That's great they removed Episode 1 to 4 of Angels I did here recently.It will get to the stage you can't upload anything on this miserable site.You can't even ulpload Coronation Street here anymore.I am past caring what they do here anymore.By the way this is a good episode if you are allowed to see it.
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00:00♪
00:29♪
00:46Morning.
00:48♪
00:57Jo!
01:04Oh, do get a move on, Jo.
01:14You realise we've woken Uncle Bulgaria again?
01:17You have, you mean?
01:18Can't you make less noise?
01:20Call yourself nurses, more like baby elephants.
01:24Come on.
01:27♪
01:33No hold it.
01:49You want to get up in the morning.
01:50So I'm dreaming I'm on this bus then, am I?
01:52Sorry, I spoke.
01:53Talk to me instead.
01:55I was round St Angela's earlier on this morning, in Kaz.
01:57Drinking tea and catching fags.
01:59Is she always like this in the morning?
02:01She's like that all the time.
02:02Remind me never to land in her ward.
02:04We don't take blue bottles.
02:08See you.
02:09Ciao.
02:17Not bad.
02:18Dare say I could make something of it.
02:26I hope we don't have much work today.
02:28My feet are hurting already.
02:30I think I've got a bunion lump.
02:34Morning girls.
02:35Morning.
02:36All right?
02:37Yes.
02:38Did you know I'm lucky to be alive?
02:42You wouldn't think it, would you?
02:43No.
02:44Here we go again.
02:45Well, you know, I had one of those hysteria...
02:48Oh, I can't remember.
02:49Do you know what they do call it?
02:50But I'm as right as right now.
02:53Frisky as a kitten.
02:55You ask my old man.
02:57Honestly.
02:58And who's it all through?
03:00You lot.
03:01You deserve medals.
03:03Here, have an orange instead, will you?
03:08Thanks a lot.
03:11Goodbye, loves.
03:13I'm getting off here if they let me.
03:25Ow.
03:33Come on!
03:41Ow!
03:44It's nice to be appreciated.
03:46Prefer a ride?
03:47Oh, Ruth, Miss Practical.
03:55Oh, look who's here.
03:57Well, she's late.
03:58Always soon.
03:59Oranges.
04:00Let's catch her up.
04:01Crawler.
04:02The only way I'll ever get on.
04:04Sorry.
04:08So, best footfall this morning.
04:10Everything spruce and clean by ten.
04:12Mr Cooper won't be on time.
04:14He never is.
04:15Doesn't mean to say we shouldn't be.
04:17No, sister.
04:18Oh, that's all I need.
04:19I'd forgotten it was consultant rounds.
04:25Everything clean and spruce by ten.
04:27You'd think old Cooper would not do something.
04:30He is to her.
04:32Well, I'll tell you somebody he's definitely not got to.
04:35Who?
04:37You're Mr Collins.
04:39He's not my Mr Collins.
04:46Oh.
04:47Poor old Chloe.
04:50Poor old Chloe.
04:52Look at her.
04:56Poor dear.
04:57It's the best yet.
04:58The best yet.
05:00Here, Mr Johnson.
05:01Get an eyeful of her.
05:04Look at that, Mr Johnson.
05:06As nature intended.
05:08Sweet as a nut.
05:09Very nice.
05:10I bet she'll get you back on your feet, eh, Mr Johnson?
05:14Here, like a gandum, Mr Collins.
05:15Swipe for sore eyes she is, boy.
05:17No, thank you.
05:18Go on, man, I'll do you good.
05:20Oh, God knows you could do with something to back him up, see?
05:23Robert, stand by your beds.
05:25And about time, too.
05:27Let's see what you've got for us today, then.
05:29Get out of it!
05:32Patients last on the list, as per usual.
05:38Yeah, well, you're not a bit important.
05:40I mean, you're all layabouts, aren't you?
05:43Phew.
05:47Is this all you're having, Mr Collins?
05:49Yes.
05:50You can't have solids now, you know.
05:55Have a good night, did you, Mr Johnson?
05:57Always do, my dear.
05:58I could sleep on a clothesline.
06:00Snore on one, he means.
06:01You're waking the dead, he does.
06:03A wife never complains.
06:04I was talking about snoring.
06:06Now, now, Mr Slingsby.
06:08Here.
06:09Come here.
06:10I'll show you something to make you jealous.
06:13Now, come on.
06:20Not many of those for a pound, eh, nurse?
06:22Don't know what you're going on about, Mr Slingsby.
06:24She's got Macadamia nuts.
06:26Oh, do you hear that, Mr Johnson?
06:28Terrible, isn't he, Mr Collins?
06:40Oh, why did I have to go and pick him for a case history?
06:43Ask me that.
06:44I've got my head examining.
06:45Well, you thought he might be a challenge.
06:47Another one.
06:48Don't be sarky, Thorman.
06:49It doesn't suit you.
