"DOUBTS AND CERTAINTIES" " Hi." " Hi." "Bleeding here." "What's the book?" "Self-improvement." "Lacerated liver with active bleeding." "Grade 3." "Sure?" "Grade 4: more extensive laceration, or lobar-tissue destruction." "OR." "You're operating." "Ready to operate?" "Do you have the necessary knowledge?" "Once you've opened up the patient, holding their viscera in your hands, your hands feeling their beating coronary arteries  will you be in full possession of your faculties?" "Excuse me, seen Meilleur?" " Dr. Meilleur?" " He's expected in the OR." "No idea where he is!" " What are we missing?" " Cause of trauma." "Operating without cause of injury is like driving blind." "Conjugal violence." "Husband's in a coma: fight." "My daughter?" "Heading to the OR." "We'll know more after." "If you say so." " Scrub up." "I'll be right there." " A word?" "See her rosary?" " Yes." "Woman's not normal." "We'll patch her up." "I have questions." "Broke your rosary?" "It's more practical." "Cross always gets snagged." "It's useless." "What matters is the beads." "You said you found your daughter at the foot of the stairs, her boyfriend lying next to her." "Yes." "How was their relationship?" "Great." "No fighting?" "Never." "Notice any weapons, tools;" "nothing broken in the apartment?" "No." "How'd you get in?" "With my key." "Door was locked?" "Yes." "Don't believe me?" "I'm trying to understand." "One doesn't suffer such abdominal trauma by collapsing." "Her partner has a skull fracture." "s the information supporting surgery trustworthy?" "Can you stay?" "I'm not going anywhere." "Have doubts?" "Sure you're doing right thing?" "Those the kind of questions you're hearing?" " Yes." " Always the same?" "Yes." "Didn't have to question me on the table." "You mind?" "I don't know if you're... playing around or not." "You say you hear someone talking to you when you operate." "The patient?" "Despite the anaesthesia?" "Lie down all you want, you're not him." "It's like a voice on the radio, or in your head?" "I don't have to answer that." "If you want to be a traumatologist, you do." " Dr. Lemieux's paging me!" " Hang on." "Julie can't always bail you out." " Won't happen again." " Your mother's worried." "Yeah, right." "Think she doesn't love you?" " This is getting tedious." "Can I" " I'm not trying to treat you  but to determine if you can keep practising." "Have doubts?" "We'll discuss it later." "I hear him in my head." "They're not voices." "Bleeding's stopped." "Otherwise?" "Liver damage." "Surgicel packing, sutures." "Afraid?" "No." "Not to operate." "You're afraid of disease." "Not at all." "Med students are hypochondriacs." "You: heart disease." "Sophie's here." "Don't need her." "She must assist anyway." "Sophie is to residents what Meilleur is to the administration." "And always late, like him." "Make another crack about the chiefs, I'll stick you in recovery." "Seriously." "Never again." " Dr. Légaré" " I paged you 3 times." "When called to the OR, you come immediately." "Clear?" "You'll do the post-op follow-up." "Recap." "Sorry." "Intra-abdominal lesions, major impact, circular." "Fracture of the 9th through 12th ribs, right side." "Quite a blow." "My conjugal-violence theory stands." "But how?" "Why?" "She got the upper hand?" " Even Steven." "Even?" "Both patients were unconscious on arrival." "Mother claims she found them that way." "No head trauma..." "We should do an cerebral angiography." "I'm not questioning your judgment." "No intracranial trauma." "What's next?" " Call the police." " Julie." " Mathieu has a problem." " He's not in the OR?" "Where is he?" " Don't know." "Doctor?" "Your daughter's doing well." "Don't worry." " Meaning?" " I'll see you later." " Drink." " No." " Then you don't operate." " I had 3 drops of cognac!" "Plus what you drank tonight, yesterday..." "Drink." "When I operate, I don't drink." "Or just a sip to perk up." "Fifty milligrams of Naltrexone." "Plus a private room, with restraints." "Patient's still waiting." "We're coming." "Now the shrink!" "This isn't a hospital, but a Soviet prison camp." "The Gulag." " I'll get started." "I read the file." "We must start with the abdominal trauma." " Know-it-all!" " Pierre's right." "Can't we get someone else?" "As long as your overindulgence remains known only to surgeons, not yet, but word is spreading." "I won't operate alongside a Korsakoff." "I agree to operate with a paranoid materialist." " I'll operate." " You have no right." "I alone know what I can do." "Otherwise, we