Doctor Bull Page #6

- He can beat you up.

Well, maybe. Now, here.

Who's gonna be the first to volunteer?

I will, Doctor.

Oh, well, now, ain't that fine?

See what a brave little girl Ruthie is?

Come here now, honey.

Dr. Bull, do you mean to tell me that

you're going to vaccinate these children?

Oh, now, don't worry.

Sit down now.

You're not going to vaccinate my child.

She's sick.

- Aw, she's not sick.

- But, Dr. Bull, l-

- I've had all my children vaccinated.

Now, that didn't hurt, did it?

- No.

- Hmm?

That's fine.

That's a brave little girl.

- Now, who's the next one to take a chance?

- I'll take a chance, Doc.

Oh, hello, Bruce.

How's the tonsils?

I ain't got any anymore.

No? Well, who took em out?

- You did!

- Did I?

Well, this ain't gonna hurt you.

Don't worry.

- There you are. Didn't hurt, did it, Bruce?

- Nah.

Who's the next lucky one?

You're Billy Watson, yes?

Yeah.

You was born on the Fourth of July,

wasn't you?

Yeah. How did you know, Doc?

'Cause you spoiled my whole day.

That was the biggest celebration

this town ever had.

I got there even

after the fireworks was all over.

Bull, as one of the selectmen

of this town...

I'm here to protest against

the inoculation of these children.

I'm health officer.

I'm doing my duty.

But you won't be health officer long,

I can assure you of that.

- Well, I am yet.

- This is over my protest!

But you'll not inoculate a child of mine.

Bruce, come here.

Okay, Pop.

Bruce, I hope that arm

don't hurt you tomorrow.

What's that bell ringing for?

Ain't you heard, Miss Janet? The folks are

gettin' up some kind of precedence against Doc.

- Against Dr. Bull?

- That's what I heard.

You go along home and tend to

the milking. I'll be in later.

All right, Miss Janet.

Take that stuff I give you?

Yeah, the same old stuff you give-

Always give the same old stuff.

Everybody in town's talking about it,

and they say you're just an old pill doctor.

- Oh, is that so?

- Mm-hmm.

- They say that you only know

how to give one kind of medicine.

- Only one kind, huh?

- Well, I know how to give two kinds of medicine.

- Yeah?

I'm twice as good a doctor

as they think I am.

Get you a glass of water there.

Well, I want something different

this time.

Thats just exactly what you're gonna get-

something different.

- Going to the meeting, Doc?

- What meeting?

The meeting the Bannings are holding.

- What are they holding a meeting about?

- About you.

About me? What about me?

- Negligence of duty.

- Oh, is that so?

- They don't think you're any good.

- No?

No. And they're gonna kick you out.

Oh, they're gonna kick me out, huh?

Is that so?

Here. You take that. I think you'll find

that different from anything you've ever had.

- Thank you.

- Kick me out, huh?

I don't think you're

such a terrible doctor, Doc.

The motion is that we recommend

George Bull's removal as health officer...

and ask that another doctor

be procured for New Winton.

- All in favor-

- No, don't do that!

You haven't been recognized

by the chair, Mrs. Cardmaker.

Well, we'll recognize her.

Let's hear what she's got to say!

That's right! Let her talk!

- She's got as much right to talk

as other folks around here.

- That's right. Go ahead.

At this moment, while you're sitting here

blaming George Bull for negligence of duty...

he's working his head off

attending to your sick folk.

If this town has an epidemic in it...

it's not George Bull's fault,

but my brother's-

Herbert Banning's there.

Why was Herbert Banning so anxious to rent

his camp site to the construction company?

Money. Money!

Both he and Snyder told George Bull...

they'd see that that camp

was kept clean.

Sit down. Janet.

There's a certain group in this town

that's been intending for a long time...

to get rid of George Bull because

they think he's old-fashioned.

And now is their chance just because

he failed to inspect the reservoir.

- All right. Go ahead and whisper.

Go ahead and laugh. He's been a good

friend to me. I'm not ashamed of it.

He's been a good friend to all of us.

The reason he's not here now

to defend himself is...

that at this very moment,

he's sitting at Joe Tupping's bedside...

trying to give that poor boy back

a chance at happiness...

trying even though Verney and everybody

else said there was no use trying.

Order! Order!

You ought to give him a chance.

He's no longer a young man.

If you get the State Board to take his license

away, there's nothing else he could do.

You'll ruin his life.

Well, he can always

go back to doctoring cows.

She's right! I claim she's right!

Now wait a minute.

You listen to me!

Now shut up.

You can't turn George Bull out.

Why, he brought most

of our children into the world.

He's stood by us through thick and thin.

I vote we adjourn!

Adjourn or not, but he'll never doctor

another one of my kids.

I move we recommend Dr. Hepburn's

appointment in Bull's place.

- No!

- Yes.!

Give him a chance.

Go ahead, Doc. Go ahead.

What is all this dogfight about anyhow?

The floor isn't yours, Dr. Bull.

You're out of order.

You shut up, Herring, or youll be out of order!

There's a lot of you out of order!

We're tired of your goings-on in this town.

It's a shame and a scandal in the community.

- Where was your car last night?

Now wait a minute.

What are you laughing about?

My car was right where

I wanted it to be.

Where I go or what I do

is none of your business.

You keep your nose out of my affairs.

Throw him out, somebody.!

Throw him out.!

Come on.! Come on.!

You'll throw me out when I get good

and ready for you to throw me out.

You grinning baboons.

Now listen here- If I was like

a lot of you, a scandal hound...

that went around jabbering

everything that I heard-

Suppose I told all I know around here?

- Mr. Chairman.!

- Yes, and you!

I could talk for an hour on what

I know about you, Mr. Upjohn!

I move that we

carry on with this adjustment.

Mrs. Ely, I wouldn't say a word,

if I was you.

Oh, you are the last person to talk.

And that goes for a lot of you-

what I know about lots of you.

The difference is, what I know

about you is the truth.

Now, I could resign,

but I'm not going to do it.

I'm going to give you the satisfaction

of kicking me out.

And when you do kick me out, and anybody

in the town gets run over by an automobile...

or dies of old age...

you can't say that Dr. Bull did it!

That's Doc Bull all over.

He just don't care.!

- Order!

- Order!

- Mr. Chairman.

- Mrs. Banning.

Ladies and gentlemen...

I don't see that Dr. Bull's

action here today...

has anything to do with the case.

I move that we take a vote

on the original motion.

I second the motion, Mrs. Banning.

- All in favor, respond by saying aye.

- Aye!

- No?

- No!

- It's a vote. The ayes have it.

- I move we adjourn!

- I second it!

- I third it!

- You can't do that.

- I've already done it.

The meeting's adjourned!

- Janet, I never was so ashamed in my life!

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