:10:06
Say, I'm awfully sorry, doctor. I believe
when I left, you were calling me an idiot.
:10:10
The boys at the club
were talking about you.
:10:13
- They won't believe it.
- What?
:10:14
A man in your position
giving up a practice like this.
:10:18
Joe, what do you know
about brain surgery?
:10:20
Well, I think if I had the surgical courage,
I'd be in it.
:10:24
To go inside a human's skull...
:10:25
...and tinker with the machinery
that makes the whole works go.
:10:28
- That is romance, isn't it?
- Romance, huh?
:10:30
There's your romance.
:10:33
- Florist bill?
- Yes.
:10:35
Flowers for my last patient.
He was a gifted young composer.
:10:39
The night before the operation,
he started a new composition.
:10:42
He didn't finish it.
:10:44
- Maybe you read about it in the papers.
- Yes.
:10:46
The operation was a brilliant success.
But the patient just happened to die.
:10:52
- That's a pretty old joke, Fred.
- Is it?
:10:54
Look at any brain surgeon's
mortality rate...
:10:56
...you'll find out
just how unfunny it is.
:10:59
Are you quitting because
you've lost your nerve?
:11:02
What?
:11:04
- What else can a man think?
- I'm going back to medicine.
:11:06
- What do you mean, medicine?
- A little laboratory on a farm in Vermont.
:11:10
Medical Research Bureau is backing me.
Fisher will do the pathology.
:11:14
Incidentally, the best man
in the country.
:11:18
How many men would give their eyeteeth
for a practice you're throwing away?
:11:21
- What is this research, actually?
- Cells.
:11:24
- Cells?
- Brain cells.
:11:26
Why do healthy, normal cells go berserk,
grow wild? Do you know?
:11:30
- No.
- Nobody knows!
:11:31
But we call them cysts and gliomas
and tumors and cancers.
:11:34
We hope to cure with the knife
when we don't even know the cause.
:11:38
Our patients have faith in us
because we're doctors and... .
:11:41
Tell the boys they can split up
my practice. And welcome.
:11:46
You and Pasteur.
:11:47
Someday, somebody will discover
a serum that will be to these growths...
:11:51
...what insulin is to diabetes
and antitoxin is to diphtheria.
:11:54
And maybe earn his title of
Doctor of Medicine.
:11:56
- Yes?
- Dr. Parsons is here.
:11:58
- He is?
- He insists.