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00:00Man, woman, birth, death, infinity.
00:30Ben Casey.
01:00Ben Casey.
01:30Ben Casey.
01:35What's her name?
01:36Mildred.
01:37Mildred Wilkins.
01:39Emergency.
01:4059-way.
01:55Yes?
01:58Excuse me, Dr. Zorba.
02:00You have a visitor.
02:01Dr. Michael Waldman.
02:02He's outside.
02:03Well.
02:08Casey.
02:09You busy?
02:10Well, there's a patient in there.
02:11We've got to check over.
02:12Then come in my office when you're free.
02:14We have a surprise visitor.
02:16We have a surprise visitor.
02:17Michael.
02:18How are you?
02:19Michael.
02:20Michael.
02:21How are you?
02:22Michael.
02:23How are you?
02:25Michael.
02:26How are you?
02:27Be careful.
02:28I'm liable to tell you.
02:29So instead, how are you Petunius?
02:30Or as it roses the man turns to when he retires.
02:32I'm only semi-retired.
02:33I still have my senior class, which even you, my eminent colleague, might find informative.
02:37You ever decide to honor us with a visit?
02:40Shall we go in to the office where we can insult each other in private?
02:47I still have my senior class, which even you, my eminent colleague, might find informative.
02:53Should you ever decide to honor us with a visit?
02:57Should we go into the office where we can insult each other in private?
03:00What do you propose to do for this woman, Doctor?
03:18Well, I think this head wound ought to be sutured.
03:20Well, forget about the head wound. Listen to the heart.
03:30Our field is neurosurgery, Doctor, but we still believe in examining the whole patient.
03:37That rate must be over 200. I can't even count it.
03:39Exactly. And if we don't get it slowed down soon, there won't be a head left to work on.
03:46Well, how about carotid sinus massage, Doctor? Or didn't this occur to you?
03:50Nurse, the EKG machine.
03:51It's right over here, Doctor.
03:53Do you recall this principle now, Doctor?
03:55Yes, sir. Reflex vagal stimulation.
03:58It doesn't necessarily work all the time, but if it's an auricula tachycardia, it ought to slow it down.
04:04Excuse me, Doctor.
04:14No change.
04:15Well, that did it. It's down to 90.
04:30Let's get a heart man down here.
04:32Call the seventh floor.
04:33Yes, sir.
04:33And, Doctor, make this one for your pearl box.
04:37Before you get all tangled up in a fancy patch job,
04:39make sure your patient's going to live long enough to appreciate it.
04:42What's the problem, Michael?
04:50I've been having blackouts.
04:53Once I couldn't move my right arm.
04:56On a couple of occasions, my speech was affected as well.
05:00And there's something in the carotid artery that's causing a murmur.
05:03Dave, if I've got what I think I've got, you'll have a tiger by the tail.
05:11I've always wanted to prove the professor of medicine a liar.
05:15Now's my chance.
05:16Dr. Walman, sir.
05:21Observe what happens to my medical students.
05:24Glamour boys.
05:26Neurosurgeons, if you please.
05:28I wonder how much basic medicine you've forgotten with your neurosurgery.
05:31Well, I...
05:32What is the basic digitalizing dose of digitalis leaf?
05:35Oh, I guess that's still around 1,200 milligrams.
05:38And digitoxin?
05:39Oh, the thousand part, 1.2 milligrams.
05:42And the dose of nitroglycerin, huh?
05:43Come on, come on, come on.
05:44I'm going to quit while I'm ahead.
05:46Now, you...
05:47You see that?
05:50Good to see you, boy.
05:52Now that we're through with this touching scene, let's get down to a little business.
05:56Dr. Walman feels he's not only giving pains in the neck, but getting them.
06:01Thinks he has a bruit in the carotid artery.
06:11This boy is like a cat in a house full of mice.
06:13And it looks like he's going to have you for breakfast.
06:21Well, what do we do now?
06:23Call a hearse?
06:24All right, come on, come on.
06:25What's next?
06:26Tess, my friend.
06:28So many Tess, you're going to feel like a street after a parade.
06:33Well, Ben Casey, looks like we're stuck with him for a while.
06:37You're stuck with me?
06:38I like that.
06:40We couldn't be in better company.
06:42Good to see you, mate.
06:42Good to see you, Tim.
