Coma Movie Quotes
Dr. Susan Wheeler
Jim, I know it sounds silly but, supposing you wanted to put people into a coma, what would you do?
Jim
You mean on purpose?
Pathology Resident #2
Diethyl para-amino tannadol.
Jim
No, no, leaves a serum trace.
Pathology Resident #2
Yeah, if you know to look for it.
Jim
But it also peaks alk phos. That's a real giveaway. Besides, who can get tannadol?
Pathology Resident #2
Well, then you can use paradine.
Jim
No, it has a taste. We'd all make great murderers. I mean, who knows better about murder than a pathologist?
Pathology Resident #2
It sure keeps my wife in line.
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Jim
First rule of crime: Keep It Simple. What's simple? Carbon Monoxide.
Pathology Resident #2
Boring.
Dr. Susan Wheeler
Carbon Monoxide?
Jim
Sure, it's perfect. Anesthetist feeds the patient some carbon monoxide instead of oxygen. It's colorless and makes the blood very red so the surgeon doesn't notice anything funny. But the brain dies from lack of oxygen. End of operation - the patient doesn't wake up.
Dr. Susan Wheeler
No other effects?
Pathology Resident #2
Sure, other effects. Cardiac irritability.
Jim
Which this case had.
Pathology Resident #2
You know, it'd be much better to block the neuro-muscular junction with succinylcholine. Now that's a nice murder.
Jim
Yeah, who's gonna do it?
Pathology Resident #2
Well, who's gonna feed you carbon monoxide?
Jim
That's the problem. Been about a dozen of these coma cases here in the last year. They're always different. Different case, different anesthetist, different operation. Hard to imagine it's murder.
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Dr. George A. Harris
No decision is easy, Sue. It only looks that way when you're young. When you're older, everything is complicated. There is no black and white, only gray.
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Dr. Cowans
Anesthesia's the easiest job in the world until something goes wrong. It's 99% boredom and 1% scared-shitless panic.
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Nurse
Doctors make the worst patients. They know too much.
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Dr. George A. Harris
Our society faces momentous decisions. Decisions about the right to die. About abortion. About terminal illness, prolonged coma, transplantation. Decisions about life and death. But society isn't deciding. Congress isn't deciding. The courts aren't deciding. Religion isn't deciding. Why? Because society is leaving it up to us, the experts. The doctors.
Dr. Susan Wheeler
You're crazy.
Dr. George A. Harris
Americans spend $125 billion a year on health. More than defense. Because Americans believe in medical care. These great hospital complexes are the cathedrals of our age. Billions of dollars, thousands of beds. A whole nation of sick people turning to us for help.
Dr. Susan Wheeler
You, you ought to see somebody.
Dr. George A. Harris
They're children, Sue. They trust us. We can't tell them everything. Our job is to make things easier for them. I'm sure you agree.
Dr. Susan Wheeler
You're killing people.
Dr. George A. Harris
We must always take the long view. Not of the individual, but of society as a whole. Because medicine is now a great social force. The individual is too small.
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Dr. George A. Harris
Somebody has to make these decisions. We can't wait around forever. If society won't decide, we'll decide. We'll make the hard decisions.
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Dr. Cowans
Okay, Mrs. Greenly, it's time to wake up. Okay, Nancy? Mrs. Greenly? Wake up. Nance, can you give me a cough, please? Nancy?
[checks her eyes]
Dr. Cowans
Oh, Jesus Christ! Her pupils are fixed and dilated.
Dr. Richards
What?
Dr. Cowans
The pupils. They're fixed. Dilated.
Dr. Richards
Oh, my God!
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Mrs. Emerson
We have a left kidney, two hours old, ready to ship. It's a 4-3-6-7. A 31-year-old male. The bidding now stands at forty-two five.
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Dr. Susan Wheeler
It's all happening. It's really happening. Somebody is putting people into comas. They're murdering them.
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Dr. Susan Wheeler
Look at this. Two hundred and forty names. Ten are young people admitted for minor procedures. Breast biopsy, appendectomy. They all come out in a coma! Aren't you surprised?
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Dr. Susan Wheeler
Your days are always the same. Just politics, that's all. Who said what to whom. Who's rising, who's falling. Who's made a good move, a bad move. Politics!
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Dr. George A. Harris
Too many of us shut ourselves off from our feelings. We don't explore them. We don't understand them. We don't understand ourselves. It's the toughest thing about our profession.
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Dr. Mark Bellows
You get in the shower faster than any person alive.
Dr. Susan Wheeler
Have a beer. You'll feel better.
Dr. Mark Bellows
[turns around, talks to himself]
I know what'd make me feel better. Goddamn doctors. Couldn't have fallen in love with a nurse. Dorothy on the eighth floor. Yeah. She liked me. My own apartment.
