Critical Care (1997)

Helen Mirren: Stella

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• Dr. Werner Ernst : It's important to say we did as much as we could.

  Stella : Which is doctor-speak for we put this patient through hell before he died.

• Stella : Have you noticed how many of those nasty names start with a "d"? Dweeb, doofus, dickhead, dork, doctor.

• Stella : You look exhausted.

  Dr. Werner Ernst : Just one of the many side effects of - no sleep.

• Stella : Don't tell me. Not you and nurse Young Lust.

  Dr. Werner Ernst : Just making up for lost time.

• Dr. Werner Ernst : My best post-pubescent years were spent being totally rejected by women. I went from science dweeb in high school to biology nerd in college.

  Stella : What changed you into the stud you are today?

  Dr. Werner Ernst : Yeah, an "M.D." after my name. Suddenly, the dork was transformed into a smart, powerful, sexy, all-knowing, potentially *rich*, Master of Medicine. Exactly the kind of man that every girl hopes to marry.

• Stella : I worry about you, Dr. "Wiener". A life of no sleep and prodigious sex is not healthy.

  Dr. Werner Ernst : Who says?

  Stella : Hippocrates. You know what else he said?

  Dr. Werner Ernst : No. What?

  Stella : When the dingus gets hard, the brain gets soft.

• Stella : You're the doctor.

  Dr. Werner Ernst : Don't hold that against me.

• Stella : So you're going with the robodoctor to practice medicine in cyberspace?

• [first lines] 

  Stella : [dropping clipboard]  That's six's blood gases. I'm up to oxygen 60%.

  Dr. Werner Ernst : Thank you.