E.R. quotes

Neela

You didn't tell me how your meeting went.

It's gonna be fine.

Neela

Look. I'm sorry I've been... I don't know, bitchy about this whole thing. It's just not comfortable for me. Lying and having someone else cover my mistakes. It just keeps compounding, one on top of the other.

I'm being deployed to Iraq. I'm heading for Texas tomorrow morning.

Neela

You haven't finished your residency.

Yeah, I know. I'm gonna finish up the last few electives down there.

Neela

They called you up, just like that?

Yeah.

Neela

You're a coward.

What, what?

Neela

Coward and a liar! I never asked you to do this for me, but you did! And now you're leaving, and I'm supposed to live with the fact that I killed a man, and that you helped and lied for me to cover it up.

Listen, Neela.

Neela

No, Michael. Go to bloody Iraq. And tell yourself you've done something noble.

I had to protect you and Dr. Carter.

Neela

No...you didn't.

Chen

You're not a good doctor until you've killed someone.

Neela

[under her breath] Spoken like someone who hasn't.

Neela

[as he leaves for Iraq] You'd better come back. You know that, don't you?

Yeah, I will. You just better be a damned good doctor when I do.

Men only care about three things: food, sports, and sex. Dogs are more mysterious. If they ever invent a refrigerator with a wide-screen T.V and a vagina, we're all doomed.

Kerry

Where's Pratt?

With a patient. What do you need?

Kerry

I need Pratt-- Hey, Sam, hold up. Where are you going?

I'm going to grab with Alex and his dad.

Kerry

Did you assist Dr. Pratt in examining Campbell, the woman in Curtain 2?

Yeah.

Kerry

Was there anything unusual about the exam?

I don't think so. Why?

Kerry

He gave her a breast exam for back pain.

I don't know what her chief complaint was. I was on the phone with the blood bank and juggling five other patients.

Sounds like he TUBE'd her.

She wasn't intubated, Morris.

No, no, you know, TUBE? T-U-B-E: Totally Unnecessary Breast Exam.

You're such an ass.

Kerry

What was that?

Sorry.

Kerry

No, not you. [to Morris] Where did you hear that term?

I... I dunno. I didn't make it up.

Kerry

Well, who did?

Abby

How's Kem? She must be getting big.

Carter

Very.

Abby

You should see Susan.

Carter

How's she doing?

Abby

Well, you know how some mothers talk to their unborn children? Susan threatened to pull hers out with her bare hands if it didn't hurry up.

Luka

How's the Psych rotation?

Abby

Kind of scary.

Luka

The patients?

Abby

No, me. I like it.

Kerry

[after a female patient has complained about Pratt's breast exam] Did you T.U.B E. her, Pratt?

Pratt

What?

Kerry

That's what you call it, isn't it, when you wanna feel up a good-looking patient?

Milicent dies, you run off halfway around the world. Disappear for months. Only to come back like some sort of avenging angel, with a pregnant African girl in tow.

Carter

Her name is Kem.

Are you back using drugs?

Abby

Jordan, I know this is difficult, but you just have to try very hard. You have to...

I told you I am trying. You keep pushing. I don't know what you want from me.

Abby

Well, okay. At some level, we're all the same. We all have things we hide, things we keep buried.

Like what? What do you keep buried?

Abby

This is not about me.

You want me to tell you things, to trust you, but you don't have to say anything? Is that fair? Don't you trust me?

Abby

OK. I can't follow through.

On what?

Abby

On anything. Once something gets in my way, it's like a chemical reaction. I just shut down, and I give up. I'm just looking for an excuse to stop, because in the end it's easier to do that than to risk being hurt and disappointed again.

You mean with men?

Abby

Men, my career, my family... pick your poison.

Kem

Oh my God, John. We're having a boy!

Carter

Yeah, I think you mentioned that. What is this? What, you're having a little prenatal jitters?

Kem

You don't think that, maybe we...

Carter

What?

Kem

Rushed into this?

Carter

'Course we did. But we didn't over analyze it, we didn't reexamine it, we didn't overthink it. We just did it 'cause it felt right.

Kem

This is a life that we're responsible for. You and me.

Carter

We're ready. Are you ready? [points at her belly]

The perception of a psychiatrist, bedside manner of an ER doc and the empathetic eyes of an overworked nurse.

Abby

Oh, yeah, I'm the whole package. All I have to do is actually pass my boards.

Neela

Have I done something wrong?

Pratt

You tell me. Gallant's in a war zone and you're playing Madame Curie.

Neela

I never asked Michael to cover for me and I feel terrible.

Pratt

Oh, yeah? I think he feels worse.

Neela

Look, I don't think it's right for you to hold me responsible.

Pratt

Look, my friend took a hit and he's gone, but you're running around doing everything under the sun except ER medicine. Now, if that's how it's gonna be, then fine, but hurry up and decide. You're taking up space.

Elizabeth

[about Carter and Kem's baby] A stillborn?

Chen

Yeah, a true knot in the chord.

Elizabeth

How terrible.

Chen

Ah, I can't even imagine!

Elizabeth

I'll try to get up there after rounds.

Kerry

Poor people. Seven months old?

Chen

Mm... Almost eight.

Yeah, tough break. [Chen, Corday and Weaver all look at him] What? I was... I was being sincere.

When your brother died, the thing I hated the most was other people's platitudes. There are no words... You don't know how you find the strength, but somehow you do. You can have another child... It was an accident, a tragic, unforeseeable accident.

Carter

The whole thing was an accident.

No, it wasn't. You love each other. Everybody can see that.

Carter

I don't know that she'd wanna have another baby with me.

Sure she will. Give it some time.