Patch Adams Page #7

Rule, I think that applies to everyone.

Don't you, sir ?

I've also heard you have

a real passion to be a doctor, Hunter.

Patch.

Truth of it is, Hunter,

passion doesn't make doctors.

I make doctors.

Understood ?

- Understood.

- Good.

Medical students, as a rule,

have no contact with patients

until the third year.

- Is that clear ?

- It is, sir, but don't you think--

- Is that clear ?

- It is, sir, but don't you think--

Our way of doing things

is a product of centuries of experience.

It's all there for a reason.

[ Faint Sirens, People Shouting ]

It's my hospital.

I know everything

that goes on inside of it.

Everything.

[ Truman ]

Deviation of the tongue.

- [ Woman ]

A problem with the cranial nerve.

- Which side ?

- Right side, tenth nerve.

- Twelfth nerve.

Do you know how many billions of dollars

are wasted on malpractice insurance ?

That's money that goes to lawyers

that could go to patients.

- Hi, guys. Sorry I'm late.

- Everybody know Carin Fisher,

Adelane's roommate ?

I invited her to join

our study group.

So, Carin, why do you

want to be a doctor ?

Is it just me, or do we

have a lot of work to do ?

It's just a question.

I think it's the question.

Actually, I don't find the question

here in the outline.

- What page are you on ?

- Uh, 1432.

Deviation of a tongue.

We'd learn more if we were

working closely with patients.

That's why we're studying--

to learn enough to help the patients.

Adelane, don't waste your breath.

Don't you th--

[ Sighs ]

Don't you think

I see through you ?

You act like you're above the system

when you're really just a nonconformist.

You have to get

under the fingernails...

of any authority figure

that crosses your path...

as a way of dealing

with some insecurity.

Antisocial personality, I believe.

Intriguing diagnosis.

Truman, this isn't funny. Smart people

flunk out of here all the time.

Yeah, uh, odds are one of

the five of us sitting here, actually.

I have another question.

In a perfect system...

why are patients referred to

by their disease...

as in "that interesting

cancer patient,"

and not by their name ?

- It certainly isn't to be mean.

It's to prevent transference.

- And why is that bad ?

- And the one flunking out is ?

- Can we get back to the tongue ?

What if a doctor becomes

emotionally involved with a patient ?

Does a doctor explode ?

No.

Who came up

with these rules ?

It's against the Hippocratic oath,

I think.

I don't really have time for this.

Sorry.

Bye.

- Bye.

- Sorry.

- Charming.

- Bye.

- Truman ?

- Yeah.

- I'm sorry. I didn't mean

to stop you from studying.

- Go away !

I believe there's more to being

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