06:53Breakfast done and dusted?
06:55Nearly, sister.
06:56Now, bed's next.
06:57Oh, and will you do the drips as you're going round, nurse Thorman?
07:00You've time before your coffee break.
07:02Oh, I'll never finish, sister.
07:04Try.
07:05Yes, sister.
07:07Nurse Longhurst?
07:08Yes?
07:09As a matter of interest,
07:10why did you choose Mr Collins as your case history?
07:12He just seemed interesting, that's all.
07:14That's a common enough operation these days, vagotomy.
07:17Well, he seemed interesting when he came in.
07:20You'll have to do at least half a dozen case histories
07:22before you're trained, nurse.
07:24I hope they're not all going to prove so trying.
07:26You've no need to worry.
07:27I'm not going to get...
07:29Get involved again?
07:30Is that what you were going to say?
07:32Well, he'll hardly even talk to me.
07:34I mean, how can I get him...
07:36Nurse, the point of a case history
07:39is for you to get to know the personal side of a patient's problems
07:42so you can learn to treat them as individuals.
07:45Well, you can hardly do that if they won't co-operate.
07:50I think you'd better drop him.
07:52Pick somebody else.
07:54Ward 14.
07:55Who?
07:57Oh, yes, Mr Langham.
07:58I see.
08:03What did she want?
08:04Can't you guess?
08:05You're showing every sign you are, Llamas.
08:07Like you had measles.
08:09I am not getting myself involved with Mr Cullen's!
08:12Shh!
08:19They found out where all this stuff was coming from.
08:22And there was this grotty tube,
08:25as clear as daylight.
08:27So every day they have to shorten the tube
08:30by about half an inch, you know, just cut a bit off the end.
08:32Eventually there's nothing left.
08:34By which time they shouldn't be discharging any more.
08:37Oh, you should have seen what was coming out last week.
08:40Oh.
08:41Still, it's not doing too badly now, though.
08:44I told Mr Cooper I could even try drinking my tea out of it!
08:47He laughed.
08:48Well, he's all about rearranging my plumbing, that fellow, as you know.
08:52I think he finds me a very interesting case.
08:55Well, then, Mr Simsby, would you do the rounds for me?
08:58Give us it here, then.
08:59What did your last slave die of, eh?
09:02Come on, Mr Johnson, let's meet you.
09:08Can I tidy your bed, please, Mr Cullens?
09:11You have to.
09:12You know I do.
09:13A tidy bed is a happy bed, according to Sister Eesby.
09:19The bathroom's empty.
09:20You've got time if you want a bath.
09:23Wash as much as you can without getting your dressing wet.
09:26I don't need a bath.
09:28It'll make you feel much fresher, honestly.
09:31It gets very hot in here.
09:35Don't you like being in hospital, Mr Cullens?
09:38No.
09:39Can't say I blame you.
09:41Must get very boring.
09:43Same old routine every day.
09:48What was your job, Mr Cullens?
09:52Mr Cullens?
09:54Look, what is this?
09:56Chat up the patient session?
09:58Just trying to be friendly, that's all.
10:02Nurse?
10:04Yes?
10:06There is one thing that you could do for me.
10:08What?
10:10You can stop that twit forever talking about his condition
10:15and him there snoring all night long.
10:18Keep you awake, does it?
10:20It's like trying to sleep in the middle of a barrel organ.
10:22Well, you could ask for another sleeping pill.
10:24Why should I?
10:25To get some sleep.
10:27I'd get some if he'd stop snoring.
10:29I can't stop him snoring now, can I?
10:35How many sleeping tablets did you say I could have?
10:37Oh, well, two. Two should be sufficient.
10:39Two?
10:41You must have hundreds in that drug trolley you push about.
10:46Now, a dozen would really stop me having to listen.
10:56Nurse?
10:58Nurse?
10:59Have you got a sec?
11:01What?
11:02Have a look at this.
11:06Nurse?
11:08What?
11:14Who's down there?
11:16What do you think?
11:17Old Fairbank, just like her.
11:19Anything wrong?
11:20Oh, no, it's nothing, Mr Johnson.
11:22You'd better get it washed off quick before Cooper sees it.
11:25Don't you, er...
11:27think it looks a bit like somebody we know?
11:29Who?
11:30Grumble guts Collins.
11:32What's the hold-up?
11:34Er, nothing, sister.
11:36You're getting behind. You haven't even started on the pre-med yet.
11:39Mr Grant's due in the theatre at 12.
11:41You see to it, Nurse Fullman.
11:43Oh, but sister, I've got...
11:44Now!
11:45Yes, sister.
11:49Oh, and before I forget,
11:51a glass for Mr Cooper.
12:06All right, Mr Collins?
12:10Mr Collins?
12:12Is that a positive question, sister?
12:14Pardon?
12:15All right, Mr Collins, is that a positive question
12:17prompting a positive answer?
