The Hospital (1971)

Robert Walden: Dr. Brubaker

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• Bock : A man comes into this hospital in perfect health, and in the space of one week, we chop out one kidney, damage another, reduce him to coma, and damn near kill him.

  Dr. Brubaker : Yes, sir.

  Bock : You know, Brubaker, last night I sat in my hotel room, reviewing the shambles of my life - and contemplating suicide. I said, "No, Bock. No, don't do it. You're a doctor, you're a healer. You're the Chief of Medicine at one of the great hospitals of the world. You are a necessary person. Your life is meaningful." Then I walk in here, today, and I find out that one of my doctors. was killed by a couple of nurses who mistook him for a patient; because, he screwed a technician from the Nephrology Lab.

  Dr. Brubaker : Hematology.

  Bock : And now you come to me with this gothic horror story in which the entire machinery of modern medicine has apparently conspired to destroy one lousy patient. Now, how am I to sustain my feeling of meaningfulness in the face of this?

• Dr. Brubaker : What about the girl? She says we have no legal right to stop her from taking her father out. She's willing to sign an AOR form.

  Bock : Let him go - before we kill him.

• Dr. Brubaker : Somebody ought to ream his ass.

  Bock : I'm going to ream his ass.

• Dr. Brubaker : I've seen some pretty good snafus. But this one - there's a certain splendor to this one. One of the night nurses... thought Schaefer was a patient and plugged an IV into him. He was a diabetic, you know.

  Bock : What do you mean she plugged an IV into him?

  Dr. Brubaker : It's a really screwed-up story, Doc. You see, what happened was we had an old man in that bed who died last night. So the bed was available. You know Schaefer. He's Sammy Stud.

  Bock : So, he talked a nurse into zapping him on the bed?

  Dr. Brubaker : One of the girls from Hematology he's been running around with.

  Bock : God, it's a Roman farce!