HOSPITAL: What Humans Do (resisting treatment)
INT.
HOSPITAL BEDROOM – DAY
Elizabeth
is lying in bed. Dr. Wilson is standing beside her.
DR. WILSON
This could save your life.
ELIZABETH
How many times do you think I've
heard that?
DR. WILSON
You're discouraged. I understand.
ELIZABETH
Do you? Do you understand what
it's like to be prodded, pricked with needles, cut into, all your
life? To be weak and nauseous for days on end? To never go anywhere
or do anything because you're sick all the time? And may never get
better?
DR. WILSON
It's awful. I can't imagine it's
being anything but awful. But you have to have hope.
ELIZABETH
Do I? Why?
DR. WILSON
Because you're human, Elizabeth.
And hope is part of what makes us human.
ELIZABETH
Jesus.
DR. WILSON
Hope is what keeps people going.
Not just people with chronic diseases. People whose whole families
get wiped out in some genocide and yet go on to make lives for
themselves. People like the ones I saw in Africa, living in filthy
camps. People who get locked up for decades and never stop dreaming
not just that they might be free, but that their whole country might
be free.
ELIZABETH
Man. You're the first person
who's ever made me feel selfish.
DR. WILSON
Those were their battles,
Elizabeth. And this is yours. Yes, it's a hard one. But don't you
want to fight it?
ELIZABETH
But what if this doesn't work?
Like all the other times?
DR. WILSON
Then you'll try again.
ELIZABETH
Why? For what?
DR. WILSON
So you'll know you're alive.
ELIZABETH
For now...
DR. WILSON
For now. But in the end that's
all any of us get. Healthy or not.
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