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Speaker 1: Come in welcome. I'm e. G.

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Speaker 2: Marshall. In spite of all the books the expose as

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the articles that make patients think they are more knowledgeable

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than the doctors, the greatest mystery in our lexicon of

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science is still the human body, murder, visitors from strange planets,

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the suspense of spectral visitors from the grave. None can

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compete with the simple but electrifying drama of the operating room. Ready,

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doctor Shaver, Ready, doctor Marshall.

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Speaker 1: Patient, So are you?

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Speaker 2: Always said?

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Speaker 3: Skeelful McBurney incisions, sir, up to you.

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Speaker 1: It's what i'd use. I'm not a surgeon.

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Speaker 2: You are doctor Shaver to be afraid of.

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Speaker 3: Not on your sweet No, sir, Well, then.

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Speaker 1: Why don't you begin.

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Speaker 2: Our mystery drama? A Case of Negligence was written especially

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for the Mystery Theater by Ian Martin and stars Mason

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Adams and Marion Seldis. It is sponsored in part by

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sin Off, the Sinus Medicines and en Houser Busch Incorporated

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brewers of Budweiser. I'll be back surely with that one.

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Time after time I bring stories of death spirits that

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rise from the grave, murder in every conceivable form, the

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torture of a man or woman knowing they are doomed death.

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Speaker 1: Which comes, as it must to all men. The great mystery.

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Speaker 2: This story is about those men most concerned with it

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and with life, the doctors, in particular, the surgeons.

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Speaker 1: And the hidden danger they face.

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Speaker 2: It begins appropriately enough in the clinic of a typical

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community hospital. Use it right there, but that'll be right

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back with a doctor.

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Speaker 4: No big deal, I'll meet a hospital.

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Speaker 5: Cheer up, it's only an emergency ward.

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Speaker 1: What you do, gop hand?

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Speaker 5: Is it caught in a cookie jar? Well, I guess

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you must have got ruffed up by a tiger.

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Speaker 4: Nah, I just got fit by shadow.

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Speaker 5: Who's that a black leopard dog?

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Speaker 6: Tommy?

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Speaker 2: But he didn't mean it.

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Speaker 5: Of course he didn't, because dog is man's best friend.

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I'm only a little boy boy's best friend too.

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Speaker 4: And they won't do anything to him.

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Speaker 5: Oh no, why should they when he didn't mean it.

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You'll get bit too, No, just indigestion, something old men get.

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Speaker 2: I don't like to step out of mind, doctor Downing,

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but you know this sort of thing, it.

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Speaker 6: Could be I quite understand, mister Pollock. Of course we've

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had no cases of Rabi's reported it was a neighbor's pet.

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Speaker 4: But just to make sure. Excuse me, are you mister

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avenged me.

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Speaker 6: Ma'am, I'm doctor downing If you're not in any discomfort,

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this little boy's father quite concern old doctor.

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Speaker 1: Don't you worry about me.

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Speaker 5: I'm used to living with pain after seventy five years.

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Speaker 1: You turned to spud.

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Speaker 4: And don't be too hard on shadow Shadow.

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Speaker 1: Party of the second part the dog, He didn't mean

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to do it.

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Speaker 6: If you'll take sput into the first booth there, mister Pollack.

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Speaker 1: Come on son, we'll get you a fixed up.

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Speaker 4: Come on, thanks, mister Clay got a grand sermon home.

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Speaker 1: No, just how the boy feels, I'm in no hurry.

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Speaker 4: Well, we'll try not to keep you wake.

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Speaker 1: I'm all right.

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Speaker 4: What happened to him?

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Speaker 3: I don't know, friend, the old man just collapsed.

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Speaker 1: Why does mister Cray are your patient?

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Speaker 3: What's wrong with him?

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Speaker 4: And he just lifted slight stomach disorder in the gestion, nothing.

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Speaker 6: To suggest an emergency. He certainly didn't act like there

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was one. I had this kid with a dog bite.

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Speaker 4: In the next boom.

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Speaker 2: You stay with a kid, I'll thank you over here.

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Maybe he just got a little dizzy. They keep this

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place too hot and a not that hot.

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Speaker 4: He looks too rugged for anything. That's simple.

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Speaker 1: I don't worry about it. I'll check him out.

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Speaker 4: Well, thanks for the helping hands.

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Speaker 2: Tom's quay, I'm doctor Schaeffer.

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Speaker 1: Feel up to a few questions. Sure, I'm all right?

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Not quite? You just passed out? Well almost?

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Speaker 4: Oh.

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Speaker 5: I had a bunch of cherry stones for dinner last night,

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Doug and myself muster caught a bad one.

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Speaker 1: Woke up with a real billyke.

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Speaker 2: Well, let's pin that down, exposed the abdomen. Nurse, But

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what kind of ache?

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Speaker 7: First off, I thought it was gas.

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Speaker 1: It's kind of sharp, then real dough.

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Speaker 4: That don't feel so good.

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Speaker 2: I'm not surprised, and draw some blood, nurse, I want

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a w BX stat.

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Speaker 1: You feel it here? Here? How about here? That's mighty tender.

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Speaker 2: Well, let's get a little history on you. Okay, nurse,

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get me that bud count green Life. You live at

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seventeen Oakwood Lane, mister Clay, Well.

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Speaker 5: That's my home right now. I'm on the Genie, the

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one my boat named after my wife.

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Speaker 2: God Rest the soul a slope though, to myself.

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Speaker 1: How about that you live on it alone? Yep, no family?

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Speaker 5: Oh yeah, got a son, Dan and his wife Darris

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and my grandson.

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Speaker 2: They live in the house.

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Speaker 1: But who sent you here?

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Speaker 5: If you mean a doctor, don't have one, never need one,

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never get sick.

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Speaker 1: You have a cold now.

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Speaker 2: Thought or shook it, but it hangs on, it'll But

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you haven't seen a doctor for it.

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Speaker 1: Nope.

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Speaker 5: Salt and soda, mustard, plasters and the steam kettle got

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me over.

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Speaker 1: Everyone they ever had this one too. Do you have

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a family? Physician told you nope, Yes, that makes you

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a doctor.

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Speaker 4: We should lay off pressing on my belly.

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Speaker 1: Sure does hurt. I'm sorry.

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Speaker 2: I'm surprised you were able to move around as much

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as you did.

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Speaker 1: How did you get to the clinic? Drove?

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Speaker 2: I was in town for supplies, then driving.

