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:42:00
Yeah.
:42:01
Lunch at 9:00 a.m.?
:42:02
Fine.
:42:03
What’s the problem?
:42:05
Well, the patients.
:42:06
Patients.
Damn cry-babies.

:42:07
Who’s running this hospital,
us or them?

:42:09
Us, I hope.
:42:10
You bet your ass,
shorty.

:42:13
De Voto, Joseph.
:42:18
Good Morning.
Good Morning.

:42:20
Oh, yes. Tonsillectomy.
:42:22
I see Dr. Nichols
is doing it.

:42:24
Yes, right. He was recommended
by Joey’s paediatrician,

:42:27
Dr. Hatfield.
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Very prominent man.
:42:30
Mrs. De Voto,
do you take Reader's Digest?

:42:33
Oh, no, I...
:42:35
There was a marvellous article
about tonsils only last month.

:42:38
You didn’t see it?
:42:39
No.
Pity, you should have.

:42:41
Did you know that tonsils are the
least-understood organs in the human body?

:42:45
Is that so?
:42:46
Nobody really knows
what they do.

:42:47
Which is no reason
to rip them out.

:42:49
They must be there
for some purpose.

:42:51
As Einstein said,
:42:52
“God does not play dice
with the universe.”

:42:54
Who?
:42:55
God.
:42:56
No, the other.
:42:57
Einstein.
Practically the same thing.

:43:01
Morning!
:43:06
Hi, Joey.
:43:08
How are you?
:43:10
Say, I...
What’s the matter?

:43:15
What the hell?
:43:22
Morning, Annie.
:43:24
Morning.
:43:26
I just saw Mrs. De Voto
and her boy

:43:28
leaving the hospital.
:43:29
Really?
:43:30
They were supposed to check in
for a tonsillectomy.

:43:34
All right,
I talked her out of it.

:43:36
You did what?
:43:37
Why not?
:43:38
Why not, indeed?
God knows you’re qualified.

:43:41
You’ve been here
almost a week!

:43:42
Oh, come on.
:43:43
You know, at least 90 percent
of all tonsillectomies

:43:46
are totally unnecessary.
:43:47
No. No,
I don’t know that.

:43:51
Tell me about it.
:43:52
I read an article
in a magazine,

:43:54
90 percent
of all tonsillectomies,

:43:57
50 percent
of all appendectomies,

:43:58
and at least 75 percent
of all hysterectomies...


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