Young Dr. Kildare

About a dying boy's need for a kidney transplant, and a father's refusal to be the donor. |

A study of a Cuban refugee struggling to rebuild his medical career.

Alcoholism is the villain in this drama about a dedicated woman doctor who is trying to stop drinking.

The episode deals with controversy, based on fact, that raised its ugly head to front-page headlines last year when doctors and authorities at Baltimore's Johns Hopkins Hospital allowed a newborn infant, a victim of mongolism, to starve to death because the parents wanted it that way. Was it homicide, mercy killing, or an act done for the benefit of the family and all society?

Kim Hunter as a patient with a terminal bone cancer lured by a quack's promise of a cure.

Kildare faces the challenge of treating a 20-year-old girl neglected in a mental institution for 13 years.