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Speaker 5: Back to the boat right near the hospital, I got

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a real jim dandy doubled me right over the wheel.

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Speaker 2: Figured had better have someone take a look at it.

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Speaker 1: You figured, right, you know what's wrong with me, don't you,

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young fellow?

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Speaker 2: I can make a guess. A cute vermiform appendix.

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Speaker 1: That being an operation, and the way it looks, I'd

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say yes.

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Speaker 2: May I have a phone number at your house. Why

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just to notify your son and daughter in law.

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Speaker 5: Don't bother them less you think I'm gonna kick off

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the appendix.

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Speaker 1: Isn't that much of a deal today, even his plush.

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I don't think they'd worry anyways.

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Speaker 4: Oh, what do you say we get this damn thing out?

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Speaker 1: It's beginning to bother me now.

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Speaker 6: It's just superficial, mister Pollock. Keep the dandage clean and

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dry and come back next Friday.

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Speaker 2: But supposing that dog had rabies, dog.

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Speaker 6: Will be checked out by the Board of Health. If

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there's the slightest chance he has rabies, Spud will need shots.

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But there's no need to worry about that yet. But

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see you Friday.

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Speaker 2: Doctor Ganano in attendance are collecting me and he won't

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be out for at least three hours. You better notify

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doctor Marshall and have him schedule someone. But I know

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that appendix has got to come out, all right?

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Speaker 3: Yes, Clay c Lay as in Charlie, which happens to

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be his first name.

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Speaker 6: Oh so that's what was the matter with mister Cray.

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Are you admitting him as award patient?

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Speaker 2: I got to he's in through the clinic and he

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has no hospitalization. I tried to reach his son.

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Speaker 3: He's in court arguing.

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Speaker 2: A case, and his son's wife is at a bridge

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game somewhere. No family doctor, Nope, says he's never been.

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Speaker 1: Sick a day in his life.

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Speaker 3: I can believe him.

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Speaker 1: The old boys as hard as nails.

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Speaker 2: Well, I've got to get a more detailed history on him.

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Do you have to know all this guff about me? Well,

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you never know when it might come in handy, and

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it fills in the time while I'm waiting for your

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blood count. Let me see now, all the kids diseases, measles,

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German measles, scarlet fever.

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Speaker 3: Never had one, any allergies? No, have you ever had

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a bad reaction to penicillin.

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Speaker 5: As None, unless that's one that you're cold.

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Speaker 1: Oh, that ain't what's bothering me some.

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Speaker 4: This is the pain in the gut.

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Speaker 1: Oh.

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Speaker 3: The blood countiners good.

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Speaker 2: Then let's see white blood counts fifteen thousand.

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Speaker 3: Now that clinches it. You get him undressed and we'll

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start to prep him.

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Speaker 4: I'll be right back. You look kind of grim, Tom.

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Speaker 3: Yeah, you've got any consent forms in your desk?

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Speaker 1: Friend?

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Speaker 2: Sure, are you going to operate before that appendix pops,

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and then are you going to operate me? Are you kidding?

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Speaker 7: No?

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Speaker 6: You're a surgical resident now, aren't you sure?

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Speaker 2: And I've assisted it enough surgical abdomens to do any

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of them in my sleep. But it's oh, it's up

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to doctor Marshall to give me a nod. And if

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you think that gi ship crack and tough son of

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a I forgive my big mouth.

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Speaker 1: Ran.

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Speaker 3: I gotta remember not to open it around the hospital.

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Speaker 4: I hope you remember to forget. Here's your consent for him.

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Speaker 6: You better get it signed by a patient because doctor

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Marshall wants to upstairs.

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Speaker 1: And oh our.

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Speaker 2: Immediateness, it gives me butterflies in the stomach.

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Speaker 1: But look at the hands, huh, steady as a rock.

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Speaker 2: Well, doctor schaefferin took your own sweet time about getting

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here as fast as I.

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Speaker 1: Could, Sir.

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Speaker 3: I had to get a consent for him from the patients.

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Speaker 2: Did you get a history here.

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Speaker 1: Doctor Marshall?

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Speaker 2: Oh, it's sketchy. What's the best I could do? This

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is red blankets, sir. The patient's already on his way

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up and you better scrub.

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Speaker 1: And why you're changing?

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Speaker 2: You can fill me in? Ah, Yes, sir, how bad

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is this chess congestion bad enough to indicate a spinal

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at your opinion or the anesthesiologist? He concurred, Sir, I

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mean that's what he would have recommended. So he agreed,

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and we're all in harmony except for the patient.

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Speaker 1: Do you agree?

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Speaker 2: He's in a lot of pains, right. I had to sedateum.

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He was a bit foggy by the time we got

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to deciding on anesthesia. Rather he knew what about the

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relatives can't be reached.

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Speaker 3: The switchboard will contact doctor Downing if they.

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Speaker 2: Call in, and won't hurt to check with her before

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we scrub. Some people still have funny notions about spinals,

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no matter how safe they are.

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Speaker 1: I'd like to have a part of the record, Doctor Downing.

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Speaker 2: Is doctor Marshall and this happened. Dec tom me out

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of your clinic. Any word yet from his son or

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daughter in law? Dot well, Doctor Schaeffer and I are

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on our way up to the ready room.

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Speaker 1: Now.

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Speaker 2: If they turn up or call before we're out of scrub,

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let me know all said, and let's go gloves. Nurse sir, Yes,

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doctor Shaffer, excuse me, Doctor Marshall, but you think there's anything.

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Speaker 1: Wrong about this case? Not at all? Oh why well,

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I don't know.

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Speaker 3: I just had a notion you forget it.

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Speaker 1: No, you're right in a way.

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Speaker 2: When I found we were so shorthanded, I thought this

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case might be the perfect one to let you get

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your feet wet as a surgeon. Well, i'd like to

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if you'll give me the chance. I think you're going

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to handle a shaver.

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Speaker 3: Oh yes, sir, Yes, sir, I do.

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Speaker 1: I can promise you you won't be sorry.

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Speaker 2: Very well, the patient is yours once the anesthesioloy just

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hands them over.

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Speaker 3: May I have the patient?

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Speaker 1: Doctor Davis? Thanks, skefl.

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Speaker 3: McBurney incisions, sir, up to you.

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Speaker 1: It's what i'd use. But I'm not the surgeon.

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Speaker 2: You are, Doctor Sheaf. There's nothing you're afraid of, not

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on your suite. Announcer, Well, why don't you begin? Jeronimo

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plans please, good facios kepel swamp clamps.