take it to the board." " If the patient dies, I'll be to blame?" "Certainly not me." " Have you seen your pupils?" " Trying to tell me I can't hack it?" "What are you saying?" "!" " Where were you?" "!" " I told you!" "I asked you last night/ You came in late!" "Where were you?" "!" " You're crazy!" " Quit yelling!" "You don't respect me at all!" "I'm so sick of your tantrums!" "Back off!" "It's lies, all lies!" "I'm allowed to go out!" "And have friends!" "Lovers!" "You're so jealous!" "So crazy." "You're making me sick." "You can't just leave!" "Either I operate, or we convene the Physicians' Committee." "Fine by me." "So everyone knows, recognizes your problem." "You'll operate." " Honey, you're not going to" " There's no " honey" here, Mathieu." "You - don't laugh." "You're almost done." "I can't do it." "I'm being paged." "Well..." "Let's get back on track, huh?" "You know what you're risking." "Had you seen the file, you'd know /'m not at risk." "But, you, with your big fingers..." "Your confidence is heart-warming." "I have no problem with the case." " Well, good luck." "Antoine, do the right thing:" "have him committed." "You, do us all a favour, consent to treatment." "We're wasting time." "Had to rebuke me in front of him?" "I don't like your headaches." " Just little migraines." "It's nothing." " Let me see." "Give me an hour." "Whenever's good." "What's going on inside my head is no mystery." "What, then?" "Doubt me  or really trust Meilleur?" "I trust your integrity." "I may be a pompous, arrogant surgeon, but my blood isn't 80-proof." "Surgery isn't an exact science." "Meilleur's an excellent technician." "Medicine is exact." "But not necessarily those who practise it." "Never exact." "Neither in treatment, nor for dates." "I waited for you yesterday." "Late." "Where were you?" "With friends." "Have time for friends?" "Lucky you." "You're keeping the patient waiting." "'m not an absent parent." "At night, I'm always here." "Whereas your mother  she... goes out." "Know where she goes at night?" "She won't tell me, but I know." " That's mean." "Your mother has friends, Julie, and I'm mean?" "Right." "Marc?" "!" " The patient?" " No, her mother." " Where is she?" " Over there." "Right inside." " Sophie?" " She left." "Started the consultation, and wasn't feeling well." " Not feeling well?" "I don't know!" "She left too quickly." "Didn't get to ask her." "I stayed with the lady." "Come here." "I'm sure Mrs. Paquin tried to kill her daughter." "If you don't call the cops, I will." "Ready?" "What?" "Trepan." "You don't make groundless accusations." "I'm sure the woman tried to kill her daughter." " How would you know?" " Look at her!" "Don't tell me you haven't realized we're dealing with a psychotic." "Doesn't make her a killer." "Makes her a suspect, anyway." "A paranoiac." " The psychoanalyst surgeon!" " I pay attention at your seminars." " Do you when / speak?" " I miss something?" "She hurt her daughter?" "Unquestionably." "And her partner." "How?" "What?" "Cause of trauma?" "Well, she..." "Returning with a psychiatric diagnosis, or one of crime?" "Which is it?" " 'Course not." " Joining the police academy?" "If the woman wanted her daughter dead, why take her to the hospital, huh?" "'Cause she's crazy." "I'll prove it." "Watch how we do it." "Police is on the way." "Dr. Légaré has questions for you." "No, sit back down." "Why another doctor?" "I'm a psychiatrist." "I work with the trauma unit." "When we can't find answers through normal channels  I assess the human dimension " "a very complicated aspect of our profession, human beings." "If it wasn't for humans  medicine would be so much simpler." "Filled out the admittance form?" " Yes." "So there are two options:" "stay with Dr. Lemieux and his team to get your daughter and son-in-law back on their feet" " Not my son-in-law." "Her boyfriend." "Boyfriend, then." "Do so as quickly as possible." "Or we talk and evaluate your case before the police arrive." "You won't find anything." "Do your job, instead of trying to blame me." "Is this how you treat victims?" "It's a crying shame." "Indeed." "But you're not crying." "I'm Dr. Léveillée." "You'll be waking up soon." "You're in Intensive Care, at the hospital." "What are you doing?" "Hypnosis?" "'Course not." "I'm no fakir." "What's the point?" "I'm waking her gently." "She's unconscious." "It's pointless." "Dr. Lemieux does it all the time." "What's that on the bed?" "What do you see?" "Who do you think you are?" "You don't