Morgenstern quotes from E.R.

The unit's looking to you, Mark. You set the tone.

That's what I love about you, Peter: Naked ambition tempered by arrogance.

Give me a good sick body, needs a little slicing, and I'm a happy man.

I was pre-med, volunteering at the hospital when they made him chief in '68. Back then, the ER was a glorified walk-in clinic, where you were seen by unsupervised interns, and residents with no training. And the community ERs were even worse. Staffed by moonlighting dermatologists and psychiatrists, or drunks who'd been banned from private practice. There was no 911, no paramedics, and if you needed an ambulance, you called a funeral home. Ollie once said: "You stand a better chance of surviving a gunshot wound in Vietnam than a car crash in Chicago." But he changed all that. He developed the 911 system, he trained thousands of paramedics, and started one of the finest residency programs in emergency medicine. You're all here because of this guy.

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.

How are we doing?

Doug

One step ahead of the Reaper.

Thats all you can ask for.

Carter, what's the difference between a prostate and a garden hose?

Carter

I have no idea.

I'll tell you: There's a vas deferens.

Kerry

You don't mind if I step in and take over a little bit?

Praise Allah, no! I don't mind telling you, sometimes I have felt like a sheriff with no posse. Like a general with no grunts in the field. Like a lone shepherd, high up on a hill, with no sheep dog.

Kerry

I completely understand how you feel. You know, I'd like to take -

[interrupting] Everywhere you look, there's sheep, sheep, sheep!

Kerry Weaver, meet John DeLeo. Welder, father of five. Never retired, despite crippling arthritis. Outlived three of his kids. Never left Chicago.

Kerry

You know all that about this cadaver?

No. I made it up.