Ischemic brain injuries need oxygen, but did you know oxygen forms free radicals after a traumatic injury? Mother nature is such a bitch.
S11 E5An Intern's Guide to the Galaxy
The difference between a physician and a witch doctor is appreciation of the science beneath the disease.
S11 E6Time of Death
You know what? It's Friday. I don't do lost causes on Friday. It's a religious thing.
If you ask me, we need to have one line for legitimate patients, another line for all the rest.
SSam
Yeah, well, good thing nobody asked you.
SSam
And, I got a real winner for you. Belly pain with combustible breath.
You talking about that creepy homeless guy? [Pointing at Charlie Metcalf]
SSam
"Creepy" I'll give you, but I don't think he's homeless.
How 'bout we wait till he sobers up? I'll be in home and in bed by then.
SSamantha
He needs to be examined, Pratt.
I never believed in God. That might bite me in the ass how, huh?
God will get over it.
Do you have a problem with me?
No.
It's him? [indicates the Trauma room where Charlie is being cared for]
I was outta line.
Okay. Let's go. [starts to head back in]
The guy's a waste. [Luka turns back around] Dying from something he's doing to himself.
Last time I checked, alcoholism was still a disease-
So is suicide. He should catch some of that, and save us the trouble.
We get ones like this every day-
Well maybe I need a day off! [pause]
This personal?
...I guess.
Good. Then we don't have to talk about it.
[smiles coldly] You like raggin' me, don't you?
I don't think I do.
Ever since I was an intern, you've been on my back.
Maybe a couple of times.
Why?
You're good, Pratt. But I think you could be better.
S11 E7White Guy, Dark Hair
[Sam is sorting supplies in an empty trauma room. Luka enters]
The detective is still here.
SSam
You shouldn’t have been so dismissive of me in front of him.
You didn’t need to discuss the details of Louise’s condition. She deserves some privacy.
SSam
Yeah, and she deserves a chance to help. We have an option we haven’t even talked about.
And that is?
SSam
If we deflate the crike balloon Louise could whisper.
You want to take her off the vent?
SSam
Just for a few moments at a time.
She is requiring 100% oxygen
SSam
I take her off the vent every time I suction her and she’s fine. Come on, we both know it’s possible.
Technically, yes, but why risk it?
SSam
Because she wants to help.
She does or you do?
SSam
What is that supposed to mean?
[a beat, softer] You’re sensitive about these kinds of cases.
SSam
What?
You always want to stand up for women who’ve been assaulted.
SSam
And you don’t?
Of course I do. Maybe because of when you were with Steve?
SSam
Steve never raped me.
Physical abuse? Hitting you?
SSam
Oh, this has nothing to do with that.
Are you sure?
SSam
Yeah. There’s a violent rapist out there. How are you going to feel in two days, two weeks, a month from now when we get another woman like Louise in here.
[as Sam is preparing Louise's body for the morgue] Sam, you don’t need to do this.
SSam
I know.
There are other nurses.
SSam
I know.
Sam.
SSam
I shouldn't have done it.
The contusions were severe. She could have died anyway.
SSam
I shouldn't have done it, Luka.
You did what you did to help the patient, Sam.
[Sam doesn't respond to him]
Sam?
SSam
When I deflated that balloon, Louise was still so traumatized. He kept asking her these questions and the only thing that she could remember was: "White guy, dark hair." I did what I did for "white guy, dark hair."
S11 E8Shot in the Dark
SSam
[about a Playboy magazine] Where'd he get it? [long pause] You subscribe?
I like the articles!
SSam
Oh, please.
Have you ever done this before?
No one gets in trouble for acting in the best interests of their patient.
Yeah, tell that to Dr. Corday.
Why did you abandon that kid?!
My shift was over.
He was counting on you!
I had a gig!
Screw your gig! Medicine isn't a day job!
This coming from someone who was making hot dogs three months ago.
I was off at 7, Abby was off at 7, but we were still there taking care of our patients.
Know what? We would never leave the hospital if we stuck around tucking in every patient.
I'm not talking about every patient. I'm talking about one kid. He trusted you with the most important decision of his life, and you left.
S11 E9Twas the Night
You should go. I don't want you here.
You've been through a hell of a lot this last year. You need a break. Put him in a home for a month so you can catch your breath.
I can't.
We fight to save lives every day. You know, we literally bust our asses to give people a few more hours of living. You're a doctor, you can't just cross that line like it's nothing. Quality of life is the only measure that matters.
My proud father is lying in his own feces. He can't eat without vomiting, can't sleep. He knows what he's asking for and he knows he can get that from me.
If you weren't a physician, you couldn't do this.
But I am and I can.
Why haven't you done it up till now? If he's been asking so much? Because you know deep, down inside it would haunt you for the rest of your life. Why haven't you done it yet?
Maybe I don't have the courage.
My father's a doctor. He knows what he's asking. Without the G-tube and IV, he would've died weeks ago.
Oh, so now lifesaving technology is bad?
If someone doesn't want it...
How do you know he doesn't? He's not even in his right mind.
After he sleeps, he's lucid. Each time, every day, he begs me to help him. Removing the support's not enough. It would take him days to die of dehydration and he'd be in misery.
Put him in a nursing home.
So he can be somebody else's problem? Who doesn't know or love him?
He won't even know that he's there.
You're not Chinese.
Oh, so it's Chinese to euthanize your elders?
It's Chinese to respect them.
MDr. McPherson
Where's Lockhart?
Dr. McPherson?
MDr. McPherson
I didn't authorize dialysis for Sanders and you started it without my approval! I wanna speak to your Attending. [looks to see Carter off to the side]
Your patient was drowning; he needed emergency dialysis. You're an Attending on-call, I covered your ass.
MDr. McPherson
You can't just deceive Attendings when you don't agree with them!
Well, if you report me for working the system, I'll report you for abandoning your patient.
Go, Abby.
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