Bad for Each Other (1953)

After Army doctor Charlton Heston returns to his coal-mining home town, he is encouraged by socialite Lizabeth Scott to take a job tending to the imagined ailments of wealthy matrons in order to pay off the debts of his brother who had died in a mine he had failed to maintain the safety of. This is essentially The Citadel but told for an American audience. They both touch on the risks of coal mining, incompetent surgeons, good doctors gone astray by the lure of money, dutiful women standing by their good doctors, and a social ill that the film pushes to correct. Where the earlier film inspired the establishment of the NHS, this film argues against doctors who misrepresent themselves to patients and take credit for the work of other doctors. I think I’d rather have the NHS.