Doug Ross quotes from E.R.

Carol

After my father was gone, my mom used to go on and on about how you can never depend on men. Now she's head over heels and I'm the one holding back. How messed up is that?

Doug

It keeps me on my toes.

Carol

I say I want time, but the truth is I'm scared to death of losing you.

Doug

Well, don't be.

Carol

I'm so sorry, Doug.

Doug

Don't be.

Carol

I love you.

Doug

I love you, too.

Kerry

[as the baby is coding from a ketamine drip, after discovering Ross and Hathaway working on him] What's going on?

Mark

I found Doug in exam four detoxing this baby.

Kerry

[Furious] What?

Mark

I found him by accident.

Kerry

Carol, did you know about this?

Carol

I was helping him.

Kerry

Helping him?

Carol

The baby was stable...

Kerry

Yeah, this is a violation of every ER policy. Tell them I'll bring him up, set-up with basic too.

Doug

[as they're bringing the baby to the elevator] I'm going up with it too.

Kerry

Yeah, you're damn right. You're going, you're gonna explain this to the hospital administration and the executive committee. Let's go!

Mark

You lied to me, Doug. You looked me right in the eye and lied to me.

Doug

I don't care about your rules.

Kerry

I hope you also don't care about being an ER Pediatric Attending because you've just given up any chance of that.

Jeanie

You need some help.

Doug

Okay. Take rashes.

Jeanie

I was thinking something more permanent.

Doug

Allergies?

Carol

Mark time to get up.

Mark

I'll be right there...

Carol

Mark let's go it's 7:00.

Mark

I'm up, I'm up.

Doug

Hey Mark I don't want to have to throw cold water on you.

Mark

Oh, Doug is that you?

Doug

Hey, you about ready?

Mark

About deaf. That wasn't really necessary Doug.

Doug

Well, I know, but I do it to Carol every morning.

Mark

Coroner's coming over to get the body and do an autopsy. Roger Julian's coming from genetics. He's hopping mad, says Ricky was on his service. Wants to know where the hell the mother got Dilaudid and a PCA machine.

Doug

The boy was dying.

Mark

You promised Kerry and I you wouldn't prescribe any more.

Doug

He was in excruciating pain.

Mark

You promised us yesterday!

Doug

The mother was begging me.

Mark

Where the hell did you get the machine? Genetics didn't prescribe it. I know we didn't.

Doug

I got it from Carol's clinic.

Mark

Come here. [Pulling Ross aside] Carol's clinic doesn't have PCA's.

Doug

She called in a favor. Got it from one of her suppliers.

Mark

The police are on their way to Joi Abbott's house right now. They have a warrant to impound the PCA. Are they going to find anything out of the ordinary?

Doug

Like what?

Mark

Like the machine set to administer enough Dilaudid to kill ten grown men?

Doug

I don't know.

Mark

What do you mean you don't know? You set it.

Doug

This boy was suffering, Mark. He had end-stage ALD. In agony. The mother was watching this child die.

Mark

Did you help him along?

Doug

I gave the mother the entry code. I showed her how to change the dosage. Now, I don't know what she did afterwards. I went to work. And you would have done the exact same thing if you were there.

Kerry

[Interjecting with Greene and Ross] Anspaugh's coming down with Romano and Julian.

Mark

Doug prescribed the PCA machine and the Dilaudid through Carol's clinic.

Kerry

What? When?

Mark

Right after he told us he wouldn't.

Kerry

Uh! We're going to have to tell Anspaugh about Doug violating the pain study protocol and our covering it up. I mean they're going to scrutinize everything he's prescribed, Mark. They're going to interview the mother, it's bound to come out. [to Ross] What the hell's wrong with you? I mean, we trusted you and you immediately chose to betray the trust. I'm done defending you, Doug.

Doug

Defending me? You've been trying to nail me for years.

Kerry

I don't nail colleagues. You want to destroy your own career? That's fine. But you stay the hell away from mine.

Doug

It's a pedes case.

Kerry

You are off this station! You are not working in this hospital! Not tonight! Now sit down and let Carol look at your head!