"Now being admitted to the practice of medicine" "I solemnly pledge to consecrate my life to the services of humanity to help with the life of my patients would be my first consideration my colleagues would be my brothers" "I will not permit consideration of race, religion,nationality or social standing to intervene between my duty and my patients whatever I shall see or hear of the lives of men which is not fit to be spoken I will keep invariably secret" "I will give no deadly medicine to anyone if asked nor suggest any such countenance even under threat I will not use my knowledge contrary to laws of humanity these promises I make freely and upon my honor" "THE YOUNG DOCTORS" "Subtitles by Seglora" "Well Dr Coleman" "Did you have a good trip?" "Yes I did" "You remember Dr O'Donnell,our Chief Surgeon" "Glad to see you her,Dr Coleman we need you here" "Thank you" "You really mattered when you said you would be here this week,didn't you?" "I didn't see much point in waiting" "I got a fairly good impression of the situation on my visit here last month" "I am anxious to see the lab in operation" "I want to see Dr Pearson again,of course" "Hold on call for a moment" "Husband of a patient" "Mr Stresky" "I am sorry Sir,I'll have the treasury go over your bill" "Good Bye Sir" "People know that this hospital doesn't make a profit" "Not quite this time,claims his wife kept for a week too long waiting for a pathology report" "Now he has to go into debt to pay his bill" "Now you want to see the rest of the place" "He may as well know Harry" "Surgical reports from Pathology is sometimes pretty late getting back and there are times when we hesitate to discharge patients without the final lab results because those reports may effect the sort of regimen the patient is placed on at home" "And with bed-space as valuable as it is" "I see.Well I imagine that is one of the reasons I am here" "Let's go" "You want to see the end of bay" "Regardless what you have heard Dr Coleman" "Dr Pearson who has been in charge of Pathology here for over 25 years.." "..is a good man,done a great deal for this hospital" "You should have heard the wall towering when he set up the blood bank to salvage the hospital committee" "This year we will do three times as many tests as we did five years ago" "He did some investigate research too" "The cause and incidence of thyroid cancer" "Most of it generally accepted now, but few people remember it came from doctors.." "Well we took the shortcut with the hot one didn't we?" "Tomaselli,are you telling me to go slow?" "Make it easier for Dr Pearson" "I did not realize that it came out like that" "I think in essence I am" "Right this way,ladies,everybody gets the front seat today" "No hurry,ladies,no hurry" "Star of the show is not going anywhere" "Now,let's see" "Which one of you is going to faint first?" "This is a new class of nurses,I believe" "I'll explain it,my name is Pearson" "Pathologist for this hospital" "Dr Howard who is resident" "And Dr Shawcross who is in his fourth.." "Am I right?" "Quite right Doctor" "Fourth year of surgical residency" "And who will shortly be released upon an unsuspecting public" "You often here people ask what does a pathologist do" "Never hear anyone ask what a surgeon do perhaps we all know what a surgeon do" "A pathologist is the one who examines the surgeon's mistakes when it is too late" "He is the doctor who the patient seldom sees,doesn't want to" "Yet few departments in the hospital have more effect in the patient's welfare" "It is pathology which advises the patient's physician on disease" "Sometimes when all else fails,it is the pathologist who makes the final diagnosis" "That is a neat little abdominal scar,ain't?" "Some surgeon realized that pretty paupered one day" "Thank you" "Mr Tomaselli" "Mr Tomaselli,could I see you for a moment" "Just go down the hall and turn left and Pathology I'll be right along" "I draw your attention,young ladies,to some words,you'll find in many autopsy rooms" ""mortui vivos docebunt", the death teach the living" "The medical history of this man shows three years ago he suffered from the first coronary attack and the second attack during this week" "This man apparently died of coronary thrombosis" "I beg you pardon" "Suddenly school.." "I agree with you" "Who are you?" "I am a pathologist" "Your first autopsy" "And last I hope" "Alas,with most things in in medicine the first one is always the worst one" "Go back in" "What?" "Go back in there" "I'm intending to,but not because you ordered me to" "Now we have established that in this specific case the medical diagnosis was correct, we move to the cranial area" "I hold in my hand a human brain" "And yet what do you see?" "Only a mass of tissue" "Only a few hours ago,this was the thinking center of a human being" "Human being.Not only the thinking center, but the co-ordinator of the senses,touch,smell,sight,taste" "in her thoughts,hopes,dreams,memory told the eyes to cry,the mouth to speak" "This man was an engineer,this then was the brain that used mathematics understood stresses,devised constructions, perhaps build houses,highways,dams" "A cathedral,legacies from this brain to other human beings" "Starting out your medical career,young ladies it is just as well to think about these things once in a while" "Because in this big impersonal machine around here,this thing we call hospital has one function,and only one, to serve people" "This human being,male,aged 53,was a person" "A human being" "I see you found your way" "You may now,young ladies,be free to go and forget everything I have said" "Just as your predecessors have done for the past 25 years" "We go this way" "Dr Pearson is entertaining some student nurses again" "It not was I say,but when Dr Pearson sees those" "He is going to pick you up and throw you.." "That's fine,that's fine,just leave those reports please" "Good Morning Mr Tomaselli" "Bannister,this is Dr Coleman" "Bannister is Senior Lab Technologist, been here almost as long as Dr Pearson" "As long as Dr Pearson, How do you do, Dr Coleman" "We have been expecting you" "Have you?" "Sit down,sit down,there is a terrible mess sometimes" "We are busy,of course we are almost always busy" "You,young