Neela Rasgotra quotes from E.R.

You know, earlier, in the ambulance bay, I was thinking of asking you out.

Neela

And I was thinking of saying yes.

Neela

You didn't tell me how your meeting went.

It's gonna be fine.

Neela

Look. I'm sorry I've been... I don't know, bitchy about this whole thing. It's just not comfortable for me. Lying and having someone else cover my mistakes. It just keeps compounding, one on top of the other.

I'm being deployed to Iraq. I'm heading for Texas tomorrow morning.

Neela

You haven't finished your residency.

Yeah, I know. I'm gonna finish up the last few electives down there.

Neela

They called you up, just like that?

Yeah.

Neela

You're a coward.

What, what?

Neela

Coward and a liar! I never asked you to do this for me, but you did! And now you're leaving, and I'm supposed to live with the fact that I killed a man, and that you helped and lied for me to cover it up.

Listen, Neela.

Neela

No, Michael. Go to bloody Iraq. And tell yourself you've done something noble.

I had to protect you and Dr. Carter.

Neela

No...you didn't.

Chen

You're not a good doctor until you've killed someone.

Neela

[under her breath] Spoken like someone who hasn't.

Neela

[as he leaves for Iraq] You'd better come back. You know that, don't you?

Yeah, I will. You just better be a damned good doctor when I do.

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

[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.

Neela

[while examining Pratt] Keep your mouth open so I can check the pharynx.

Pratt

Thought you weren't supposed to be doing anything.

Neela

You're a resident; no one's going to care if I kill you. Open.

So you placed very high on your placement test, but you haven't got a lot of experience in any other service industry. No retail, no sales. Secretarial?

Neela

No.

Uh... Bookkeeping?

Neela

Not really.

Horticulture?

Mechanics?

Electrical?.....Perhaps we'd have better luck if you told us what sort of things you can do.

Neela

Well, let's see: I can crack open your chest, reinflate your lung and squeeze your heart back to life.

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.

Neela

Why did you abandon that kid?!

Ray Barnett

My shift was over.

Neela

He was counting on you!

Ray Barnett

I had a gig!

Neela

Screw your gig! Medicine isn't a day job!

Ray Barnett

This coming from someone who was making hot dogs three months ago.

Neela

I was off at 7, Abby was off at 7, but we were still there taking care of our patients.

Ray Barnett

Know what? We would never leave the hospital if we stuck around tucking in every patient.

Neela

I'm not talking about every patient. I'm talking about one kid. He trusted you with the most important decision of his life, and you left.

Susan

I need to talk to you later about your patient satisfaction scores.

Neela

Is there a problem?

Susan

Yeah, they suck.

Abby

You slept with your instructor?

Dr. Gibson had a very tender way with cadavers.

Abby

And you called him "Dr. Gibson"?

Neela

Only in bed.