Law & Order (TV Series)
Prescription for Death (1990)
Paul Sparer: Dr. Edward Auster
Quotes
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Dr. Edward Auster : You solve every case you work on?
Detective Mike Logan : We can tell a felony from a traffic ticket.
Dr. Edward Auster : 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?
Sgt. Max Greevey : You make this speech at funerals?
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Dr. Edward Auster : When you practice medicine, Mr. Stone, sometimes the patient dies.
Executive A.D.A. Benjamin "Ben" Stone : And when you're a lawyer, Dr. Auster, some of the people you prosecute are convicted.
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Dr. Edward Auster : Well, people like to believe that medicine is pure science. Medicine is a science. But doctors know it's also a lottery.
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Executive A.D.A. Benjamin "Ben" Stone : We got what we needed from Dr. Simonson.
Dr. Edward Auster : 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?