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Young Dr. Grant (William Shatner) answers a medical-journal ad offering a "rewarding practice" for $1,000,000, but the run-down emergency hospital he finds hardly seems a lucrative enterprise.
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00:00A case is a case is a case, Bill. A patient's a patient. If you think of them as God's children, you're in trouble, fella.
00:28Quote, the intrusion of emotion impairs efficiency. Unquote. Dear old Professor Elm.
00:32Okay, no argument. I just want the patient to be my patient, my case, and my responsibility.
00:38Responsibility he wants, Ed.
00:40Five hours in surgery, backing up the great man on an open-heart job, and he wants responsibility.
00:46You said the key words, Charlie. Backing up. It was his case, not mine.
00:49Always will be, as long as you stay here or any other city hospital.
00:53The answer is private practice, if you can ever afford to buy one.
00:56Gotcha.
00:58Yeah, there's always the Peace Corps. Lots of responsibility there. Interesting cases, too.
01:02They got elephantiasis, poison darts.
01:04Oh, come on.
01:05Just because a guy's head to the teeth working as an assistant scrubbing doesn't mean to say he wants to be Albert Schweitzer.
01:10But I recognize the men in white syndrome, fella. The word is challenge.
01:13For myself, I want a nice cushion practice at GYN.
01:18Lucrative. Never a night call.
01:20You're welcome to it, Charlie. I can't see making a career out of hot flashes and hypochondria.
01:26Hey. Hey, listen to this ad, will you?
01:29Barry Logan, M.D., offers rewarding practice for young doctor not interested in typical career.
01:35Price, one million dollars.
01:37Can you beat that?
01:39Yeah, I read it.
01:40What are you waiting for, Bill?
01:42Yeah, you should get plenty of responsibility for a million bucks.
01:45But a million bucks, who needs responsibility?
01:49Well, as a matter of fact, I thought of going over there and seeing what it's all about.
01:52I looked up Logan in the directory. He's pretty solid.
01:55He should be Harvey Cushing for that kind of dope.
01:57What do you plan to use for money?
01:59Well, I thought I'd make a ten dollar down payment.
02:01That'll leave me twenty-nine dollars for the rest of the month.
02:03Hey.
02:04You know where this golden opportunity is waiting for you?
02:08Elm Street, Stoke, Indiana.
02:11Even if it was Park Avenue, there never was a practice worth a million bucks.
02:15That's exactly why I thought I'd take a look-see.
02:17It's crazy, isn't it?
02:20That ought to put it right up your alley.
02:22Yeah, let me see that.
02:23Oh, that's got to be kidding there, Bill.
02:25You know that that's liable to be some funeral parlor or something.
02:28Or a clip joint.
02:29I'll let you know.
02:29Tomorrow afternoon, when I'm off, that's where I'm going.
02:32A million bucks.
02:34Some opportunity.
02:36You're crazy.
02:36I'll see you.
03:02A million dollars.
03:32William Grant, M.D., was suffering from that restiveness that assails many a young doctor
03:37after years of interning in a big city hospital.
03:41But those years in the efficient, modern building, working with all the gleaming equipment available
03:45to modern medicine, had left him unprepared for the little storefront emergency hospital
03:49to be found in the odd corners of our cities.
03:53But not much to look at.
03:54Certainly, they don't have a million-dollar look, but they fill a need.
03:58And surprisingly, Bill Grant was to find this particular one held something important for him, too.
04:03Bill Grant, M.D.
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07:23Nurse said she saw a few of them a few days after the ad appeared.
07:27Took one look from across the street and left.
07:30Looked good and sore, too. Like you, Doctor.
07:34Do you blame them?
07:36Not a bit.
07:38I do feel sorry for them, though.
07:43Dr. Logan, can you tell me what makes this place worth a million dollars?
07:50Or is it some practical joke?
07:53No joke, Doctor. Practical or otherwise.
07:57This practice is worth every cent.
08:00To the right party.
08:03Excuse me.
08:08Hi, are you the Doctor?
08:09I'm the Doctor.
08:10Trouble.