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Speaker 4: How'd it go? Brian?

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Speaker 1: No problem.

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Speaker 6: Finally got in touch with mister Clay's daughter in law.

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She and her husband are on their way into the

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hospital breathing fire. What they felt they should have been

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consulted about the operation.

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Speaker 4: Before it happened.

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Speaker 2: Simple appendix. Whyness, doctor Marshall? Yeah, yes, Doc shame what

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respiratory failure? Why didn't you tell me sooner?

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Speaker 1: No, I'll be right up. Yes, what I don't know?

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Speaker 2: Secondary a result of the operation.

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Speaker 1: Perhaps, Oh, poor Tom, his first could be his last.

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I just have a miserable haunt.

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Speaker 2: Your brother and I are in for a rough time.

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Speaker 1: I hope we can keep you out of it.

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Speaker 2: What trouble does doctor Marshall anticipate after a simple operation?

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Speaker 1: And what does he mean by your brother?

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Speaker 2: And why without the threat of murder or violence or

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any superhuman agency, does the shadow of death and mystery

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suddenly unfold its shadow over the people we have met

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and are still to meet. I'll return shortly with that two.

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It is late in the day before the two missing

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relatives of Charles Clay arrive at the hospital. Doris Clay

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is a triumph of cosmetics over nature.

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Speaker 1: But if you look closely.

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Speaker 2: Enough, the eyes are small and hag it hard, the

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turn of the mouth downward and mean. Her husband Dan

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is heavy, sets not with muscle but by indulgence. His

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air of arrogance and assuredness is the armor he wears

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to cover his weakness.

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Speaker 6: I'm sorry, we had so much difficulty getting in touch

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with you both. I was in the middle of a

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bridge tournament. I don't know why the message didn't get

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to me.

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Speaker 2: I was in court arguing a case, and naturally they

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didn't want to interrupt.

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Speaker 6: And after all, it wasn't anything serious, was it just

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a acute appendicitis?

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Speaker 2: Well, we don't have to waste any more time talking

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about it. I'd like to see my father.

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Speaker 6: Well, that's why I met you and brought you to

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doctor Marshall's office.

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Speaker 4: Why what's wrong? We were assured this was a very

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simple operation that way at.

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Speaker 6: The time, missus Clay, And how does it seem now

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with some complications? If you'll excuse me, I'll let doctor Marshall,

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the surgeon, and our chief of staff explain. I'll have

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him Paige and I'll send him right down.

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Speaker 4: Well, isn't this just a dandy little mess?

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Speaker 2: Take it easy, Daura.

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Speaker 4: You should have been here to talk to your father

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before they offered.

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Speaker 1: I was in court.

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Speaker 2: I couldn't walk out in the middle of a ca

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You could have walked out of the middle of a break.

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Speaker 4: I'm not his child, you are.

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Speaker 6: I couldn't have persuaded him to change his will back,

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and even if I could, he'd insisted on seeing you

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before he took any legal steps.

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Speaker 1: You know that.

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Speaker 2: No, he didn't consult me when he cut us out

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of his will.

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Speaker 6: Well, he was angry at us then, Thank Heaven, enough has.

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Speaker 4: Happened since that. We're back in his good graces, we hope.

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Speaker 6: Well, if we aren't, it's no fault of mine. I

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did everything I could to butter him up.

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Speaker 3: I'm going to give your credit for that.

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Speaker 4: Damn well, right, I did.

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Speaker 6: Letting David spend half his time on that smelly old boat,

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cooking his clans and his seafood, even feeding that mangy

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old dog of his.

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Speaker 2: Ugh, I could throw up when I think of this,

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but it may prove worth it. Baby, he's in.

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Speaker 6: Letting David bring that miserable apology for a dog back

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into our nice clean house.

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Speaker 4: Because then, my dear you said.

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Speaker 6: May may have been worth it. When you had that

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talk with him day before yesterday and you said he

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was coming home, You said he was going to change

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his will again yesterday?

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Speaker 1: Did he? I guess he didn't.

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Speaker 4: What do you mean you guess?

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Speaker 2: His lawyer called me this morning? Why you were still asleep.

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He never kept the appointment.

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Speaker 4: My lord, you know what that means.

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Speaker 7: If anything happens to him, we're again.

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Speaker 4: We've got to get to him fast.

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Speaker 2: And there was only a simple APPANDIX. What the devil

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you're blowing a stack about.

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Speaker 1: Maybe it's even better this way.

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Speaker 2: We take him home to recuperate, and it'll be a

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lot easier to bring him wrong.

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Speaker 4: I hope so, because I'll tell you this.

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Speaker 6: If he dies and doesn't leave us enough to clean

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up our debts, I'm walking out on you.

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Speaker 1: Dan Clay, mister missus Clay, yes, will you. I'm doctor Schaeffer.

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Speaker 2: Doctor Marshall was concerned about keeping you waiting so long,

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ung He asked me to come down and talk to you.

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Speaker 6: We don't want to waste any more time.

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Speaker 4: Both my husband and I want to see our father.

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Speaker 1: I'm afraid you can't for the moment.

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Speaker 4: Why not.

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Speaker 2: I'm sorry to tell you this, but he's gone into

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a coma coma. We oh, we haven't been able to

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diagnose it.

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Speaker 1: Yet, mister Clay.

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Speaker 4: The doctors don't even know.

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Speaker 2: From what we can see, it has nothing to do

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with the operation. It looks like an infection or an

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allergy of some kind what time, Well, possibly a transverse smyelitis.

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Speaker 1: I mean an inflammation of the spine.

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Speaker 6: What's the spine got to do with an appendicitis?

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Speaker 2: Your father had a spinal anesthesia. It was necessary since

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he had a severe cold and a general anesthesia could

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have proven dangerous.

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Speaker 6: Are you implying, doctor Schaefer, that the spinal could have

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been a mistake.

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Speaker 2: Not a mistake, but quite often a post operative reaction

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like your father's might.

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Speaker 1: Be due to an allergy. Do you know of any

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that he had to ask Dad before? You want ahead?

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Speaker 2: Yes, but at the time he was in so much

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pain and we had him sedated, So that excuse me,

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Doctor Shaffer.

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Speaker 4: Tom is a friend. Are the Clay still with you?

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Speaker 2: Yes, try not to a long but I think you

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better bring them up here.

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Speaker 4: Bryan asked me to call it's mister Clay.

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Speaker 1: What about him?

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Speaker 4: He's gone into convulsions.

