- Dr. Luisa 'Lu' Delgado: [upset that school won't allow girl to keep inhaler on hand] Do you have any idea what it's like trying to breathe with a plastic bag over your head? Because that's what it is like for someone who is having an asthma attack!
- Dr. Luisa 'Lu' Delgado: You need someone who knows the streets, and you don't know jack.
- Dr. Dylan West: And you do?
- Dr. Luisa 'Lu' Delgado: As a matter of fact, Jack happens to be a very good friend of mine.
- Dr. Dylan West: Mr. Lawson, don't give up hope.
- Mr. Lawson: Try looking from the world from where I'm sitting before you lecture me on hope.
- Dr. Dylan West: I've been there.
- Mr. Lawson: You've killed someone?
- Dr. Dylan West: Yeah. I killed my fiancée. I was a fourth-year surgical resident when I met her. She was amazing. Three months after our first date, I asked her to marry me. We were heading up to the Poconos for a ski weekend. I just got off of 36 hours on call. I had no business being behind the wheel. But she wanted to wake up in the mountains. And there was no way I was going to disappoint her.
- [pause]
- Dr. Dylan West: 10 miles outside of Tannerville...
- [sigh]
- Dr. Dylan West: ... I fell asleep. The car flipped. And she was dead before the paramedics got there.
- Mr. Lawson: That was an accident.
- Dr. Dylan West: Think that matters to me?
- [sigh]
- Dr. Dylan West: You think I feel any less guilty?
- Mr. Lawson: Looks like you got over her.
- Dr. Dylan West: No. I learned to live with it. I just finally realized that... every situation no matter how awful presents an opportunity.
- Mr. Lawson: If you're about to tell me everything happens for a reason, I swear, I-I'll drop you right where you're sitting.
- Dr. Dylan West: No. things happen because people make choices. And sometimes bad things happen for no reason at all. But we still have a choice how to handle it. As bad as things are for you right now, you have a choice... to make things better or make things worse.
- Jesse Campbell: Why can't they just say it in English? I have scoliosis. I have to wear a back brace.
- Dr. Andy Campbell: What the doctor was saying is that the brace hasn't been helping like he thought it would.
- Jesse Campbell: So you mean I won't have to wear the brace any more?
- Dr. Andy Campbell: Well...
- Jesse Campbell: Give it to me straight, doc.
- Dr. Andy Campbell: You're going to need an operation.
- Jesse Campbell: [shocked but soft] Wow.
- Dr. Andy Campbell: Providing the operation goes well, you won't have to wear the brace.
- Jesse Campbell: You mean providing I live.
- Chief of Staff Dr. Robert Jackson: [after Delgado made him explain why a certain drug was illegal to a patient] Dr. Delgado, don't you ever pull another stunt like that again.
- Dr. Luisa 'Lu' Delgado: You guys make people feel like crap, which is what you are to me. What you did wasn't enough to get you arrested, but it damn well should be.
- Araya: I get to pick the movie.
- Dr. Dylan West: Fine, but nothing gory.
- Araya: You're a surgeon! What do you do, operate with your eyes closed?
- Dr. Dylan West: Oh, no! We're flooding! This damn water pump keeps going out.
- Araya: That's a titanic amount of water!
- Dr. Dylan West: Would you just go get some towels and a broom?
- Araya: Hell, no, I'm abandoning ship!
- Dr. Luisa 'Lu' Delgado: You have to admit, that it's getting time in your life when people like you start thinking about moving to Florida.
- Lydia: Look, you've done amazing things. And when you're old and gray like me, I pray that you'll still be doing amazing things.
- Dr. Luisa 'Lu' Delgado: [to firefighter/friend] I thought you were dead. Dead!
- [slapping his shoulders]
- Dr. Luisa 'Lu' Delgado: *Dead!*
- Les Campbell: Jesse, now I've talked to the doctor about your surgery.
- Jesse Campbell: Yeah, they're going to cut me open like a sardine can.
- Dr. Andy Campbell: Okay! Yes, I know that this is very risky surgery.
- Jesse Campbell: Mom, can dad stay for dinner?
- Dr. Andy Campbell: [like it's no problem] Okay.
- Jesse Campbell: And can't he stay until after the surgery?
- Dr. Andy Campbell: [like it is a problem] *Jesse.*
- Dr. Andy Campbell: I love you. You know that, right?
- Jesse Campbell: I love you too, Mom. Will you be there when I wake up?
- Dr. Andy Campbell: Of course, I will. You know I will.