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.
Guest Stars:
Sam Jaffe, Stuart Nisbet, Maudie Prickett, Bettye Ackerman, Jeanne Bates
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.
Guest Stars:
Jeanne Cooper, Susan Gordon, Sam Jaffe
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.
Guest Stars:
Carl Benton Reid, George Dunn, Luther Adler, David Lewis
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.
Guest Stars:
Colleen Dewhurst, George C. Scott
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.
Guest Stars:
Neva Patterson, Chester Morris, George N. Neise, Keith Thibodeaux
Tony Romano, a struggling nightclub comic, suffers a cranial seizure. Dr. Casey operates, but Tony is left a paraplegic.
Guest Stars:
Ernie Anderson, Stanley Adams, John Pickard, Ned Glass
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.
Guest Stars:
Bill Bixby, Meg Wyllie, Phyllis Love, Kevin McCarthy
By degrees to the bare facts.
Guest Stars:
Bethel Leslie, Anne Seymour
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.
Guest Stars:
Abraham Sofaer, Robert Ellenstein, Arlene Martel, Jack Hogan, Henry Corden
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.
Guest Stars:
Joyce Van Patten, George Sawaya, Arthur Hill, Bob Hastings, William Windom
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.
Guest Stars:
Katherine Victor, Donald Woods, Lynn Bari, Joan Hackett, Don Haggerty
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.
Guest Stars:
Telly Savalas, Bruce Dern
""The faith that looks through death."" (Wordsworth)
Guest Stars:
Ann Robinson, Brett Somers, Leo Penn, Karl Swenson, John Larch
Recollections.
Guest Stars:
Denise Alexander, Brian Davies
A clean, well-lighted place.
Guest Stars:
Robert Blake, Paul Wexler, Marge Redmond, Betty Garde, Cecil Kellaway
Between you, me and the nurse's station.
Guest Stars:
Jean Hagen, Lee Marvin, Burt Mustin
He's not quite himself, or is he?
Guest Stars:
Jack Warden, Norma Crane, Walter Burke, Irene Tedrow, Kevin Brodie
Post-scriptum to a surgeon's operating life.
Guest Stars:
Eileen Ryan, Nick Dennis, Harry Landers, Bettye Ackerman, Jack Klugman
From another point of view.
Guest Stars:
Edward Andrews, Tyler McVey, Alfred Ryder, Ed Begley, Nancy Rennick
A piece of baggage.
Guest Stars:
Quentin Sondergaard, Francis Lederer, Fay Spain
""And his name that sat on him was Death.""
Guest Stars:
Suzanne Pleshette, John Hart, Keenan Wynn, Paul Hartman
A decorated aviator with an alias goes into surgery.
Guest Stars:
Jess Kirkpatrick
A consummation devoutly to be wished.
Guest Stars:
Gina Gillespie, Phillip Pine, Ralph Manza, Hari Rhodes
Souvenirs and trophies.
Guest Stars:
Wilfrid Hyde-White, Alan Caillou, Chris Robinson, Lane Bradford, Kathie Browne
As time goes by.
Guest Stars:
Henry Beckman, Nan Martin
A Texas rose.
Guest Stars:
Paul Tripp, Daryl Duke, George Mitchell, Mabel Albertson, William Fawcett
A vision of loveliness.
Guest Stars:
Butch Patrick, Eddie Firestone, John Zaremba, Yoko Tani
Sorrow and pity.
Guest Stars:
Luana Anders, Betty Field, Ruth Foster
Might and main.
Guest Stars:
Ellen Burstyn, Sheldon Allman, John Astin, Joseph V. Perry, Charles Bateman
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.
Guest Stars:
Eddie Albert, Conrad Nagel, Harry Landers, Andrew Prine, Philip Abbott
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
Guest Stars:
James Franciscus, Leo Penn, Carol Eve Rossen