Dr. Kildare

Ben Casey was a "medical mystery" that is, a patient would present with symptoms and Dr. Casey would have to figure out what he had. My father, a real doctor, would watch the first 5 minutes, tell me what he thought was the diagnosis and go away. Ben Casey would struggle through the case & figure it out. Dad would come back at the last minute, and find his diagnosis confirmed. He was never wrong. Dad was smarter than Ben Casey!

Old enough to have watch Marcus Welby and have dvd's of 1060's Dr Kildare. Shows stand up well. Are more caring doctors than today by far. Doctors today could take lessons.

Bratwurst

And unlike your dad Ben Casey didn't have six more patients to see. Oh and can you fit Mrs. XXX she has YYY again. Sounds to me like Dad knew his profession.

And he wasn't trying to entertain people for a half hour.

In all these shows doctors made house calls,something I remember

I was always drawn to medical/surgical scenes on TV and in movies though, even as a young kid.

Me, too! I didn't know why at the time, but I guess it was the beginning of my medical fetish. I wonder how many of us medical fetishists started out that way?