“Gomer is an acronym: Get Out of My Emergency Room — it's what you want to say when one's sent in from the nursing home at three a.m.”

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“But gomers are not just dear old people <…> Gomers are human beings who have lost what goes into being human beings. They want to die, and we will not let them. We're cruel to the gomers, by saving them, and they're cruel to us, by fighting tooth and nail against our trying to save them. They hurt us, we hurt them.”