 The story of dr. Kildare What's whoever house I enter there will I go for the benefit of the sink and what's whatever things I see or hear concerning the life of men I will keep silence there counting such things to be held as they could trust Story of dr. Kildare starring Lou Ayres and Lionel Barrymore Metro Goldwyn Mayer brought you those famous motion pictures now this exciting heartwarming series is heard on radio In just a moment the story of dr. Kildare, but first you're an answer Compa Gray white buildings planted deep in the heart of New York The nerve center of medical progress with great minds and skilled hands wage man's everlasting battle against death and disease Layer General Hospital My life begins my life ends my life goes on Morning dr. Gillespie We assist the Red Cross in the opening of their new Eastside blood donor center. Oh, yes Now let me see. I have it right here. Oh, yes, you're you're there at 10 o'clock Wednesday. Oh, good heavens Exactly 10 o'clock yesterday morning. It just happened to slip my mind. I can explain the whole thing With accidents victims dying every day because of the shortage of blood for transfusions You forget what day it is. It could happen to anybody dr. Gillespie I've just been so busy with a Red Cross trying every way it can to get private citizens to donate blood You can't bother to remember what day the center opened. Well, when you come right down to it I imagine they got it opened all right without no, that's quite beside the point At the moment I am dealing with the fact that you are an Incompetent Skyler brain what on ornamental and utterly useless nincompoop? Now give me my hat here take it I've got to go over there and apologize for a fault that wasn't even mine Because I can't tell them that my double-digit nurse is simply not interested in their efforts I'd like you to know that I have an appointment over there Saturday myself to donate a pint of blood. So there Parker I wish you donate ten points and I'd like to replace them with a transfusion of boiling oil Hey, what's going on here? Oh, good morning, Jimmy. Good morning. See you later. Good. Bye Good morning. See you later. Goodbye. Where's he going your fire? Oh, I don't care where he's going dr. Kilda I've given the best years of my life to that man. I've worked and slaves for him And does he care of course he doesn't of course he doesn't he's mean and nasty and insulting I know and I've stood it as long as I can You know, he doesn't mean half of what he says when he's talking to me He does and anybody could make a little mistake like that like what he hates me, Dr. Kilda and he always has no he doesn't now you know that isn't true What and another thing Parker? I think your mind is slipping you ought to do something about it shock Treatments or occupational therapy. Oh good. Bye Second way you know, he may have something there I don't mean that your mind is slipping but the occupational therapy part a hobby in other words might be a good idea After all you give too much of your life to this hospital. I am to dr. Gillespie Well, I only try to do my duty you need an outside interest anybody would working around him all the time well I Did used to enjoy corresponding with Lonely Hearts Club. Oh, that's good. Maybe there's some field of art or music I've always wanted to take up folk dancing folk dancing Of course, I have heard that bird watching is nice. There's no doubt of that highly entertaining I really think the Lonely Hearts Club is the most fun though. Yes, I imagine Well, I guess hobbies are always a matter of personal preference. Just don't be hasty Parker just think it over Of course, I've had these pains this enteritis as you call it for years. Dr. Kildare doubled me up sometimes But lately they've gotten really bad. That's why I decided to enter the hospital for an examination I see well in a few days. We ought to have a good idea of what's wrong with you. Mr. Kramer What's his temperature? Ms. Burner 98.1 and I seem to have lost my appetite to Last couple of months. I haven't eaten one square meal a day I wonder you have a slight anemia along with the other symptoms I think that's all for now. Miss Burner. If you want to straighten up the examination card Mr. Kramer will make some lab tests today and tomorrow and possibly run a fluoroscope Meanwhile, you just stay there and badden take care of yourself. Yes, doctor. You ready miss Burner? See you later this afternoon, mr. Kramer What do you think Jimmy chronic enteritis on the face of it? Yes, but there are some odd angles Subnormal temperature anemia. I don't know Lignancy could be Yet Here, let me help you with that car. Oh, no, the elevator's right here. I'm going down the