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Dr. Kildare's Girl
In the crowded waiting room of Dr. Gillespie there were people of ten nations of more than ten degrees, from the old pugilist with rheumatism in his broken hands to the Indian mystic whose eyes already were forgetting this world; but little Florrie Adams took precedence over all of these. Her mother lagged breathless, a step behind, as Florrie was led quickly on by a nurse so pretty that the little girl had to keep looking up at that freshness and that bloom; and so her stumbling feet forgot their way.
106 pages, Kindle Edition
Published March 29, 2020
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Max Brand
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Max Brand, one of America's most popular and prolific novelists and author of such enduring works as Destry Rides Again and the Doctor Kildare stories, died on the Italian front in 1944.
Max Brand, one of America's most popular and prolific novelists and author of such enduring works as Destry Rides Again and the Doctor Kildare stories, died on the Italian front in 1944.
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May 30, 2023
First and foremost this Kindle edition had many strange typos which I reported, I did not remember any other of this series having so many errors.
Max Brand's Dr. Kildare is different than the Lew Aryes of the radio and movie versions, not that he is not a stellar out of the box physician but Max Brand's Kildare is a scrappy fighter and not so much a gentleman, he has really one thing on his mind learning all from Gillespie and helping others.
"Dr. Kildare's Girl" is interesting in that Kildare is no longer chasing skirts but since meeting Mary Lamont, the nurse, he seems to love her in a non loving way, knowing he cannot marry soon. Mary is thinking of marrying neurosurgeon, Gregory Lane who has asked her for her hand. Will Mary keep waiting for "only medicine on his mind Kildare" or rich English doctor?
This story has Carew, Gillespie, Mary, Kildare's country parents visiting, Weyman and briefly millionaire, Messenger, who offers Kildare a job. The main case of this story, a man named Thornton who doesn't care if he dies on Friday, if he cannot make an important appointment.
Story in short- Kildare helps neurosurgeon, Lane with a case who refuses an operation but Kildare says sometimes a doctor must act like God.
I kept getting confused about the order of this series since my Kindle editions did not give the original publication date. I read many out of order.
Dr. Kildare series
Interns Can't Take Money (1936)
Whiskey Sour (1938)
Young Doctor Kildare (1938)
Calling Dr. Kildare (1939)
The Secret of Dr. Kildare (1939)
Dr. Kildare's Girl and Dr. Kildare's Hardest Case (1940)
Dr. Kildare Goes Home (1940)
Dr. Kildare's Crisis (1941)
The People vs. Dr. Kildare (1941)
While helping a patient, he describes the patient's recovery as some strange evolution which is too darn strange for me.
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“He’s back at the beginning of things,” said Kildare. “He’s gone through all the stages of evolution in reverse. His brain has been scaled away in layers, and now he’s
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back in the stage of the reptile. Nothing in his brain is alive except the medulla, the very base of it; and the only thing that brain can tell his muscles to do is to twist and writhe, with movements like those of a snake.”
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“Take the stuff away!” shouted Gillespie. “Take it away and bring me coffee!” The young doctor, in the meantime, sat on his heels and took the
Highlight (Yellow) | Location 43
hand of Florrie with a touch so gentle, so firm, so assured, that she could not help feeling that everything would be all right, if only the terrible old man would stop roaring. She smiled at him and he smiled back as he scanned her face deliberately, reading it up, reading it down.
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Mary Lamont was leaning over one of those window sills when Kildare stopped behind her. “You like him pretty well,” said Kildare. She looked back over her shoulder, saying: “How do you know?”
