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Jim.

Oh, hi, Dave.

How are you? Pretty good. How are you? Fine, thank you.

Do you know where Dr.

Adams' room is?

That's Serum Enzymes, room 204, down the hall to the right. Thank you.

Ah, Kildare.

Oh, good morning, Dr. Buster. I'm glad you were able to attend the convention.

Oh, I swapped off with the Gursky so I could hear Dr. Adams' speech, and I'm

late. Excuse me, please.

You know Kildare.

Right boy.

I have hopes for him. Once, Leonard?

In a moment. I'm waiting with Charlie Hodiak.

Where is he?

Congenital diseases.

He's written into a paper on the same problem he's been working on.

Hodiak listening?

We'll be in the dining room. We'll save you some seats. Fine, Paul. Thanks.

So, sickle cell anemia has challenged medical and scientific curiosity ever

since its discovery as a unique racial disease.

And... Research has been going on steadily in many hospitals and

laboratories all over the world.

The most recent being the aforementioned series of 12 patients with sickle cell

anemia evidencing specific features described so aptly last year by Dr.

who I see is here with us today.

To conclude, it is apparent that further research into oxygen tension producing

drugs is needed rather than attempts to alter the structure of hemoglobin.

Thank you.

Thank you very much.

Very nice of you.

Thank you. Thank you. Thank you.

John, how are you? Fine, sir. May I present my associate, Dr.

Matthews, Dr.

and Mrs. Charles Hodiak. How do you do?

Excuse me, doctor, I'm from the Star News.

I hear you're close to a breakthrough.

What's this sickle cell anemia all about?

Frankly, I've never even heard about it before.

Well, as a patient, there's the classical form.

It's very bad. It's a congenital blood condition.

The trait affects about 1 % of our Negro population.

Just Negroes? In this country, rarely anyone else.

Well, how does it differ from regular anemia? Well, you'd have to have some

knowledge of physiology to understand it. But generally, it's a defect of the

hemoglobin.

Oxygen carrier.

I know hemoglobin.

Oh, well, it causes the red blood cells to change from a spherical shape to one

that resembles a sickle or crescent.

Well, so what? I mean, what difference does the shape make?

Well, again, it's hard to give you a complete answer.

But when the cells change their shape, well,

they're more easily destroyed. But more important, they tend to...

sludge together to cause thrombosis.

Extremely damaging.

Dr. Shea, since you're close to a breakthrough on this, I want some

facts on your life itself at home.

John, we'll see you late.

Yes, all right. I wish we had a chance to talk.

Dr. Matthews?

Goodbye, Doctor.

You know, stuff that makes you seem human.

Well, Charles, learn anything interesting?

How are you, Mrs. Audier? Fine, thank you, Doctor.

Yes. I've devoted my life to solving a problem, and I learned that someone else

is closer to it than I am. Dr. Shea?

Yes, I'm trying very hard to swallow my disappointment.

I may have it instead of lunch.

Charles, he hasn't broken through yet.

Not quite.

Don't worry.

He might still make it.

Yes, of course.

A miracle could happen.

Shall we go to him?

Despite occasional feelings to the contrary, I guess I'm only human.

I wanted those suffering people to get some relief, but I wanted it to be me

gave it to them.

The nobility and altruism of the research scientist.

Doesn't it bring tears to your eyes, Leonard?

When I first started my work, I didn't care who helped.

Or how many others were on the same road.

But 17 years can build a proprietary feeling.

A man with your reputation should have no difficulty in getting a grant to work

on something else.

I can't shake it.

I cannot shake it. I want it to be me. I want it to be me.

Oh, come on, Charlie. That's life.

If only the appropriations boys would give me some more money, I could hire a

couple of lab techs and still have a chance to... Oh.

I'm dreaming.

A chance to do what, exactly?

Well, to run through the preliminary tests, checking out the compounds. It

save so much time.

Where is the guy who said money isn't everything?

I can't get you money, and I can't hire lab technicians for you.

But how would you like a couple of interns who know the ropes?

One would be from rotation and the other from pathology. Like it.

Come on, Leonard.

All right.

Yes, Doctor.

Send me Dr. Staples and Dr. Kildare.

For the next three weeks, they're yours.

For purposes of filing and recording, we have given all of the chemical

compounds code numbers.

Will these be new compounds that we're working with, Doctor? No.