supply room. Oh Stopped the 10th floor Guess we wait good. Here's me two minutes more to talk to you. You mean alone at last If you call a hospital corridor being alone say the 10th floor reminds me Do you have any idea what park is doing up there doing? No, what do you mean? Well, she took over one of the empty storerooms about a week Go put a lock in the door won't let a soul in Spends all of her spare time lunch hour and everything locked inside She had one of her usual run-ins of dr. Gillespie last week. I suggested she take up a hobby Well, what kind of a hobby involves locking yourself in a star? I don't know. She mentioned birdwatching. Maybe she looks out the window at the pigeons Then too, she mentioned lonely hearts clubs. No, no, I don't think you've got me, baby I'll ask dr. Gillespie. It'll make you feel any better Confounded Jimmy, I wish I did know she's up to something all right But I can't find out what it is what you have been trying. Well, naturally I'm concerned with the activities of my assistants and they give you feel responsible for them to be sure But I can't find out a thing Tried asking her certainly nah, that's precisely what she won't and just how have you gone about it? Oh Various methods somewhat unorthodox perhaps but but ethical and honorable Jimmy now, how could you ask? I've seen you in action before Necessity supersedes all epic and curiosity does too. Is that it? Well confound it She comes in here with packages and bundles all wrapped up and then hides them up there in that store room Well, who wouldn't be curious? I still think you ought to try asking her I couldn't ask her if I wanted to all right then how about taking a look at this case report on a patient of mine? All right, that's it. Oh It's Kramer, huh? I've already seen that Jimmy with the case of chronic enderitis no doubt about it But what about these symptoms? I've underlined they don't fit psychosomatic complications. That's all he's had the same trouble for years Not quite the same some of these symptoms only started a couple of months ago now. You're on that hobby Are yours obscure symptoms things other doctors overlook? Come in come in Miss Parker in as much as you're employed in this office knocking before you enter is quite unnecessary The keys you ordered were just delivered here. They are keys. Why I don't know what you're talking about You know very well what I'm talking about. You had the maid from a wax impression of my storeroom key Ridiculous. It certainly is because I put a new lock on the door last night Are you actually implying that I might go snooping up there behind your back? I am by that great horn I wish you'd find some new expression dr. Gillespie. That one gets so monotonous You're dealing with a new woman, you know My hobby that did it and you dr. Kildare you're responsible I am that's why I want you to be here, too When I reveal it to dr. Gillespie in the morning Reveal what my hobby you will be here dr. Kildare. Oh, yes, Parker. Thank you very much after all I've got to know what it is that I'm responsible for Confound that she said ten o'clock why didn't she relax relax? She'll be here. Do any minute dr. Gillespie. She had to wait for the freight elevator. So I came on ahead to come in Good morning. Well, miss Parker. I'm glad you were what's the hammer for hey now Wait, oh, don't be silly dr. Gillespie. I'm just going to drive an ale on the wall here in front of your desk There by the great horn spoon Wait just a second now everybody. I have it right outside the door got a brace yourself Jimmy I've been braced since yesterday. I've told anybody look till I get it hung up The operation like it Mr. Cuttle Pox was absolutely amazed My instructor Parker is that thing supposed to be regarded as a painting? Impression of an operation this blob down here is a kidney and these are scalpels and this is an ether mask It's all sort of modern modern. Yes. Yes to be sure your chef and is it your intention to hang this painting here in my office? Yes, I did it for you and I'm expected to sit here and face it seven days a week week after week Yeah, I guess that's right. Do you really like it like it? Parker I have never before seen a more hideous monstrosity in my whole life Dr. Gillespie I have never before realized the full extent of your hatred for me to do a thing like this It goes it's got to go Well, I I guess I'd better get back to work Yeah, I'll I'll go with you now. You wait a minute you two. Yes What are you looking at me like that for I didn't Didn't mean with well confounded. It's not my fault Up in the middle of the night merely to continue the discussion of my crude and unpleasant disposition then to help me Wait a minute. Wait