The Good Doctor (TV Series)

Oliver (2017)

Nicholas Gonzalez: Dr. Neil Melendez

Quotes 

• Allegra Aoki : Jessica, what's the legal burden here?

  Jessica Preston : Significant. If we move forward with this transplant, we could lose privileges from the registry.

  Dr. Neil Melendez : If it was discovered.

  Dr. Marcus Andrews : If it were discovered? How narrow can you be about this?

  Allegra Aoki : Dr. Glassman, where are you on this?

  Dr. Aaron Glassman : I can make a good argument either way.

  Dr. Marcus Andrews : Go ahead, please.

  Dr. Aaron Glassman : Better to remove the arguments all together.

  Dr. Marcus Andrews : What the hell is he talking about?

  Dr. Aaron Glassman : All I'm talking about is that we have a patient in this hospital who needs a liver. We also just happen to have a liver that needs a patient.

  Dr. Marcus Andrews : It's not that simple.

  Dr. Aaron Glassman : It is that simple if you consider the patient. Rules are secondary.

  Dr. Marcus Andrews : But is saving this patient worth the risk of not being able to save hundreds of others?

  Dr. Neil Melendez : I don't have hundreds of patients right now. I have one, and his name is Chuck.

• Dr. Jared Kalu : I didn't do well in calculus.

  Dr. Neil Melendez : This is algebra. With his severe cirrhosis, his alcohol clearance rate is one milligram per deciliter per hour. One drink, say eight ounces...

  Dr. Jared Kalu : It's champagne, six ounces, tops.

  Dr. Neil Melendez : Play it conservative. Eight ounces results in a blood alcohol level of thirty-nine milligrams per deciliter. One standard drink. Now, the purpose of abstinence, at least according to the transplant registry is...

  Dr. Jared Kalu : Patients who kill their livers due to excessive drinking prove they can be sober.

  Dr. Neil Melendez : Let me see that report. 0.02. Chuck was telling the truth. He did just have the one drink.

  Dr. Jared Kalu : He didn't fall off the wagon.

  Dr. Neil Melendez : Corporate loves its data. I'm not sure it'll actually make a difference, but it does give us an argument.

  Dr. Jared Kalu : [looking at the equations]  You're a genius.

• Dr. Neil Melendez : It was a glass. A glass of champagne at his daughter's graduation. I have the labs to prove it. Chuck didn't fall off the wagon. He had one drink and never went back.

  Dr. Marcus Andrews : The transplant registry guidelines don't play in the gray for a reason.

  Dr. Neil Melendez : Those guidelines are so arbitrary. Have one drink and you die. A couple pills of Ecstasy, no problem. Hepatitis B from careless sexual practice, nope. Nothing at all about that.

  Dr. Marcus Andrews : So what do you want us to do? Throw out the rules?

  Dr. Neil Melendez : I want us not to hide behind them. We do have a responsibility.

  Dr. Marcus Andrews : Without the rules, we're playing God. We need the rules.

  Dr. Neil Melendez : Does that help you sleep better at night?

  Dr. Marcus Andrews : Yes, it does. We have one liver today, and 800 people in this state need it. I don't want to haunted by the other 799.