06:44Good to see you.
06:49All right.
06:50THE END
07:20Good afternoon, Doctor. How are you feeling?
07:28Are you here merely to pass the time of day, sir?
07:31Get well, telegrams. Boston, Chicago, St. Louis.
07:36Nice having a celebrity in the house.
07:38I've been peered at, pictured, and punctured.
07:41Not to mention filled with and drained of.
07:44Now, when do we finish the warm-up and get down to business?
07:47Dr. Zorba's going over the angiogram now.
07:52I was right. The carotids in the neck are fouled up.
07:58It looks that way.
08:01How bad?
08:04Enough to cause severe restriction of blood flow to the brain.
08:07When do we fix them?
08:12We'll know by tonight.
08:13But right now, I'm going to see to it that you get some rest.
08:18Casey.
08:20I realize our relationship has changed.
08:23That you're the doctor, and I'm the patient.
08:27But I want to talk.
08:29Talk all you want.
08:30You may not like it.
08:31They say a doctor has two sets of parents.
08:38His own and his teacher's.
08:40Well, I never knew my real parents, so that puts you out ahead.
08:45When do you present my case to the brass?
08:48This afternoon.
08:51I want you to keep something in mind.
08:54I know exactly what's wrong with me.
08:56And I know it has to be done.
09:00I want a yes for an answer.
09:07No matter what the risk is.
09:11I want you and David Zorba to do it.
09:13We can see in the angiogram that Dr. Waldman has a total thrombosis of the internal carotid artery.
09:32And the external carotid artery is badly involved with arteriosclerosis.
09:36This condition is not corrected.
09:38A fatal clogging can happen almost any time now.
09:40The situation can be relieved surgically by placing a shunt tube here.
09:46Having isolated this section, we'd attempt to clean out all the plaques.
09:50The same procedure would be carried out with the external carotid artery.
09:55I needn't remind you, gentlemen, that this is an extremely hazardous operation under the best of conditions.
10:00And in this case, we find ourselves faced with two added elements of danger.
10:06First, it is likely that Dr. Waldman may have obstructing plaques far up in the carotid artery.
10:13Too far to be reached.
10:15Secondly, there is a history of heart disease.
10:19Dr. Keel, what are your findings?
10:22Dr. Waldman's electrocardiogram shows definite signs of myocardial ischemia.
10:28Has he ever had a definite coronary?
10:30Probably not.
10:33Although the pattern is one of ischemia on the EKG.
10:37Naturally, the ultimate decision is up to you, doctor.
10:40But as far as I'm concerned, in view of the patient's heart condition,
10:44the surgery required would be hazardous and not very rewarding.
10:48Dr. Wolfe, I'm sure you base your decision on total anesthesia and refrigeration.
10:53Well, suppose we were able to perform the operation with local anesthetic.
10:56Your chances under any method would be very slim.
10:59Dr. Waldman's going to die anyway.
11:03Dr. Casey, may I remind you of the first law of medicine?
11:08Do no harm.
11:09I think the facts speak for themselves, doctor.
11:13I certainly don't think surgery should be attempted.
11:16Well, if there's nothing further, David, we'll be on our way.
11:19That's all, gentlemen.
11:21Thank you for coming.
11:23Bye, doctor.
11:24Casey.
11:25You moved?
11:26David.
11:27Dean Morris.
11:27David.
11:29Dr. Keele.
11:44I wish I could disagree with our distinguished colleagues, but what they said is true.
11:49I know.
11:50So a few months more then for Michael Waldman.
11:55You were very close to him when you were in school, weren't you?
12:00Never makes the telling easier.
12:03That's for sure.
12:05There's a man who spent 30 years teaching others to save lives.
12:09How do you tell him there's not one of us can save his?
12:11Now look, you baby bookie.
12:33If you disturb my little ones.
12:35Me disturb them?
12:36I only count them.
12:38You turn out one fine crop of new citizens today.
12:41Yes, sir.
12:42Up here, business is always good.
12:44Yeah, I know.
12:45Business is always good up here.
12:47Oh, Nicky.
12:49So who won the pool today?
12:50Oh, you know the rules, Miss Lane.
12:54But Nick will tell you the winner.
12:56Oh.
12:59And right now you're not the winner.
13:01But maybe tomorrow I'll have better luck, huh?
