A red felt boxing glove stands beneath a blank speech-bubble-shaped paper flag.

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Radar

Listen, buddy, we're a hospital! How would you like it if we fired patients at you? As You Were

— M*A*S*H · 1972

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What it means

Our interpretation.

Radar objects to a hospital being treated as a target by imagining patients being fired back. The absurd reversal makes the complaint, not a proposal to use patients as weapons. The final line retains the episode note.

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