- Dr. Charlotte Lukaitis: There were 1,400 bariatric surgeries performed on adolescents in 2022, and it's becoming more common every year. Dr. Murphy will remove a large portion of your stomach. That will help you to eat less. And in ways we don't fully understand yet, it reduces the hunger signals in your brain.
- Dr. Asher Wolke: I can't stop thinking about Ronit. If her doctor had only taken her seriously.
- Jerome: Imagine trying to plan a wedding while she's in chemo and he's recovering from a broken hip.
- Dr. Asher Wolke: Who cares about their wedding planning? She could die.
- Jerome: They care.
- Dr. Asher Wolke: Well, they shouldn't.
- Jerome: Marriage is an outdated institution that was invented as a property transaction, not as an expression of love.
- Dr. Asher Wolke: How people feel about it now is... That's all that matters.
- Jerome: Well, sometimes our feelings trap us in conventional ways of thinking.
- Dr. Asher Wolke: Like, Rashi says that most of the Israelites stayed enslaved in Egypt because it's all they knew.
- Jerome: Are you seriously comparing a loving marriage to slavery?
- Dr. Asher Wolke: Both were invented as a means of exchanging human chattel.
- Jerome: That is offensive on so many levels.And I doubt it's what Rashi, whoever that is, meant when he wrote that parable.
- Dr. Asher Wolke: It's a Midrash, not a parable.
- Jerome: Well, you sure know a lot about Judaism for someone who isn't Jewish.
- Dr. Asher Wolke: Okay, I'm not a practicing Jew, but I don't have to share my life story with a patient.
- Jerome: Why didn't you just say, I was raised Jewish, but I don't...
- Dr. Audrey Lim: So, how about you try a compliment sandwich? When you need to give negative feedback, stick it between layers of praise.
- Dr. Shaun Murphy: In prehistoric times, when infants awoke in the night and didn't see their parents, it could mean they had been killed by wild animals or competing tribes. Steve's cries are designed by nature to alert other adults to take care of him.
- Dr. Shaun Murphy: [Previously On...] I believe your intense curiosity and attention to organization will one day make you an excellent pathologist.
- Dr. Charlotte Lukaitis: I don't want to be a pathologist. I just want to be a surgeon like you.
- Dr. Shaun Murphy: You're nothing like me
- Dr. Charlotte Lukaitis: Do you know Mirna Valerio? She's a large-bodied woman who runs ultramarathons