Peter Benton quotes from E.R.

Benton

[after using the fire extinguisher on a psych patient] When you're finished making new friends, Dr. Freud Sparky there will need an eyewash and a shower.

Benton

Look, Carter, you were my assigned med student. I was your assigned resident. You don't owe me anything, okay?

Benton

[to Dr. Hicks] Six months ago I thought I was invincible, but now... I don't even know.

Benton

This week, fentanyl, next week, you end up dead or worse, you end up like your cousin - some babbling gawk in a nurs-- [WHACK! Carter punches Benton, though the latter shakes it off] Carter, you wanna fight, that's cool, man, but either way you're getting your ass in that van.

Benton

[to Cleo] Look, I know you might not want to hear this right now; I know it's been rough, with everything…between us…I'm not easy, I haven't been here for you, not the way you've been here for me. I've never worked at being with someone, I've never even wanted to, but I want to, with you. I love you.

Benton

There are two things in the world that I'm sure of: my love for my son and my abilities as a surgeon. I'm a father, and a doctor. By the end of the day, that's enough for me.

Benton

Do you know how to start an IV?

Carter

Uh, actually, no.

Benton

I thought you were third year.

Carter

I am, but all I've done is dermatology and psychiatry.

Benton

The well-dressed specialties, huh?

Benton

(having first spotted Carter) Oh, no! Would you look at this?

Mark

That's the first tailored white coat I've ever seen.

Benton

Isn't he lovely?

Susan

Lovely.

Mark

Do you think he knows anything?

Ross

He knows how to dress.

Benton

[showing Carter around the ER] This is Dr. Morgenstern. He's the head of ER. Watch out. He eats students for lunch.

[shaking hands with Carter] David Morgenstern.

Carter

John Carter.

[to Benton] Uh, when did that severed hand go up?

Benton

Vascular took it up an hour ago. I just hope they can do it right.

[turning to Carter] Dr. Benton is one of the best residents we have. You learn everything you can from him, except attitude.

Benton

He didn't mean that.

[offscreen] Yes, he did.

Carol

[as she enters the lounge and all the doctors stare at her] Is something wrong?

Benton

Oh, you bet there is. We're out of coffee again because the nurses have been taking it, that's what's wrong.

Carol

So, make some more.

Benton

Make some more? We work 36 hours on, 18 off, which is 90 hours a week, 52 weeks a year. For that, we are paid $23,739 before taxes, and we also have to make the coffee?

Carol

My heart is breaking.

Benton

[Carter gives him an H&P on a patient] Mother's maiden name?

Haleh

He's kidding.

Benton

[Carter memorizes and gives him a H&P on a patient] Mother's maiden name?

Haleh

He's joking.

Carter

You ever get used to this?

Benton

Used to what?

Carter

Going on three hours sleep.

Benton

Anything more than three hours and I'm sluggish all day.

Carter

What's he doing?

Susan

Practicing one-handed knots. He'd do it with his teeth if he could.

Benton

No I wouldn't. You can't wear a glove on your teeth.

Did you make him all better?

Benton

Who?

The boy in the green room.

Benton

[to Mark] The gunshot victim.

Mark

They tried really hard, Rachel. But he died.

Will his mommy be sad?

Mark

Very sad.

[to Benton] Are you sad?

Benton

Yeah.

If you're sad, why aren't you crying?

Benton

I am. [touches Rachel's heart.] Right here.