The cast includes Inger Stevens, Victor Jory, and Mary Astor.
A student nurse at a large hospital tries to help a patient scheduled for surgery and who declines to cooperate with the doctors.
She is caught in a conflict between modern nursing practices and patients' need for human and emotional involvement.
The cast includes the following:[1] The program aired on May 7, 1959, on the CBS television series Playhouse 90.
[1][2] "Gail Lucas", the character name of the student nurse played by Inger Stevens, returned as the character name of the young nurse played by Zina Bethune on the 1962 primetime medical drama The Nurses and by Melinda Cordell on the subsequent same-named 1965 daytime drama.