a minute. It's nothing like that I talked to Parker that way for years and if she suddenly decided to get injured feelings over it was It's not my fault. Not your and I absolutely refuse to go the rest of the night lying here awakened feeling like a heel So that's what you've been doing. I have not a guilty conscience Not concerned about her at all. I suppose not even slightly Then I guess I'd better go on over by myself Overware nurses dormitory Diana just phoned and said Parker's been taken suddenly ill sounds fairly serious Well, wait a minute Jimmy. Where do I get my pants? All right, but hurry up you heal Dory of dr. Kildare in just a moment. How long has it been since these abdominal pain? That's been nearly an hour Jimmy. She held up for quite well before she called me Transverse muscles of the abdomen is hard to rock I've got some belerge all here in the kit might help I'll get it What do you think is wrong with me a little hard to tell just you know, you're just being kind You don't want me to know confounded park I've warned you for years to stop eating marinated herring and Boston cream pie before you go to bear Oh, it's not indigestion. I know it's not it's something worse. Whatever it is. We'll find out and take care Don't worry Diana will you call wayman and have him bring a stretch? Well, I suppose it may as well go over. All right Yes, sir. What is it? Yes? Yes? Yes? Yes? Can the painting stay? You're not going to die of a bellyache but if I Yes, confounded. I look at it all day and keep it in my room all night. I love come on Jimmy Oh, she's faking it including abdominal spasms cramps in the legs perfor on your writers And it's nothing but a simple case of acutins just you know better than that Are you by any chance implying that this whole thing is my fault nervous reaction caused by your brutality not to there No, I don't think so. That's only your guilty conscience implying. Yeah There's something vaguely familiar about those symptoms of her. This is no time for a hobby I think maybe it is look. Why don't you take over for a half hour? I want to do some quick reading reading about what symptoms Well, I hope you come up with something. We can't have anything happen to her, you know softening up a little Well, I've always been fond of parker. Yeah, but also I'm thinking of the promise I made about that painting It is not we could exactly the same and furthermore those cramped muscles have loosened up a little That's only because I'm drugged parker. You are not drug I'm trying to keep it from me. There's no oh Jimmy It's about time. How are you feeling parker calm? I'm peaceful dr. Kildare It's the law before the end Well before you cross the bar suppose we have a little talk about painting. Yes, I Might have been a great artist Had I lived and now as I understand that you've been working on this painting during your lunch hours Is that right breakfast and dinner too? Oh, I got so caught up in it Then you've been painting and eating at the same time. Oh, yeah And last night when I was hurrying to finish I kept dipping my brush and my coffee cup and everything was so confused. That's it I had paint all over everything Well, I guess that's enough for a diagnosis diagnosis, but Diana Would you go down at the dispensary and get a gram bottle of sodium sulfate and one of potassium iodide, right? Lead poisoning that's right You You get a mild case of lead poisoning from those oil paints you'll be all right in a day or two Lead poison and something else dr. Gillespie. I think this gives us a tip on that Kramer case. Well by the By the you want to say it dr. Gillespie. Yes Then go ahead Say it by that great orn's phone Why yes dr. Kildare I have noticed peculiar cramps in my legs during the last two months But I assumed it was just a new pain from the same old trouble. Mr. Kramer Did you change occupations by any chance a couple of months ago? Take up a new hobby or anything of that sort. Oh, I know the only new thing I did two months ago was to install a processing furnace to treat floor sweepings. Oh, yes from the different jewelry plants around the city There's always a lot of gold and silver filings in the stuff But still not enough to pay the individual plant to process its own. Just what is this process? Mr. Kramer? I mean, how do you go about recovering the metal? Well, I burn the sweepings first to get rid of the combustible stuff And then I I mix the ashes with lethargic and charge it in lethargic red lead oxide That's right. The melted lead picks up the filings in it dissolves them All right, Jimmy you win Chronic lead poisoning I mean, that's what's the matter with me. That's right, mr. Kramer The symptoms were hidden by this long-standing