08:12Oh, Crumb, Mom's gonna be awful mad.
08:14Moms usually understand.
08:17What happened?
08:19That's all right, he's a doctor, too.
08:21Dr. Grant.
08:24It's nothing.
08:25Nothing terrible.
08:26It's a splinter.
08:32Better come in here with me.
08:35If you climb up here, we'll have a look at it.
08:38Well, that's quite a splinter.
08:51Where did you ever pick up a sliver that long?
08:53Playing table tennis. Isn't that crazy?
08:56Off the corner of the table, I guess.
08:58Didn't anybody do anything about it?
09:00Well, I didn't say anything.
09:03When I saw the blood and all, I just put on my sweater and left.
09:09Where was this?
09:10Oh, boy, I know.
09:11He's got a table in the basement.
09:13Where the furnace is, you know?
09:14But real nice.
09:16Your parents know you were coming here?
09:18Oh, they'd be awful mad if I called them at work for something like this.
09:22Besides, I was supposed to go straight home after school, and it's after six now.
09:26I see.
09:32Well, hold your skirt.
09:34Is it gonna hurt real bad?
09:36No.
09:37If it does, I think perhaps Dr. Grant would hold your hand if we asked it.
09:42But, Grant, would you give this young lady moral support?
09:45And half a cc of tetanus toxoid?
09:50While I take out the biggest splinter since Charlie McCarthy.
09:53Are you working for your brownie badge in Woodcraft?
09:57Her boyfriend's ping-pong table, $10.
10:01Any refrigeration around here?
10:06Your parents send you?
10:12Nurse will be back in a minute, Doctor, if you don't care to be involved.
10:21Ouch!
10:23It hurts.
10:28How about that?
10:30Wow.
10:32Sleep up.
10:53It's gonna sting a bit.
10:54A little pain's good now and then.
11:03It's part of living.
11:04Thanks a lot.
11:05What, leave a scar?
11:06Not so as you'll notice it.
11:07Okay.
11:08That's it.
11:09How much is that?
11:10Well, now, what's your allowance?
11:11Fifty cents.
11:12A quarter, please.
11:13Thanks.
11:14Thanks a lot.
11:15You too, Doctor.
11:16Wash that skirt in cold water.
11:17Your mom won't notice it.
11:18I will.
11:19Cold water, mind.
11:20Goodbye, Doctor.
11:21I know.
11:22I didn't have parental release.
11:23If anything goes wrong.
11:24I don't have parental release.
11:25If anything goes wrong.
11:26I don't have parental release.
11:27If anything goes wrong.
11:28The chances of anything going wrong are about one in a million.
11:32Well, that makes it okay and legal, of course.
11:33On the other hand, there's always a chance of tetanus in a case like this.
11:34If anything goes wrong, the chances of anything going wrong are about one in a million.
11:52Well, that makes it okay and legal, of course.
11:54On the other hand, there's always a chance of tetanus in a case like this.
12:00There's always a chance of tetanus in a case like this.
12:02It was a pretty deep puncture.
12:04The perfect setup for a malpractice, you.
12:08You wouldn't be of the school that would let a man die in the street
12:10for fear his heirs ensue.
12:12I don't go looking for trouble.
12:14A mistake.
12:16You might find interesting things in life looking for trouble.
12:20Thanks for the assistance anyway, Dr. Grant.
12:30Dr. Logan, I believe it's customary to base the price of a practice on earnings.
12:36I believe it is.
12:37Well, from what I've seen so far, 50 cents a quarter.
12:40You haven't seen anything yet, Doctor.
12:48Doctor, a terrible thing has happened to me.
12:51Sit down here.
12:52Relax.
12:53What's the trouble?
12:55It's nothing with the pulse.
12:57It's with my stomach.
13:00I swallowed my cap.
13:03Your cap?
13:07A bridge?
13:08A bridge cap by the dentist.
13:10It is a cap.
13:12A hundred and fifty-five dollars.
13:14It's already in my stomach.
13:16Tees.
13:17My insides, I need.
13:19Pump me, please.
13:21That won't be necessary.
13:23Take some bread and milk.
