ER (TV Series)

Twas the Night (2004)

Ming-Na Wen: Jing-Mei Chen

Quotes 

• Susan Lewis : Jing-Mei, I am sorry about your dad. I really am, but I keep cutting you breaks.

  Jing-Mei Chen : I know, and I appreciate it. This'll be the last time.

  Susan Lewis : Oh, man. There is no way I can get anyone to cover tonight. It's impossible.

  Jing-Mei Chen : Susan, please.

  Susan Lewis : I hate to be hardcore, but I can't.

  Jing-Mei Chen : Look, can you stay?

  Susan Lewis : I have a baby and a guy who's been watching him 24/7. And I just worked a 14-hour shift. No, I can't.

  Jing-Mei Chen : Well, maybe Carter can handle it. He's got Abby and Morris.

  Susan Lewis : We're inundated with homeless from the city roundup.

  Jing-Mei Chen : I know.

  Susan Lewis : We're already understaffed. Jing-Mei, please. You have to understand.

  Jing-Mei Chen : I do. It's okay.

  Susan Lewis : Good. Thank you.

  Jing-Mei Chen : I'm sorry, Susan. I quit.

  [walks away] 

• Jing-Mei Chen : [to Pratt]  You should go. I don't want you here.

  Gregory Pratt : You've been through a hell of a lot this last year. You need a break. Put him in a home for a month so you can catch your breath.

  Jing-Mei Chen : I can't.

  Gregory Pratt : We fight to save lives every day. You know, we literally bust our asses to give people a few more hours of living. You're a doctor, you can't just cross that line like it's nothing. Quality of life is the only measure that matters.

  Jing-Mei Chen : My proud father is lying in his own feces. He can't eat without vomiting, can't sleep. He knows what he's asking for and he knows he can get that from me.

  Gregory Pratt : If you weren't a physician, you couldn't do this.

  Jing-Mei Chen : But I am and I can.

  Gregory Pratt : Why haven't you done it up till now? If he's been asking so much? Because you know deep, down inside it would haunt you for the rest of your life. Why haven't you done it yet?

  Jing-Mei Chen : Maybe I don't have the courage.

• Jing-Mei Chen : [to Pratt]  My father's a doctor. He knows what he's asking. Without the G-tube and IV, he would've died weeks ago.

  Gregory Pratt : Oh, so now lifesaving technology is bad?

  Jing-Mei Chen : If someone doesn't want it...

  Gregory Pratt : How do you know he doesn't? He's not even in his right mind.

  Jing-Mei Chen : After he sleeps, he's lucid. Each time, every day, he begs me to help him. Removing the support's not enough. It would take him days to die of dehydration and he'd be in misery.

  Gregory Pratt : Put him in a nursing home.

  Jing-Mei Chen : So he can be somebody else's problem? Who doesn't know or love him?

  Gregory Pratt : He won't even know that he's there.

  Jing-Mei Chen : You're not Chinese.

  Gregory Pratt : So it's Chinese to euthanize your elders.

  Jing-Mei Chen : It's Chinese to respect them.