There's a lot of voice-over plus a medical professional explaining the exact nature of Frank's brain injury. It's informative, but I doubt the series ever got big ratings due to the usual amount of medical exposition. Frank's an editor who's attacked one night by juvenile muggers, one of whom delivers a vicious kick to Frank's head. As a result, circuits conveying speech, reading, and writing, are damaged, leaving him imprisoned behind a wall of silence. In order to regain the skills, he must establish new circuits, requiring extensive therapy. Progress is slow, and it's wrenching to hear the formerly articulate editor managing at first only grunts. Once again, the acting is first-rate, with young Jimmy Ogg and Guy Prescott, especially impressive.
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We'll have to elevate the fracture to relieve the pressure on his brain
kapelusznik1829 December 2015
Warning: Spoilers
***SPOILERS*** We have the star of the series Dr.Konrad Styner played by a glum and close shaved looking Richard Boone telling us the story of newspaper editor Frank Sommers, Robert Williams, who got brained one evening going home from work by two muggers. Even after Sommers was out cold one of the lowlife creeps gave the poor guy a swift kick in the head because he had little money on him for him to rip off leaving him in a vegetated state.
It was Sommers doctor brain surgeon Dr. Edward Murphy, Guy Prescott, who got the ball rolling in bringing Sommers back to life but it wasn't an easy job on Dr. Murphy's part. He had to deal with Sommers' wife Ella, Pauline Moore, and son Phil, Jimmy Ogg, who had to drop his plans for collage to go to work to pay off his father's doctor bills. Slowly regaining his ability to walk talk and understand Sommer was back on his feet and out of the sanitarium in no time at all due to the treatment, at very little cost, he got from the kind and understanding Dr. Murphy. It was in fusing Sommers' brain cells together that Dr. Murphy made him whole again and able to return to work if not as the newspaper's editor but as a copy boy which was, in everything that he went through, more then good enough for him.
A brain of an episode in how brains, that's human, work and how their treated when severely injured like the damaged one of Frank Sommers. Not exactly brought back to normal it-Sommers' brain- was still functional when Dr. Murphy got through with it which was all that Sommers as well as his wife Ella and son Phil wanted. It's just too bad that the punks that did Sommers in were never caught and made to pay for their crime which this "Medic" episode which in real life not on TV made it the movies, with most criminals getting away with their crimes, so believable.
P.S Broadcast on the evening of April 18, 1955 this "Medic" brain episode was shown the very day that Time Magazine's "Man" or better yet "Brain" of the century Albert Einstein passed away in his sleep in his home in Princeton N.J at the age of 76.
It was Sommers doctor brain surgeon Dr. Edward Murphy, Guy Prescott, who got the ball rolling in bringing Sommers back to life but it wasn't an easy job on Dr. Murphy's part. He had to deal with Sommers' wife Ella, Pauline Moore, and son Phil, Jimmy Ogg, who had to drop his plans for collage to go to work to pay off his father's doctor bills. Slowly regaining his ability to walk talk and understand Sommer was back on his feet and out of the sanitarium in no time at all due to the treatment, at very little cost, he got from the kind and understanding Dr. Murphy. It was in fusing Sommers' brain cells together that Dr. Murphy made him whole again and able to return to work if not as the newspaper's editor but as a copy boy which was, in everything that he went through, more then good enough for him.
A brain of an episode in how brains, that's human, work and how their treated when severely injured like the damaged one of Frank Sommers. Not exactly brought back to normal it-Sommers' brain- was still functional when Dr. Murphy got through with it which was all that Sommers as well as his wife Ella and son Phil wanted. It's just too bad that the punks that did Sommers in were never caught and made to pay for their crime which this "Medic" episode which in real life not on TV made it the movies, with most criminals getting away with their crimes, so believable.
P.S Broadcast on the evening of April 18, 1955 this "Medic" brain episode was shown the very day that Time Magazine's "Man" or better yet "Brain" of the century Albert Einstein passed away in his sleep in his home in Princeton N.J at the age of 76.
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