ladies should be congratulated when a day no student faints" "I am beginning to have some hopes for men" "Thank you" "Try some bicarbonate soda" "And make sure you are going out on a date tonight" "Nothing like living" "Sure forget dying" "Good bye girls,have a nice lunch" "Have a nice lunch" "May never eat again" "The eternal problem any hospital of course, whose going to pay for the funds" "Oh there you are,Doctor,you remember" "I remember" "You look younger than you did last month" "Bannister we have to find something for this young fellow to do" "Now he is here" "Your qualifications are good, young fellow,on paper" "Hope you can live up to it" "Get him a lab coat,Bannister, and show him around" "Coffee" "Don't let him see the mark slides you keep hiding away for your garden" "I am late for a mortality review committee make yourself at home" "It is downright upsetting by taken by a hug strong by your own wife" "I have only one rule for a happy troika, never hug off with your wife" "Sorry" "I am sorry for everybody.I had an autopsy" "Impatient,impatient" "Nowhere to go,we couldn't wait to get there" "I used to be called for something a doctor prescribed for his patients" "Now an ordinary layman can't get near the first D without pushing the doctors into the sand trap" "First case Algernon Forbes, male,white,58.Dr Rufus" "The patient was referred to me February 10 with a suspected perforated ulcer" "He had severe upper abdominal pain and was in shock" "Blood pressure was 70/40,he was ashen grey and was in a cold sweat" "The abdomen was rigid and it was rebound tenderness" "I ordered a transfusion to combat shock and also morphine" "No chest field X ray,Dr Rufus" "It was my opinion that the patient was too sick to go to X-ray" "I agreed with the referring doctor's diagnosis,obviously perforated ulcer" "No doubts at all,Doctor" "One always has doubts,Dr Pearson, but I decided that all the symptoms justified exploratory surgery" "However,there was no perforated ulcer" "I called Dr Jones for consultation but before he arrived the patient died" "Dr Pearson.Now is the time for the autopsy findings." "No perforated ulcer,abdomen entirely normal." "What was causing the severe pleuritic pain was early development of pneumonia" "Which could have been discovered by chest X ray" "It is very easy to have hindsight, Dr Pearson loses no chance to remind us" "I don't think Dr Pearson intended o.." "Any man can make a mistake in medicine but having been made that mistake should serve as a warning to others who can't see beyond the area of their own surgical specialty" "If Dr Pearson was conscientious about his own department as he is what's goes on at the upper floors here," "Perhaps, we all get our surgical reports from pathology in time" "Gentlemen,I have repeatedly requested more help" "My department is snowed down,I ask for technicians" "Technicians.Instead the staff of this hospital" "Joe,Joe" "The staff of this hospital decided a new pathologist was needed to assist me" "You now have that man on step, and I have no doubts" "That you'll now have your surgical reports on time" "But as long as I am head pathologist here when I attend a mortality review committee I intend to call the shots as I see them, and when the time comes , when I do not attend this committee it will be because I am no longer member of this staff" "Ah,Joe,you are taking all this whole more seriously" "And if I am not a member,it will be that I have been kicked off" "Because I have to be kicked out since I have no intentions of resigning" "Not until they roll me down with my feet first" "As there are no more surgical errors to be discussed,I am sure you'll excuse me" "Good Morning Gentlemen and the Lady" "Joe" "I know,I know" "Patience,your hot headed idiot" "Charlie,I have no place to go,my lab been invaded" "Invaded.You are acting downright senile" "Listen,Beth shoul.." "Beth.She wouldn't be proud of you" "If Beth was alive she would not be proud of you" "What if we both getting older" "Speak for yourself,Joe" "Charlie.You need a haircut" "No,I didn't.." "Doctor,this is Mrs Alexander" "Come right in,I am sorry to keep you waiting" "But sometimes these things take longer in the hospital than we anticipated" "I guess you know all about that your husband is an intern here" "Thank you Dr Alexander" "Doctor,than I am perfectly healthy then?" "Nothing to worry about is it?" "Nothing whatever" "The fact you strike me as one of those rare young women who can deliver her own child under a tree" "And then plough 10 acre field in the afternoon" "Btw what did your first child die of?" "Bronchitis,when she was a month old" "I guess that this child is doubly important to you" "Yes.Yes very important.Why is it something you haven't told me?" "Oh,no.There is absolutely no cause for alarm" "Take that to the out patient lab" "I am sure your husband,or the doctor.." "who made that first blood test on you some months ago must have told you.." "that even if the blood test does reveal antibodies in your blood that only 1 child in 26 ever develop erythroblastosis and even if that happens we can be prepared" "We know that it is a possibility" "All that depends on a new blood test of course" "In the end Mrs Alexander you are going to have a normal healthy baby" "Doctor Dornberger you are wonderful" "I did not have anything to do with it" "Elizabeth" "Not yet" "What took so long?" "They haven't even taken a blood sample yet" "Alec.Dr Dornberger is the greatest doctor in the world" "Oh,yes?" "Except you,of course" "Next to be,of course" "Oh,I do not go on duty until 2 o'clock,Sir" "Something you young people will never learn" "One thing leads to another" "You start by stealing a kiss in a hallway pretty soon you will be having baby" "This way,Mrs Alexander" "Thank you ,doctor" "Come in,come in" "Nobody stands in ceremony around here" "Doctor Pearson" "Civilization is strangling itself in red tape" "Doctor Pearson I have been here in exactly 3 hours and fifteen minutes" "If you want a coffee break take it" "Is it your idea to have me sit around here all day doing nothing" "Until you can decide what my duties would be" "It is a hard matter to find time" "You are fiery,aren't you?" "I assumed that the very least