We'll be running the compounds I gave you through a prescribed series of

except for animal toxicity, which has been already extensively studied.

Then you're still in an early stage, Doctor. Not exactly. With the three of

running separate series simultaneously, we'll cut the time down to one -third.

And then it might get very exciting.

Unless, of course, I'm all wrong.

I sure hope you're not wrong, Doctor.

I've got a cousin who's got it.

He's 35 years old. He's got two kids.

And he's making ready to die.

With what those kids have to look forward to, I sure hope you're not

Doctor.

To err is human.

Well, yes, sir. But what I meant is, if you'll pardon me for saying so, if you

say you're on the right track, there are a lot of people who wouldn't think you

could be wrong.

I mean, with your reputation for techniques, your demand for accuracy.

What he's saying, Doctor, is that your integrity is known even unto the

intern.

Gentlemen, I don't know what you do best.

Cut the time down or inflate my ego.

Here are the... Here are the tests you're running.

What time will you want us tomorrow?

Well, there's still an hour before you go off duty, so why wait till tomorrow?

Want to take us time to set up?

Gentlemen, you are set up.

The pain will ease off soon, Barbara.

Then up you go.

Cellophane tent and all the nice oxygen.

You've been here before?

No, doctor's hospital last year.

Oh. Get somebody to take her upstairs.

Hi. How's the leg?

Hurts. You wanted me, Simon?

Yeah, sickle cell anemia, crisis.

Just thought you might like to look at a patient for a change.

Abdominal pain? No, legs mostly.

They're getting oxygen ready. We may need a transfuser.

Oh, pardon me. Barbara, this is Dr. Kildare. Dr. Kildare, Dr. Barbara James.

Doctor? Ph .D., not medical.

I'm a psychologist.

A hurting psychologist.

Your first attack?

Second major one.

This is what you're working on, chum.

Come and see me, doctor. You bet we will.

Thank you, Simon.

Don't mention it.

Dr. Hodiak, you could use some rest.

You're here when we leave, you're here when we arrive.

Don't worry about me.

It just seems to me that sickle cell anemia could wait one more day to be

I'm in a hurry, Dr.

Kildare.

I spent 17 years on this problem and I'm still in a hurry.

In World War II, I was in the medical corps.

They brought me a war correspondent.

He was so sick.

Sickle cell anemia with a full -blown crisis.

I'll never forget the pain of this man.

All we could do for him then was give oxygen, transfuse him, hope for the

You know what the treatment is today, 17 years later?

Give oxygen, transfuse him, and hope for the best.

It affects 180 ,000 people.

I gave up my practice.

I'm in a hurry till there.

Now, you get along.

I feel much better about working you to death if I don't have to look at your

tired face.

Okay.

Good night, Doctor.

Good night.

Tests utilizing compounds R243 and S191 have proved successful to date.

If further testing confirms this, we will be ready to measure the duration of

oxygen production within three days.

Sono,

is

Dr. Gursky around?

Yes. How much longer will he be on admissions?

Longer than I can take.

Oh, emergency?

No, I just move fast. It makes me look efficient.

I'll be a little late tonight.

Why? Well, we're starting a time test, and there's no telling how long it'll

take. Oh, brother.

These two beautiful, marvelous young girls who happen to adore young doctors.

Find out you dedicated your life to science, they're going to sit down and

Well, you buy them each a hanky and tell them I'll meet you at max as soon as I

can. I can't afford it.

Oh, Jim, pardon me. Miss Arnold, may I have the journal, please?

Thank you.

This may interest you, Jim. The boys and I are having a little gamble on whether

Dr. Shea or our boys are going to make it first. Page 12.

Am I so serious?

You're a day off.

Off?

Well... Not exactly off, but at least it's a change from the work you've been

doing. All we do today is start this cooking and wait.

Any idea how long it'll run?

Well, I'm hoping for at least six to eight hours.

Well, I'm sorry. I didn't think you'd be set up so soon.

I set up last night.

Would you say I was anxious?

No more than the rest of us. Oh, Dr. Wodiak, take a look at this.

I thought you might like to see it before we start. Page 12.

Test begun at exactly 9 .47 a .m. Temperature 98 .6.

98 .6.

Well, there she goes.

The interval seems all right.

Yeah.

Any bets on how long?

Listen, I've already bet the lifetime of work.

I hear you're looking forward to the same thing, Art.

Yes, sir.

Strictly research.

