Doctor Strange
1
Master Kaecilius.
That ritual will bring you only sorrow.
Hypocrite!
Challenge round, Billy.
Oh, come on, Billy.
You've got to be messing with me.
No, doctor.
Feels So Good, Chuck Mangione, 1977.
Seriously, Billy, you said this one
would be hard. - Hah! It's 1978.
No, Billy, while Feels So Good
may have charted in 1978,
the album was released in December, 1977.
No, no. Wikipedia says the...
- Check again.
When did you...? - Where do you
store all this useless information?
Useless? The man charted a
top ten hit with a Flugelhorn.
- Status, Billy? - 1977.
- Oh! Please.
I hate you.
Woah! "Feels so good", doesn't it?
Oh, I... I've got this, Stephen. You've
done your bit. Go ahead, we'll close up.
- What is that?
- GSW.
It's amazing you kept him alive.
Apneic, further brain stem
I think I found the problem, Dr. Palmer.
You left a bullet in his head.
- Thanks. It's impinging on the medulla.
I needed a specialist to
diagnose brain death.
Something about that
doesn't feel right to me.
We have to run.
Dr. West! What are you doing? Hey!
- Organ harvesting. He's a donor.
Slow down. I did not agree to that.
- I don't
need you to. We've already
called brain death.
Too premature. We need to get him
prepped for a suboccipital craniotomy.
I'm not going to let you operate
on a dead man. - What do you see?
A bullet?
- A perfect bullet. It's been hardened.
alloying lead with antimony.
A toxic metal. And as it leaks directly
into the cerebral spinal fluid...
Rapid-onset central nervous
system shutdown. - We need to go.
The patient's not dead, but he's dying.
Do you still want to harvest his organs?
I'll assist you.
- No! Dr. Palmer will assist me.
Thank you.
Image status, STAT.
- We do not have time for that.
You can't do it by hand.
- I can and I will.
This isn't the time
for showing off, Strange.
How about ten minutes ago, when
you called the wrong time of death?
Cranial nerves intact.
Dr. West, cover your watch.
You know, you didn't have to
humiliate him in front of everyone.
I didn't have to save his
patient either. But,
you know, sometimes I
just can't help myself.
Nick is a great doctor.
- You came to me.
Yeah, well, I needed a second opinion.
- You had a second opinion.
What you needed was a competent one.
- Well, all the
more reason why you should
be my neurosurgeon on call.
You could make such a difference.
I can't work in your butcher shop.
- Hey! Look, he...
Look, I'm using trans-sectioned
spinal cords to
stimulate neurogenesis in
the central nervous system.
save thousands for years to come.
In the ER, I get to save one
drunk idiot with a gun.
Yeah, you're right. In the ER,
you're only saving lives.
There's no fame,
there's no CNN interviews...
Well, I guess I'll have to stick with Nick.
Oh, wait a minute. You're not...
you guys aren't...
What? - Sleeping together. Sorry, I
thought that was implicit in my disgust.
Explicit, actually.
And no, I have a very strict rule
against dating colleagues.
Oh really?
- I call it the Strange policy.
Oh, good! I'm glad something
You know, I invented a
laminectomy procedure,
and yet, somehow, no one seems to want
to call it the Strange technique.
We invented that technique.
- You know, I
gotta say, I'm very
flattered by your policy.
Look, I'm talking tonight at a
Neurological Society dinner. Come with me.
Another speaking engagement? So romantic.
You used to love going
to those things with me.
We had fun together.
- No. You've had fun.
They weren't about us, they were about you.
- Not only about me.
- Stephen. Everything is about you.
Maybe we can hyphenate.
Strange-Palmer technique.
Palmer-Strange.
Billy! What have you got for me?
I've got a 35-year-old Air Force colonel.
Crushed his lower spine
in some kind of experimental armor.
Mid-thoracic vertebral fracture.
Well, I could help, but
so can 50 other people.
Find me something worth my time.
I have a 68-year-old female
with an advanced brain stem glioma.
Yeah, you want me to screw up
my perfect record? Definitely not.
How about a 22-year-old
female with an electronic
implant in her brain to control
schizophrenia struck by lightning?
That does sound interesting.
Could you send me the... got it.
Hey.
It's okay. It's going to be okay.
What did they do?
They rushed you in a chopper.
But it took a little while to find you.
Golden hours for nerve damage went by
while you were in the car.
What did they do?!?
11 stainless steel pins in the bones.
Multiple torn ligaments.
Severe nerve damage in both hands.
You were on the table for 11 hours.
Look at these fixators.
No one could have done better.
I could have done better.
No. No.
- Give your body time to heal.
You ruined me.
How long until I'm...
Dr. Strange... those tissues
are still healing.
So speed it up. Pass the stent under the
brachial artery under the radial artery.
It's possible.
Experimental and expensive, but possible.
All I need is possible.
Up.
Up.
Show me your strength.
Ah! It's useless.
- It's not useless, man, you can do this.
Then answer me this, bachelor's degree.
Have you ever known anyone
with nerve damage this severe
to do this, and actually recover?
One guy, yeah. Factory accident, broke
his back. Paralyzed. His leg wasted away.
He had pain in his shoulder
from the wheelchair.
He came in 3 times a week.
But one day he stopped coming.
I thought he was dead.
A few years later, he
walked past me on the street.
He walked? - Yeah, he walked.
- Bullshit. Show me his file.
It can take me a while to pull
the files from the archive.
But if it proves your arrogant ass wrong,
it's worth it.
I looked at all your research.
I read all the papers you've sent,
but... none will work.
I... I don't think you realize
how severe the damage is, I...
Look, here's the thing, I...
- At best, I'd try and fail.
Look, I understand.
Here's the thing. I...
What you want from me is
impossible, Stephen. - Come on...
I've got my own reputation to consider.
- Etienne, wait.
I can't help you...
- No. No, no, wait!
Hi.
He won't do it.
He's a hack.
There's a new procedure in Tokyo.
They culture donor stem cells
and then harvest them and
3D-print a scaffold.
If I could get a loan
together, just...
Stephen...
- A small loan, 200,000.
Stephen. You've always spent money
as fast as you could make it
but now you're spending money
you don't even have.
Maybe it's time to consider stopping.
No. Now is exactly the time not to stop.
Because, you see,
I'm not getting any better!
But this isn't medicine anymore.
This is mania.
Some things just can't be fixed.
Life without my work...
- Is still life.
This isn't the end. There are other things
that can give your life meaning.
Like what? Like you?
And this is the part where you apologize.
This is the part where you leave.
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