Die Nordsee von oben

Nurses and attendants.

Don't follow the false doctrine that's told everywhere now,

even by the doctors at Charité.

The fact that one believed he'd found some bacilli...

...didn't get us a step closer to healing diseases.

The body has to heal itself...

...with good nursing and the help of God.

It seems the demon of so-called progress has settled in the women's ward.

A tidying hand is needed.

That's why Sister Therese is taking over management.

Nursing mustn't know rest, frustration, or disgust.

If you wash the sick, remove excretions, watch them at night, or scour the floor,

every job is equally important.

Even our savior humbly carried his cross.

And never forget what Charité means.

Charity!

Right then. Get to work!

Special edition! Special edition!

The Crown Prince had an operation in San Remo.

-Thanks. -Thank you.

Special edition!

PART ONE CHARITY

Hello.

-The name? -Weidemann.

Don't look at it.

-Stop pushing! -Get in line.

Please.

Didn't you hear me?

Come with me.

What are you doing?

Dr. Ehrlich!

What's your name?

Make way!

-Ida. -Ida!

Ida what? Do you have a surname?

Careful.

She has fever and pain in the left abdomen.

I suspect an acute appendicitis.

Call the porters. she needs surgery.

I'm sure the girl has no money.

Direct payer or insured? Direct payers are 3 Marks a day.

She has an appendicitis. We'll use her for teaching purposes.

Bergmann will operate.

-The Professor isn't even here. -Dr. Behring can also do it.

-Not Dr. Beh... -Pardon?

-Not Dr. Behring. -He'll take care of you.

Porters!

Behring, it's an emergency.

I've no time.

But the patient seems to know you.

She insisted on not being treated by you.

I've more important things to do. A meeting with Professor Koch.

But Professor von Bergmann isn't there and it's acute appendicitis.

How could you resist?

No matter how revolutionary this new operation method is,

I won't risk my career with Professor Koch for it.

And Von Bergmann just arrived.

With the imperial carriage? That means he's returned

from San Remo with the Crown Prince's larynx sample.

He won't have time to operate.

-Where's assistant nurse, Stine? -I don't know.

Stop!

Unknown patient, about 18 years old, high fever.

Write down: Lenze, Ida Lenze.

What are you staring at?

Take her to theater.

I'll demonstrate an appendectomy.

An operation on a patient in this state?

She'll die anyway. You want to kill her faster?

Let me worry about that!

You want to take out her caecum.

No proof that it heals the bowel.

Cold wraps are far more effective.

Respecting your superficial knowledge,

only the appendage of the caecum is inflamed.

It must be removed for the patient to recover.

If it isn't too late and the inflammation got to the abdominal cavity.

So, hurry up!

-Are you finally ready? -Almost.

Gentlemen!

Let's never forget how much easier operations have become with chloroform.

In the military there were operations without anesthesia.

Professor Von Bergmann and I only did a few of these operations.

We were first in Berlin,

and the survival rate of our patients was encouraging.

Tischendorf, don't sleep! Retractors!

The appendix is cut off at the bridge to the caecum.

The remaining stump is sewn with a purse-string suture.

Hold the retractors correctly.

Seems civilian Tischendorf doesn't like blood.

Only an appendectomy can save you from an appendicitis.

This patient also has high fever.

20% is the highest survival rate.

If she survives the next 24 hours and the fever drops,

she might have a chance.

Here.

The corpus delicti.

Tischendorf, you sissy.

He'll call you names now, you cannon fodder.

But there are better things.

-Really? -Yes.

The empire's destiny is on our mind.

Does anyone care about exclusive news

that concern Prince Frederick's health?

Une Section du larynx.

Laryngectomy.

The French show the German heir to the throne

in such a compromising state.

Lese majesty. From where, Minckwitz?

Von Minckwitz.

Aristocratic snot.

Never mind lese majesty, they're all curious.

Caretaker Edith? This is my cousin, Mariechen.

What are you doing?

A bed lodger impregnated her. But they already have 6 people to feed.

The father's dead, mother's a prostitute.

Have mercy with the poor baby.

Somebody has to abort it.

Stine, a doctor goes to prison for that.

Don't ask anyone here, or you'll be dismissed.

You should ask around the students.

They like to take care of their antics themselves.

-Gentlemen! -Good morning, Professor Virchow!

Student Tischendorf will give you

an exact description of this lung now.

Tuberculosis of the lung.

Both the left and the right lung are infected

and some spots are caseated.

So it was consumption.

But how did that 17-year-old worker die?

You overlooked the tuberculous erosion of the pulmonary artery, here.

So the guy bled to death.

You can sit down again.

But what lead to him getting sick and therefore to his death?

Nothing but his poor living conditions,

his lack of education, his hunger,

his life in a humid backyard flat,

where every bed is rented to two or three lodgers

and 40 people share one privy.

So we mustn't wonder that

every fourth person in Berlin now dies of tuberculosis.

Yes.

Von Minckwitz, Professor.

Don't Professor Koch's research findings prove

that this epidemic is caused by bacilli?

Yes and the earth is probably flat.

Privy Councilor Virchow, let's not delay.

Professor Von Bergman is expecting you now.

He comes from Crown Prince Frederick.

Excuse me, gentlemen. My fatherland needs me. Let's go.

Frederick?

So?

I can't see any cancer cells.

Are you sure you took the sample at the right place?

But his Highness definitely had cancer.

That may be true, but I can only verify what I see.

Really? So, there is no tumor in his larynx?

-The laryngectomy was superfluous? -Virchow, use your common sense.

His Highness almost choked.

And the picture in the newspaper is nonsense.

His Highness was operated on in his bed because the Crown Princess was adamant

for her husband to lie on the table.

You can't operate like that.

What happens if Prince Frederick has laryngeal cancer?

Hopefully he'll renounce the throne. It's for the best.

Honestly, Fritz as the Kaiser is a disaster.