The Good Doctor (TV Series)
Pipes (2017)
Hill Harper: Dr. Marcus Andrews
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Quotes
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Dr. Marcus Andrews : How could a guy who can't even shake a co-worker's hand be comfortable doing a pelvic exam?
Dr. Shaun Murphy : People squeeze too hard. It hurts.
Dr. Marcus Andrews : [handing him a swab] Send this to the lab for culture. So, I'm guessing you're not that into hugs.
Dr. Shaun Murphy : I don't like to be squeezed.
Dr. Marcus Andrews : Well, what if it's somebody you like? Or somebody you love? Have you ever had a girlfriend?
Dr. Shaun Murphy : I almost kissed a girl. Once.
Dr. Marcus Andrews : Well, you know what they say. If at first you don't succeed...
Dr. Shaun Murphy : Are you trying to mock me or encourage me?
Dr. Marcus Andrews : I'm trying to get to know you so I know when I should mock and when I should encourage.
Dr. Shaun Murphy : When's the right time to mock you?
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Dr. Neil Melendez : I'm gonna use the heparin pre-operatively and a TEE monitor.
Dr. Marcus Andrews : Still not enough. The risk of a heart attack or stroke...
Dr. Neil Melendez : Was thoroughly explained. The patient still wants the surgery.
Dr. Marcus Andrews : She wants it? Or you want it?
Dr. Neil Melendez : Yes, saving a fetus' life would be good news for me. Any other questions? Or insults?
Dr. Marcus Andrews : Relax. I'm not insulting you. Of course you want to do the surgery. But you do surgeries like this, some patients are going to die. And then our department's success rate goes down, and then our funding goes down, and then you can't do surgeries like this. So if your judgment is clouded in any way, just...
Dr. Neil Melendez : [firmly] It's not.
Dr. Marcus Andrews : Okay.
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Jessica Preston : Once the fetus is removed from the uterus, one could argue that it becomes a child.
Dr. Neil Melendez : That's ridiculous.
Jessica Preston : There are numerous legal precedents...
Dr. Aaron Glassman : That guarantee the mother's right to choose. It's her body. It's her control.
Dr. Neil Melendez : I'm completely comfortable going ahead with this surgery.
Dr. Aaron Glassman : As am I.
Dr. Marcus Andrews : I never was, and I certainly am not now.
Jessica Preston : I'm sorry. Until we're certain there is no liability connected to parental consent, neither am I.
Allegra Aoki : Well, the one thing I think we can all agree on is that the mother has the power to do nothing. And if she doesn't terminate or have the surgery to remove the tumor...
Dr. Neil Melendez : A fetus with a massive tumor will die inside a patient with APS.
Dr. Aaron Glassman : Then the mother would die, too, right?
Allegra Aoki : So we do nothing, and they both die. Or we can do something that's legally and ethically complicated, and maybe they both live.
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Dr. Shaun Murphy : Nerves are like pipes!
Dr. Claire Browne : Shaun, th... this...
Dr. Shaun Murphy : We need to sever the pudenal nerve to excise the myoma, but if we reconnect the ends...
Dr. Marcus Andrews : The tumor is four centimeters in diameter. That's way too wide of a gap to reconnect the ends, and nerves don't stretch.
Dr. Shaun Murphy : We don't need to stretch it. We can connect the distal end of the pudenal nerve to the branch of the femoral cutaneous nerve from her inner thigh.
[to Olivia, as he hands Marcus his research]
Dr. Shaun Murphy : Would you rather loose feeling in your thigh or genitals?
Olivia Hartman : Thigh, definitely. Is he right? Can we do that?
Dr. Marcus Andrews : It probably would've been better to discuss this prior to meeting with the patient, but yes, I think it could work.