human
You'd think a man would get used to it, he said in his short, gruff way.
gpt
You'd think it would become a matter of course, but it doesn't. That man's wife is dying of cancer. It's not an operable case. I told him that to-day. He asked for the truth and I gave it. I even gave my estimate of the time. He swung his chair around and looked out at the roof of the building below, and then turned sharply back to her.
human
You said a while ago that this looked like a home. Well, it's not. It's like a good many other things--empty show. Where that man lives, it's not much for looks, but it _is_ a home, and this means--breaking it up. In there a minute ago, I told him he had to lose the only thing in life he cares anything about. He--oh, well!
gpt
Cancer--you say, doctor? --her voice was so low he could barely catch it.
human
Cancer?
gpt
But that's what Karl's working on! That's what Karl's doing this very minute!
human
Yes, and do you ever think of it like that? Do you ever think of the lives and homes he is going to save; the tragedies and heartbreaks he is going to avert; the children he is going to keep from being motherless or fatherless if he does do this thing?--and I believe with all my heart he will! I tell you, Mrs. Hubers, you want to help him! I'm not sorry you saw that little thing just now. It will show you the other side of it--the human side. And there wasn't anything unusual in it. All over the world, physicians are doing this same thing every day--telling people it's hopeless, admitting there's nothing to be done. Then think of the tremendousness of this work Karl Hubers is doing!--where it strikes--the hearts breaking for it--the thousands praying for it! Is it any wonder we're watching it? Interested? I tell you _we_ know what it means.
gpt
And Karl is doing that? _That_ is what Karl's work means?
human
Karl's work simply means giving into our hands the power to save more lives. Now we're doing the best we can with what we have--but God knows we're short on power! We're groping around in the dark. Karl's work means letting in the light.
gpt
Doctor, I want to thank you!