ER (TV Series)
Viable Options (2000)
Paul McCrane: Robert Romano
Quotes
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[a patient was stabbed in the cheek with Dr. Romano's pen]
Dr. Dave Malucci : Should I just, you know, maybe yank it out?
Dr. Robert Romano : No, we gotta check for damage to the facial nerve. Not to mention the damage to my pen.
Randall James : I've been stabbed, and you're worried about your pen?
Dr. Robert Romano : Oh, shut up.
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Dr. Robert Romano : Were my instructions in any way... . unclear?
Kerry Weaver : No, I-I think you made your position known.
Dr. Robert Romano : And you decided to ignore it?
Kerry Weaver : I took it under advisement.
Dr. Robert Romano : I see. Okay, well, then, you're suspended. Sign out your patients and go home.
Kerry Weaver : Robert, let's not...
Dr. Robert Romano : Right now, Kerry. Right now.
Kerry Weaver : Suspended.
Dr. Robert Romano : Effective immediately and until further notice.
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Dr. Robert Romano : I came in here looking for jevity and a dubhoff tube. By the way, we need to discuss your supply management. And I find this girl's foster parent conspiring with DCFS and apparently with you to circumvent the state authority and perform an invasive procedure on a girl who has been a gork most of her life and has no chance of recovery. Did I understand this correctly?
Kerry Weaver : You're overstating it.
Dr. Robert Romano : Am I?
Kerry Weaver : Yes. She has potentially life-threatening infection. All she needs is a central line and her so-called guardian has never seen her.
Dr. Robert Romano : Well, I've seen her.
Kerry Weaver : We have an obligation to provide appropriate care. All I'm doing is exercising a safeguard that's built into the system.
Dr. Robert Romano : You're letting your sympathy for the foster mother override your clinical judgement.
Kerry Weaver : I disagree but thank you for your input.
Dr. Robert Romano : This girl is not to get a central line.
Kerry Weaver : She's my patient.
Dr. Robert Romano : Feel free to hydrate her through her g-tube and keep her comfortable.
Kerry Weaver : I already have my second opinion.
Dr. Robert Romano : I'm the final opinion. I'm not getting in a pissing match with the State Welfare Department.
Kerry Weaver : It's one bureaucrat.
Dr. Robert Romano : And he is right, it's hopeless and exorbitantly expensive. Stop flogging her. Franky I've come to a higher level of professionalism from you.
Kerry Weaver : I'm supporting what I see is a parental decision. Angie is essentially the woman's daughter.
Dr. Robert Romano : She's her pet! Look at this girl, what kind of quality of life you think she has?
Kerry Weaver : Robert.
Dr. Robert Romano : Kerry, I'm serious. No central line.
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Dr. Robert Romano : Well, it looks like a P to me. Bisoprolol.
Peter Benton : It's a C. Why would I order a beta-blocker for constipation?
Dr. Robert Romano : What's that say, Carter?
John Carter : Well, I-I can see how the pharmacy could have read it wrong ,but, they really should have called.
Dr. Robert Romano : Sure. Blame them, you coward.
Cleo Finch : It could have been read both ways.
Dr. Robert Romano : Hey, you, come here. I need an impartial observer.
Peter Benton : Oh, come on, that's a fax copy. You can't even...
Dr. Robert Romano : Quiet, Peter! Is that a C or a P?
Abby Lockhart : It looks like a Q.
Dr. Robert Romano : Someone else who can't read it.
Peter Benton : I prescribed bisacodyl. That's what I ordered. That's what I wrote.
Dr. Robert Romano : Then why is this patient currently undergoing an angioplasty for a life-threatening myocardial infarction?
Peter Benton : You heard me say bisacodyl?
Cleo Finch : Yeah.
Dr. Robert Romano : Did you even bother to read the pharmacy label before you handed it out?
Cleo Finch : There was a trauma coming in.
Dr. Robert Romano : Oh! Oh, a trauma came in. Oh, well, that makes everything okay. When traumas come in we can just hand out whatever meds happen to be laying around.
John Carter : Dr. Romano was...
Dr. Robert Romano : Carter! What does this have to do with you? Nothing. So shut up.
Abby Lockhart : Can I go?
Dr. Robert Romano : The growing level of incompetence around here is frightening. It's a wonder we haven't been shut down.
Cleo Finch : It was an honest mistake.
Dr. Robert Romano : No, it was tag-team negligence. Okay, you are both prohibited from writing prescriptions until further notice.
Cleo Finch : How are we supposed to treat the patients?
Dr. Robert Romano : I'm sure Dr. Carter or one of the other colleagues will be happy to write them for you.
Peter Benton : How long?
Dr. Robert Romano : Until your penmanship approves and until you learn how to read.
Cleo Finch : I know how to read.
Dr. Robert Romano : Then do it!
[Carter pretends to shiver]
Peter Benton : Thank you, Carter. Thank you, Carter.
[Carter walks out]
Peter Benton : So you just gave him a bottle of pills without even looking at it?
Cleo Finch : Peter, what you wrote wasn't legible.
Peter Benton : I shouldn't be writing your scripts anyway.
Cleo Finch : I didn't ask you to.
Peter Benton : He was your patient. You always check the label before you give the drugs. They teach you that on the first day, Cleo.