1 {scene: Hospital waiting room}
1 Doctor: You're here for Will Shakespeare? I'm afraid you can't see him at the moment. He's been critically injured. He's in surgery right now.
2 Marlowe: {striding into the room} Out of the way, one of my staff is in here!
2 Mercutio: Mr Marlowe!
3 Marlowe: Mercutio. So Shakespeare's gone and got himself hit by a car? How's the slacker doing?
4 Doctor: No need to add insult to injury, sir.

Thankfully I've never had to wait in a hospital for news of someone.

I've had to wait in a hospital for treatment though. That was bad enough.

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2018-07-27 Rerun commentary: It's interesting that the reading material on the coffee table in the hospital waiting room has a test tube on the spine. Presumably it's some textbook about diagnosis and pathology of horrible life-threatening diseases.

Perfect for the context.

In one sense.