 The story of Dr. Kildare. Whatsoever house I enter, there will I go for the benefit of the sick. Whatsoever things I see or hear concerning the life of men, I will keep silence thereon. Counting such things to be held as sacred trusts. I will exercise my art solely for the cure of my things. The story of Dr. Kildare, starring Lou Ayers and Lionel Barrymore. Metro-Goldwyn-Mare brought you those famous motion pictures. This exciting, heartwarming series is heard on radio. In just a moment, the story of Dr. Kildare. But first, your announcer. Dr. Kildare, starring Lou Ayers as Dr. Kildare and Lionel Barrymore as Dr. Gillespie. Blair General Hospital, one of the great citadels of American medicine. A clump of gray white buildings planted deep in the heart of New York. The nerve center of medical progress, where great minds and skilled hands wage man's everlasting battle against death and disease. Blair General Hospital, where life begins, where life ends, where life goes on. Dr. Kildare. Oh, hello, Millie. What's up? Could I speak to you a moment, Dr. Kildare? Of course. Come in the reception room. No one will see you. Why, Millie, how clandestine of you. Dr. Kildare, my motives are completely above board. Are you sure? What's your problem, Millie? Well, it's Dr. Gillespie. Now what? I think his mind is going. What? Well, he's a little past the age when he could be falling in love, isn't he? Not as long as he can open his eyes, he isn't. Why? Well, I just happened to pass by and I heard him calling a florist this afternoon and I couldn't help overhearing what he was saying. Millie, you should never eavesdrop on conversations that don't concern you. I told you you were seeing too much of Nosy Parker. Whatever Dr. Gillespie was doing was none of the business of the nurses or the staff of Blair General. What was he doing? Yeah, well, he told the florist he wanted some sweet peas for a charming young lady. Those were his own words. Charming young lady, he said. Sweet peas. Living dangerously, isn't he? And furthermore, he told me to cancel all his afternoon appointments at the hospital because he had a very important house call to make. Now what do you make of that? I don't know what to make of it, but the thought of Dr. Gillespie sneaking off the date a young lady completely fascinates me. I think I'll stop by his office and see what I can find out. Why are you hanging around my office? I've got some thinking to do and you're interfering with it. What are you doing this afternoon? I'm working. What I do every afternoon. You got on your best suit, haven't you? Well, what the heck business is it of yours if I have? Fresh haircut, too. I get a fresh haircut every week. Go tend to your patients and never mind me. Oh, no, no, my patients need me this afternoon. Thought I might persuade you to go out some place with me. I'm busy this afternoon. Professionally or otherwise? Why, Jimmy Kildare? You think I am leading a double life? Oh, no, no. Ah, come on now, sure you do. You know you do. No, it's just that seeing you all spruced up like you are, seeing that glint in your eye and putting two and two together, well, I... Well, I guess you got me dead derised, Jimmy. There's nothing for me to do but confess. There is a woman in my life. Ah, attractive. Jevolously attractive. Brunette or blonde? Redhead. Well, we are living dangerously. Care to come along and meet her? Oh, I certainly would. Okay. Put on your best suit and get a fresh haircut and meet me downstairs. Oh, wait a minute. I don't do that for my own date. Ah, you don't know how to live, Jimmy. In my day, we really knew how to make a lady feel important and sought after. If you want to come with me, you'll have to do as I do. Well, it sounds pretty silly, but I'll do it. I'll meet you downstairs in an hour. Good afternoon, Dr. Gillespie. Good afternoon, Ms. Henderson. This is my friend Dr. Kildare. Oh, I'm so happy to meet you, Ms. Henderson. Dr. Gillespie told me so much about you. Come in. Just what did Dr. Gillespie tell you about me? Well, I realized you were a little early. What did Dr. Gillespie tell you about me, Dr. Kildare? Not very much, but enough to give me the opportunity. Is Caroline ready for us, Ms. Henderson? Really? I'm not deaf, Dr. Gillespie. Yeah, that is the whole trouble. Yes, Caroline's expecting you. We'll go right in. This