Bad for Each Other is a 1953 American drama film noir directed by Irving Rapper and starring Charlton Heston, Lizabeth Scott and Dianne Foster.

He further discovers that Floyd had betrayed Dan's trust by purchasing substandard equipment and taking kickbacks.

Dan's daughter, the twice-divorced socialite Helen Curtis, meets Tom at a party and asks him for a date.

She arranges for him to meet Dr. Homer Gleeson, who runs a Pittsburgh clinic catering to wealthy women suffering from minor ailments (some of which are plainly imaginary).

Tom appears reluctant at first but eventually turns down the security his army career offers and accepts Gleeson's job.

As a nurse to assist him, Tom hires Joan Lasher, an idealistic young woman who plans to become a doctor herself.

Jim is hired and starts to see more and more cases of men from the mine developing lung conditions.

[3] The film's trailer promoted it as an exposé of "ghost surgeons" in the contemporary medical profession, the practice of a doctor misrepresenting himself to a patient and taking credit for surgery performed by someone else.

[5] Writing in The New York Times, Howard Thompson called the film "erratic" and recapped its plot as a "romanticized endorsement of the Hippocratic Oath, as opposed to cash in the bank".

He preferred the plot of the doctor's career choice dilemma to the romance of the title: "The hero's liaison with the tippling, muddle-headed Miss Scott takes up a good, pointless third of the footage.

"[6] TV Guide calls it a "real bore" that "may be dangerous to your health", says Heston "has never been stiffer or more self-righteous", but that "[s]ome excellent character actors are totally wasted in this film".