ER (TV Series)

Make a Wish (1997)

Anthony Edwards: Mark Greene

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• Dr. Mark Greene : You carry a gun?

  Dr. Maggie Doyle : Under the front seat of my car. I was at the drive-thru once, waiting for some fries, and this punk walks up, and sticks a knife in my face. He wants my wallet. So I reach under the seat, grab the .357, stick it up his nose, and whoa, could that kid run.

• Dr. Mark Greene : What we should really be changing is the way we deal with patients and their families.

  Randi Fronczak : Yeah, like can't we keep them out of here? They're a pain in the ass.

  Dr. Mark Greene : Your compassion knows no bounds, Randi.

• Dr. Mark Greene : Look. Louise Pierson. Ankle x-ray. Three hours ago. Where is it? Discharge orders written almost two hours ago. Chart's still here, so the guy's still here. Come on! Med-Surg admission, Neuro consult, ETA 7:15 this morning. Where are they? We keep these people hanging around, I'd get pissed off enough to clobber somebody.

• Dr. Mark Greene : I'm an idiot, Kerry. I'm a complete idiot.

  Kerry Weaver : Was that the detective you were waiting for?

  Dr. Mark Greene : It wasn't an angry patient. It wasn't a family member of an angry patient. It wasn't Chris Law. It wasn't Mr. Gunther. It wasn't that crazy guy who was yelling about Krishna.

  Kerry Weaver : They checked everybody out?

  Dr. Mark Greene : I thought I was remembering it like a puzzle that would come together, but the Chicago Police Department was nice enough to inform me that I am simply the victim of random violence.

  Kerry Weaver : Well, you knew that, Mark, patient or no patient.

  Dr. Mark Greene : What I knew is that everything I do, I do because I am not the victim. I treat the victim, I cure the victim, I watch them roll the victim out like a piece of meat, but the truth is, I'm the piece of meat.

  Kerry Weaver : We can't think about that. We're the ones who see what goes on out there. We know that every day some child won't make it home from school, some father won't make it home from work, but if we allowed ourselves to think that could be us, we couldn't walk out our front door.

  Dr. Mark Greene : The problem is that is us.

  Kerry Weaver : No, the problem is, it makes us like everyone else.