E.R. Season 11 quotes

Who's gonna get me to the doctor all the time? Who's gonna stay with me when I'm spittin' up all night? Who's gonna help me up the stairs when I'm too weak to walk? Who's gonna do that? You?

Carter

When I was a student on my surgical rotation, Rubadoux's wife was very sick. She was part of this research study. When her results, uh... when she was no longer useful, there was a lot of pressure to get her out. So I did. I dumped her into a nursing home.

Abby

Did she belong in one?

Carter

We all figured she'd end up back in the hospital which would be on Medicine's shoulders, not ours.

Abby

So...? Surgery dumps another patient on Medicine. Happens every day.

Carter

I told Rubadoux that she was going to get better, told him that her situation was going to improve, told him what he wanted to hear... you know, when you're a student, you're so desperate for approval. You want everybody to like you: you want your patients to like you, you want their families to like you. Gotta be efficient too, though. You gotta impress your superiors.

Abby

Yeah, you don't have to tell me. I'm still on the bottom rung of the ladder.

Carter

I mean, when the Chief of Surgery tells you to get rid of her, you get rid of her.

Abby

Yeah.

Carter

And then she came back three days later, and she died and Rubadoux was so surprised. Ultimately it was the Attending's fault. It wasn't my responsibility.

Carter

I need to know everything about your patients. I need to know the status of every single one of them. I need to know how they are, where they are, where they're going, why they're going. You're still an intern, Ray. I'm the attending. I'm responsible.

Ray

I'm sorry.

Luka

John! What happened on the Morris meeting?

Carter

I don't know. I left.

Luka

Kerry's leaning towards him.

Carter

Yeah, well, OK.

Luka

Well, OK?

Carter

We've had worse.

Luka

No, I don't think so.

Something wrong with my kidneys?

Abby

No. I don't know. I don't know yet.

Yeah, well. Uh, why don't you come back when you're less confused.

Excuse me everyone, I have an announcement to make. Effective immediately, I am your new chief resident!

Pratt

This is a joke, right?

Susan

This is my home! This is where I started! This is where I want to stay! Sometimes, I get this feeling that you want to be anywhere but here, Carter.

Jerry

Two words, Pratt: voice mail.

Carter

What's all that?

Pratt

Friends of mine begging me to go to a party after a long 12-hour shift. That's the problem with the non-medical types, they don't get it.

Par-tay tonight at Ike's! The boss man is buying, but don't get used to it. Who's on board?

Carter

[aside] Sometimes the medical types don't get it.

Ray?

Ray

Uh, other plans.

Neela?

Neela

The Apprentice is on.

What are you feeling, Luka?

Luka

I'm happy! I'm happy and Sam's not. I don't know why. We're healthy, we enjoy each other... our work. We have a good life.

How does that make you feel, Sam?

Like hitting him over the head with a hammer.

So what brings you to me today?

Abby

Don't go away mad, Jake.

But do go away, right?

[to Luka] After what happened to your wife and kids, you really wanna bring another baby into this world?

You had a family before?

He says he's happy and he can't even talk about it.

Luka

I had two children and a wife. They were killed years ago. I mean, how does it help us for me to talk about these things?

Because it's a huge part of who you are and you won't let me in!

Neela

I feel really inspired by that. I think I'll go throw myself under a train.

Susan

[to Luka] I know that Morris isn't the sharpest shovel in the shed, but he's a paperwork hound. Besides, it keeps him from seeing patients. Think of it as community service.

Neela

He's here for the actors. It's his play they ruined.

My stage manager is filling in. Horrid. But if I can get them back in time, I might still have a second act.

Abby

I doubt these guys are up for it.

No, they're professionals. You know, "the show must go on."

Abby

Yeah... why is that, exactly? I mean, why can't the show just stop once and awhile?

Carter

You set the tone, Morris.

Huh?

Carter

Never mind.