Harold Ramis credited as playing...
Dr. Bettes
- Dr. Martin Bettes: [looking over Spencer's medical records] Have they done blood tests on him?
- Carol Connelly: [laughs bitterly] Yeah.
- Dr. Martin Bettes: Only in the emergency room or when he was well?
- Carol Connelly: Emergency room only.
- Dr. Martin Bettes: Okay. And how about skin testing for allergies?
- Carol Connelly: No.
- Dr. Martin Bettes: [looks up] No standard scratch test, they poke him with a needle...?
- Carol Connelly: No. I asked, they said my plan didn't cover it and that it wasn't necessary anyways. Why, should they have?
- Dr. Martin Bettes: Well...
- [pause]
- Carol Connelly: Fucking HMO bastard pieces of shit!
- Beverly Connelly: Carol!
- Carol Connelly: [smiles sheepishly] I'm sorry.
- Dr. Martin Bettes: It's okay. Actually, I think that's their technical name.
- Dr. Martin Bettes: My wife is Melvin Udall's publisher. She said that I was to take excellent care of this little guy because you are urgently needed back at work. What kind of work do you do?
- Carol Connelly: I'm a waitress.
- Beverly Connelly: In Manhattan.