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Speaker 3: I see, Well, thank you, doctor, We'll be right up.

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Speaker 2: What is that about my father? Well, yes, Doctor Marshall

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just sent a message for me to take you upstairs

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to his room, and.

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Speaker 1: I'm afraid not not yet.

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Speaker 2: Shall we go to the elevator's right outside the door.

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If you are asking about allergies, doctor Shaffer a question

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because you should have asked my father. I did. He

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said he had none, that he'd never been sick a

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day in his life, just a big front.

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Speaker 4: He kept up.

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Speaker 6: He was always getting cold, and he had trouble with

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his teeth, but you couldn't get him.

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Speaker 2: Near a dentist. You remember why, Doris four years ago

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when he had the tooth pulled.

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Speaker 1: I'm not likely to forget.

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Speaker 4: Oh, he has a terrible reaction to the novacane. We

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thought that do you use novacaine?

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Speaker 2: Was spinal no, but we do use a related drug.

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And you didn't ask my father if he was susceptible

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to mister Clay, your father denied having any allergies, but.

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Speaker 4: You didn't check further.

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Speaker 2: We tried to reach both of you, but we couldn't,

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as you know, and it was an emergency. Seems to

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me it still is just looking more and more that

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somebody did make a mistake. Damn serious one. Which Dora

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is my father's uh number eight fourteen, the one where

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my sister, I mean, doctor Downing is standing.

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Speaker 4: Your sister's your name is Shaefer. She uses her married

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name doctor marshal'sm with your father. Now she wouldn't mind

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waiting just a moment. I don't know about Dan. I'm

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getting tired of this run around.

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Speaker 1: I don't intend to be kept waiting any longer. It's

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urgent that I.

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Speaker 4: Said, here's doctor Marshall.

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Speaker 2: Now this is mister will you do exist well? I

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demand that I be allowed to talk with my father immediately.

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I am afraid that's no longer possible. What do you mean?

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Very sorry to have to tell you, Missus Clay, You,

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mister Cray, but your father's just passed away. Impossible. A

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fine old man, imperfect health, with everything to live for

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us his grandson, old man is in perfect health after

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an operation. And besides, but we.

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Speaker 4: Were led to believe it was a very simple operation.

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Speaker 2: Is Missus Clay, a classic app indect to be done

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in less than half an hour, no complications, no rupture.

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The appendix was in no way obstructed. The surgeon was

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able to see it clearly, detach it and remove it

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withoutment that the surgeon. I thought you were the surgeon,

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Doctor Marshall, I was the surgeon in charge, But the

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procedure was actually handled by a resident.

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Speaker 4: Just what is a resident, doctor Marshall?

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Speaker 2: A qualified physician who is training in surgery. What you're saying, doctor,

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is that you allowed my father to be operated on

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by a novice. I'm saying nothing of the sort.

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Speaker 1: What his name? I want to know?

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Speaker 2: Who are you?

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Speaker 1: Why did the operation? Mister Clay?

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Speaker 3: You?

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Speaker 4: I think you must be mad, Doctor Marshall? Why this

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this boy scarcely looks any older than my.

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Speaker 2: Fifteen year old son, Doctor Marshall, I want the answer

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to only one question. I want to know, if the

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operation was performed so classically, why my father died?

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Speaker 1: I wish I could answer that.

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Speaker 2: We haven't been able to determine the causes yet. Oh,

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you are not willing to admit them.

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Speaker 1: We have nothing to hide, mister Clay. Have you just

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exactly what is it you are after? Causes? Doctor? Would

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you like me to list a few?

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Speaker 2: Since you are not a physician, it seems purposeless. Your

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opinion wouldn't have much validity.

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Speaker 1: I'm an attorney.

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Speaker 2: Doctor, in my opinion has considerable validity in a court

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of law. Doris at the elevator, Yes, we're leaving now.

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The cray. Before you do, there are certain arrangements. You

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can trust me to handle those. You'll be notified. I

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had wanted you to sign one document. What for all

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our sakes, I think a post mortem examination is indicating, well,

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my dead body if you want to add that to.

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Speaker 1: My father's elevated here.

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Speaker 2: I hope it's more efficient than the staff at this hospital.

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Speaker 1: I'm sorry, doctor Marshall for what? Doctor for?

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Speaker 2: Well, if you want me to really be honest, mostly

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because a swell old guy I like died for no

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reason I can think of it.

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Speaker 1: I just hope it wasn't my fault.

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Speaker 4: Well, how could it be?

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Speaker 1: Speak anaesthetic. We'll talk this all.

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Speaker 2: Out later, Doctor Schaeffer, grab a staff elevator and get

470
00:25:05,519 --> 00:25:07,720
down and make sure the clays are off our turf

471
00:25:07,799 --> 00:25:09,839
for the moment, and then meet me in my office.

472
00:25:10,039 --> 00:25:11,359
Speaker 1: Checkster on my way.

473
00:25:12,240 --> 00:25:15,079
Speaker 4: Brian, it wasn't his fault, was it? No?

474
00:25:15,319 --> 00:25:16,039
Speaker 1: I don't think so.

475
00:25:17,559 --> 00:25:20,079
Speaker 2: If there is any blame, and it rests on a

476
00:25:20,160 --> 00:25:22,720
lot of shoulders, it has to.

477
00:25:22,759 --> 00:25:24,839
Speaker 1: Do with us all being human beings.

478
00:25:25,279 --> 00:25:26,000
Speaker 4: What does that mean?

479
00:25:27,240 --> 00:25:30,119
Speaker 2: A nice but stubborn old man who wouldn't admit age

480
00:25:30,200 --> 00:25:34,319
or infirmity, a doctor approaching middle age who lost his

481
00:25:34,440 --> 00:25:38,359
wife and fell in love with another man's and a

482
00:25:38,519 --> 00:25:41,920
rapacious pair of people who don't deserve the title of

483
00:25:42,039 --> 00:25:45,519
human being who had little love for a nice old

484
00:25:45,599 --> 00:25:46,559
guy until.

485
00:25:46,400 --> 00:25:48,519
Speaker 1: Suddenly he died mysteriously.

486
00:25:49,359 --> 00:25:49,559
Speaker 2: Why.

487
00:25:50,519 --> 00:25:53,599
Speaker 4: I don't know about them, only about us.

