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George Malley?
I'm Dr.Wellin.
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George, I'm recording this
because I'm going to be asking you...
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- some very important questions.
- Mm.
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- You ready?
- Not another test.
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No. No, no.
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No more tests.
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A dialogue.
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I'm going to ask for your permission for
my team to perform open-brain surgery.
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- [ Murmurs ]
- But I don't want you to answer...
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- 'til we've had our dialogue.
- B-B-But y-you said
that this tumor was inoperable.
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I think the odds
are very small,
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say, one
in five hundred,
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that we'd be able to remove enough
of the tumor to even prolong your life.
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- Well, why-- why--
- But what I want to explain...
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is that this would not be
a lifesaving operation.
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[ Inhales ]
This would be--
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Call it an expedition.
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This would be a voyage
of discovery.
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You're in a position to contribute
as much to our knowledge...
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as any man or woman
who's come before you.
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And if you were to wait,
and, uh, do this operation...
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after I'm done with my brain,
what would, uh--
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If that's what you want, yes,
an autopsy. That's all we'll do.
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But that wouldn't be
as useful.
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The study of a living,
active brain would tell us volumes.
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All right, so, if you were
to do this operation, wouldn't
it most likely kill me...
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or at least shorten my life?
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George, I-- I'm asking you to try
and see the larger picture.
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- Mm-hmm.
- To realize what you have...
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to offer to us, the ones
you're leaving behind.
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You could be our
greatest teacher, George.
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Hmm?
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I can be your biographer,
in a sense.
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I can present you to the world.
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But that's not me.
That's just my brain.