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11->'''Sam''': Hurts, does it, sir?\
12'''Mr. Bigger''': Oh, no. I'm just doing this to while away the journey.
13-->-- ''Film/CarryOnDoctor''
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15The 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 them. This whole thing is often accompanied by a [[POVCam POV Shot]] of our character looking up at a doctor.
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17When the place the gurney is headed is more sinister, our character [[StrappedToAnOperatingTable may be strapped to the gurney to struggle]]. Compare AmbulanceCut.
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20!!Examples:
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23%%[[folder:Anime & Manga]]
24%%* The twelfth episode of ''Anime/TigerAndBunny'' ends with [[spoiler:Kotetsu]] being rushed to the ICU this way after a violent CurbStompBattle. %%Example needs context to make sense on its own.
25%%* Shiki's admittance into hospital in the fourth ''Literature/TheGardenOfSinners'' movie. %%Example needs context to make sense on its own.
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29* ''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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33* ''ComicBook/Robin1993'': The MedicalHorror-evoking cover of issue #165 shows Robin strapped to a gurney being rushed into a hospital by a bunch of villains. [[CoversAlwaysLie This does not happen in the issue]], though Robin does fight the villains shown on the cover in a hospital.
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37* The extended cut of ''Film/CasinoRoyale2006'' have Bond being carted away by paramedics in a hospital's hallway after being rescued from his recent ColdBloodedTorture. Despite [[GroinAttack the type of injuries LeChriffe inflicted on Bond]], the paramedics apparently did a great job, for Bond is making out with Vesper a few scenes later.
38* In ''Film/District9'', Wikus is carted off to [[spoiler:MNU's medical lab]].
39* Parodied in ''Film/HotShots''. When the perpetually unlucky Dead Meat crashes, his bad luck is compounded by the paramedics slamming the doors on his head trying to get the gurney to find into the ambulance (it happens again at the other end with the hospital doors), then as they trundle the gurney into the hospital he's examined by a doctor who admits that he's not very good at his job and shoots himself up with the drugs he's supposed to be giving the patient.
40-->'''Dead Meat''': I'm in a hospital! [[WhatCouldPossiblyGoWrong What could go wrong]]? ''([[GilliganCut Cut to his funeral]])''
41%%* Parodied in ''Film/AddamsFamilyValues'', when Morticia is in labor. %%Example needs context to make sense on its own.
42%%-->Gomez: [passionately] Are you in unbearable pain, my love? Is it inhuman? My darling, is it torture?
43%%-->Morticia: [coyly] Oui!
44* ''Film/MontyPythonsTheMeaningOfLife'' opens with a POV shot of a woman in labor on a gurney, crashing through about 10 sets of doors.
45%%* Played straight in ''Film/RoboCop1987'' as the horribly maimed Murphy is rushed into a trauma bay. %%Example needs context to make sense on its own.
46%%* Played straight in a terrifying manner in ''Film/JacobsLadder''. %%Example needs context to make sense on its own.
47* A tracking shot from ''Film/AClockworkOrange'' shows the protagonist getting wheeled in on a gurney down a long hospital hallway.
48* Inverted in ''Film/{{Star Trek IV|The Voyage Home}}''--the gurney bit is when they're trying to get ''out'' of the hospital, without being caught. The "patient" is perfectly fine by this point.
49* Done hilariously in ''Film/{{Evolution|2001}}'', when Doctor Harry Block has an insect-like alien get into his body and is carted into the makeshift hospital room for it to be extracted, all while screaming "FOR THE LOVE OF EVERYTHING GOOD AND HOLY, GET THIS GOD-DAMNED THING OUT OF ME!"
50%%* 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: %%Example needs context to make sense on its own.
51%%-->'''Ambulance Staff''': Are you hurting?
52%%-->'''Francis Bigger''': Oh no! Just something to while away the journey; that's all.
53* In ''Film/AllThatJazz'', 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.
54%%* Stephen Strange is brought into his own hospital this way after his car accident in ''Film/{{Doctor Strange|2016}}''. %%Example needs context to make sense on its own.
55%%* ''Film/GhostInTheShell2017'' immediately starts off with this, before moving into "Making of a Cyborg" scene and opening credits %%Example needs context to make sense on its own.
56%%* ''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. %%Example needs context to make sense on its own.
57%%* 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. %%Example needs context to make sense on its own.
58* ''Film/JojoRabbit'': After the grenade incident, we get a series of [[POVShot POV Shots]] from Jojo's perspective including his ride in a gurney across a hospital floor with Imaginary Hitler giving him a Thumbs Up.
59* Played realistically in ''Film/TheDeadCenter''. There is no dramatic, crowded rush to get John Doe treated. He's wheeled out to his room by one nurse down a quiet hallway, who asks for help from the attending nurse to help him safely transfer John's body from the gurney to the bed. The attending nurse even mutters how much John weighs. If you've ever worked in, stayed in, or visited someone in a hospital, you know how common this setting is.
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62%%[[folder:Literature]]
63%%* Happens to Linda Royce in ''Literature/CherryAmes: Student Nurse'' by Helen Wells. %%Example needs context to make sense on its own.
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67%%* 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). %%Example needs context to make sense on its own.
68* Parodied in ''Series/ThirdRockFromTheSun''. The aliens impersonate doctors, following patients being escorted in gurneys and saying random medical jargon, and switch to a different gurney during the scene.
