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[about a patient] She needs a little TLC and maybe some Zoloft.
That makes two of us.
“The Greater Good” · Season 10, Episode 6
In this episode: Abby Lockhart (2), Luka Kovač (2), Susan Lewis (2), Greg Pratt (1), Sam (1), Elizabeth Corday (1)
[about Neela] I'm beginning to hate her.
She's a med student.
I'm a med student.
You know, now that you mention it, she's pissing me off, too. Come on, let's hate her together!
TKTara King
I could put together some packages for you to take to the Congo. I've heard that's a pet project of yours. Quinamax would be wonderful for all the important work you're doing over there.
You want me to take your over-priced antibiotic to Africa?
TKTara King
It has great coverage for pnemococcus and AIDS flu.
Why hasn't there been a new drug for malaria in three decades?
TKTara King
That's a really good question...
Because there's no profit in treating poor people! (picks up a trash can and throws all her marketing products in it)
TKTara King
My company is...
Your company spends twice as much in marketing as it does in development! Which is why prescription cost has tripled in the last 10 years! Get out of here. I want you out of here. (walks towards the door)
TKTara King
If this is a bad time...
Frank, I'm gonna go get some coffee. Page me if you need me!
TKTara King
O.k. Dr. Kovac if you can... (Luka empties out the trash can in the dumpster) You know, I'll just come back when you're not so busy!
She was my patient!
Yes, and if I hadn't treated her, she would still be here. Now she's at home and feeling better.
So that's it. This is how I'm supposed to learn? Either I do it your way, or you take it away from me?
Pratt, I'm trying to teach you that the way you practice medicine here is inefficient.
Oh, and letting babies die is?
You really think you saved that kid today? For what? 24-hours nursing care? He's probably gonna require a lifetime commitment. Are you gonna be around to give it to him?
Listen, I'm sorry I'm not in some mud-hut doing amputations with a pocket knife. We have the technology and expertise to give that kid a chance! What's the sense in having it, if we don't use it?
That kid has about a 5% chance of having a normal life! You have any idea how many other kids we could have treated with those resources?
I do everything I can for my patients! That's how I practice medicine. This is Chicago, not the damned Congo. Maybe you should just go back to Africa.
Maybe you should go to Africa.
I know you didn't just say that to me.
Maybe then you'd learn that there's more to being a doctor than ordering tests and calling consults for every patient just to cover your ass.
Stay away from my patients. From now on, I present to another attending.
I've been paging you.
I was with this patient.
So I hear. You convinced the family to donate his organs? [Abby nods] Spending this much time with a patient is a luxury we don't usually have. You missed out on an interesting volvulous repair.
Well, I just... felt like his wife needed me.
You already do this well, Abby. Sometimes, being a doctor is about... distancing yourself from your patient.
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