and writers of yours and that's your trouble. There's no doubt of it Well, can you cure it? Yes, we can take care of the poisoning by a few days treatment with sodium sulfate and potassium iodide Then I think we can break down that enteritis all of which leads us to one conclusion, mr. Kramer What conclusion dr. Gillespie? That you and I ought to take up a hobby Morning dr. Gillespie Any new case of lead poisoning this morning? All right. All right rub it in and I got it coming to me Should have recognized those symptoms right away both of us should have so I guess we're even out of pocket I don't know. I haven't been up to see you yet this morning No, probably just couldn't tear yourself away from contemplating that little token of her affection Jimmy if I have to sit here and look at that confounded painting one more day I'll have led poisoning that's a fine attitude when she risked her life to paint it for you She could have died, you know all right. I have treated her with a certain lack of consideration The past that's an understatement and I felt guilty thinking about it the last couple of days So? So I'm going to change all that when she comes back to work I'm going to be kind to her courteous friendly and consider Dr. G of the beaver patrol Good morning, dr. Glassby Parker Why Parker you shouldn't be out of bed this soon. I didn't expect you back Before the end of the week well, that's awfully kind of you dr. Glassby the duty calls, you know Nonsense there's no duty as important as your health and well-being. Oh, you're so considerate. Isn't that the truth Parker? I've often noticed it myself. Yeah, sometimes when I've said things to you that I didn't mean Well, I could just bite my tongue. I know exactly how you feel Parker. I've done it, too Do one of the most competent charming and intelligent women I've ever known Thank you, dr. Glassby. Would anyone mind if I opened a window and Parker? I Insist that you go back to bed and take care of yourself. Well, I Still feel a little shaky So if you really do insist I do I do all right then and I'll arrange to have the painting taken off this afternoon Sometime well, I know you don't like it. Oh, no, no Parker why I think it's a big It's the most amazing piece of work marvelous technique into delicate sensitivity Dr. Gillespie you're not just saying that of course. I'm sure personally. I love it I hate to see it go, but then it doesn't go Since you like it that much it stays no matter what anybody says. Yes, but you whether stuck to kill there with you I'm way ahead of you Parker. We'll all stick together like the three musketeers When a man loves a work of art as much as dr. Gillespie loves that painting why it would be criminal to tear it away from him You know there in fact Parker you might paint another one for the wall opposite Jimmy I've even got an impressionistic title for all good. What is it? Dr. Killed? Well, let's see by the great horn spoon Just a moment we will return to the story of dr. Killed air Dr. Killed air starring Lou airs as dr. Killed air and Lionel Barrymore as dr. Gillespie Wait a second dr. Gillespie. Are you trying to tell me that she still hasn't said a word about it? That's right, Jimmy He hasn't mentioned it once and it's been four days now. That's amazing Unless of course you had the painting taken down or so could be but I'm not going to ask her and just let well enough alone That blank wall never looks so good. I don't know. I was getting used to it scarcely notices anymore Well, I noticed it. I couldn't get used to that nightmare of variegated delirium Treemans in 50 years look like a busted tamale All I hope is that it ended up in the incinerator Come in Good morning gentlemen. My name is cuttlepops cuttlepops. Parker's art teacher I'm looking for Evangeline Parker and someone said she just might be here Well, she's working on some reports down in the next office if there's something we could well It's just that I've got some excruciatingly good news for her Of course, you knew her painting the operation was entered in the annual competition of the Brooklyn Heights Institute of Advanced Art and Culture No, I didn't even know they had an institute of what you Wait a minute now. Don't it one first prize in the primitive division by the great horn Why don't you take up a hobby dr. Gillespie? I am Jimmy I am so help me heaven next week. I'm starting in on folk dancing I just heard the story of dr. Kildare starring Lou Ayres and Lionel Barrymore This program was written by Les Crutchfield and directed by William P. Russo Original music was composed and conducted by Walter Schumann Supporting cast included Virginia Greg, Georgia Ellis and Ben Wright. Dick Joy speaking