Strong Medicine (2000–2006)

Ricky Schroder: Dr. Dylan West

Quotes 

• Dr. Dylan West : Mr. Lawson, don't give up hope.

  Mr. Lawson : Try looking from the world from where I'm sitting before you lecture me on hope.

  Dr. Dylan West : I've been there.

  Mr. Lawson : You've killed someone?

  Dr. Dylan West : Yeah. I killed my fiancée. I was a fourth-year surgical resident when I met her. She was amazing. Three months after our first date, I asked her to marry me. We were heading up to the Poconos for a ski weekend. I just got off of 36 hours on call. I had no business being behind the wheel. But she wanted to wake up in the mountains. And there was no way I was going to disappoint her.

  [pause] 

  Dr. Dylan West : 10 miles outside of Tannerville...

  [sigh] 

  Dr. Dylan West : ... I fell asleep. The car flipped. And she was dead before the paramedics got there.

  Mr. Lawson : That was an accident.

  Dr. Dylan West : Think that matters to me?

  [sigh] 

  Dr. Dylan West : You think I feel any less guilty?

  Mr. Lawson : Looks like you got over her.

  Dr. Dylan West : No. I learned to live with it. I just finally realized that... every situation no matter how awful presents an opportunity.

  Mr. Lawson : If you're about to tell me everything happens for a reason, I swear, I-I'll drop you right where you're sitting.

  Dr. Dylan West : No. things happen because people make choices. And sometimes bad things happen for no reason at all. But we still have a choice how to handle it. As bad as things are for you right now, you have a choice... to make things better or make things worse.

• Araya : I get to pick the movie.

  Dr. Dylan West : Fine, but nothing gory.

  Araya : You're a surgeon! What do you do, operate with your eyes closed?

• Dr. Luisa 'Lu' Delgado : You need someone who knows the streets, and you don't know jack.

  Dr. Dylan West : And you do?

  Dr. Luisa 'Lu' Delgado : As a matter of fact, Jack happens to be a very good friend of mine.

• Dr. Dylan West : Oh, no! We're flooding! This damn water pump keeps going out.

  Araya : That's a titanic amount of water!

  Dr. Dylan West : Would you just go get some towels and a broom?

  Araya : Hell, no, I'm abandoning ship!