there would be an office ready for me with clearly defined duties" "Fiery.I picked you for one" "Good.You want work." "Plenty work to be done" "I am scientist not the administrator" "You'll find work for your own level" "Meantime why don't you take over the autopsy room" "Seems the engine is running there to doctor Alywishes cue oil" "I've always had a great interest and a good deal of experience in serology" "I have been looking over the serology lab" "Serology" "Why not" "Thereafter you are in charge of serology" "Anything else?" "Not right now" "Thank you,Dr Pearson" "You are ready for the gros.." "No I'm not ready" "I am ready as I ever be" "She was not only a nurse, she was a minister's daughter" "The odds were all on my side" "Put out that cigarette please" "Good Morning Doctor Coleman, I didn't see you there" "There will be now smoking in the autopsy room,Dr Shawcross" "Not there" "Dr Howard will you drape the patient" "With a clean towel" "Gentlemen,there is something I need to remind you of" "When we perform an autopsy we do so with the permission of the family of the one who has died.Our objective is to advance medical learning" "The family gives us the body in trust and expect it to be treated with care respect.." "..and dignity.And that's how it will be treated" "Thank you ,gentlemen,carry on please" "We appeared to have been skillfully taken apart" "We sure have" "Pardon me,my name is Alexander,Doctor Alexander I am intern upstairs" "Yes,Doctor" "It is about my wife,we just arrived here" "She is Dr Dornberger's patient and we are expecting a baby in a month and a half" "Well,congratulations,doctor" "It was you who supposed to have a blood sensitation test today" "I wonder if you have any results on it yet" "We probably wont even get the samples until this afternoon" "Even if we do.." "This is very important" "You see,she is Rh neg and I am Rh positive" "How long does it take to make the three tests" "Not long" "Two tests,not three" "Two tests?" "Yes,saline,high protein.." "Don't most labs now make an indirect Coomb's too?" "Indirect what?" "You don't even know what it is?" "Look maybe you better come back and see Dr Pearson" "I don't know much about serology but I have studied it up because of this" "It has been proven that some of the antibodies in the blood of pregnant women can get past both the saline test and high protein test only the indirect Coomb test" "Forget doctor,you are way of limits here" "I have not got time to sit around here the whole day" "Listen,Mr,you are going to make time, this is my wife and that baby is very important to us" "Dr Alexander I am Dr Coleman Assistant Pathologist here" "Certainly you must realize" "I know that you will have the results of the tests tomorrow afternoon for your wife's physician if you are on duty upstairs I suggest that you go back to it" "All right,but I tell you one thing my wife is going to get every test available" "Is there anything more ridiculous than an expecting father" "Yes.A serology lab without Coomb serum" "What?" "An indirect Coombs for blood sensitization is elementary today,basic" "Let's get some here in time for Alexander's wife" "We can't just go out and buy it like it was aspirin" "You have to have a purchase requisition" "Let me have one of the form" "Dr Pearson always order the lab supplies himself" "I intend to have more authority here than ordering 15 $ worth of rabbit serum" "Well,when you get to my age the best part of any day is the end of it" "Are you going to leave this like,this?" "Nudge me?" "The only company we really get down here are all locked up in the ice pack in the morgue" "Bannister" "Never failed,never" "What's the trouble?" "I'll tell you.It's the purchase orders" "Do you think this is the Mayo clinic?" "We got to have lab supplies" "Yes but look at these.What do we need Coomb's serum for" "It is a blood sensitization test, it is elementary,basic" "It's what?" "Dr Coleman ordered it" "He signed the requisition himself.Look" "So he did" "Don't stand there looking for trouble" "I put Dr Coleman in charge of serology myself this morning" "It is quitting time,go and wash your hands,or something" "You don't approve our order how we keep our sera,Dr Coleman" "I can't honestly say I do" "Auto labs look spick-and-span, glitter and clean" "The only difference being we don't care about manicures and haircuts here" "We judge the lab and the man with the practice of medicine" "No time for the thrills" "Any other suggestions,Dr Coleman?" "Well,now that you ask I do have one in particular" "As many as you like,Dr Coleman" "One way of speeding surgical reports" "Who is talking to you about surgical reports?" "Have you ever considered a tissue processing machine?" "It should save at least a day compared to the method preparing the slides by hand" "Come in my office,Dr Coleman" "Do you see these?" "These are purchase requisitions for equipment dating back years" "Every time I put a bunch of these through I have a battle with the administrators" "He goes to the board and have a battle with them and then he comes back and say we are spending too much money" "You listen to me,Coleman" "You are not here for my invitation, you understand" "They pushed you down my gullet and I am choking on you boy" "My patience is turning purple trying to swallow you but I'm going to do it" "Let's get our policies straightened out here once and for all" "You got a job to do and so have I. I am in charge of this department" "We are going to do those jobs" "We might get our wires crossed everyday but without interfering with our works but I am still in charge here You follow me?" "I follow you" "Here are the purchase orders." "All of them?" "What?" "The requisition for Coomb's serum" "I forgot all about that" "We have been getting along with two tests for blood sensitization for years now" "We don't need it" "Good Night Doctor Pearson" "Dr Coleman" "I thought I recognized you Dr Coleman" "I want to apologize for the way I acted today" "My wife and I.." "No need for apologies" "As a matter of fact.You were right." "The Coomb's serum has been ordered" "Your wife test will be made in all three mediums" "Thank you Doctor" "No idea of the relief.Thank you very much" "Turned your