Ben Casey is an American medical drama series which ran on ABC from 1961 to 1966. The show was known for its opening titles, which consisted of a hand drawing the symbols "♂, ♀, ✳, †, ∞" on a chalkboard, as cast member Sam Jaffe intoned, "Man, woman, birth, death, infinity." Neurosurgeon Joseph Ransohoff was a medical consultant for the show and may have influenced the personality of the title character.
""Fear in a handful of dust."" (Eliot)
Self-diagnosis.
You pays your money and you takes your choice.
""No gardener has died within rosaceous memory."" (Beckett)
The unmoved mover.
Courts adieu, and all delights, All bewitching appetites; Sweetest breath, and clearest eye, Like perfumes go out and die; And consequently this is done, As shadows wait upon the sun. Vain the ambition of kings, Who seek by trophies and dead things, To leave a living name behind, And weave but nets to catch the wind. O you have wrought a miracle, and melted A heart of adamant: you have compris'd In this dumb pageant, a right excellent form Of penitence. John Webster, The Devil's Law-Case
Whistling in the dark.
The agony and the estimate: trigeminal neuralgia, the tic douloureux.
You can get there from here.
Meantime we shall express our darker purpose. Give me the map there. Know that we have divided In three our kingdom: and 'tis our fast intent To shake all cares and business from our age; Conferring them on younger strengths, while we Unburthen'd crawl toward death. King Lear
""And let slip the dogs of war.""
""Tell the truth or trump—but get the trick."" (Twain)
""Like a patient etherized upon a table.""
To see the night before.
Another county heard from.
Rich gifts wax poor, to the noble mind.
It couldn't be called ungentle, But how thoroughly departmental. Frost
A lifetime of hard work seems undesirable for an intern.
Rules of the game.
Introduction and variations.
An academic debate.
A proverb of great pith.
Le Médecin Malgré Lui
""Were I a nightingale, I would act like one."" (Epictetus)
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The surgeon's secret.
Ben Casey is an American medical drama series which ran on ABC from 1961 to 1966. The show was known for its opening titles, which consisted of a hand drawing the symbols "♂, ♀, ✳, †, ∞" on a chalkboard, as cast member Sam Jaffe intoned, "Man, woman, birth, death, infinity." Neurosurgeon Joseph Ransohoff was a medical consultant for the show and may have influenced the personality of the title character.
Vince Edwards , Sam Jaffe , Jim McMullan
Jack Laird
Bing Crosby Productions ,
as Ben Casey
as David Zorba
