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We'll need some sponges.
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O.K., l got 'em.
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Great. We'll get ready.
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Let's check the eyes.
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Get a gurney in here.
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Right there.
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Straight in.
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Next, we have a 30, 35-year-old male,
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No l. D., no medical history.
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He was found on the riverbank
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just south of the city.
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There are homeless and indigents there.
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We get three no-names every week.
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Nobody does anything until they become train wrecks
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like Mr. John Doe here.
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He's got burns covering 40o% of his body.
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The hands and face are the most severe.
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Ten years ago,
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pain from the burns would have been intolerable.
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He would have spent his life screaming.
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Now we use the Rangeveritz Technique.
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Quite simply,
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we sever the nerves within the spino-thalamic tract,
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there-- which, as you know, transmits neural impulses
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of pain and vibratory sense to the brain.
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No longer receiving impulses of pain,
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you stick him with a pin...
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Ouch.
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and he can't even feel it.
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As in many radical procedures,
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there are serious side effects to this operation.
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When the body ceases to feel,
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when so much sensory input is lost,
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the mind grows hungry.
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Starved of its regular diet of input,
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it takes the only remaining stimulation it has--
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the emotions--
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and amplifies them,
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giving rise to alienation and loneliness.
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Uncontrolled rage is not uncommon.
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Now surges of adrenaline
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flow unchecked through the body and brain,
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giving him augmented strength.
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Hence, the restraints.
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Naturally, we give them every chance of recovery.
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Remain optimistic,
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inspire confidence,
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talk to him about rehabilitation potential.
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Personally, l give him a 9 on the buzzard scale.
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Yaah!
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Code blue, burn unit.
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Doctor?
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l'm in charge here.
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Damn it, let me through!
