- Dorothy: Listen, kid, me and ten girlfriends started a book club about forty years ago. Do you know how many of us are left? Two. Me and Marie. She picked Atlas freakin' Shrugged to read this time. Now I read the whole damn thing. It's not good enough to kill a bug with! There is no way I read that thing for nothing. I'm not going to die today!
- Angus Leighton: What's going on?
- Dr. Neal Hudson: Body on the ramp. Some-one jumped!
- Angus Leighton: She didn't want sedation.
- [on realizing his patients deception]
- Nurse Amy: Dr. Hudson, Mrs. Harris is here, the C-spine's wife? The real wife.
- Dr. Neal Hudson: Mrs. Harris, I'm Dr. Hudson.
- Susan Harris: Yes. You'd called me about my husband, John?
- Dr. Neal Hudson: Yeah. I'm sorry to meet you under these circumstances. Your husband fractured two of his spinal vertebrae. The fragments may have irreparably damaged his spinal cord.
- Susan Harris: He was struck by a car. Where... Where did this happen? He had a deposition in Santa Barbara today. It happened in downtown L.A.
- Dr. Neal Hudson: Mrs. Harris, your husband needs surgery on his spine.
- Susan Harris: Downtown L.A.? No, that's impossible. He's in Santa Barbara.
- Dr. Neal Hudson: Mrs. Harris, you need to listen to me. Your husband needs surgery right away, but we need your consent on his behalf. He's too altered to sign.
- Susan Harris: Was he alone?
- Dr. Neal Hudson: There were many people injured.
- Susan Harris: Was he alone... yes or no?
- [walks to her husband]
- Susan Harris: Of course. You're even tacky enough to be right here when I arrive?
- Angela: Susan, I'm sorry. I just didn't want him to be alone.
- Susan Harris: Well, that's not why you should be sorry.
- Dr. Neal Hudson: Uh, Mrs. Harris, we need to operate right away.
- Angela: ...I'm gonna go now.
- Susan Harris: No! No. You sit right there. What happens to him if I don't consent?
- Angela: Susan. Please!
- Dr. Neal Hudson: It's very likely he won't walk again. He may never even be able to breathe on his own again.
- Susan Harris: You ready for that, Angela? You ready to feed him, bathe him, diaper him?
- Angela: This can't be right. She can't be in charge of what happens to him, can she?
- Susan Harris: John and I each have a living will. Did you know that? No, you wouldn't. It's something that we did when we formed our family trust. They call it... A family trust. Do you believe that? I'm the one he decided to choose what happens to him if he's incapacitated.
- Dr. Neal Hudson: There's no time to get a court order. He won't make it that long.
- Susan Harris: But, he'll live, right?
- Dr. Neal Hudson: You're condemning him to a lifetime of paralysis.
- Susan Harris: In point of fact, I'm not doing anything. He's the one who made the decisions that put him here, he's the one who decided to be who he is.
- Dorothy: What's your favorite book?
- Dorothy: Wizard of Oz. I'm not Dorothy by accident. It was my mother's favorite book, too. She always felt that the witch of the East died too young. She was right, of course. We all die too young.
- Malaya Pineda: Just close your eyes and relax.
- Dorothy: Hard to close my eyes when I might not wake up.
- Malaya Pineda: Just click your heels, Dorothy.
- Dorothy: My Arthur used that line on me.
- Angus Leighton: This is all my fault.
- [feeling as if he failed his patient]
- Dr. Leanne Rorish: It most certainly is not, your fault!
- Jesse Sallander: That little boy, gonna need real care!
- Dr. Leanne Rorish: Well, I don't like it either!
- Jesse Sallander: [speaks in Spanish] Quien a buen árbol se arrima, buena sombra le cobija.
- Dr. Leanne Rorish: [attempting to translate Spanish to English] When you... snuggle up to a good tree... Wait... a good shade will shelter you.
- Jesse Sallander: It's something my abuela used to say. It means, when you need help, find the best person you can. Does he have any family here?
- [what his Grandmother would say]
- Dr. Leanne Rorish: Yeah, he has a father who's apparently not interested.
- Jesse Sallander: As abuela Anita said, a good tree has many branches.
- Malaya Pineda: She's gonna fly without the bag.
- Anesthesiologist: I don't think so!
- Malaya Pineda: Trust me. Click you heels, Dorothy. There's no place like home.
- Mario Savetti: I didn't put myself through medical school so I could give some guy a reach around. This isn't emergency medicine, man.
- [on treating a man with a persistent erection]
- Dr. Neal Hudson: If the Terbutaline failed, the next step is a shot of Phenylephrine.
- Mario Savetti: How about I just give him a shot of Jaeger and some magazines?
- [reluctant to help patient with an erection that won't go away]
- Malaya Pineda: You have certain risk factors we have to consider. For one, you have emphysema.
- Dorothy: I smoked for forty years. I'm no quitter!
- Dorothy: Oh, honey, popcorn or junior mints is a tough decision. I just want a shot of walking out of here on my own two feet.
- Dr. Leanne Rorish: We're the first ten minutes, Christa - that's all.
- Christa Lorenson: He's a sick little boy.
- Dr. Leanne Rorish: And we saved his life, because that's what we do. We plug their holes and stitch them up and send them on. We don't follow our patients home.
- Angus Leighton: I've studied all the journal articles on disassociation. Have you? No. She's not faking it.
- [annoyed his colleague is questioning his diagnosis]