13:25Bread and milk?
13:27That's right.
13:28You go home, eat a bowl of bread and milk.
13:30Come back tomorrow.
13:34Bread and milk?
13:36And for that you charge me?
13:37Nothing, my friend.
13:38Good night.
13:42Bread and milk.
13:46I can see where a fellow could make a fortune in a place like this.
13:48Bread and groceries.
13:49Look where you're going, can't you?
13:53Can't you see your condition?
13:55Did he hurt you, honey?
13:56I'll knock his head off.
13:57You clumsy, oh!
13:58Please, Mary, forgive me.
13:59I didn't know.
14:00Oh, really, Henry, for goodness sakes.
14:02The poor man didn't even touch me.
14:04Really, it's all right.
14:05What's all the trouble?
14:06Doctor, my wife needs attention.
14:08Your immediate attention.
14:09Come on, honey.
14:10This doctor will tell you, take milk and bread and come back tomorrow.
14:15Come on, dear.
14:17Are you in labor?
14:18No, sir.
14:19Oh, it can happen any minute, doctor.
14:21You see, in my family, there's...
14:22Which of you is having this baby?
14:24Well, this is no joking matter, doctor.
14:26In my family...
14:27Henry, doctor, really, the baby isn't due for another month yet, but Henry keeps thinking...
14:31Doctor, everyone in my family was premature.
14:33My mother was premature.
14:34I was premature.
14:35That you are.
14:36So take the girl home and quit fretting.
14:39Don't worry, my dear.
14:41I don't like your attitude, doctor, not one bit.
14:44Believe me, if our obstetrician wasn't out of town today, I never would have brought my wife to this dump.
14:49Henry, come on.
14:50You're quite right.
14:51This is no place for her.
14:53So take her home.
14:57Come on, Henry, let's go.
14:58Sorry you made a wasted trip, Dr. Grant.
15:01But thanks, anyway, for crossing the road.
15:06You still haven't let me in on the million dollar bid.
15:09That was just a figure, son.
15:11What the right man would be getting here hasn't a price.
15:15Involvement.
15:17Total involvement with his fellow men.
15:20That's what life's about, Dr. Grant.
15:23What makes it worthwhile.
15:25Come on, lady.
15:28I ain't gonna carry it.
15:30I can handle it.
15:31Help yourself.
15:32Another pill job from the Riverside Hotel.
15:35Here's her purse.
15:36I already got my fare.
15:37Here.
15:38I've got it.
15:39You call Dr. Logan.
15:40It hurts my back.
15:41You gotta do something for me.
15:42You'll just have to wait.
15:43Dr. Logan.
15:45Dale.
15:49Hold it.
15:51She's in bad shape.
15:52Take her my office.
15:54Take time if she's lucky.
15:56I'll advise nurse, five percent glucose drip.
16:19All right, show down over there.
16:20And shut off.
16:21Hey, where's the doctor?
16:23Busy.
16:25Wait your turn in the waiting room.
16:28You got him?
16:30Okay.
16:35My friend here hasn't got time to wait.
16:37Hey, you call the doctor.
16:39Oh.
16:50Doctor.
16:53There's another emergency.
17:01Did you hear me, doctor?
17:04One emergency at a time, nurse.
17:06Get this Levi set up, please.
17:08There are some hoodlums out here that want you.
17:11Hey, doc.
17:12My buddy out there had an accident.
17:14Take a look at him, will you?
17:16This woman is in very serious condition.
17:18I didn't ask you how's business, doc.
17:20I'm telling you to take care of my buddy.
17:24Now.
17:30Take over.
17:33Assist Dr. Grant.
17:35Wait a minute.
17:36You're gonna need him.
17:37I'll let her know if I do.
17:40Oh, doctor.
17:41Good evening, Mrs. Fisher.
17:42I just came after my vitamins.
17:43I do everything.
17:44Sit down, lady.
17:45Don't worry, my dear.
17:46They won't harm you.
17:47Oh, doctor.
17:48This will get to you soon.
17:49I need some peridol for my back.
17:50I'm a terrible...
17:51Oh, shut up.
