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Walter David Dishell (born July 16, 1939) is an American physician who has served as a medical consultant on several long-running TV shows, including M*A*S*H, Medical Center, Trapper John, M.D., and Knots Landing. Dishell is an ear, nose and throat (ENT) specialist, head and neck surgeon, and facial cosmetic surgeon.
- Otolaryngologist, medical consultant, TV screenwriter
- 1966–present
Writer. Actor. IMDbPro Starmeter See rank. Walter Dishell is an plastic surgeon, and also an Otolaryngologist - Head and Neck Surgeon (or ENT - ear, nose, and throat specialist) who served as a medical consultant on several popular TV series, most notably, four highly successful, long-running CBS-TV shows: M*A*S*H, Medical Center, Trapper John ...
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- July 16, 1939
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Walter Dishell, M.D. (born Walter David Dishell on July 16, 1939 in Detroit, Michigan) is an Otolaryngologist - Head and Neck Surgeon (or ENT - ear, nose, and throat specialist) who served as a medical consultant on several long-running TV shows, including M*A*S*H, Medical Center, Trapper John, M.D., and Knots Landing.
Dishell, who is subspecialized in facial cosmetic surgery, first began using his medical background in entertainment when, soon after he completed his residency in plastic surgery at UCLA, CBS asked him to be a medical adviser for the show Medical Center in the 1960s. Like many other similar shows, Medical Center focused on physician-patient relationships instead of the actual medicine itself. Dishell said that "the disease itself didn't matter... [CBS] would give me a dramatic story and then I would build the medicine around it.”
One challenge Dishell faced as a medical consultant for M*A*S*H was always making sure that the medicine Alan Alda and his fellow actors and actresses practiced was not too advanced. Dishell consulted medical textbooks from the 1950s and professional publications like the Journal of War Surgery to ensure the show's historical accuracy.
Walter Dishell is an plastic surgeon, and also an Otolaryngologist - Head and Neck Surgeon (or ENT - ear, nose, and throat specialist) who served as a medical consultant on several popular TV series, most notably, four highly successful, long-running CBS-TV shows: M*A*S*H, Medical Center, Trapper John, M.D., and Knots Landing.
- July 16, 1939
Feb 8, 2019 · Who didn’t grow up dreaming of being a movie star? One doctor got as close as one can get to having a star on the Hollywood Boulevard Walk of Fame. Dr. Walter Dishell, a facial plastic surgeon in Los Angeles, became a medical advisor for the movie and TV industries.
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About this interview. In his three-hour interview, Dr. Walter Dishell describes how he first got involved in television when he was approached (while a resident at UCLA Medical Center) to become the medical adviser for a television movie called U.M.C., which served as the pilot for the long-running drama series Medical Center.
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