Robert Romano quotes from E.R.

Kerry

Doctors are human. We make mistakes.

Romano

If this guy had been properly diagnosed and sent straight to the OR without TNK he'd still be flipping burgers at McDonald's.

Kerry

Marfan's is difficult to detect. The residents have never heard of it.

Romano

Which is why we have attendings.

Kerry

I can't be everywhere at every moment.

Romano

Wrong answer. As we speak, "The Trib" is writing a feature story on this screw-up and the rise in preventable deaths. So you either come up with a better excuse than "doctors are human" or find yourself a good old-fashioned scapegoat.

Kerry

You scheduled meetings with my Residents without telling me?

Romano

I'm sorry. Did you not get the memo?

Kerry

What memo?

Romano

The one that says I run the place.

Romano

Dr. Weaver, glad I caught you. [to Gallant] You can go away now.

Romano

I was going to have you paged, but I couldn't be sure you'd be wearing your pager.

Kerry

Robert, you're not going to be intimidated by these baseless accusations?

Romano

Oh, they have someone on record, Kerry.

Kerry

About what?

Romano

Some waitress at that dump across the street said that you were in there looking for your pager the night Chen and Malucci killed that guy. It's an important detail, don't you think?

Kerry

Robert...

Romano

I don't need to hear it, Kerry. No explanation, no spin. Just fix it.

Kerry

Fix what?

Romano

All she wants is an attending position with standard pay scale and a personal apology from you.

Kerry

No, I... I can't do that.

Romano

Well, there's a first time for everything.

Kerry

I wouldn't have any kind of authority over her.

Romano

We've settled with this dead kid's family. I am not going to open it back up again because you have a management problem created by your own negligence and deceit. She's not interested in taking down you or the hospital. All she wants is her job back. Give it to her today. And super-glue that pager to your forehead if you have to.

|Romano

What's wrong, is Prince Harry in rehab again?

Elizabeth

Mark's tumor's back. [pause, Romano looks more sympathetic]

Romano

We always knew it was a possibility.

Elizabeth

He's known about it for weeks, and he didn't tell me.

Romano

Maybe he was trying to protect you.

Romano

Is he your husband?

Elizabeth

Yes.

Romano

Do you love him?

Elizabeth

Yes.

Elizabeth

Robert.

Romano

Not now, Lizzie. I am not having a good day. I got spanked in the stock market, some moron from Radiology backed into my Jag and I just spent several hours putting that ER victim back together.

Elizabeth

I need some time off.

Romano

And I need a month in the south of France with Vietnamese twins. It's not gonna happen.

Elizabeth

It's Mark. He's sick.

Romano

I thought he was in Tahiti.

Elizabeth

Hawaii. He's got worse. I don't think he's going to be able to fly home.

Romano

You better go to him.

Elizabeth

I don't know how long I'll be.

Romano

I'll survive.

Elizabeth

Thanks.

Romano

Anything I can do?

Elizabeth

Pray.

Romano

It's not exactly my strong suit, but in this case, I'll make an exception.

Romano

Lizzie. You're one face I missed seeing in recovery.

Elizabeth

I'm so sorry, Robert.

Romano

About my arm? Or about not being there?

Elizabeth

I lost my wedding ring!

Romano

Oh, boo-hoo, this guy's about to lose a leg! I'd say chop chop, but that would be in extremely poor taste!

Romano

[after he talks to a patient's mother] What are you doing? Holding your own private M & M with the kid's mother.

Luka

She wanted to know how her son died.

Romano

One word: peacefully. And leave it at that.

Luka

She deserves to know.

Dr. Romano

What? What, the truth? The truth is you killed her son. You want to tell her that?

Romano

Okay, cowboy, I've got a vascular surgeon, an anesthesiologist, and three surgical residents waiting upstairs in an OR suite that rents for five grand an hour.

Luka

He wants to stay with his wife.

Romano

Well, isn't that touching.

Luka

She's dying.

Romano

Yeah, well, if doesn't die faster, he's going to be dying with her.

Luka

I've explained all that.

Romano

I'm going upstairs. If he's not up there in five minutes, I'm going take out your spleen.

Kerry

Not everyone's an opportunistic ass like you.

Romano

Uh... So I've been told.

Romano

Listen, okay Goofus? I'm the doctor, you're not....

You know what? It seems to me that if your intention is to....

Romano

My intention is to serve out my time in this hell hole without having affirmative action imbeciles like you make me regret having ever gone into medicine.

Romano

They're letting any bottom feeder with a check into med school these days?

Carter

Actually, Gallant is one of our best med students.

Romano

Well, that doesn't bode well for the future of emergency medicine. But maybe by the time he gets his license, we'll all be dead.

Romano

[to Pratt] Congratulations, smart-ass. You just bought yourself a month of midnights.

Pratt

Good, I love the nightlife.

Carter

What are you doing?

Romano

What does it look like?

Carter

A lawsuit.