know?" "Abdominal trauma." "Post-op." "In recovery." "Etienne's case, not yours." "I see a human being." "A woman, actually." "Dr. Lemieux asked me to do the post-op follow-up." "You mind?" "Your assessment was good." "By the book." "You're not crazy enough to work in people's bodies  considering them real people." "I have no choice..." "I'm crazy." "I panic." "I'm so afraid of hurting them." "Your daughter's suffering." "Don't you care?" "Not crying doesn't mean you're not upset." "Have trouble crying?" "I didn't say that." "You realize the three of us are relatively used to dealing with tragedy?" "We're a little dismayed by your behaviour." "Not my problem." "I'm just being myself." "I don't know what you want." "I just took Celine to the hospital." "You're threatening to call the police." "And /'m not normal?" "Who said you weren't normal?" "Him." "I said nothing." "I heard you thinking it." "Okay..." "Your daughter's in critical condition" " You said she wasn't." "Was in critical condition." "We think..." "we hope everything will go well." "Your attitude surprises me." "Somewhat distant, almost cold." "Don't like her partner?" "None of your business." "In our shoes  wouldn't you consider your story trite?" "Two seriously injured people, for no apparent reason?" "That one  was a bad influence on my daughter." "Damn." "There's hemorrhaging." "Chill." "It's his blood." "Compresses." "Compresses!" "Compresses!" "Is that it?" "Need help?" "Blood's irritating." " You're bothering me." "Have some confidence." "You're good." "You can do it." "Hand me the Swann." "Big guy like you who takes care of himself  shaking?" "Dr. Darveau?" "Yes..." "How you feeling?" "Still numb?" "Where... where am I?" "Saint-Arsene Hospital." "Wasn't a dream, huh?" " Dream?" " Yes..." "Someone was talking to me." "A... a doctor telling me..." "Yes, me." "Explaining you had surgery." "It wasn't normal sleep, but the anaesthesia." "What... what happened?" "We'd certainly like to know." "What happened?" "I don't know." "Who...?" "How'd I get here?" "Your mother." "My mother?" " Denise Paquin is your mother?" " Yes." "Hang on" " Okay, no, no." "Lie still, okay?" "Two milligrams Lorazepam, IV push." "Stat!" " I'll just" " No." "You're good here, okay?" "Rest." "Get better." "Okay?" "You're out of danger." "Relax." "I-I don't understand." "Your mother said she found you with your partner." "Haven't seen my mother in 8 years." "We're estranged." " Speak your mind." " Want to know why I mentioned the cops?" " Wasn't it too soon?" " To call them." "Not to mention it." "What do you think?" " She's atoning for something." " By trying to kill her?" " You were right." "She's psychotic." "Blunting of affect, paranoid schizophrenic." "Criminal." "Don't let fear overtake you, son." "I won't share responsibility." "No way." "I'll take care of him." "Come." "I need help!" "Emergency!" "Sit." "Here." "That's it." "Her daughter told me she hadn't seen her in 8 years." "Easy." "Take your time." "Her blood pressure was sky high." "I prescribed a sedative." "It returned to normal." "She said something strange, though." "What?" "After taking the sedative, she said..." ""Always liked that feeling."" "This way." "It'll minimize scarring." "Don't want it to show, huh?" "When you're done, call Dr. Légaré." "Hi." "Dr. Lemieux." "I handled your case." "How you feeling?" "Know the other doctor, the one who looks like a kid?" "She said my mother brought me here." "Right." "Has she asked to see me?" " When you're ready." " I don't want to." "Your decision." "My mother's sick." "She's schizo..." "Sorry." "She had me at 20, right before she started... losing her marbles." " The acute phase of her illness?" " Yeah..." "My grandparents raised me." "Then they died..." "She often tried to see me, but I wasn't interested." "We've never had a stable relationship..." "I'd rather not." "Any idea why she...?" "She doesn't have a key." " Who else?" "No one... except Paul, my partner." "Otherwise..." "Otherwise what?" "I have a key hidden." "Yeah..." "She might've seen me..." "That doesn't explain how or why it happened." "Drink?" "Screw you." "Didn't think I'd do it, huh?" "You're so sure of yourself, Darveau, so confident." "You got me this time, but someday, you'll get yours." "Your hand'll shake so bad, you'll lose control." "You'll stop eating, lose weight..." "Cirrhosis, then adios!" "My 85-year-old father's a lifelong drinker, so..." "Death's not the only outcome." "How do you want to live?" "When I go to bed," "I