69* ''Series/SaturdayNightLive'' has a team of medical personnel rushing a gurney down the hall of a hospital, going through door after door after door. . .
70%%* ''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. %%Example needs context to make sense on its own.
71%%* ''Series/BrothersAndSisters'':
72%%** When Rob has his heart attack. %%Example needs context to make sense on its own.
73%%** In season one, when Justin overdoses. %%Example needs context to make sense on its own.
74%%* Frequently happens in ''Series/TheBill.'' %%Example needs context to make sense on its own.
75%%* Used in the ''Series/{{Firefly}}'' episode Ariel. %%Example needs context to make sense on its own.
76%%** 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. %%Example needs context to make sense on its own.
77* In the ''Series/{{Farscape}}'' episode "Prayer", 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.
78%%* 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... %%Example needs context to make sense on its own.
79* 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'' causing him to scream in pain. Ross yells at them for the insensitivity as they'd ''just said'' where Chandler's injury was and should have known better.
80%%* 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]]. %%Example needs context to make sense on its own.
81* ''Series/TheWestWing'': President Bartlet and Josh Lyman are injured when White Supremacists shoot at the Presidential entourage and are brought into the hospital this way. Bartlet arrives first, and as his injuries are fairly mild he's able to crack jokes as he's wheeled into surgery. Josh's injuries are more severe and his arrival at the hospital is more dramatic as the doctors frantically try to establish the extent of the damage. The rest of the senior staff trail behind his gurney, desperate to know if he's going to be okay.
82%%* Done in ''Series/{{Castle|2009}}'' at the start of Rise, though Beckett is out. %%Example needs context to make sense on its own.
83* In an episode of ''Series/BabylonFive'', [[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).
84* In ''Series/TheWrongMans'', 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.
85%%* Happens in ''Series/BreakingBad'' after Hank gets shot. %%Example needs context to make sense on its own.
86%%* 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 they have insurance. This works well if you can shop around for something that fits your needs and budget, but (as Adam puts it): %%Example needs context to make sense on its own.
87%%--> '''Adam''': You can't comparison-shop if you're ''dying''!
88* ''Series/{{Phoenix}}''. The policewoman who gets caught in the bomb blast is still alive despite major burns; there's a DutchAngle shot of the hospital staff (along with her distraught partner) rushing her down a hospital corridor.
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92* ''Theatre/CityOfAngels'' opens with a scene of a possibly mortally wounded Stone being wheeled into the hospital on a gurney ("Private dick. No great loss if he don't [live]," one of the orderlies remarks), then immediately flashing back to show HowWeGotHere. This is one of the scenes [[ExecutiveMeddling Buddy Fidler wants to cut]].
93* ''Theatre/MenInWhite'': 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.
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97* ''Franchise/SilentHill'':
98** Brookhaven Mental Hospital's transition into the town's hellish DarkWorld in ''VideoGame/SilentHill2'' is signified by a first-person sequence of James being swept off his feet and wheeled through a rusty, decaying corridor on a gurney.
99** There's a music video that uses environments from ''VideoGame/SilentHill4'' and features Henry being wheeled down a long corridor.
100%%** It's a part of the opening of ''VideoGame/SilentHillHomecoming'', almost certainly homage to the one in the above-mentioned ''Jacob's Ladder''. %%Example needs context to make sense on its own.
101%%* Used straight at the beginning of ''VideoGame/SecondSight''. %%Example needs context to make sense on its own.
102* In the intro of ''VideoGame/PhantasmagoriaAPuzzleOfFlesh'', Curtis Craig is strapped to a gurney in an [[BedlamHouse insane asylum]], to be brought in for [[ElectricTorture electric shock therapy]].
103* In ''VideoGame/MassEffect3'', when the ''Normandy'' first arrives on the Citadel, [[spoiler:Ashley/Kaidan]] gets rushed to the ER after being critically injured at the climax of the Mars mission.
104%%* 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) %%Example needs context to make sense on its own.
105%%* Played for Laughs in a ''VideoGame/RaymanRavingRabbids'' 2 minigame. %%Example needs context to make sense on its own.
106%%* 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. %%Example needs context to make sense on its own.
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110* ''WesternAnimation/{{Beetlejuice}}'': In "Generally Hysterical Hospital," Lydia injures her foot so Beetlejuice takes her to a Neitherworld hospital where she spends most of the episode on a gurney. B.J. is rushing Lydia to and fro trying to keep specialists from removing her soul from her body.
111* WesternAnimation/TheHairBearBunch, in surgical gear, carry a tree on a gurney trying get past Mr. Peevly at the entrance of the zoo in the episode "Ark Lark." As they try to wheel the tree out, a branch rips off Hair's surgical scrubs.
112* In the WesternAnimation/RogerRabbitShort "Tummy Trouble", Roger is wheeled down a ridiculously long hallway to the operating room.
113%%* The ''WesternAnimation/SpongeBobSquarePants'' episode "Born Again Krabs" has one after a subversion of the AmbulanceCut. %%Example needs context to make sense on its own.
114* The ''WesternAnimation/KimPossible'' TrappedInTVLand episode "Dimension Twist" has Kim and Shego suddenly find themselves pushing a gurney with Rufus as the "patient".
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