All language subtitles for Hospital (1970) Frederick Wiseman 45.ENG

- Paging Dr. Flores, Dr.
Adkins, Dr. Flores.

Dr. Antonelli, Dr. Antonelli, Dr.
Flores.

- Get your oxygen on.

- Yeah, we had oxygen.

- Has she ever had diabetes?

- Not that I know of, no.

- Has she ever had a heart
attack in the past.

- No.

- After the stroke that she had,

that was what year, by the way?

- That was in '66.

- Right.

After the stroke, was
she able to talk?

- Oh yes.

- She had no problem
with speech?

- No.

- Did she have any
problem with using

her arms or legs?

- No, well her left
side was somewhat-

- Her left side? - Yes.

- And what happened
today at home?

- Nothing, last night
she was all right.

And well, the doctor
said when she,

you know, sometimes she
gets a little excited like,

you know what I mean?

He told me to give her
one of the pills.

When she, he told me
to give her the pills

three times a day, and
one one times a day.

- What color were the pills?

- I told you, one was
tan and one was blue.

And so I gave her one
of the pills last night

to relax her.

And...

- Calm down, I'm trying to help.

And she usually gets
up at 6:00 to eat

before I go to work,

but this morning she
didn't wake up.

So I said, well maybe...

Maybe she was a little
bit more tired.

So after I fixed breakfast
and everything,

she was still sleeping.

When I shook her, she
wouldn't wake up.

- So it all happened
in her sleep.

- Yes.

- Was she feeling all
right last night?

- Yes, she was all right.

You come inside
in a little while

and we'll give you
a tranquilizer.

- Were you vomiting
the other day?

- Yeah, I was vomiting.

- After the tranquilizer.

Have you had any red vomit?

Bloody vomit?

- No blood, no.

- How about your stools,
what color have they been?

Your bowel movements?

- They look like they
was turning black.

- Black.

- Yeah.

- The color of my watchband.

The color of this, this color?

- Yeah.

- How many days have
they been black?

- About four days now.

Black.

- Any diarrhea?

- Huh?

- Have you had any diarrhea?

- No, I haven't had diarrhea.

- What'd they do, what's
this operation for?

- Huh?

- What's that operation for?

- Alcohol.

- Yeah, that's right,

he was operated for alcohol.

- Well what do you mean,

you were operated for alcohol?

- I'm an alcoholic.

Acute alcoholic.

- Okay, now listen to me.

It's very important that I know

if it was a pill, or
did you shoot up?

What?

Was it a pill, or
did you shoot up?

- Heroin.

- Heroin?

How much did you take?

One bag?

One bag?

- Yeah.

No cops around here.

- No cops, no cops.

- Here, let's give her an IV.

- Yes, this is Dr.
Schwartz calling

from Metropolitan
Hospital Emergency Room.

We received a patient
from New York Hospital

about two hours ago by
the name of Inez Watley.

I wanted to inform you that

the patient was
transferred over here,

and conditions of the
transfer were really absurd.

First of all, there was no,

absolutely no note came with
the patient at the time.

There was no note as to
who the doctor here,

who was contacted,

who accepted the transfer.

There was no note as to
what the laboratory tests

or condition of the
patient was when seen

by a doctor at New
York Hospital.

There was absolutely
nothing that came over.

I called up and I was
able to get in touch

with the resident, I don't
recall his name now,

who did see her in
the Emergency Room,

and he related her condition
to me rather superficially.

It turns out the patient is
an active upper GI bleeder.

She may or may not have to
go to the Emergency Room,

to the operating room tonight
on an emergency basis.

Now I think that this
patient's life was actually

put into some sort of jeopardy

by transferring her
in this condition.

And I would just
like to say that

this is the sort of thing
that we see all the time,

and whenever it happens,

I make it a habit of
calling the administrator

and voicing my complaint.

This is just not in the best
interest of the patient,

regardless of how many
rooms there are or aren't.

No, this is Metropolitan.

Patient's name is Inez Watley.

She's an active
upper GI bleeder.

We don't know, it's
up to the surgeons.

They're seeing it now.

No, I can't tell you.

I believe it was medical,
I really don't know.

Okay.

Bye-bye.

- How long have you
been hard of hearing?

- Ever since I was
18, and I'm 68 now.

- You were born in 1901, right?

So you've been hard
of hearing since...

- In '62, then the company
went on the blink,

then I was laid off.

- I mean how many years have
you been hard of hearing?

- Well, that would be
40 years, wouldn't it?

- Since about 1929?

- No, since 1919.

It's been very hard.

- I can imagine,
I'm telling you.

- It's harder than when
you have to wear glasses.

- Now tell me, do you
have any kind of

private medical insurance?

Blue Shield?

- No. - No.

- Except the Medicare.

Blue Cross wouldn't take me

on account of the diabetes.

- Oh yeah, yeah, yeah, uh-huh.

- I tried to get it.

And then they told me
they would only give me

something if it was
not the diabetes

that caused it,

and usually diabetes causes
all kinds of ailments.

- That's right.

- The eyes, I've spent a
lot of money for the eyes.

But I have no disease.