13:03So cheer up, you know.
13:06Hi, slugger.
13:07Michael, we consulted with the best men available.
13:17So it comes down to this.
13:19We've been wasting each other's time, right?
13:20Dr. Wallman, if the procedures weren't so risky, there wouldn't be a question in our minds.
13:24No, no, no, I'm not all that interested in this old bag of bones.
13:27In fact, his life is getting sort of repetitive anyway.
13:31But they keep sending those wet-eared kids through to be taught medicine,
13:35and I'm still the man who can dry them out a little.
13:37So if I've got any chance at all, I want to take it.
13:40This is not a game of chance, doctor.
13:41We base our decisions on sound medical facts.
13:44Let me tell you something, boy.
13:47Neurosurgery is a daring field.
13:50The gung-ho boys wind up here because it takes nerve, imagination.
13:54So quit being an old woman and try.
13:57Gamble.
13:58Be your own man.
14:03If you doctors will excuse the patient,
14:05we'll stew in peace.
14:26He has quite a knack for making his point,
14:29hasn't he?
14:30Dr. Holman, congratulations.
14:58Congratulations for what?
15:01The baby pool.
15:02Remember you had there yesterday?
15:04Fifteen girls and seven boys born on the last three ships.
15:08How do you like that?
15:09Nick, your sense of timing is sheer genius.
15:13Here's the pot.
15:14You hit it right on the nose.
15:16I don't know how you do it.
15:16But, Casey, you said it yourself.
15:22You, Dr. Zorba, and the rest of us.
15:24We all recommended no surgery.
15:26Look, that was yesterday.
15:28Am I to understand you make your decisions so lightly?
15:30I make my decisions on the information at hand
15:33at the time I must make them.
15:34Has the world of medicine changed so much in the last 24 hours?
15:38No, but my memory has.
15:40Didn't you give a lecture on a similar subject last spring?
15:42Yes.
15:42You spoke of some experimental work being done in this field by an Iowa group?
15:46That's right.
15:47I have some of their findings here.
15:49Quite promising, but far from perfected.
15:51Up to now, their success has only been marginal.
15:54And on much better conditioned patients than Dr. Holman.
15:57May I look at them if you don't mind?
15:59Of course.
16:00Casey, I know what it means to study under a man like Dr. Waldman.
16:13The feelings go deep.
16:15But don't let your feelings rule your head.
16:18You'll find new techniques in those papers that speed up an antarterectomy.
16:22But you won't find a thing that'll tell you how to keep a sick heart alive
16:25while you're doing it.
16:26Accept it, Casey.
16:31The same way Dr. Waldman will have to accept it.
16:34Don't cut short the little time he has left.
16:48The lady who fingered at the ballpark.
16:50Just got the skull series.
16:52Has her conscious state improved any?
16:54No, she doesn't have a fracture either.
16:56I'll bet on an intracerebral hemorrhage.
17:07Probably due to her hypertensive disease.
17:10That's my guess.
17:14Do an EEG and a repeat spinal tap.
17:18Better plan on an angiogram.
17:20How's her blood pressure?
17:21Down, but not very much.
17:23Heart?
17:24Just got another EKG about an hour ago.
17:27She's not ready for any foot raise, but it ought to hold up if she comes to surgery.
17:32I'll look in on her a little later.
17:34Ben, I heard about the thumbs down on Dr. Waldman.
17:37Shame to lose a man like him.
17:39No hope at all.
17:41I don't know, Ted.
17:42Not yet.
17:42Ben Casey.
17:49Excuse me.
17:51Can you spare a minute?
17:52Sure.
17:54It would seem our minds are commencing to run in the same channel.
17:57I was over to Dean Harris's office today just an hour after you left.
18:00Oh, I went over the papers.
18:01That's pretty interesting work that Iowa group's doing.
18:04Anything that would help us?
18:06Well, the procedures might help if it wasn't for Dr. Waldman's heart.
18:21We may have to forget his heart.
18:24You heard what the cardiologist said at the meeting?
18:26I also heard what you said.
18:29That Dr. Waldman will die anyway.
18:35There are other papers in my room.
18:41I locked them over.
18:45Don't worry, Ben Casey.
18:46If it looks that impossible, I'll discharge our patient tonight.
18:56The original mother hen.
19:10That's you.
