[to Pratt] You are a screw-up, Pratt and just to make myself clear, I didn't like you before I knew that.
S10 E4Shifts Happen
Pratt, Hampton called from GI. She's not going to see the quarter kid until morning, but she plans on seeing Romano first.
Is that all she said?
No, actually, she said you're an asshole, too. Night.
CCooper
I like your style, man.
Oh, yeah? Well, get your own.
I need a favor.
RRichard
Abby, it's 8:00 in the morning.
Yeah, I know. I don't have a lot of time. I need you to co-sign a loan.
RRichard
Why don't you just declare bankruptcy?
Look, I'm not in trouble, OK? I just need you...
RRichard
You want me to support you?
No. I never asked for alimony, I didn't contest anything in court, I didn't take the damned furniture.
RRichard
You could have, if you wanted to.
Look, you must know how much I hate to do this. I wouldn't do it unless it was absolutely necessary. I don't want your money, I just want your signature.
[to Morris after finding him in the men's restroom] You're a second-year resident, not a med student. You can't be calling your mother, father, your cousin who's a podiatrist to help get you through a shift. Now, get on the floor and do your damn job! And for God's sake, light a match or something.
S10 E5Out of Africa
[It's Sam's first day, and she has just jumped on a hostile patient and stabbed him with a syringe]
Please tell me she works here...
SSam
Sam Taggart, new nurse!
Miss Haldol, there's nothing I find sexier than a mute girl covered in blood, so keep your head down and your mouth shut.
SSam
You remind of a guy I used to date. He's dead.
So, what's today's excuse for Triage being a stinking, overpopulated cesspool of humanity?
SSam
The healthcare system?
Yeah, well, if things get too locked up, you can try stabbing some of these deadbeats in the neck. That ought to have them running to Northwestern.
Well, I never meant to quit med school forever, and it seemed like the right time to come back; I only have one year left.
Where'd you get the money?
Begged, borrowed, threatened my ex-husband.
Good for you! [laughs]
SSam
[about Romano] That is some poisonous one-armed midget you've got running this place.
S10 E6The Greater Good
SSam
[about a patient] She needs a little TLC and maybe some Zoloft.
That makes two of us.
[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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