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{{Short description|1961 film by Phil Karlson}}

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| director = [[Phil Karlson]]

| producer = [[Stuart Millar]]<br/>[[Lawrence Turman]]

| writer = [[ArthurJoseph Hailey]]Hayes (novelauthor)<br/>[[|Joseph Hayes]]

| based_on = novel "The Final Diagnosis" by [[Arthur Hailey]]

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| starring = [[Ben Gazzara]]<br/>[[Fredric March]]

| starring = [[Fredric March]]<br>[[Ben Gazzara]]<br>[[Dick Clark]]<br>[[Ina Balin]]<br>[[Eddie Albert]]

| music = [[Elmer Bernstein]]

| cinematography = [[Arthur J. Ornitz]]

| editing = [[Robert Swink]]

| distributor = [[United Artists]]

| released = August{{Film date|1961|08|23, 1961}}

| runtime = 100 min.minutes

| country = USAUnited States

| language = English

| budget =just over $1 million<ref name="new"/>

| gross =$1.5 million<ref>{{cite magazine|url=https://archive.org/details/variety-1962-01/page/n121/mode/1up?q=%22back+street%22+%22ross+hunter%22|magazine=Variety|title=1961 Rentals and Potential|date=10 January 1961|page=58}}</ref>

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| imdb_id = 0055632

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'''''The Young Doctors''''' is a 1961 American [[drama film]] directed by [[Phil Karlson]] and starring [[Ben Gazzara]], [[Fredric March]], [[Dick Clark]], [[Ina Balin]], [[Eddie Albert]], [[Phyllis Love]], [[Aline MacMahon]], [[George Segal]], and [[Dolph Sweet]]. It was directed by [[Phil Karlson]], from a novel by [[Arthur Hailey]].

The film is based on the 1959 novel ''The Final Diagnosis'' by [[Arthur Hailey]]. [[Ronald Reagan]] was the narrator in the film.

== Plot ==

David Coleman ([[Ben Gazzara]]) is a young doctor hired by a hospital's pathology department. The head of the department, Dr. Joseph Pearson ([[Fredric March]]), sees Coleman as a rival, and they fight over many medical issues. Coleman falls in love with Cathy Hunt ([[Ina Balin]]), a student nurse at the hospital, who develops a tumor in her knee. Pearson believes that the tumor is malignant and that the leg should be amputated, but Coleman disagrees. Coleman orders three blood tests on Mrs. Alexander ([[Phyllis Love]]), an expectant mother whose baby may have [[hemolytic disease of the newborn|hemolytic disease]], but Pearson believes that the tests are excessive and cancels the third test. Mrs. Alexander is married to a young intern at the hospital ([[Dick Clark]]), who, along with Coleman, tried to push for the third test. When the baby is born seriously ill, Dr. Charles Dornberger ([[Eddie Albert]]), Mrs. Alexander's [[OB/GYN]], berates Pearson and conducts a blood transfusion to save the baby's life. Pearson's future at the hospital becomes uncertain, and he resigns. Coleman has changed his mind about Cathy's tumor and agrees with Pearson's decision, while Pearson says that Coleman reminds him of himself when he was young and urges him not to let hospital bureaucracy wear him down.

== Cast ==

*[[Fredric March]] as Dr. Joseph Pearson

*[[Ben Gazzara]] as Dr. David Coleman

*[[Dick Clark]] as Dr. Alexander

*[[Ina Balin]] as Cathy Hunt

*[[Eddie Albert]] as Dr. Charles Dornberger

*[[Phyllis Love]] as Mrs. Elizabeth Alexander

*[[Edward Andrews]] as Jim Bannister

*[[Aline MacMahon]] as Dr. Lucy Grainger

*[[Arthur Hill (Canadian actor)|Arthur Hill]] as Tomaselli

*[[Rosemary Murphy]] as Miss Graves

*[[Barnard Hughes]] as Dr. O'Donnell

*[[George Segal]] as Dr. Howard

*[[Dolph Sweet]] as Police Car Driver

==''No Deadly Medicine'' and ''The Final Diagnosis''==

Arthur Hailey wrote a two part television play for ''[[Studio One (U.S. TV series)|Studio One]]'' called "No Deadly Medicine". It was broadcast in 1957 starring [[Lee J. Cobb]], [[William Shatner]] and [[James Broderick]].<ref>{{Cite news|title=Lee Cobb to Star in Play on C.B.S.|author=V. A.|date=November 15, 1957|work=The New York Times|id={{ProQuest|114315941}}}}</ref>

Doubleday commissioned Hailey to adapt the script into a novel, ''The Final Diagnosis'', published in 1959. "The quality remains high", wrote ''The New York Times''.<ref>{{Cite news|author=Fuller, E.|title=Hospital microcosm|date=September 20, 1959|work=The New York Times|id={{ProQuest|114647097}}}}</ref>

==Production==

Film rights were bought by [[Dick Clark]], then best known for ''[[American Bandstand]]'' who took the project to the producing team of Laurence Turman and Steve Tillman (it was their first film together). Finance was obtained from [[United Artists]].<ref name="new">{{Cite news|title=Case History: 'Young Doctors' in New York |author=H. T.|date=January 29, 1961|work=The New York Times|id={{ProQuest|115340131}}}}</ref>

[[Jeffrey Hunter]] was sought for the lead.<ref>{{Cite news|last=Hopper|first=H.|title=Seek jeff hunter for 'the young doctors'.|date=September 29, 1960|work=Chicago Daily Tribune|id={{ProQuest|182584868}}}}</ref> [[Phil Karlson]] who had just been fired off ''[[The Secret Ways]]'' agreed to direct.<ref>{{Cite news|last=Scheuer|first=P. K.|title=Karlson to direct march, dick clark.|date=October 14, 1960|work=Los Angeles Times|id={{ProQuest|167750745}}}}</ref>

Filming started on January 9, 1961.<ref>{{Cite news|title=Of Local Origin|date=December 2, 1960|work=The New York Times|id={{ProQuest|115100389}}}}</ref> Filming took two months, with studio work at the Production Centre, ___location work at [[Poughkeepsie, New York]], and exteriors shot at Vassar Brothers Hospital. Many of the cast were taken from the New York stage.<ref name="new"/>

The movie was made with the cooperation and approval of the American Medical Association.<ref>{{Cite news|author=Hopper, H.|title=Entertainment.|date=June 23, 1961|work=Los Angeles Times|id={{ProQuest|167888643}}}}</ref>

==References==

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== External links ==

*{{amgIMDb title|id=1:1180710055632|title=The Young Doctors}}

*{{imdbTCMDb title|id=005563221288|title=The Young Doctors}}

*{{tcmdb title|id=21288|title=The Young Doctors}}

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