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Carew cannot decide if Lane should remain a surgeon at Blair Hospital since seven of his cases have died, but they were very lost causes. Mary is interested in the new Dr. Lane who has proposed to her. Kildare loves Mary but seems not jealous and wants her to marry the rich young doctor. Thorton, an artist comes in from an accident but refuses surgery because, he will not be able to make his important meeting. Lane operates anyways but the patient seems to have a mental illness. Kildare must help clear up the mystery and help Thorton. It appears Thorton's was to meet his estranged wife who he loves and for them to start afresh. Kildare uses an insulin shock therapy to find out about where the meeting is to take place. Kildare helps Thornton by bringing his wife to him and he will recover. While the whereabouts of Kildare were unknown. When he returns Dr. Lane sees on Mary's face how she really loves Kildare. Lane tells Mary he doesn't want to be second best, Kildare sees how hard it will be for Mary to stay with him but she refuses to marry anyone else. Gillespie and Kildare's father disagree on a case and both are wrong. Kildare helped Messenger's daughter in the past. Weyman has not had his accident yet.
Highlight (Yellow) | Location 205
“That’s easy. You never turn your head. You’re looking at a man, not a tennis game.” “You ought to be a detective; they pay for eyes, in that business.” “It’s Gregory Lane,” he announced. “Oh, you know him? What do you think he’s like?” “He’s just a shade under six feet; weighs a hundred and eighty; has stiff hair and uses a little slick ’em on it; a good forehead and a pair of grey-green eyes; speaks a shade from the right side of his mouth but laughs all over; stands straight,
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has a light step, and a heavy pair of shoulders.” “A regular police description!” “Want to know some more about him?” “Yes. Go ahead as far as you can.” “He’s been well raised; had some of his education in England; likes the Hemingway sort of writing; has a fighting disposition; is nervous before the fight begins; loves a good joke; and sleeps on his face.”
Highlight (Yellow) | Location 240
“Don’t look at it any more,” said the girl. “Why not, Mary?” “Because you know too much. There’s only one thing you don’t know.” “Thousands of things, of course.” “About Gregory Lane, I mean. You can’t guess what makes him so attractive to the girls.”
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“Of course, I can. He’s a magnificent looking fellow.” “It isn’t what you see, though.” “What is it, then?” “A private income.” “Ah, is that it?” “Jimmy, will you please be a little bit jealous?” “Partly jealous, but chiefly helpless and hopeless, you know.” “I don’t want you to be that way, either.” “All right, you tell me what to be.”
Highlight (Yellow) | Location 297
“He’s lost his last six cases in a row,” said Mary Lamont, “but every one of them was a frightful mess. He’s a neurosurgeon, you know. Dr. Gillespie, will you help him?” “If he’s worth help, I may. Six in a row? Well, that may happen to the best&mdash:in brain surgery.” “Will you help him?” “What’s he mean to you?” “I love him,” she said. “Bah!” said Gillespie. “I do,” she declared.
Highlight (Yellow) | Location 335
Suddenly he was smiling, and standing back a little with a genial expectancy. Nancy looked happily towards Kildare. She saw him go straight to Gillespie, staring sharply down into his face. After that, he turned and glanced toward Mary Lamont; and what Nancy saw
Highlight (Yellow) | Location 336
in the face of the nurse was as old as hunger, and as bright as the sun.
Highlight (Yellow) | Location 339
“The trouble with filling a post like this,” said Gillespie, “is that you’d need a man who would never be satisfied with what he had done but would have a spur in his ribs urging him forward. You’d want a man whom other people could
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trust. He’d have to be a man without fear of opinions but loyal to his friends, while he was loyal to the truth. He’d have to be capable of growth so that in the end he’d be worthy of heading what may be one of the most important medical centres in the world. “He’d have to be a man who had been tested to the heart and to the marrow of the bone. That’s why I can freely say that if you searched the world over, I don’t think you could make a better choice than Dr. Kildare!”
