Unkind
Rich gifts wax poor, to the noble mind.
Read MoreThe Man from Quasilia
Another county heard from.
Read MoreWhy Did the Day Go Backwards?
To see the night before.
Read MoreIf You Really Want to Know What Goes On In a Hospital...
""Like a patient etherized upon a table.""
Read MoreIf You Play Your Cards Right, You Too Can Be a Loser
""Tell the truth or trump—but get the trick."" (Twain)
Read MoreIn Case of Emergency, Cry Havoc
""And let slip the dogs of war.""
Read MoreFor San Diego, You Need a Different Bus
You can get there from here.
Read MoreMeantime, We Shall Express our Darker Purpose
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, while we Unburthen'd crawl toward death.
King Lear
Read MoreSmile, Baby, Smile, It's Only Twenty Dols of Pain
The agony and the estimate: trigeminal neuralgia, the tic douloureux.
Read MoreFun and Games and Other Tragic Things
Whistling in the dark.
Read MoreWeave Nets To Catch The Wind
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 trophies and dead things, To leave a living name behind, And weave but nets to catch the wind. O you have wrought a miracle, and melted A heart of adamant: you have compris'd In this dumb pageant, a right excellent form Of penitence.
John Webster, The Devil's Law-Case
Read MoreLullaby for a Wind-Up Toy
The unmoved mover.
Read MoreWhere Did All the Roses Go?
""No gardener has died within rosaceous memory."" (Beckett)
Read MoreTwenty-Six Ways to Spell Heartbreak, A, B, C, D ...
You pays your money and you takes your choice.
Read MorePull The Wool Over Your Eyes, Here Comes The Cold Wind Of Truth
Self-diagnosis.
Read MoreThen, Suddenly, Panic
""Fear in a handful of dust."" (Eliot)
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