ankle?" "Hello" "What is the trouble?" "Nothing.Nothing much.My knee just.." "Thank you." "Now let's take a look at it" "Don't be silly" "Don't you be silly.I am a doctor" "Where is the pain?" "It's about here" "Dr Coleman.People are watching" "How did you know my name?" "The voices were very high.I guess that." "And the new ghoul in pathology" "Miss?" "Hunt.Cathrine" "Miss Hunt.You are a phoney" "Oh.Really" "There is nothing that matters with your knee,Miss Hunt" "You think .That is the most conceited egotistical thing I ever heard" "Make up your mind,Mr" "How much?" "For you?" "15 cents" "No apologies please" "I'm not apologizing.Where are you going?" "I have exactly 3 hours and 10 minutes and I am going to spend them with Marlon Brando" "You wouldn't like" "I'll have dinner with you" "In a restaurant with the wine" "will be a good time right out of town" "Wine?" "And dancing?" "If that's been necessary" "I know just the place" "Sure you can dance with that bad knee?" "Oh.I know I can.I am a phoney.You remember?" "I have only three more years with lectures" "Won't be long" "As soon my internship is over" "Take that look off your face" "I hate you talking that way" "I never heard my father discuss money once,not once" "Your father was one of the dying breed" "He was old fashioned practitioner in a small town" "We always used jelly deserts except when the cousins came" "Nobody minded" "My mind" "You have to go to bed.And so is she" "She is a strong little struggler isn't she?" "There is only one way to get the best." "And that is to specialize" "And the only place a man can specialize is in a big town" "Papa only called it one thing from the Bible,I can't remember it exactly" "Something about a man finding himself and losing himself" "I don't know anything about the Bible" "Your father died owning nothing" "He was rich,the richest man you ever know everybody in that county loved him, in the funeral there were so many cars" "I loved him too but it is different today,that's all" "Yes.There is not a single doctor in Richmond" "You really would like it,wouldn't you, if I went back to Richmond" "..opened a little office" "Shut up" "Will you please" "Medicine is all of business" "Shut up.Before papa turn over in.." "Alec." "I love you" "I always love you what you decide" "Have our baby no matter how big, or important or rich we are" "You know I wish for you sake that it was all over" "Whoever invented this 9 month thing any way" "It is not so bad,I went through it once before,I don't care how bad it is" "How hard Just it doesn't end the same way" "Just to get away for a little while sometimes" "From all the pain and sickness" "All the blood and the fear in their eyes" "It gets to me too much sometimes" "You begin to wonder where.." "I have never said anything like this to anyone before" "Sorry you did?" "No" "That's what makes it all more confusing" "Cathy,there isn't anyone in medicine who hasn't felt the way you do" "One time or another" "But I felt it more and more lately and I do not why I am talking about it now when I feel so fine." "I really feel so delicious" "I am so glad that I thought of my plot to get a date of you" "You know.If I was as honest as you are,I have to tell you that I really honestly despise the strong silent type who just listen" "From this let's talk about you for a moment" "What made you decide to be a ghoul?" "Pathology seemed the best way to contribute to the war" "The war?" "Medicine is a war,creative,constructive war" "Not many of us can be heroes like Pasteur,Fleming or Salk" "But sometimes there is a spectacular advance as in a war when doctors rush to the new front leaving lots of pockets of knowledge behind to be filled in" "Never heard anyone talk about like that before" "Make me feel like a trivial little idiot" "I was wrong about you" "You really are a good dancer" "That Dr Pearson,do you know what he advised me this morning" "He said one way of get rid of the taste of death is by living and he was so right" "I am two minutes early" "Thank you for a lovely dinner" "You don't have to pay any debt,Cathy" "The man is not even human" "Human" "Why did not you think of it earlier?" "Good Night" "Yes Doctor we will send it up as soon as we get the report" "Everybody wants everything the day before yesterday" "Good Morning Bannister" "What the devil is being going around here?" "Don't look at me" "I did not recognize the place" "Where the magic can't find it" "Now that is more like it" "Mr Bannister" "Dr Alexander.I just told Dr Dornberger the blood samples only got down here last evening" "What's all this?" "It's about my wife's blood tests,doctor" "We have a possible Rh factor.." "So don't you come barging in down here and we show you a special favour" "Perhaps we don't operate that way in this department,Doctor" "Alexander" "You get the results in due time and through Charlie Dornberger" "Alexander!" "Yes Sir" "Call me in half an hour we will have the result for you" "Thank you Dr Pearson.Thanks a lot" "Good Morning" "Good Morning Bannister" "Good Morning Dr Coleman" "Some days just confuse me" "Lung fibrosis,small recognizable nodules, peptic ulcer just below the pyloric ring" "Surprising thing about the human body is not what finally kills us but what we can have wrong with us and still go on living" "This woman should have gone to a doctor in time a simple operation would have saved her life" "Oh,Bannister" "You've got to supervise the histology section more closely" "Your slice is sticking up to look like a sandwich" "Dr O'Donnell Surgery please" "This place vacant?" "Not yet.But if you don't sit down it will be" "Last night you mentioned.." "Do you want to try some of this?" "No thanks" "Last night I'm afraid I mentioned too many things" "Too many?" "Not enough" "Aren't you hungry?" "I'm starving" "Will you listen to me for a second?" "I am trying to find out to get to know you better" "I am not good at small talk and flirting things like that" "What I am saying is that.." "How I am going to see more of you?" "You actually.." "No" "Good.Then I know just the same" "You two eating again" "I am.Dr Coleman is on his diet" "That seems to be the socially accepted form of suicide these days" "Dr Pearson" "I'm