way, Jimmy. Hello, Caroline. Wowers, they came a little while ago. Well, I'll be happy. Sometimes I wish you were. This is my friend, Dr. Kildare. Jimmy, this is Caroline Shelley. Hello, Caroline. I'm very happy to meet you. I have been telling Dr. Kildare about you and me, Caroline. We're going to be married, you know, Dr. Kildare? Really? Yes, as soon as I'm 20. I met Caroline when she was born, and it was love at first sight. Well, I can certainly see why. And so, every so often, I pay a visit. What's that book you're reading, Caroline? It's Beauty and the Beast. Oh, sort of like you and Dr. Gillespie, isn't it? You said very funny. Very, very funny. Caroline, how do you feel? I'm pretty good, except I've got sort of a tummy ache. Miss Henderson said I ate too much candy yesterday. You'll feel as if you had a temperature. Now, Caroline, tell me if this... It hurts, doesn't it? Caroline, bend your right knee. That's it. Kildare, take a look at these abdominal muscles, will you? Are you all right, Doctor? What's the matter? Don't worry, Caroline. Don't you worry. We know just what to do for it. You take a nap now, and I'll be back to see you a little later. You know, that's a chronic appendix. Better watch it. Let's talk to Miss Henderson. Caroline's parents are separated. I think Miss Henderson would better call them if there's any change for the wound. I'm here in the sitting room, Dr. Gillespie. What did you say about Caroline? She has a chronic appendix. She may need an operation. Oh, nonsense. She ate too much candy yesterday, and I told her while she was doing it that this would happen. All that child needs is a good dose of castor oil. Please, no castor oil, not whilst she has symptoms of appendicitis. It's an old-fashioned remedy, but it's always been a good one. No, no, no, no, Miss Henderson, no. I definitely do not want her given castor oil. She's only to have very light food. If the pains in her stomach continue, or her temperature goes up, you call me immediately. Where's the girl's mother? She's taken a group of models up to Boston for a fashion show. Well, if I don't hear from you before, I'll be back in the morning to see Caroline again. Come on, Jenny. Oh, how nice to have met you, Miss Henderson. Good. We'll keep a close watch on her for a day or two. It's a darn shame about her parents. Her mother is a designer. Her father's a writer. Lives in Connecticut someplace, rather. The two careers just gotten away of the marriage. What's the mother's name? Doreen Shelley. Miss Henderson didn't look as though she had very much confidence in what you were saying. I don't know. I don't know. I think we should try and locate Mrs. Shelley ourselves, just in case. Thank you. Hello? Hello, is this Mrs. Shelley? Yes. Who is this? Well, this is a Dr. Keldare at Blair General Hospital in New York. There's just a routine call, Mrs. Shelley. Today, I visited your daughter this afternoon with Dr. Gillespie. She has an upset stomach. It may not be anything, but we wanted to be sure we could reach you. Well, I'll be in around midnight. Where can we reach Mr. Shelley? Oh, exactly where he's staying. All right, Mrs. Shelley. We were worried because both of you were out of town. I see. What'd you come through? What'd she say? Said she'd take the next plane back. Said we could try and locate Mr. Shelley at the hotels in Greenwich. Oh, so I guess Carolyn hasn't changed. Hello? This is Dr. Keldare. Hello? Hung up. Who was it? Ms. Henderson. She said something happened to Carolyn. Oh, you'd better get over right away to see the child. I'll make arrangements for an emergency operation. I want you to operate. How can I? We don't have permission from either the parents. I'll try and reach the father by telephone. You take the ambulance and get Carolyn over here. She had a seizure of pain to her waist. It wasn't anywhere near her appendix. It was at her waist. I gave her a dose of castor oil. You were specifically told not to give her castor oil. How dare you take it upon yourself to ignore doctors' orders like that? I didn't think it was her appendix. A while ago she broke out in the rash and her temperature went up. Oh, yes, her room. I'd bring out some towels and cold water for me. Bring some ice cubes. Hello, Carolyn. How do you feel? Oh, that's all right. Now, you just lie still and let me look at you. Where's