don't wonder whether my girlfriend likes her job better than me." "Sure she really loves you?" "What if you weren't a doctor?" "Whether it's not a relationship of convenience?" "I want to see Paul." "Not now." "Roll me over there... okay?" "Go on." "Roll the bed." " Ma'am..." "I don't remember..." "No, he wasn't with me when..." "I seem to be missing a day..." " The last one?" " Right." "Worked yesterday?" "What do you do?" "I'm a car rep." "I worked until  around 9 p.m." "Then?" "Remember?" "Don't know if I should..." "What?" "It's coming back to me." "What?" "Paul and I  went to a bar." "Yeah, I remember the bar." "And I... had a drink." "Then danced a little and..." "Then, well..." "Then it's... a blank." "Say you lost consciousness, your mother got the key where you keep it hidden, how'd you get back from the bar, then collapse?" "Your partner  how'd he end up like that?" "Dunno." "Why is he more seriously injured?" "Well... okay..." "Maybe someone brought us back or... maybe we had an accident." " At home?" "We're cleaning up the mess, medically speaking, but I can't release you without knowing what happened." "At best, I call the police to investigate the matter." "That won't be necessary." "Y'know, I..." "I'm sure there's an explanation." "Huh?" "What...?" "What is this?" "Alcohol-free table." "So may I?" "I wouldn't trade places with you for the world." "Yet you like money." "You don't spend it, but you like it." "Comment about Julie was out of line." " So is dictating how I live." "Me, it's the occasional drink;" "you, money." "Always." " So, what?" "We argue every time we cross paths, or admit we were both wrong?" "We wait." "If you killed or paralyzed our patient, then we'll decide." "I want..." "I wanna leave." "Get some rest first, hmm?" "Thanks." "Celine told us the truth." "You have a psychiatric medical history?" "It's 'cause  I did drugs when I was young." "My parents had me committed." "But I wasn't crazy, or sick." "Denise, you attempted suicide." "If you knew what my life was  you wouldn't fault me for wanting to die." "You'd say it was perfectly sane." "Have you sought help?" "From whom?" "When even your parents want nothing to do with you..." "Where'd you find your daughter?" "At home." "Next to her boyfriend." "I tried waking her, but couldn't." "When they didn't wake up, I called 91 1." "You hadn't seen her in 8 years." "Why now?" "Eight years for her." "But I've always watched over her." "She doesn't know  but I take care of her." "That's it?" "Nothing special?" "They were naked." "I dressed them." "He's not right for her." "He's not right for her." "Someone will attend to you." "Won't be long." "Go!" "I came back!" "It just happened!" " Prescribed a sedative?" " Lorazepam." " Cause of cardiac arrest." " What?" "Overdose." "Stop CPR." "She's back." "So they took something beforehand." "Tox screen." "Yes, Rohypnol." "There was no sign during anaesthesia." "Overdose caused heart failure." "My fault again." "My mistake again." "You couldn't have known." "No guarantees, but I know I'm not cut out for this!" "nner doubt makes medicine scientific knowledge." "What makes a great doctor is the ability to live with uncertain methods that allow no room for error." "That's what being a doctor is, Sophie - living with uncertainty, but assuredly." ""I love you..."" "Love letters." "Erotic." "Do you know what Rohypnol is?" "A drug that lowers inhibitions." "It causes recklessness, atypical behaviour, memory loss." "Dr. Meilleur's our drug-addiction expert." "Why'd you flush them?" "To get rid of them." "You took them from Celine's, after the accident?" "Read them?" "They're explicit." "Indeed, extremely explicit." "Shameful." "Celine and I... play games." "Games?" "I think this time we went too far." "Likely." "We drank, took that stuff and  we were making love  on the second-floor landing." "I don't know what happened, if  if the banister broke, but  we fell from the second floor." "Love, huh?" "Dr. Darveau's our relationship expert." "He's not right for her." "He's not right for her!" "Denise, calm down." "He's not right for her!" "Give me that..." "Huh?" "Let's get you something to drink." " You're overconfident." "t often leads us astray." "Doubt opens up infinite horizons." "Translation and Subtitling:" "D. Gauthier, CNST, Montreal" " No, I can't discuss the accident." " Will he make it?" " We're doing our best." " Is he critical?" "Dr. Roche, is he critical?" "Yes." "Death is always a possibility." "Come, let's clear the ER."