1:25:02
I crushed him with the sandbag...
1:25:05
and gave him a massive shot of the digoxin.
1:25:09
This brought on an instant condition
of cardiac arrhythmia.
1:25:13
I waited for him to come to.
1:25:16
Then I brought him down
to the Emergency Room.
1:25:19
He had, at that time, perhaps an hour to live.
1:25:22
Prompt treatment would've saved his life.
1:25:25
He was suddenly taken ill.
I got him here right away.
1:25:28
As a staff doctor,
he was seen without preliminaries.
1:25:31
His vital signs were taken.
An electrocardiogram...
1:25:34
which revealed occasional
ventricular premature contractions.
1:25:39
An intern took his history,
and then he was...
1:25:42
promptly, simply...
1:25:45
forgotten to death.
1:25:48
Simply mislaid.
1:25:50
Mislaid among the broken wrists...
1:25:53
the chest pains, the scalp lacerations...
1:25:56
the man whose fingers
were crushed in a taxi door...
1:26:00
the infant with a skin rash,
the child swiped by a car...
1:26:05
the old lady mugged in the subway,
the derelict beaten by sailors...
1:26:10
the teenage suicide, the paranoids...
1:26:13
drunks, asthmatics, the rapes,
the septic abortions...
1:26:17
the overdosed addicts...
1:26:19
the fractures, infarcts, hemorrhages,
concussions, boils, abrasions...
1:26:24
the colonic cancers, the cardiac arrests...
1:26:28
the whole wounded madhouse of our times.
1:26:39
Who's Number 7680202-S?
1:26:43
Is there anybody here who is that number?
1:26:49
In this way...
1:26:51
was it revealed to me
the manner of Nurse Campanella's death.
1:26:55
She was to die
of the great American plague:
1:26:59
Vestigial identity.