Doc Hollywood Page #8

Armani. Armani. Those are the ones...

Okay, now! Now! That's good!

Great! Great! Great!

Okay, okay, okay. Faster.

Now go! Push! Push, Mary!

Push, Mary. You're doing great!

You're doing great.

I got a leg. I got a leg. Okay.

Okay, don't push.

Okay, all right. Go ahead. Go ahead.

Someone's comin'.

What?

Doc, someone's comin'!

Go ahead, go ahead. Okay, all right!

Okay, one more big one. Here we go.

Here we go. Push! Push, Mary! Great!

Doc, your car!...

What do I do?

Okay!

Good girl!

What do I do?

Push, Mary.

It's a girl.

I think I can fix that.

Stone!

Sh*t.

You rang?

First breech you ever delivered?

First baby I ever delivered, by myself.

Whiskey?

No thanks.

In fact, I wouldn't recommend

that for you either.

Well, you're not my doctor

and you're not my wife.

So I guess you don't have

very much to say about it.

So, you're not fixin' to stay, eh, Stone?

Changed your mind, eh?

Now that your car's all

busted to bubkes and..

.. ya-you're feeling pretty good

about yourself in general, huh?

Yes. Come here...

I added them up once.

Over seven hundred babies I delivered

in this town over the years.

Nurse Packer. She popped right out complete

with teeth and hair and bit me. An omen.

Nicholson. Hank. Yeah,

I gave them birth, saw them through

every sneeze and sniffle, and..

.. sometimes even walked

them to the grave site.

They're pretty well my portfolio, Stone.

That, and an old car, an old house.

I wouldn't trade any of them for gold.

Well, maybe gold. Or cash money.

Hey.

Doc.

Kyle. Hey, Mary. How's our girl?

We've decided. She's gonna be

Benjamina. After you.

What? Thank you.

Uh, there's an obstetrician comin' up

from Athens General later today..

.. just to make sure everything's okay.

Benjamina.

Yo, Doc.

I wanted to just thank you for,

you know, everything. So..

I made you this in appreciation.

I don't know, it ain't very much so

if there's ever anything I can do for you,

.. anything at all.

Just let me know what happens with Ellen,

Jimmy Joe, and the Pakistani.

I heard what happened last night.

You did great.

I didn't know what the hell I was doing.

Well, sometimes that's the best way.

Um, Ben. There's something

that I wanted to say.

Something I wanted to say to you first.

Is that okay? -Okay.

So, I... I've been doing a lot of thinking

about last night, I mean.

Last night was really difficult for me.

'Cause you see, everything's

all turned around now. You know?

I've been thinking about,

.. about you and me and big cities,

small towns and uh...

Well, I;m gonna marry Hank.

I've decided.

It's a plane ticket to Los Angeles.

The whole town chipped in.

I mean, we kept you here this long and..

.. if you have to wait for Melvin

to fix your car again.

You've got Los Angeles waitin' for you.

I've got Emma.

It's not fair to you.

Hank's steady and, he's here.

You,

You're like a big, bright shootin' star and

you're right, Ben, you'd burn out here.

Oh man. Wait, wait, wait. Wait a minute!

Well, Ben Stone. You have five minutes

to say good-bye to Shangi-la.

Cotton'll give you a

police escort to the airport.

We made you a sack lunch.

Airplane food can cause gas.

Well, guess I'll watch after your pig.

Just hope she takes to the farm

after living in town like this.

Appreciate it.

A lot of folks around here gonna miss you.

I don't mean me, but a lot of folks.

Adieu.

Back to the interstate, Ben Stone, huh?

Back to the interstate.

Bye.

You okay?

Oh, oh, yes. I am fine.

Good morning, Halberstrom Clinic.

Would you hold, please?

Good morning, Halberstrom Clinic.

Good morning, Hal... oh, hold. Yes, Doctor.

Mr. Stone?

Dr. Stone.

Oh. Uh, Dr. Halberstrom could see you now.

You have any idea how many applications

I had to go through this year, Stone?

Oh, yes sir. That's why I knew

this interview was important, sir.

I would have been here earlier if I could

have been. I do think though that...

I know you're a great surgeon, Stone.

That whole pile's full of great surgeons.

Do expect some special consideration

because we come from the same hometown..

because I knew your father before he died?

No, sir.

Good, because you didn't get sh*t.

You wouldn't have been here at all..

.. if it hadn't been for a call

I got from Dr. Aurelius Hogue.

Dr. Hogue called you?

Well, I saw two doctors last week

with more experience than you and..

.. better board certification scores.

Doctor Hogue's a piece of work, isn't he?

What did he say?

You were doing volunteer family

practice down south somewhere.

Yes, uh, yeah. Yes, yes, yes, that's right.

Went there to get that small town

chip off your shoulder, didn't you?

Yeah.

Well, you're braver than I was, Stone.

In any case, Hogue said you were quote,

"one hellaciously fine physician. "

That I would be "a bovine,

clodplated, citified moron" if I..

.. didn't hire you on the spot.

I wrote it down so I wouldn't forget.

So, I guess you're in, Stone. Congrats.

What time to I tee off?

You do play golf, don't you?

Great, great. Don't worry about that one.

It's not anywhere you can see it.

Secret to this business, son,

is to get a good pace going for yourself.

Now, nobody likes to admit it.

Medicine's a volume business.

Ninety-nine percent of

what we do is boilerplate surgery.

But it means we can afford

the one percent that's meaningful.

Disfigurements, birth defects, harelips.

Cleft palates.

You'll live for those moments.

'Course, the bigger you get,

the bigger the nut.

We're a service industry. Comes with

the territory-fixed costs, specialization.

People adjust to it or fail. Cable TV.

You're going to see some changes, Stone.

Stone? Go see if, uh, patient

number 434 is in pre-op yet.

We can squeeze one more

in before lunch, don't you think?

Hi. This is the National

Weather Service forecast..

.. for the greater Grady area tomorrow.

There'll be plenty of

sunshine and blue skies.

The ol' temperature should

be in the nineties again,

.. but a cool afternoon breeze will

make it all worthwhile come evening.

Y'all look out for the

lightning bugs after sunset.

Actress alert.

Excuse me?

Some girl called for you.

Said you'd know who it was.

Said she meet you at this bar.

Like, as if you're gonna rush

right over there. Right.

Totally unbelievable Southern accent.

An actress, I'll bet.

Oh, yes.

Hi, can I help you?

Uh, yeah. Hi. I'm supposed

to meet someone, a-a girl.

Ben.

Coming.

Uh, Nancy Lee.

Well, I had to give it a shot,

you know, I mean.

I just thought just in case... Guess not.

You, uh... drove all this way

just to bring me my car?

Sort of. Well, I mean, you know.

Gave me an excuse

to get the hell out of Grady.

Pardon my French. I mean,

things were bad before, but..

.. since you left they got

positively stagnant.

How's Hogue?

Well, he's the same.

Melvin?

Same.

How's your dad?

Why don't you ask me about Viloula?

No, like nah.

I mean, what's there to ask, really? I mean,

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