The doctor was afraid I
maybe have a disease.

- Oh, yeah, yeah, yeah.

Now.

- It's just been hard for me.

Now this comes off, a new
hearing aid, the teeth,

and now all these
check-ups the man wants.

Six, seven different
ones for the laboratory,

chest x-rays.

That's all, I have to pay first

but they give me back on it.

But the first $50.00 I
have to pay myself,

and $48.00 I have to
pay for the Medicare.

So it's just been,

and if I draw and
use up my income,

what am I gonna do?

You see, you wanna
remain self supporting.

You don't want the
government to support you.

Everybody has that in
them, don't you think so?

We want to do what
we can ourselves.

- Yeah.

- If you can.

Except when need comes.

- Yeah.

- And I'm trying to avoid that.

- Yeah, I know.

- And I pay $64.86 rent a month.

Plus my utilities.

- You're not a Veteran, no?

- No.

But I did work for the
UMRA overseas once.

And I had an UMRA uniform.

I was tied up, I had
settled in Germany

when I was young and married.

Then due to WWII I
had to come back

because the Russians
took everything.

- Oh, yeah, yeah, yeah.

Okay.

- Now I sign?

- Yeah, uh-huh.

You have to sign here, and here.

Well I thank you
very, very much.

- 152 and a half.

Have a seat.

You keep that, that's for you.

Okay.

This way, sit down here.

- Just relax your legs,
just let them hang loose.

No, this is not loose,
looser, looser.

Loose, loose, like they're
hanging in water.

Just like you're sitting
in water, okay?

- The drinking just
eats into your stomach.

I'll give you some other
medicine to relax you

so you won't get so nervous.

- I like to eat, so when I chew,

so if I have a couple of
beer or two, it's good.

- Yeah.

It's not good for you.

- Let me see your teeth.

- Would you like to
have your teeth fixed?

- I would like to.

I try to pull them out.

- You don't pull
them out yourself.

- No, no, I pull pieces out.

- All right, well
we'll have you seen

in the dental clinic.

Come over here, let me
take your blood pressure.

Are your eyes blurry?

- No.

- What happened to your eyes?

- It gets dark, couple minutes.

Dark, completely dark.

- Okay, I'm gonna look
inside your eyes.

Do you have any trouble
passing your urine?

- No.

But I got something there
that's bothering me.

Down there.

- In the where?

- You know.

- Yeah, what happens when
you pass your urine,

does it burn or itch?

- No, my thing itch too much.

- It itches.

You have itching right on it?

- Sometimes I wanna scratch it.

- Do you have bleeding?

- When I scratch it,
'cause I wash up,

and I clean real good,

and then I itch, and it bleeds.

- It does.

- Yeah.

- We'll have to get
that checked today.

- Not inside.

- Outside.

- Outside on the bottom.

This is the thing, over
here, on the bottom.

- Around the rim, it itches.

- Yeah.

I'm sorry to tell you.

- No, no, I wanna know, because
I have to fix this up.

But how about when
you pass your urine,

does it drip out?

- No.

- Does it come out
in a nice stream?

- Come out nice but,

when I stop it-

- Yeah, you feel like
you have to go more?

- No, when I feel it stop,

and put it in my pants it drips.

- Drips.

Okay, we'll have to, yeah.

- I don't like to
tell that to you

because I'm ashamed.

- No, don't be ashamed.

No we wanna fix this up.

We wanna make you feel better.

I have to know all these things.

All right, you come
sit down over here.

- I think I have cancer.

- You think you have cancer,

well we have to check you up.

I don't know that you have

anything like that
to worry about.

I think I have cancer.

- Where do you
think you have it.

- That thing.

- That, you want me to look?

I'm sorry, you want
me to look at it?

Do you want me to check it?

Or you prefer to have
a man doctor look?

You want me to look?

- If you wanna.

- All right, let me
check it for you.

Just lie down.

- I'm ashamed.

- No, no, there's nothing
to be ashamed of.

All right.

Now what I'm gonna do for you,

I'm gonna give you a
pill for the diabetes,

and have you see the dietician.

She'll tell you what to
eat, and how to eat it.

I'm gonna get you an appointment

to have yourself checked up

in the GU clinic.

And I'm gonna send you
to the dental clinic.

All right.

And we will have your
counseling nurse talk to you.

We wanna find out
whether we can possibly

get you some other kind of work

where you don't have to be
on your feet all the time.

- Hold it in, please.

Stop breathing.

Breathe.

Now stop breathing.

Breathe.

Swallow some more.

Stop breathing, please.

Breathe.

Stop breathing, please.

Breathe.

- We took x-rays of it
and it showed nothing.

His calcium when he
came in was rather low.

Low calcium and a
low phosphorus.

- You say the murmur is better?

- I can hardly hear it,

at least I could hardly
hear it yesterday.

- Has the risen this week?

- Yeah, right now it's 33,

yesterday it was 33.

- That hurt?

Again?

Could you sit up?

Have you heard anything?

- Never.

Maybe if you project
you can hear

some tubular breath sounds.

- Breathe through your mouth.

Say 99.