17:52Gunshot or knife.
17:53Gunshot.
17:54Set him up against that machine.
17:57What's that?
17:58Fluoroscope.
17:59I have to locate the slug.
18:01Do like he says.
18:04Help him off with his coat.
18:07Forget the lavage.
18:08Get the IV glucose drip going right away.
18:09But Dr. Logan...
18:10Dr. Logan didn't have her blood pressure.
18:12I doubt if there'll be time to do both.
18:15There's a phone on the desk.
18:19Who's he?
18:20He's that doctor.
18:21You.
18:23Get out and give a hand.
18:24That girl's gonna die unless she gets...
18:25Oh, I'll send her flowers.
18:27Now you get out and hold them up like the doc says.
18:31Matt.
18:32Go sit in the waiting room.
18:33Anybody comes in, you keep them there.
18:36What's her blood pressure?
18:37It's falling.
18:40Put that light out.
18:43That's light, please.
18:45Okay.
18:46But don't anybody try anything.
18:54Two slugs.
19:02One on the lung, one on the stomach.
19:05Probably general hemorrhaging.
19:09All right.
19:10Put the light on.
19:17Am I gonna make it?
19:18That depends on your friend, dear.
19:20How soon he gets you to a place that's equipped for this kind of job.
19:22I'm not.
19:25But you're gonna give it the old college try, aren't you, Doug?
19:27It's a matter of equipment.
19:29Who asked you?
19:31You gotta put those slugs in him as dead.
19:33We take him to a hospital, he's as good as dead, too.
19:36Follow me.
19:37This is a two-hour operation, at least.
19:40So what are you waiting for?
19:42All right.
19:44You help Dr. Grant get him on the table while I scrub up.
19:47Nah, Doug.
19:49Old Doug Grant here looks like a big, strong boy to me.
19:52If he needs any help, Matt will do it.
19:54I can manage.
19:56Yeah, I figured you could.
19:59Any reaction?
20:01Nothing, doctor.
20:09Cover up the blankets and set the time up for 30 minutes.
20:12I'm gonna need you.
20:13I have to go.
20:14And then I'm gonna need you.
20:15One.
20:16One.
20:17Two.
20:18One.
20:19One.
20:20Two.
20:22Two.
20:23Two.
20:24Two.
20:25One.
20:26One.
20:27One.
20:29Two.
20:30Two.
20:31Two.
20:33Two.
20:34There's a booth in the next block. Local calls. Ten cents.
20:37There's a phone on the desk.
20:40Why don't anybody use it?
20:42Why don't you rip it off the wall like a real hood?
20:45I'll have an emergency crew here in ten minutes.
20:48Oh, you are real cute.
20:54Hi.
20:56Quiet night.
20:58Is Doc Logan in with the patient?
21:00Yeah.
21:04Nurse got any coffee going?
21:06Skowalski.
21:08She's in with the doctor.
21:09They got a pretty rough case in there.
21:11That's why I'm waiting.
21:14Your kin?
21:16Nothing to do with me.
21:18Just waiting my turn.
21:20I'm sure glad to hear that.
21:22Everybody's got enough troubles.
21:24Wouldn't want to wish nothing on nobody.
21:26The nurse usually fixes me a cup of coffee around about this time.
21:30All right.
21:31Now, don't let anybody start anything.
21:33Nobody intends to start anything unless you do.
21:37I hope you're right.
21:42Well, I guess I better check back later when she's not so busy.
21:46Nice talking to you, young fella.
21:48See you.
22:00And make them hurry up, will ya?
22:06Hey.
22:07How come no gloves?
22:09I'll take a chance if your friend will.
22:14I can't feel that I've had it.
22:16I don't know if Dr. Logan can do anything about it.
22:18Although I don't know why he should.
22:19Because he's a human being, Dr. Grant.
22:21Thought of.
22:24Would you assist on this, Doctor?
22:25It's gonna be a long job.
22:26It's gonna be a long job.
22:27I'll do it.
22:28I'll do it.
22:51Pressure's dropped a bit.
22:54Think of it.
22:55Two cc's.
