Dr. Will Halstead quotes from Chicago Med

Dr. Will Halstead

Another maniac going crazy in a theater. This the world we live in?

Sharon Goodwin

[contemplating whether to allow a patient to operated on] I guarantee if we perform this operation, regardless of the outcome, we'll be sued, and they'll likely win, and millions.

Dr. Will Halstead

And that's how we make our decisions? By how much it's gonna cost us?

Sharon Goodwin

All right, get off the high horse, Dr. Halstead.

Dr. Will Halstead

How about we call the Ethics Committee?

Sharon Goodwin

Be faster to call a judge, but I'm not gonna burn a favor on this.

Dr. Will Halstead

I don't believe this. I... I miss something with one patient, and it's too late to fix it, then I catch something like this early on, and I still can't fix it. Nat, the medicine is clear. The patient should not be making this decision. I should.

Dr. Natalie Manning

So you became a doctor to tell people what to do?

Dr. Will Halstead

I became a doctor to save people's lives. It's all I've ever wanted to do. I don't have a fallback plan or some hidden passion. This is it for me. It's just... no one ever told me there'd be this much loss involved.

Nurse April Sexton

Shooting in a movie theater. Mass casualties. About to get crazy. EMT four minutes out.

Dr. Will Halstead

[ambulances roll up] Check that, they're here.

Dr. Natalie Manning

Maybe we should talk about that kiss.

Dr. Will Halstead

You asked why I treat you so badly; why I say things I wouldn't say to anybody else. I'm like a little kid with a crush on a girl, so what does he do? He pulls her pigtails.

Dr. Will Halstead

We lost a patient this morning, Lisa Patrick. Her husband wants to harvest her eggs. Do we have a protocol for that?

Sharon Goodwin

We do. Ms. Patrick will have to be on life support for two weeks for hormone stimulation therapy, followed by the retrieval itself. It's an expensive and complicated procedure.

Dr. Will Halstead

Well, he seems pretty committed. He says his wife really wanted to have a child.

Sharon Goodwin

Well, I imagine she meant she wanted a child she could mother and raise. This... this is a little different.

Maggie Lockwood

A lot different.

Sharon Goodwin

I'll call gynecology and get the process started.

Dr. Will Halstead

Thank you.

Dr. Will Halstead

Jay, she was on a placebo. They never knew. It was all for nothing.

Jay Halstead

No, you cared. I think, if we care, then whatever happens, it's for something. We might not see the effect, but It goes out there and it circulates around. It makes us all better, you know?

Dr. Will Halstead

My brother, cop and philosopher.

Jay Halstead

[smiles] You've got to think big picture.

Sarah Reese

I'm so embarrassed.

Dr. Will Halstead

Oh, don't be. You fainted.

Sarah Reese

Yeah, right on top of that poor gymnastics teacher. Did he say anything?

Dr. Will Halstead

Only that he was very impressed with your dismount.

Sarah Reese

[meeting an old friend of Will's] Were they always like that?

Dr. Will Halstead

The Tucker brothers were very popular, and they loved sticking it to us lesser mortals.

Dr. Will Halstead

What's happening?

Sarah Reese

Dr. Perrington is taking him to the cath lab for a clot buster. If you're right about Andrew's head traumas, giving him a clot buster is worse than giving him blood thinners.

Dr. Will Halstead

I gave my medical opinion. The patient and his brother did not want to listen. Perrington's an attending. It's out of my hands now.

Dr. Will Halstead

Mr. Gleason, you broke your leg pretty bad. We're gonna have to evaluate this and...

Dr. Natalie Manning

He's seizing.

Dr. Will Halstead

Mr. Gleason? All right, milligram of Ativan.

April Sexton

On it.

Dr. Natalie Manning

It's a Grand mal seizure. He ever have this before?

April Sexton

Not that I've seen. Milligram of Ativan.

Dr. Will Halstead

He's withdrawing. He's going in delirium tremens.

April Sexton

Never seen him get DTs before. It's gonna be bad, isn't it?

Dr. Will Halstead

Is it ever good?

Dr. Will Halstead

You gave Mr. Gleason a drink?

Sharon Goodwin

He was likely going to die without one. I've seen it happen.

Dr. Will Halstead

So it doesn't matter if that was against hospital policy, 'cause I'm pretty sure if that were me, I'd be raked over the coals right now by you.

Sharon Goodwin

Damned if you do and damned if you don't. I admit it's a bit of a double standard. What can I say?

Dr. Will Halstead

This patient... he had a chance to kick his addiction. Now it's gone.

Sharon Goodwin

Dr. Halstead, an addict doesn't just kick a habit. He's got to want to quit, and right he doesn't. Listen, you can't force a person to move on from something if they're not ready.

Dr. Will Halstead

It's not my job to listen. I'm a doctor. It's my job to decide what's best for him.

April Sexton

That is exactly why I'm a nurse.

Sharon Goodwin

HR informed me that you still haven't supplied them with current malpractice insurance.

Dr. Will Halstead

Well, I'm trying to find a carrier that'll write me a policy.

Sharon Goodwin

I'm guessing that's because of the lawsuit.

Dr. Will Halstead

Doesn't make sense. The suit was dropped.

Sharon Goodwin

But to an insurance company, you still look like a bad risk. Attending physicians must provide their own malpractice insurance. Now, the hospital could give you a grace period of two weeks, but after that...

Dr. Will Halstead

I understand.

Sharon Goodwin

Look, I know you and I have had our ups and downs, but I don't want to lose you. So I'll make a few calls.

Dr. Will Halstead

Thank you.

Sharon Goodwin

You may not want to thank me. I guarantee, your insurance will not come cheap.

Dr. Will Halstead

The roommate search is not going well.

Maggie Lockwood

Well, you're trolling the Internet. What'd you expect?

Dr. Will Halstead

It's the hospital community page. I don't know, someone like... me.

Maggie Lockwood

Oh, you mean, like, a slightly anal, overly stubborn, rule breaking control freak? Good luck.

Dr. Will Halstead

Really? When I'm already down?