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A Season Three episode of The Fugitive, with Arthur O'Connell, Sheree North (later Cosmo Kramer's mom), and Kim Darby, still 3 years away from playing Mattie Ross in True Grit. Dr. Kimble is injured slightly while running from a posse, and winds up being treated by O'Connell's "Dr." Adams, a naturopath who has loads of enthusiastic patients . . . some of whom are dying prematurely because, at his instructions, they scorn traditional medicine. At the climax, Kim, as Adams's niece, falls and is stung by the bees Adams keeps for the honey with which he treats his patients. She doesn't just go into anaphylactic shock, which would have been plenty. Kimble diagnoses her as being in a diabetic coma! The question is, can Kimble talk the "doctor" into letting him take the girl to a hospital?
The technical problem with this one, I thought, was that I'd never heard of anaphylactic shock from bee stings bringing on a diabetic coma. Internet research, however, says that it can. But Kim's character is not presented as diabetic; there's no mention of any symptoms that "Dr." Adams is ignoring, etc. And besides, she has been helping harvest the honey for some time. Wouldn't she have been stung (even wearing beekeeper's gear) more than once, and evidenced this medical crisis before?
Aside from that, good drama.
The technical problem with this one, I thought, was that I'd never heard of anaphylactic shock from bee stings bringing on a diabetic coma. Internet research, however, says that it can. But Kim's character is not presented as diabetic; there's no mention of any symptoms that "Dr." Adams is ignoring, etc. And besides, she has been helping harvest the honey for some time. Wouldn't she have been stung (even wearing beekeeper's gear) more than once, and evidenced this medical crisis before?
Aside from that, good drama.