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== Lyrics ==
<poem style="background-color: #faf7ed; padding: 1em;">
[MR. STEVENSON]
I've been waiting for so long,
Waiting for my doctor to come,
These aches been going on for days now,
And I'm feeling slightly down
[PAGER]
Beep beep! Beep beep! Beep beep! Beep!
Beep beep! Beep beep! Beep beep! Beep!
[DR. PAIGE]
I've been working night and day
Haven't had a wink of sleep
But they've been waiting for so long
(I've been waiting for so long!)
And I'm the one on-call this week
[BOTH]
Heart-beats, heart-beats, heart beats, heart,
Heart-beats, heart-beats, heart beats, heart,
[ADA PAIGE, SPOKEN]
Good morning Mr. Stevenson, my name is Dr Paige,
and I'm the consultant on call today.
How are you?
[MR. STEVENSON, SPOKEN]
..I'm better thank you, but it still hurts when I move.
[ADA PAIGE]
Understandably so -
you might be getting pressure sores,
has the nurse come to change your position?
[MR. STEVENSON]
No, not since the morning.
[ADA PAIGE]
Oh dear, we'll get her here.
The x-ray has come in now, and there is good news sir!
You haven't broken your tailbone and your hip is intact.
[MR. STEVENSON]
Oh thank heavens, I don't know why I let myself fall, I'm such an idio-
[ADA PAIGE]
Don't worry it happens to the best of us.
But more importantly, how are you feeling?
[MR. STEVENSON]
I-I'm okay-
[ADA PAIGE]
Everything well at home?
[MR. STEVENSON]
I think so but-
[ADA PAIGE]
Great, we'll get you discharged tomorrow then.
[MR. STEVENSON]
But-
[ADA PAIGE]
Is there anything else, sir?
[MR. STEVENSON]
Yes..  my - my wife hasn't called since yesterday..
We, always talk once a day, and -
[ADA PAIGE]
Okay. Yes. Um, of course, we will get the nurse to call her up and see
if she's --
[PAGER]
BEEP BEEP! BEEP BEEP! BEEP BEEP! BEEP!
[ADA PAIGE]
[sigh] Oh dear.
[VERSE 3]
[ADA PAIGE]
There my pager goes again!
[MRS. STEVENSON]
I've been waiting for so long...
[ADA PAIGE]
Give me strength to carry on!
[MRS. STEVENSON]
Waiting for my doctor to come.
[ADA PAIGE]
Thank you sir, have a good rest-
[MR. STEVENSON]
[swing] But doc, please check on my wife..
[MRS. STEVENSON]
My husbands somewhere in here too!
[ADA PAIGE]
[off-beat-triplets] [snaps, irritation] She's just forgotten to call! OKAY?!
[POLITICIAN]
Don't fall for these doctors lies!
[MRS. STEVENSON]
Please could someone help me out!
[POLITICIAN]
Driving around in their cars!
[ADA PAIGE]
[off-beat-triplets] I should've been done at six!
[MR. STEVENSON]
[dejected] ..Okay.
[POLITICIAN]
Doctors are taking too long!
[BOTH MR AND MRS. STEVENSON]
Heart-beats, heart-beats, heart-beats, heart.
[POLITICIAN]
The public deserve to have care!
[ADA PAIGE]
I'm the one that needs some heeeeelp!
[POLITICIAN]
Saturday pay shall be cut!
[BOTH MR AND MRS. STEVENSON]
Heart-beats, heart-beats, heart-beats, heart.
[ADA PAIGE]
Someone saaaave me from this heeeeell...
[POLITICIAN]
PRIVATIZATION IS KEY!
[ADA PAIGE]
..Shouldn't have gone to med school.
========
<<<Coda>>>
[ADA PAIGE]
To all my friends that I have lost,
While crossing bridges I have crossed,
Dinners, weddings, coffee sessions,
I'm sorry I was never there.
You see, I've been on call this week,
I'm barely getting any sleep,
I'd love to catch up, I really would,
..But they've been waiting for so long.
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SIGN: ACT 2 COMPLETE
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<<<Outro>>>:
[IAN, SPOKEN]
Hey, Ada! Sorry I'm late-
[ADA PAIGE, SPOKEN]
There you are! Handover was an hour ago, what took you so long-
[IAN]
[fast, frantic, stuttering, depressed, verge of breakdown, unstable voice]
I'm - I'm so sorry my mother had another episode, the carer was running late,
I couldn't just leave her there I called up the hospital to try and let you know I guess they didn't ... (sigh)
[ADA PAIGE]
..
[having just learnt that Ian has it so much worse]
[long pause to break the flow]
..Oh.. no they.. I'm sorry to hear that.
[IAN]
[a little more composed]
It's fine. Thanks for covering Ada.
Really appreciate it. Hope the patients didn't give you too much trouble?
[ADA PAIGE]
(pause)
..No, no, not at all..
[tries to remain composed]
Hey, okay, so,
Mr. Stevenson had fall yesterday, he's - he's doing fine.
But we still don't know if it was mechanical or syncope.
[FADE OUT VOICES START, CAMERA PANS AWAY FROM DOCTORS TO PATIENT]
[smooth calmer talking from here on as they
find comfort in the routine of handover]
[IAN]
He doesn't remember?
[ADA PAIGE]
No. X-rays were all clear.
[IAN]
Any history of AF?
[ADA PAIGE]
Not on the records.
[IAN]
Aspiration pneumonia?
[ADA PAIGE]
No, his lungs are fine.
[IAN]
????
[ADA PAIGE]
????
[FADE OUT COMPLETE]
</poem>
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