"I have an M.D. from Harvard, I am board certified in cardio-thoracic medicine and trauma surgery, I have been awarded citations from seven different medical boards in New England, and I am never, ever sick at sea. So I ask you; when someone goes into that chapel and they fall on their knees and they pray to God that their wife doesn't miscarry or that their daughter doesn't bleed to death or that their mother doesn't suffer acute neural trama from postoperative shock, who do you think they're praying to? Now, go ahead and read your Bible,
Dennis, and you go to your church, and, with any luck, you might win the annual raffle, but if you're looking for God, he was in operating room number two on November 17, and he doesn't like to be second guessed. You ask me if I have a God complex. Let me tell you something: I
am God."
Of course, this monologue, delivered by Alec Baldwin the early 90s movie
Malice, is prime fodder for YouTube material, and worth seeing:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=LqeC3BPYTmE
Baldwin's character (Dr. Jed Hill) is a doctor facing a lawsuit from Tracy, (played by Nicole Kidman) for the miscarriage of her child. None of these clips, however, carry the best line, after Baldwin's character has left the deposition and the lawyers are talking:
-- [lawyer] You've got a winner here, Leslie. Call my office in the morning, and we'll work out a settlement.
-- [Tracy's lawyer] It gets better.
-- What do you mean?
-- [Tracy's lawyer] We talked to bartender who placed Hill at Prince William Tavern.
-- [Tracy] Ask God how many shots of bourbon he had before he cut me open.
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