The Interns

Dr. Dominic Riccio: [addressing Considine's assessment of a patient] Now, by the time we run all the tests you want, the patient will be in the refrigerator storage for twenty-four hours. Get 'em ready for a straight up and down exploratory lab in one hour. Do you agree... Bruckner?

Dr. Madolyn Bruckner: Well sir, on my judgement, I...

Dr. Dominic Riccio: My dear colleague, it will be a long time before you're entitled to so weighty a thing as a judgement. At present, your errors are based on intuition, forgivable in a woman, but intolerable in a physician.

Dr. Madolyn Bruckner: [angrily] I'm not alone in my diagnosis. Dr. Skyler has also written in the American...

Dr. Dominic Riccio: Oh, quote me no quotes, please. I'm not interested in any textbook opinions. A definite diagnosis is virtually impossible in the patient's present condition. It's our duty to cut, get in, find out what's wrong. Am I getting through to the lady?