‘My Extra Mile’
Season 5, Episode 15 - Aired March 21, 2006
J.D. encourages Turk and Dr. Cox to go the extra mile with their patients, but he may have overpromised when he agrees to shave his head for a leukemia patient. As they try to avoid stress at work, Turk is caught in a rat race for one of the surgical attending jobs, and Carla loses a patient Kelso asked her to look after.
Quote from Turk
[Turk is in the giant needle costume]
Turk: Excuse me, nurse. Hi! How 'bout a poke?
Carla: I have a husband, OK? And he's big and he's black and...
Turk: Baby, baby, it's me! But I do love that you go to that big and black stuff.
Carla: I can't wait to bear the fruit of your loins.
Quote from Turk
Jake: Hey, Dr. Turk. What happened to you?
Turk: I found the latest issue at a comic book store a mile and a half away. Here you go. Actually, I ran there in a foam needle suit, but you don't care.
Jake: Thanks, Dr. Turk.
Dr. Wen: Christopher, I heard you were sweating the rankings.
Turk: No. I'm married and trying to have a baby. Not having a job would be a big boost for me.
Dr. Wen: You're a good surgeon. Plus, your bedside manner is really important. There's no one on that list who spends more time with their patients.
Turk: Are you saying I have a job? If you are trying to "Kelly Ripa" me right now, I will freak out. [Dr. Wen pats Turk on the shoulder] I got a job!
Quote from Carla
Elliot: Carla, the orderly lost my chart for Mr. Tyler in 406. Would we have his dosages in here somewhere?
Carla: You were going to put him on penicillin, but he was allergic, so you put him on a gram of vancomycin.
Elliot: Thank you.
Janitor: You should you put some of that crazy-nurse memory to use on our missing dude.
Carla: Well, he was an older guy and he was on an IV, so he couldn't have gotten very far. He was jittery and he had this weird circle tan line on his arm. It was the nicotine patch. He was trying to quit smoking.
[Carla and the Janitor find Mr. Sommers smoking on the roof]
Quote from Turk
J.D.: Whoa! Nana! How you doing? Looking hot in the tracksuit. Gym's on the second floor. Date time.
Turk: Dude. There you are. Two things. First, aliens are here wearing tracksuits.
J.D.: Oh, no, that's Nana.
Turk: Second I got a job.
J.D.: Nice.
Turk: And if you hadn't pushed me to do that extra mile stuff, that probably wouldn't have happened, so thank you. You got a hottie waiting for you at the bar. You go get her!
Quote from Carla
J.D.: [v.o.] It's hard getting what happens at the hospital out of your head.
Carla: Ah! How was your first stress-free day?
Turk: Horrible. You?
Carla: Worse. Let's make a baby. If it doesn't work this time, I'll kill myself.
Turk: Not helping with the stress.
Quote from J.D.
J.D.: Why didn't you just read lines with the old guy?
Dr. Cox: My job is to make sick people better, not to help Bernie score a slice of Episcopalian tail on opening night.
J.D.: Sometimes, you got to go the extra mile with patients. That's what makes me such a special doctor.
Dr. Cox: That and your amazing ability to switch back and forth seamlessly between male and female genitalia.
J.D.: Ooh...
[fantasy: a white screen]
Dr. Cox: Newbie, snap out of it. We don't have time for your daydreaming.