ER (TV Series)

Only Connect (2005)

Goran Visnjic: Luka Kovac

Quotes 

• Nurse Sam Taggart : He's too young to go, and shouldn't even be listening to that kind of music anyways.

  Dr. Luka Kovac : I did't know you already said no.

  Nurse Sam Taggart : Luca, I'm trying to teach him the value of a dollar and you go and give him everything that he wants.

  Dr. Luka Kovac : It was only fifty bucks.

  Nurse Sam Taggart : For a concert ticket for a ten year old, NO. That's ridiculous.

  Dr. Luka Kovac : I just don't think you should be worried about money so much.

  Nurse Sam Taggart : Look, I appreciate your generosity, but I am not going to let you start paying for everything.

  Dr. Luka Kovac : But you don't have to pay exactly half the rent and half the bills every month, that's ridiculous.

  Nurse Sam Taggart : You know I've been taking care of me and Alex for 10 years on my own, I think I can handle it.

  Dr. Luka Kovac : You know, this isn't about money at all. You're worried about losing your independence or something. And about my role in Alex's live. What are you worried you're losing control or something.

  Nurse Sam Taggart : You know what, you always do this.

  Dr. Luka Kovac : Do what?

  Nurse Sam Taggart : This! Telling me what I'm really mad about.

  Dr. Luka Kovac : Most of the time you don't know what you're really mad about.

  [Sam walks to the door] 

  Dr. Luka Kovac : Sam, this isn't our stop.

• Dr. Luka Kovac : [to Sam]  It's a teaching hospital!

  Nurse Sam Taggart : Yeah. It's also a real hospital with live patients who didn't get antibiotics and insulin 'cause I was in here doing compressions for 30 minutes!

  Dr. Luka Kovac : OK, so you did some extra compressions. What you really mad about?

  Nurse Sam Taggart : Are you in all seriousness telling me for the second time today that I am not mad about what I'm really mad about?

  Dr. Luka Kovac : I have no idea what you just said!

• Dr. Neela Rasgotra : [to Kovac]  You and Dr. Lewis must think I'm a complete idiot.

  Dr. Luka Kovac : No, no. You're... you're just inexperienced. Hey. Hey, hey. Come here. First, you have to bring them into the family room for a death notification. Sit down. Somewhere away from the rest of the patients and the staff.

  Dr. Neela Rasgotra : She just got so hysterical.

  Dr. Luka Kovac : Make sure they are sitting down. Don't be evasive and don't use euphemisms. Use the word "dead" and the word "is."

  Dr. Neela Rasgotra : I know all this.

  Dr. Luka Kovac : Give them a tissue. Look them in the eye and make a connection. Then just say, "I'm... I'm very sorry." It's okay.

  Dr. Neela Rasgotra : [trying not to cry]  I suck.

  Dr. Luka Kovac : No, you don't suck. You're... you're still learning.

• Dr. Luka Kovac : If we want to make our patients happier, we need to teach our residents to connect with them better, you know? To communicate, to...

  John Carter : What are you? The Croatian Dr. Phil?