Dr. Gillespie? Oh, he's waiting for you at the hospital. I want you to come over there and be close by him. Now, won't that be nice? That's where people go to die. Oh, don't do that. Ms. Henderson? Oh, Ms. Henderson hasn't been in a hospital in recent years. Or she'd know that that's where people go to live. Honey, in that hospital, you're going to be like a fairy princess. Dr. Gillespie and I will fight each other to the death to see who's going to be your Prince Charming. There's the towels and the ice down there. All right. Help me pack this ice on her side. There. Now, keep putting the wet towels on her head. She mustn't go to sleep. Do you understand? She must not go to sleep. Yes, Dr. Kudin. Now, where's the telephone? In the hall. I'll be right back. Dr. Gillespie, please. Oh, Dr. Gillespie, I think her appendix is ruptured. If she has a rash, it could be scarlet fever, or it could be the results of peritonitis. I don't know. We're going to have to operate immediately. You've been able to reach the girl's father. I looked in. How about Mrs. Shelley? I'll get Carolyn right over there. And if you know any prayers, you'd better start saying them. In just a moment, we will return to the story of Dr. Kildare. You sign your name right there. Did you reach Jack? Yeah, he's on his way down. Oh, it'll break Jack's heart. If anything happens to Carolyn... Well, Kildare's the finest young surgeon I know. Carolyn's in good hands. You heard from Jack recently? Not too recently, no. I see now. How old were you when you two got married? Well, you remember? I was 16. Jack was just past 18. Everyone said we weren't old enough, but we both were so sure. We managed to talk our parents into letting us get married. Yeah, they're too bad. It hasn't worked out better. Well, it worked out for a while. And then Jack's stories went selling. I became a model and then a fashion designer. And Jack got sensitive about me paying the bills for a while. I don't see what it matters who pays the bills if two people love each other. Jack Shelley's on his way up, Dr. Gillespie. Oh, thank you, thank you. Oh, I'm so glad. We can go up to the reception room right there. Dr. Gillespie, how is... Doreen. Jack. How is Carolyn? She's good to be operated on right away. We won't know until then. Come on, we'll go upstairs and wait. Scalpel. Sponge. Hemostat. Scalpel. And it's a long... Now, don't you worry. Don't worry. Carolyn couldn't be in better hands. Oh, you feel so helpless, don't you? She was crying for you when she first arrived here, Jack. She seemed disturbed because you hadn't been home. She kept asking when you were coming. Things like this are rough on kids I know. Doreen and I thought if we were going to separate, well, it would be easier on her now than when she's older. I was very disappointed when you two broke up. Somehow I thought you were going to make a success of your marriage. I don't think I ever saw two youngsters anymore in love. Well, we... We used to have a lot in common. We don't have anything in common anymore. You have a child in common. You have all the plans and dreams you started out with. You have a future in common. If you only had the sense to hold on to it. Doreen doesn't need me anymore. Oh, he thinks she does. You're right, Dr. Gillespie. I do... Well, the truth of the matter is that things haven't been working too well for me. Well, I'm not going to have my wife supporting me. All the stubborn, selfish, stiff-necked attitude. Jack, I thought you had more common sense. Marriage is a partnership, isn't it? You help each other out in a partnership, don't you? Are you going to make your child unhappy? Your wife unhappy, then yourself unhappy? Just because you're too pigheaded to accept a little help? Well, I have my pride. It's a doggone expensive luxury sometimes. It is, particularly when you buy it at the expense of love. Well, I never thought about it like that. Well, that's the way it looks to Doreen. And to me! Doesn't it, Doreen? Yes, it does. Jack, that's exactly the way it looks to a woman. Completed. How is she? Operation was a success. Oh, thank you. I can't tell you that she'll live, though. We won't know that for at least three days. Three days? It'll take three days before the crisis will be over. Can we see her? She's under a sedative. You won't be able to talk to her. But if I can just see