488
00:25:54,799 --> 00:25:56,559
Speaker 6: I'm married to a husband who should have been a

489
00:25:56,640 --> 00:26:03,799
retired racehorse, a natural stud. He won't divorce me, or

490
00:26:03,880 --> 00:26:07,279
allow a divorce. I won't force it because we do

491
00:26:07,400 --> 00:26:08,799
have a daughter who adores.

492
00:26:08,480 --> 00:26:11,440
Speaker 4: Her father, and I'd rather break my heart than hers.

493
00:26:12,680 --> 00:26:13,720
Speaker 1: And my wife is dead.

494
00:26:14,880 --> 00:26:18,680
Speaker 2: I thought i'd never love another woman, and now I do.

495
00:26:19,640 --> 00:26:25,480
There's nothing I can do about him, Darling, Darling, let

496
00:26:25,599 --> 00:26:26,440
us go for a moment.

497
00:26:26,640 --> 00:26:29,119
Speaker 6: The other thing is more immediate, isn't it. Those two

498
00:26:29,240 --> 00:26:32,400
awful people they're going to sue, aren't they.

499
00:26:32,880 --> 00:26:34,640
Speaker 2: I'd guess that's what they have in mind.

500
00:26:35,400 --> 00:26:37,640
Speaker 6: And if they ever got wind of us, they could

501
00:26:37,680 --> 00:26:41,200
crucify Tom and us and the hospital.

502
00:26:41,279 --> 00:26:43,599
Speaker 4: Perhaps, how can we stop them?

503
00:26:43,680 --> 00:26:46,160
Speaker 2: An autopsy is the best answer. We can force that.

504
00:26:46,799 --> 00:26:48,799
If it's been the case what Tom and I have done,

505
00:26:48,880 --> 00:26:52,720
that's that. And if it doesn't, we could all be

506
00:26:52,960 --> 00:27:06,519
up the creek without a paddle. The doctor's dilemma. There

507
00:27:06,640 --> 00:27:11,039
is no more demanding or exacting and exhausting preparation for

508
00:27:11,240 --> 00:27:16,200
any profession, but there is still a small percentile of accident.

509
00:27:16,680 --> 00:27:19,599
Speaker 4: No human being can possibly foresee.

510
00:27:19,480 --> 00:27:27,000
Speaker 2: Or devise against man proposes, but God still disposes. I'll

511
00:27:27,039 --> 00:27:44,359
return shortly with Act three from flood, famine, death or whatever.

512
00:27:45,039 --> 00:27:48,960
Doris Clay rises late in the morning. It is one

513
00:27:49,039 --> 00:27:53,559
of her completely selfish indulgences. She allows nothing to interfere

514
00:27:53,640 --> 00:27:57,000
with even this morning, which could well be one of

515
00:27:57,039 --> 00:28:00,720
the most important in her life. She is coming to

516
00:28:01,440 --> 00:28:04,240
with the help of black coffee popped up in the

517
00:28:04,319 --> 00:28:07,440
big bed with the satin sheets, as Dan, who is

518
00:28:07,480 --> 00:28:10,000
an early riser, comes to join her.

519
00:28:10,279 --> 00:28:13,960
Speaker 1: Just before noon. Oh, you look like a wrath of God.

520
00:28:14,559 --> 00:28:18,799
Speaker 2: I feel like my nose isn't any good. I got

521
00:28:18,880 --> 00:28:23,640
the Chapman Dad's lawyer, fat ole fool. But I've seen

522
00:28:23,720 --> 00:28:27,640
the will, and the bulk of his estate is left

523
00:28:27,680 --> 00:28:30,759
in trust for David hedged and so tied.

524
00:28:30,880 --> 00:28:31,960
Speaker 1: We couldn't even.

525
00:28:32,160 --> 00:28:36,000
Speaker 2: Borrow begs, steal off a nakel and nickel and the rest.

526
00:28:37,440 --> 00:28:40,119
It might be ironically funny.

527
00:28:40,000 --> 00:28:42,680
Speaker 1: If if we weren't personally involved.

528
00:28:43,920 --> 00:28:47,559
Speaker 2: The rest of it goes to the hospital, a gift

529
00:28:47,680 --> 00:28:51,640
from someone who didn't believe in doctors. He hurt us

530
00:28:52,799 --> 00:28:56,559
Dan not a penny, not unless we break it. Can

531
00:28:56,680 --> 00:29:00,920
we It's a fallback position. I don't know if it's

532
00:29:00,960 --> 00:29:04,839
worth the investments. There's a much easier way out of

533
00:29:04,880 --> 00:29:08,000
our troubles. There's got to be some way or in

534
00:29:08,160 --> 00:29:11,000
debt up to our ears, and we can't hold it

535
00:29:11,119 --> 00:29:15,279
off any longer. I know. I think we have a

536
00:29:15,359 --> 00:29:19,519
good chance for at least a settlement. We're going to

537
00:29:19,640 --> 00:29:25,160
sue for malpractice, but doctors, of course, at least Marshall

538
00:29:25,200 --> 00:29:29,039
mustap insurance. But most of all because clinic and a

539
00:29:29,160 --> 00:29:33,920
resident physician are involved the hospital, that's where the real

540
00:29:34,039 --> 00:29:44,400
though is come in doctor Marshall, you know mister Clay, Yes,

541
00:29:44,559 --> 00:29:47,720
mister Watt. Mister Clay is here at my instigation to

542
00:29:47,799 --> 00:29:51,000
see if we can't smooth out our differences amicably.

543
00:29:51,400 --> 00:29:52,960
Speaker 1: I see no reason why we can't.

544
00:29:53,960 --> 00:29:57,240
Speaker 2: I'm certainly reluctant to damage the reputation of this hospital

545
00:29:57,319 --> 00:29:59,200
for just one tragic mistake.

546
00:30:00,480 --> 00:30:06,079
Speaker 1: If we can keep things client, what are you getting at? Well?

547
00:30:06,160 --> 00:30:08,400
Speaker 2: Until he sold out a little over a year ago,

548
00:30:08,880 --> 00:30:13,519
my father was pioneer furniture. Were the wealthiest and most

549
00:30:13,720 --> 00:30:17,559
influential men in the state. If the papers should pick

550
00:30:17,640 --> 00:30:22,440
up any hint that his death was headlines sell newspapers

551
00:30:22,599 --> 00:30:26,119
pick up what. There's no story for them here, isn't there?

552
00:30:27,079 --> 00:30:30,799
Even you doctors admit my father's death as an enigma.

553
00:30:30,680 --> 00:30:31,359
Speaker 1: Doesn't have to be.

554
00:30:32,119 --> 00:30:34,160
Speaker 2: If you want to runder more than lip service?

