Greg Pratt quotes from E.R.

[discussing their previous arrest] I don't get how you can roll over like that?

Pratt

That's the way it works sometimes.

Yeah. If you let it.

Pratt

What are you going to do, file a lawsuit?

That's one way to fight it.

Pratt

There is no fighting it.

You know, I don't buy that.

Pratt

Look, we could be perfect, you know, like Gandhi. But as soon as the crap goes down, we'll be the first ones laid out in the street with a gun to our head. Now, where I grew up, you see it every day. And if it happens to you enough, you get the message. You are not equal. You are not a full citizen. You are first, last, and above all, one thing and one thing only: a suspect.

Pratt

So uh, this must be a really scary part for you, huh?

What?

Pratt

Well, all the white folks left. Now it's just you, and couple of niggas with knives.

Romano

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

Pratt

Good, I love the nightlife.

Chen

Congratulations, Greg. You survived the County experience.

Pratt

Oh no, not just survived. I whooped its ass.

Neela

What's a TWA?

Pratt

What?

Neela

What's a TWA?

Pratt

Where did you hear that?

Neela

The old guy at the desk with the flat head called me a TWA. I don't know what it means.

Pratt

[shaking his head] Third world assassin, TWA.

Jerry

Pratt, Hampton called from GI. She's not going to see the quarter kid until morning, but she plans on seeing Romano first.

Pratt

Is that all she said?

Jerry

No, actually, she said you're an asshole, too. Night.

I like your style, man.

Pratt

Oh, yeah? Well, get your own.

Pratt

She was my patient!

Luka

Yes, and if I hadn't treated her, she would still be here. Now she's at home and feeling better.

Pratt

So that's it. This is how I'm supposed to learn? Either I do it your way, or you take it away from me?

Luka

Pratt, I'm trying to teach you that the way you practice medicine here is inefficient.

Pratt

Oh, and letting babies die is?

Luka

You really think you saved that kid today? For what? 24-hours nursing care? He's probably gonna require a lifetime commitment. Are you gonna be around to give it to him?

Pratt

Listen, I'm sorry I'm not in some mud-hut doing amputations with a pocket knife. We have the technology and expertise to give that kid a chance! What's the sense in having it, if we don't use it?

Luka

That kid has about a 5% chance of having a normal life! You have any idea how many other kids we could have treated with those resources?

Pratt

I do everything I can for my patients! That's how I practice medicine. This is Chicago, not the damned Congo. Maybe you should just go back to Africa.

Luka

Maybe you should go to Africa.

Pratt

I know you didn't just say that to me.

Luka

Maybe then you'd learn that there's more to being a doctor than ordering tests and calling consults for every patient just to cover your ass.

Pratt

Stay away from my patients. From now on, I present to another attending.

Pratt

[to Abby and Neela] When'd you start your rotation?

Abby

Five minutes ago.

Pratt

Well, the NICU's great! Intubations, chest-tubes, umbilical-lines. You get to do all sorts of teeny-tiny kick ass procedures.

Card is waiting and Raab is pissed. Wanna give him a pneumo?

Good luck you two!

Pratt

Yeah, you gonna love it! [To Sam] Let's get out of here.

I hate the NICU.

Pratt

Those guys are screwed.

Abby

What are we gonna throw all our TB patients in jail?

Greg Pratt

No, just this one in particular.

Abby

If this is the way we treat people with TB, they're gonna stop coming to this hospital.

Pratt

Abby, it's not like they all go clubbing together.

Pratt

We had to open up your chest to bypass the blockage. So, no more nachos. No more peirogis.

Frank

I'm in hell, right? You killed me. You and your faithful Indian companion.

Kerry

[after a female patient has complained about Pratt's breast exam] Did you T.U.B E. her, Pratt?

Pratt

What?

Kerry

That's what you call it, isn't it, when you wanna feel up a good-looking patient?

Neela

Have I done something wrong?

Pratt

You tell me. Gallant's in a war zone and you're playing Madame Curie.

Neela

I never asked Michael to cover for me and I feel terrible.

Pratt

Oh, yeah? I think he feels worse.

Neela

Look, I don't think it's right for you to hold me responsible.

Pratt

Look, my friend took a hit and he's gone, but you're running around doing everything under the sun except ER medicine. Now, if that's how it's gonna be, then fine, but hurry up and decide. You're taking up space.

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.

[about Pratt's new car in the ambulance bay] Hey! Get that beast outta here. This is a hospital, man!

Pratt

Yeah, which is convenient for you 'cause if you ding this baby, you die.