Star Trek: The Next Generation (TV Series)

Ethics (1992)

Gates McFadden: Dr. Beverly Crusher

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• Doctor Beverly Crusher : [to Dr. Russell]  I am delighted that Worf is going to recover. You gambled, he won. Not all of your patients are so lucky. You scare me, Doctor. You risk your patients' lives and justify it in the name of research. Genuine research takes time - sometimes a lifetime of painstaking, detailed work in order to get any results. Not for you. You take shortcuts - right through living tissue! You put your research ahead of your patients' lives. And as far as I'm concerned, that's a violation of our most sacred trust. I'm sure your work will be hailed as a stunning breakthrough. Enjoy your laurels, Doctor. I'm not sure I could.

• Doctor Beverly Crusher : The first tenet of good medicine is, never make the patient any worse. Right now, Worf is alive and functioning. If he goes into that operation, he could come out a corpse.

  Captain Jean-Luc Picard : And this may not be good medicine. But for Worf, it may be his only choice.

• Doctor Beverly Crusher : Don't expect a lot of conversation; he's in full Klingon mode - honorable, strong and close-minded.

• [Worf has gone into cardiac arrest during the operation] 

  Doctor Beverly Crusher : Okay, 25cc's cordrazine.

  Dr. Toby Russell : That'll kill him!

  Doctor Beverly Crusher : Looks like we've done a pretty good job of that already, Doctor.

• Dr. Toby Russell : [about her genitronic replicator therapy]  I've done dozens of holo-simulations. The success rate is up to 37 percent.

  Doctor Beverly Crusher : Even a holographic patient would balk at those odds.

• Dr. Toby Russell : I make no excuses for my approach to medicine. I don't like losing a patient any more than you do. But I'm looking down a long road, Doctor. This man didn't die for nothing. The data that I gathered is invaluable. It will eventually help save thousands of lives.

  Doctor Beverly Crusher : I doubt if that will be of any comfort to his family.