555
00:30:34,319 --> 00:30:35,480
Speaker 1: What does that mean?

556
00:30:35,839 --> 00:30:37,960
Speaker 2: Give us permission to perform an autopsy?

557
00:30:39,240 --> 00:30:41,240
Speaker 1: Haven't you mutilated him? Enovel?

558
00:30:41,319 --> 00:30:44,240
Speaker 2: You say you don't want to hurt any reputations, but

559
00:30:44,400 --> 00:30:46,839
you don't want to protect them either. I want my

560
00:30:46,960 --> 00:30:51,319
father to rest in peace, mister Clay, we're both lawyers.

561
00:30:52,160 --> 00:30:56,319
Why fight an autopsy? You know under the circumstances any

562
00:30:56,440 --> 00:30:59,400
court would grant in order to perform one. My object

563
00:30:59,519 --> 00:31:02,440
in come here today was to keep us out of court.

564
00:31:02,880 --> 00:31:07,480
Meaning you want a settlement, Well, wrong has been done.

565
00:31:07,960 --> 00:31:10,039
You can't prove that without an autopsy.

566
00:31:10,799 --> 00:31:14,920
Speaker 1: It is the truth you want, isn't it? Of course?

567
00:31:16,200 --> 00:31:18,880
Speaker 2: All right, give me the paper and I'll sign it.

568
00:31:19,440 --> 00:31:20,720
How soon will we get results?

569
00:31:21,160 --> 00:31:23,680
Speaker 1: By tomorrow morning? Now? All right?

570
00:31:23,720 --> 00:31:27,240
Speaker 2: Well then we'll know exactly where we all stand.

571
00:31:34,200 --> 00:31:37,319
Speaker 4: Come in, good morning, Brian.

572
00:31:39,400 --> 00:31:40,960
Speaker 1: You got one of these two friends.

573
00:31:42,039 --> 00:31:43,079
Speaker 4: I never had one before.

574
00:31:43,200 --> 00:31:46,680
Speaker 2: You got one of your company. You meet Tom, doctor

575
00:31:46,759 --> 00:31:50,079
Davis and hospital the moment the results of the post

576
00:31:50,119 --> 00:31:50,680
mortem were in.

577
00:31:50,880 --> 00:31:53,839
Speaker 6: But it was negative, I mean because of death unknown.

578
00:31:53,960 --> 00:31:55,519
It didn't prove any of us response.

579
00:31:56,599 --> 00:31:59,839
Speaker 2: Unfortunately, it didn't prove that any or all of us weren't.

580
00:32:02,559 --> 00:32:05,119
Speaker 1: There's one easy way out of this.

581
00:32:05,599 --> 00:32:10,279
Speaker 2: What I resign as chief of staff, take the blame

582
00:32:10,400 --> 00:32:12,480
and make the best settlement of Clay that I.

583
00:32:12,599 --> 00:32:13,400
Speaker 1: Can out of court.

584
00:32:13,519 --> 00:32:14,880
Speaker 6: But why would you do a thing like that?

585
00:32:15,519 --> 00:32:16,920
Speaker 4: No, never is guilty of anything.

586
00:32:17,279 --> 00:32:18,839
Speaker 2: He has no case, Darling.

587
00:32:18,960 --> 00:32:20,519
Speaker 1: The danger here is you and me.

588
00:32:20,920 --> 00:32:22,240
Speaker 4: We haven't done anything wrong.

589
00:32:23,240 --> 00:32:28,359
Speaker 2: No, I'm rather sorry to say, no sin of commission.

590
00:32:30,039 --> 00:32:33,559
But a hospital is like a school or a small village,

591
00:32:34,559 --> 00:32:38,839
and the grapevine trembles in the slightest wind. If Dan

592
00:32:39,000 --> 00:32:41,839
Clay got any notion that you, a married woman, have

593
00:32:41,960 --> 00:32:44,960
any concern for me, and that I because tom As

594
00:32:45,000 --> 00:32:48,400
your brother, made any special consideration to allow him to operate.

595
00:32:48,480 --> 00:32:51,440
Speaker 6: But you've done just the opposite. You've almost held him

596
00:32:51,519 --> 00:32:53,319
back because of that conscience of yours.

597
00:32:53,480 --> 00:32:56,559
Speaker 2: I know that you know, but does the rest of

598
00:32:56,640 --> 00:32:59,759
the world. Long before all of this happened, I haven't

599
00:32:59,759 --> 00:33:02,359
tried to face the fact that I should go away

600
00:33:02,440 --> 00:33:03,400
and leave you to.

601
00:33:03,480 --> 00:33:06,839
Speaker 6: Alec in and out of any other bed he can find.

602
00:33:06,960 --> 00:33:09,680
Speaker 4: Oh no, you don't walk out because of me.

603
00:33:10,759 --> 00:33:12,440
Speaker 6: Maybe it's time to get it all out in the

604
00:33:12,519 --> 00:33:16,000
open anyway. I can't protect my daughter much longer. She's

605
00:33:16,000 --> 00:33:17,759
getting old enough to know about her father.

606
00:33:18,799 --> 00:33:20,400
Speaker 4: And we can take it as long as we know

607
00:33:20,480 --> 00:33:23,400
we're right. We are, aren't we dying?

608
00:33:23,920 --> 00:33:25,200
Speaker 2: As God is my judge.

609
00:33:25,200 --> 00:33:25,640
Speaker 1: I believe.

610
00:33:25,680 --> 00:33:28,359
Speaker 4: So then what killed that poor old man?

611
00:33:28,559 --> 00:33:29,960
Speaker 1: Nothing we did, I'm.

612
00:33:29,880 --> 00:33:32,920
Speaker 2: Sure of it. The question is how can I pull it?

613
00:33:34,599 --> 00:33:35,359
Speaker 1: Doctor Marshall.

614
00:33:36,640 --> 00:33:40,960
Speaker 2: Yes, mister Watt, I know, yeah, yes, yes, of course

615
00:33:42,079 --> 00:33:43,839
I can't promise that we can't.

616
00:33:44,799 --> 00:33:48,160
Speaker 1: I know, sir much better. I have doctor downing with me.

617
00:33:48,279 --> 00:33:50,240
Speaker 2: Now I'll round up the others and join you in

618
00:33:50,319 --> 00:33:50,799
your office.

619
00:33:52,359 --> 00:33:52,759
Speaker 4: What was that?