Highlight (Yellow) | Location 352
Mary Lamont watched him with a growing content that reached a happy climax when he said: “How could you have
Highlight (Yellow) | Location 353
told them that you wanted a day to think it over? How could you keep from accepting on the spot?” “I remembered what a fairly intelligent fellow said to me, once,” answered Kildare. “What was it?” “He said that the obvious choice was usually the quick regret.” “Sounds like some damned coiner of aphorisms. There’s nothing I hate more,” said Gillespie, “than young or old fools who try to say things so neatly that they’ll be easily remembered. Who was this precious dunderhead?” “His name is Leonard Gillespie,” said Kildare. At seven that evening Kildare called Mary Lamont. “Have you a date this evening?” he asked. “Yes. Is it something important?” “Well, to me it is.” “All right. I’ll call off the date.” “Will you? Then meet me over at Mike’s in a few minutes?” “I’d rather not Mike’s, Jimmy.” “But I only have half an hour. Then I’m back on duty.”
Highlight (Yellow) | Location 364
“I’ll be at Mike’s,” she said, and dropped the receiver heavily into the cradle. When she got over, she found him in the family room with a glass of beer. “We oughtn’t to meet here,” she said. “People will see us; and the internes are not supposed to go out with the nurses.”
Highlight (Yellow) | Location 368
“You look a bit dressed up,” he said. “What have you got under that cloak?” “It’s a lace thing.” “Let me see it.” She opened the cloak. “Leave the cloak off for a while, will you?” “This isn’t the dress for a place like this.” “It’s the dress for me. All right. Put the cloak back on. Did you have to break the date?”
Highlight (Yellow) | Location 373
“I stalled it a little. He’ll wait.” “Who’s the he?” “It’s none of your business.” “Who’s the he?” “Gregory Lane.” “Who’s Gregory Lane?” “Jimmy, what’s the matter with you?”
Highlight (Yellow) | Location 383
“You’re not taking the Messenger offer! You’re staying here! You’re staying with Gillespie!” “Mary, you like Gregory Lane a lot, don’t you?”
Highlight (Yellow) | Location 385
“Will you answer me?” “You like Lane a lot, don’t you?” She had been rising from her chair. Now she sank back into it slowly, staring at him. “Yes, I like him a lot. More than almost anyone I know.” “How much does he like you?” “Quite a lot, it seems.” “Does he want to marry you?” “Yes.” “But you let him wait and came over here to me in Mike’s saloon?” She kept staring at him, frightened.
Max Brand's Dr. Kildare is different than the Lew Aryes of the radio and movie versions, not that he is not a stellar out of the box physician but Max Brand's Kildare is a scrappy fighter and not so much a gentleman, he has really one thing on his mind learning all from Gillespie and helping others.
"Dr. Kildare's Girl" is interesting in that Kildare is no longer chasing skirts but since meeting Mary Lamont, the nurse, he seems to love her in a non loving way, knowing he cannot marry soon. Mary is thinking of marrying neurosurgeon, Gregory Lane who has asked her for her hand. Will Mary keep waiting for "only medicine on his mind Kildare" or rich English doctor?
This story has Carew, Gillespie, Mary, Kildare's country parents visiting, Weyman and briefly millionaire, Messenger, who offers Kildare a job. The main case of this story, a man named Thornton who doesn't care if he dies on Friday, if he cannot make an important appointment.
Story in short- Kildare helps neurosurgeon, Lane with a case who refuses an operation but Kildare says sometimes a doctor must act like God.
I kept getting confused about the order of this series since my Kindle editions did not give the original publication date. I read many out of order.
Dr. Kildare series
Interns Can't Take Money (1936)
Whiskey Sour (1938)
Young Doctor Kildare (1938)
Calling Dr. Kildare (1939)
The Secret of Dr. Kildare (1939)
Dr. Kildare's Girl and Dr. Kildare's Hardest Case (1940)
Dr. Kildare Goes Home (1940)
Dr. Kildare's Crisis (1941)
The People vs. Dr. Kildare (1941)
While helping a patient, he describes the patient's recovery as some strange evolution which is too darn strange for me.