12:18All right, Mr Collins, all right, sister, you see.
12:21It was just a polite enquiry.
12:23Well, the answer is no.
12:25I am not all right.
12:27What's the matter?
12:28Sister, I've got yards of cat gut inside of me,
12:31and this is a human body, not a violin.
12:34Yes, Mr Collins.
12:38And another thing.
12:40Yes?
12:41You can tell that little nurse of yours
12:43to stop playing Florence Nightingale
12:45because, for one thing, she's very bad at it.
12:47Which nurse would that be?
12:49You know which one I mean.
12:50Well, there are several nurses on the ward, Mr Collins.
12:52What's the matter with the yak?
12:54There's Nurse Pullman, Nurse Dinn, Nurse...
12:56Longhurst.
12:58Oh, Nurse Longhurst.
12:59The same.
13:13Sorry, take him.
13:32You know what, I'm sure I've got a bunion.
13:39I don't know how you can eat them.
13:41Keeps the energy up.
13:42God knows I need it.
13:46What was with you and Mr Collins just now?
13:52Did you have a good time last night?
13:54Always do with Roy.
13:55Yeah, lasting, isn't it?
13:57Five weeks and three days.
13:59He's not a doctor.
14:01There are other kinds of men in the world
14:03besides doctors, you know.
14:07Had another go at Collins this morning.
14:09And?
14:11I think he asked me to help him kill himself.
14:13Kill himself? Don't be daft.
14:16Maybe not.
14:18No, I've been thinking,
14:19the only visitor he ever gets is that old man.
14:21Where's his dad?
14:22He's married.
14:24He's likely divorced or separated or something.
14:27Perhaps that's why he's so uptight with everyone.
14:29Unhappy love life.
14:30No, he hasn't.
14:32Are you still pining for Dr Khan?
14:34No.
14:35You are.
14:36I'm not.
14:37Poor Frank Crozier hasn't had a look in
14:38since lovely Khan appeared on the scene.
14:40Rubbish.
14:41You know what they call him, don't you?
14:43Know what, sugar?
14:44Have a toffee, Khan.
14:47I wonder if I should try and get him to talk about his home life.
14:50Who, Khan?
14:51No, Collins.
14:52That's not your business.
14:53He's my case history.
14:55He's not your business.
14:56Why isn't it my business?
14:57Even if he wasn't my case history, it's still my job.
15:00Yeah, well, that's one excuse.
15:02He's miserable.
15:04Dead miserable.
15:05Oh, like you have measles.
15:07Oh, shut up.
15:08What's the point?
15:12Well, what's the point?
15:14Now, that is where the blockage was, you see.
15:16So they cut all that out.
15:19And they joined up those two ends.
15:22They made a sort of bypass.
15:25It's a good thing we've got, what is it, 40 feet of intestines.
15:29At least it's a good job I have.
15:31Mr Cooper's all but done a conversion job on my inside.
15:35But I've already written about five pages
15:37and it's got to be in by next week.
15:39I think somebody else had put it in.
15:43Pick somebody else to be your case history.
15:45Look, I'll have a word with your tutor, if you like.
15:48Mr Collins obviously won't cooperate, so pick somebody else.
15:53It makes sense, nurse.
15:56But I only asked him what his job was.
15:59Well, honestly, I have to find out things.
16:01How he feels, what sort of personality.
16:04He's a difficult personality, a difficult patient.
16:07We'll discuss it later, nurse.
16:08Mr Cooper's about to do his rounds.
16:10Good morning, sister.
16:11Good morning, Mr Cooper.
16:12You know, I nearly ran into a fox on my way in this morning.
16:15A fox in a London suburb.
16:17Incredible.
16:18They feed out of the dustbins, you know.
16:21Still, I suppose you come across the odd tiger in Calcutta,
16:24eh, Dr Kahn?
16:26And they feed off the population.
16:29Well, let's get on with it, shall we?
16:31Nothing more to tell me, have you, Dr Kahn?
16:33Oh, it's about Mr Lucas.
16:34Ah, yes.
16:35Well, his foot pulses are all present now, but his heart...
16:38I've given him some digoxin and diuretics,
16:40but he hasn't responded.
16:41He complained of chest pains yesterday,
16:43so I've taken an ECG.
16:44Yes, yes.
16:45Poor old Mr Lucas.
16:46I was expecting this.
16:47He had a very restless night.
16:49I'm not surprised.
16:50Oh, and Mr Challoner, well, does not stay in bed.
16:53He insists on sitting in his chair.
16:55He's a stubborn old so-and-so, isn't he?
16:57I wonder if I'll get all cross and tetchy in my old age.
17:00Very probably.
17:01Mr Challoner's not the only one.
17:02I'm afraid Mr Collins is in much the same category.
17:05Ah, Mr Collins.
17:07Our resident neurotic.
