Peter Benton quotes from E.R.

Benton

Carol! [drops chart on desk]

Carol

Careful!

Benton

I'm having problems with Haleh.

Carol

So I heard.

Benton

I'd like you to reschedule her, so we don't have to work together anymore.

Carol

From what I hear, you're the one that needs to be rescheduled.

Benton

So, what does that mean? You won't do it?

Carol

No, I won't. The nursing schedule is my prerogative.

Benton

Even if that situation is endangering patient care?

Carol

You work every day and every third night. Haleh's got four kids to support. When is she supposed to work?

Benton

The woman refuses to follow my instructions!

Carol

Why should she? You're still in training, remember? She already graduated.

Benton

Oh, come on, Carol, don't give me that! I mean, we are not equals!

Carol

Look, she may not know how to cross-clamp an aorta, but Haleh has been working in emergency medicine for twenty years and if you would ever hop off that pedestal you've put yourself on, you might see that the nurses make this place work, not you.

Carter

I had a question about next year's Trauma Sub-I.

Benton

What about it?

Carter

Well, I understand that 12 students have alreay applied, and I was wondering... if I was interested, if you can tell me what my chances would be.

Benton

Twelve people have applied, right?

Carter

Right. Yeah, with me, it'd be thirteen.

Benton

Then, I'd say your chances are one in thirteen. [he walks away]

Mark

You walked into that one.

Carter

Yeah...

Benton

Where's Deb?

Carter

She's sick.

Benton

Who said she could be sick?

Benton

Carter, you are wasting your time. You don't think like a surgeon.

Carter

Why, because I don't think like you?

Benton

Thank you.

Carter

Excuse me?

Benton

I said "thank you".

Carter

I know. I just wanted to hear you say it twice.

Haleh

Peter, got a two-fer.

Benton

[Not paying attention] Alright, let's hear it.

Haleh

[Referring to the patients who have billiard balls stuck to their mouths] Apparently, this one did it on a dare. 'When the paramedics asked what happened' 'this one re-enacted the crime.'

Jerry

Do we have names?

Haleh

Yeah, dumb and dumber.

Benton

I've got a thyroidectomy this afternoon. What do you know about the arteries in the neck?

Carter

Uh, there's a lot of them?

Benton

You have an hour and 25 minutes. I suggest you locate a Gray's and start memorizing it.

Benton

[to Carter] Just take a deep breath, alright. Need you to stay on your feet here. He's totally dry. Trendelenburg.

Carter

I think I'm going to be sick.

Benton

No, you're not. Internal CPR.

Carol

He's fibrillating!

Dr. Benton

Damn it. Twenty-five clear.

Chuny

Got a beep. Nope, it's gone.

Benton

Fifty. Clear.

Chuny

Asystole.

Carol

Well, that helped a lot.

Malik

Smells kind of like a barbeque in here.

Carter

Oh god. [passes out]

Malik

Ha, ha. Welcome back, Carter.

Benton

Carter, do I look like your father?

Carter

No. Actually, not at all.

Benton

So, how's it going?

Kerry

My first day here, and I've only upset Doug Ross. That's not too bad, huh?

Benton

You must be losing your touch.

[about Carter] Any words of wisdom for your student before he staples his first stomach, or have you done one of these before?

Benton

No, no... I haven't.

Mark

Where the hell have you been? We have a double trauma, and you don't even respond?

Benton

I was closing on a [w:Mesentery|mesenteric]] [w:infarction|]].

Mark

Yeah, with how many other residents who could've closed for you?

Benton

Well, it was my surgery. I was busy.

Mark

No, no Peter. Down there is busy. In there is busy. In there is where we ignore everything else. I ignore my patients for in there. I ignore my child for in there, my marriage for in there. Don't ever pull this again!

Benton

Now you're the doctor. You graduated, right?

Carter

Yeah, that's right, I am. It's kind of weird. I... don't know any more than I knew this morning. I really wanted to graduate, too. Well... Anyway...

Benton

You take care of yourself, Carter.

Benton

Where's Carter?

Haleh

Do I look like his mother?

Benton

What makes you think you can attend a surgery behind my back?

Simon needed an intern.

Benton

I'm your resident. You don't blink without asking me.