Between you, me and the nurse's station.

The title is reportedly the command of King Admetos in Gluck's Alceste.

Dr. Alan Reynolds' mental state is not improved by constant pressure from his wife to be a successful neurosurgeon. The strain increases when he treats an abused 10-year-old boy. Dr. Casey forestalls an unnecessary operation, and tries to persuade Dr. Reynolds to receive treatment.

A clean, well-lighted place.

Dr. Casey operates on Billy Harris, a holdup man shot and paralyzed, but he's also concerned about the policeman, who may have been too keen and might be mentally hampered.

A consummation devoutly to be wished.

A vision of loveliness.

""And his name that sat on him was Death.""

A character out of the movies.

Little drops of water, Little grains of sand, Make the mighty ocean And the pleasant land. So the little moments, Humble though they be, Make the mighty ages Of Eternity. So the little errors Lead the soul away From the paths of virtue Far in sin to stray. Little deeds of kindness, Little words of love, Help to make earth happy, Like the Heaven above. Julia A. F. Carney, ""Little Things""

Sorrow and pity.

Orderly Nick Kanavaris' good friend Krikor Dakopian is committed by his family to the psychiatric ward. Dr. Casey, however, thinks the ailment is likely to be responsive to neurosurgery.

Isolation.

Wise in their own conceits.

By degrees to the bare facts.

Post-scriptum to a surgeon's operating life.

The patient and the ill.

The long arm of the law of nature.

Expectant mother Ellen Parker loses her child after an auto accident. Casey examines her and finds that she is subject to chronic seizures, and these, not the accident, are responsible for the loss of her baby.

From another point of view.

Life and the ""stinking fist"".

...and riseth up again.

The substance of things hoped for.

Tony Romano, a struggling nightclub comic, suffers a cranial seizure. Dr. Casey operates, but Tony is left a paraplegic.

He's not quite himself, or is he?