Oh, I could go into clinical work along with the others. I don't underrate the

importance of it, but... Well, I want to do something really important, you

know.

We all do, Doctor. We all do.

Now, wait a minute. You make the humble practitioner sound like nothing more

than a messenger boy for your magic potions.

Well, it takes a pretty good doctor to know which magic potion to use.

Oh, well, it may sound like ego, but I want to do something really dramatic.

Like, when I was a kid, I used to set myself a magic age, you know?

By the time I was 16, magically, I'd be able to hit that baseball out of the

park. Or by the time I was 22, magically, I'd be able to remember

the med books.

At what magic age do you think you will produce the cure for whatever disease

you choose to study?

Well, I'd sort of set 40.

Listen, I was 38 when I started work on sickle cell anemia.

I had a magic age, too.

What was it?

39.

And I didn't have an answer by then. I made the magic age 40, 41, 42.

Now, if I'm lucky, the magic age will be 56.

I just hope I'll be around. Look.

Well, maybe it'll start up again.

Ah, no.

It's dead.

Gentlemen, you may take the rest of the day off.

Doctor, I could start a new series and then maybe...

It won't help.

He gambled on a quick breakthrough and we lost.

Take the day off.

Today's attempt to produce a high oxygen tension over a significant period

resulted in failure.

Tomorrow I will assign Dr. Staples to determining the exact cause of the

breakdown and Dr. Kildare will begin the series of tests with

R243 and S192.

Anticipated time lapse before we can again repeat the time test will be four

weeks.

Four weeks.

Dr.

Gillespie, please.

Never mind, operator.

attempt to produce a high oxygen tension over a significant period resulted in

failure. Tomorrow I will assign Dr. Staples to determining the exact cause

the breakdown and Dr. Kildare will proceed with the results

of R243 and S192 as noted when it was previously tested in

1958.

Anticipated time lapse before we can repeat today's test one day.

Morning. Good morning, doctors.

I should like for us to get to work immediately.

Dr. Staples, hurry up, please.

We will clean this equipment and get it ready for retesting immediately.

Immediately? No, by tonight.

Kildare, I want you to run the final check tests on R243 and

S192. But, sir, I haven't done the preliminary series yet. They were done

several years ago in connection with another approach.

Here's the result sheet.

This will save a lot of time. Yes, it will.

Excuse me, sir. There's nothing in the folder with the results.

I have to check the actual data for confirmation. Where will I find it? I

record data and results without making errors.

I didn't mean that, sir.

If something is unclear... If something is unclear, check it with me.

And now, doctor, I would like you to get to work.

Yes,

sir.

What do you think you're doing?

I just thought I'd check this, sir.

I told you to see me if there was anything you didn't know.

Well, you seem so busy, sir, that I thought I'd check it. Why can't you

instructions, doctor?

When I say check with me, I mean check with me.

Yes, sir.

Now, what's your trouble?

Well, this notation in S -192 under heat isn't clear, sir.

No, you don't need to understand it. All you have to do is take these figures

and use them in your series.

I mean, I can't explain all that, how it was calculated.

And if you feel you can't do as you're told without questioning it, then you

go back on service.

If you'll just let me explain, sir.

I'm not questioning technique or procedure or anything else. Then what is

that isn't clear to you?

It's your writing, sir.

There's a smudge on this figure. I wanted to be sure.

Why didn't you say so?

I could kill Dare.

Yes, sir?

I'm sorry for the display of bad temper.

She's fine.

Are you sure?

Yes, sir.

We're in great shape.

It works.

Of course, we'll have to treat more.

Many more.

But the results are conclusive, Doctor. You've won.

Go on, go on.

Thank you.

Thanks.

Don't thank us. Go upstairs and talk to Dr. Gillespie. Get some real things for

yourself. I'm sure.

Go on, go on. Oh,

Marianne. If I weren't contemplating a hard life of research, you'd have a home

with me forever.

It's a great step.

I'm very glad, Charles. Not only as any doctor must be, but especially for you.

Thank you.

Of course, there's a lot of work to be done yet. Clinical testing all over the

country under every condition.

But it's very exciting.

It'll be known as your treatment. How does it feel?

The Odiac treatment. We might start the clinical testing right here. Did you

know that we have a sickle cell patient in crisis?

Yes. Kildare mentioned it.

I don't know, but she might be willing to become the first patient on whom we

use it.

Oh?

Yes.

Yes.

