Casualty 1909 Quotes
[the hospital is at crisis point tending to the victims of a fire; Nurse Bennett is performing a needle thorocentesis because no doctor is free to do it]
Eva Luckes: Nurse Bennett, what are you doing?
Ethel Bennett: A needle thorocentesis - none of the doctors are available.
Eva Luckes: Nurse Bennett, what do you think you are doing?
Ethel Bennett: Sorry, Matron, what was the question? [Dr Culpin rushes into the room]
Millais Culpin: You did it! Good! Keep an eye on him - you may need to repeat.
Eva Luckes: Nurse, your top button is undone!
Ethel Bennett: Yes, Matron.
Millais Culpin: Miss Luckes, in the midst of all this, does it honestly matter if a nurse's button has become undone?
Eva Luckes: Yes, I think it matters very much, Doctor. It's a question of discipline. Nurse Bennett, would you come with me, please.
Millais Culpin: Ethel, stay where you are!
Eva Luckes: A doctor does not call a nurse by her christian name.
Millais Culpin: [to Nurse Bennett] Stay where you are and attend to your patient.
Eva Luckes: A nurse does not have a *patient*, doctor.
Millais Culpin: You have my pity, Miss Luckes. All around you the flames of modernity are blazing as fiercely as the fire that tore through that slum. Yet there you stand trying to keep everything in its rightful bloody place, etiquette, buttons and all.
Eva Luckes: Doctor Culpin, where did Nurse Bennett learn to do a needle thorocentesis. It's not in any of the nursing manuals.
Millais Culpin: It is surely to her credit if she chooses to read
Eva Luckes: Nurse Bennett, what are you doing?
Ethel Bennett: A needle thorocentesis - none of the doctors are available.
Eva Luckes: Nurse Bennett, what do you think you are doing?
Ethel Bennett: Sorry, Matron, what was the question? [Dr Culpin rushes into the room]
Millais Culpin: You did it! Good! Keep an eye on him - you may need to repeat.
Eva Luckes: Nurse, your top button is undone!
Ethel Bennett: Yes, Matron.
Millais Culpin: Miss Luckes, in the midst of all this, does it honestly matter if a nurse's button has become undone?
Eva Luckes: Yes, I think it matters very much, Doctor. It's a question of discipline. Nurse Bennett, would you come with me, please.
Millais Culpin: Ethel, stay where you are!
Eva Luckes: A doctor does not call a nurse by her christian name.
Millais Culpin: [to Nurse Bennett] Stay where you are and attend to your patient.
Eva Luckes: A nurse does not have a *patient*, doctor.
Millais Culpin: You have my pity, Miss Luckes. All around you the flames of modernity are blazing as fiercely as the fire that tore through that slum. Yet there you stand trying to keep everything in its rightful bloody place, etiquette, buttons and all.
Eva Luckes: Doctor Culpin, where did Nurse Bennett learn to do a needle thorocentesis. It's not in any of the nursing manuals.
Millais Culpin: It is surely to her credit if she chooses to read
Movie: Casualty 1909
