Dr. Daniel Charles quotes from Chicago Med

Dr. Daniel Charles

Sometimes, when somebody that we love gets sick, very easy to lose sight of the person and see only the disease. Remembering that our loved one is still there? Not always easy.

Dr. Daniel Charles

You were in the, uh, what, the navy, right?

Dr. Ethan Choi

Still am. Naval Reserves.

Dr. Daniel Charles

Doc I did my residency with was on away leave from the Navy. Tough as hell practicing psychiatry with you guys. Couldn't get anybody to open up.

Dr. Ethan Choi

Could be a sign of weakness.

Dr. Daniel Charles

That's your dad?

Dr. Connor Rhodes

Yep.

Dr. Daniel Charles

Fathers like that keep me in business, baby.

Sharon Goodwin

Have you been binging on Mannix again?

Dr. Daniel Charles

You don't like it, stop sending me box sets for Christmas.

Dr. Ethan Choi

[after Reese caught the brunt of a collapsing patient] Anything hurt?

Sarah Reese

Not really. Gonna be stiff tomorrow, though, aren't I?

Dr. Ethan Choi

Yeah, but pain builds character.

Sarah Reese

According to who, exactly?

Dr. Ethan Choi

Bret still needs an LP. You good?

Sarah Reese

Uh... fourth period, bottom of the ninth... put me back in, coach.

Dr. Daniel Charles

Butchered hockey, football, and baseball in one sentence. Impressive.

Dr. Ethan Choi

Got a patient, seventeen year old hockey player.

Dr. Daniel Charles

I heard. Bret "Bear" Cooper. Dad was a heavy. Hear the kid's even better.

Dr. Ethan Choi

Wouldn't have taken you for a jock.

Dr. Daniel Charles

Oh, come on. Sport's the oldest form of group therapy. We yell, we scream, testosterone spikes. Every now and then, we even get to believe in a miracle.

Dr. Daniel Charles

I haven't seen you in a while.

Oh, it'd be more often if you'd show up at poker now and again.

Dr. Daniel Charles

Maybe I'd show up more often if you didn't keep taking my money.

Yeah, I'd stop taking your money if you didn't touch your chin whenever you bluffed.

Dr. Daniel Charles

Wait. I have a tell? Really?

Dr. Ethan Choi

I got a patient who wants his LVAD removed. He got what he wanted. [deep breath] Now his dead.

Dr. Daniel Charles

[having had to witness a colleague's termination for medical misconduct] Huh. I guess I took out an LVAD myself today.

Dr. Ethan Choi

How do we ever know what we're doing is right?

Dr. Daniel Charles

It's tricky. The first part of Hippocratic oath is clear, right? "Do no harm." Then it goes on to say, "I'will remember that there is art to medicine as well as science." So it's tricky.

Dr. Ethan Choi

It ever get any easier?

Dr. Daniel Charles

Hope so.

Dr. Daniel Charles

You know what I am going to tell you why I think you threw yourself in front of that car. It's precisely because you think you have the perfect life and you're still miserable.

So what I'm a ingrate?

Dr. Daniel Charles

It's called endogenous depression. And it's caused by your brain chemistry. And like so many people who suffer from depression, you ashamed to tell anybody about it because you think it's your fault.

Ok. Ya sure. I bet.

Dr. Daniel Charles

Ok, look. Why don't you call your wife. Tell her where you are. Why you're here. She's an attorney, she'll get you out of here in 5 minutes. She knows what to do. Oh, what? You don't want to call her? Why, are you worried that maybe if she finds out that you're not the brave strong man she married she might not love you anymore? Did you know the single greatest challenge that I face is trying to convince people that depression isn't a sign of weakness.

Ok, I'll remember that if I'm ever depressed.

Dr. Daniel Charles

Ok. You know I got to hand it to you, you are... you're one hell of a performer. I mean, a real trooper. Keeping it up for so long. Selling this idea you think of who you need to be all the time. Carrying around the weight of that performance... isn't it tiring? Aren't you exhausted? I think it be exhausting.

I have absolutely no excuse to be sad.

Dr. Daniel Charles

You don't need a excuse, man. You're a human being.

Dr. Daniel Charles

[describing a patient with body integrity identity disorder] These people believe that one of their limbs, part of their body, is not their own. His sense of self does not extend to the fingers on his left arm. It stops at the elbow.

Dr. Ethan Choi

[bemused] Sorry, it sounds a little out there to me.

Dr. Daniel Charles

I mean, who are any of us to say where we end, right? Or begin. Physicists will tell you there's no physical self at all, right? Just waves of energy. A mystics will say that we're one big soup.

Dr. Ethan Choi

I'm not a physicist or a mystic, I'm a doc who spent his career treating wounded soldiers who begged me "Save my leg", "Save my arm". You don't think I should commit this guy?

I'm not in trouble am I?

Dr. Daniel Charles

Noooo - you know what, let's - Let's find Mom and Dad, it's a very scary place.

[looks back at the blood on the floor] I'm not scared.

Dr. Daniel Charles

No?

I want to be a doctor.

Dr. Daniel Charles

Really? Why's that?

[mumbles] The knives...

Dr. Daniel Charles

[shocked] What?!

[forces smile] To help people.

Sharon Goodwin

DCFS recommended that Griffin be separated from the family.

Dr. Natalie Manning

Good.

Sharon Goodwin

No. The Taylors aren't going to do it.

Dr. Natalie Manning

What? I don't understand. They saw.

Dr. Daniel Charles

"Heart will not accept what the eye can see." Willful blindness, right? I'm afraid this is not gonna end well.

Dr. Natalie Manning

Heart rate, BP's coming down.

[crying] What's happening to Bo?

Dr. Daniel Charles

He's terrified. Fear response is an involuntary reflex. Even though he's heavily medicated, he's aware he's in danger.

Sharon Goodwin

Daniel, what are you doing tonight?

Dr. Daniel Charles

Mm, working. Why?

Sharon Goodwin

Well, an old friend of Bert's and mine has moved to town and I thought we could all go to dinner.

Dr. Daniel Charles

You know, sounds like a blast, but I really am slammed.

Sharon Goodwin

Come on, Daniel. Bert's been so grumpy lately, and he always cheers up when he talks to you.

Dr. Daniel Charles

What's going on?

Sharon Goodwin

It's a long story, but you'd really be helping me out. Besides, Maribel loves Scotch and ballroom dancing. You haven't been out in a while.

Dr. Daniel Charles

You know, there's a reason for that. There's this new study out, says dating can lead to marriage.

Sharon Goodwin

It's just a friendly dinner.

Dr. Daniel Charles

Parrots are highly intelligent, and very socially attuned. There is, in fact, a program at the VA in San Francisco that matches vets with PTSD with similarly afflicted birds.

Dr. Ethan Choi

So he can help me?

Dr. Daniel Charles

Possible. [Parrot squawks "Don't touch that" repeatedly in the background]

Dr. Ethan Choi

What do I do?

Dr. Daniel Charles

Eh, take care of him. Talk to him. Hang out with him. For starters, teach him something else to say.