Dr. James, this is Dr. Hodiak. Hello, Doctor.

Dr. Hodiak has spent many years in research on the very problem that's got

in bed.

I know. I went to see Dr. Shea once. He told me.

Dr. Hodiak thinks he can help you, but we need your permission to try.

May we have it?

Of course.

Now, it may not produce immediate results.

I can't hurt any worse than I did before.

Maybe we should wait till you're feeling a lot better.

Dr. Hodiak, if you think you can help, don't wait.

I told you I know about you.

Dr. Shea says you're the most thorough man in the field.

I trust you.

Nurse, will you see that the patient is prepared according to Dr. Hodiak's

instructions?

Tomorrow morning?

Tomorrow morning.

Well, I guess when all the excitement's over, you're going back to internship,

huh?

It's going to be dull.

Yeah, well, what can compare to a shapely, undressed, gleaming test tube?

It's funny how once you get a taste of it, you don't want to leave it.

Well, this isn't your first taste, Art. What about school?

Well, that was learning.

But this, to be in on something as important as this, doesn't

it do anything for you at all?

Jim. Hmm?

I said, doesn't it do anything for you?

Oh, I'm sorry, Art. I wasn't listening.

Is this...

Is this .4 or .9?

That's... I see, it's .4. Well, that's what I thought. It doesn't make sense.

What doesn't make sense? What are you talking about?

Shh, come on, fellas. Let's have a little instant quiet.

The figures, I brought them here to put them in better form, but the result

sheet Dr. Hodiak gave me, it doesn't make sense.

Why didn't you notice it before?

I never took time to correlate one figure against another. I just used it

independently to prove it out. You know how Hodiak rushed us.

Well, what difference does it make whether you understand it or not?

Hodiak understands it. And it works. I'd just like to satisfy my own curiosity.

Look.

Kill there.

If Hodiak says it's so, it's so.

Now me, I'm going to satisfy my curiosity too.

I'm going to find out what it's like to get in my own bed.

And sleep!

So, is Dr. Hodiak still in the hospital?

Barbara, if you're frightened, you don't have to go through with it.

Frightened? Of course I'm frightened, aren't you?

But not go through with it.

Doctor, I became a psychologist so I could help people.

I never dreamed I'd be able to help them like this.

You are apprehensive, aren't you?

Yes, a little.

Well, don't be.

We need it too badly for it not to work.

It wouldn't dare.

Dr. James, what are you doing up?

Giving a lecture to a man who doesn't need it.

Why don't you take him and make him get some sleep?

You've got a big job to do tomorrow on me.

I don't want any mistakes.

Good night, Barbara.

Good night.

You wanted me, Jim?

Yes, sir.

I don't know exactly how to put it.

But what, Jim?

Well, sir, I was reading over this just to set my own record straight.

And with all due respect, there seems to be no basis for this calculation.

I'll go over it with you sometime, but just now I'm very tired.

Dr. Hodiak, I could go over it myself if the filing cabinet weren't locked.

You went to the filing cabinet?

Yes, sir.

So you found it locked.

Yes, sir.

Just what are you trying to say, doctor?

Dr. Hodiak, the first time I went to the cabinet, you jumped all over me.

Now I go and I find it locked.

Is there something in it that you don't want seen?

Or is it something that isn't there?

Like the actual data supporting that result sheet.

Dr. Hodiak, that girl in there... That girl's going to be all right. Sir, I

she's going to be all right. Sir, may I have that key to that cabinet?

Dr. Kildare, your request.

Your tone and your manner are insulting and impertinent.

You are relieved of your duties on the project as of now.

Good night.

Hey, Simon.

Look, I can't be that wrong.

Yes, you can. Let me go to sleep.

But he fired me when I brought it up. Now, doesn't that indicate something?

Yes, it indicates that it's none of your business. Let me go to sleep.

Come on, be serious.

All right, I am serious.

I am serious.

Jim, can I ask you something?

Oh.

Did Dr. Hodiak say to you, you're getting too close to my secret, so

being fired?

Or did he say you're becoming insulting and impertinent?

You know what he said. All right, all right.

If I was insulting, wouldn't you fire me?

Yeah. That doesn't prove that there's any guilt or anything.

But suppose, suppose I'm right.

Tomorrow morning, Barbara James will be treated with a drug that is predicated

on a lie.

Well, can anything seriously happen to her? I mean, if it's wrong?

