Jeanie Boulet quotes from E.R.

Jeanie

[to Al] A man came in today. He sat there and watched his wife die, and he helped her to die, because she was in so much pain, and he loved her. [gets angry] But we didn't have that kind of marriage, did we, Al. We didn't love, we didn't cherish, we didn't respect and now you've killed me!

Jeanie

Peter, don't touch me, for God's sake! I'm poison.

Jeanie

I need to know if you're planning to tell anyone that I'm positive.

Benton

No, I'm not. Jeanie, look, I don't agree with what you're doing, but how you handle your patients, that's your responsibility.

Jeanie

Thank you.

Benton

But I want you to stay away from my patients and I don't want to be in a trauma room with you.

I've been Mr. B.'s caretaker for 20 years. He wants to be cryogenically preserved when he de-animates.

Jeanie

He wants to what?

Be put on ice when he croaks.

Jeanie

Frozen?

Like a popsicle.

Living with AIDS... that's nothing, but... knowing I gave it to you... there's no pill for that. I just have to face it. Every day. Hating me might feel good, but it won't change anything.

Jeanie

It doesn't feel good, Al. Nothing about this feels good.

Kerry

We're talking policy here, people. "Employee X" could be any one of us.

Jeanie

Excuse me. Just would everyone stop calling me "Employee X"? I am HIV-positive.

Maggie

[after Jeanie puts a star on top of the ER's Christmas tree] It looks good. Where'd you get it?

Jeanie

My ex-husband brought it by. It came off our first Christmas tree.

Maggie

That's an heirloom. You should put it on your family tree.

Jeanie

[with a smile] I just did.

Jerry

This is ridiculous. I do not need hand-washing lessons!

Scrub hard, Jerry to scrape off the bacteria.

Jeanie

But the most important thing is to wash your hands after you go to the bathroom.

Jerry

What, every time?

Oh! Hello. There it is. Turtle sign. It's a boy.

That little thing?

Jeanie

They grow.

Not as much as they'd like to think.

The thing is, I hate needles.

Jeanie

You're planning on going through childbirth without an epidural?

Honey, women were having babies long before doctors and needles.

Kerry

[as Jeanie is leaving work] Good. I'm glad you're still here.

Jeanie

I'm surprised that you are.

Kerry

Jeanie, I had every right to be angry. I went to the mat for you. We had a deal.

Jeanie

I couldn't just stand there and watch him die.

Kerry

You don't know that he would have.

Jeanie

We were losing a pulse. It was worth the risk, Kerry.

Kerry

Jeanie, you made a decision to continue working here and I supported it, but sometimes our decisions affect more than just ourselves.

Jeanie

And in this case, a man is still alive.

Kerry

I appreciate that, but we all agreed you'd work under specific guidelines. You have to stick to them.

Jeanie

I know, I know. But if I had to do it again, I can't say I wouldn't do the same thing. I waited as long as I could to put in that chest tube. I didn't have a choice.

Kerry

He had multiple rib fractures. You could have cut your finger and bled inside his chest.

Jeanie

But I didn't.

Kerry

We agreed you wouldn't put your hands into any poorly visualized cavities.

Jeanie

What was I supposed to do?

Kerry

Walk away.

Jeanie

He would have died.

Kerry

That's the risk you assume for your patients when you continue to work here with HIV.

Look, I don't have AIDS, ok? I don't sleep with gay guys or druggies.

Jeanie

Neither did I.

Jeanie

I can't go to the movies next Friday, but I can go Saturday. Unless you're too cool to hang out with me.

You are pretty sorry.

Jeanie

Speak for yourself, Captain Baldy.

Next month, my hair will grow back, and you'll still be sorry.

Jeanie

Yeah, well, just for that, I get to pick the movie

No way. No chick flicks.

Jeanie

Oh, right, Mr. "Days of our Lives."

Jeanie

You need some help.

Doug

Okay. Take rashes.

Jeanie

I was thinking something more permanent.

Doug

Allergies?

Jeanie

You're not so bad, Dr. Pratt.

Pratt

I know. It usually takes people a while, but I eventually win them over.