23:14Forceps.
23:20Pressure steady.
23:25After battle.
23:29I wonder how many of those he deposited in other people.
23:32Right now I couldn't be less interested.
23:35Let's go after the other one.
23:55I'll take care of that.
24:02Okay, doctor?
24:03Go ahead.
24:04Glucose is under the sink.
24:08How's he doing in there?
24:09He's still breathing.
24:10Well, he'd better be.
24:12Let the trays begin to stack up out there.
24:13You tell the old man to hurry it up.
24:14Deliver your own message as Dr. Logan's doing the best he can in a lousy cause.
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25:12Hey, you. They're calling. They want some adrenaline.
25:27Hey, what's the matter with you or you? You'll get for something.
25:30Now move.
25:36Oh, let's see. Adrenaline.
25:42Oh, let's see.
25:57Operate, get me the police. Emergency.
26:02This is the Elm Street Emergency Hospital. Hold up. Make it fast, but exercise caution.
26:10Bill.
26:12Well, the police are on the way.
26:21I lost the other one.
26:24You picked a busy night.
26:25I guess I never will yet resign to losing one.
26:35They won't be missed.
26:37That we don't know.
26:51We're going to have to do something about this girl.
26:55Doesn't she have a handbag?
26:57I'm for knowing as little as possible in cases like this.
27:00Time enough for that if she doesn't come out of it.
27:02Well, somebody might want to see her before she doesn't pull out of it.
27:06Coffee break.
27:07They're stacked up three deep out there.
27:09Oh, I've thinned them out.
27:11I got rid of little old Winnie Fisher and the rest of that vitamin and blood pressure trade.
27:16Get out!
27:17This is private.
27:18I can't stand it a minute longer, Doc.
27:20I got a bad back.
27:21Slip disc.
27:22Oh, I had x-rays.
27:24It's agony, Doc.
27:25I gotta have...
27:25Two aspirin and codeine there.
27:26Right.
27:27This way.
27:28Aspirin.
27:29Doc, stuff like that won't touch it.
27:31I gotta have Paranol.
27:33It's the only thing...
27:33Sorry.
27:34I'll fix you up.
27:43This will do it.
27:45This is...
27:45It's what you need.
27:59Thanks, Doc.
28:01What do I owe you?
28:01Pay the nurse.
28:03Thanks.
28:06You didn't fall for that backache bit.
28:08He looked like an addict to me.
28:09Maybe.
28:11I get a lot of them here.
28:13You're thinking that's the million dollar answer.
28:17The great lucrative practice.
28:20The old dope peddler posing as the good Samaritan.
28:25But I see you're resisting it.
28:27Giving me the benefit of the doubt.
28:29I thank you.
28:33It was a dose of B12 I gave that poor guy.
28:36Poor guy?
28:38Where do you think he's gonna get you?
28:39Giving vitamins to a junkie?
28:41You'd be surprised.
28:43Sometimes they get the message.
28:47If they come back, I'll report them.
28:48I see.
28:49Well, it makes sense.
28:52You get them off your back.
28:53That's right.
28:56You see, with experience and advancing years, your horizon's narrow.
29:01And you stop trying to climb the highest mountain.
29:06When I first opened this place years ago, I really thought I could do something about it.
29:10One of my first patients was on morphine.
29:14That fellow used to come around here every night with the greatest assortment of ailments.
29:21All needing painkiller.
29:23I must say he had a wonderful imagination.
29:28I never refused him a shot.
29:32Little by little, I reduced the dose.
29:34And do you know I almost had him weaned?
29:39What I didn't figure on was that this place became a way station for all the junkies in Indiana.
29:47They used to come over from Chicago in carloads.
29:51That was a lesson, Bill.
29:53You know, sometimes we forget that we're people, too.
29:57Not God.
29:59As some of our patients would like us to believe.
30:04Yes?
30:12Mrs. Jackson?
30:16Again?
30:19No, I can't call him to the phone right now.
30:20He's busy with a patient.
30:22But I'll ask him.
30:24Jimmy Jackson's done it again.
