Dr. Kildare's Crisis (1940)

Dr. Leonard Gillespie: It doesn't do a man any good to tell him he has an incurable disease. Eventually the divine power which put us all here manages to remove the fear of death and replaces it with a great understanding.

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Douglas 'Doug' Lamont: [on a prescribed treatment plan] Suppose I decide it isn't worth it?
Dr. James 'Jimmy' Kildare: Well, then you face a gradual disintegration of the brain, probable insanity, and a wretched living death.

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The Medical Society of New York wrote a letter to the PCA protesting the way epilepsy was presented in the movie. They objected to the claims that epilepsy is inherited, that it is curable and that it leads to insanity.
'Emma Dunn' (Mrs. Martha Kildare) and Ann Morriss (Betty) are listed in records playing those roles, but are not seen in the final print.
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