Dr. Kildare - Old Time Radio
Vintage Radio: Medical Drama
 Dr. Kildare was a medical drama broadcast in the summer of 1949 until 1952. The series was based on The Story of Dr. Kildare, a popular Metro Goldwyn Mayer (MGM) film. Lew Ayres starred Dr. James Kildare, an young and earnest physician at Blair General Hospital. Lionel Barrymore portrayed the grouchy diagnostician Dr. Leonard Gillespie. The supporting cast was joined by Ted Osborne as hospital administrator Dr. Carough, Jane Webb as nurse Mary Lamont, and Virginia Gregg as nurse Parker. |
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The plots of Dr. Kildare are rich and multilayered, involving the doctors' conflicts with each other and with the hospital's management. They deal with patients who are often ignorant and stubborn. At times, medical dilemmas often present themselves not only as professional challenges but also personal crises. Dr. Gillespie acts as a mentor to the young idealist Kildare. He tells Kildare, "Our job is to keep people alive, not to tell them how to live." However, Kildare mostly ignores the advice, which provides the basis for stories, often with a soap opera touch. Each episode opens with Kildare's solemn medical oath, " . . . whatsoever house I enter, there will I go for the benefit of the sick, and 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." |
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