- 99.

99.

99.

99.

- Now whisper, one, two three.

- Whisper.

One, two, three.

- One, two, three.

- Whisper, one, two, three.

- One, two, three.

One, two, three.

One, two, three.

One, two, three.

- Pick up anything else?

- Huh?

- Can you pick up anything else?

I think you have to apply
something's lugging.

- Since I have to
be around tomorrow,

will you tell him that Dr.
Gordon and I feel

that we should have
a tissue diagnosis?

Can I talk to you?

Despite the fact that the
patient's getting better.

Boy, you're all
tied up here, huh?

Okay.

You feel cold?

Okay.

- Good evening
ladies, how are you?

- Good evening.

- I have your medication
for you, dear.

Sit up, you need to sit up here.

Take it easy.

- Thank you.

- Stay still.

Let me feed you with
the milk sitting up.

Now it's good to the last drop.

All right?

- Mm-hmm.

- Okay, Miss Michaels.

- Thank you very much.

- Okay, take a breath, relax.

Okay dear.

Was that good?

You want a little more juice?

- Mm-hmm.

- Okay, Miss Harris, come dear.

That's your medicine.

That's your medication, ma'am.

- All right, now that
we've done that,

let's get to the brain proper,

and we do see the very,
very mild flattening.

The brain looks like a
rather small brain.

Let's weigh it now.

You see, after fixation,
it's only 970, about.

It's a small atropic brain.

The convolutions are small.

And I think this
was a significant.

I think one of the
reasons her symptoms

maybe were not so alarming,

or progressed very slowly,

is there was probably
a lot of room

in the cranial cavity

because of the atrophy
of the brain.

Quite a bit of herniation
of tissue right to left,

indicative of increased
intercranial pressure.

At the base of the brain,

also we find a deep herniation.

There's quite a
mark through here.

That's also one of
the best we've seen

in a few weeks.

Can you see it?

Also on the right side.

Now one other point of interest

is that there is a
little focus here

of yellowish brown discoloration

of the left meninges,

and normally the, as you know,

the arachnoid acts
as a good barrier,

and none of the fluid gets,

none of the blood, I mean,

gets into the
subarachnoid space.

'Cause anthrocomy is blood
clots that profuse through.

This may indicate
either that she had

a tiny little subarachnoid
hemorrhage at the same time,

or that a little bit
of blood did leak

maybe along one of
the bridging veins

and get inside of the
subarachnoid space.

I think I'd like to take
a section of that now,

so I don't lose it.

Because I'm interested to see

if we'll be able to pick up a
hemosiderin microscopically.

All right, I think that covers,

her focal seizures presumably

are due to pressure.

They were left-sided.

This is behind the central

so I presume that this did not
have any significant focus.

It reminds me of the plaque Jean

of chronic alcoholics
who had head trauma.

Epileptics with
chronic alcoholism

who had multiple head trauma

get these yellow plaques,

what we call plaques Jean.

- The vastus medialis
is man's last muscle.

It is the last
muscle to have come

into man's anatomy
in any proportion.

Only man has a screw home
position of the knee.

Only man has a long
last geometry.

Only man can rotate the
legs inward and outward.

This is a man's problem.

A horse, or any of
the quadrupeds,

must rotate by dipping
one leg down,

but there are no
rotatory muscles.

Only man can develop
cerebral palsy.

Because only man has a
wine glass geometry.

So therefore when they try
to imitate cerebral palsy,

in the experimental animal,
it's a waste of time.

It's just as much
as we try to prove

by thousands of
experiments producing

hip dislocation in a dog.

And we say now we know
by understanding that

the dog, that dislocation
happens in man.

It's a totally different
type of dislocation.

Only man can develop that
type of dislocation,

'cause man has a
different geometry.

Man is not born with disease,

he acquires these disorders.

When he tries to adapt to a
certain level of civilization.

- Yeah Dr. Plume, this is
Miss Tille the OR supervisor,

can you give me the report?

Yeah.

Yeah, let me tell him.

The lymph nodes didn't
show any malignancy.

Yeah, go ahead.

Anything else?

Nothing.

He has a report, no
malignancy whatsoever.

Okay?

All of them, doctor?

All of them.

Okay?

Thank you very much.

- Why don't you bring
that chair over.

Just relax.

Relax.

Take a deep breath and
let it all the way out.

Okay, good.

Everything's all right.

- No he should not return home.

The grandmother is incapable

of taking care of
these two children.

She's intoxicated.

Of course, the child
cannot return to a home

with the environment that,

the father of the child with a
grandmother that, you know.

She didn't even know
the kid was gone.

That's right, she didn't even
know the child was gone.

- Well, I think the child
was left with a grandmother

that was completely intoxicated

and incapable of taking
care of the child.

They're refusing
to come down here,

the parents, we
can't locate them.

I think something should
be done about it.

We talked to the grandmother,

the grandmother knows
the child is here.

- And she's not coming.

- She's not coming.

She refused to come
to the hospital.

- Are they gonna admit him?

Is there a possibility,

can we admit the
boy for 24 hours,

just so I can send a telegram

to have the father pick him up?

