The Young Doctors (United Artists) is a dissecting-room meller that offers any moviegoer with the stomach for it a slice of hospital life. True, the story has been sliced twice before. Author Arthur Hailey first told it in a TV play (No Deadly Medicine), later in a novel (The Final Diagnosis). In the hands of Scriptwriter Joseph Hayes, the slice begins to seem a shade too thin.
The plot centers on a clash of principles and personalities between a messy old dear of a pathologist (Fredric March) and the slick young bug-detective (Ben Gazzara) called in to ease him out. The new...
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