The Doctors and the Nurses

- Season 2

(1963)

After Alden General nurse Sarah Styles becomes secretly dependent upon narcotics, she does her best to conceal her addiction by stealing drugs from the hospital. Faced with possible exposure, Sarah's husband Lenny turns to street pusher Doc for his wife's fix by pretending he's the one with the problem.

Gail becomes the defendant in a slander lawsuit after witnesses overhear her report an injured child's accusation of parental abuse. The child's indignant father decides to sue, while Alden General gives Gail the choice of either resigning or face termination.

Maurice Borman, an American man accused of espionage, attempts suicide in an attempt to avoid a protracted trial for treason. The situation becomes even more complex after he's saved by Alden General staff, only to be diagnosed with terminal lung cancer.

Nurse Doris Kelly is assigned to the case of patient Arthur Luskin, a despondent man who has become partially paralyzed following a failed suicide attempt. Although Luskin will likely try to kill himself again, an indefatigable Nurse Kelly is determined to give him the will to live.

Demand for better wages creates a tense scenario at Alden General. After a delegation of nurses appeal to the hospital administrator and are denied, union maintenance employees decide to go on strike, and nurse Lois Carpenter shows her support by refusing to cross the picket line.

Felissa Arenas, a nurse from a small South American village, visits Alden General to study the latest advancements in medicine. However, she finds a great deal of waste in the American way of doing things and creates a serious problem by salvaging discarded medical implements for use in her own village.

While walking through the park near Alden General, Gail becomes the victim of an attack by a group of hoods. She's rescued by Frank Mitchell, a young man passing by, but Frank is severely injured during the assault, and his mother places all the blame on Gail.

Alden General patient Paul Marker has been diagnosed with Hodgkin's disease. When his brother Ben consults with an out of state doctor who prescribes an unorthodox treatment regimen, the hospital refuses to comply because the requested drug isn't approved for use as a Hodgkins treatment.

Widowed nurse Molly Kane focuses all of her attention on her work at Alden General. However, her successful professional life is in stark contrast to her personal one as she often neglects her young daughter Carole, who suffers from severe allergies.

As part of her public health training, Gail receives an eye-opening assignment with the troubled Fuentes family, who live in an impoverished city tenement. The ailing matriarch of the family is pregnant with her eleventh child, while her eldest daughter Helena is also pregnant, and son Damon an addict. To complicate matters, Gail finds hostility and resentment among those she's trying to serve.

Alden General's Dr. McClendon provides emergency treatment to a seriously injured woman at the site of an accident. Later, when the patient passes away, McClendon finds himself and the hospital itself exposed to a lawsuit blaming him for the woman's inevitable death.

Dr. Lowry experiences a crisis during his first surgical experience and is saved by head nurse Cleo Tanner, who takes a personal interest in his success. However, her devotion to him quickly turns to frightening vengeance when she develops romantic feelings for him, too, but is rejected for Gail.

Battleaxe nurse Irm Downey of Alden General's Ward D for difficult men must deal with new patients Clarence O'Farrell, an overeater who has been diagnosed with diabetes, and Carl Schultz, a young man with an unfortunate compulsion to want to leap out of windows.

Gail's cousin Ellen Denby joins Alden General as a student nurse. Resolute in her desire to make it on her own, she refuses help from more experienced staff members. However, in order to cope the mounting demands of her training, she begins taking pills.

A blind priest is hospitalized with an ulcer. He is then asked to help a blind Jewish boy prepare for his bar mitzvah.

Alden General's newly appointed priest Father Damien begins to doubt his vocation when his sensitive nature is unable to cope with all of the pain and suffering the hospital holds. He seeks solace from student nurse Sally Ellis, an equally sensitive sole, but their happiness is short lived.

Nurse Dory Spencer enters Alden General to give birth to her sixth child in eight years of marriage. With her husband Hap a perpetual failure at business and unable to support his growing family, Nurse Spencer makes the difficult decision of requesting surgery to prevent additional children.

Hypochondria and narcolepsy are the afflictions facing a young intern and a self-centered patient. After his roommate overdoses to stop the progression of chronic illness, Dr. Lowry develops unusual symptoms that he self-diagnoses as muscular dystrophy. Meanwhile patient Willa Stern is befallen with sudden attacks of sleeping.