coming.I'm coming" "Don't say I never take lunch,Coleman" "I am glad Dr Pearson is not on diet" "These are reports for the coroner on my desk I'll sign it" "Joe" "Accident case.Dead on arrival" "Five years old" "Charlie what's it all means" "You want me give you a philosophy of life and ten words" "There is no philosophy,Charlie,impossible, all chance,you never know what next" "Life.Death" "We are trying to fix some of the accidents out of it" "Now what about the Alexander girl" "Alexander?" "Rh factor" "Husband intern" "Oh Alexander .." "..I did the test myself sensitivity negative no problems actually" "I tell the boy" "Oh,I already told him" "You?" "Kid nagged me what else could I do" "Joe" "Need a haircut" "Did you break anything?" "What did you have in mind" "This one must known to the doctor" "I bet you are the kind that goes into convulsion when you see somebody slip on a banana peel" "I'm sorry" "You are so dignified" "and so sure of yourself" "Just hold on,take it easy,and fly" "Fly" "Not my idea to be different Cathy" "But we seen each every day for more than a week now" "And we are never alone, there is always an audience" "I didn't know you had anything to say to me in private" "I may look like a fool and I feel like a fool" "We are not teenagers,you know, not them,we are adults" "If you had a car" "I'll get one.I rent one" "I have Sunday afternoon off too" "Just a wonderful country I could show you" "Cathy are you hurt?" "This is my knee" "Where it did last week?" "Oh,yes.I am a phoney.Remember?" "Very tender isn't it?" "How long have you had this Cathy?" "A couple of,maybe a month." "Not serious Dr Grainger" "Anything can be serious and not serious" "I wouldn't be too concerned if I were you" "We both want to know, so I will arrange an X ray" "OK Cathy" "Killer Appendicitis Dr Rufus had a good.." "Do you want to see me?" "Yes.In your office,please,Dr." "Dr Pearson I have been running some routine checks on the hot water system" "The water temperature is not high enough" "Exactly.Has anyone tried to do anything about it?" "You think that things run poorly around here don't you?" "As you keep asking.Yes I do" "Young,green full of lofty ideas" "I have been pleading for a new hot water system for a year" "It is too expensive project." "Anything else Dr Coleman?" "No.I apologize" "Full of vinegar I suppose." "Hear that you been laying down the law in the autopsy room too" "You asked me to take charge of it" "No smoking I understand" "Is that suppose to enthuse me?" "Sign Read No Smoking" "Are you laying down the law to me boy?" "As I understand it,the hospital is to be run for the welfare of the patients" "Rules are set up for all, there can be no law at all" "Here or anywhere if there are privileged exceptions" "Shuffle of fancy ideas, aren't you.All idea no blood" "You've been here a week and Bannister is ready to quit" "Might be safer if he did" "Three days ago I told the technicians that I planned to make occasional spot check on lab work" "Yesterday I divided the blood samples so the two tests would be runner" "Schreck" "Standard laboratory procedures" "Bannister reached two different results from the same sample" "Everybody makes mistakes" "There is no room for mistakes in medicine" "When it comes to surgeons you yourself" "You got your tummy boy,believe me I have seen your kind before" "You blood less hound,everything spic-span,so sure of yourself" "You learn that you are not perfect one of these days,boy" "It will be quite a shock,I hope I will be around and see it that's all" "And I will be around,because listen boy, I am here to stay" "You just shoving and pushing but I am here to stay,don't forget it" "If you don't like the ways the things are run here you are free to move boy,move on" "I am not moving" "I am staying too,don't forget that,ever" "This is my home,you understand" "I told you this before,I am in charge here, you keep that fact straight" "And I want no lab checks without my authority" "But lab checks is routine" "I decide what is routine here" "Pathologist,Pearson" "Are you sure it is necessary Lucie?" "All right.I'll be right up" "Here is Dr Pearson" "Lucy" "This is Cathy Hunt" "Oh,we have met, sort of an informal way" "Every time I see the young lady she is giddy" "Sure she doesn't have gout" "A picture taken at a swimming pool some time ago" "Let me see both knees please" "There was water in the pool I believe, do you enjoy swimming?" "Do you?" "Dr Pearson,Dr Pearson what do you think?" "I try not to think,Cathy,anymore than is absolutely necessary" "X rays here?" "Two sets,the first didn't show anything" "Dr Dell corrected them to show the soft tissue and he confirms the irregularity in the bones" "Cathy you know what a biopsy is,don't you?" "Usually to see that it is cancer" "But not always Dr Grainger will take a small piece of tissue from your knee" "You won't even have to go to sleep it is so simple and send it down to me" "I'll study it under microscope" "You wouldn't find anything Doctor Pearson I felt too well" "My knee only hurts once in a while" "Of course if anyone find any.." "You are an intelligent young woman and surely you want to know" "I told you already do know" "Cathy it could be result of a swimming pool accident in which case nothing to worry about" "Or it could be a bone tumor, and even if it is there is every likelihood that it is benign" "Not cancer,you mean?" "Not malignant,yes,but we do have to know" "And if it is malignant?" "Let me examine it first" "Then we.." "I know" "I know you have to amputate, wouldn't you Dr Grainger?" "That's why I will not let you do a biopsy" "Because even if it is malignant" "I'd rather,anything,anything than lose my leg" "Dr Pearson" "Yes" "You won't mention this to anyone,will you?" "Cathy" "I think you should talk this over with anyone who can make you realize" "Promise,Dr Pearson.If you promise, then I will think it over" "By myself until Dr Grainger on Monday" "Monday is day after tomorrow, time is important" "I'll think it over,I really will, if you promise" "All right,I won't mention it to anyone we know" "And if you use your head" "I handled it before Joe" "She has no family, she is of legal age, and try to see the foolishness of losing her leg" "I