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Trapper was an unbelievable doctor!


I don't recall any of his patients ever dying on the show. As a matter of fact, no patients ever seemed to die at San Francisco Memorial Hospital. On the other hand, it seemed like every patient died at St. Eligius.

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They didn't die all the time at St. Eligius-some lived. But at least St. Elsewhere was more realistic than this show or Medical Center.

Also notice how the doctors at St. Eligius also die some of the time?

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I know some patients died on the show because that priest was mercy killing them on one episode.

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What I find unbelievable is that this balding man with a pooch acts like he is a ladies man.

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"What I find unbelievable is that this balding man with a pooch acts like he is a ladies man. "

Pooch? Actually Pernell Roberts was a ladies man. Going all the way back to his Bonanza days. The ladies were just crazy about him. And he was loosing hair back then. In those days he wore a hair piece. Even today there is a whole message board dedicated to him. Were all his loyal fans talk about how gorgeous he is.

Course he long passed away some three years ago.

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Some patients did die they did'nt always show them but they did talk about them, there was one episode with a boy who died of cancer Bring On The Clowns....and Pernell Roberts was a ladies man he was very sexy bald or not.

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