Because I want social service

to investigate the
home environment.

Because the child is
not fit to go home.

He fell.

It's a neglect ward.

- It's improper supervision.

- She wants to refer the child.

I want her-

- He's getting a bed.

- All right, would you
fill out a neglect form?

All right, she's gonna
fill out a form.

Nina, this is Midge.

Now I know the old
goat is there,

so answer yes or no.

Do you have a bed in the ward?

Just answer yes or no,

I can hear her breathing
down your back.

Yeah, what I want is a bed.

Well, really nothing.

I mean, there's no
disease, but I need a bed.

And I was hoping you and Dr.
Hewitt

could figure out how
I could get one.

A bed for a little boy

who doesn't have
any place to go.

I'll give him anything you want,

what do you want him to have?

Where's the boss.

Okay.

- Are there any other
siblings in the home?

- We don't know 'cause we
haven't had any kind of

family to talk to or nothing.

All we know is this kid fell.

- The child fell out of a
window that was 15 feet.

- Fifteen feet, straight down.

- Not 15 floors, 15 feet.

- 15 feet straight down.

- Okay, a child fell
out of a window,

people called the police,

the police came to the home.

- Right, three policemen
brought the kid to us.

- Mrs. Kelly says that

by law we can't keep this kid.

But by law.

- But common sense you can't
discharge him either.

- I could take him
home for one night,

but what would I do with
him in the morning?

- Oh no, don't you get involved
in something like that.

- I really don't know
what to do with the kid.

- Well, he'll be placed,
don't worry about that.

You get him cleaned
up, Josephine,

there's nothing wrong with
the youngster, right?

Nothing wrong with
the youngster.

He's just ready for disposition.

- You think I could
get something for him

to eat from the kitchen?

- Don't worry about
anything, Louis.

Don't worry about anything.

You have to go upstairs though.

The doctors wanna
take a look at you.

- When can I leave here?

- Tomorrow morning.

You see?

That don't make sense.

- There's nothing,
everything okay for me.

- We'll make sure your
children are safe

so you don't have to
worry about them.

- This is too long.

- That isn't a long
time to wait, Louis.

It's very important
to your children.

- I feel right now.

- If it was all right
for you to go home,

the doctors would've
told you to go home.

- The main thing
we don't wanna do

is have to manhandle
or anything like that.

- Well, I don't wanna hurt him.

He don't wanna go.

- I know that.

- I would suggest some action,
that's my point of view.

- Some action?

- Yeah.

- Well I'm trying to
alleviate action.

- It's up to you, doc,
what's your decision?

- It's not up to him,
it's up to me right now.

- Well, what do you say?

- I say let's wait until the
social worker comes over.

- All right.

- That's a long time.

- Right, 'cause that's
his main concern.

He has to feel concerned
about his family.

He has young children,
nine, eleven, and seven.

- All right now, you have
children at home now?

- Yes.

- That's right.

- Three children.

- Three children.

Who are they with now?

- They're waiting for me.

- They're waiting for you,

there's no grown-up
person with them?

- No.

- How old are the children?

- One 11,

one nine,

and one seven.

- They're not in school today?

- Hmm?

- They're not in school,

they're waiting at home for you?

- Yeah, waiting for me.

- Uh-huh.

Who gave them lunch?

- Hmm?

- Who gives them lunch?

- I did, this morning.

- You gave them
lunch this morning.

I see.

What about the lady
who lives next door?

Is she watching them?

- They watch television.

- Where's their mother?

- Mother left.

I don't understand.

I gotta go now.

- I know you've got to go now.

- I gotta get my kids.

- But you're gonna
end up back here

in the hospital even sicker.

- Because I'll buy
some medicine.

- If the medicine
would settle it,

we would give you
the medicine here.

You need to be in the hospital

for the doctors to
treat you here in bed.

- I'll take the medicine.

- Do you get any money from
the welfare department?

- Because I feel all right.

Everything okay now.

I feel all right.

- Do you get money
from the welfare?

- I'm working.

- You work.

- Yeah.

- Did you ever get any
money from the welfare?

- No.

- Never.

- I'm working.

- What kind of work do you do?

- I work in the bar.

- At a bar?

- What hours do you work?

- I work there Friday.

- What time do you go to work?

I wake up at 6:00.

I get out at 3:00.

- And who is with the
children at night

when you're at work?

- I let them stay,

because the bar is over here,

I live over here.

Every time I go upstairs,

I check on my kids.

- Oh, so you check.

So you leave them home alone

and then you go back
and check on them.

- I check, because
the bar over here,

I live right here.

I go upstairs and
everything okay.

- Yeah, I understand
what he's saying,

but he's also difficult
to reason with.

- Because I'm working, I work.

I don't play.

- All right look, I want
you to listen to me.

The doctors say you
must stay here

for your health.

For your future health.

- I don't wanna stay.

- We don't wanna keep you here

just because we wanna keep you

away from your children.

It's important for you.

If you got hurt more
seriously then you think-

- I don't wanna stay.

- And you are not
treated, you could die.

Then who's going to take
care of the children?

- No, please.