30:26They just got in from a party and found an empty box of bird seed on his bed.
30:34Tell her, give him some cream and berries to go with it.
30:41Dr. Logan says not to worry.
30:44Just give Jimmy some cream and berries.
30:48Yes, that's all.
30:51No, no, I can't.
30:53But I'll tell him.
30:55Good night, Mrs. Jackson.
30:56She says to tell you she just hopes it'll work.
31:02I think about half of my practice is built on people swallowing things.
31:07Nowadays seem to swallow anything, particularly by way of their ears.
31:12You think you're smart?
31:21I'll show you.
31:22He got the message okay, but he didn't like it.
31:36They never do.
31:38Well, there are no asses.
31:40Who's next?
31:42Oh, this young lady dropped a bowling ball on her foot.
31:44She hates bowling.
31:46Let's have a look at it.
31:47I appreciate your help, Bill, but you don't have to stay all night, you know.
31:54Well, there's unfinished business, doctor.
31:58Hiya, doc.
32:00What happened here?
32:01I heard a guy screaming his head up, but I lost him.
32:03I had my eye on a drunk back there.
32:06Sure made a mess out of this.
32:08You know who did it?
32:09I have no idea, officer.
32:11Just been having one of those nights.
32:12You can say that again.
32:13Hey, you, I saw you're weaving down the street.
32:16Now get out of here before I run you in.
32:23He isn't drunk.
32:26Diabetic coma.
32:32Nurse, I be normal saline at a hundred units insulin.
32:40Would you take care of that, Bill?
32:41This man's going to need a lot of attention.
32:43Sure.
32:46Nurse, hurry up with that insulin.
32:49What was the name of the place where the cat picked up the girl?
32:51The Riverside Hotel.
33:11First, I'm going to be unki glorified.
33:20And I'll drink water.
33:20Now we're on the first thing.
33:21I'm going to keep the heat and water.
33:22I need some water.
33:22I need some water.
33:26I need some water.
33:30I need some water also.
34:02Information?
34:14Give me the phone number of the Riverside Hotel.
34:22Thank you very much.
34:32This is the Elm Street Emergency Hospital.
34:37A girl was brought in here from your place earlier this evening.
34:41Right.
34:42Do you know her name and address?
34:48Oh, no, that'll be fine.
34:49Mr. Foyle, F-O-Y-L-E, J-C, 1711 Maple Street.
35:02Well, I'm afraid I don't care too much how he'll feel.
35:06Good night.
35:06Give me the phone number of Mr. J.C. Foyle, 1711 Maple Street, please.
35:18I need the timer.
35:21Any improvement?
35:22Well, I've got the name and the address of the man who was with her at the hotel.
35:27The clerk knew him.
35:28So what you gonna do about it?
35:31Call him.
35:59Mr. Foyle, this is the Elm Street Emergency Hospital.
36:08That girl you were with today at the hotel was brought in here, unconscious.
36:15Are you there?
36:18Well, I'm afraid I can't tell you that.
36:20We're doing all we can.
36:22I'd like you to give me her name and address and next of kin.
36:25Do you know what she took and why?
36:42Keep it quiet.
36:43I guess there's no use my asking if you'll come down and pick her up if she does come out of it.
36:53Oh, yes.
36:53I can see how your wife might not go for it.
36:58Really?
37:01Well, apparently it wasn't just one of those things to her, Mr. Foyle.
37:04You know what's bothering that louse, the trouble he's liable to have with his wife.
37:17Does that surprise you?
37:18No, I guess not.
37:20Her name is Shirley Mason.
37:22No kin in the city.
37:23She rooms with a family of 279 West Walnut.
37:25We'll have to notify them if she doesn't respond soon.
37:34I know she's your case, doctor.
37:36The way you talk to that fellow, I say you're more involved than I am.
37:41What's on your mind?
37:43I'd like to try a picrotoxin intravenously.
37:55Go ahead.
37:59It's on the shelf.
38:03How's your diabetic?
38:05Lucky thing for him, that policeman didn't pick him up on the street.
38:10Yes.
38:11Surprised how many times they end up on the drunk tank.
