The Doctor Page #3

How was yours?

I personally collected a check

for $50,000 towards a new wing

from some guy who's big in glue.

- Let's go spend it.

- Yeah.

Well, what do you know? Oh, you're

not gonna answer it? Come on.

- No.

- Jack.

You're sounding tired again, you know.

You are. You're doing too much, honey.

Let's just skip dinner and go home

and I'll fix you something

while I still have a kitchen.

OK.

- Hello.

- Jack...

Yes, OK. Yeah, OK, put her through.

Mrs. Street, this is Dr. MacKee.

- Dr. MacKee?

- Yup.

Well. You know what it is.

I'm lying here worrying.

Why would that be?

You took out my husband's lung

a month ago.

Now he wants to mow the lawn.

Can he do that?

- Well, it's pretty dark, but...

- Excuse me?

What's he saying?

Does your husband have

a power mower, or does he push it?

Power mower? I don't know. Whatever

you say. He'll mow the lawn anyway.

- That's the way he is.

- You know I got a damn power mower!

- What?

- I got a power mower!

He says it is a power mower. Hello?

I'm sure it'll be fine.

The exercise will do him good. OK?

OK.

- You OK?

- What? Yeah, I'm fine.

What's that on your shirt?

Jack, is that blood?

You know what? I must have burst

a blood vessel trying not to laugh.

Jack, I have blood on my dress.

My God, I have it in my hair, Jack.

What's going on?

- Hey, relax.

- Relax? Has this happened before?

I'm not bleeding to death here.

There's a danger in feeling

too strongly about your patients.

A danger in becoming too involved.

Surgery is about judgment.

To judge, you have to be detached.

But isn't it unnatural not to become

involved with a patient?

There's nothing natural about surgery.

You're cutting open someone's body.

Is that natural? One day you'll have

your hands around someone's heart.

And it's beating. And you'll think,

"Uh-oh. I shouldn't be here."

Well, then all the more reason

to care about what the patient feels.

- The patient feels sick.

- A surgeon's job is to cut.

You've got one shot.

You go in, you fix it and get out.

- Fix it. Get out.

- Get out. Yeah.

Caring's all about time.

When you've got 30 seconds

before some guy bleeds out...

I'd rather you cut straight

and cared less.

Now, Harris here took a walk

from a fifth floor window.

Should we come back?

I'll be back.

Here, Alan.

"Transected aorta,

partially controlled by the pleura."

- Procedure?

- Clamp above and below.

You can suture the tear direct

or use a Dacron graft.

What do we look for

when we go in, Jay-Jay?

Apart from a great deal

of caring? Anyone?

Significant continuing

blood loss and color.

Yeah. How're we doing?

I hadn't planned on ever waking up.

I feel stupid.

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