19:12Which one of the chicks has you brooding now?
19:14Oh, speaking of your chicks.
19:20What's this?
19:21A present from the little Lawrence girl.
19:23You were in surgery when she was released.
19:25She asked me to give it to you.
19:29That's what I call a nice fee.
19:33So she's gone and others come to take her place.
19:41It's a funny life we live.
19:43You stop long enough to think about it.
19:49Other people move around in the world.
19:52All we do is stay in our corner and wait for them to come by.
19:55What's wrong?
19:56You feel abused?
19:58Not exactly.
20:01I started thinking about it last Wednesday night.
20:04I had a date.
20:06With a very unmedical kind of guy.
20:09Insurance was his line.
20:11Big black car.
20:13Dollar tips.
20:14Knowing the waiters by their first names.
20:16Sounds exciting.
20:18So laugh.
20:19But it was a change.
20:23Lots of fun and no worries.
20:26And the memories were present once.
20:28So why complain?
20:30Right after I saw you this afternoon, there was this boy.
20:35Auto case.
20:36He was smiling at me when they took him into surgery.
20:39He died before they got him on the table.
20:4116 years old.
20:48Well.
20:51Who's playing the mother hen now?
20:53Last Wednesday, I watched a floor show with a Charlie that gives dollar tips.
20:59This Wednesday, business as usual.
21:03Everybody's out celebrating.
21:05Everybody's in the act.
21:07But us.
21:08We can sit in the grandstand.
21:10We're never allowed to play.
21:13You ever wonder if we're getting our dollar's worth?
21:15Six weeks ago, the hands that made this couldn't move.
21:21Touché.
21:23But what about some of the others?
21:25Dr. Wallman, for instance.
21:29We do what we can, when we can.
21:32Sometimes we can't do a thing.
21:34Ben, this reach in neon is none of my business.
21:38But what about Dr. Wallman?
21:40Why not go ahead and operate?
21:42What's he got to lose?
21:48His life.
21:50I don't want to be the one that takes it from it.
22:00And now, back to Ben Casey.
22:07Did he have another stroke?
22:09It happened about an hour ago.
22:12When did you start the procaine?
22:16Right after we got him in here.
22:19He's on heparin, too.
22:20Any response?
22:22Not yet.
22:25Dr. Wallman?
22:26Dr. Wallman, can you hear me?
22:32Dr. Wallman, raise your right hand.
22:36Raise your right hand, Dr. Wallman.
22:38Well, all we can do is wait, check for improvement.
22:51He was totally paralyzed when we got him in here.
22:54It happened shortly after I told him I was going to release him.
22:58I wouldn't put it past him to have done it on purpose.
23:03He's a fine man.
23:04It's too bad this blood insufficiency to the brain can't be corrected.
23:19He's hanging on by a thread.
23:22We've gone over every possibility.
23:24There's nothing we can do.
23:26There is something.
23:28We can operate.
23:30What?
23:30I'm sorry, doctor, but I can't agree.
23:33Couple his disease with a bad heart, and I'm afraid you risk too much in surgery.
23:39Sometimes this is a business of risks.
23:43I'm going to think about surgery then, Casey.
23:45I want both of us to think about it very strongly.
23:48Well, how's your patient this morning?
24:00How is he?
24:03Look at him.
24:05Tennis anyone?
24:09I could do without the soft soap from either of you.
24:12These clogged arteries of mine prevent enough blood from getting to my brain.
24:25In days to come, I may experience what happened a few nights ago.
24:30And then a big one will come along.
24:32Doctor, you know how we feel about it.
24:34Yeah, yeah, I know how you feel.
24:37Now, let me tell you how I feel.
24:39Well, you and Dave are all prepared to let me walk out of here so that I can drop dead in the street.
24:47All right, now.
24:49Listen to me.
24:50I want some health.
24:53All I can get for as long as I can get it.
24:57Because I've still got a lot of teaching to do.
25:00And if it's not in the cards, I want to go under with my own people, leaning over and fighting like banshees.
25:15Go take care of that brain hemorrhage.
25:18Hey, sir.
25:35When you finish up, I want to talk to you.
25:39What about?
25:41When to schedule him for surgery.
25:44I don't get it.
25:45Nothing's changed to make his chances any better.
25:48I'm thinking not so much as a doctor, but as a human being.