17:11Well, platoon forward.
17:23Good morning.
17:34This is Philip Cole.
17:36Ten days since his appendicectomy.
17:38He has made an uneventful recovery.
17:44Right.
17:46Philip, isn't it?
17:48Well, you look well enough anyway.
17:50Do you mind if I have a look at you?
17:55Ah, no more pain?
17:56No.
17:58And no tenderness there?
18:00No.
18:05Excellent.
18:08Well, I think he can go home tomorrow.
18:10What do you think, Dr Kahn?
18:11Yes, in fact, I have an interesting experience tonight.
18:13Oh, good.
18:15Well, it's home for you tomorrow, young man.
18:17But before you go, we'll have a quick whip round.
18:20For a haircut.
18:22My old boss would have taken a pair of scissors to him himself, you know.
18:26Thank you, sir.
18:27Good morning.
18:33Ah, Mr Lucas.
18:36Could I have a look at the ECG?
18:42Yes.
18:44Well, the problem's purely medical now, isn't it?
18:47You've asked the medical team to see him, have you?
18:49Yes, Mr Cooper.
18:50Good.
19:04No, no, no, don't bother him now.
19:06Later, perhaps.
19:08Good morning, Mr Cooper.
19:10Ah, good morning, Mr Slingsby.
19:12Good morning.
19:21And how are you today, hmm?
19:23Oh, not bad for a redundant dumper driver, not bad.
19:26Well, let's see, what road was it you built again?
19:29The M4, sir.
19:30Oh, you call that a road, do you?
19:34Well, let's have a look at you, shall we?
19:43Ah.
19:45Oh, well, there doesn't seem to be much wrong with that now, does there?
19:50No.
19:53No, indeed.
19:57I still have to keep reminding them, Mr Cooper.
19:59Hmm? Reminding them?
20:01Well, in case they forget the safety pin.
20:03I don't think they'd do that, Mr Slingsby.
20:06Well, I don't want that tube disappearing back inside me.
20:09I don't want that tube disappearing back inside me.
20:11I mean, I've got enough trouble with my own plumbing.
20:15Well, as you were, Mr Slingsby, hmm?
20:18Let's press on, would you, sister?
20:24I've no idea when I might be able to go home, Mr Cooper.
20:28Oh, I can't say yet, Mr Slingsby, not exactly.
20:31Why, there's no special reason, is there?
20:33Oh, no, no, it's just that visiting is tiring the wife, you know.
20:37It's a long way for her to come from Wembley, and it's...
20:40Well, she's not very well herself, you know.
20:42She's got hiatus hernia.
20:44As soon as practical, Mr Slingsby.
20:48I think Mr Slingsby gets a sort of...
20:51Well, not exactly pleasure from his condition.
20:54And satisfaction, hmm?
20:56Yes, and I think it's a front.
20:58Still, you never know how people will react, do you?
21:02He's a very... He's a very courageous chap.
21:08Ah, Mr Collins.
21:14It's not on solid yet.
21:18How are you today, Mr Collins?
21:20Ah, so-so.
21:22Oh, I thought you'd be feeling better, actually.
21:24Did you? Yes.
21:26Better than what? Better than yesterday, better than the day before.
21:29Ah, well, in that case, yes, I am better, but it's only relative, isn't it?
21:33It's progress, Mr Collins.
21:35Now, sister tells me you're not taking any solids yet.
21:38There's no reason why not, is there?
21:41Hmm?
21:43Are you having any pain?
21:46Hmm?
21:48Only when I laugh.
21:52I feel like I've been cut in half.
21:54You're bound to feel sore. You had a major surgery.
21:57But should I still have the pain here?
22:00Now, where exactly?
22:02It's here. It's...
22:04Ah, well, it's like I've swallowed something and it's...
22:07it's tucked down there.
22:11Hmm.
22:13Well, just try. A little bread and butter, a little meat, fish.
22:18What do you fancy?
22:20It takes me all my time to get liquids done.
22:23Why did we operate on you, Mr Collins?
22:26Why did we go to all the trouble of dividing the vagus?
22:28I had an ulcer.
22:30Which gave you pain... I've still got the pain.
22:32Which gave you pain and stopped you eating properly.
22:35Well, we've taken care of the ulcer, and I assure you we have.
22:38It doesn't need a job as I've ever done, actually.
22:41So what are you waiting for? Fill your boots, man. Eat.
22:44You don't know what you'll be missing after all these years
22:46drowning in milk and nibbling biscuits.
22:48I've still got the pain.
22:51Well, do me a favour and give it a try.
22:59Hmm?
23:00Mr Collins?
23:03Um...
23:06Are you sure that the stitches will stand it? Are you?
23:11Oh, that's what's worrying you, is it?
23:15Well, you have my word for it, Mr Collins. They'll stand it.
23:18They'll keep a rampaging bullock in one piece.
