:27:00
He panicked, is what it is.
:27:02
He decided that if he retires
:27:04
he will lose his zest for life
and die within 48 hours or something.
:27:10
But he told you.
:27:11
We looked in 14 towns,
we bought a house,
:27:13
you rented an office.
:27:15
What are we going to do?
:27:18
Kill him?
:27:21
I have my fax machine.
I can work part-time from here.
:27:25
A phone and a fax, that's all I need.
I'll call my old clients.
:27:29
- Even with half my commissions...
- We're gonna be fine.
:27:32
- Just like you said.
- With one patient?
:27:34
Maybe I'll get lucky and all of her systems
will be ravaged by disease.
:27:38
Kind of like having seven patients in one.
:27:46
Fit as a fiddle.
:27:48
Not a damn thing wrong with you.
:27:50
Dr Jennings, I'm sorry.
:27:52
What do you mean? Do you think I was
hoping you were ravaged by disease?
:27:57
What about my high blood pressure?
:28:01
You have above-normal systolic pressure,
:28:03
which is less dangerous
than a diastolic elevation.
:28:06
And yours is well below a level
that requires treatment.
:28:10
Do I need these?
:28:12
No.
:28:14
See, there's a difference between
the two types of hypertension.
:28:18
And in my opinion...
:28:19
In my opinion, Dr Metcalf doesn't know
his ass from a hole in the ground.
:28:24
But Canaima folks,
they're comfortable with him.
:28:27
They weren't always, though.
:28:29
When he first hit town just after the war,
everyone was terribly standoffish.
:28:33
- How'd he overcome that?
- He threw a party, invited the whole town.
:28:37
If Sam Metcalf were half as good
at medicine
:28:40
as he is at public relations,
he could run for the next surgeon general.
:28:46
That's it. Next month,
when the afternoons are cooler
:28:50
we'll throw you a party.
:28:53
Thanks.