25:53And after all the lectures you gave me?
25:55Grow up, Ben Casey.
25:57A doctor must understand the rules well enough to know when to break them.
26:02Michael Waldman came here because of my experience and those two hands of yours.
26:08So what does that prove?
26:09He's willing to risk his life.
26:12That leaves one question to be answered.
26:14How much are you willing to risk?
26:17Doctor, I'm Jim Wilkins.
26:40Mildred's husband.
26:43You know, the woman that keeled over at the ballpark.
26:46Oh, I remember you, Mr. Wilkins.
26:48Oh, what, uh...
26:50What time you operating on Mildred?
26:52Very soon.
26:52Uh, what was it you said she has?
26:56The tests reveal an intercerebral hemorrhage.
26:59These situations are always bad, but, uh...
27:01I'd say your wife had a pretty good chance.
27:04Well, I won't keep you.
27:07It's, uh...
27:08Just that I'm worried real bad.
27:10Me and Mildred don't have any children.
27:13There's just the two of us, and...
27:15Well, I guess you understand.
27:18I understand.
27:19I understand.
27:47Well, we've had worse ones.
27:50Yeah.
27:53Ben, there's no pulse.
27:56Are you sure?
27:57Not a thing.
27:58Can you get a pulse now?
28:11Can't feel a thing.
28:17There's no pulse except when you massage.
28:18Adrenaline.
28:33Still nothing.
29:00How long since it arrested?
29:30Forty-five minutes.
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30:27Another great day in the O.R.
30:38The patient died.
30:40What happened?
30:42What else?
30:43A bad heart.
30:46It was a lot better than Dr. Wallman's.
30:48They kicked out after a piece of surgery
30:50that's a lot less complicated than what we're going to have to do to him.
30:53Now, do you want to know what I think about operating on Dr. Wallman?
30:57You sit down.
30:59Sit down.
31:01Shut up for a minute, Dr. Casey.
31:03Let me tell you something.
31:05While you've been play-acting the angry young surgeon,
31:08a dozen people have dropped dead from whimsical hearts.
31:11We're talking about Dr. Wallman.
31:12Healthy hearts, sick hearts, maybe even broken hearts.
31:16For reasons or no reasons, they've stopped forever.
31:19And at the same time, people are riding bicycles and playing golf
31:22with hearts that were supposed to have stopped years ago.
31:25Doctor, we're speaking of one specific case.
31:27We're speaking of you, then, Casey.
31:30If you want to back away from this, go ahead.
31:33I'll grant you that privilege.
31:35But spare me the dramatics
31:36and don't blame your decision on the unpredictable heart.
31:40I was only drawing a parallel.
31:42Draw your parallels with the ruler.
31:45Now listen to me.
31:46Last Thursday, I sent Dr. Wallman's history to the Iowa group.
31:54I just finished a phone conference with them a few minutes ago.
31:57Well, they couldn't have been very cheerful.
31:59No, but they see a slim chance.
32:01So do I.
32:02Now go do some boning up on this new daughter they relayed to me,
32:06and after the party, we'll talk again.
32:08Party?
32:09Dr. Wolfe called.
32:10He invited us to a party he's giving at his home tonight.
32:13I declined for myself, but accepted for you.
32:16Take Dr. Graham along and renew your membership in the human race.
32:19Look, I just had to face a man and tell him his wife was dead.
32:22You don't think that puts me in a very party mood?
32:24So what are you going to do?
32:25Wear mourner's weeds and dust your foreheads with ashes?
32:29You're only a doctor.
32:31Quit trying to compete with God.
32:33And when you go to the party,
32:38take the Iowa report along and show it to Dr. Wolfe.
32:42Maybe you can make a believer out of it.
32:44How can I sell something I don't believe in myself?
32:46I don't know.
33:16It's very impressive work this Iowa group is doing.
33:31Very impressive indeed.
33:35Brandy?
33:37So, uh, now you want to know if I think this makes the operation on Dr. Waldman more feasible.
33:49Yes, sir.
33:50I do.
33:50Well, their surgical report is encouraging.
33:56I'd say instead of Dr. Waldman's survival being impossible,
34:01this now merely makes it become almost impossible.
34:06But without it, he hasn't a chance.
34:08And to perform the operation and lose.
