**[RECEPTIONIST]** Number thirty-four... Who's number thirty-four? No? Excellent... We'll all pretend I never called. --- **[ENSEMBLE]** Waiting... Waiting... Waiting to be seen... --- **[PATIENT ONE]** I've brought a list of seventeen Conditions I've diagnosed online. --- **[PATIENT TWO]** I only came for new spectacles... I've somehow lost my place in line. --- **[JUNIOR DOCTOR]** Clinic's running twenty minutes late. No... Forty. Maybe sixty-three... --- **[NURSE]** Don't panic. Smile. Keep walking. Nobody can smell uncertainty. --- **[CHORUS – ALL]** Waiting to be seen... Waiting patiently... Well... Mostly patiently! Waiting to be seen... Time moves differently... When you're watching Clinic Number Three! --- **[PATIENT ONE]** I think it's something tropical. --- **[PATIENT TWO]** You need to stop reading websites. --- **[PATIENT ONE]** But they had diagrams... --- **[PATIENT TWO]** So do IKEA. --- **[ENSEMBLE]** (Laughter) --- **[JUNIOR DOCTOR]** Professor... Could I ask a question? --- **[CONSULTANT]** Only one? Today's improving already. --- **[JUNIOR DOCTOR]** This OCT... This field... This scan... This pressure... --- **[CONSULTANT]** Did you speak... to the patient? --- *(Silence.)* --- **[ENSEMBLE]** Ooooooh... --- **[NURSE]** Tea solves almost everything. --- **[RECEPTIONIST]** Except the computer. --- **[CHORUS]** Waiting to be seen... Everybody's got a story... Waiting to be seen... Every ending starts before it... Some are nervous... Some are brave... Some complain... Some simply wave... Everybody's waiting To be seen. --- **[PATIENT THREE]** I'm frightened. --- **[PATIENT FOUR]** So am I. --- *(The room softens.)* --- **[CONSULTANT]** Let's begin there. --- *(Music changes.)* --- Every chart becomes a person. Every scan becomes a face. Every minute that we listen Makes this a kinder place. --- **[FULL COMPANY]** Waiting to be seen... Maybe that's what matters... Not the clock... Not the queue... But someone finally seeing... You. --- *(Big orchestral finish.)*