23:22So a little meat, fish, hmm?
23:24What do you fancy?
23:31Why do you bother? Mr Cooper, why do you bother?
23:34Pardon? Why do you bother?
23:36Cutting us up and putting us back together again.
23:39Telling us we're like new. How can we be?
23:42We're crocs. Half men, quarter men, dead men.
23:46What's the point of it, eh? Hmm?
23:49What is the point of it?
23:51Are you trying to have an argument with me, Mr Collins?
23:54Why do you bother?
23:56And take this hospital. It must be fairly typical.
23:59What, it's 70%... It's more.
24:0180% of your patients are old men and women, past their prime.
24:06Yet you go on patching them up as if they were trousers.
24:09You're saying we shouldn't bother at all? Is that what you're saying?
24:13I'm saying spend the money on the healthy.
24:15Let the old and the crocs fade away.
24:17It makes good economic sense.
24:19Well, I don't deal in economics, Mr Collins.
24:22And I'm not God.
24:24I can't decide who's a croc and who isn't a croc,
24:27who's worth saving and who's not worth saving.
24:30I'm a surgeon.
24:32Surgery is about the quality of life as well as its sanctity.
24:36We can't hope to cure everyone,
24:38but we can ease their pain and remove some of the discomfort.
24:42We can give a man back his dignity.
24:45It's not easy to be dignified when you're in pain.
24:50Besides which, we learn a lot from treating the old.
24:53The old comes in very useful when you have to treat the young.
24:56Why treat anybody? Why treat you, then?
24:58Nobody forced you to come in here and have your operation, did they?
25:02Nobody strapped you to a stretcher.
25:04Mind you, you could be dead by now with a burst gastric ulcer.
25:08I'd be better off dead.
25:11You don't mean that, Mr Collins.
25:14Don't I?
25:18You're always trying to shock, aren't you?
25:21To provoke.
25:24Try and get some solids down here.
25:26Get your strength back. Make you feel better.
25:29I tell you what would do him good, that's a glass of stout now and then.
25:37My God, he's got a chip on his shoulder, hasn't he?
25:41You can say that, yes.
25:43The direct opposite of Mr Slingsby.
25:45How do the nurses cope with him?
25:47Not very well, I'm afraid.
25:49Surprised.
25:50Does?
25:51Ah!
25:52Morning, Mr Shalliner. Welcome back to the land of the living.
25:56There's not much use in talking to him.
25:59He's about ready for discharge, is he?
26:02After Gary's a problem, he lives alone.
26:05So back he'll come again like a rubber ball.
26:10It's a hopeless situation.
26:12It's rather proving Mr Collins' point.
26:20Mr Cooper, Mr Johnson.
26:22The orthopaedic surgeon asked you to have a look at him.
26:25Oh, yes, of course. Hello, Mr Johnson.
26:27Hello, sir.
26:29Now then.
26:33Yes, any more pains in the stomach?
26:35Well, I have just a few, sir, after the exercises.
26:39What about this leg? Have they cured that yet?
26:42I think it's coming on, sir.
26:44I've got a bit of a backache now, though.
26:46I suppose it's being on my back all the time.
26:49Inactive all my life. Yes, probably.
26:51Well, look, can you lift the leg at all?
26:55Oh, that's very good.
26:57Yes, OK, relax. Fine, fine.
26:59Now, could you do it once more?
27:01I'll give you a little assistance at this end.
27:04Ready? And...
27:11Hello. What's this?
27:14Hmph!
27:17This isn't supposed to be me, by any chance, is it?
27:20Or Dr Khan?
27:22I don't think so, Mr Cooper.
27:24Somebody's been pulling your leg, Mr Johnson.
27:26They painted a face on your foot.
27:28So that's what's been going on. I thought there was something.
27:31Yes. Perhaps everybody should have one and we could hold an exhibition.
27:37You know, I think it does look a bit like me.
27:41Or perhaps it's Mr Collins.
27:50That's Cooper's car.
27:52Swish!
27:54He's a character, isn't he? Not stuck up like some of them.
27:57It's diabolical money he gets compared with us.
28:00Oh, put another record on, Ruth.
28:02He's very good at his job. Everyone says so.
28:11Did you hear what Collins was going on about this morning?
28:14No.
28:16He told Cooper it was all a waste of time.
28:18Did he? What we're all doing.
28:20Sort of like the king's horses and all the king's men.
28:24Hey, come again. Putting Humpty Dumpty together again.
28:28Honey, why bother if he's too old and past it?
28:31As he mostly is. According to Collins.
28:35You think sometimes we're working in a geriatrics ward.
28:38Gives me the pip.
28:40The clever clogs Cooper put him straight. He had a go.
28:44I hate it when patients get all grateful for what we do. It embarrasses me.
28:48But somebody like Collins being deliberately cantankerous,
28:51it's as though he hates us for helping him.
