Life Time (M*A*S*H)

"Life Time" is the 11th episode in the eighth season of the CBS television series M*A*S*H. It originally aired on November 26, 1979; it was directed by Alan Alda and was co-written by Alan Alda and Dr. Walter D. Dishell, M.D.,[1] the latter of whom was the show's medical consultant, along with phantom assistance from authors W.C. Heinz, Ring Lardner, Jr., who had written the script for the film MASH, and even Richard Hooker, himself a former U.S. Army MASH unit surgeon, and author of the 1968 novel MASH: A Novel About Three Army Doctors, from which the film and series both drew their inspirations.

Plot synopsis

In an episode where the story is told in real time (with a clock shown in the bottom right corner of the screen to keep track of the elapsed time), a wounded soldier arrives at the camp with a lacerated aorta, and the doctors rush to perform an arterial graft within 20 minutes, or risk permanent paralysis.

References
  1. "The M*A*S*H medical advisor actually co-wrote a single, notable episode with Alan Alda". MeTV. 29 March 2019.
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