Les blouses blanches

Original title: The Young Doctors

1961
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1h 40m

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Eddie Albert, Ina Balin, Ben Gazzara, Dick Clark, and Fredric March in Les blouses blanches (1961)

Two pathologists clash over critical cases at their big-city hospital.Two pathologists clash over critical cases at their big-city hospital.Two pathologists clash over critical cases at their big-city hospital.

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6.8/10

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7/10

Dated, but still relevant

The Young Doctors is a low-key medical drama involving (among other things) the clash between an older pathologist Dr. Pearson (Frederic March) and a younger doctor Dr. Coleman (Ben Gazarra) who challenges his authority and medical know-how. March is excellent as the crusty, experienced older doctor who is forced to confront his own aging and fading medical competence. Gazarra's youth and rebelliousness provides the perfect foil for him. The film also features one of my favorite character actresses, Aline MacMahon, as a one of the hospital's few female MDs. The weakest acting is by Dick Clark as Dr. Coleman, whose RH positive baby provides a harrowing dramatic moment in the film. This is a slow-moving black and white film, but it's surprisingly engrossing.

maryszd
Mar 28, 2010
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Trivia
An uncredited Ronald Reagan provides the opening narration.

Goofs
The taxi first shown hurrying Dick Clark and his pregnant wife to the hospital is a 1959 model Ford. The taxi they arrive in a 1960 Ford, a distinctly different looking model.

Quotes
Dr. Joseph Pearson: You often hear people ask what does a pathologist do? Never hear anyone ask what surgeons do. Perhaps we all know what surgeons do. Well, a pathologist is the one who examines the surgeon's mistakes when it's too late. He's the doctor the patient seldom sees, doesn't want to. Yet, few departments in the hospital have more effect in the patient's welfare. It is pathology which advises the patient's physician on disease. Sometimes when all else fails, it is the pathologist who makes the final diagnosis.