I don't know.

What can you do?

Guess I'll just have to wait and hope he doesn't go through with it.

Dr. Gillespie, please.

When is he expected?

No, no, no message.

Patient's ready, doctor.

You've recorded everything?

Blood pressure, temperature, time of the last blood sample? Yes, I have

everything.

Are you ready?

Very bad psychology, doctor.

You shouldn't give me a chance to say no.

Do you want to say no?

And Miss being the first?

We went through that last night.

We're on our way now.

Good luck, Doctor.

I heard we should know in a few hours.

We'll take the first blood sample in half an hour. Why not come to my office

relax? Oh, thanks. I'll stay close and patient. You could do with some rest.

Staples and Kildare can cover for you.

By the way, where is Kildare?

He's no longer on the project.

What?

What happened?

There was a personality difficulty.

When?

Last night.

Look, Leonard, it was my fault as much as his, so why not just let it ride?

Well, keep me informed of the patient's progress.

You're a doctor of medicine, a good doctor.

I owe you the courtesy of listening to your explanation.

Just why do you question Dr. Hodiak?

I received a result sheet from a series run in 1958, which Dr. Hodiak never even

mentioned before our first experiment failed.

Is there any reason he should have?

Well, no.

But when I went to the files to check the supportive data, he blew his top.

He said I wasn't to go there.

Well... Why couldn't I see the files if the data

were there?

You think it isn't?

Yes, sir, that's what I think.

He keeps the cabinet locked, and when I demanded the key... Demanded? Yes, sir,

demanded.

He fired me.

Yeah?

Oh, yes, John.

Good.

Ah, that's fine.

Congratulations.

Kildare, I admire your courage and perseverance.

But your fears seem to be unjustified. That was Dr. Hodiak.

The patient's oxygen saturation is up.

It looks promising.

Well, I'm very glad for the patient.

And for Dr. Hodiak. But you still think he's bluffing. Sir, I think he jumped a

step.

Now, the fact...

The fact that it looks promising means only that a woman of her age, her

physical condition, under these circumstances, will respond.

But will it work for anyone else?

I'm sure you're not making this charge lightly.

But you must realize that all you've conveyed is suspicion, without any

substantiating evidence.

I'm sorry, Dr. Gillespie, but those are my feelings.

Of course I had misgivings.

After all, a man of Dr. Hodiak's reputation for honesty and accuracy.

But until I see the data supporting his figures, I will not be convinced.

I'm beginning to feel like an automatic blood -making machine.

That's exactly what you are. How do you feel, doctor?

How do you feel, Barbara?

Great, doctor. Just great.

Shall I start thanking you now?

Oh, please.

You must be very proud.

Just feel better.

That's all I want right now.

Well, how are you, Dr. James?

Fine, thank you, doctor. You look fine. Thank you.

May I see you for a moment, Charles?

Of course.

Well, if Dr. James' condition continues to improve, we should be able to

discharge her within a week.

Oh? Oh, don't be so startled. That's what the drug is supposed to do, isn't

To help keep her out of hospital? Yes, of course.

And in due time, we should be able to release her to other hospitals and

clinics. We heard about your patient's progress, Doctor. Congratulations. Yes,

it's wonderful news.

Thank you.

They're very proud of you.

A premature tomorrow should tell us more. I hope tomorrow confirms what we

today.

Incidentally, the data...

I'd like to present your findings at the staff meeting.

It's just a matter of routine.

I'd like it this afternoon if you can manage.

Not a formal paper, of course, just the data.

Yes, of course.

I'll bring it to you right away.

Good. I'll be in my office.

A

staff

meeting will look over Dr.

Hodiak's material shortly.

I want to be sure it's in proper form.

Yes, sir.

Dr. Hodiak, Dr.

Staples are tied up with the patient.

As you were associated with the project, I thought you might be good enough to

spare me an hour and get it into shape.

Yes, sir.

Oh, Doctor, if by any chance there is anything irregular, you'll let me know.

Of course, sir.

Thank you.

Yes? Oh, Dr. Kildare, come in.

Is Dr. Hoodie again?

Yes, yes, of course. Come in.

I hope I'm not intruding. Oh, not at all.

We were going to ask you for dinner as soon as the excitement has died down.

Oh, Charles?

Charles?

Yes, Jim?

I'll, uh, I'll make some coffee.

Sit down.

The staff has seen and approved your data, sir.

They called me.

