Sometimes, the people closest to a situation have the least amount of insight into it especially when it means they're going to have to recognize something they don't want to see.
“Working” · Season 1, Episode 19
In this episode: Dr. Westphall (3), Nurse Daniels (1), Dr. White (1), Dr. Auschlander (1), Dr. Chandler (1)
[to Anya] Dr. Craig's philosophy is this: The only problem with being on call every other night is that you miss half the interesting cases.
Now, I know I'm going to die soon and there isn't anything anyone can do about it. But I'd give everything I own, if I could have just one more day... one more minute... to enjoy everything my family has meant to me. And that's why I know... that what you're doing to yourself is absolutely wrong.
SMStan Morgen
Yeah, it's easy for you to say but I bet if you died 20 years ago, you'd have still lived a better life than I ever will.
Life has dealt us both a bad card but you have many more left in the deck and it's only a fool who wouldn't play out his hand.
You know, in the good old days, when medicine was a gentlemanly profession, people didn't sue their doctors. Nowadays, they're awarding all these huge judgments. The legal climate is...
SHSam Hendrix
Fertile.
Hey, look. Just because you made a mistake with a patient this morning, don't be carrying that around on your shoulders like that's the last mistake you'll ever make.
Look. You don't anything about the case. You don't know anything about anything, so why don't you just shut the hell up.
Why don't you take it easy?
No, you take it easy. You take it easy. You know, you're in no position to make remarks about anything around here, because you don't know anything.
Dr. Chandler...
You give your patients the wrong antibiotics, you don't know what medications they're on and you write the worst progress notes. You're pathetic. Pathetic! [begins to walk away] And another thing... if it weren't for everybody covering for your mistakes, you would've been gone months ago!
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