Abby Lockhart quotes from E.R.

Abby

How's Kem? She must be getting big.

Carter

Very.

Abby

You should see Susan.

Carter

How's she doing?

Abby

Well, you know how some mothers talk to their unborn children? Susan threatened to pull hers out with her bare hands if it didn't hurry up.

Luka

How's the Psych rotation?

Abby

Kind of scary.

Luka

The patients?

Abby

No, me. I like it.

Abby

Jordan, I know this is difficult, but you just have to try very hard. You have to...

I told you I am trying. You keep pushing. I don't know what you want from me.

Abby

Well, okay. At some level, we're all the same. We all have things we hide, things we keep buried.

Like what? What do you keep buried?

Abby

This is not about me.

You want me to tell you things, to trust you, but you don't have to say anything? Is that fair? Don't you trust me?

Abby

OK. I can't follow through.

On what?

Abby

On anything. Once something gets in my way, it's like a chemical reaction. I just shut down, and I give up. I'm just looking for an excuse to stop, because in the end it's easier to do that than to risk being hurt and disappointed again.

You mean with men?

Abby

Men, my career, my family... pick your poison.

The perception of a psychiatrist, bedside manner of an ER doc and the empathetic eyes of an overworked nurse.

Abby

Oh, yeah, I'm the whole package. All I have to do is actually pass my boards.

Neela

[about their med school graduation] Abby, any family jetting in?

Abby

No, we're not that close. We're more like survivors of a particularly brutal carjacking than a family.

Neela

I can't believe we are actually graduating tomorrow.

Pratt

Neither can your future patients. Today, ill prepared students. Tomorrow, baby doctors with the fate of countless helpless victims in your incapable hands.

Yeah, they ought to make 'em wear "Caution" signs.

Pratt

Yeah. "Danger, New Doc" in big red letters on your lab coats.

Abby

Thanks for the pep-talk, Greg.

Pratt

Always happy to lend encouragement to the newbies.

Neela

Jerk.

Bastard.

Abby

Putz.

Um, are you a doctor?

Neela

No, but-

Elizabeth

Yes actually, she's just not on duty now.

[holds out his injured hand] Oh- well, I got my hand slammed in a car door, and I'm supposed to get another dose of morphine-

Abby

Yeah, if you just wait over there I'll take care of that for you in a minute.

Ok. [he walks away]

Elizabeth

[to Neela] You need to start referring to yourself properly; you'll never gain the confidence of your patients otherwise.

Neela

Doesn't feel quite earned yet.

Elizabeth

Fake it 'til it does.

Young lady- will you be my nurse tomorrow?

Abby

...No, I won't. But I will be around. [smiles] Just ask for Dr. Lockhart.

Can I get something to eat?

Abby

I'll order you a tray.

I've been here almost 18 hours.

Abby

I'm aware of that. You've held up a bed, woken up two judges in the middle of the night and now the head of the public health department is coming here to do your exam.

Really?

Abby

Really. He's driving all the way in here from Lake Forest just for you. And he's real happy about it too. He says he hasn't actually done a pelvic in about 10 years, but he's willing to "give it a shot". So... you can either wait here for another hour for the old guy to get here and give you what I'm sure will be a remarkably painless and gentle exam or you can let me do it right now.

You left me alone in there.

Luka

We had two traumas.

Abby

Yeah. And last week, I had to get approval for everything I do and now all of a sudden, I'm supposed to run a code by myself!

Luka

Welcome to internship.

Abby

[after discovering that Neela got a job at the Jumbo Mart] When you said you were looking for a job, I thought you meant at another hospital or a clinic maybe.

Neela

I didn't have much luck.

Abby

You only looked for one day.

Neela

This is the only job I can get because I'm a loser.

Abby

You are not a loser.

Ray Barnett

At least you're close to the hospital.

Susan

[at the Jumbo Mart] One large coffee and a first-year resident, please.

Neela

Sorry?

Abby

Howard quit.

Neela

He did?

Susan

Yeah, are you interested?

Abby

Well, Neela's going through this delayed adolescent rebellion slash premature midlife crisis thing right now.

Susan

Look, I've called the NRMP, I have scraped the bottom of the barrel, I have seen or spoken with more freaks that Dr. Phil. I am desperate, no offense, for anyone even remotely competent and/or sane.

Neela

I don't know, I mean, I'm-I'm working now so...

Susan

Yeah, you're right. You just keep ringing up those pork rinds and making Icees.

Lucien Dubenko

Jet-skis account for only 20% of boats but are involved in 44% of injuries. Know why that is, Dr. Lockhart?

Abby

No.

Lucien Dubenko

"No" is right -- no throttle, no steering, no way to stop.

Abby

Have you ever done this before?

Lucien Dubenko

No one gets in trouble for acting in the best interests of their patient.

Abby

Yeah, tell that to Dr. Corday.

Where's Lockhart?

Abby

Dr. McPherson?

I didn't authorize dialysis for Sanders and you started it without my approval! I wanna speak to your Attending. [looks to see Carter off to the side]

Abby

Your patient was drowning; he needed emergency dialysis. You're an Attending on-call, I covered your ass.

You can't just deceive Attendings when you don't agree with them!

Abby

Well, if you report me for working the system, I'll report you for abandoning your patient.

Ray Barnett

Go, Abby.