34:12What do you think your chances would be then?
34:15I don't think I understand.
34:19Well,
34:20let me put it this way.
34:22Here you are.
34:26A learned man of medicine, fully equipped to save many lives.
34:30Yet poor as a church mouse.
34:33Financially, you're years behind your contemporaries and other fields.
34:37Medicine is the dearest investment a man can make, and it's fully worth it.
34:41Dr. Wolfe, I'm not quite sure what you're getting at.
34:47Whether you go into private practice, teaching, or research,
34:51the gates that are now open to you can shut very quickly.
34:58It doesn't pay to rock the boat, Casey.
35:00Doctor, tell me something.
35:17Are we only considering doing what we've been trained to do?
35:21You're doing a great deal more than that.
35:24You're tampering with the life of one of the best-known professors in medicine today.
35:28I'd hardly call it tampering.
35:32All right, call it experimenting.
35:35But the fact remains that initially your own attending staff,
35:39Dr. Zorba, and even yourself agreed that surgery was all but impossible.
35:43Don't you realize how you're going to look if the operation fails?
35:47The patient's going to die even if we don't touch him.
35:49But no one will remember that.
35:52They'll only remember that Dr. Michael Waldman died on the table
35:56and you were one of the men standing over him.
35:58They'll only remember that you tried a piece of experimental surgery
36:01and took away what time he had left.
36:04In other words, my decision should be a selfish one.
36:08No, not completely selfish.
36:11I'm merely advising you to use a little bit of common sense.
36:16There's practically no chance of a complete recovery.
36:19And every chance that your work will be disastrous.
36:22Not only for Dr. Waldman, but for yourself as well.
36:24Well, crusading can be a very expensive proposition.
36:30It could cost you your career.
36:33Thank you, Doctor.
36:35I appreciate your advice.
36:37Think it over, Doctor.
36:38Men like myself in private practice
36:45are always looking for bright, steady, dependable young men.
36:49So are the universities.
36:51You must know how much reputation counts.
36:55It's invaluable.
36:57What do your colleagues think of you?
36:59There are two sides to that coin.
37:01What do I think of myself?
37:17Nice party?
37:19Yeah, nice party.
37:20Nice party.
37:20Well?
37:36Dr. Wolfe agrees the new procedure has merit.
37:39But he thinks it's far too dangerous.
37:41At all?
37:44He says I'd be crazy to scrub with you on this one.
37:47He thinks if we lose Waldman,
37:49I'd be sending my career down the drain.
37:51There's no use fooling yourself about it.
37:52He's absolutely right.
37:54You'd be sticking your neck out a mile.
37:57What about you?
38:00My career is established.
38:02My position is fairly secure.
38:04But you're just starting.
38:06You need their approval.
38:07Make no mistake about that, Ben Casey.
38:10You'd better think it over carefully.
38:13I already have.
38:14Well, what do you say?
38:19Let's get to work.
38:44Good morning, Dean Morris.
38:51Somehow I was expecting you.
38:55Is it true you've scheduled Dr. Waldman for surgery this morning?
38:58Yes, that's true.
38:59Even when you know his chances are less than nothing?
39:02Almost, but not quite.
39:04David, you're the neurosurgeon.
39:06So I won't try to tell you what to do.
39:08Not medically, anyway.
39:10And otherwise?
39:11I'm thinking of Ben Casey.
39:14Everybody seems to be thinking of Ben Casey.
39:17What about the patient?
39:18Let's face it, doctor.
39:20Mike Waldman is over the hill.
39:22For that matter, so are you and I.
39:24But Casey's on his way up.
39:26You know as well as I do.
39:28That to try and then fail in a piece of experimental surgery on a man like Mike Waldman...
39:31...is bound to affect Casey's future.
39:34Yes, I know that.
39:36I know something else, too.
39:39I know what it feels like to take a knife to a man's brain...
39:43...working as fast as you can...
39:45...while some anesthetist groans the patient is going under.
39:48And you're working like the devil...
39:49...to finish and close so it won't happen.
39:52That takes nerve, doctor.
39:54Real, honest-to-God nerves.
39:57And that only comes from confidence.
40:00You don't get confidence by losing a patient.
40:03All right.
40:04So Ben Casey is in over his head.
40:06It isn't the first time, and it won't be the last.