620
00:33:53,319 --> 00:33:57,359
Speaker 2: Mister Wyatt wants us Tom and doctor Davis.

621
00:33:57,160 --> 00:33:57,920
Speaker 1: Up in his office.

622
00:33:58,200 --> 00:34:00,559
Speaker 2: He's gotten Clay to agree to a pre for hearing

623
00:34:01,920 --> 00:34:03,839
beforth to try to keep this thing from getting out

624
00:34:03,839 --> 00:34:12,000
of hand. Just a quick explanation of what an examination

625
00:34:12,079 --> 00:34:16,119
before trial consists of. This is mister Cooper, who's a

626
00:34:16,239 --> 00:34:20,320
court stenographer. He will take a complete transcript that everything said.

627
00:34:20,320 --> 00:34:23,480
He had justice in a court of law, though there

628
00:34:23,639 --> 00:34:27,320
is no judge present here. Everyone will receive the full transcript,

629
00:34:27,400 --> 00:34:30,079
and you will be bound by oath to whatever statements

630
00:34:30,119 --> 00:34:34,960
they make. All right, mister Clay, thank you. Mister Watt

631
00:34:36,519 --> 00:34:40,400
doutor Downing, you admitted my father to the clinic.

632
00:34:40,679 --> 00:34:41,800
Speaker 4: I signed it in Yes.

633
00:34:42,280 --> 00:34:44,320
Speaker 2: Did you bring a copy of the roster for that

634
00:34:44,440 --> 00:34:45,280
evening as requested?

635
00:34:45,400 --> 00:34:45,719
Speaker 4: I did?

636
00:34:47,519 --> 00:34:50,320
Speaker 2: Was there a patient named Spud Pollock on that roster?

637
00:34:50,719 --> 00:34:55,159
Speaker 1: Yes, but according to this he was on the fourth.

638
00:34:54,920 --> 00:34:59,159
Speaker 2: In order, after Charles Clay, and yet he was taken.

639
00:34:58,920 --> 00:35:01,039
Speaker 4: Ahead of him with a child been bitten by a dog.

640
00:35:01,159 --> 00:35:03,519
Speaker 2: It was an emergency, and an acute appendix is no

641
00:35:03,800 --> 00:35:04,760
time I wasn't aware of.

642
00:35:04,960 --> 00:35:05,599
Speaker 3: How could you be?

643
00:35:05,800 --> 00:35:09,480
Speaker 2: Since you hadn't asked? I submitted it was gross negligence.

644
00:35:09,800 --> 00:35:13,239
Egligence has not been established. Let it also be noted

645
00:35:13,360 --> 00:35:17,119
that Charles Clay did have an acute appendix and subsequently

646
00:35:17,280 --> 00:35:24,639
died the very next day. Now, as I understand that,

647
00:35:24,760 --> 00:35:29,159
doctor Schaeffer, you were the one who diagnosed acute appendix,

648
00:35:29,679 --> 00:35:34,000
I did, and you recommended an immediate operation, correct for

649
00:35:34,159 --> 00:35:37,320
which some form of general anesthetic is used.

650
00:35:37,760 --> 00:35:38,559
Speaker 1: Not in this case.

651
00:35:39,440 --> 00:35:42,639
Speaker 2: The patient appeared to have an upper respiratory infection, so

652
00:35:43,039 --> 00:35:46,559
doctor Davis, the anesthesiologist, and I agreed that his spinal

653
00:35:46,719 --> 00:35:49,440
was the safest to use. Did my father sign a

654
00:35:49,639 --> 00:35:53,199
consent for the operation? Yes, and he was told about

655
00:35:53,239 --> 00:35:57,199
the spinal At the time he signed the consent, it

656
00:35:57,280 --> 00:36:01,159
had not been decided on, so he was never well.

657
00:36:01,239 --> 00:36:03,599
He was in great pain and under sedation by the

658
00:36:03,679 --> 00:36:07,000
time it was agreed on. Were you aware that mister

659
00:36:07,079 --> 00:36:10,639
Clay was allergic to Nova King? I asked him if

660
00:36:10,679 --> 00:36:11,719
he had any allergies.

661
00:36:12,119 --> 00:36:14,519
Speaker 3: He said no, just general allergies or what.

662
00:36:15,039 --> 00:36:17,920
Speaker 2: There wasn't time to go into it in detail. There

663
00:36:18,000 --> 00:36:21,559
was risk of the appendix rupturing. And the appendix ruptures,

664
00:36:22,440 --> 00:36:23,599
is it usually fatal?

665
00:36:24,159 --> 00:36:27,360
Speaker 1: Not by any mean? In this case it didn't. Still

666
00:36:28,039 --> 00:36:29,079
the patient died.

667
00:36:29,920 --> 00:36:39,719
Speaker 2: Why do you know you know, we don't, doctor Marshall.

668
00:36:40,360 --> 00:36:44,000
I received a copy of the autopsy report. Quote death

669
00:36:44,159 --> 00:36:48,599
by respiratory failure and or cardiac arrest due to cause

670
00:36:48,840 --> 00:36:54,239
or causes unknown unquote. That doesn't rule out an allergic

671
00:36:54,400 --> 00:36:57,840
reaction to the anesthesia, does it No? But and when

672
00:36:57,920 --> 00:37:01,119
my father was examined before the operation, there was no

673
00:37:01,320 --> 00:37:05,480
indication of any other serious condition other than the inflamed appendix.

674
00:37:05,639 --> 00:37:06,960
Speaker 1: Assentially correct.

675
00:37:07,280 --> 00:37:10,719
Speaker 2: So what will you say in court doctor, when I asked,

676
00:37:11,400 --> 00:37:14,159
would Charles Clay have died if there had not been

677
00:37:14,360 --> 00:37:17,800
an operation? Don't answer that, doctor Marshall. We'll wait till

678
00:37:18,239 --> 00:37:25,599
or if we get to court to argue that you

679
00:37:25,760 --> 00:37:31,440
are married. Mister Clay, I am any children, one a boy, David.

680
00:37:32,159 --> 00:37:33,880
Are you and your father close?

681
00:37:34,239 --> 00:37:34,440
Speaker 1: Yes?

682
00:37:35,119 --> 00:37:37,920
Speaker 2: We were a very close family. So your only reason

683
00:37:38,000 --> 00:37:40,880
for bringing suit is to punish the parties you deem

684
00:37:40,960 --> 00:37:44,840
responsible for the death of your father, correct, and any

685
00:37:45,079 --> 00:37:49,199
money you might be awarded a secondary course, no object.