When a newborn baby need a life saving operation to live the staff must convince the child's father to sign the consent form.

Young street hood Ben is schooled by mentor Julio into faking an illness in order to get prescription pills they can sell on the street. When Ben attempts the trick at Alden General but fails at the hands of Nurse Thorpe, she seeks assistance from social worker Mr. Hudson. Although working toward the same goal, Thorpe and Hudson are soon at loggerheads over their approach to Ben.

After two decades of service, Elihu Kaminsky, an Army medical corpsman, changes careers by becoming a male nurse at Alden General. Although his skill and performance are excellent, Kaminsky faces disapproval from Dr. Dan Phillips and Nurse Thorpe when he requests duty in obstetrics.

Young, brash and arrogant doctor Tazinski feels he'll be such a great pediatrician that he doesn't need to show anyone respect- even to Doctor Solow, an honored older doctor who he insists has made a wrong diagnosis in the case of a small boy who goes into surgery needlessly.

Doctors resort to an experimental drug known as "LT" to treat a young man suffering from chronic nephritis. When Nurse Bruno discovers severe and deadly side effects have occurred in others who have taken the drug, she secretly replaces the capsules with ones filled with sugar.

A brilliant young doctor at Alden General becomes the subject of a hospital inquiry after rumors abound that he cheated on a medical school exam. The rumors against Dr. Harry Warren initially found cannot be proven, but then his wife Sheila has an attack of conscience and decides to reveal what she knows about her husband's past.

The Mannings, a well-intentioned couple raising a mentally challenged daughter, reject Nurse Thorpe's suggestion that Amy could be better served at a school for children with special needs. The school's pediatrician Dr. Kralik attempts to help the Mannings learn to trust medical professionals.

Student nurse Kitty Lee is a Southern belle with an Electra complex and completely dissimilar to the younger student nurses at Alden General. Left out among her peers, Kitty turns to a mature mental patient similar to her image of her own father.

In the United States to consider an aircraft, the minister of defense of a new African nation is seriously injured during a test flight crash and sent to Alden General for treatment. A clash of cultures and prejudice against Americans ensues with chaos for Nurse Thorpe and other hospital staff.

Nurse Thorpe takes a particular interest in student nurse Monica James. Although others at the hospital consider Monica to be stupid and incompetent, in reality she's a bright misfit with an exceptional intelligence quotient as well as acceptance into MIT.

Dr. David Wicker and employee Carey Sonnenberg develop a special friendship, with Wicker assuming an almost fatherly role for the girl. However, the relationship between the teenage Carey and middle aged Wicker is grossly misinterpreted and ugly gossip forces authoritative intervention.

Gail violates hospital protocol by ordering a test without physician approval for a little girl she theorizes could have cystic fibrosis. When test results confirm an unwanted diagnosis, the girl's mother blames the physician for not diagnosing the illness sooner.

Self parody is the affliction as a television crew takes over Alden General to film a fictional nursing drama. Nurse Thorpe reluctantly accepts the role of technical advisor to director Peter Malone, while student nurse Anna Faye reveals her secret aspirations to emote.

Appalled that her terminal patient Arthur Devon will likely die alone, Nurse Thorpe disregards her usual objective nature and makes a concentrated effort to locate Devon's family. However, once she does, she soon realizes that there's a reason why Arthur Devon has lived a life apart from others.

Nurse Betty Anderson listens to elderly patient Fred Miller whose issues as a senior citizen take on a personal relevance to the aging caregiver. When Anderson decides to support Miller's advocacy for more programs to assist seniors, she finds herself caught between just watching on the sidelines and actively participating.

With graduation just weeks away, Gail is summoned home to be with her mother, who is to undergo an operation. And while there, Gail must make an important decision about the future.

Car crash victim Sergeant Burt Andrews is brought to Alden General where he's recognized as the estranged husband of nurse Carrie Hayes, who learns he has begun a new life with a woman named Sylvia. He's also considered an Army deserter who must be guarded by military police.

Paul Burke, late of "Naked City", plays a patient at Alden General who complicates the life of one of the hospital's employees by falling in love with Laura Crane (Barbara Barrie), who happens to be his nurse.