I'm sorry.

I'm against this.

- I can arrange to
have someone come in

and take care of the
children for you.

If your father can't do it,

and no other
relatives can do it,

I can have someone come in.

- No, I can't.

- Is there anyone else?

- I feel all right, I
just need some medicine.

- If you feel all right,
why do you need medicine?

- I'll buy some
medicine someplace.

- I know you're worried about

taking care of your children.

But is there any other
reason why you will not

come into the hospital?

- I don't wanna stay here.

- No one wants to stay here.

No one wants to
be in a hospital.

- Come on, Louis.

Come on, Louis.

You have to go up now.

You have to go up to the ward.

Come on.

- Right now?

- Now, we have to go upstairs.

- I don't wanna go upstairs.

- Listen, come on.

Come on, Louis.

Come on.

We ain't gonna hurt ya.

Come on.

Come on, Louis.

- I'll do the rest of
admission upstairs.

- In homosexuality, you
experience this a lot.

When there isn't a man who looks

like an average
Wall Street worker,

and he has his suit
on, and his tie,

and his hair combed to the side,

looking like a million dollars.

And if another homosexual
should pick him up,

take him home, he'll
tie him up, beat him.

These are things
that are not normal.

And this is what I mean.

- Mr. Beevis, I wanna
establish one thing with you.

- Yes.

- There are lots of people
who have this problem,

and I recognize it as a problem,

who can get along very well.

And I wouldn't, if somebody
wanted to be that way,

or even didn't
wanna be that way,

but felt he couldn't
do anything about it,

I wouldn't try to change it.

But I might try to help
him to get along with it.

- Well, listen,
like I told them,

and I'll tell you.

I'm willing to accept therapy

because I feel that
being what I am,

I'm not a normal human being,

and I recognize myself.

You see, not normal.

It's just a fact that when
God created this earth,

he made man and woman,

not something else
besides that, right?

So like, I'm not normal.

I would be abnormal.

I'm a freak of nature.

So any kind of help that would
be given to me in here,

I would assure you that

it would do me a heck
of a lot of good.

Because I'm having
somewhat of a difficulty

obtaining what is known
as social service,

in other words, welfare.

This welfare center has

petitioned me,

and later they have come
up with the statement

that I cannot require welfare

because I am a minor.

Now, being that I-

- Because why?

- Because I am a minor.

But you know,

when I do go over to
the welfare center,

they tell me, "And how
have you been supporting

"yourself, and eating, and
doing this and that?"

And you know what
I've been doing?

Prostituting.

- Mm-hmm.

- Prostituting.

Male prostituting.

- Well, let me tell
you something.

- As a trans-female,
because I get confused.

- Let me tell you something.

If you do that 'cause
you need a buck or two-

- Not because I
need a buck or two,

because I have to
have just one pull.

- Right.

Just don't go around telling

welfare center about it.

- I have told them about it.

- Yeah, I know, well
don't tell them anymore.

I'll tell them to forget it.

When a person tries
as hard as he can,

to do the best he can,

and it doesn't work,

he gets very upset and confused,

and he thinks to himself,

"I must be all mixed up,

"there must be something
wrong with me.

"I must be bad, even
though I don't feel it."

Now the first couple of weeks

are gonna be the hardest.

Because we gotta straighten
out a few things.

After a couple of weeks

those things will be
straightened out,

and there won't be
much of a problem.

We're gonna try our
best, if it's possible,

to help you get the welfare.

I don't know anything
about the rule

about your being a minor,

but we'll see what we
can do about that.

We'll try to help you on that.

And meanwhile, you gotta
work along with me

on a couple of things.

We need some welfare
assistance because clearly

he's not in a position
to work for himself,

he's not organized enough.

I would say, roughly guessing,

maybe about in a month
he'll be ready.

If I send him off
to the hospital,

which I could easily do,

he never will be ready.

And he'll be a public
charge all the way.

This way we got at
least a good chance

of straightening him out

so that he will be able to work.

There's a what?

He has no access to it.

He has no access to it.

Miss Hightower, I can't
help what his mother does.

Miss Hightower, I
don't wish to direct

any conversation
towards his mother.

I'm asking for the
assistance of welfare.

This is an emergency situation.

I can possibly keep this
man out of a hospital,

if I get assistance.

You're telling me about the
law, and the procedure,

and my supposing to-

Uh, Miss Hightower, is
this the welfare center?

Okay?

Are you concerned
with your clients

and the possibility of keeping
them out of a hospital?

Why don't you answer?

Miss Hightower,

I as a psychiatrist,

I as a psychiatrist am...

All right.

Miss Hightower, I as a
psychiatrist am asking

your assistance of welfare,

which you have in your hands,

to help this person so
that he has at least

a chance of staying
out of the hospital,

and getting back to work.

Now this is exactly
what I'm asking for.

Now can I get it?

I will put it in writing,
I certainly will.

I will send him back
to that welfare center

with that in writing.

I do not know at this time.

At this time, I do not
know where he is staying.

He isn't sitting here
in the room with me,

and I don't know his address.

