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Gentlemen...

This is a corpse.

There is a tradition among medical students that

dealing with death humorously makes things easier.

It doesn't.

There may be a successful joke about death in the abstract,

but I have never heard it.

About death in the particular,

believe me, there is nothing funny at all.

I have been a pathologist for over 25 years.

I haven't been able to get a single laugh out of it yet.

For some of you, this will be unpleasant.

For a few, perhaps...

Perhaps impossible.

Now fix firmly in your heads that seven hours ago

this was a living soul housed in an edifice

constructed by a supremely capable architect.

You are about to violate it.

Now when you do, you will help yourselves

immeasurably as physicians and healers

if you do so tenderly

and with love.

Our purpose here today

is to determine the cause of death.

We will follow the method of Rokitansky,

which is to remove the visceral organs intact.

First, we will make a cruciate incision

from the suprasternal notch to the pubis,

and then transversely as well,

thus.

"Seven hours ago this was a living soul"...

That settles it. I'm not leaving my body to science.

Are you kidding? I may not even die.

That Aarons puts on a great show though, doesn't he?

Yeah, he doesn't get any laughs though. All right, so I'm nervous.

You eating with us, Marsh?

No, I can't. I have to work at the lab tonight.

We've got nurses. We can get one for you.

- Pretty? - Who cares? They're alive, aren't they?

I'm saving myself till the right girl comes along.

I'll be home later, Al. See you, Brundage.

It must be tough living with both mayo brothers.

Luke's okay.

You know he's gotta clean up the lab in order to eat?

Yeah, but even so, there's something about him.

What does he do for kicks?

He wants to be a doctor.

So what do we want to be, house painters?

He wants it more.

A lot more than any of us.

How are you, Kristina?

- My feet hurt. - Long operation?

It was a radical neck dissection. Four hours.

That's not so long.

Last week we did an abdominal took over six hours.

We even had to replace the assistant surgeon because he...

Is that your dinner?

Oh, I'm not very hungry.

You should eat. You've got a lot to feed there.

- I just don't feel like eating. - Go on, take this.

No thanks, Kris, really.

I'm not hungry.

I was looking for you upstairs this morning.

- You were? - I'd like to ask you a favor.

You know that laminectomy that Lettering is doing on Monday?

I wonder if you could fix it for Alfred and me to watch.

Well, I'm really not supposed to do that.

Miss Hedvigson, report to surgery B, please.

Miss Hedvigson, report to surgery B, please.

It'll be all right for Monday.

- I'll fix it. - Thanks, Kris.

All right, I'll ask. What happened?

- Nothing. - Nothing? A tiger like you?

This kid's very sick. She needs a lot of help.

She's got an absolute obsession about virtue.

You mean she didn't go for you, huh?

- I think she's hyperthyroid. - There're plenty more fish in the sea.

Yeah, but this fish cost me $18 in a nightclub.

What is this?

Todd & Sanford laboratory diagnosis.

Oh yeah. I bought a synopsis today from Brundage.

I'll lend it to you.

You can't learn about blood tests from an outline, Al.

If you don't watch it, they're gonna drop you.

Yes, dad.

Are you short of money again, Luke?

Why?

From the Bursar.

What is it?

Trouble.

I'll have to see my father.

What did you do with it?

- Luke, I... - What did you do with the money?

- Let me explain, won't ya? - Is there any of it left or did you blow it all?

That was my mother's money. Things she did without for me.

Please, Luke. Please don't...

You drunk.

I know what I am.

Yes, I...

I stole your money.

But I'm not just an old man you left alone in this place.

I'm a person, a human being.

Your mother never understood that.

And you can't understand it.

You won't make it, Luke.

You want to be a doctor.

Ever since you were a kid you went running after them

just to carry their bags.

I'm sorry for you.

I don't think you'll ever make it.

There was something left out of you, Luke.

It isn't enough to have a brain,

you have to have...

A heart.

And so please have your reports

on the intermediate enzymes on my desk by tomorrow morning.

That will be all for today, gentlemen.

Hey, Al.

If you're done with those slides, I'd like to get them back.

I'll clean them up and get them to you this afternoon.

All right, swell.

Where have you been? You missed three classes.

I've been trying to raise money. I'm out on my ear Monday.

See your father?

Forget it.

Hey, how about the scholarship fund? They've got dough in their...

I've been there. They only take four-year men. I've been to every place.

I got my allowance today. Here, take it.

It won't help, Al. I need 400.

Take it. It's a start.

- Al? - Stop it, will ya?

So for a month I'll eat in the cafeteria.

You'd better hurry. You'll be late for class.

I'll see ya.

- Hey, Al. - Yeah?

Could you ask your father?

Sure, I could ask him.

But you know what he'd say?

He's the cliché expert of all time.

He'd say, "M'boy, you know, money don't grow on trees?

"It's the root of all evil.

"Lend a dollar, lose a friend."

And besides, he hasn't got it.

Honest.

Go on, you'll be late.

Why me? Why'd you come to me?

You got me my job in the lab. You've encouraged me.

You know I'll make a doctor.

Have you any idea the kind of money I make?

- I figure around $8,000-9,000. - That's exactly right.

- I've got three children too. - They're going to throw me out.

Can't you at least get me an advance on my salary?

I have no control over that. Even if I did, how would you eat?

I don't know. I don't care. But I have to have the money.

All right, quit school, go to work, come back again next year.

I can't waste a whole year. I can't do anything else.

- I just can't! - Of course you can!

This isn't the end of the world.

You're overreacting.

Marsh, you're wallowing in self-pity.

I want to tell you something. I was a promising student too.

I had to face the same problems you're facing now and a lot more.

You're not a Jew.

I'm part of the 5*/* they let in here

because they were ashamed to keep us out entirely.

Now you've got me wallowing.

- Haven't you got a family? - Just my father.

- Can't he help? - He's a drunk.

All right, here's $75. It's all I can afford.

Give it to the Bursar on Monday.

Tell him you're going to hold up a gas station.

Pull out all the stops. Lie to him.

Tell him anything. Just get him to give you more time.

Here.

Sir, I don't know what to say.

I have a class.

This isn't a state institution. We have to be very businesslike about this.

I have to be very businesslike about it.

Now I'll accept this payment,

but unless you have the balance in 30 days,

you won't be permitted to attend classes.

Yes, sir.

Marsh?

Do you think you can get it?

I'll get it.

I was afraid you wouldn't get here. How'd you make out?

I got a 30-day extension' then the rest of the money or I'm out.

Okay, now relax.

She arranged this for you, you know.

Gentlemen, if we can remove the tumor

without injury to the spinal cord'

the patient may be able to walk again.

- First operation? - No, sir.

- Used to it? - Almost.

If you're faint, faint backward.

He's not deep yet, is he?

- No, he isn't, Doctor. - Gentlemen,

the patient is unconscious and normally should react to stimuli.

Sterile pin.

Miss Hagen?

Absolutely no response.

Now let's see what we can do.

Towel clips.

- Deeper. - Yes, sir.

Knife, please.

Come over here, gentlemen, where you can see.

We'll make a vertical mid-line incision...

That's it... Put the dressings on.

