Dr. Daniel Charles quotes from Chicago Med

Dr. Daniel Charles

Dr. Reese, how was your dinner with your dad?

Dr. Sarah Reese

It was good. Uh, I mean, I'm glad we're talking again. He's funny, smart.

Dr. Daniel Charles

You don't sound entirely convinced.

Dr. Sarah Reese

Well, it's just kinda hard to look past the last twenty years. I know he wrote me those letters, but... there were other ways to contact me if he wanted. Makes me wonder.

Dr. Daniel Charles

Well, you know what, I've always been immensely impressed with your instincts, so... no reason to stop listening to them now.

Dr. Sarah Reese

Dr. Halstead has a point. Is this man, this pedophile, really being rational?

Dr. Daniel Charles

Funny enough, it sounds to me like he is.

Dr. Sarah Reese

So we just have to, uh, stand by and watch him kill himself?

Dr. Daniel Charles

Not treating your cancer is not the same thing as committing suicide. I mean, it's his decision. He's allowed to make it. More to the point, I think what he may be trying to do is looking for a way to... escape his urges.

Dr. Sarah Reese

By dying.

Dr. Daniel Charles

Dr. Reese, have you ever seen a pedophile's PET scan?

Dr. Daniel Charles

The prefrontal cortex and the putamen, they... they light up. There's a very good chance that pedophilia could be genetically hardwired into the brain.

Dr. Sarah Reese

There-there-there's nothing he can do about it?

Dr. Daniel Charles

Well, yes and no. I mean, the thinking is you can't change the hardware, but the software is another question, and it sounds to me like... like that's what Mr. Thomas has been trying to do. If you look at it from his perspective, the whole thing seems quite rational.

Dr. Sarah Reese

First you're treating my father, and now you're blackmailing him?

Dr. Daniel Charles

What?

Dr. Sarah Reese

You heard me.

Dr. Daniel Charles

Look, I don't know what he told you...

Dr. Sarah Reese

He said you're jealous of our relationship, that you have some twisted paternal feelings for me, that you threatened him, and said if he didn't stay away from me, you'd sabotage his chances of getting on the list.

Dr. Daniel Charles

I threatened him? Wh... sabotage?

Dr. Sarah Reese

Yes.

Dr. Daniel Charles

I'm a shrink in a sweater vest, not a secret agent.

Sharon Goodwin

[after Reese rows at Daniel] What was that about?

Dr. Daniel Charles

As you will read in my evaluation, her father, Dr. Haywood, has a particularly malignant form of Antisocial personality disorder.

Sharon Goodwin

Are you serious? Is she in danger?

Dr. Daniel Charles

Well, I haven't picked up any violent tendencies yet, but he's an extremely effective manipulator.

Sharon Goodwin

Dr. Reese doesn't know?

Dr. Daniel Charles

Well, I think she might be starting to figure it out on a clinical level, but emotionally, she's... she's not there yet.

Dr. Sarah Reese

I know what you're gonna say. I should not have lied to Joanna. It was wrong. She's just a desperate, troubled woman, not a psychopath.

Dr. Daniel Charles

I agree.

Dr. Sarah Reese

She's not, but am I? Am I a psychopath?

Dr. Daniel Charles

What?

Dr. Sarah Reese

Look how easily I lied to her, how I coldly manipulated her.

Dr. Daniel Charles

In this context, that's hardly an indication of psychopathy.

Dr. Sarah Reese

Well, how about my life? Would you say that I'm able to form lasting relationships? I mean, I have no real friends, no significant romantic attachments. I think I have emotions, but maybe they aren't real. Maybe they're just imitative.

Dr. Daniel Charles

You just told me that you felt guilty about lying to a patient, which means that you have a conscience, which means that you're not a psychopath.

Dr. Sarah Reese

Whatever you wanna call it, I am my father's daughter.

Dr. Daniel Charles

Well... well, you're also my resident, and I find you to be a... a deeply compassionate person, who's capable of great empathy. I just never would've roped you into this whole psychiatry thing if I wasn't entirely convinced of that.

Dr. Natalie Manning

Hey, Dr. Charles, you got a sec? I've got a case I'd like to run by you.

Dr. Daniel Charles

What you got?

Dr. Natalie Manning

My patient, Emma, nine, she presented with abdominal pain on the left side, so I did a quick bedside scan to check her ovaries. It's actually testicular torsion.

Dr. Daniel Charles

Testicular torsion?

Dr. Natalie Manning

Yes. The ultrasound showed an absence of uterus and ovaries, but she has undescended testes.

Dr. Daniel Charles

Huh. Nothing about this in her chart?

Dr. Natalie Manning

No. I doubt the family has any idea.

Dr. Daniel Charles

Okay. Page Pediatric Urology. We need to get a plan together.

Dr. Natalie Manning

Any word from the ethics committee?

Dr. Natalie Manning

No way. No way they're gonna allow this.

Dr. Daniel Charles

Because, technically, they have both Judy and Emma's consent, and because testicular torsion is a medical emergency, the hospital feels obligated to act.

Dr. Natalie Manning

But the assent was coerced.

Dr. Daniel Charles

Yeah, but coercion's very difficult to prove, and the truth is that in the majority of these cases, the courts do side with the parents. The board's worried about a negligence suit.

Dr. Ethan Choi

[about his homeless patient and his adopted parents] He's never really gonna be able to love them back, is he?

Dr. Daniel Charles

By our definition? Unlikely.

Dr. Ethan Choi

I don't know who to feel more sorry for, the parents or him.