Strange's tragic car accident/Medicine and Mania/The end of the doctor's career

Here is how Strange had a tragic car accident in Mickey Mouse and Doctor Strange.

That night, Strange was getting ready for his big meeting as Mickey and his friends watched him.

Mickey Mouse:

Dr. Steven Strange:

Dr. Stephen Strange: [Driving in the rain] Billy! What have you got for me? Billy: I’ve got a 35-year-old Air Force colonel. Crushed his lower spine in some kind of experimental armor. Mid-thoracic vertebral fracture. Dr. Stephen Strange: Well, I could help, but so can 50 other people. Find me something worth my time. Billy: I have a 68-year-old female with an advanced brain stem glioma. Dr. Stephen Strange: Yeah, you want me to screw up my perfect record? Definitely not. Billy: How about a 22-year-old female with an electronic implant in her brain to control schizophrenia struck by lightning? Dr. Stephen Strange: That does sound interesting. Could you send me the… got it. Hey. [Car crashes, Stephen blacks out] Christine Palmer: [Stephen wakes up in a hospital bed and see his hands in traction. Christine is next to his bed.] It’s okay. It’s going to be okay. Dr. Stephen Strange: What did they do? Christine Palmer: They rushed you in a chopper. But it took a little while to find you. Golden hours for nerve damage went by while you were in the car. Dr. Stephen Strange: What did they do?!? Christine Palmer: 11 stainless steel pins in the bones. Multiple torn ligaments. Severe nerve damage in both hands. You were on the table for 11 hours. Dr. Stephen Strange: Look at these fixators. Christine Palmer: No one could have done better. Dr. Stephen Strange: I could have done better. No. No. Give your body time to heal. Dr. Stephen Strange: You ruined me. How long until I’m…

Dr. Strange… those tissues are still healing. Dr. Stephen Strange: So speed it up. Pass the stent under the brachial artery under the radial artery.

It’s possible. Experimental and expensive, but possible. Dr. Stephen Strange: All I need is possible.

Up. Up. Show me your strength. Ah! It’s useless. - It’s not useless, man, you can do this. Then answer me this, bachelor’s degree. Have you ever known anyone with nerve damage this severe to do this, and actually recover? One guy, yeah. Factory accident, broke his back. Paralyzed. His leg wasted away. He had pain in his shoulder from the wheelchair. He came in 3 times a week. But one day he stopped coming. I thought he was dead. A few years later, he walked past me on the street. He walked? - Yeah, he walked. - Bullshit. Show me his file. It can take me a while to pull the files from the archive. But if it proves your arrogant ass wrong, it’s worth it. I looked at all your research. I read all the papers you’ve sent, but… none will work. I… I don’t think you realize how severe the damage is, I… Look, here’s the thing, I… - At best, I’d try and fail. Look, I understand. Here’s the thing. I… What you want from me is impossible, Stephen. - Come on… I’ve got my own reputation to consider. - Etienne, wait. I can’t help you… - No. No, no, wait! Hi. He won’t do it. He’s a hack. There’s a new procedure in Tokyo. They culture donor stem cells and then harvest them and 3D-print a scaffold. If I could get a loan together, just… Stephen… - A small loan, 200,000. Stephen. You’ve always spent money as fast as you could make it but now you’re spending money you don’t even have. Maybe it’s time to consider stopping. Dr. Stephen Strange: No. Now is exactly the time not to stop. Because, you see, I’m not getting any better!

But this isn’t medicine anymore. This is mania. Some things just can’t be fixed. Life without my work… - Is still life. This isn’t the end. There are other things that can give your life meaning. Like what? Like you? And this is the part where you apologize. This is the part where you leave. Fine. I can’t watch you do this to yourself anymore. slob on my knob Too difficult for you, is it? - Yes. It is. And it breaks my heart to see you this way. - No. Don’t pity me. I’m not pitying you. - Oh yeah? Then what are you doing here? Bringing cheese and wine as if we’re old friends going for a picnic? We are not friends, Christine. We were barely lovers. You just love a sob story, don’t you? Is that what I am to you now? Poor Stephen Strange, charity case. He finally needs me. Another dreg of humanity for you to work on. Fix him up and send him back into the world, heart is just humming… You care so much! Don’t you?!? Goodbye, Stephen.