- Dr. Mark Greene: You carry a gun?
- Dr. Maggie Doyle: Under the front seat of my car. I was at the drive-thru once, waiting for some fries, and this punk walks up, and sticks a knife in my face. He wants my wallet. So I reach under the seat, grab the .357, stick it up his nose, and whoa, could that kid run.
- John Carter: My whole life is just one big funfest. Anspaugh hates me, Benton looks at me like I'm some kind of an alien.
- Nurse Carol Hathaway: Those things are in your favor.
- John Carter: Right. Thank you.
- Dr. Anna Del Amico: I'm telling you, it was at least 50 questions about my family background.
- Randi Fronczak: Yeah, nothing like the head of security to make you feel insecure.
- Dr. Anna Del Amico: He almost withheld my photo ID because I didn't know my stepmother's maiden name. Who knows their stepmother's maiden name?
- Nurse Carol Hathaway: Wow, he didn't cut you much slack on that picture there, either.
- Dr. Anna Del Amico: You'd think I was trying to walk in the front door of the White House.
- Randi Fronczak: Which is easier. I've done it.
- Dr. Mark Greene: What we should really be changing is the way we deal with patients and their families.
- Randi Fronczak: Yeah, like can't we keep them out of here? They're a pain in the ass.
- Dr. Mark Greene: Your compassion knows no bounds, Randi.
- Dr. Mark Greene: Look. Louise Pierson. Ankle x-ray. Three hours ago. Where is it? Discharge orders written almost two hours ago. Chart's still here, so the guy's still here. Come on! Med-Surg admission, Neuro consult, ETA 7:15 this morning. Where are they? We keep these people hanging around, I'd get pissed off enough to clobber somebody.
- Dr. Donald Anspaugh: [to Carter] This job is about determining what a patient needs and the best way for us as surgeons, to meet that need and as surgeons, we cut.
- John Carter: Dr. Anspaugh, as a doctor, if I can find a way to do what my patient wants that's medically acceptable, that's what I should do. I don't believe I should cut somebody open just because I can.
- Dr. Donald Anspaugh: It bothers me that this patient is willing to risk death rather than undergo a simple surgical procedure, but it bothers me even more that you're so willing to help him do that.
- Peter Benton: Dr. Coburn, I wanted to apologize for my behavior this morning in the delivery.
- Dr. Janet Coburn: Thank you, but it's unnecessary. I've never met a father who could handle it sensibly, calmly, maturely. If I ever do, that's the guy I'm really gonna slap around.
- Jeanie Boulet: [to Peter] You do have friends, a community. I hope everything will be all right and you need to stop standing in the hall.
- Dr. Mark Greene: I'm an idiot, Kerry. I'm a complete idiot.
- Kerry Weaver: Was that the detective you were waiting for?
- Dr. Mark Greene: It wasn't an angry patient. It wasn't a family member of an angry patient. It wasn't Chris Law. It wasn't Mr. Gunther. It wasn't that crazy guy who was yelling about Krishna.
- Kerry Weaver: They checked everybody out?
- Dr. Mark Greene: I thought I was remembering it like a puzzle that would come together, but the Chicago Police Department was nice enough to inform me that I am simply the victim of random violence.
- Kerry Weaver: Well, you knew that, Mark, patient or no patient.
- Dr. Mark Greene: What I knew is that everything I do, I do because I am not the victim. I treat the victim, I cure the victim, I watch them roll the victim out like a piece of meat, but the truth is, I'm the piece of meat.
- Kerry Weaver: We can't think about that. We're the ones who see what goes on out there. We know that every day some child won't make it home from school, some father won't make it home from work, but if we allowed ourselves to think that could be us, we couldn't walk out our front door.
- Dr. Mark Greene: The problem is that is us.
- Kerry Weaver: No, the problem is, it makes us like everyone else.