am not good this Lucy,no good" "Except more than she is right now" "That's why I love this girl, that's why we all do" "We can't wait,the kid got no time to wait" "You get that tissue sample down to me Monday morning,first thing" "Not a minute late,it ought to be done tonight" "Sound.Sunday Vespers" "I remember when I was a child in a very small town" "I am glad that I'm not still a child" "So am I" "You do not care anything about nature,do you?" "You haven't even looked" "Isn't it lovely?" "Lovely is the word" "Sometimes everything seems so unbelievable" "So beautiful" "I am sorry" "I guess there must have been a smell of fresh air after all I detect" "I told you we get away from people,didn't I?" "Now you are stuck with me" "Far enough away David?" "A step in the right direction" "What's the matter Cathy" "I am sorry,David,I am sorry" "It's not you it's me" "I'm so tender everything can go on as if" "David I don't want to know what might have been" "Cathy what is it?" "Take me back to town,David" "Take me back,please" "All right,Cathy" "Dr Dornberger may have said to walk but it such a thing taking his advice.." "Hello" "Hello" "What's your name?" "Elizabeth" "My name is Elizabeth too" "Take it easy" "Alex,too soon.It can't be" "You stay right here.I am going to get a taxi and take you to the hospital" "I don't want" "Stay here" "Emergency just telephoned,Charles" "The patient arrived ,she is well advanced" "This is a premature.Incubator ready?" "Yes.It is on its way,Doctor" "My kid is so small" "It wasn't ready for this world,yet" "Next 6 weeks would have made a lot of difference" "We'll keep an eye on him,you understand his lungs are not fully developed" "You see he has not much of chance,aren't you?" "No.What I am saying is,you never can tell" "Some babies got the will to live,fight for life" "But I don't want to deny it like some people.They just don't" "You understand" "Thank you doctor" "Going up?" "That was wrong.Thank you I am sorry." "Dr Pearson.Without disturbing her please get word to Dr Grangier that I am here" "I'll wait until I hear from her" "Feeling a bit drowsy Cathy" "This won't take long and you won't feel a thing" "Next please" "Just stay relaxed,Miss Hunth, this is just like having a tooth out" "I always hated dentists" "Aching Cathy?" "I don't feel a thing" "Good girl.Now we take a wedge shaped sample of bone" "Something between 2-3 cm should be enough" "You made it in a hurry" "Sorry to drag you out in this time of the night" "Something important?" "A biopsy" "I prepared the slides myself I could not locate Bannister" "He was probably somewhere else pretending to be young" "The case,difficult as they come" "The surgeon suspects osteogenic sarcoma" "What's the rush?" "Somebody's relatives?" "No.It's not.Nobody's relative." "Just a patient" "All right.Maybe we should work this faster than every case" "Not an easy one" "Could be new bone formation" "Osteoclastic activity with bands of fibrous tissue in between" "New bone formation could be the result of regeneration after a fracture" "I see now evidence of infection" "No" "No inflammatory cells in the bone spaces" "Did you see any evidence blood vessel invasion?" "Oh No" "Then we are back in the new bone formation" "Borderline case" "The man could only look in there some sort of pattern would form of the absolute place" "And the X ray?" "Shadows and shadows" "Radiology says it is up to us" "Is this new bone forming because it is a neoplasm?" "Or is the bone proliferating as a natural process in response to an injury?" "Malignant or benign" "Who wants power like this" "This tumor is malignant as soon as a surgeon amputates" "Yes.And if we say it is malignant and we are wrong the patient loses a leg for nothing" "But if it is actually malignant and there is no operation" "Who wants to play God" "I had a professor who always warned us the best we could give in cases like these an educated guess" "And what is your educated guess here?" "I think it is benign" "What is you opinion?" "I think it is malignant" "What about studying some past cases" "It would take a week to take them out" "Take them out.What about the cross file?" "We don't have a cross file" "Something I've been meaning to set up for years" "All right.We should have a cross file." "We don't.My fault" "Scientific disagreement" "Lucy.We always confer this way in my department" "You've met Dr Coleman" "Oh yes of course" "Well.This is one of those nights isn't it" "I went home got to bed and realized that I couldn't sleep" "Here I am" "Apologies" "Lucy.We don't know,what it comes down to all these years in medicine and we don't know" "Dr Pearson said malignant, there is room for doubts but I think the tumor is benign" "I would not amputate if there was any shadow of a doubt" "Still I am worried about the patient herself" "Ordinarily I would have waited to morning" "To perform a full med biopsy" "But she was just permission tonight so I had to take advantage of that" "Now I just don't know how I dare choke at it when there is any doubt one way or another" "I think I have a solution of sort,Lucy" "There are two men who are experts in this kind of pathology" "The patients full name,Dr Grainger" "She is one of our student nurses, you may know her ,Dr Coleman" "Cathy Hunt" "Yes I know her" "Dr Coleman,you have heard of Dr Collingham in Boston and Dr Herenhart New York" "We'll make two complete set of slides get them off with air mail special delivery and the next mail out of town" "I'll be warning both doctors saying it is urgent and ask them to telegraph their findings as quickly as possible" "That will take time" "Two days at the most" "Every minute counts if you are right every second counts" "Anything I can do,Joe?" "Being tight" "How do you think I worked my way through college?" "Cathy?" "Cathy,I was blind" "I would have realized if I had not taking up my self" "Why didn't you tell me?" "Why should I?" "You are not involved" "You should be sleeping" "I can't" "Not until I know what's going to happen" "Dr Grainger promised to let me know in a few hours" "Dr Grainger won't know in a few hours" "You mean.She promised.." "She won't know for two days" "I can't understand" "Why,do you see,we..we, can't always know for