Highlight (Yellow) | Location 1229
“He’s back at the beginning of things,” said Kildare. “He’s gone through all the stages of evolution in reverse. His brain has been scaled away in layers, and now he’s
Highlight (Yellow) and Note | Location 1230
back in the stage of the reptile. Nothing in his brain is alive except the medulla, the very base of it; and the only thing that brain can tell his muscles to do is to twist and writhe, with movements like those of a snake.”
➖➖➖➖➖➖➖➖➖➖➖➖➖➖➖➖➖➖➖➖➖➖➖➖➖➖➖➖➖➖➖➖➖➖➖
Highlight (Yellow) | Location 41
“Take the stuff away!” shouted Gillespie. “Take it away and bring me coffee!” The young doctor, in the meantime, sat on his heels and took the
Highlight (Yellow) | Location 43
hand of Florrie with a touch so gentle, so firm, so assured, that she could not help feeling that everything would be all right, if only the terrible old man would stop roaring. She smiled at him and he smiled back as he scanned her face deliberately, reading it up, reading it down.
Highlight (Yellow) | Location 203
Mary Lamont was leaning over one of those window sills when Kildare stopped behind her. “You like him pretty well,” said Kildare. She looked back over her shoulder, saying: “How do you know?”
❌❌❌❌❌❌❌❌❌❌❌❌❌❌❌❌❌❌❌❌❌❌❌❌❌❌❌❌❌❌❌❌❌❌❌❌❌❌❌spoiler alert
Carew cannot decide if Lane should remain a surgeon at Blair Hospital since seven of his cases have died, but they were very lost causes. Mary is interested in the new Dr. Lane who has proposed to her. Kildare loves Mary but seems not jealous and wants her to marry the rich young doctor. Thorton, an artist comes in from an accident but refuses surgery because, he will not be able to make his important meeting. Lane operates anyways but the patient seems to have a mental illness. Kildare must help clear up the mystery and help Thorton. It appears Thorton's was to meet his estranged wife who he loves and for them to start afresh. Kildare uses an insulin shock therapy to find out about where the meeting is to take place. Kildare helps Thornton by bringing his wife to him and he will recover. While the whereabouts of Kildare were unknown. When he returns Dr. Lane sees on Mary's face how she really loves Kildare. Lane tells Mary he doesn't want to be second best, Kildare sees how hard it will be for Mary to stay with him but she refuses to marry anyone else. Gillespie and Kildare's father disagree on a case and both are wrong. Kildare helped Messenger's daughter in the past. Weyman has not had his accident yet.
Highlight (Yellow) | Location 205
“That’s easy. You never turn your head. You’re looking at a man, not a tennis game.” “You ought to be a detective; they pay for eyes, in that business.” “It’s Gregory Lane,” he announced. “Oh, you know him? What do you think he’s like?” “He’s just a shade under six feet; weighs a hundred and eighty; has stiff hair and uses a little slick ’em on it; a good forehead and a pair of grey-green eyes; speaks a shade from the right side of his mouth but laughs all over; stands straight,
Highlight (Yellow) | Location 210
has a light step, and a heavy pair of shoulders.” “A regular police description!” “Want to know some more about him?” “Yes. Go ahead as far as you can.” “He’s been well raised; had some of his education in England; likes the Hemingway sort of writing; has a fighting disposition; is nervous before the fight begins; loves a good joke; and sleeps on his face.”
Highlight (Yellow) | Location 240
“Don’t look at it any more,” said the girl. “Why not, Mary?” “Because you know too much. There’s only one thing you don’t know.” “Thousands of things, of course.” “About Gregory Lane, I mean. You can’t guess what makes him so attractive to the girls.”
Highlight (Yellow) | Location 244
“Of course, I can. He’s a magnificent looking fellow.” “It isn’t what you see, though.” “What is it, then?” “A private income.” “Ah, is that it?” “Jimmy, will you please be a little bit jealous?” “Partly jealous, but chiefly helpless and hopeless, you know.” “I don’t want you to be that way, either.” “All right, you tell me what to be.”
