The Shootist1976

Dr. E.W. Hostetler:
Books, every few days I have to tell a man or a woman something I don't want to. I've been practicing medicine for 29 years, and I still don't know how to do it well.

John Bernard Books:
Why don't you just say it flat out?

Dr. E.W. Hostetler:
All right. You have a cancer - advanced. Is that what that fella up in Creed told you?

John Bernard Books:
Yeah.

Dr. E.W. Hostetler:
And you didn't believe him.

John Bernard Books:
No.

Dr. E.W. Hostetler:
Do you believe me?

John Bernard Books:
Can't you cut it out, Doc?

Dr. E.W. Hostetler:
I'd have to gut you like a fish.

John Bernard Books:
Well, what *can* you do?

Dr. E.W. Hostetler:
There's... just, uh... very little I can do. Uh, if... when the pain gets too bad, I can give you something.

John Bernard Books:
What you're trying to tell me is that I...

Dr. E.W. Hostetler:
Yeah.

John Bernard Books:
Damn.