The Golden Girls (TV Series)

Sick and Tired: Part 2 (1989)

Bea Arthur: Dorothy Zbornak

Quotes 

• Dorothy Petrillo-Zbornak : I don't know where you doctors lose your humanity, but you lose it. You know, if all of you at the beginning of your careers could get very sick and very scared for a while, you'd probably learn more from that than from anything else. You better start listening to your patients. They need to be heard. They need caring. They need compassion. They need attending to. You know, someday doctor Budd, you're going to be on the other side of the table, and as angry as I am and as ANGRY as I always will be, I still wish you a better doctor than you were to me.

• Dr. Harry Weston : You know, there are all kinds of diseases that we didn't know about before. Look at lyme disease.

  Dorothy Petrillo-Zbornak : Harry, am I gonna die?

  Dr. Harry Weston : I'm afraid so.

  Dorothy Petrillo-Zbornak : You really think so?

  Dr. Harry Weston : [shrugs]  Sooner or later, I guarantee it. Unless, of course, the Japanese come up with something.

• Oliver : How old are you?

  Dorothy Petrillo-Zbornak : Too old for you.

• Sophia : [Dorothy's getting ready for her doctor's appointment]  Wipe off your lipstick.

  Dorothy Petrillo-Zbornak : What?

  Sophia : You look too healthy, maybe that's why nobody believes you, you don't *look* sick.

  [Blanche stumbles in in her nightclothes, bleary eyed and disoriented] 

  Sophia : She should go, they'd believe her.

  Blanche Devereaux : [exhausted]  What day is this?

• Dorothy Petrillo-Zbornak : [chewing Dr. Budd out for dismissing her illness]  I suspect had I been a man, I wouldn't have been told to go to a hairdresser.

  Dr. Budd : Now look, I don't have to sit here and...

  Helen Budd : Shut up, Louis!