38:14And I mean end.
38:16Just because it's so seldom that anybody bothers.
38:19Take a second look.
38:25You got a rough one there.
38:30Multiple myeloma.
38:33I wouldn't give him three months.
38:35That was about my prognosis.
38:38Tough verdict to deliver.
38:40Toughest still to accept.
38:43You better keep a close watch for reaction after that.
38:55Tough despite the day.
39:07Toughud's heart rush.
39:10Toughud's heart rush.
39:13Toughud's heart rush.
39:16Another one.
39:17Toughud's heart rush.
39:20Another one.
39:21Toughud's heart rush.
39:24Hashay.
39:25features.
39:25You're in an emergency hospital.
39:49You've been here quite a while.
39:50Almost all night.
39:52Gave us quite a time.
39:55I wish I were dead.
40:02Alive is better.
40:08You'll think so, too.
40:10After you've had a cup of coffee.
40:11I'm about due for one myself.
40:12Why don't you join me?
40:19Nurse!
40:21According to the officer on the beach,
40:22he makes the best coffee east of Chicago.
40:25Well, you finally came through for us.
40:30You'd gotten to be our oldest inhabitant around here.
40:35You don't know how lucky you are.
40:38Oh, I don't mean just being alive, honey,
40:40but I mean getting wise to that lawful wedded heel.
40:44Why don't you make us some of your super coffee?
40:46And tell Dr. Logan we're in fine shape.
40:48I'll tell him.
40:50He's busy setting the foot of that woman who dropped the bowling ball on it.
40:54He finally got around to it.
40:56You'll never know the trouble a woman will go to not to do the thing she doesn't want to do.
41:01We'll feel hungover for a while.
41:04She'll be okay.
41:05Why don't you sit up?
41:08I want you to take a shower before you go.
41:13If you feel woozy, you just sit down and yell for the nurse.
41:17After you get dressed, we'll have some coffee, okay?
41:19How did she know about him?
41:26The hotel clerk gave me his name and address.
41:30I called him a little while ago.
41:33Oh?
41:35How did he sound?
41:38I mean, what did he say when you told him?
41:43He was sore at being awakened
41:45and worried about what his wife would say.
41:49He didn't say anything at all.
41:54Didn't seem to care.
41:56My guess is he never cared for anyone but himself.
42:00Now, you get up.
42:03And we'll have some coffee and talk some more.
42:05If you want to.
42:05If you don't, you're free to leave whenever you want to.
42:08We'll be glad to see you go.
42:10Under your own power.
42:15Come on.
42:19In there.
42:30There we are.
42:33Doctor?
42:40There we are.
42:41There we are.
42:43There we are.
42:44There we are.
42:45I should have known right from the start.
42:59And after a while, I guess I did know.
43:03But I couldn't face it then.
43:06Because I'd fallen hard for him.
43:08Last week, I saw him in a store
43:14with a woman and two kids.
43:18You could tell it was his wife.
43:23And I felt
43:24sick like never in my whole life.
43:29It was as if all my blood had turned to ice water.
43:31Better drink your coffee before it turns to ice water.
43:43We had a date tonight.
43:46I mean, last night.
43:48And I kept it.
43:53Just to feel his arms around me one last time.
43:58But I couldn't.
44:01And when I told him why,
44:04he said I was crazy.
44:08What difference did it make for us?
44:09He only stayed with her
44:12on account of the kids.
44:14She hadn't been a wife to him for years.
44:16That kind of corny stuff.
44:19I knew he was lying.
44:23But it didn't matter.
44:25I'd already made up my mind
44:27to do it, whatever he said.
44:30If everybody
44:31who had done something
44:33that left a bad taste in their mouth
44:34killed themselves,
44:36the world would be
44:38pretty thinly populated.
44:39Well,
44:43I guess I'll take off.
44:51If I had to be saved,
44:52it couldn't have been by a nicer guy.
44:55I could have easily hated you.
44:56I don't think I'll have the
44:59guts to try it again.
45:01Shirley,
45:03if you put it on that basis,
45:04you will try again.
