Elliot: I need to find someone to split the rent at my place.
Turk: I thought you were getting good money at your fellowship.
[flashback to Elliot at the free clinic talking to a patient with no legs:]
Elliot: So first, my fellowship gets canceled because some jackass cures the disease, and the only job I can get is working at this crappy free clinic for eight bucks an hour. No one's life could be worse than mine.