Critical Care (1997) Poster

(1997)

James Spader: Dr. Werner Ernst

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  • Constance 'Connie' Potter : Doctor, I don't mean to be angry.

    Dr. Werner Ernst : Forget about it, I don't mean to be inhumane.

  • Dr. Werner Ernst : My question is, if you were comatose would you want to be kept a live for months by machines.

    Dr. Butz : Hell no! When I go, I don't want to be tortured in some bed. I have this planned out, Warner. I'm gonna be sitting on my back porch, I'm gonna have a Cuban cigar in one hand, and a big glass 'o scotch in the other, and a belly full of barbecued ribs with a ton of sauce. That's why I don't have insurance.

  • Dr. Werner Ernst : If there's no reasonable prospect of cure, why should we proceed?

    Dr. Butz : Where have you been all your life? It's called revenue!

  • 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.

  • [last lines] 

    Dr. Butz : [shouting from his car]  Ernst! Stay away from him! You wanna get sued again? Damn it, make sure he's got insurance! Better ask him for proof of insurance! Haven't you learned anything from me?

    Mike : Are you a doctor?

    Dr. Werner Ernst : Yeah, I'm a 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.

  • Dr. Werner Ernst : I have lettuce in my refrigerator with better chances of becoming conscious than this guy.

  • Stella : You're the doctor.

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

  • Richard Wilson : Don't worry. The Medical Center will protect your interests. Our outside counsel, Robert Payne, he'll take care of this.

    Dr. Werner Ernst : Is he good?

    Richard Wilson : He's the best. He's the fucking Terminator.

  • Constance 'Connie' Potter : We are all sinners. But God loves sinners.

    Dr. Werner Ernst : That's good news.

  • Dr. Werner Ernst : End my medical career? Do you have any idea what's taken me to get this far?

    Felicia Potter : It doesn't matter.

    Dr. Werner Ernst : Doesn't matter? Ten years of college. 120,000 dollars in tuition. A year of hell working as an intern for no money. Two years as a resident. Still no money, but the hours are even worse. 110, 120 hours a week. Never enough sleep. Never any time for myself. It doesn't matter?

  • Robert Payne : Have you ever been cross-examined?

    Dr. Werner Ernst : No, never.

    Robert Payne : Cross-examination can be a very unpleasant experience. Telling lies successfully is almost impossible. Lies change. The truth does not change. If an honest witness gets confused, he need only remember the truth and cling to it. A witness who is lying cannot cling to the truth. Changes appear. A good lawyer confronts those changes. Things get worse. Panic sets in. Lying under oath is perjury. Perjury is a serious crime. It can be a devastating experience.

    Dr. Werner Ernst : I understand.

    Robert Payne : One more thing. If Felicia Potter's attorney calls you to testify, I will be cross-examining you.

  • Nun : Something troubling you, doctor?

    Dr. Werner Ernst : What? Oh! I was just daydreaming.

    Nun : A teacher once told me: "Be careful what you dream, for you shall become as your dream".

  • Nun : You can change. You can teach yourself to love what's important.

    Dr. Werner Ernst : No matter what we love, it won't be with us after we die. Our bodies, our minds, everything will be gone.

    Nun : In eternity, I will still be here holding this man's hand and praying. You will still be here, asking me these questions and struggling to love me - and to love this man and to love yourself. God will still be here. And everyone who ever lived will still be here too.

  • [first lines] 

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

    Dr. Werner Ernst : Thank you.

  • Dr. Werner Ernst : Don't forget, I can keep your father legally alive almost indefinitely. Actually with modern medical technology I could probably give a glass of water all the vital signs necessary to be legally alive. And I can end his life any time I want just by turning a knob.

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