The Student Nurses

Oh, you scared me, I thought you were in the bathroom.

Before we can do anything to help you,

you have to go to room 207 for a checkup.

All the doctor will do is listen to your heart

and take your blood pressure.

You've had your blood pressure taken before, haven't you?

Nobody's gonna hurt you.

Oh!

Oh, no!

Oh, no.

Oh!

No.

No.

Doctor.

Doctor.

There's a manic patient in room 25, and he's gotten violent.

Has he received any medication?

No, he just arrived.

All right, prepare 50 milligrams of chlorpromazine

for intramuscular injection.

All right.

Patterson.

He's trying to bite me.

Bring it over here.

Dammit, bring it over here, I've gotta act now.

That'll work.

Get his arm.

Just what is it about the way we handled that patient

you don't like?

It was brutal.

There are many things in medicine that are brutal.

You better learn to accept that right now.

Everyone has a bad reaction now and then,

you'll get over it.

Thanks a lot.

Anytime, Phred, see you later.

Who was that?

He's a resident, obstetrics and gynecology.

And I saw him first.

Don't worry, he looks a little square around the edges.

Remember, you're not nurses yet.

In fact, you're just beginning to learn.

Many of you still haven't prepared

for your futures after graduation.

Some haven't even applied for positions.

They're probably the ones

that have found husbands already.

They'll get their RN in case of a divorce.

Well I'm sure that doesn't cover everybody.

So, Lieutenant Schaffer of the Army nurse corp

will be in my office tomorrow at three.

And now before Dr. Warshaw begins today's lecture,

I would like to give you your last assignments.

Please, check the bulletin board

to make sure of the exact date when you change over

because they vary.

Uh, Pamela Chandler, surgery.

Susan Brown, orthopedics.

Sharon Armitage, pediatrics,

Priscilla Kovac, psychiatry,

Lynn Verdugo, public health,

Phred Stella, obstetrics and gynecology.

Dr. Barbara Cain.

Dr. Barbara Cain, please report to emergency.

Dr. Caspar, I made a mistake.

Yes?

Mrs. Chang was suppose to receive

1/10th of a cc of adrenaline.

What did you give her?

One cc.

10 times the proper dosage, when did you do this?

About an hour ago.

Look, I'll go check on her, you stay right here.

Fortunately she has a strong heart.

She's still bouncing off the walls, but she'll be all right.

Can they throw me out of school for something like this?

Come on.

Dr. Walter Wren, Dr. Walter Wren.

You did the right thing by telling me.

Not everyone would've had the courage to do that.

But aren't you required to report me?

There's not many things I'm required to do.

Then it's all over.

How can I thank you?

One way would be to work as hard as you can

to be a good nurse.

I'm doing that, what's the other way?

We can be friends.

Then we should do something to cement our relationship.

How about dinner?

Fine.

Why don't you meet me at my place.

The Montrose Apartments on Montrose and Pierce.

My name is on the mailbox.

How will I recognize you?

I'll be wearing my stethoscope.

(light jazz music)

Is that you, Dr. Caspar?

Come on, it's an emergency.

Hurry up, or I'll start without you.

Dr. Caspar, shut the door behind you.

Hey, you left your door open.

Hey, how 'bout a little privacy?

Ooh!

You wanna play some basketball?

Well how 'bout some tennis?

They say that tennis does it better.

It's your problem, work it out for yourself.

It's not my problem

if you can't remember what I look like.

So I forgot to turn the light on.

You also forgot to keep your clothes on.

Look, I didn't steal that key from you.

Okay, okay, but I told you

I was gonna wear my stethoscope.

I know, and he was wearing a stethoscope.

Not my stethoscope, he wasn't.

They all look alike to me.

You could use a little education.

Hi.

My new student nurse, I suppose.

Yes, I'm Sharon.

Would you get those books on the cabinet

and bring them here?

I know what's gonna bring about

the end of the world, do you?

The earthquake that makes California slip into the ocean.

No.

Would you take those and put them over there.

When we become so overpopulated

that there isn't enough food.

That wouldn't be the end of the world.

People would simply become cannibals.

That would be awful.

Would you take those and put them over there?

Didn't I just move those?

Yes.

Now, pat your head and rub your belly.

You're not funny.

There isn't much to laugh at.

You wanna know the answer to my riddle?

If you'd like to tell me.

The time approaches,

he spies dark angels o'er him bend.

When they close those heavy eyes, his privy world will end.

I don't understand poetry very well.

For each person, the end of the world comes when he dies.

Let's get your injection over with.

I don't want it.

It'll help you rest.

You think I'll live longer if I'm rested?

Dr. Warshaw thinks so.

You don't know what he thinks!

He thinks it's a miracle I didn't die before I was 10.

I know more about what I've got than he does.

I've lived with it for 18 years.

He's damn difficult to deal with, but he's right.

Well what do I do about his injection?

Give it to him when he feels like it.

It's a cruel dilemma, Miss Armitage.

We can prolong the life of a patient with cystic fibrosis,

we can't cure him.

Well what if I took him outside

during his less acute periods?