- Is he light? - Stage two, Doctor.

I want him almost awake.

Anatomically the operation was a success.

Now let's see if we've helped the patient.

Not too tight with that tape. How's the pressure?

-120 over 80. - Good.

High drama, eh, gentlemen?

Men in white acting swiftly against death,

flashing knives, flowing blood, mystery.

Just like on television.

Don't be seduced by it. It's mechanics' work.

100 years ago it was the physician who was important.

Surgery was left to the barbers.

He doesn't mean a word of it.

You like smorgasbord?

- Not any more. - Next Saturday at my friend Bruni's house

I'm going to fix a big one. You want to come?

- We'd love to come. - Saturday,

8:00, meet you in front of the nurses' dormitory.

- You might regret this. - Now why shouldn't we be polite to her?

- She did us a favor. - Don't say I didn't warn you.

She looked at you like you were a smorgasbord.

I got enough food up to my ears.

Luke, are you sure I can't get you something else?

- No' thank you. - No, thank you' I pass.

I was thinking' a couple of smart young doctors like you,

maybe you could tell me. At night I fall asleep' dead to the world,

just like a log. And in the afternoon,

after lunch, I feel so tired I'm just no good for work.

Also in the morning, I got gas on my stomach.

What do you think is wrong?

I can't imagine.

Luke, what was that funny joke you was going to tell us?

Yeah, Luke, how about that funny joke you were gonna tell us?

Please tell it, Luke.

Well, there's a honeymoon couple out riding.

The bride's horse rears up and the husband goes over and grabs it by the bridle.

He shakes his fist in its face, says' "Now that's one."

- What? - That's one.

One, Oley, the first time.

- The first time what? - First time the horse rears up.

Oley, Oley!

Oley' that isn't the end of the joke.

Go on, Luke.

Well, after a little while the horse rears up again.

The husband goes over and he shakes his fist in the horse's face again.

- Says, "That's two." - Go, good.

Third time the horse rears up' the husband pulls out a big gun.

- Ja, a horse pistol. - Ja.

Shoots the horse dead. The wife says, "Now why did you do that'

"killing a poor dumb animal like that?"

The husband turns around, he looks her right in the eye and he says, "That's one."

You see, he warns his horse and then he shot him.

So now he warns his new wife in the same way.

Ja, ja, that's pretty funny.

How about some more herring, Luke?

You like Svenska food, Luke?

- Yeah. - Kristi fixed it.

All last night, early this morning she worked.

- She cooks good, ja? - Wonderful.

She sews good too. That dress, she made that.

Even her underwear she makes sometimes.

Believe me, she's got what it takes to make some man a good...

Bruni!

Well, a man would know where the money goes to.

And you know what she does?

Every month at least half her salary

-into the bank. - Please, Bruni.

How much you got now, Kristi? $3,000, $4'000, I think.

Kristi, we don't have to do that now. We've got plenty of time.

Hello, Mr. Rivera, please.

Mr. Rivera, this is Mr. Marsh.

How are we doing on that loan application?

Look, if I had a car and $100 a week, would I be calling you?

Okay, thanks.

- You mind if I walk with you? - No.

- Where are you going? - Administration.

All right, what's so funny?

You and that one with the horse's tail.

- Oh, what do you mean? - And a couple of others. I heard.

I worked in a hospital once where a student copied a whole list

of 75 nurses from A-Z.

He bet he could do it alphabetically.

Wow, what happened?

He flunked out when he was still in the Gs.

I...

I wanted to thank you for the other night.

Oh, that's all right.

No, I really mean it. I had a wonderful time.

I thought maybe...

You'd have dinner with me.

Look, I know it was pretty terrible.

They stuffed you till you could hardly move.

They bored you to death. They didn't even laugh at your jokes.

Believe me,

you don't have to take me to dinner.

But I want to take you to dinner.

You're taking a chance.

You might be bored again.

You won't bore me.

You feel like something to eat?

- No, let's walk awhile. - All right.

What are you thinking about?

When I was small, I used to hate women like that.

- Like what? - The girl in the movie.

I used to think it wasn't fair.

If things were arranged right, all women would be that pretty.

Well, you're pretty! You've got a nice figure.

You know what I mean.

You're put together right.

Everything fits. The way you move'

the way you walk, even the way you talk.

The other nurses call me "The Swedish Nightingale."

How did you ever happen to take up nursing?

Oh, I was six years old

and I saw a nurse in a blue cape

and I made up my mind right then.

So now I'm a nurse,

but I still talk like Minnesota.

Well, I like it. And I'm not bored.

Aren't you?

No, I'm not.

I thought you liked me, Kris.

- I'm not Dorothy, Luke. - Well, now what's she got to do with it?

Oh, she goes out with the students all the time.

I'm not like that. I'm not being catty. They don't ask me.

I'm just not sexy the way she is.

You don't know what you are, so stop talking like that.

What do you want with me?

Kris, I enjoy being with you.

I like you.

I want to see you, often.

- Luke... - I mean it.

Okay?

All right.

And you don't have to run yourself into the ground anymore'

so you can cut that out.

- I said all right. - Well, all right.

Both boys look a little tired. Lynn's right eye is swelling.

How often you see him?

- Who? - Who, she asks.

- Three, four times. - Since last Saturday?

What do you do?

We walk, talk.

That's all?

He kisses you?

Well?

A little.

You like him, Kristi?

Oh, Bruni, I love him.

I loved him right away,

weeks ago in the hospital when I first saw him.

And I don't know what to do.

Do? Love him.

You don't understand, Bruni.

He wants to be a doctor.

Everything else is nothing next to that.

Maybe that's why I love him so much.

What can I tell you you don't know yourself?

If you find out he doesn't love you,

don't see him. But if he does,

then what happens, happens.

But I want...

You want what all women want.

So I got.

Oley, turn that thing down.

Cheer up, Kristi. Everything works out.

Ja, cheer up, Kristi.

Everything works out.

- What is it, Luke? - What do you mean?

Something's been bothering you all evening. What is it?

Oh, just thinking.

Kris, I've been trying to find the right way to say this

or the right time.

Look, I love you, Kris.

I don't know when it happened or how,

but I love you.

Now don't say any of those things about students and nurses,

or how bored I'll be.

- I wasn't going to, Luke. - Just tell me.

Tell me how you feel.

- Oh, I can't. - Yes, you can. Tell me.

I can't. I don't know.

You know if you love me.

Of course I love you.

I thought you knew. I thought everyone knew.

Can't you see it?

I loved you before you spoke two words to me.

That's what I wanted to hear.

And I want you to marry me.

But right now I'm in such an awful mess, I just don't know.

What is it? What mess?

They're gonna throw me out of school.

- Have you done something wrong? - No.

Then why?

My tuition isn't paid and I don't have any money.

- Oh, is that all? - All?

Only money. I thought you'd done something wrong,

-that you were in real trouble. - But they're going to throw me out.

Of course they're not. I have money.

- You? - Me.

You heard Bruni the other night. Well, it's true. I got plenty in the bank.

- Oh, no. - Why not?

Because it's yours.

You're so silly sometimes, Luke.

So proud.