28:54He's a bit of a psycho, if you ask me.
28:59Anyway, don't let him get you down.
29:01He does get me down.
29:03As far as I'm concerned, he gets ignored.
29:05I don't like moaners. We've enough to put up with as it is.
29:09Anyway, it's all in the mind.
29:11You're hard, you are.
29:34You know, I really think he meant it when he asked me to get him those sleeping pills.
29:39You won't be told, will you, Longhurst? Ignore him.
29:43He'll soon come round if he has to sing for his supper once or twice.
29:46I've seen it happen before.
29:48But nursing isn't about ignoring people, Ruth.
29:50I'd never have been a nurse if I thought that.
29:53Look, there's some people you just can't help. It's a fact.
30:03Are you seeing Roy tonight?
30:05If he rings, he will.
30:07Then I'll be seeing him.
30:14Can you take anything for bunions?
30:16Oh, shut up about your rotten bunions.
30:19See, you're not interested in me.
30:34Ooh, I'd like to give it a big kick.
30:36Oh, you can have principles.
30:38Yours aren't principles.
30:40What are they, then?
30:41You're just emotional.
30:42Oh, I'll get her. What about have a toffee cone?
30:45Did he give you one, by the way?
30:46No, he didn't.
30:50Should I be doing temperatures, sister?
30:52Please, but in a minute.
30:54Oh, what do you want me to do, sister?
30:56Is that apron clean, nurse? I've been meaning to ask you that.
30:59Oh, well, I didn't get a clean one back from the laundry, sister.
31:02That laundry gets worse.
31:07Before we do the dressing, see that Mr. Rose takes his salt bath.
31:10I'm an ID. He's not bothering.
31:12Yes, sister.
31:15Nurse Longhurst.
31:16Sister?
31:17Were you responsible for Mr. Johnson's foot?
31:19No, sister.
31:22No, sister.
31:23Well, you ought to have spotted it anyway before Mr. Cooper.
31:27Nurse Fairbank.
31:31You're not very good liars, either of you.
31:33That'll do.
31:34Thank you, sister.
31:35Oh, nurse Longhurst.
31:37Sister?
31:38I've had a word with your tutor, and she agrees that you should...
31:41PHONE RINGS
31:43Ward 14.
31:45Yes, Dr. Cowan.
31:47Yes.
31:48How many?
31:50Oh, well, she won't tell you.
31:52She won't?
31:53No.
31:54How many?
31:56Now what?
31:57She wants me to pick another case history.
31:59Well, she's doing you a favour.
32:01I won't be beaten.
32:02Oh, emotional and stubborn.
32:08Sister's got a toffee on her desk.
32:10I didn't see it.
32:11Toffee?
32:14Salt bath for you, Mr. Rose. I'm just drying it.
32:16Temperature, please.
32:18The pain, it was terrible.
32:20You know, just here where they made the cut.
32:23I kept being sick.
32:25Oh, dear.
32:26I thought I'd had it.
32:28Well, the wife was sure of it.
32:30Especially when Mr. Cooper said he wanted me and you right away.
32:33Oh, I was in the theatre the next day with him pushing this tube inside me.
32:38Oh, he doesn't mess about, does Mr. Cooper.
32:40I'll say that for him.
32:41Excuse me.
32:43Will you please stop talking about your rotten stomach or I'll...
32:47Just belt up, will you?
32:49You may find it interesting, but I find it bloody revolting,
32:52Shut up! All right?
32:54Temperature, please, Mr. Slingsby.
32:57Did you hear that nurse Longhurst?
32:59He's crackers, he is. He's crackers.
33:01Either that or he's just a big, soft old nelly.
33:05Now, now, Mr. Slingsby.
33:10Temperature, please, Mr. Smith.
33:12Who's winning?
33:22Temperature, please.
33:53Nothing to say for yourself? Makes a change, doesn't it?
34:01Someone had to shut him up. I asked you to, didn't I?
34:05Didn't I, nurse?
34:07Yes, you did.
34:09Did you do it? No, you didn't, did you, nurse?
34:13I couldn't do anything. You can't stop him talking.
34:16Oh, can't you just?
34:18You can't stop him talking.
34:19Oh, can't you just?
34:21A well-placed hatchet right between the eyes.
34:24One condition he can't yak on about.
34:28Mr. Collins, what is the matter?
34:30Hmm?
34:31I said, what is the matter?
34:33Him and his wretched body.
34:36And Cooper talks about dignity.
34:38How can a man have any dignity with a length of rubber tubing inside of him?
34:42Eh?
34:44Question, nurse.
34:47If you had to choose between losing your mind and losing your...
34:54well, your legs, which would you choose?
34:57I don't know.
34:59Well, you can forget about your mind.
35:01You stay with your legs.
35:04They can carry you upstone, walk you into a pub,
35:07dance you... dance you round a maypole.
35:11Illness.
