Four Star Playhouse Season 4 Episode 38 Distinguished Service ( Air Date 1956-07-05 ) Genre Drama, Comedy category. Overview "More interested in his career than in his duty as a physician, a noted doctor intentionally misdiagnoses a patient in an Asian city so he could get back to the U.S. and accept a major award. When his wife realizes that he abandoned a town needing his help to fight a Plague outbreak, she demands a divorce.".