Highlight (Yellow) | Location 297
“He’s lost his last six cases in a row,” said Mary Lamont, “but every one of them was a frightful mess. He’s a neurosurgeon, you know. Dr. Gillespie, will you help him?” “If he’s worth help, I may. Six in a row? Well, that may happen to the best&mdash:in brain surgery.” “Will you help him?” “What’s he mean to you?” “I love him,” she said. “Bah!” said Gillespie. “I do,” she declared.
Highlight (Yellow) | Location 335
Suddenly he was smiling, and standing back a little with a genial expectancy. Nancy looked happily towards Kildare. She saw him go straight to Gillespie, staring sharply down into his face. After that, he turned and glanced toward Mary Lamont; and what Nancy saw
Highlight (Yellow) | Location 336
in the face of the nurse was as old as hunger, and as bright as the sun.
Highlight (Yellow) | Location 339
“The trouble with filling a post like this,” said Gillespie, “is that you’d need a man who would never be satisfied with what he had done but would have a spur in his ribs urging him forward. You’d want a man whom other people could
Highlight (Yellow) | Location 340
trust. He’d have to be a man without fear of opinions but loyal to his friends, while he was loyal to the truth. He’d have to be capable of growth so that in the end he’d be worthy of heading what may be one of the most important medical centres in the world. “He’d have to be a man who had been tested to the heart and to the marrow of the bone. That’s why I can freely say that if you searched the world over, I don’t think you could make a better choice than Dr. Kildare!”
Highlight (Yellow) | Location 352
Mary Lamont watched him with a growing content that reached a happy climax when he said: “How could you have
Highlight (Yellow) | Location 353
told them that you wanted a day to think it over? How could you keep from accepting on the spot?” “I remembered what a fairly intelligent fellow said to me, once,” answered Kildare. “What was it?” “He said that the obvious choice was usually the quick regret.” “Sounds like some damned coiner of aphorisms. There’s nothing I hate more,” said Gillespie, “than young or old fools who try to say things so neatly that they’ll be easily remembered. Who was this precious dunderhead?” “His name is Leonard Gillespie,” said Kildare. At seven that evening Kildare called Mary Lamont. “Have you a date this evening?” he asked. “Yes. Is it something important?” “Well, to me it is.” “All right. I’ll call off the date.” “Will you? Then meet me over at Mike’s in a few minutes?” “I’d rather not Mike’s, Jimmy.” “But I only have half an hour. Then I’m back on duty.”
Highlight (Yellow) | Location 364
“I’ll be at Mike’s,” she said, and dropped the receiver heavily into the cradle. When she got over, she found him in the family room with a glass of beer. “We oughtn’t to meet here,” she said. “People will see us; and the internes are not supposed to go out with the nurses.”
Highlight (Yellow) | Location 368
“You look a bit dressed up,” he said. “What have you got under that cloak?” “It’s a lace thing.” “Let me see it.” She opened the cloak. “Leave the cloak off for a while, will you?” “This isn’t the dress for a place like this.” “It’s the dress for me. All right. Put the cloak back on. Did you have to break the date?”
Highlight (Yellow) | Location 373
“I stalled it a little. He’ll wait.” “Who’s the he?” “It’s none of your business.” “Who’s the he?” “Gregory Lane.” “Who’s Gregory Lane?” “Jimmy, what’s the matter with you?”
Highlight (Yellow) | Location 383
“You’re not taking the Messenger offer! You’re staying here! You’re staying with Gillespie!” “Mary, you like Gregory Lane a lot, don’t you?”
Highlight (Yellow) | Location 385
“Will you answer me?” “You like Lane a lot, don’t you?” She had been rising from her chair. Now she sank back into it slowly, staring at him. “Yes, I like him a lot. More than almost anyone I know.” “How much does he like you?” “Quite a lot, it seems.” “Does he want to marry you?” “Yes.” “But you let him wait and came over here to me in Mike’s saloon?” She kept staring at him, frightened.
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