her... Yeah, me too. All right, come with me. Dr. Kildare. Oh, it's you, Millie. Yeah, come in the reception room where we won't be heard. You know, Millie, pretty soon people are going to start talking about us. Dr. Gillespie's been at it again. At what again? I heard him on the telephone ordering flowers again. This time it was carnations. I couldn't hear who he was sending them to because he pushed the door shut. I almost caught my nose in it. You know what I heard him ordering this morning? What? A set of Grimm's fairy tales. He's the strangest man. Do you think he's in his second child? Oh, I'm positive of it, Millie. Yeah, I thought as much. Now, if you'll excuse me, I want to have a word with him about a patient of ours. Mm-hmm. I want one of those dolls that wets its pants. Can you send one to a cancer? Hi, Dr. Leonard Gillespie. Kildare, get out of here. Go on, get out. Hello, hello. No, I don't want a doll I can give a permanent to. What would I want with a doll I could give a permanent to for? Look, I want a doll that wets its pants. It's for a little girl, and anyhow, it's none of your business. Look, I don't want to make a big production out of this. I want a doll for little girls. Do you want to send it out for me, or shall I call some store that will? One of the things I love about you is your supreme tactics. I'll go on, sit on a scalp. Does the kind that wets its pants get a permanent to? Well, all right, I'll send out one of those. Dr. Leonard Gillespie at Blair General Hospital. Thank you, goodbye. It used to be that you could just call up and order a doll, but not anymore in this age of miracles and science. So what are you doing up here, eavesdropping? What do you want? You just thought you might like to go up and see Carolyn with me? I would, I would, I would see. Setting up today, making a wonderful recovery. Oh, well, that's going to see it. A mother phoned a little while ago, and they're coming over too. I'm anxious to see that family get back together again. Oh, so am I. That's a little out of my line. That I can't accomplish with a scalpel. Jimmy, my boy, when you've reached my age, you will find you've accomplished something like that more times than you'd think possible. There's more kinds of heart trouble and more ways of healing it than you'd ever realize now. Come on, let's go and see the princess. You and Dr. Kildare? How are you, Carolyn? How do you feel, young woman? I feel fine. Dr. Gillespie, can a girl marry two men? At once? Mm-hmm. Oh, not without getting into an awful lot of trouble, no. Oh, that's too bad. Of course, I thought I might marry both you and Dr. Kildare. Well, you did. You think he's prettier than I am. Well, I do think he's prettier. Out of the mouths of babes. But I think you're smarter, Dr. Gillespie. Out of the mouths of babes. Come in. I'm better. When can she go home, Dr. Kildare? A few days now. There. Did you hear that, Carolyn? We have a surprise for you, darling. Miss Henderson's gone for good. And daddy's coming home to live with you and me. Just to wait you see what we're going to do. Come on, Kildare. Kind of gets you to see people that happy, doesn't it? God, nonsense. Now, don't go turning into a sentimentalist, Kildare. Your eyes were getting a little misty in there. They looked pretty close to tears to me. Full form five. Your voice is all rough. I am catching a cold. You're a very inconsistent man. I am just not a sentimentalist. That dog you ordered just arrived, Dr. Gillespie. Well, take it in to Carolyn. Yes, Dr. Gillespie. You know, Dr. Gillespie, you're a big phony. That is a very true diagnosis, Kildare. A very true diagnosis. In just a moment, we will return to the story of Dr. Kildare. He is. He's in Carolyn's room. Go in and see for yourself. Well, I will. I'm the doctor on this case. What on earth are you doing? I'm feeding this doll water. What does it look like I'm doing? You've tried to get the doll to work. It won't work. Yeah, these dolls are phony. Fates. Oh, a darn thing broke. Confounded, I'm all wet. Oh, could be, Dr. Gillespie. Could be. Now, let's give the doll a permanent. Yes, I'd love to see you give a doll a permanent. All right, all right. Now, you've had your fun. Now, leave me alone. Just as you say, doctor, as a matter of fact, I'll promise you right here and now I won't bother you again. Until next week.