Pratt and Luka in “The Greater Good”

Pratt

She was my patient!

Luka

Yes, and if I hadn't treated her, she would still be here. Now she's at home and feeling better.

Pratt

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?

Luka

Pratt, I'm trying to teach you that the way you practice medicine here is inefficient.

Pratt

Oh, and letting babies die is?

Luka

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?

Pratt

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?

Luka

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?

Pratt

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.

Luka

Maybe you should go to Africa.

Pratt

I know you didn't just say that to me.

Luka

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.

Pratt

Stay away from my patients. From now on, I present to another attending.