But I hope to get some
assistance from welfare,

and I hope not just to be faced

with the fact that I'm
supposed to go out

and get his mother, who
is not willing to help.

He does not have it.

He does not have
it at his command,

his mother is not
willing to help him.

This is a considerable
part of the problem,

that his family has
thrown him out

because of his difficulties,

and you're asking me to go out

to get a person who
won't even come in,

and doesn't wish to help him,

and making that conditional

on your helping him.

Miss,

Miss Hightower.

I would be happy
to speak to her.

This may well be her son,

but she has not exhibited
the interest up to now,

and she has not been willing
to give him the money,

or do any help in
taking care of him.

Miss Beevis.

This is an emergency situation.

The man is suffering
from schizophrenia.

I am trying to help him.

Yes, he is suffering
from schizophrenia.

I am trying to keep him
out of the hospital.

If you put him through
the procedure

of sending him to his mother

with a worker,

you're gonna guarantee,

that's right.

Now,

now will he get the money

regardless of what the
worker finds at home?

This is what I wanna know.

I don't want to be put off

and given the run around.

I wish an answer, and
if you can't give it,

I wanna talk to somebody
who can give it.

Miss Hightower, are
you going to give him

the assistance that
I'm asking for,

regardless of what your worker
finds out from the mother?

I'm asking that direct question.

I wish a commitment.

I don't wish you to tell me

that you don't know what
you're going to do.

She hung up on me.

- Come on, chief.

- Come on, my man.

- Can you walk now?

- Come on, wake up.

- Come on, get up, let's go.

- Come on, wake up.

- Come on.

- Let's go, stand up.

- Come on, that's it, hold on.

Come on, my man.

That's it.

Come on.

Come on.

Let's go.

That's a boy.

- Stand up, come on, stand up.

Come on, man.

- Come on.

Turn around. - Turn around.

Don't you wanna sit down yet?

Hold on.

Hold on there.

Come on, turn around.

Turn around.

That's it, come on, turn around.

Come on, turn around.

That's it.

Wonderful.

That's it, now you got it.

- Wonderful.

Wonderful.

- Let's tie him to the chair.

What was it, wine or whiskey?

- I don't know.

- You don't remember?

Okay.

- Put your hands up.

Both hands up.

All right.

A young man like you,

every day, you come in here
raising hell, don't you?

Go up this way
now, this way now.

Relax back forward.

Go back forward.

There's nothing wrong with that.

- Do you drink?

- Yeah.

I drink.

- Did you inject a needle?

- Yeah.

- When did you inject?

When did you inject?

Can you come over to the side?

- What do you think
they gave you?

What did they give you?

- He told me it was mescaline,

but I was chewing it and
it tasted sort of funny.

Like soap or
something like that.

- Uh-huh.

He told you it was mescaline,

but it tasted funny.

- Yeah, I knew it wasn't.

- Lie down.

Okay.

Okay.

- I'm gonna die.

- You're not gonna die.

Can we have an NG tube, please?

And 10ccs of ipecac.

Make it 20.

No, no, no, no.

Just an NG tube.

How long ago did you take it?

- It was in the park,
it was during the day.

I've been trying to puke it up

or trying to shit it out,
but it doesn't come out.

- Okay.

You're going to be all right.

You're going to be okay.

Lie down, all right.

Just lie down and relax.

You're going to be okay.

- What am I gonna do?

- You're going to be okay.

You're going to be okay.

All right.

There's no serious poison

that you could've taken at 7:00.

- No, somebody in the
park gave it to me.

Somebody in the
park gave it to me.

- But if it was really serious,

then it would've
done you in by now.

- No, it was a pill, a pill!

- I understand, I understand.

Lie down and relax.

- It was a pill.

- I understand.

We need more.

Make it 20.

Okay, you're going to be okay.

You're going to be okay.

I'm going to give you
some medicine now

that will counteract the pill,

and you'll feel better.

Okay?

Just relax.

- Doc, can I call
my friend Patricia?

Oh, I don't know,

she's probably in the
custom world by now.

Oh shit, I don't wanna die.

- You're not going to die.

You're not going to die.

Try to relax.

All right, now I want you
to swallow this, okay?

- Okay, I will.

- I'm gonna loosen this,

and I'd like you to swallow it.

I hope to be able
to loosen this.

Okay, here you go.

Here you go.

Just relax.

Just relax.

Drink this.

All the way down.

Okay.

Little bit of water.

Drink, I want you to drink
plenty of water now.

- I've got a pitcher.

- Good man, good man.

Easy does it, easy does it.

Just drink it down, good.

Just relax and drink it down.

- Drink the water.

- Try some more water.

Okay, okay.

It's too, it's fine,
this is fine.

How you doing?

- I don't wanna die.

- You're not gonna die,
it just all came up.

It all came up.

You're doing very well.

- What am I gonna do?

- You're going to be okay.

- I feel, I'm so lost.

- Okay, I want you to lie down.

You don't need any more water.

He's going to be okay.

That was excellent.

It all came up.

- Oh God.

- That was excellent.

- Do I need a psychiatrist?

- Yes, you do.

You're going to have
one very shortly.