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Dr. George A. Harris
We have certain constraints imposed on us. One is the state law concerning privacy in computer data access. An unauthorized entry was made last night.
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Dr. George A. Harris
You know what happened to Greenly?
Dr. Susan Wheeler
Yes.
Dr. George A. Harris
What happened?
Dr. Susan Wheeler
She died.
Dr. George A. Harris
How do you feel about that?
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Dr. George A. Harris
Sue, right now, I can protect you - because you're good. And frankly, because you're a woman.
Dr. Susan Wheeler
I don't want concessions.
Dr. George A. Harris
Well, at the moment, you'd better take any you can get.
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Dr. George A. Harris
Well, I could use a drink. How about you? Scotch?
Dr. Susan Wheeler
Whatever you're having, sir.
Dr. George A. Harris
I like a woman who drinks Scotch.
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Dr. Marcus
Give him five cc's of water and tell him it's morphine. He'll probably never know the difference. He's a pain in the ass anyway.
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Dr. Mark Bellows
Honey, I know you're upset.
Dr. Susan Wheeler
I'm not upset. You think because I'm a woman, I'm going to be upset. I'm fine, Mark.
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Dr. Mark Bellows
Listen, Susan, do you want me to heat up the dinner, is that what you want?
Dr. Susan Wheeler
I want some respect.
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Dr. Susan Wheeler
You know what the trouble with you is? All you care about is being chief resident.
Dr. Mark Bellows
You know what your trouble is? You don't really want a relationship. Look at you. You run away from it.
Dr. Susan Wheeler
This is ridiculous.
Dr. Mark Bellows
You don't want a lover, you want a goddamn wife!
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Dr. Mark Bellows
Oh, now, Honey, come on.
Dr. Susan Wheeler
Don't call me Honey.
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Dr. Mark Bellows
Now, why is it, whenever we're about to have a fight, you always manage to be undressed?
Dr. Susan Wheeler
Hey, what's the big deal?
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Dr. George A. Harris
It isn't a question - of why you wanted it, it's how you got it.
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Dr. Mark Bellows
Do you have any pain?
Mr. Schwartz
If I had any pain, I would go see a doctor.
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Dr. Mark Bellows
You on call tonight?
Dr. Susan Wheeler
Mm-hmm.
Dr. Mark Bellows
So am I. Why don't we have a terrific dinner, just the two of us, in the hospital cafeteria?
Dr. Susan Wheeler
Sounds great!
Dr. Mark Bellows
Eleven? Maybe afterwards, we can go to our favorite room on the eighth floor. Nobody will be there after midnight.
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Nancy Greenly
How do you feel about what happened to Nancy?
Dr. Susan Wheeler
Confused, that's all. Just confused. It's very - confusing!
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Dr. Susan Wheeler
Everybody's on my back about this. I mean, there's Mark whining about how I can't make a commitment and I'm cold and I want a wife and I'm afraid of intimacy. And then this thing happens to Nancy and she's my best friend just about. I've known her since boarding school. And then everybody jumps on my back and acts like I'm neurotic or something!
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Mrs. Emerson
The Jefferson Institute is a government-sponsored experimental facility designed to provide quality life support to the comatose patient. I wish to emphasize no moral or ethical position is being taken here. We do not participate in the debate over whether these patients are alive or dead or whether their care should be continued or terminated.
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Dr. Susan Wheeler
I was trying to tell you something about my day.
Dr. Susan Wheeler
I had a hard day too. Just go heat it up.
Dr. Mark Bellows
Now why is it whenever we're about to have a fight, you always manage to be undressed?
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Dr. Susan Wheeler
I wanted to understand what happened to her. Nobody else in the hospital seems to care.
Dr. Morelind
[skeptical]
Nobody else cares?
Dr. Susan Wheeler
Listen! There have been 10 cases of unexplained coma in young healthy patients in the last year. Now don't you find that surprising?
Dr. Morelind
No.
Dr. Susan Wheeler
[disheartened]
You don't.
Dr. Morelind
Susan, this hospital does 30,000 operations a year. Now I'm not surprised that a few turn out with unexplained side effects. Medicine isn't perfect. We all accept that. Don't we?
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morning radio host
[on the car radio as Susan drives up to the Boston Memorial Hospital where she works] Good morning. It's 6:00 am on a beautiful New England morning in Boston and these are the top stories: Mayor White's assistant, Kep Maloney, had met with the Boston redevelopment authority over the continuing controversy on the Charlestown Heights project. Police have arraigned John McMannus on $23 million dollar grant and bribery charges in connection of the Mystic River extension. High out of court...
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Kelly
You finished scaring me?
Vince
No.
[empties bucket of water over the custodian]
Kelly
Hey! What'd you do that for?
Vince
They said make it look like an accident.
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