Speculum - University of Melbourne

SPECULUM
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FILM:
"People who aren't skin specialists can have
great fun with us: patients never die, or get
well, and so on; but skin diseases are a definite
physical and mental disturbance, which it
is highly important to realise if we are to
treat such diseases successfully."
LIFE:
"Seen the moth-eaten old b—r in the end
cubicle?"
IN THE FILM:
"We're too late, Roberts. We can't save the
limb. I'll never forgive myself for the delay."
IN REAL LIFE:
"Well, well, can you beat that. According
to the X-ray, you've put that T.K.N. and P.
on the wrong side!"
THE ONLY TIME WHERE FILM EQUALS
REAL LIFE
(We hope, we hope)
"Gee, you certainly don't procrastinate, do
you?"
"Whatever else may be my faults, I doubt
if I'd ever do that."