Answer:
The doctor lets the boys to visit him, but he tells them, “It can’t hurt now.” He says this to imply Johnny will not heal and will die. Ponyboy is more sensitive than Two-Bit and understands what this means.
The doctor tells the nurse to let Pony & Two-Bit "...go in... It can't hurt now". This is foreshadowing the real possibility that Johnny may die.
This means that the doctor knew he was dying so it wouldn't hurt anything if he saw his friends for the last time. It would be better to make him feel better. "We needed Johnny as much as he needed the gang.
He would kill the next person who jumped him. Nobody was ever going to beat him like that again. Not over his dead body...”. This moment of clear foreshadowing lays out Johnny's trajectory from victim to the defender and then ultimately to martyr.
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