Law & Order · Season 1, Episode 1
“Prescription for Death” · Season 1, Episode 1
In this episode: Dr. Edward Auster (4), Benjamin Stone (3), Mike Logan (3), Paul Robinette (1), Max Greevey (1)
You solve every case you work on?
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?
You make this speech at funerals?
Isn't it possible that pneumonia killed Suzanne Morton?
It's possible that death rays from Mars killed her. But I don't think so.
Well, people like to believe that medicine is pure science. Medicine is a science. But doctors know it's also a lottery.
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?
You know the difference between Auster and a serial killer?
The weapon.
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.
My children want to stay in this country, my wife wants to stay, and to stay, all I have to do is to be perfect all the time!
Well you, uh, fell a little short of perfection on Suzanne Morton's chart.
When they look at me here, they see an Indian or a Paki, but they don't even know the difference. We're all supposed to be bad doctors. You ask anybody. I have to be twice as good as everybody else just so they will think I am as good as everybody else. My children want to stay in this country. My wife wants to stay in this country. And to stay, all I have to do is to be perfect all the time.
Well, you fell a little short of perfection on Suzanne Morton's chart.
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