Eleven-year old Davey can't do normal boy activities because of hemophilia. Dr. Styner works to stop the bleeding after Davey falls and cuts himself. There's the usual operating room drama and informative voice-over where we learn about what was then (and maybe now) an incurable genetic disease. There's a good subplot where older sister Florie worries whether she should marry because only women pass along the genetic defect. Actress Paul is quite good in the conflicted role. My only reservation is with Davey's stilted dialog—did they have to make him sound so much like an adult. Otherwise, a typical quality episode.
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The Bleeder
kapelusznik189 April 2016
Warning: Spoilers
(Some Spoilers) Honor student Davy Stison, Barry Curtis, has been suffering from Hemophilia since birth and is in danger of bleeding to death outwardly or internally if he as much as gets a scratch or bump on his frail body. Davy's latest crisis came when he fell off his hospital bed and cut himself on a broken glass that put him in intrusive care for days with the hospital blood supply, that's keeping him alive, quickly running out. It's Davy's parents the Stinson's David McMahon & Elmen Davies,, who are at their wits end and just about broke in paying Davy's hospital bills and blood money that they themselves are on the verge of being hospitalized for sheer mental as well as psychical exhaustion.
There's also the story of Davy's big sister Florie, Eugenia Paul,who's engaged to her boyfriend Jimmy,Nike Franke,who fears that she like Davy has the Hemophilac gene in her bloodstream and may pass it on to her & Jimmy's offspring's and now has second thoughts about marrying him! It's Dr. Konrad Styner, Richard Boone,who gets everyone involved at ease by getting Davy to finally stop his bleeding and live long enough to graduate with top honors from his grade school class with a full blood supply available to him if he ever needs it again. That on the hospital as well as Dr. Styner's dime.
Known as the royal disease Hemophila causes the clotting factor in blood not to work and has its victims, if not treated in time, go into shock and bleed to death. Eevn now some 60 years after this "Medic" episode was broadcast there's no cure for Hemophila. But with dedicate men of medicine like Dr.Styner working day and night to find a cure and blood banks fully supplied to help their many victims there's still is hope and, as the saying goes, hope is eternal.
There's also the story of Davy's big sister Florie, Eugenia Paul,who's engaged to her boyfriend Jimmy,Nike Franke,who fears that she like Davy has the Hemophilac gene in her bloodstream and may pass it on to her & Jimmy's offspring's and now has second thoughts about marrying him! It's Dr. Konrad Styner, Richard Boone,who gets everyone involved at ease by getting Davy to finally stop his bleeding and live long enough to graduate with top honors from his grade school class with a full blood supply available to him if he ever needs it again. That on the hospital as well as Dr. Styner's dime.
Known as the royal disease Hemophila causes the clotting factor in blood not to work and has its victims, if not treated in time, go into shock and bleed to death. Eevn now some 60 years after this "Medic" episode was broadcast there's no cure for Hemophila. But with dedicate men of medicine like Dr.Styner working day and night to find a cure and blood banks fully supplied to help their many victims there's still is hope and, as the saying goes, hope is eternal.
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