45:05What you have to have right now
45:07is the guts to go on living.
45:09until you want to live again.
45:12That won't be so long, believe me.
45:14you want to see what death looks like?
45:18you want to live again.
45:28Here.
45:29Here.
45:32Here.
45:33Take a look.
45:36Portrait of a man in real trouble.
45:38Three months from now, he'll be dead.
45:40All the glucose in the world can't save him.
45:44Does he know?
45:45No, he still has to be told.
45:46By you?
45:47No, he's not my patient, I'm happy to say.
45:50Dr. Grant likes patients who are going to live.
45:53Who doesn't?
45:55Life is very precious.
45:57You remember that, my dear.
45:59Nobody and nothing is worth killing yourself for.
46:03I'll remember.
46:05Thanks.
46:06I hope you really mean that now.
46:12I think she does.
46:14Bless you, girl.
46:20That's the best thing she could do.
46:22I hope she cries her head off.
46:25The ones who walk out with a brave wooden smile
46:28that come back on a stretcher.
46:31Well, Bill, if you have early duty,
46:33you better get on your way.
46:34Come on, you won't make it.
46:35Look out.
46:36I won't make it anyway.
46:47But it's been worth it.
46:49For me, at least.
46:50You know, it seems like an age since I was kicking myself about not having any responsibility.
46:56And now, for the first time since I've been out of school,
46:58I really feel 100% responsible for somebody for a while.
47:02even if she was your patient.
47:03Even if she was your patient.
47:05That's because you became involved with a person.
47:09Instead of just treating a case.
47:12You gave her a bit of yourself.
47:14You gave her time.
47:15The most priceless thing.
47:16The most priceless thing we have.
47:18Yes, I guess you're right.
47:22Certainly is for that guy.
47:25Look at the extent of those osteolithic lesions.
47:28And you see that?
47:30I really appreciate how precious time is.
47:36Yeah.
47:40It's you, isn't it?
47:41You think anything else could pry me away from this place?
47:54Yeah.
47:57Yeah.
48:01I understand.
48:02You've been lucky.
48:08Really lucky.
48:09How do you mean that, Bill?
48:11You've had a good life.
48:15Everybody's got to die someday.
48:18But not everybody in their whole lives
48:21gets as much living as you do here in a single day.
48:27I think you really do understand.
48:31More to the point.
48:32Bill, do you think a fellow like yourself
48:35could get as much out of a place like this as I do?
48:39Yes.
48:40That's right.
48:41I did come to look it over, didn't I?
48:43Well, I don't know.
48:53I'd take it like a shot.
48:56If I had a million dollars.
48:59Dr. Grant, you've got a deal.
49:01I'll take your check for a million dollars.
49:06Only we'll just date it a bit ahead.
49:09About a year to be safe.
49:10Hello, there.
49:27Hey, Ben.
49:27Well, you got back just in time, doctor.
49:29We were about to call a missing person.
49:30Yeah, I see how concerned you are
49:32from that corner shot you just made.
49:33So what was it, Bill?
49:34A flourishing funeral parlor?
49:36A girly bar?
49:37A boogie joint, maybe?
49:38I have a hunch you guys wouldn't believe me if I told you.
49:40Oh, come on.
49:40Give.
49:41It was an emergency hospital.
49:43For a million bucks.
49:44Must have been something special about it,
49:46like oil well in the basement.
49:48No, nothing like that.
49:49It was a crummy little place, as a matter of fact.
49:51Not much larger than this room.
49:53But it was full of people.
49:58And I bought it.
50:05What do you mean you bought it?
50:07I mean I bought it.
50:10I've handed in my resignation here.
50:13I just dropped by to see you guys,
50:15say goodbye, and wish you luck.
50:17What are you using for money this week?
50:19Well, my credit may not be so good here,
50:22but in Stoke, Indiana,
50:23all I had to do was write a check,
50:26slightly post-dated.
50:28For a cool million dollars.
50:29What else?
50:31It'll never be cashed.
50:37Not a chance.
50:41Not a chance.
50:43So long, doctors.
50:49I'll see you next time.
51:19THE END