 The story of dr. Kildare Once whoever house I enter there will I go for the benefit of the stick What's the weather things I see or hear concerning the life of man? I will keep silent there on counting such things to be held as sacred trust. I will give no deadly drug to any though The story of dr. Kildare starring Lou Ayres and Lionel Barobar Metro Goldwyn Mayer brought you those famous motion pictures for now for the first time this exciting heartwarming series is heard on radio Just a moment the story of dr. Kildare But first your announcer dr. Kildare starring Lou Ayres as dr. Kildare and Lionel Barobar as dr. Gillespie Blair general hospital one of the great citadel from American medicine The clump of gray-white buildings planted deep in the heart of New York Nerve center of medical progress were 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? That's you there. Oh my you look tired. Morning Parker. I am tired Dr. Gillespie and yet he's down in the clinic. Oh, that man bad. No bad. Oh, all right See now dr. Kildare speed. Hello. This is dr. James Kildare. Yes. Who's this please Jimmy? Angela Kester. Well, I didn't know you were in New York when you get in I won't be off duty until tonight. Hey, you do sound worried. What's the trouble? Who's your doctor Angela you from my work here at the hospital, I Don't have to stand then You're afraid of what? Wait a minute. Thanks. Well be 73. All right All right, I'll be right out. It's a big hurry. You're not an intern anymore rush call dr. Gillespie rush call 73rd old friends of mine. What's the problem? Well, what is it? Not enough love or not enough money might be either She's afraid her husband is going to kill her So that's enough to keep a woman's mind off her housework Well, no see Parker. Why do you keep on busting in here all the time? Oh Dr. Kildare Parker if anyone wants me I'll be at the home of Mrs. Angela Kester. All right, dr. But just a moment Parker. I'm in a hurry, but there's a man. He just came into the reception Well, we want to see you. I'm sorry Parker, but his name is Kester Stephen Kester Every week she gets a little worse. I see Five years ago Angela Kester is one of her finest concert pianists in this country Today she's nothing. Oh when did all this begin Steve? I mean when did she start blowing up in the middle of contests forced to five years ago a few months after we were married Did Angela show any abnormal behavior just before that first breakdown? Oh, she was working awfully hard Pricing 16 hours a day something Was kind of strange Like something was pushing it as though her success was a matter of life is death It's almost as if she was possessed and it's still the same The harder she works at her music the more the obsession grows Are you said before there was a particular composition that she keeps on playing? yes The revolutionary Every time she sits down to play Sometimes you can go on for oh half an hour without breaking Rachel And she goes back to does that piece have any particular significance to Angela? None that I know her. It was one of her father's papers He's dead now. He had great ideas about Angela's career And now about this latest fixation of hers this Fear that you are going to murder her. It's the first time I've heard that one First thing he told me on the phone. She's really getting bad. Yes. I Think I'd better drop out to your place and see Angela for a few minutes. Come on We better hurry. I can watch her here from behind these plans to The nurse with her constantly. Yes. I don't dare leave her alone He's the old place beautifully. Yes, I know but wait Rachel Steve the doctors that have been handling Angela's case What kind of treatment is it giving her? Oh, I think she's been through about all of them Two courses of insulin shock two courses of electric shock. I don't know what else when did you have her last shock treatment? Oh about six months ago. They held for a while then and she slips back into the same or Some more condition listen Here she's breaking up See what you mean Almost something that they can hold of it pushing twisting her body some strange force Steve stay here. I'm going in We're gonna have a second office then we'll set them free and I don't be afraid. I'm going to help you Yes, Dr. Gillespie. Oh, thanks. I could use one. I think it's high time somebody told you this What you've been going to Ever since you got back to the hospital from the army now Let's not go over all that again and I feel well We will too just because they appointed you a resident physician That doesn't mean that you have to do all the work. You know how shorthanded we've been how many patients we have Yeah You go on out and take on more Look Jimmy, you've just got so much energy to spend in one day and that's all how you're going to tell me I need a vacation exactly what you do me Listen Jimmy You've been a doctor long enough to know you can't save all the lives in the world. Sorry dr. Gillespie. I can't take the time off besides I've got the research work I'm leukemia to do that paper for the medical institute and Besides that you would hate to be away from that beautiful nurse Mary Lamont go on admit it Oh, your spies are working overtime. They're always working over time You haven't dated Mary Lamont for three weeks. That's a late bullet. Why? All the Angela Kester thing I guess takes a lot of time You don't have enough to do here, right you have to go out looking for work doctor until her mind got sick Angela Kester was on her way to becoming one of the greatest concert pianists in the world I'm convinced you can still be one of the greatest pianists in the world How do you go about curing her not sure yet what's your diagnosis She's suffering from a neurosis obsessive compulsive superimposed paranoid tendencies When you pick a bad one you pick the worst follow the symptoms Deep-seated compulsive complex is the first thing I noticed See Angela had one of those fathers who wants great things for his children whether they wanted or not He was a second-rate pianist himself, but he was determined Angela would reach the top I guess he impressed her with that as soon as she was old enough to understand Her father was a widower didn't have much money, but he spent every spare dollar he could get on piano lessons Evidently he made her realize how much he was sacrificing to make her a great artist Grew out of all proportion in her mind right and by the time she was ten years old She was afraid to be a failure. She had to make it. There's no other way out When does it first show on the surface? Oh five years ago? Angela was about 22 at