Dr. Edward Auster quotes from Law & Order

Well, people like to believe that medicine is pure science. Medicine is a science. But doctors know it's also a lottery.

You solve every case you work on?

Logan

We can tell a felony from a traffic ticket.

Look, a patient walks in with a headache. She could have a subarachnoid hemorrhage, a berry aneurysm, a retro-orbital tumor...or does she just have a headache? Do you give her an aspirin? Or do you saw open her skull?

Greevey

You make this speech at funerals?

We got what we needed from Dr. Simonson.

An intern, Mr. Stone. Are you planning on asking the cleaning lady to testify, too? About the time I threw the tissue into the wastepaper basket and missed?

When you practice medicine, Mr. Stone, sometimes the patient dies.

And when you're a lawyer, Dr. Auster, some of the people you prosecute are convicted.