686
00:37:49,559 --> 00:37:52,599
I see your father didn't live in the same house

687
00:37:52,719 --> 00:37:56,960
with you. No where did he live in an old

688
00:37:57,119 --> 00:37:57,760
boady built?

689
00:37:58,079 --> 00:38:00,800
Speaker 1: Why that kind of.

690
00:38:00,840 --> 00:38:03,960
Speaker 2: Life, even in a freezing winter he thought was too

691
00:38:04,079 --> 00:38:05,599
much for his dog to stand.

692
00:38:06,119 --> 00:38:08,039
Speaker 1: Dad was getting old.

693
00:38:08,440 --> 00:38:10,199
Speaker 2: We like to indulge his whims.

694
00:38:10,760 --> 00:38:13,599
Speaker 1: That's what he wanted, so we gave it.

695
00:38:13,920 --> 00:38:16,960
Speaker 2: It wouldn't be that he was tired of indulging your

696
00:38:17,079 --> 00:38:18,719
whims and paying your debts.

697
00:38:19,280 --> 00:38:20,320
Speaker 1: Did you follow me the will?

698
00:38:20,440 --> 00:38:20,920
Speaker 2: Don't you know?

699
00:38:21,079 --> 00:38:21,360
Speaker 1: He did?

700
00:38:21,440 --> 00:38:24,199
Speaker 2: You subpoena a copy of it, but he was going

701
00:38:24,280 --> 00:38:24,760
to change it.

702
00:38:26,840 --> 00:38:28,280
Speaker 1: A blow for the hospital.

703
00:38:28,360 --> 00:38:30,880
Speaker 2: It would have been, wouldn't it to lose all that bequest.

704
00:38:31,840 --> 00:38:35,400
I won't even dignify that with an answer. I want

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to read only one part. I bequeath in trust to

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my grandson David, all the rest of my property, real

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or otherwise, you see, And I charge him and or

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his trustees to maintain until his death. My friend Whiskey,

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He and David have given me the only love I

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ever knew.

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Speaker 1: Whiskey my father's dog.

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Speaker 2: We've been taking care of him better.

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Speaker 1: Than your father.

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Speaker 2: I hope Whiskey was old and sick. She had to

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be put away a deliberate act, counselor not like my

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father who was lost through negligence.

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Speaker 4: What is it, Brian?

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Speaker 1: Oh you alone? Yes, I just came from a long

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talk of the WIAT.

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Speaker 2: I've handed them my resignation.

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Speaker 1: Oh no, why the only way?

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Speaker 2: Wyatt had Clay backed against the wall at one point,

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and he really opened up and threatened to fight Dirty.

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Speaker 1: He's so desperate.

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Speaker 2: He'd ruined Tom's career, and you always mine.

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Speaker 1: His wife prize.

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Speaker 2: Hard and also something of a swinger, apparently knows your husband.

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In return for all the phony Dirty could hand her

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about us, she promised to make sure they discredit you

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enough in an open trial so he could get custody

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of your child.

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Speaker 6: I'm not going to let you sacrifice yourself for me

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and tell me it isn't only that the old man

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did go into convulsive seizure before he died.

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Speaker 1: With that in the books, and considering.

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Speaker 2: The Vicious Rabbit prosecution, Dan Clay would put on in

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court the press coveragual.

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Speaker 1: Rabbit.

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Speaker 4: What is it that kid with the dog bite.

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Speaker 2: Charles Clay's old dog, Francis. Maybe I just found the answer.

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We've got to have another postmartem the second autosi, mister Clay,

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when we knew what we were looking for. List's final

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proof in the Cornea moonas the characteristic conclusion, bodies of

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Nagri were found. In Lanman's terms, your father died of rabies,

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which he got from his dog, Whiskey. The dog never

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had convulsion. There are two forms, the furious and the dumb,

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and the second. The dog is just lethargic and comatose.

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Speaker 1: He looks old.

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Speaker 2: My father never was the saliva of the dog when

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someone finaled him. If there was any break in the

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skin whatsoever, would have been enough to infect him. You're

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just lucky you had that dog. Put away before he

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infected your sundawn. Now get out of here before I

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give you a valid case to prosecute as salt and battery.

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Speaker 1: Well that's the.

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Speaker 4: End of that, and at the beginning of us.

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Speaker 6: What you mean, Oh, I'm just realizing that I'm the

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one who's really guilty of gross negligence.

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Speaker 4: Brian, my darling, you think you can forgive me?

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Speaker 1: I don't know.

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Speaker 2: I'll spend a lifetime trying. No gothic tale of horror,

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no murders, no horrendous Richard spirits rising from the grave,

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but a mystery story and a story of jeopardy more

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important than most for a doctor's good name, must, like

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Caesar's wife, always be above reproach. I'll be back shortly.

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A few footnotes to a compelling story. First, that the

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doctors were vindicated. Second, to applaud the depth of a

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surgeon's knowledge that enabled him to make such a rare

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diagnosis once he had the facts. Last, a word about

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old Charles Clay. Though today rabies, if caught in time,

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can be cured. Once the symptoms develop, death is inevitable.

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So somewhere Charles can perhaps take heart knowing his death

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achieved one thing it brought a happy life to two

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people who might have let it slip through their fingers.

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So at the end this was a love story. Our

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cast included Mason Adams, Marion Soudi's, Bob Calaban, Alan Hewitt,

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Hetty Galen and Gil Mack. The entire production was under

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the direction of Hyman Brown. And now a preview of

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our next tale was Shaking Hands.

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Speaker 7: I measured a very small portion in a cup of

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hot water and took it down the hall to my

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uncle's bedroom.

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Speaker 2: All right, I'll just say for a little while.

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Speaker 1: But you'd see it sooner or later.

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Speaker 7: I wouldn't believe I was saying it. In The walls

786
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and floor were black, and so is the big bed

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with a prowl like a Viking ship. My uncle looked

788
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like a ghost propped up against those white pillows. And

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John had warned me a casseire on one side of

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the bed with that coat wreck thing from which dangled

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a full size skeleton.

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Speaker 2: Don't be frightened, my dear, You'll soon get used to

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everything around here. Radio Mystery Theater were sponsored in part

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by Enhuzer Bush Incorporated, brewers of Budweiser and sign Off

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The Sinus medicines. This is e. G. Marshall inviting you

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to return to our mystery theater for another adventure.

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Speaker 1: In the Macobres.

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Speaker 2: Until next time, Pleasants dreams,