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instruction in surgery, medical students from the first reported
a strange effect—that they seemed not to be watching an
operation, but performing it. They felt that they were holding
the scalpel. Thus the TV image, in fostering a passion for depth
involvement in every aspect of experience, creates an obsession
with bodily welfare. The sudden emergence of the TV medico
and the hospital ward as a program to rival the Western is
perfectly natural. It would be possible to list a dozen untried
kinds of programs that would prove immediately popular for
the same reasons. Tom Dooley and his epic of Medicare for the
backward society was a natural outgrowth of the first TV
decade.
Now that we have considered the subliminal force of the
TV image in a redundant scattering of samples, the question
would seem to arise: “What possible immunity can there be