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Lew Ayres and Laraine Day in Calling Dr. Kildare (1939)

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Calling Dr. Kildare

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  • Dr. Leonard Gillespie: You know we haven't the faintest idea yet what doctors can really do. Why, there's enough money, time and labor lost through illness to pay all the debts on Earth - to say nothing of the tragedy that's caused when some little pay envelope's shy two day's wages. But there's a day coming - I won't live to see it - when man, who didn't ask to be put on this Earth, will be guaranteed by all the resources of the human race his right to health added to his rights to life, liberty and the pursuit of happiness!
  • Dr. Leonard Gillespie: Well, Mrs. Thatcher, that diet you thought out for yourself has certainly given you a lovely figure.
  • Mrs. Thatcher: And three days a week, I don't eat any lunch at all.
  • Dr. Leonard Gillespie: Oh, that's fine. That's fine... Now you just keep that up. By next year, you'll have the finest figure in the cemetary. Fools! Life's given you women free of charge a most magnificient piece of machinery possible to conceive - the human body! And you try to run it without fuel! You'll eat or you'll die! Next patient!
  • Dr. Leonard Gillespie: How much time have you wasted on this foolishness?
  • Dr. James Kildare: Only two days.
  • Dr. Leonard Gillespie: Unfortunately there's just as many diseases as there are persons. So at two days per disease, it'd take you till Judgment Day to make your diagnosis!
  • Dr. James Kildare: I was taught in medical school that the way to diagnose an illness was to check the clinical signs against the case history and draw a conclusion.
  • Dr. Leonard Gillespie: [lets out a disagreeable grunt]
  • Dr. James Kildare: Well ninety-nine times out of a hundred those rules work.
  • Dr. Leonard Gillespie: Well the hundredth man has a right to live, too!
  • Dr. Leonard Gillespie: Did it ever occur to you that a guinea pig doesn't have a wife that sneaks out dancing every night? That a guinea pig's never overdrawn at the bank? That a guinea pig never worries himself sick because he's in love with a blonde chorus girl?
  • Dr. Stephen Kildare: I must do some reading if I'm going to find out what ails him.
  • Dr. Leonard Gillespie: I have a curious fondness for you. May be your innate charm or my own bad judgment.
  • Sally: New fathers make me sick!
  • Wayman: Well, why Sal?
  • Sally: It's like in the barnyard. Who lays the egg? The hen. Who crows? The rooster!
  • Dr. James Kildare: Have you seen Joe Wayman around?
  • Mike Sullivan - Hospital Cafe Owner: I haven't laid eyes on him since this morning. Or was it yesterday morning? Or last night? Or could it have been noon? Well, he ain't here now, do you want him for something special?
  • Wayman: How's about you and me, dinner?
  • Sally: I'll have no more meals with you, Joe Wayman. I didn't expect you to have the manners of a duke but you're the first guy I ever saw dunk a lamb chop.
  • Sally: 'Course I work in a hospital but I don't know anything about medicine. I have a friend who works in a aquarium but he still can't breathe underwater.

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