- Dr. Joseph Pearson: You often hear people ask what does a pathologist do? Never hear anyone ask what surgeons do. Perhaps we all know what surgeons do. Well, a pathologist is the one who examines the surgeon's mistakes when it's too late. He's the doctor the patient seldom sees, doesn't want to. Yet, few departments in the hospital have more effect in the patient's welfare. It is pathology which advises the patient's physician on disease. Sometimes when all else fails, it is the pathologist who makes the final diagnosis.
- Cathy Hunt: What made you decide to be a ghoul?
- Dr. David Coleman: Pathology seemed the best way to contribute to the war. Medicine is a war; a creative, constructive war. And not many of us can be heroes, like Fleming, Pasteur or Salk, but sometimes there's a spectacular advance, as in a war, and doctors rush to the front, leaving lots of pockets of knowledge behind, to be filled in.
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- Narrator: [voice over] Now, being admitted to the practice of medicine, I solemnly pledge to consecrate my life to the services of humanity. The health and life of my patients will be my first consideration. My colleagues will be my brothers. I will not permit consideration of race, religion, nationality or social standing to intervene between my duty to my patients. Whatever I shall see or hear of the lives of man which is not fitted to be spoken, I will keep inviolably in secret. I will give no deadly medicine to anyone if asked or suggest such counsel. Even under threat, I will not use my knowledge contrary to the laws of humanity. These promises I make freely and upon my honor.