The Hospital (1971)

Paddy Chayefsky: Opening Narrator

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• Opening Narrator : The patient was in CO narcosis, and died at 7:30 that evening. I mention all this only to explain how the bed in Room 806 became available. The intern involved was a prickly young buck named Schaefer - who had a good thing going for him with a technician in the Hematology Lab. In the haphazard fashion of hospital romances, Dr. Schaefer had been zapping this girl on wheelchairs, stretchers, pantry shelves, in the kitchen, in the morgue, in the dark corners of corridors, standing up, sitting down. So you can imagine what an available bed meant to him.