History Main / HospitalGurneyScene

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%%* Parodied in ''Film/HotShots'', after Dead Meat's plane crashes. %%Example needs context to make sense on its own.
%%-->'''Dead Meat''': I'm in a hospital! [[WhatCouldPossiblyGoWrong What could go wrong]]? ''([[DescriptionCut Cut to his funeral]])''

* WesternAnimation/TheHairBearBunch, in surgical gear, carry a tree on a gurney trying get past Mr. Peevly at the entrance of the zoo. As they try to wheel the tree out, a branch rips off Hair's surgical scrubs.

%%* Done in ''Series/{{Castle}}'' at the start of Rise, though Beckett is out. %%Example needs context to make sense on its own.

%%* Amusingly done in one of ''Series/{{Friends}}'''s flashbacks, when Monica accidentally cuts off Chandler's toe with a dropped kitchen knife. The doctors crash him through the swing doors ''feet first''. %%Example needs context to make sense on its own.

%%* Perfectly executed in ''Series/TheWestWing'' episode "In the Shadow of Two Gunmen", first with President Bartlett, then with Josh. Bartlett's scene is played fairly lightly, with him making jokes the entire time due to his relatively minor wounds. Josh's scene is much more dramatic as his wounds are more severe. %%Example needs context to make sense on its own.

The universal way for a character to enter a hospital is to have the injured character on a [[http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Gurney gurney,]] being pulled down a long corridor into an operating room, with assorted doctors and friends surrounding him. This whole thing is often accompanied by a [[POVCam POV Shot]] of our character looking up at a doctor.

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* The twelfth episode of ''Anime/TigerAndBunny'' ends with [[spoiler:Kotetsu]] being rushed to the ICU this way after a violent CurbStompBattle.
* Shiki's admittance into hospital in the fourth ''Literature/TheGardenOfSinners'' movie.

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* ''Animation/HappyHeroes'': In Season 7 episode 47, the ambassador of Suspicious Planet gets a heart attack the moment Happy S. mentions the name Adeli, due to his dislike of the Adelians, leading to him having to be carried to another room of the hospital in a gurney. Once he's finally back in his hospital bed, he ends up mentioning Adeli himself and ends up on a gurney and in the other room ''again'', only seconds afterwards.
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* In ''Film/District9'', when Wikus is carted off to [[spoiler:MNU's medical lab]].
* Parodied in ''Film/HotShots'', after Dead Meat's plane crashes.
-->'''Dead Meat''': I'm in a hospital! [[WhatCouldPossiblyGoWrong What could go wrong]]? ''([[DescriptionCut Cut to his funeral]])''
* Parodied in ''Film/AddamsFamilyValues'', when Morticia is in labor.
-->Gomez: [passionately] Are you in unbearable pain, my love? Is it inhuman? My darling, is it torture?
-->Morticia: [coyly] Oui!

* Played straight in ''Film/RoboCop1987'' as the horribly maimed Murphy is rushed into a trauma bay.
* Played straight in a terrifying manner in ''Film/JacobsLadder''.
* A famous tracking shot from ''Film/AClockworkOrange'' shows the protagonist getting wheeled in on a gurney down a long hospital hallway.

* This is parodied in ''Film/CarryOnDoctor'' from the ''Film/CarryOn'' series, when Francis Bigger hurts his back and is driven to hospital. He gurns and howls and looks up at an ambulance staff member, who asks:
-->'''Ambulance Staff''': Are you hurting?
-->'''Francis Bigger''': Oh no! Just something to while away the journey; that's all.
* Played straight in ''Film/AllThatJazz'', where the main character is repeatedly suffering from a heart attack and being rushed to surgery. One particularly poignant scene is done where he hallucinates that his ex-wife and his current girl-friend are on either side of the gurney, holding his respective hands. He looks at his ex-wife and says "If I die, I apologize for all of the terrible things I did to you", and then turns to his current girl-friend and says "And if I live, I apologize for all of the terrible things I am going to do to you". The main character is a serial philanderer who can/will not stop this activity.
* Stephen Strange is brought into his own hospital this way after his car accident in ''Film/{{Doctor Strange|2016}}''.
* ''Film/GhostInTheShell2017'' immediately starts off with this, before moving into "Making of a Cyborg" scene and opening credits
* ''Film/MouseHunt'': After being hit by a van, Ernie Smuntz is taken to the hospital in this manner. He desperately tries to get off the Gurney since he had an important appointment.
* Combined with POVCam in ''Film/SonOfTheBride'', as the camera shows the corridor zooming by from Rafael's perspective, as he's whisked into ICU after suffering a heart attack.

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* Happens to Linda Royce in ''Literature/CherryAmes: Student Nurse'' by Helen Wells.
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* Played straight in practically every episode of just about every MedicalDrama ever, but most notably in ''Series/{{ER}}''.
* Surprisingly averted most of the time, however, on ''Series/{{Scrubs}}'', where only a small fraction of onscreen cases are incoming emergencies (ER duty is considered stressful but tediously undramatic work for the on-call doctors, and is barely ever shown).