- All I want is this
woman, a friend of mine.

I'm been writing her
letters in Europe,

but I haven't seen her
in so many months.

- Okay.

Now you're going to be okay.

Let me just take your
blood pressure in here

before I send you
down the hall, okay?

There's a psychiatrist
down there who's waiting,

and will talk to
you very shortly.

- So did you take
the poison out?

- We got the poison out.

You saw it come out.

- Oh.

What am I gonna do?
- the poison is out.

The poison is out.

- I don't wanna die.

- You will not die.

The poison is out.

- Doc, when I meant
I was feeling sick,

I feel like I've been
malnutritioned or something.

- Right, right.

Well I would like you very much

to discuss this with the
psychiatrist, okay?

- Can you give me some
tranquilizers then?

- He will.

- Maybe he gave me it,

maybe it was a real
trip he gave me.

Oh shit.

- Had you ever take
mescaline before?

- Oh yes, but it was
nothing like this.

I'm just so afraid now.

- Okay.

- I'm just so
afraid of life now.

- Okay.

Come on, let's go down the hall.

Let's leave this with you.

Do we have a messenger?

Relax, relax.

We'll send you down the
hall with a messenger

to talk to a psychiatrist.

He's quite familiar with people

with problems such as this,

and he'll be able
to help you out.

- I'm so afraid.

- That's all right, we're here.

- Don't be afraid, we're here.

- Here, lay back down.

- What am I, oh I'm so afraid.

- It's all right.

- Am I gonna die?

- No, you're not gonna die.

- I'm not gonna die?

- You're gonna talk to a
psychiatrist, that's all.

Here lay back down.

- Wait, I don't wanna lie down,

I'm afraid if I do,
I'm gonna die here.

I'm waiting for a
friend of mine.

Oh shit.

- There's a psychiatrist
in code for him.

- You got a receipt?

- See, the doctor's
coming now to see you.

Okay.

It's all right.

Just relax.

Just relax.

- I don't wanna die,
I don't wanna die.

I don't wanna die.

- Here, put this in your book.

- Okay, okay.

- That's all right.

Lay on the bed, Steve.

Lay down on the bed,
Steve, go ahead.

No, no, no!

I don't wanna die!

Please!

Oh shit.

Am I all right?

- Yeah, you're all right.

- I'm so sorry.

- That's all right.

- I'm so sorry.
- Lie down on the bed.

Lie down on the bed.

- Wait.

I don't wanna lie down,

I'm afraid to lie down.

Can I just, can you play
music or something?

- No, we're not allowed
to play music in here.

- Anybody knows how
to sing or something,

or play music, I don't know.

Oh shit.

I think I should go
back with my family.

- Where'd you come from?

- Minnesota.

- Minnesota?

- Yeah, it's pretty hard
making it here on my own.

Trying to go to school,
get an education.

I didn't know why I was
getting an education

in the beginning.

- Are you going to school now?

- Yeah.

Studying art.

But you can't do
anything with art.

You can't do anything
with anything in life,

you know that?

Just get a job someplace,
that's about it.

- Did you say a injury?

Well this is the room
for injuries down here.

- Get an IV.

Let's just cut this.

Caesar?

Let's get him up on the table.

Let's get him up on the table.

Can you sit up?

120 over 70.

- Where was it?

- On 12th Street.

- On 12th Street?

- Whereabouts on 12th?

- Between Lenox and 5th.

- Between Lenox and 5th?

- Yeah.

- Did you get it in there?

- Yeah.

- Let it go full speed.

- George?

Do you know the
guys that did it?

- Don't move, don't move George.

- Put your hand right here.

Can you move the line over here?

- Mm-hmm, sure.

- Yeah, but he's
gonna be all right.

- Along this way?

- He's cut right
along this side.

It wasn't, good thing
it wasn't any deeper,

'cause if it was any deeper

he would've been in
serious trouble.

It would've cut a
major blood vessel,

and he would've bled a lot.

But the wound was superficial

and it just cut a lot of
superficial blood vessels

along the side of the neck.

It looked like a
lot of bleeding,

but it wasn't really
all that bad.

He's gonna be okay.

I'm gonna have him x-rayed now,

and we're gonna give
him a lot of fluid.

He's gonna stay for
a couple of days,

and we're gonna check
him very closely.

So you stay with him
for a few minutes,

we're gonna get the x-ray carts,

then you can see
him on the ward.

He'll probably be
going to sleep soon,

then you'd better go home.

You can come back and
see him tomorrow.

- You losing weight?

- I done lost some 30
something pounds underweight.

- But have you lost a
lot in the last month?

- Yeah.

- Huh, yeah?

- Lost some weight.

- All right, look up here.

I wanna look in your eyes.

Open your mouth, sir.

Can you open any
further than that?

Stick your tongue out.

Stick it out.

And open.

I gotta see in there now.

All right.

All right, relax your tongue.

Let your tongue relax.

Relax now.

Relax.

Open, open.

Open up.

Open up for me.

Can you open your mouth?

Say what?

- My jaw was broken.

You know, it's
hollow down there.

- Yeah.

Now take your shirt off.