40:09He might lose.
40:11And then again, he might win.
40:13And every time a young doctor wins in this business...
40:17...it's like someone suddenly transplanted...
40:19...a few more steel girders along his backbone.
40:22And now, if you'll excuse me...
40:27...I've got a job to do.
40:34Why don't you stay around?
40:36You might have the chance to say I told you so.
40:52Michael?
40:58You're a stubborn old man.
41:01I hope you're satisfied.
41:03It should be exciting.
41:05Sorry I'll be asleep and miss it all.
41:08You're not going to be asleep.
41:10Your heart shows improvement...
41:11...but we're not going to gamble on a general anesthesia.
41:14You'll have a local.
41:15Nick, about the baby pool.
41:17Tomorrow my money's on the boys.
41:21Twelve against nine.
41:24You'll find four bits on the bedside.
41:26Okay, Dr. Warwood.
41:29Think I can win twice in a row?
41:32I'll be down tomorrow night to help you count the jackpot.
41:34I'll be right back.
42:04How's the patient doing?
42:20All vital signs are stable.
42:22Check his responses.
42:25Dr. Walnut.
42:26Do you hear me?
42:28Yeah.
42:29Raise your right hand.
42:30Knife.
42:57that it i'm into the artery as far as i can go you get me back flow a little we'll have to try a
43:19graft whatever you want to do let's not waste time we're getting a real problem here doctors
43:23the patient's awake you know
43:25the external artery is too small you'll never be able to put in the graft we'll have to try
43:49you heard what the cardiologist said time is running out doctor this operation was your
43:53idea not mine now that it started let's give him a run for his money all right then casey give him a run
44:01for his money
44:01how's he doing
44:26please take my hand
44:31please take my hand
44:35squeeze
44:42we're all right here dr kill better finish up sooner the better
44:50what about the graft we better take what we have and leave no use trying for the moon
44:58let's close
45:00so
45:05so
45:07good morning sir
45:36well
45:43do i join the olympic hockey team next year
45:47we did everything we could for you sir
45:51what does that mean
45:55we're able to buy you another year
45:58maybe two
45:59another year
46:02maybe two
46:06maybe two
46:07yes sir
46:08that's it
46:10be honest with you all
46:15that's not exactly what i expected
46:18what i expected
46:25already told you sir we did everything for you we possibly could
46:27i tried to clear the artery as much as i could
46:29i was going to try an arteriograph but the anesthetist called it off
46:36you couldn't take it
46:40you've got a right to feel any way you want to about it but
46:43i want you to know we did our best
46:47that's not enough
46:49i'm sorry
46:50i guess you
46:52i guess you
46:53you got the wrong man for the job
46:59extraordinary young man casey
47:01truly exceptional
47:03but you have two basic flaws in your makeup
47:06one
47:08you don't jump to conclusions
47:10you pole vault
47:12and then you have a great gift for immediate misunderstanding
47:18now just a minute sir
47:20there's more
47:22what do you take me for an old clod
47:26haven't you any idea what it means to a man of my years to have another year or two of life
47:34i'd have been happy if it were only a few months
47:38you did a fine job boy
47:42i'm proud of you
47:45there
47:46how's that for a testimony
47:49thank you doctor i
47:50i don't know what to say
47:52well what do you know
47:53a red letter day
47:55then casey had a lost words
47:58michael
47:59you're looking just fine
48:01and i'm feeling even finer
48:03then brace yourself
48:04i've got some bad news for you
48:06he already told me
48:07i don't call that bad news
48:10well this is something else
48:13nick
48:19dr waldman
48:21dr casey
48:23the front office is hopping mad
48:26they tell me this man is running some kind of gambling operation here
48:30a nursery pool i believe they called it
48:33did he solicit any bets from you
48:36that depends
48:38how did i come out yesterday nick did i win
48:41you did it again doctor
48:43twelve boys nine girls
48:45fantastics
48:47you ought to know better michael
48:48this can cause trouble
48:49this can cause trouble
48:51gambling in this hospital is prohibited by law
48:53it is
48:55when i am forced to make
48:57a citizen's arrest
48:59because he gambled
49:01he gambled
49:03he gambled
49:05and won
49:06call the wagonята
49:07call the wagon
49:08call the wagon
49:10ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha
49:11THE END
49:41THE END
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