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Teaching Hospital

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A VERY GOOD USE OF YOUR TIME.

The setup

A doctor in a long wig and tinted glasses keeps handing a nervous patient's blood-test results to his bloodstained intern, and every attempt at plain news dissolves into lessons, jokes and snacks.

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Say it with us

Highly quotable.

Yeah, he's Dr. Please, and I'm Shirley Please.

Are you two related?

I hope not.

The premise

Here’s the bit.

A patient waiting on blood-work results is seen by a theatrically evasive doctor who insists that because this is a teaching hospital his intern must deliver the news. The intern, who has apparently drawn blood in some alarming way, takes the doctor's advice so literally that a simple 'your blood is good' turns into a lesson on certainty. As the patient pleads for answers before a date, a nurse's deadpan interruptions, a mix-up over the doctor's and intern's shared surname, a prescription of snack food and a sudden burst of English slang pile up until the two medics finally share an unexpected kiss.

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