The West Wing, Season Four

Abbey:
Samuel Mudd set Booth's leg after he shot Lincoln. Doctors are liable in this country if they don't treat the patient in front of them.

Bartlet:
Just for the record, this is why we don't talk about foreign policy, which we do, but you don't think we do enough.

Abbey:
Why?

Bartlet:
Because Samuel Mudd was tried and convicted of treason for setting that leg.

Abbey:
So?

Bartlet:
What 'so'?

Abbey:
So that's the way it goes. You set the leg.