Listen to me, Luke, and don't argue about it.

I love you so much.

I love you.

It's my right to help you.

Kris.

What's with you, Luke?

3:00 on a week night?

You're gonna have to get another roommate, Al.

Oh, cut it out. You'll come up with the money somehow.

No, I'm getting married.

You're what?

- Getting married. - You're crazy.

You can't. Haven't you got enough trouble as it is?

- Married to whom? - Kristina.

- Hedvigson, the O.R.? - That's right.

Have you flipped your lid or something?

- I know what I'm doing. - You don't know what you're doing.

This is not the kind of a dame you marry!

I'm marrying her!

She went to the right school. Her folks belong to the right country club.

She's charming. She was brought up that way.

- This dame ought to marry a farmer. - Are you finished?

Don't I make any sense with you at all?

Oh, I get it. You're doing this to stay in school!

You're marrying her for her money to pay for your tuition.

She's paying for it, isn't she?

Well, isn't she?

Yes, she is.

Y'know the thing that kills me about you idealists is just how far you'll go.

I'm supposed to be the cynical type but I could never do a thing like this.

- You've got a father to pay your way. - All right then.

You need the money, take the money and blow. Why do you have to marry her?

It's not the way it is, Al.

You're cheating her right from the start, Luke. You don't even love her.

She'll never know and she'll never find out.

I think it's a dirty stinking lousy thing to do.

You're taking advantage of a poor squarehead

who's afraid of being an old maid.

You're letting yourself be kept!

I'm sorry.

I'm sorry I said that.

You all right?

Yeah, I'm all right.

Real civilize... Doctors of medicine.

- What? - I was going to ask you to be best man.

Okay, I'm it then.

It's not all the way it sounds, Al. She's...

Well, nothing is just black or white.

I know.

Good night, Luke.

Well, here we are.

Yeah, here we are.

I imagine the neighbors know that we've arrived too.

Well, good night, Al.

Good night, you two. See you in the morning 8:00.

- A.M. - Okay, Al.

Don't forget to look in the icebox.

Thanks, Oley.

You like it, Luke?

Yeah, it's nice.

Oh, the kitchen's small' but I found a place for everything.

And... I changed the bedroom around.

I think you've done a wonderful job.

What's that on the pillow?

Oh, that's evergreen.

In the old country they say that makes the babies healthy.

Oley and Bruni must have done it.

I wonder what Oley meant about the icebox?

I'll go take a look.

Champagne! Oh, that was really sweet of them.

We probably don't have any champagne glasses.

I hope it tastes all right in these.

Do you feel different, Luke?

- Different? - I mean, do you feel married?

Sure I do.

I keep trying to realize it's really true.

It's true.

You're not sorry, are you, Luke?

Of course I'm not.

I guess every woman asks her husband that on her wedding night.

You drink your champagne.

Oh, Luke, I love you.

I love you so much.

I love you, Kris.

We have here a patient who swallowed his watch.

Und we got to find out what is ticking,

first of all. Scalpel, please.

The light one.

And now we make a simple incision

from the Xyphoid to the pubis.

Und den sideways. Das.

Now we take out the intestines here.

He's a long fellow. Longfellow.

We look in all the areas to be sure we find the watch.

Two more seconds.

Such a cheap watch... Four seconds slow.

Okay, now we... We lock him up here.

We put all the intestines back again.

You've got to get everything put back in the right places here.

You've to be very gentle here with the patients, you know.

Thank you, Doctor.

Now that you have entered your second year of medical school'

I had hoped that the humorous aspects of surgery might have been exhausted.

If you don't mind, gentlemen, I'll take over. First slide, please.

Leukoplakia.

This is the most common danger signal of oral cancer.

When you see this, it is time...

That is, it is sometimes time to check for a consistent irritant.

Now this slide may one day help you to save a life. Remember it!

Use your microscopes. Study this series well. There'll be no time for review.

Next slide, please.

They really throw it at you.

Relax, they only expect you to learn 70*/*.

Kill the slide.

- Open it! - What page?

- Any page. -917?

- Subject? -"The Abducent nerve."

The Abducent nerve...

The Abducent nerve. Abducent nerve.

The Abducent nerve supplies the rectus lateralis oculi.

Its fibers arise in the upper part of the rhomboid fossa,

beneath the colliculus facialis. They pass downward through the pons,

and emerge in that furrow

between the lower border of the pons and the upper end

of the pyramid of the medulla oblongata.

The nerve pierces the dura mater. Is that verbatim?

Just about, sir.

All right, to graduate in medicine,

you will memorize 15,000 pages exactly like that.

Gentlemen, if there is a single description of a doctor it is this.

A doctor is memory.

Now the survivors of this course will be members of the only group

in modern society privileged to commit manslaughter with immunity from the law.

Therefore, you will learn everything.

Not 70*/*, but everything!

Otherwise you will be dropped.

That will be all for today, gentlemen.

Anybody for law school?

Yeah, he said not 70*/*, but everything.

What's he trying to do? Scare us to death with that manslaughter bit?

He doesn't bother me with that blood-and-guts stuff.

I'm going in for skin.

Yeah, listen to the boy doctor.

Your patients never die. They never get well

and they never get you up at night.

And they don't think skin is serious, so they never pay their bills.

Obstetrics, that's a racket. Everybody always pays for their kids.

But you never sleep. No woman ever had a baby 3:00 in the afternoon.

Personally, I'm for surgery.

I just got a look at Dr. Dietrich's car parked outside.

- You know what he drives? - What?

A Bentley... 17,000 bucks.

That guy doesn't take out a splinter for less than a thousand.

I'll still take ear, nose and throat.

The common cold is the doctor's best friend.

Call it virus, you'll make more dough that way.

If you kiddies are through, your old man here will wise you up.

It is not what you practice, it is where.

- What do you mean? - I've been doing a little research.

The average doctor's income is 11Gs.

In the south, less, in the west, more.

Pebble Beach, Colorado Springs, Beverly Hills...

That's where the rich are cracking up fast.

You're wasting your time here. Why don't you both become bookies?

Hey, you know, I kinda like small towns.

Stay out of them, man. No neurotics and no dough.

- Big cities. - Cadillacs.

That's what my old man always says.

It's just as easy to get up for a $50 ulcer

-as it is to get up for a $10 ulcer. - Easier.

In other words, if they haven't got $50, you just let 'em die?

What's the matter, Marsh? Are we upsetting you?

No, you're not upsetting me.

You just make me want to vomit, that's all.

Well, shall we join Dr. Kildare in surgery?

Closing suture.

I don't get it. Why didn't Dietrich cut the vagus nerves?

Pipe down. He can hear you.

You can take your retractors out n now. All right, Doctor, sew him up.

- Yes, sir. 3-0 silk. - Yes, sir.

Note that Dr. Radcliff will suture with extreme care.

This is a ward patient. There's no charge, of course.

But from my private patients, I get as much as $1,000

for this operation.

For that kind of money, gentlemen,

a patient has a right to a handsome scar.

As I have explained,

the gastroenterostomy you've just seen is an operation of choice.

A gastrectomy or the resection of almost the entire stomach

is another means of dealing with a duodenal ulcer.