Well, I've seen it too.

Including the new pages.

Dr. Hodiak, I don't know why you did it.

But you jumped a step.

Did you find that in the data?

No.

Frankly, I was surprised to find any data at all.

But I admit I did find some new sheets with data on them.

Somehow you must have found time to work backwards from the result sheet and put

in the substantiating data.

That's a strong charge.

I can't prove it.

All I can do is appeal to you.

Tell them it isn't conclusive.

The staff seems to think it is.

We have been living in this apartment for a long time.

There might be enough money now to give my wife something a little nicer.

To make up for all she's done without.

This is my son.

He's in college.

He has to work part -time because there isn't enough money to afford an easy

education.

The drug works, Jim.

It works.

But will Barbara continue to show improvement tomorrow? And always? Will

We can't be positive about that with any known cure for any illness. But the

known ones were tested honestly. This one wasn't.

Don't say that, Jim.

You don't know that for sure.

Yes, I do.

What's more important, so do you.

At last we have hope.

Dr. Hodiak.

You know what it means to grow up with the knowledge that you'll die before

you're 40? The attacks are bad, yes.

Painful, terrifying.

But you get over it.

But each time you know you've hurt your body a little more and one day you just

won't be able to take any more.

We hope that's all over now, Barbara.

I can't be sure.

I can be sure of this.

At last I have hope. I can make plans that extend as far as other people's.

Up to now, for me, there were no tomorrows.

No tomorrows.

Not just for me, but all the others.

You know, each one of those hours you spent in your lab all these years can

be added to our lives.

That's quite a dividend.

You're quite a guy, Doc.

Yes, I... Yes, I know all about that, but... You tell her those tests are

necessary. Good morning, Charles.

And make... And make it stick.

Right, go on.

Well, how's the patient today?

She's doing well. Good.

Am I interrupting you? Not at all.

I... Anything wrong, Charles?

I'd like to talk to you, if you have a minute.

What is it?

It's... It's about the data on the project.

That girl, she's... I've got to tell you this.

Later. No, it might be Dr. Kildare. I asked your girl to send him in.

All right, come in.

Jim, I want to apologize to you. You were right.

What about?

He accused me of skipping, of deliberately skipping a step in my

it's true.

Charles. Please, let me finish. I can't hold this in any longer.

I know I realize I'll have to resign.

You'll have my letter as soon as I'm able to write it, but...

First, I owe you an explanation.

Kildare, I think you'd better wait outside. No, wait.

If you don't mind, I'd like him to hear why I did it.

Why don't you both sit down and listen to me for a minute?

I want to try to make you both understand.

And then maybe I will, too.

Something of importance.

That's what I always told myself I would contribute.

I worked hard.

I was tough on myself.

And on everybody else.

And I reached for that goal.

I'm sure that wasn't your only motive. I know you too well.

No, it wasn't the only motive, but... It was the one I tripped over.

I...

Saw my chance slipping away, and I became frightened.

I panicked.

I made one last grab at immortality.

All of us would like a chance at immortality. It's a human impulse, but

comes to so few.

Yes, and I envied the few too much.

They wrote a play about Freud, and there were movies about Pasteur and Ehrlich,

but those are the exceptions. Most of us have to be content with the

satisfaction of our own work.

Someday, maybe they'll put up a plaque in one of our corridors saying that

Leonard Gillespie was chief of staff.

You know, Charlie Dubrow had 35 years of brilliant surgery here at Blair, and

when he retired, we gave him a set of golf clubs.

That's not immortality, but it's as much as most of us can expect.

I'll move my stuff out as soon as I can.

I'm sorry, Charles.

Yes?

Come in.

Excuse me, sir. Doctor, that second injection hasn't had any effect at all

Barbara. Her oxygen saturation is dropping.

Should I increase the dosage?

No. But why should this happen?

I don't know.

Please order oxygen equipment for her. A standby.

She might need it.

You're stopping all treatments with the drug. Why?

But, Doctor, you... Please follow the doctor's instructions.

Dr. Gillespie. Please.

Yes, sir.

Where are you going, Charles?

Where am I going?

Look, Leonard, it was very difficult coming in here and telling you what I

But now I've got a much more difficult job to do.

I've got to go see that girl and tell her that as yet there is no hope.

Hmm?

I'd like to go with you.

At least I'll never know the pain of pregnancy, will I?

Forgive me?

Thank you.