M*A*S*H (TV Series)
Preventative Medicine (1979)
James Wainwright: Colonel Lacy
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Quotes
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Colonel Lacy : You know, we're really not so far apart.
Capt. B.J. Hunnicutt : Right. Opposite sides of the same fence.
Capt. Benjamin Franklin 'Hawkeye' Pierce : No, he's got a point. We're all in the same business. As surgeons, we'll sacrifice some tissue in order to save the whole body. You'll sacrifice a few men in order to, uh... to, uh... What is it you get out of that again?
Capt. B.J. Hunnicutt : A hill. You know, a rock.
Capt. Benjamin Franklin 'Hawkeye' Pierce : Oh, yeah, right. See? We're practically the same.
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Capt. Benjamin Franklin 'Hawkeye' Pierce : Have you ever had your appendix out?
Colonel Lacy : No.
Capt. B.J. Hunnicutt : Appendix?
Capt. Benjamin Franklin 'Hawkeye' Pierce : Yeah, acute appendicitis. That could keep you out for a week or two.
Colonel Lacy : Two weeks? They'll take me off the line. I'll--
[groan]
Colonel Lacy : --lose my battalion.
Capt. Benjamin Franklin 'Hawkeye' Pierce : Definitely your appendix.
Capt. B.J. Hunnicutt : Wait a minute. You want to open him up and take out his appendix?
Capt. Benjamin Franklin 'Hawkeye' Pierce : Well, I could reach down his throat and get it, but that would be another two weeks.