It depends entirely on the individual case.

Now then, are there any questions?

He didn't cut the nerves. I'm gonna ask him.

Let it lay, will ya?

Yes.

Dr. Dietrich, I noticed that you did not sever the vagus nerves.

That's correct. I did not.

Isn't it true, sir, that in this operation, the vagus nerves must be cut

to reduce the acid flow and prevent the recurrence of ulcers?

- What's your name? - Marsh, sir.

Well, Marsh, I've performed this operation perhaps 100 times.

I've never cut the vagus nerves.

I know there is some such new theory...

It is not a theory, sir.

Clinical evidence was published over a year ago.

- Now look here Marsh, I have no intention... - Excuse me, Doctor,

-but may we clear the instruments? - Yes, yes.

You're arrogant, Mr. Marsh, and wrong.

I have the reports, sir, if you'd care to read them.

When you come to your senses, Marsh, and realize who you are

and where you are, I'll accept an apology.

How dare you do anything like that. Who do you think you are?

Just tell me one thing. He was wrong, wasn't he?

Will you listen to me?

You apologize to Dietrich or you won't be allowed to intern here.

- Was he wrong? - Yes, he was wrong.

Did you hear what I said?

- You won't intern here. - All right, then I won't.

But I'm not going to tell Dietrich he was right when he was wrong,

even if I have to go to another hospital.

There won't be a good hospital in the country open to you.

Dietrich's got influence.

Well, I can't apologize.

You mean you won't.

All right then, I mean I won't.

- Hello, Luke. - Hi.

Dinner will take about 10 minutes.

- Are you starved? - I'm not hungry.

Good. Then I'll sit down for a few minutes.

I'm tired.

Let's not lead up to it gently. Let's have it and get it over with.

- I don't want to fight with you, Luke. - Why not? Everyone else has.

There's nothing for me to say. Dr. Aarons told you.

You mean he told you to work on me.

You're wasting your time. I'm not going to apologize.

Luke, he's right. They'll stop you from interning.

All right, then let them stop me.

I'm sick of it.

Money, that's all they care about.

All of them. Brundage, even Al.

And that pompous fool who calls himself a surgeon is the worst.

He can't keep up with the new stuff.

He's too busy collecting $1,000 bills.

I've seen Dietrich operate plenty of times. He's a good surgeon.

Maybe a little old-fashioned.

Can't you understand? Didn't you hear today?

I know. He didn't cut the nerves and there's a 20*/* chance

the patient will get another ulcer.

You mean you know that and you're on his side?

I'm not on his side.

I'm in the operating room almost every day of my life.

Sometimes I see things that make me want to scream.

- But I don't. - That's you. That's not me.

I say when a doctor does something wrong, he's got to be stopped.

Luke, you expect too much.

A doctor's an ordinary man like everybody else.

I've told you a hundred times,

a doctor can't be like anybody else. He deals in human life.

Human life! You're not too stupid to understand that, are you?

I know I'm not very smart,

and sometimes I make you angry

because I don't think the way you do.

I was going to give you this next week for our anniversary.

Maybe you'd better look at it now.

I promised Bruni I'd come over.

I'll be back early.

Now then, gentlemen, our subject for today will be surgery of the gall bladder.

Infection of the biliary system is believed to play a large part

in the formation of... Yes, Marsh.

Sir, I want to apologize for yesterday.

It's all right, Marsh.

We all make mistakes.

Well, gentlemen, this is where the books come to life.

Anything I can say now you should have learned a year ago.

Don't let the patients frighten you.

Make friends with the nurses. They run the hospital. No fooling.

Thompson, you and Morgan take ward B.

Ward C is all yours.

- Oh, good luck. - Thank you, Doctor.

- Well, see you. - Well.

Cheer up.

- Hey, how do I look? - You're a magnificent animal.

No, no, I mean, do I look like a doctor?

You're acting like one of the patients.

We'll knock 'em dead in there.

Not a very happy phrase, Doctor.

Good morning, Doctor. I'm Miss Katz. This is Miss Collier.

- Good morning. - Good morning.

- Hiya, doll. - All right, healer, read this.

Follow me and let's see how many you can kill on the first day.

Mr. Roberts is first for you, Doctor. Chronic colitis.

Mr. Roberts, how do you feel this morning?

Lousy.

- You'll feel better tomorrow. - You wanna bet?

You're through with the intravenous feeding, Mr. Clyde.

You're gonna have some solid food.

If you don't mind, doc,

I'll get along with this.

That was wonderful, Mrs. Dayton. You'll be leaving soon.

I'd like to stay here, Doctor.

I have no place to go.

You're not gonna do it. You hear me? You're not gonna operate on me.

But you've already agreed. Your bladder's obstructed.

I don't care. You're not gonna cut me.

Now listen, Mr. Burke, you will be given an ordinary sleeping pill.

Upstairs a doctor who has done it hundreds of times

will give you a spinal anesthetic.

We will make a small incision two inches below the navel

and relieve the obstruction.

It'll take less than 10 minutes.

You'll be weak. It'll hurt a little bit,

but you'll be back up 4:00.

- You make it sound easy. - It is easy. Now relax.

You're not kidding anybody, Slocum.

We know you're selling your blood. How much you get for it?

- Just $5. - This is your last transfusion.

- Oh, doc. - I mean it. This is no filling station.

Come on, Heidi.

Come on, you know you can make it.

Come on.

That's the girl.

See, Heidi, I told you, you could do it.

Four minutes and 30 seconds.

The embroidery was beautiful, but the patient died.

Luke, you don't know what I've been through.

She had the baby right here. So help me, right here.

And can you do something about this mole, Doctor?

It drives me crazy. It certainly doesn't look very good.

Can't you remove it?

Supposed to leave this kind alone.

Can you do something about my leg? Every time I move it, it hurts my hip.

And I still have the headache and the gas pains.

And yesterday' I got so dizzy, I almost fell over.

We'll do the best we can, Mrs. Ferris.

Hey, doc, you think she's got trouble?

Listen to this...

They didn't tell us about this part of it, you know?

Babcock, Ddeaver, Goulet retractor,

Bailey rib approximator, Volkman rake, Richardson,

- Kelly. - Curved Kelly.

They just ask for Kelly.

That's sloppy. Ask for exactly what you want and you'll get it.

I just don't know what to do with him, Doctor.

If he isn't running around like a wild Indian getting all dirty,

he's getting into trouble in the kitchen or pestering his father on his day off

or bothering me to go to a movie. And on top of that

he keeps blinking, blinking, blinking. It drives me crazy.

There must be something you can do about it, Doctor.

I have a feeling, Mrs. Fields, that he'd stop blinking if you stopped talking.

You can relax, doc. This one is real dead.

Oh, Doctor.

Here's his stuff. Slid under a bus.

- Al, you want some coffee? - No, thank you.

What's the matter with you?

There's something I have to tell you.

Well, what is it?

Accident case just came in. Died in the ambulance.

So?

It was your father, Luke.

Maybe I'd better...

Let him go, Al.

You know how Luke is.

He'll...

He'll have to be by himself.