* Also parodied on ''Series/SaturdayNightLive'', which had a team of medical personnel rushing a gurney down the hall of a hospital, going through door after door after door. . .
* ''Series/MondayMornings'': ER cases often gets this treatment, sometimes overly dramatic (e.g. Dr. Napur stimulates a patient's heart while sitting on top of her), but at times it's toned down. Most patients on this show were not emergencies.
* ''Series/BrothersAndSisters'':
** When Rob has his heart attack.
** In season one, when Justin overdoses.
* Frequently happens in ''Series/TheBill.''
* Used in the ''Series/{{Firefly}}'' episode Ariel.
** Curiously, they do this with a pair of (fake) ''corpses'' who were supposedly dead on arrival. The fact that they're making such a fuss over nothing (it's not like they're going to get ''more'' dead) earns them a few weird looks from hospital staff.
* A variant of this occurred in the ''Series/{{Farscape}}'' episode "Prayer," in which Aeryn is wheeled down a corridor on a gurney that doubles as her own torture harness. For good measure, the BattleAxeNurse and the Scarran captain are talking animatedly about dissecting her unborn child, while Aeryn is howling at them to get her the frell out of there.
* Played straight and played with in ''Series/{{Bones}}'', as Booth is being wheeled into surgery. However, the doctor he's looking imploringly at is Brennan...
* Amusingly done in one of ''Series/{{Friends}}'''s flashbacks, when Monica accidentally cuts off Chandler's toe with a dropped kitchen knife. The doctors crash him through the swing doors ''feet first''.
* Played for laughs on the agriculture episode of ''Series/HistoryBites''. From the patient's POV, Teresa Pavlinek's doctor character gets the assessment of the patient's condition and calls for a trepanning. Every time, [[TheAllSolvingHammer thanks to the extremely crude state of medicine]].
* Perfectly executed in ''Series/TheWestWing'' episode "In the Shadow of Two Gunmen", first with President Bartlett, then with Josh. Bartlett's scene is played fairly lightly, with him making jokes the entire time due to his relatively minor wounds. Josh's scene is much more dramatic as his wounds are more severe.
* Done in ''Series/{{Castle}}'' at the start of Rise, though Beckett is out.
* PlayedWith in an episode of ''Series/BabylonFive'', when [[spoiler:Doctor Franklin]] is stabbed trying to help someone. We later see him being rolled into Medlab on a gurney by medical staff, with a POV shot from him looking up to see the rest of the B5 command staff pushing the gurney along and looking down at him (another hallucination, as the command staff had yet to return to the station from the space battle that took up the episode's A Plot).
* Happens in ''Series/TheWrongMans'' when in an effort to find Mister Stevens, Sam pretends to be a patient, and Phil a doctor pushing him along. It goes inevitably wrong; two gurneys get accidentally swapped. When Phil finds out that as a result, Sam is going to get his leg amputated, a mad rush ensues when Phil and his new patient try to get to the operating table in time.
* Happens in ''Series/BreakingBad'' after Hank gets shot.
* Parodied on ''Series/AdamRuinsEverything''. Adam comes in with [[NoodleIncident an arrow stuck in his chest]], explaining to a [[{{Hypochondria}} hypochondriac woman]] the concept of healthcare "networks", and how (in the US) if ''anything'' is considered "out of network," be it the doctor (usually a specialist) who treats the disease or injury, or a piece of equipment used, or a drug administered, or the hospital facility itself, the patient will be charged the full "chargemaster"/uninsured person price on their medical bill, even if he/she has insurance. This works well if you can shop around for something that fits your needs and budget, but (as Adam puts it):
--> '''Adam''': You can't comparison-shop if you're ''dying''!

* ''Theatre/MenInWhite'': This 1933 play may be the UrExample. Scene 1 ends with a woman being brought in on a "rolling stretcher" with a lacerated throat, "bleeding terribly", causing the doctors to snap into action.

** It's a part of the opening of ''VideoGame/SilentHillHomecoming'', almost certainly homage to the one in the above-mentioned ''Jacob's Ladder''.
* Used straight at the beginning of ''VideoGame/SecondSight''.
* Done in the intro of ''VideoGame/PhantasmagoriaAPuzzleOfFlesh'', where Curtis Craig is strapped to a gurney in an [[BedlamHouse insane asylum]], to be brought in for [[ElectricTorture electric shock therapy]].
* In ''VideoGame/MassEffect3'', when the Normandy first arrives on the Citadel, [[spoiler:Ashley/Kaidan]] gets this treatment, being rushed to the ER after being critically injured at the climax of the Mars mission.
* Played for laughs in ''VideoGame/NightmareNed'' as an arcade puzzle where you have to dodge [[MadDoctor insane, swirly-eyed doctors]] trying to grab Ned to extract his organs. The amount of times they succeed determines how many need to be replaced in the next puzzle (up to 8)
* Played for Laughs in a ''VideoGame/RaymanRavingRabbids'' 2 minigame.
* Done with a twist in ''VideoGame/SurgeonSimulator2013''. The Hallway levels have you perform surgery on your patient during one of these. The Tooth, Eye, and Brain surgeries substitute the gurney for a wheelchair, but fit nonetheless.

* Seen in the WesternAnimation/RogerRabbitShort "Tummy Trouble", as Roger is wheeled down a ridiculously long hallway to the operating room.
* The ''WesternAnimation/SpongeBobSquarePants'' episode "Born Again Krabs" has one after a subversion of the AmbulanceCut.