Hard-living executive Franklin Gaer seems likely to develop a serious heart condition if he doesn't moderate his excessive lifestyle.

Dr. Gillespie subtly promotes a romance between his widowed niece and a young doctor.

Several doctors have failed to diagnose the mystery ailment that afflicts Joan Cartwright - will Dr. Kildare be more successful?

Oliver Blair, grandson of the hospital's founder, tries to get his elderly relatives declared incompetent.

Working at a camp for diabetic children, Kildare befriends a talented 15-year-old girl who is bitter about her condition and having difficulty adjusting to it. But to her mind the relationship is becoming more than just a friendship

Once a big baseball star, Charles Bishop must now face up to the knowledge that his career is ending.

The reaction of Lily Prentice to her husband's death causes surprise.

Gillespie and Kildare go to Italy for medical research, but there proves to be more to the trip than work.

In Rome, Kildare falls in love with a beautiful Italian girl whilst Gillespie renews his acquaintance with a woman he knew during the war.

Kildare and Gillespie prepare to leave the Eternal City.

A renowned tropical doctor and his young son are both stricken with a rare fever from an elusive animal. Unfortunately, there is only enough serum available to treat one of them, and Kildare may be the one to decide who gets it.

In the emergency room, a police detective and a particularly aggressive assistant district attorney try to pressure Kildare into allowing them access to one of his patients, a heart attack victim who has only hours to live. They want her to give a deathbed statement implicating her brother-in-law as an accomplice in a murder, but Kildare refuses, as the patient does not know she is dying. What's more, the man they hope her to implicate is also there with the patient's sister, hoping to pressure her against saying anything.

A penniless alcoholic, believing himself to be dying, plans one last gesture of defiance against the world.

Dr. Max Jurgens is known to his colleagues as "the Iron Chancellor", but his wife sees a gentler side to him. In fact, she wraps her entire life around him. Now he is terminally ill, and fears for how she is going to handle losing him.

After nineteen years, the middle-aged Mrs. Winfield finds she's pregnant. But her doctor husband learns that she might not survive the pregnancy, and then that he is terminally ill himself.

A feckless would-be songwriter must face up to his responsibilities when his young daughter becomes seriously ill.

A sensitive young nurse is distressed by the spitefulness of a patient.

A pregnant woman is fearful and neurotic about her unborn child - with good reason - she's already had three miscarriages due to Rh factor.

A widowed cab driver has a serious heart condition, and Kildare advises him to quit his job. But the man refuses to quit out of fear for the future of his two daughters, one of whom he is estranged from due to his disapproval of her lifestyle.

Kildare suspects that the naive Vincent Doyle is being tricked into matrimony with a young woman who's boyfriend just died, and who has not told her parents that she is pregnant with his baby.

An old seaman, hospitalized for a heart attack, claims to be able to stop his heart at will through yoga, and says he will do it before the day his insurance runs out so that his money will go to his beneficiary - an old ship that hasn't left port in years. Thinking he feels useless, Kildare and the staff hope to find him another job before that date arrives, if they can get him interested.

Kildare considers transferring to research after a close friend dies of leukemia, and after meeting a 14-year-old girl who is believed to also have the disease. But Kildare is not certain of her diagnosis, putting him at odds with the efficient but seemingly impersonal researcher who is working on the girl's case.

Kildare is puzzled as to why a highly regarded doctor, whom Gillespie has recommended for a clinic appointment, is constantly referring his patients to other doctors and specialists, even when the diagnosis should be easy.

A newly married friend of Kildare's, diagnosed with breast cancer, refuses to undergo a mastectomy lest she be disfigured.

Kildare is seriously injured in a car accident while on a date with Carol Tredman. The first motorist she flags down is a fellow doctor at Blair, who panics when he sees Kildare and leaves the scene.

It begins to look as if Kildare's forthcoming marriage to Carol Tredman might not happen after all, as he finds out a few surprising things about her.

Graham Lanier, a new patient, is a mystery man - whose resemblance to Dr. Gillespie does not go unnoticed.

When her son needs a kidney transplant to save his life, a doctor fears that her secret will be discovered: that her husband is not the boy's father, and that the real father will have to be the donor as she has only one functional kidney.

Kildare is saddled with the unwelcome task of supervising a musical revue.

After his identical twin dies of cancer, high-flying malpractice attorney Mark Sloan is convinced that he, too, is dying - despite detailed assurances from doctors that he isn't.

Kildare clashes with a patient who refuses necessary surgery for religious reasons.

Pilot Robert Hill is diagnosed as asthmatic by Kildare - a diagnosis which could lose him his job.