sure" "And Dr Pearson thinks we should get a few more opinions" "Before" "Cathy I feel sure the tissue is benign" "Dr Pearson?" "What does Dr Pearson think?" "He,..he doesn't agree" "I think" "and I'm OK with anyone thinks" "I don't care about medical opinion" "All I know they are not going to take off my leg" "I won't let them" "You have no right to make a decision like that" "Why not?" "I can decide how I want to live and how long" "whether" "Parents are dead it makes no difference anyone but me" "That's not true" "That's no longer true,that's all" "David" "Please you don't need to.." "I do need you" "I don't understand it yet, but I do need you" "You only make everything more complicated more confusing" "Let's get this to post office" "I like this time a man thinks about time" "How much we got, how much we think we got" "Even if Lucy amputates,no guarantee the girl will live only a year or two or maybe until she dissolves as I feel tonight,who knows whoever knows,who has any guarantee of time" "Either one of us may slip in the shower tonight" "And we might drop a bomb accidentally or otherwise" "or a surgeon makes a simple single slip during a routine operation" "It happens,it happens" "If we go along all the time thinking we've got forever" "Let us have while we have it" "Let no anchor leave, won't have it any longer" "That won't be a second" "I'm sorry I should have done that" "Why so?" "Do you think I would catch a pneumonia?" "Well,let see it in this way" "If I gave up the ghost tomorrow, there is nobody in the world that's get then solid damn or as if you were to die where the devil would that girl be" "How long do you think we have to wait for the answers" "I'll phone Collingham and Herenhart tomorrow morning,hurry them up maybe" "You look like a fellow that would do with a drink" "I am not proposing we tie one on,you understand" "Once in a great while mild anesthetic is clearly indicated" "That's not a prescription, Dr Coleman,that's an order" "Dr Dornberger,what is it?" "I don't think it is anything but" "I want to double check" "You suspect erythroblastosis don't you?" "The symptoms are there,yes" "Why didn't you do a exchange transfusion at birth?" "Dr Alexander,if the lab report on your wife's blood test had been positive we would have exchanged the baby's blood at birth" "The lab report was negative, an exchange transfusion was not necessary" "Doctor tell me about my wife's blood test" "What's this delegation" "We'll go on with this later" "We just came from Alexander's baby" "Could we get out the lab report, I suspect that baby got erythroblastosis" "Couldn't be Charlie" "I remember you the young fellow,the young fiery" "Kicked up such storm around here" "I just did dispose the test myself" "Both tests" "Dr Coleman,didn't you agree in order to have an accurate blood sensitization test three tests were required" "That's right,that's why I ordered Coomb serum" "I'll check with Bannister" "Never mind" "The indirect Coomb was not done on my order" "Do I understand you correctly you mean Mrs Alexander may have sensitized blood after all" "This means that the baby might have erythroblastosis" "Could mean that" "Bannister,we want a bilirubine every six hours on Alexander baby at once also is there any Coomb serum in the hospital?" "No Sir" "All right.where do we get that half an hour" "No time for that,we need to have the test somewhere else where the facilities,university hospitals has the full lab" "Get me the university hospital, please and hurry" "Also Bannister we need a blood sample" "I will" "Dr Fribe.This Dr Coleman, Assistant Pathologist,Three Counties" "Would you handle an emergency Coomb test for us we'll get the sample to you right away,thank you" "I would like to take the sample myself" "Get it from Bannister take it to the emergency ambulance" "Could you get me to the police department right away" "May not be too late for an exchange transfusion,Joe" "This Dr Dornberger,we would like a police car to deliver an urgent blood sample" "Doctor Alexander will be waiting at the emergency entrance" "Exchange transfusion should have been done at birth" "If it is not too late no credit to me" "Joe" "To best of my knowledge I have never failed a patient to inadequacy or neglect" "You made me part of my failure now" "We've been friends for a long time,Joe" "I've covered for you helped you to battle upstairs" "But this time,if this baby die, so help me God" "I'm going take you before the medical board and I'm going to break you in two" "Listen to me, son" "Listen" "Don't give up" "It's worth living,it's worth it" "Don't give up" "This is your father and I love you" "Don't give up" "Don't give up" "Dr Pearson" "Oh,thank you" "Connect me with Dr Grainger please" "I am sorry,boy" "Lucy I could not tell you on the phone" "No,Joe" "Here the two best men in the country" "Are they definite?" "Oh,yes,both of them,very definite" "Dr Collingham Boston first specimen definitely malignant" "Dr Herenhart New York says the tissue is benign no sign of malignant" "Right back where we started" "We are not,we lost time" "It's the decision of the pathologist" "Don't tell me use the decision don't think I know" "I am sorry,Lucy" "For our training" "All's there and we know nothing" "That's not true,we do not know everything,but we know a lot" "More every year" "Joe?" "I know,I know" "Doctor Coleman,on Sunday night you said that in your opinion the tumor was benign,do you have any reasons to change your mind?" "No,I have no reasons to change my mind" "Doctor Coleman,you are in no position to make an objective decision" "Lucy,Doctor Coleman is the assistant in this department, the final decision is up to me" "All right Joe,whatever you say" "It is a malignant growth" "Osteogenic sarcoma" "And it is definite?" "Quite definite" "That's make it difficult," "I am not sure I can convince the girl to allow the operation" "Allow?" "She has to allow, doesn't she realize.." "That part is up to me" "This is a tough one" "They are all tough" "They all already get the tough" "I know" "Cathy,whether you want it or not, you must listen to me" "I don't want to listen" "I just want you to take me away,I mean it" "Just the two of us now" "I can't do that" "If you love