Medical Story

Medical Story is an American anthology series that aired on NBC from September 4, 1975 until January 8, 1976.

A young intern goes up against three older surgeons as to whether or not a young actress should get a hysterectomy.

In the summer of 1928, the Scottish physician Alexander Fleming discovered penicillin by accident, but it would take two more decades and a world war before he and others succeeded in producing the antibiotic in such large quantities as to eradicate the epidemics of the time: typhus, syphilis, gangrene and tuberculosis.