- We're gonna take her back,

then I'm gonna remake
the paperwork,

then the doc's gonna
see her again,

that's all I know.

- Yeah, that don't make sense

running the patient
all over the place.

It really don't.

All of them sit here
all these hours,

three and four hours at a time.

- Right, and he said when Dr.
Bedman called,

he said they didn't have
no bed for the patient.

- That don't make sense.

That lady been for
three or four hours,

she's been riding from one
hospital to the other.

And it don't make sense.

It don't make sense.

Now we take her down there,
then somewhere else.

She might have to wind
up coming back up here.

That's what happens,

- I guess that's what happens
when you don't have no money.

You have to take what comes.

- That's right.

If she had money,

she'd have stayed at
a private hospital.

Wouldn't be running
all over the place.

What about her relatives,
there's nobody there?

No relatives?

That's another bad thing too.

She don't have no relatives.

Well, take it easy.

- Okay, where's the
nurse, I need her help.

Nurse?

Nurse?

Morphine please,
and 15 miligrams.

- She's pulmonary edema.

- You wanna get
another IV going?

- IPPB.

Get me IPPB here.

We gotta give her IPPB, John.

She's in edema.

She got a good pulse?

- Yes, she has been
taking medication.

- For high blood pressure?

- Yes.

- Has she been taking it?

- I have no idea, I
don't live with her.

- I'm just trying to find
out some information.

- I don't know.

She has been taking for
high blood pressure.

She lives alone.

I have no idea.

- I see.

- But she was over
for my birthday.

We were having quite
a few drinks,

had a very nice birthday party.

Ma came from Connecticut.

The only thing I'm
interested in is,

what is her condition?

- Right now?

- Right now.

- Her condition is grave.

Critical.

- It is critical?

- Yeah.

- That's what I wanted to know.

- Yeah, but I need to
find out everything I can

from you about her.

- That I can tell you.

- Is she a diabetic?

- No, she's not a diabetic.

- Has she had
frequent pnuemonias?

- No, nothing, no, no.

- No.

But she had the slight
stroke, when was that?

- Couple of years ago.

- Was it on the left
or the right side?

- I don't know.

- Which hand was she
having trouble with,

the left or the right hand?

- Good Lord, you're asking
me questions that are-

- It's important.

- Maybe right.

I couldn't possibly say.

- She's never had
any trouble talking

after the stroke?

- Never.

- All right.

And has she been under
anybody's care?

- Yeah, she's been
under a doctor's care.

- Do you know the doctor?

- Yeah.

- Do you have his
name and address?

- Yes, I certainly do.

Are these x-rays?

- Not for her.

- I'm so upset, I don't even...

Is she all right?

- She's not all right, no.

- She is critical.

- Yeah.

- I'm upset.

- I don't blame you.

- Oh stamps, don't worry
about the stamps.

Here.

- Beg pardon?

- I'll keep this.

- Well what number do
I have on the back?

- Surprise Coffee Shop.

- No.

- Ma?

Ma, don't worry.

Ma?

- Excuse me, was she ever
here before as a patient?

- No, I don't believe so.

Mom?

- Well I guess just whatever
in the way of history.

If there's anything, you know,

that's pertinent that happened
down here especially.

- Mr. Fields, I have
to get back to work.

- I'm real sick.

- I understand your problem.

I understand your problem,

and you, there's no
question about it,

that you're too old
to live alone,

and to take care
of yourself alone.

The social worker on 7th Avenue

is trying to find a
place for you to stay.

The social worker
here will try to find

a place for you to stay.

But the hospital is
not the place now.

But in the same house,
know what happened?

Last week, they shot an old
man in the same hallway.

The same place.

- I know.

- Huh?

- I know.

- I know.

I know it's not simple,

but you're not the only
one in this position,

and there are many,
many people every day,

who are placed into
appropriate nursing homes.

And if you just call
the number tomorrow,

the lady will take care of you.

It may not happen the next day,

it may take her a
few weeks to do,

but they will take care,

and you can get glasses
tomorrow for sure.

- For sure.

- Yes.

- Okay.

You definitely
should have glasses.

- Today especially, we
confront the mystery of God.

We approach Him,
forgetting ourselves,

we approach Him, reverently,
with awe, with wonder,

realizing inevitably
at the same time,

our own insufficiency
before Him,

our littleness, indeed, our
nothingness before our God.

For who of us humans could
ever know the mind of God?

Who of us could ever
give advice to Him?

Who of us could ever
give Him anything

that He has not already?

Or lend Him anything
that He would need?

For everything that
exists comes from Him.

Everything is by Him,

everything is for Him,

to Him give glory forever.

Hallelujah.

Today I think we want a
more selfless attitude.

More in the spirit of
the glory of the mass

which we recited
earlier in the mass.

In which the whole sentiment is

all praise to God.

Nevermind me.

Glory to God in the highest.

We praise you, we worship
you, we glorify you.

Or in other words, perhaps,

as Bishop Fulton Sheen
once expressed it,

"Today, let us thank
God for God."

in the name of the
Father, and of the Son,

and of the Holy Spirit, Amen.