Paper Mask (1990)

Tom Wilkinson: Dr. Thorn

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• Dr. Thorn : [testing Matthew's ability to diagnose an elderly male patient lying in hospital bed]  Feel his liver. Well?

  Matthew Harris : [hung-over and nervous]  It's normal.

  [Patient smiles in surprise] 

  Dr. Thorn : What do you mean, "normal"? If you can feel it, it isn't normal! So what is it?

  Matthew Harris : Abnormal?

  Dr. Thorn : Enlarged! Smooth, enlarged, non-pulsatile. Diagnosis?

  Matthew Harris : Hepatitis?

  [Dr Thorn rolls his eyes] 

  Matthew Harris : No?

  [Catches sight of liquor bottle hidden under patient's bedsheet] 

  Matthew Harris : Cirrhosis!

  Dr. Thorn : Of course! Classic: wasting, spider naevi, jaundice, varices. You been drinking?

  Yellow Man : [Thinking Dr. Thorn is addressing him]  I'm a dead man anyway!