the time The night before she was to sail for Europe for a concert tour. She had a recital at Carnegie Hall She went to pieces. Oh Use part of the neurosis all right Obsessive compulsive What about the paranoid? They've just started showing up lately She's developing all kinds of persecution complexes and thinks the publics against her thinks her husband's going to kill her Hello Yes, we're right over with Steven Kester Angela Angela just shot herself Mr. Kildare will continue in just a moment Willingham Willingham Mr. Willingham call me back late. I want my medical journal. Where have you hidden it? It's right back in the middle of your death. Then why didn't you say so always hiding things by the way What about those reprints I asked for the ones on prefrontal the bottom a they're sending them up from the research library Well, tell them to hurry keep your nose out of my business. That's a glistening office Well, it lodged just beneath the skin under the left shoulder Easily removed Agent resting come on tell dr. Gillespie. I'm going over to Solomon's I heard every word Mary What'd you come from following you today? What? Sorry about the last few weeks Mary. I hope you understand. I'm getting used to it But really Jenny, I've been talking to dr. Gillespie. You've got to cut down on your work. All right All right, I concede just as soon as the answer gets to guess well Wonderful You ought to be up and around in ten days then you start your vacations. Well, I don't mean the bullet I think there is Mary one chance. I thought they tried everything but an operation. I Don't understand a prefrontal lobotomy. It's the only chance Are you sure it's her only chance the last resort I know that's all that's left for Angela now It's the operation fail it can't fail Mary. I wish I could believe that Come on, let's get that coffee. Hey, you're mad a prefrontal lobotomy You're just stalks dr. Gillespie You've been doing research on prefrontal lobotomies for the past four days I'll admit it. You're getting worse than nosy Parker. Hey to me trying it on a girl like Angela Kester Actually, the prefrontal lobotomy has been successful with patients evangelize What are the odds Well, no, don't Steve good to see I wish physically good shape Oh dr. Gillespie That's why I called you down here Steve I think it'll cure Angela. Oh, we've got to have your permission before we go ahead Well I don't know. What's it going to involve? I'll try to make it as brief as I can Angela's mental trouble her obsessions her fears are centered in this part of the brain here Just inside the upper part of the firing the frontal lobes with Garland But how could an operation cure that part of the brain? It wouldn't wouldn't Our only concern now is to cure the whole brain by permanently isolating those Frontal lobes from the rest of the brain How is that possible? Well, it's comparatively a simple operation Kester An opening is made in the skull just above the frontal lobes We insert into the brain an instrument called a leukotome With that instrument we sever the white tissue which connects the frontal lobes of the rest of the brain That's what we call a prefrontal lobotomy Well, what are the risks? I mean what could happen four alternatives, Steve It could make Angela a little better or it could make her a little worse It could cure her completely Or it could kill her Jimmy what would happen to her if She didn't have the operation We couldn't try any more shock treatments. She's already had the maximum. Her system wouldn't take it And without treatment Kester more suicide attempts deterioration until she's hopelessly insane The operations are the last resort You'll have to make the decision You'll recommend it jim I recommend it You're there Jimmy You're ready now jimmy Yes Say a prayer will you doctor Skade Yep So am I Let's go Dr. Long is the patient ready. She's anesthetized. I've given her sodium pendothal. Is it all right to proceed? Yes, doctor All right, jimmy scalpel sponge Hemostats Silver clips How's that wound killed there bleeding is controlled wounds dry nurse. Yes, doctor retract her Periosteal elevator Dr. Long. Yes, doctor Ready to proceed with the osteotomy her condition still good blood pressure down 90 over 68 pulse 88 Respiration 24. Ms. Lamont. Yes, doctor. Tree fine Have the water syringe ready Orsips Good work, Jimmy Nurse careful with the skull disc. Keep it moist. Yes, doctor Scalpel for dual incision Eyes quickly. Yes, doctor. Dr. Long. How's the condition? Blood pressure was down 90 over 68 Supplementing saline solution with blood pulse 90 respiration 26 blood pressure rising Ready to proceed with the lobotomy. All right proceed, doctor Nurse. Yes, doctor Look at down Ready with a little pyridol syringe ready doctor Localized perfectly easy got to go slow sponge. Yes, doctor Very little bleeding fine work, Jimmy. Fine instrument Nurse ready to close the wound number 60 silk for the dura skull disc Good well moistened Skin sutures. Yes, doctor Sterile dressings Everything all right doctor long conditions good. Thank you, doctor. Thank you very much. Good work You'll dare Jimmy you've done yourself proud You better wait and see dr. Gillespie. Jimmy. How long will it be? Before we know Oh, I estimate about three days in angela's case might know definitely by then You mean if she's cured or if she isn't married if she has to live out the rest of her life Hopeless lunatic I might be pushing things Steve might be too soon to tell definitely Jimmy. I've got to know One way or the other it's only been three days Steve in a case like angela's it could be months before the now for sure It could be complications Jimmy. I've got to know now. I I've got to All right, Steve Here we are All set Yeah, yeah, I'm what's it. He just woke up. I go over to the bed Steve. Let us see you Angela Angela Angela it's Steven your husband Steven Steve angela Look at you. You're all right Angela you're cured Jimmy she is cured she'll tell you Steve They're free Jimmy that's right Steve Patient cured Just a moment's we will return to the story of dr. Kildare We'll decide to make this party formal first time I've ever seen dr. Gillespie in a tuxedo. Probably the last Oh, look angela sitting down at the piano You make it that way Story of dr. Kildare starring Lou Ayres and Lionel Barrymore Dr. Kildare is presented by arrangement with metro golden mayor producers of east side west side Starring bobber stanwick james mason van heflin and ava gardener The program was written by james edward mozer and directed by william p rousseau original music composed and conducted by walters human