Oh, Dr. Marsh, I'm going home

and I wanted to say goodbye.

You look fine, Mrs. Ferris. how do you feel?

I know this is gonna be a surprise to you, but I feel good.

- Nothing hurts. - Fine.

What's that?

That's where they took the mole off, Doctor.

- They, who's they? - The other doctor, your friend.

- Luke, we were so worried. - We called everywhere.

- You all right? - Yes, I'm all right.

Did you remove that mole?

- Well, did you? - Yeah, why?

That wasn't just a mole. It was a melanoma.

- What? - You heard me.

Were you asleep or hung-over when we studied melanomas?

You been up all night.

Why didn't you send her to surgery? Cutting it off like that

you may have released cancer cells right into her bloodstream.

- I don't think it was a melanoma. - How would you know?

You spend all your time making passes at the nurses.

That's a pretty lousy thing to say and you know it.

Luke, listen, this isn't the place for this.

- You may have killed that woman. - Luke!

Either you report this or I will, and I hope they throw the book at you.

I'll report it myself.

I have to finish rounds.

I said I have to finish rounds.

How could you talk to Alfred like that in front of everybody?

You don't understand.

You'll never understand.

I understand this much.

There are two people in this world who care about you.

That's one of them.

I remembered you were on tonight.

- Yeah, I'm on. - Al, look, I didn't mean what I said today.

You were right though. And Aarons told me even worse later.

But I didn't have to blow my top in front of the nurses.

What's the difference? We only got a couple more weeks here anyway.

I keep thinking about that woman walking around, not even knowing.

Forget it. Maybe I was wrong.

I don't think I'll ever be right again if anything happens.

I know, but I didn't have to add to it by shooting my mouth off.

With anybody else' this would be it for keeps.

But I know you. Push a button and off you go.

I don't know what it is.

Sometimes I just take off.

Sometimes I wish I had 75 more pounds, I'd belt you one.

Hey, I know how tough it was for you to come down here tonight.

- Okay. - Okay.

Charge.

Well, gentlemen, you've completed your internship.

You're practicing physicians now.

This will be your last staff meeting.

You saw your first dissection on this very table.

I think it's fitting that we say goodbye here.

A pathologist usually has the last word.

In this particular case, it's very hard word to find,

because if you don't know it by now,

if it isn't in your hearts,

it's too late for me to tell it to you.

Goodbye.

God bless all of you.

And don't endorse any cigarettes.

Sit down, sit down.

I just came to say goodbye.

I hear you're going to Hicksville.

- Greenville. - Sounds pretty small.

It's farm country, where they never saw a $1,000 bill.

You think this makes the air purer there?

It's the way I feel.

Yes, indeed.

I can see the picture you've got of yourself already.

A country road and an old Ford.

Only it's not an old Ford. It's a white horse.

You are St. George' complete in spotless armor.

You get to a farmhouse. There's a man bleeding to death.

Alone, without instruments, without assistance'

you perform an impossible operation.

And because your heart is pure, you save him.

- I haven't any such... - You're gonna go down that road.

When you get there, you know what you're gonna find?

A man with a boil on his backside.

You hear me? A boil on his backside.

You will lance it and go home.

Goodbye, Doctor.

Marsh.

You're one of the most brilliant students we've ever graduated.

You'll be a great physician.

Stop living your life like a Greek tragedy

or you'll muff it.

- Thank you. - Goodbye' Doctor.

Welcome to Greenville.

Dr. Runkleman, this is my wife.

Happy to meet you, Doctor. I've heard so much about you.

Lies, all lies.

- Is that all? - That's it.

Naked you come into the world and naked you shall leave it.

You're a country doctor now.

My car's right over here.

Well, there it is. Greenville...

Picturesque cafes, gaily-costumed natives.

10 below in the winter, 110 in the summer.

Hiya, Martha.

She doesn't talk to me.

30 years ago I said she'd be dead in two months.

Diagnosis is my specialty.

- Sam! - Hello, doc.

Get off that leg. You won't have it next month if you don't.

You'd better watch your blood pressure, Dave.

You'll live longer.

Idiot.

These are crazy people.

Last week a man caught his arm in a cultivator,

walked a mile holding it together.

What do you suppose was the first thing he asked me?

How much is it going to cost?

You're a point killer.

You wanna remember that about farmers.

They always wanna know what it's going to cost.

- She's pretty sharp. - Oh' yes.

Well, here's where you're gonna live.

It looks very nice.

It's not bad.

Here's the car I got for you.

If you drive anything newer, they'll take one look

and yell, "There goes my appendix!"

- Well, I hope you like it. - I'm sure we will.

Had a handyman clean it up.

My contribution to gracious living.

- How much did you pay him? -75 cents an hour.

You were robbed, doctor.

Well, I'd better get over to the office.

See you in the morning, Luke.

-8:00. - Yeah.

All right. Go ahead, I can manage.

Come on, before she changes her mind.

This is Dr. Marsh, Miss Snow.

Miss Snow doesn't care how much you reduce the population of Greenville

as long as you don't bollocks up her appointments, right?

Wrong. Old Lady Shoenman called...

Bed rest, cafergot pill every hour for five hours... Migraine.

- Mr. Jergens called again. - Double up on the Amphojel.

The gentleman has an ulcer.

- What's in the mail? - Drug samples and bills.

And another love letter from Mrs. Henderson.

Very funny.

Surprised, eh?

It's a pretty big library.

You mean for a country doctor. These days you have to keep up.

Your patients buy Readers Digest,

and first thing you know, they have diseases you never heard of.

- Well, go on. - Adam Warner has more pain in his arm.

Move the weight every hour for five minutes. What else?

- Nothing more for now. - All right' roll 'em in. Roll 'em in.

Mr. Parrish, please.

Use the salve morning and evening and don't sit down too much.

I'm a bus driver. I'll drive the bus standing up.

I had a professor who told me I'd wind up treating boils

on the backside. Well, here it is' first case.

Did he also tell you you probably wouldn't get paid for it?

- Say "ahh". - Ahh.

- Again. - Ahh.

- Again. - Ahh.

Again.

Again.

- Again. - Ouch' that hurts!

Don't be such a crybaby.

I don't care what happened to your frog. It's impossible.

All right, Emma, it's impossible, but you're pregnant.

- You're kidding! - Oh no, we're not.

As a great man once said, "It's no worse than a broken leg."

Yeah' but...

One after every meal, Gertrude.

Thanks, Doctor, I hope they'll help.

They will.

There's nothing wrong with her.

Look, when they come in and they've got a pain, treat it.

When they come in and they only think they've got a pain,

treat the pain they think they've got.

You can't practice medicine. You have to treat people.

Another inch.

Easy now.

Now.

Now close.

This kid just swallowed over $800 worth of diamonds.

- It won't hurt him any. - Won't hurt him? What about me?

Just follow him around, Harry.

Don't let him out of your sight.

Dave, have I got what I think I have?

- Now don't kid me. - Yes, Ed.

- Will it hurt? - We can take care of that.

Just like that, eh?

You're 67 years old, Ed.

You've lived it up like an international playboy.

Takes one to know one, Dave.

No regrets.

