Doctors Don’t Tell 1941

Med student Ralph Sawyer operates on Diana Wayne, a victim of a vehicular accident, saving her life. He later opens a medical practice with his buddies Frank Blake and Peter Piper. While Sawyer woos Diana, she ends up falling for Blake.

Blake purchases some much-needed medical supplies on the black market from scarred gangster Joe Grant and his bodyguard Barney Millen. When Millen is shot during a shake-down attempt, Blake cares for him. Millen is arrested and Blake defends him at trial, claiming he fixed an acid burn and not a gunshot wound.

Sawyer, who has a side job working for the medical examiner’s office, discovers that most of his clients are thugs sent to the doctor’s office by Joe Grant. He realizes that Blake lied in court.

Grant murders the shake-down victim, who tells the cops before he dies that > a man with a scar on his face shot him.

Grant forces Blake to remove the facial scar or risk exposure as a gangland doctor. Blake complies but photographs the operation, preserving evidence. Diana walks in as the surgery ends and realizes her beau is in league with criminals.

Grant goes on trial. Blake sends his photos to Sawyer, who is forced by Judge Hoskins, Joseph Crehan, to admit that Blake was the source of the images.

Blake testifies against Grant. Grant is found guilty, and Millen shoots Blake before being killed by the cops. Sawyer, Piper, and Diana mourn Blake.