The Best Paramedic Quotes

George: [Referring to reviving Paula] what's the progress here?
Paramedic: We're trying to bring her around using a combination of stimulants and hydrating fluids but it might make her more unstable
George: We're running out of time. Wake her up
George: [as Tony walks by] where are you headed?
Tony: Following a lead that just came in. there's a connection to Syed Ali
George: Well, send somebody else. I need you here
Tony: To do what? Watch Paula die?
George: We've got to get the encryption code out of her or we're going to lose everything. We can't let that happen today
Tony: Yeah well you have this covered. I'm going to follow up on this lead
George: No, you're going to stay here and that's an order
Tony: Look, there's a Middle Eastern business man in LA who's had contact with Syed Ali recently. Now Ires and Peller are dead, who do you want me to send?
George: [Allowing him to leave] be reachable alright?
George: What're you looking at?
Michelle: Nothing
George: Putting bandwidth on the network?
Michelle: Yeah, I'm on it

[some of the symptoms of inhaling plutonium]
Paramedic: Well, there's hair loss...
George: I'm already used to that.

Rescue: [Before walking away] everything in your car I had cleared out and put it in the ambulance so whenever you're ready to go to the hospital
George: [Asking how he'll die from radiation poisoning] so, how's it going to happen?
Rescue: Excuse me?
George: You said I might be dead by tomorrow so I'm curious to know what to expect for the rest of the day
Rescue: There's a latent period where you will be mostly asymptomatic even in the most extreme cases, radiation poisoning can last a while
George: What's a while?
Rescue: Up to twelve hours, maybe longer. How do you feel now?
George: I'm going to puke
Rescue: I can give you something to control the nausea. At least until the symptoms are more acute
George: Yeah, like what?
Rescue: Your hair will start to fall out
George: [Jokingly] I'm used to that
Rescue: You'll start to manifest gastrointestinal hemorrhaging: skin legions, bleeding from the mouth, and nose
George: How am I going to die?
Rescue: Your mental functioning will begin to deteriorate and you'll lapse into a coma
Paramedic: [Interrupting them] Mr. Mason
Rescue: Not now
Paramedic: [Handing George a phone] it's the guy from your office Tony Almeida
Rescue: I said not now
George: [Over the phone] hey Tony what is it?
Tony: They hit us George. They bombed CTU
George: [Surprised] what kind of damage?
Tony: Damage reports are still coming in but so far we got nineteen of our people dead, twenty wounded, and seven missing
Tony: Look, we're bleeding back here. All of our Intel on the nuke was destroyed. I mean it's on the NSA server but Paula wrote the decryption code and she's in really bad shape
George: Well, do whatever you have to retrieve it
Tony: Yeah well I am. That's what I'm trying to do. That's why I called you. Chain of command remember?
George: Call NSA systems people and get them on it

Paramedic: Take off your clothes.
[after Mason has been exposed to radiation]
George: Aren't you going to buy me dinner first?