35:13It's obscene.
35:15I wouldn't know about that.
35:17You wouldn't know? What, working in here?
35:20What, in this charnel house?
35:22Well, you're up to your eyes in it.
35:24But you don't notice.
35:27Don't notice?
35:29What, are you blind or something?
35:31Ah, yes, that's it.
35:33All doctors and nurses are blind.
35:37You'd have to be blind, otherwise you'd go bonkers blind as bats or stupid...
35:42Mr. Collins.
35:44Hmm, what?
35:46Are you...
35:49Yes, well, go on. Am I what?
35:51Nothing.
35:54It's just that I thought you might have some kind of personal trouble, that's all.
35:59Have you?
36:03You thought that I had some personal trouble?
36:08Yes.
36:09You thought.
36:11How old are you?
36:13Nineteen.
36:14Nineteen.
36:16Nineteen.
36:18And you stand there glowing like a light bulb.
36:21As if all it needed to put the world to rights was a smile and a suppository.
36:26You go on like you were...
36:27Listen, you're a child, darling.
36:29A child playing at nurses.
36:31Now, you're going to do someone some damage if you're not very careful, so...
36:36go away and leave me alone.
36:43It's just that I thought it might help to tell somebody, that's all.
36:47You asked me what my job was?
36:48Yes.
36:49All right, I'll tell you.
36:52I'm an English teacher.
36:54I teach kids your age.
36:56Well, just about.
36:59Now, for the last time, go away and offer your virginity to some doctor or something,
37:05but leave me alone!
37:09Nurse Lancaster.
37:14I'd like to speak to you, please.
37:19You're a right basket, you are, aren't you?
37:22Yes.
37:37Yes, sister?
37:39What was all that about, nurse?
37:41I don't know.
37:42I was Mr. Collins shouting at you.
37:44No reason, really.
37:46I told you to leave him, to leave him alone, didn't I?
37:49Yes, sister.
37:50Why didn't you then?
37:51I only asked him what the matter was.
37:53He'd been arguing with Mr. Slingsby.
37:56You can't resist it, can you, nurse?
37:58What?
37:59Poking your nose.
38:00I wasn't doing that. I wasn't poking my nose into anything.
38:03What were you doing then?
38:04Getting information for my case history.
38:06Oh, come on, you can be honest at least.
38:08This isn't the first time we've had this.
38:12Well, is it?
38:13Had what?
38:15Look, why do you persist in doing it?
38:18Do you want to have to give up nursing?
38:20No, sister.
38:21Well, that's what'll happen if you don't know where to draw the line.
38:23Know where your job stops and meddling begins.
38:25I wasn't meddling.
38:29I'm only saying this for your own good, you know.
38:35Mr. Collins is unhappy.
38:38Apparently.
38:40Well, isn't it just as important to send him out happy as well as cured?
38:46You feed him, don't you?
38:48Observe him, check him, make sure he's comfortable?
38:51Yes.
38:52You're cheerful, friendly, willing?
38:54I think I am.
38:55Then that's all that can be expected of you.
38:57You're not a psychiatrist, not a social worker.
39:00You're just a nurse in the second year of your training.
39:04But if he worries me, well, why shouldn't I take an interest in him?
39:09Well, why?
39:12Look, take Mr. Cooper.
39:14Now, he left here this morning with what?
39:17At least three patients on the danger list.
39:20Now, that probably happens every week, every day sometimes.
39:24He can't leave here worried sick about each and every one of them,
39:28just as I can't.
39:30We wouldn't last a month, we'd both be in the psychiatric wing.
39:34Look, all we can do is our jobs and our best.
39:37It's the only way.
39:39Now, you've got to learn that.
39:41Keep a distance, nurse, keep a balance.
39:45I don't know what that means.
39:47Well, it'd be a great pity if you can't, because you're a good little nurse.
39:53Anyway, I won't tell you again.
39:56No more track of Mr. Collins.
39:58Well, apart from anything else, he's...
40:01Well, he's Mr. Collins.
40:03But what about my case history?
40:05You choose somebody else.
40:07Your tutor agrees, and you can have another week before you hand it in.
40:12Yes, sister.
40:14Right. Off you go, then.
40:20Sorry, sister.
40:50What's all this?
40:52Going to give me a going-over with the dirty bandage, are you, sister?
40:55You're trying to keep little Florence Nightingale away from me.
40:58Mr. Collins, I have two main responsibilities as sister in charge of this ward.
41:03You think it's a credit to you, do you, sister?
41:05I have a responsibility to my patients. I also have a responsibility...
41:08Ah, right. Then it's you I should have asked to shut Slingsby up
41:12and to stop Johnson from honking like a demented pig all night long.
41:16Yes. Right, then.
41:18I am asking you...
41:20I am formally asking you for your protection against Johnson and Slingsby
41:25in the interests of my health and strength,
41:28not to mention my nerves and my tiny mind.
