ER (TV Series)

The Greater Good (2003)

Goran Visnjic: Luka Kovac

Quotes 

• Dr. Luka Kovac : I'm not billing for treatment we didn't provide.

  Dr. Robert Romano : It's called capitalism, Kovac. It pays your salary.

• Dr. Gregory Pratt : She was my patient!

  Dr. Luka Kovac : Yes, and if I hadn't treated her, she would still be here. Now she's at home and feeling better.

  Dr. Gregory Pratt : So, that's it? This is how I'm supposed to learn? Either I do it your way or you take it away from me?

  Dr. Luka Kovac : Pratt, I'm trying to teach you the way you practice medicine here is inefficient.

  Dr. Gregory Pratt : Oh, and letting babies die is?

  Dr. Luka Kovac : You really think you saved that kid today? For what? 24-hours nursing care. He's probably gonna require a lifetime committment. Are you gonna be around to give it to him?

  Dr. Gregory Pratt : Listen, I'm sorry I'm not in some mud-hut doing amputations with a pocketknife. We have the technology and expertise to give that kid a chance! What's the sense in having it if we don't use it?

  Dr. Luka Kovac : That kid has about a 5% chance of having a normal life. You have any idea how many other kids we could have treated with those resources?

  Dr. Gregory Pratt : I do everything I can for my patients! That's how I practice medicine. This is Chicago, not the damned Congo. Maybe you should go back to Africa.

  Dr. Luka Kovac : Maybe you should go to Africa.

  Dr. Gregory Pratt : I know you didn't just say that to me.

  Dr. Luka Kovac : Maybe then you'd learn that there's more to being a doctor than ordering tests and calling consults for every patient just to cover your ass.