The Interns (1962)

Telly Savalas: Dr. Dominic Riccio

Quotes 

• Dr. Dominic Riccio : [addressing Considine's assessment of a patient]  Now, by the time we run all the tests you want, the patient will be in the refrigerator storage for twenty-four hours. Get 'em ready for a straight up and down exploratory lab in one hour. Do you agree... Bruckner?

  Dr. Madolyn Bruckner : Well sir, on my judgement, I...

  Dr. Dominic Riccio : My dear colleague, it will be a long time before you're entitled to so weighty a thing as a judgement. At present, your errors are based on intuition, forgivable in a woman, but intolerable in a physician.

  Dr. Madolyn Bruckner : [angrily]  I'm not alone in my diagnosis. Dr. Skyler has also written in the American...

  Dr. Dominic Riccio : Oh, quote me no quotes, please. I'm not interested in any textbook opinions. A definite diagnosis is virtually impossible in the patient's present condition. It's our duty to cut, get in, find out what's wrong. Am I getting through to the lady?