- Dr. Elizabeth Corday: I can't seem to give this kidney away. We're going through potential recipients like...
- Dr. Mark Greene: Crap through a goose?
- Dr. Elizabeth Corday: Yeah, that works.
- [a patient was stabbed in the cheek with Dr. Romano's pen]
- Dr. Dave Malucci: Should I just, you know, maybe yank it out?
- Dr. Robert Romano: No, we gotta check for damage to the facial nerve. Not to mention the damage to my pen.
- Randall James: I've been stabbed, and you're worried about your pen?
- Dr. Robert Romano: Oh, shut up.
- Dr. Robert Romano: Were my instructions in any way... . unclear?
- Kerry Weaver: No, I-I think you made your position known.
- Dr. Robert Romano: And you decided to ignore it?
- Kerry Weaver: I took it under advisement.
- Dr. Robert Romano: I see. Okay, well, then, you're suspended. Sign out your patients and go home.
- Kerry Weaver: Robert, let's not...
- Dr. Robert Romano: Right now, Kerry. Right now.
- Kerry Weaver: Suspended.
- Dr. Robert Romano: Effective immediately and until further notice.
- Dr. Robert Romano: I came in here looking for jevity and a dubhoff tube. By the way, we need to discuss your supply management. And I find this girl's foster parent conspiring with DCFS and apparently with you to circumvent the state authority and perform an invasive procedure on a girl who has been a gork most of her life and has no chance of recovery. Did I understand this correctly?
- Kerry Weaver: You're overstating it.
- Dr. Robert Romano: Am I?
- Kerry Weaver: Yes. She has potentially life-threatening infection. All she needs is a central line and her so-called guardian has never seen her.
- Dr. Robert Romano: Well, I've seen her.
- Kerry Weaver: We have an obligation to provide appropriate care. All I'm doing is exercising a safeguard that's built into the system.
- Dr. Robert Romano: You're letting your sympathy for the foster mother override your clinical judgement.
- Kerry Weaver: I disagree but thank you for your input.
- Dr. Robert Romano: This girl is not to get a central line.
- Kerry Weaver: She's my patient.
- Dr. Robert Romano: Feel free to hydrate her through her g-tube and keep her comfortable.
- Kerry Weaver: I already have my second opinion.
- Dr. Robert Romano: I'm the final opinion. I'm not getting in a pissing match with the State Welfare Department.
- Kerry Weaver: It's one bureaucrat.
- Dr. Robert Romano: And he is right, it's hopeless and exorbitantly expensive. Stop flogging her. Franky I've come to a higher level of professionalism from you.
- Kerry Weaver: I'm supporting what I see is a parental decision. Angie is essentially the woman's daughter.
- Dr. Robert Romano: She's her pet! Look at this girl, what kind of quality of life you think she has?
- Kerry Weaver: Robert.
- Dr. Robert Romano: Kerry, I'm serious. No central line.
- Dr. Robert Romano: Well, it looks like a P to me. Bisoprolol.
- Peter Benton: It's a C. Why would I order a beta-blocker for constipation?
- Dr. Robert Romano: What's that say, Carter?
- John Carter: Well, I-I can see how the pharmacy could have read it wrong ,but, they really should have called.
- Dr. Robert Romano: Sure. Blame them, you coward.
- Cleo Finch: It could have been read both ways.
- Dr. Robert Romano: Hey, you, come here. I need an impartial observer.
- Peter Benton: Oh, come on, that's a fax copy. You can't even...
- Dr. Robert Romano: Quiet, Peter! Is that a C or a P?
- Abby Lockhart: It looks like a Q.
- Dr. Robert Romano: Someone else who can't read it.
- Peter Benton: I prescribed bisacodyl. That's what I ordered. That's what I wrote.
- Dr. Robert Romano: Then why is this patient currently undergoing an angioplasty for a life-threatening myocardial infarction?
- Peter Benton: You heard me say bisacodyl?
- Cleo Finch: Yeah.
- Dr. Robert Romano: Did you even bother to read the pharmacy label before you handed it out?
- Cleo Finch: There was a trauma coming in.
- Dr. Robert Romano: Oh! Oh, a trauma came in. Oh, well, that makes everything okay. When traumas come in we can just hand out whatever meds happen to be laying around.
- John Carter: Dr. Romano was...
- Dr. Robert Romano: Carter! What does this have to do with you? Nothing. So shut up.
- Abby Lockhart: Can I go?
- Dr. Robert Romano: The growing level of incompetence around here is frightening. It's a wonder we haven't been shut down.
- Cleo Finch: It was an honest mistake.
- Dr. Robert Romano: No, it was tag-team negligence. Okay, you are both prohibited from writing prescriptions until further notice.
- Cleo Finch: How are we supposed to treat the patients?
- Dr. Robert Romano: I'm sure Dr. Carter or one of the other colleagues will be happy to write them for you.
- Peter Benton: How long?
- Dr. Robert Romano: Until your penmanship approves and until you learn how to read.
- Cleo Finch: I know how to read.
- Dr. Robert Romano: Then do it!
- [Carter pretends to shiver]
- Peter Benton: Thank you, Carter. Thank you, Carter.
- [Carter walks out]
- Peter Benton: So you just gave him a bottle of pills without even looking at it?
- Cleo Finch: Peter, what you wrote wasn't legible.
- Peter Benton: I shouldn't be writing your scripts anyway.
- Cleo Finch: I didn't ask you to.
- Peter Benton: He was your patient. You always check the label before you give the drugs. They teach you that on the first day, Cleo.