Are you guys sure this operation will fix me?

Absolutely. We'll make a new man of you.

Well, when you do, send him the bill, will you?

I told you we'd get paid, Luke.

No money, but lots of chicken on the table.

- Tired? - No, I'm dead.

Dinner will be ready in a few minutes.

Good.

You must have had another big day.

Big? Kris, you have no idea.

Those people just swarm into that office.

I don't know where they all come from in a small town like this.

That Runkleman is a one-man clinic. He handles everything...

Adenoids, cardiacs,

pregnancies, ingrown toenails.

And he's good too, Kris. He's a good physician.

But I'll bet we handled over 200 cases this week.

That's what you wanted, Luke.

Yeah, but this much this fast?

The way we work, there just isn't time.

I'm always afraid that some patient

isn't gonna get enough attention.

People don't expect the world.

You can't work all day and worry all night.

No, I suppose not.

You don't realize it yourself, but you're so wrapped up in it.

You haven't...

We haven't had time to talk.

And there's some things I want to tell you.

I'm happier than I've ever been in my whole life.

I thought maybe I'd miss working, but I don't.

I go around all day telling myself

how smart I am to be a woman

and your wife.

Only...

I love you so much.

I want it to be complete.

Don't you think that now we could...

I want to have a family, Luke.

What I mean to say is...

Well...

Yes? Yes, Dr. Marsh is here.

Yes, Mrs. Bassett.

No, don't move him.

Yes, right away. Just give me the directions.

"The Lang farm on Old North Road.

"Left." Thank you.

Nat Bassett, the stableman. A horse kicked him.

Thanks, Kris. You go back to sleep.

He'll rest now, Mrs. Bassett.

He shouldn't wake up anymore tonight, but if he does'

be absolutely sure that he doesn't get out of bed.

Thank you, Doctor.

Incidentally, Doctor, I almost forgot...

Mrs. Lang asked if you'd stop up to see her when you get through.

At 1:00?

She's up.

Good evening. I'm Dr. Marsh.

I'm Harriet Lang.

Come in, Dr. Marsh.

Thank you.

I was worried about Nat Bassett. How is he?

Well, I can't tell yet.

If his hip is broken, he may be in bed for a month or two.

I warned him about that horse.

He's at stud here. I breed jumpers.

I see.

This is Ben Cosgrove. Dr. Marsh.

Doctor.

Well, I've been leaving for several hours.

Ben's a babysitter for adults.

Yeah. Good night, Doctor.

Excuse me, Doctor.

What'll you have to drink?

Nothing, thank you.

I like that song.

Sometimes I just let it play.

Dave Runkleman told me about you.

He did?

Aren't you gonna ask me what he said?

All right, what did he say?

He said you were born to be a doctor.

I wanted to meet you.

Really.

I'm embarrassing you.

No, you're not embarrassing me' Mrs. Lang. I'm just tired.

I'm operating tomorrow 7:00.

They always warn you about solitary drinking.

But they never tell you how to get people to stay up and drink with you.

I'm sorry you're lonely, Mrs. Lang.

I didn't say I was lonely.

I haven't been sleeping and...

Well, I think you'll sleep tonight.

That's a very polite way of saying I've had too much to drink.

And you're right, I have.

Good night, Dr. Marsh.

Good night, Mrs. Lang.

Greenville hospital. Good morning.

Just a moment please.

Greenville hospital. Good morning.

Good morning, Mrs. Penrose.

- And where are the medicine men? - Scrubbing.

Toilet water, hormone cream, lipstick,

I love you.

I...

I hear you saw the widow Lang last night.

Yeah, she was worried about the stableman.

- What did you think? - The X-rays showed that he's...

I don't mean about the stableman.

Don't tell me you didn't think.

Well, she seemed very nice.

- Hiya, doc. - Lou.

I haven't tried last month's wonder drug yet.

What do I need?

Four bottles Zephiran, 20 procaine penicillins.

About 1,000 tongue blades and a couple dozen ace bandages.

Got that?

What I got is something real special. Just take a minute.

Say, Dave,

who is Ben Cosgrove?

He's a lawyer. And she hasn't done him any good.

Watch out, it's catching.

This is the first major improvement in the stethoscope in 30 years.

You've never heard amplification like this.

Go ahead.

Should we buy it?

- Yeah, it's pretty good, Dave. - How much?

-$230. - All right, drop it at the office.

- Now beat it. - Thanks, Dave, Dr. Marsh.

See you next week.

- Well? - Well what?

- Come on, what did you hear? - I didn't hear anything.

Don't lie. Let's have it.

All right, systolic murmur, thrill, dullness in the second interspace,

unequal pulses.

Don't look so shocked.

I've told it to over 100 people in my time.

- How long have you known, Dave? - Couple of months.

- That's why you're here. - You're gonna have to quit.

Look, I've already got old man's kidneys

and trouble in the prostate.

Not gonna be so much fun from now on anyway, if I don't keep busy...

At least you could go east, see Raemer or Hamilton.

Have them try to sell me on surgery? No, thanks.

You've gotta do something for yourself, Dave.

Look, when it ruptures, I'll go fast.

What more can you ask?

This is Dr. Snider, Dr. Marsh.

Dr. Snider is the director of the hospital.

- Glad to know you. - How do you do, doctor?

Is Dr. Snider the anesthetist?

You're a city boy. This is Greenville.

If a patient can't afford a regular man, Dr. Snider's it.

- You ready, Clem? - Ready.

Respiration's labored.

- What's her blood pressure? -60 over 0.

- She's cyanotic. - Clamp that pentothal off.

Give her straight saline. Endotracheal tube. Quick.

You let her go into spasm. She can't get any air.

She's closing. I can't get it down.

We'll have to cut into the throat.

- Knife. - Now wait a minute, Dave.

- Curare. - I don't think it'll work.

- If it doesn't relax her, we can still cut. - Go ahead.

Seems to be responding.

Get that tube again.

Oxygen.

Oxygen!

Fresh gown and gloves.

Her color's coming back. I guess she'll be all right.

Thank you, Kris. You were wonderful.

Look at him... The weight of the world.

I know what it is. He's been itching all day

to harangue me about Dr. Snider.

I have been trying to talk to you all day, Dave.

That business about the pentothal was...

- Please, Luke, not tonight. - I've got to talk to him.

All right, you want me to say it? I'll say it.

He's unsure of himself.

He wasn't the best to begin with,

but he's the head of the hospital.

- And he's incompetent. - All right.

I watch him. I try to keep him out of trouble.

But we're stuck with him.

He's a political appointment, Luke'

and there's nothing you, I or anybody else can do about it.

Now can we forget it and try to enjoy ourselves?

This is my night off, for the love of mike.

Harriet! Hey!

Hiya, Dave. Dave Runkleman.

How are you, Dave?

Hello, Dr. Marsh.

Good evening, Mrs. Lang.

My wife, Mrs. Lang, Mr. Cosgrove.

How do you do?

Pleased to meet you.

Have another.

Oh, I've already had too many.

Have one more.

Stop worrying.

She's been dancing with Ben for years now

and nothing's ever happened.

I'm not worrying.

