Dorothy Granger
Grunt: "You gotta give the actress credit for that scene. It takes skill to do that kind of physical humor."
I believe that patient is "Miss Peppitone," played by Dorothy Granger. (iMDB bio)
"A Texas beauty contest winner, at the age of thirteen, Dorothy's career ran from a long-running two-reeler series, as the wife of Leon Errol for RKO to the long-running television series Death Valley Days with Ronald Reagan…."