me,take me out of here" "Don't let them come near me,please" "No deal,Cathy,I love you,but no deal" "I will not let them do it to me" "Listen,you do not want to die,do you?" "I am going to die anyway" "We are all going to die some day" "But soon.Soon if it spreads" "Can you guarantee it not spreads,can you?" "No" "Can you tell me how long even if I do let them" "Nobody has no guarantee of time debit" "Anyone of us could get killed tomorrow, the next day crossing the street" "For no what difference" "Who has difference?" "You are alive.That's the difference" "You are alive now, and that's all you got" "Only any of us can be surer" "We can't be surer of anything else,nothing" "Only that we are alive now" "Alive and breathing,and we better hang on to it" "Hang on as long as we can with whatever means we can" "Hang on and live" "That's why this whole hospital exist" "That's what we are doing here" "Keeping people alive because we believe in life" "It's good to be alive" "Hope.That's what any poor human being has that's all he has" "And it's good" "All right,David." "All right" "In the aftermath" "When it's over" "Don't come back in here" "Do you understand?" "Don't come back in here" "And hurry please" "I am asleep" "Dr Pearson,it is Alexander." "The blood test is positive." "Thank you.You hurry back here" "Get me Dr Dornberger." "He is on the operating floor,quickly" "Charlie,the Alexander baby has erythroblastosis" "The reticulocytes count is high we haven't got the bilirubine yet" "Never mind I know" "Is the blood warm?" "Yes ,Doctor" "The hot water bottle in the purpose position" "On the table" "It is important that this exchange transfusion that the blood is in the right temperature, otherwise it is dangerous for shock" "Only the ten sheet of calcium" "Temperature 96" "All right ready to start" "I am cutting off the dry portion of the umbilical cord" "Not of the moist tissue" "We have isolated the umbilical vein and want to remove the blood clots" "Venous pressure" "16mm" "We start going off with the blood" "Do you want to send the secretary in for that,Dr Pearson?" "No thanks,Bannister" "Any word yet on the baby?" "Not yet" "Lucy Grainger is taken the Hunt girl back to her room for surgery" "What about the Alexander baby?" "Not a word" "Venous pressure" "57mm" "Won't take just a little more" "10cc artery" "10cc again" "Respiration up to 15 rather shallow" "Breathing is very irregular now" "How far are we?" "50 cc is out 50 cc is in" "We'll carry on" "Skin feels cold,Doctor,I can't count the respiration" "He is not breathing well" "Check the pulse" "Set the artery pressure" "Pulse is very weak,rate is over 180" "Respiration is failing" "He stopped breathing" "Heart?" "Very faint" "Straight over the heart" "My wife,what a temper,she still says the bills too high" "She blows her top,I tried to tell her he is a specialist this Doc" "After all Doctors are in the business,ain't it" "Just like any other" "What kind of doctor are you going into?" "A general practice in my home town, there is no doctor there now" "Not get rich that way,pal" "No,I'm not get rich" "Get the oxygen over the tube" "Pulse is stronger" "I get it at 140" "We'll go out of the transfusion" "Thanks Bannister" "Pathology Doctor Coleman" "Doctor Dornberger tell Joe that the Alexander baby survived the transfusion prognosis is good" "Thank you ,Dr Dornberger" "The Alexander baby is going to live" "No thanks to me" "You are not resigning?" "You are forgetting who is in charge around here" "Why I am not resigning cause they won't ask me too hard" "You are needed here" "Not any more" "Boy,don't change on me" "We got sharp eye,sharp mind" "We both knew the minute you walked in here this day was coming" "I never intended to.." "Of course you didn't" "I have been trying to figure out what I have against you" "Other than your compounded personality of course" "I used to think I was scared this day coming" "I wasn't that.You made me feel guilty" "Like a fig.I didn't mean"Shut up and listen you might learn something"" "You made me feel like a fig, because you reminded me of was myself 30 years ago cocksure and full of ego nothing is too good for medicine no room for error,negligence" "I was right then and you are right now" "We both know that now,don't we" "Maybe I am not up to it yet" "Don't waste time being humble" "You are good,it won't be easy though" "Your phonery,budgets,over budget,committee,meetings" "Troubles in the lab which needs to be smooth over" "The doctors coming in and out asking for this and that and the salesman with the unbreakable test tube another,another" "The end of the day you will ask what happens to him" "All the fine things we set out to achieve" "Research,study" "The end of the year,all the other years" "Listen to me boy" "Don't let it happen to you" "This would be the advice from the best friend you ever have" "Listen." "Don't let that happen to you." "Get away from the phones,the files, the paperwork and keep yourself upto date" "Lock yourself in a closet if you have to" "But do it,do it" "You follow me?" "Yes,Sir I follow you" "A boy, a girl up there by herself she will be waking up soon" "She doesn't want to see me" "Why?" "For ill judgment?" "She is lying." "Women don't even know when they are lying sometimes" "They got to do it" "To keep idiots like you and me for understanding" "She knows as well as you do that compassion is a part of love" "She is not worried about herself, how she is loved or why,she is worried about you" "She is going to be a cripple the rest of her life" "She is trying to spare you" "Listen,all she is thinking of is you and all your thinking is of her,right?" "You tell me why" "What's love?" "If it is not thinking of somebody else more than yourself" "I can't get through to her" "You'll be there when she wakes up just be there,that will get through to her" "Joe" "Yah" "I've just examined the tissue." "You were right.It was definitely malignant" "Dr Grainger hadn't operated she would not live six months" "Thanks,David" "What are you doing staying around here?" "Look,son,you don't have forever,you know" "You just think so,because you are young" "Thank you,Joe" "Doctor Grainger" "It's me,Cathy" "And I'm staying" "Subtitles by Seglora"