I wish she didn't look so beautiful in that dress.

If I spent that much time and money'

I'd look beautiful myself.

Oh, you.

You make a fine-looking couple.

Hey, Kris, you've had quite a few already.

I prescribed it. You stay out of this.

- Watch out for him. He's a wicked old man. - I sure am.

- There's a fresh drink. - Thank you.

She doesn't drink. Her doctor disapproves.

Now what's the Latin

for gin and vermouth, Doctor?

- What? - Here we go again.

Ben doesn't approve of doctors.

He thinks we write our prescriptions in Latin just to mystify the patients.

Oh, instead of the simple way the lawyers write contracts?

Listen, we're amateurs next to you.

You're a secret society.

You've got everything except the grip and the high sign.

Ben, you're drunk and you don't know what you're talking about.

I don't know?

I'm just drunk enough to tell you guys something!

When they get wise to how little you know,

you won't be able to kill people and get away with it.

I've lost a few patients. I've saved many more.

Look, Cosgrove, we all know that occasionally...

Just what do you know, Doctor?

Ben, you're being very rude.

- And very stupid. - Am I?

You don't know why the heart beats.

You don't know what thought is,

why the nerves feel.

You don't even know why a woman gives birth

in nine months instead of 12.

- You don't even know... - We don't know all of it, no.

- But we're learning. - Learning?

You're not learning, you're subdividing.

One guy stakes out a claim on the lungs,

another on the stomach,

another on the heart.

And if the territory overlaps a bit,

you divide up the take.

You've even got a name for it.

Fee splitting.

Yeah, that's it.

And the poor slob of a patient

pays both of you without even realizing it.

In nursing school they used to have a joke.

Doctors wear rubber gloves so they won't leave fingerprints.

All right, Kris, that's not very funny.

That's right, shut her up.

The secret society at work.

Why don't you guys stop acting like a bunch of quacks?

Why don't you stop acting like a shyster lawyer?

Are you calling me a shyster?

Shut up, the both of you. This is a public place.

I'm sorry.

I think we'd better go home.

I don't care what you say, you're supposed to be a doctor's wife.

If you can't drink, don't drink.

I never drink, Luke, you know that,

-that's why I... - At least be honest.

You drank too much and you talked too much

because you were annoyed at my dancing with Harriet Lang.

You said that, Luke.

I didn't.

Kris?

What?

I'm sorry.

It's all right.

It was my fault too.

No, I was sore about Snider

and then Cosgrove' and I just took it all out on you.

We don't talk enough, Luke.

It isn't that we fight.

We just don't seem to have much to say to each other.

- Sometimes I wish... - Kris, look,

we just had a little argument, that's all.

I said I was sorry.

It is not good for two people to be like this.

No, I guess not.

I tried to talk to you the other night,

but you were so tired.

We're established here now.

We have this house.

Someday soon

we ought to think about having a family.

It's too early to talk about that.

I just started to practice here really.

We...

We can't take on too much yet.

But it wouldn't have to cost a lot.

- And I could always... - Kris...

Let's talk about it some other time.

Good night, Luke.

Good night, Kris.

Well, if it isn't the good doctor.

- What are you doing out here? - Patient down the road.

You through for the day?

Come on up to the house. I'll buy you a drink.

I'll freshen it for you.

It's no good.

What do you mean it's no good?

I mean it's no good...

For me.

- I still don't understand... - You told me I was lonely. I am.

My life is

horses and dinner twice a week with Ben Cosgrove.

It's not very exciting, but...

But you just don't want to take a chance on anything more.

Not with you.

Look, you spend 24 hours a day on medicine

and you go through the motions of a marriage.

You haven't got time for me.

Then why did you ask me up here?

Because I wanted to

and it was stupid.

I can't afford to fall in love with you.

You're lucky you can turn it on and off like that.

I can't.

Sucker.

Well, Al?

Your blood pressure's normal, you hemoglobin's excellent'

you have no communicable diseases,

and congratulations for being 12 weeks, pregnant.

Thanks. That's about what I figured.

Lucas Marsh being a father... It staggers my imagination.

Was he excited? What did he say?

- I'll bet he's doing handsprings... - Al...

What's the matter, Kris?

I haven't told Luke.

You haven't told him?

That's ridiculous.

This isn't the kind of a secret you keep, Kris,

especially from a doctor.

Why?

What is it, Kris?

He doesn't want a baby.

Well, most men don't

until they find out about it.

Then they rush out and buy electric trains

-while there's still eight months to go. - Not Luke.

You know we don't have that kind of marriage.

Thanks, Al.

Kris, tell him.

No matter what, tell him.

Ann, have I a light day this week?

Thursday.

Good. Switch all the appointments.

I won't be in at all.

All right, Doctor.

He may have a slight fever after that shot,

but he'll be all right.

- Good night, Mrs. Bassett. - Good night, Doctor.

- Good evening, Odell. - Good evening, Doctor.

Who's this?

A terminal... Pneumonia.

Better take his temperature. He's burning up.

He can't be, Doctor. His pulse has been very slow.

Take it.

- What's his name? - Emmons.

Carlisle Emmons.

- There's nothing on here. - Nothing to chart.

Has Dr. Snider seen him?

- Of course. - What instructions did he give?

None. He never does in these cases.

"These cases"?

When their time comes, doctor always

let's the old ones cross over peacefully.

This one won't last until morning.

What is it?

104.

Here.

Were these spots on him when Dr. Snider examined him?

Yes, sir.

- Guide the bed. - But, Doctor...

Guide the bed.

Dr. Marsh, this is my patient. What are you doing?

Odell, I want two ampules of chloromycetin and some oxygen.

- Doctor, I have my ward patients... - Don't argue with me, Odell.

And telephone my wife. Tell her to get here right away.

This man has typhoid. We can't waste any time.

- Look, Marsh. I don't know what... - Just stay out of the way.

I'm going to isolate him!

- Go make that call, Odell. - Marsh, I'm head of this hospital

and I'm ordering you to stop disrupting it!

Dr. Snider, you have exposed this whole hospital to typhoid.

That's bad enough, but it's unbelievable

that you would deliberately let a patient die.

That's an old man. He's going. There's nothing anybody can do about it.

You're a doctor! You've no right to make that decision.

You're supposed to keep him alive!

- He's in shock. Where are the blocks? - We haven't any.

You're wasting your time. I can always tell.

He'll go before 6:00 tomorrow morning.

Get out of here, Snider, before I kill you!

You're insane.

Get that tank of oxygen.

Alcohol, please.

Gonna need more blood.

I'll do that. Here.

You check his pressure.

He should be responding.

- Still no pressure. - Cortisone, 100mg.

Massage his legs.

Well, he's out of shock.

Help me with the bed, will you?

- We'll need more saline. - I'll get it.

You keep sponging.

He's stopped breathing.

I think you've got him. He's breathing now.

I'd better give him a shot of coramine.

I'll take over.

That could have been the ballgame.

I'll bet you're tired.

A little.

Kris, there's something I want to tell you.

You were wonderful. I've always known it,

but I've never said it to you before.

You're great. You're a great nurse.

All this talk we've had

about housework and a family...

