Wed, Dec 16, 1964
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.
Wed, Feb 17, 1965
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.
Wed, Feb 24, 1965
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.