41:31Very well, Mr. Collins. I'll have a word with Mr. Slingsby.
41:35I'm not quite sure what I'm supposed to say.
41:37And what about Johnson?
41:39That's one of the hazards of being in hospital, people snoring.
41:43Well, you might snore yourself, for all you know.
41:47Er... Well, yes, er...
41:50Hmm, I can see that.
41:52So, er...
41:54I'll settle with you speaking to Slingsby, then.
42:00Right, then. Responsibility number two.
42:03It's to my staff.
42:05I can't have you shouting at my nurses, Mr. Collins.
42:08Can't you? Particularly the student nurses,
42:11especially when they're only trying to help you.
42:14Help me? Nurse Longhurst? She's not a nurse, she's a bloody teenybopper.
42:18Don't swear, please, Mr. Collins. It's bad manners.
42:21All I did was sort little Nurse Longhurst out.
42:24Her job is to shake the pillows and dish out the porridge.
42:28Do a hundred other things.
42:30Not to straighten out my personality. That's a pretty hairy business.
42:34It's... There's no job for a lightbulb.
42:37Pardon? Oh, forget.
42:40You're right, of course, Mr. Collins.
42:43Your personal problems are no concern of Nurse Longhurst.
42:47Or of me.
42:49Only, in your case, her interests happen to be rather special.
42:53How do you mean, special?
42:55She's done you the honour of picking you as her case history.
42:59What? Her case history.
43:01The students have to do them on selected patients as part of their training.
43:07They make notes on the operation, the treatment, etc.,
43:10and they try to get to know the patient.
43:12Then they write it all up.
43:16Why did she pick on me?
43:18She couldn't help herself.
43:20Explain.
43:22She has a soft spot for misfits.
43:24I'm not a misfit. Oh, you are, Mr. Collins. Believe me.
43:28Nine out of ten patients in this hospital give us very little trouble.
43:32They quietly suffer pain and discomfort.
43:35They even die quietly.
43:37We don't even know we have them.
43:39But not you, Mr. Collins.
43:41You've complained and sulked from the minute you arrived.
43:44For good reason. What reason?
43:46You've had the undivided attention of a very good hospital.
43:49Although I do say it myself.
43:51And a very good surgeon, too. What more do you want?
43:55Oh, come on, Mr. Collins.
43:57You're not a child. You don't have to get sulky with me.
44:02I think you owe us an explanation of your selfish manner and behaviour.
44:10Case history.
44:14Oh, God.
44:18Is she very upset, uh...
44:20little Miss Lightbulb?
44:23What do you think?
44:27Oh, it wasn't her I was getting at. It never is.
44:32It's me, uh...
44:34I don't like very much.
44:38You see, sister, I've made what, uh...
44:42what you call a mess of things.
44:47A marriage.
44:51A job.
44:53Even the kids at school can't stand my cotton-pickin' guts.
44:58It's this, you see.
45:01It's, uh...
45:03Well, it's very articulate. Too articulate, in fact.
45:08All the ungenerous thoughts that...
45:11you and other people keep up in their noodles,
45:14me, I communicate them. I can't help myself.
45:19But it doesn't help to win friends or influence people.
45:23And then my...
45:26body has to go and let me down.
45:31A sickly man.
45:33There's a contradiction in terms.
45:38Oh, God, if I finish up like...
45:43like any...
45:45There's no reason why you should, Mr Collins.
45:48Oh, isn't there?
46:00Don't try and be a bit more diplomatic in future, please.
46:04I can stand bad manners till the cows come home.
46:07But then I'm not 19 with a career ahead of me.
46:13I'm not 19.
46:15I'm not 19 with a career ahead of me.
46:28Gave you a good ticking off, did she? And about time, too, if you ask me.
46:32Shut up, Slingsby, or I'll pull your everlasting tube out and choke you with it.
46:36You basket!
46:45Where's Nurse Longhurst?
46:47Er, gone down to pharmacy, sister.
46:51You and her share a flat, don't you?
46:53That's right, sister.
46:55Funny girl.
46:57Heart's in the right place, though.
47:00Yes.
47:03Yeah.
47:12Yeah, I'm glad that's over with.
47:14I'll say.
47:17I'd look at the Rota this afternoon. I'm on night next.
47:20How?
47:22When me final exam's coming up.
47:24Hmm?
47:26You're not going to pull that face all night, are you?
47:29I thought Roy would ring.
47:31Only a spinster for once, like me.
47:55I've just seen how the top he comes.
47:57So have I.
47:59And he gave me a humbug.
48:04You know who I'm going to do my case history on?
48:06Who?
48:07Mr Chaloner.
48:09Are you joking?
48:11He's got twice as many hang-ups as Collins.
48:13And he's 90 years old as well.
48:15So?
48:17We're the living end here.
48:29Hey!
48:59THE END