That isn't for you.

You've got to come back here to the hospital.

You're needed here, Kris.

I am tired, Luke.

I'm going home.

Ladies and gentlemen,

the voice of Dr. David Runkleman.

Ladies and gentlemen,

there is typhoid in Greenville.

Typhoid is highly contagious.

We can prevent an epidemic if you will all,

each and every one of you, do exactly as you are told.

Come to your county hospital immediately for inoculation.

I repeat, come to your county hospital immediately

for inoculation.

That's beautiful, Harry. On the hour, every hour, right?

Right, Doctor.

Your next shot is a week from today.

Your next shot is a week from today.

Dr. Runkleman, I presume?

- Who are you? - I'm Alfred Boone, Doctor.

I... I was told you'd have a Cadillac.

It's only a front... The Cadillac has me.

- Is Luke around? - He's out giving shots.

- Then I'll go over and see Kristina. - Roll up your sleeve first.

- You're kidding. - Roll up your sleeve.

Oh, fine.

Greenville hospital, good evening.

Oh, hello, Mrs. Marsh.

Yes, Dr. Marsh just called in.

He has one more shot to give...

At Mrs. Lang's place.

Thank you.

He has only one more call. He'll be home soon.

More coffee?

No, I'm fine.

This is a kind of an awkward silence, Kris.

What's happening?

I haven't told Luke about the baby, Al.

I think you'd better level with me.

I tried to tell him, but I couldn't.

- You have to. - I just couldn't.

Look, when Luke told me he was going to marry you, I nearly flipped.

You know that, but I was never more wrong

and I want to help.

That's why I came down here.

I know it, Al, and I appreciate it.

But I've got to work it out myself.

Yeah.

Look, I don't want you to think I'm starving to death, but, uh...

What have you got in the icebox?

I'll see.

- Good night, Mrs. Lang. - Thank you.

Good night, Clara.

What are you thinking?

- Nothing. - Be honest.

Oh, I don't know. I just felt...

Guilty?

Maybe.

I hate to say I told you so.

Yeah...

I do feel guilty. I don't like the feeling.

You're supposed to be a man

who doesn't care about his wife.

Yeah.

It doesn't matter.

But you don't feel this guilty if you don't care, Luke.

What's the use of talking?

You want to go, why don't you?

Go on, Luke.

- I really didn't figure... - Look,

I don't have any problems I didn't have before.

I told you once... Horses,

tomorrow night dinner with Ben Cosgrove.

I'll live.

Good night, Harriet.

Hey.

Hey, Al. What are you doing...

Get in.

What are you doing around here in the middle of the night?

- Waiting for you. - Well, come on inside.

I've been inside... For six and a half hours.

Well... What goes?

That's a good question. You tell me.

- Now Al, look... - Save your breath

if you're gonna tell me to mind my own business.

She's pregnant.

She never said a word.

She tried to a couple of times.

Yes, she did.

Look, you're a doctor.

Don't you ever look at her?

Well, don't you?

I wish I had.

The time is now. Try it.

- Al... - Save it.

I'll see ya, huh?

Kris.

Kris, Al waited for me outside.

I had no idea.

If I'd only known, I'd...

Kris, I'm sorry.

I'm really sorry.

Just let me try.

I promise you.

Get up.

You're always sorry.

Every time you hurt me, you're sorry.

You always try to fix it by acting as though you love me.

It doesn't work anymore.

I know where you were tonight.

I can't forgive you.

Kris, listen to me. You've got to listen to me.

I've been wrong, I know it.

But I swear to you... I swear to you...

No! You listen to me

and don't interrupt, because nothing...

Nothing you can say will matter!

From the beginning, you never thought I was smart enough

or attractive enough or woman enough to be your wife.

You come crawling in here now because your friend told you

I was going to have your child.

Stop pretending! I'm sick of it!

I don't need you to have this child!

- Kris, you've got to listen to me! - Don't!

You had to have money, so you married me.

Well, you made it. You're a doctor!

You don't need me now

and I don't need the little you got to give me!

I don't want to live with you, Luke!

Please, get out of here!

Go away!

Get out of here, Luke!

Please!

What a day! Any messages?

Yes, Doctor.

- Thank you. - Dr. Marsh, here are yours.

Thank you.

Anything from Kris?

- No. - I saw her last night.

She's all right.

I thought you might have heard from her.

Guess I must be losing my touch.

Well, thanks for trying anyway.

- Good evening, Dr. Marsh. - How are you, Felton?

Well, you're looking better, Mr. Parker.

Continue sedation.

- How are you, Charlie? - Fine, doc.

Let's have a listen.

Marsh.

It's... It's Dave Runkleman.

He just grabbed his chest and fell over.

Hit me... Like a truck.

Demerol, 100mg...quick.

We'll have to go in. The aorta's tearing. He's hemorrhaging.

Don't you think we ought to try to get hold of Stafford

-or some other heart man? - There's isn't time. You'll have to assist.

All right. I'll get someone to handle the anesthesia.

Don't take it so big, Luke.

It happens to everybody.

Shut up, Dave.

- Slow and regular. He's holding nicely. - Right angle clamp, please.

There it is. There's the break.

Ductus clamp. Retract, I'll need more exposure.

Steady this, please. Suture 4-0 arterial.

Large forceps.

- Sponge. - Tag the end.

Clear the field.

- Suture scissors. - How's the pressure, Doctor?

It's okay... 110 over 70.

Check the suction.

Gel foam, please.

All right, that's it.

- Better get out. - No, not yet.

We'll need more oxygen. Turn it up, please.

All right, you've got it. You've stopped the leak. Let's close.

Thumb forceps. I want to wrap the aorta.

- I want to give him every chance I can. - You'll have to get under it.

- I intend to. - It's very thin.

- I wouldn't try, Marsh. - Dissecting scissors.

Take him deeper, Doctor. Plastic.

- Better go easy. - We've got to get underneath.

Be careful. It's stretching.

You'll have to stop the lung action.

There, I've almost got it.

Watch it!

Marsh, it's rupturing!

Clamps, quickly!

Cut the ether! Oxygen only.

McCray, all the blood you can get, fast.

- Odell, more blood! - Luke: keep that suction going, Barker.

Knife. Leg transfusion.

We have to extend the incision. Bone cutter.

Retractor.

Barker.

Hemostat. No, the curved one.

Forceps, Rheinhoff.

These won't hold! Cushing!

Hemostat. Vein tubing.

- How many units have you got? - Six, doctor.

We'll need more than that...lots more. Get all you can get.

No, wait. Put that scope where I can see it first.

Left aneurysm needle, Barker.

He's slipping. The pulse is weak.

- Pressure bulbs. - Come on, Barker.

Harder on that retractor.

Get this instrument out of my way.

Get rid of it! Take over here, Snider.

- More clamps. - We've got to get that blood in faster.

His pulse is failing.

I can hardly get it.

Heart stopped, doctor.

Adrenalin, fast.

You give it. I'll massage.

No response.

Still nothing.

Doctor.

Doctor.

He's gone, Marsh.

God help him, he made a mistake.

Kris.

Luke.

Kris, help me.

For god's sake, help me.