DR. BENWAY OPERATES

The lavatory has been locked for three hours solid... I think they're
using it for an operating room...

NURSE:" Adrenalin, doctor?"
DR. BENWAY:"The night porter shot it all up for kicks." He looks
around and picks up a toilet plunger... He advances on the
patient..."Make and incision Dr. Limpf," he says to his appalled
assistant..."I'm going to massage the heart."
Dr. Limpf shrugs and begins the incision. Dr. Benway washes the
suction cup by swishing it around the toilet bowl...
NURSE: "Shouldn't it be sterilized, doctor?"
DR. BENWAY:"Very likely but there's no time." He sits on the
toilet plunger like a can seat watching his assistant make the
incision..."You young squirts couldn't lance a pimple without an
electric vibrating scalpel with automatic drain and suture...Soon
we'll be operating by remote control on patients we never see...We'll
be nothing but button pushers. All the skill is going out of
surgery...All the know how and make-do...Did I ever tell you about the
time I performed an appendectomy with a rusty sardine can? And once I
was caught short without instrument one and removed a uterine tumor
with my teeth. That was in the Upper Effendi, and besides...the wench
is dead."
DR.LIMPF: "The incision is ready doctor."
Dr. Benway forces the cup into the incision and works it up and
down. Blood spurts all over the doctors, the nurse and the wall...The
cup makes a horrible sucking sound.
NURSE:" I think she's gone, doctor."
DR.BENWAY: "Well, it's all in a days work." He walks across the
room to a medicine cabinet..."Some fucking drug addict has cut my
cocaine with Saniflush! Nurse! Send the boy out to fill this RX on the
double!"

~ William S Burroughs