A character in Chicago Med
Played by Nick Gehlfuss
Chicago Med · 227 quotes
3rd most-quoted character in Chicago Med: in 50 of its 227 quotes
Most scenes with: Dr. Natalie Manning (18), Sharon Goodwin (8), Jay Halstead (8)
Here, look at this. Come on, it'll make you feel better.
Dr. Will Halstead[looks into microscope] What is it?
Molluscum contagiosum. It's a type of pox virus. It's a nasty one, actually. Even so, stunning, right? Like 10 pounds of raspberry rock candy pressed into a 5-pound bag.
Dr. Will Halstead[about his patient] 15 years, homeless, essentially blind. I mean, that's a crap hand. He should be pissed. Yet, he's happy as can be. Crazy I got this patient today.
My experience, we get the patients we need.
Rapid strep and mono were negative, LP normal. I'm afraid it's something exotic, but we won't have the cultures back for another couple of days. And now with the bronchospasm...
Dr. Will HalsteadYeah, it could be almost anything.
Exactly. I gotta confess, I am at a complete loss.
Dr. Will Halstead[looking at some paperwork] Oh. Well, whenever I find myself in the weeds, I go back to something one of my clinical attendings used to say: the answer is always in the history.
That's your pearl of wisdom? We can't get a history. We're lost in a maze.
Dr. Will HalsteadThen retrace your steps. Every decision you made, each path you took or didn't take. Examine it all.
Dr. Will HalsteadSo, how you two doing?
What?
Dr. Will HalsteadYou and Jeff.
What are you talking about?
Dr. Will HalsteadNatalie, everyone knows. It's good. It's... you know, you seem a lot happier lately. It's nice.
Okay, but when you say everybody, wh...
Dr. Will HalsteadED staff, ambulance drivers, EMTs.
Huh.
Dr. Will HalsteadYou know, the crazy guy out front who thinks he's Jesus.
Okay, so about the same people who know about you and Nina.
Dr. Will HalsteadWait, seriously?
Hey. I thought you were picking up an extra shift.
Dr. Will HalsteadYeah, I was hoping to, but Goodwin put a moratorium on overtime. Oh, I do not wanna go home right now and face Mandelbrot.
What? Is your new roomie still leaving toenail clippings on the couch?
Dr. Will HalsteadWorse. Now he's doing jumping jacks in the nude.
Okay, you really need a new roommate.
Dr. Will HalsteadI can't make rent without him.
Well, hey, if worst comes to worst, I got plenty of beds down in the morgue.
Dr. Will Halstead[laughs] Yeah. Yeah, I bet you do. I might take you up on that.
I love my brother. I'd love to give him my kidney.
Well, what's stopping you?
I'm HIV positive.
[understanding] But giving him a kidney would be giving him HIV, as well.
Dr. Will HalsteadI'm guessing by his reaction that he doesn't know?
Not a clue.
May I ask why don't you tell him?
Because Jim is... incredibly homophobic. He thinks homosexuality is... disgusting, deviant behavior.
Dr. Will HalsteadYeah, well, but right now he thinks you're willing to let him die.
Well, right now... right now he hates me for what I'm doing, but if I tell him this... he'll hate me for who I am.
I understand, but just so you know, if you don't tell him soon, it may be too late.
Dr. Will HalsteadYou know, it used to be if a doctor told a patient to do something, they just did it.
You been binging on Dr. Quinn, Medicine Woman again?
Dr. Will HalsteadNo, I'm just saying things were different.
Because of emergency surgeries, and a pregnant mother's serious bleeding disorder, we have used almost all of our O-negative. We can either treat Benjamin or Josh, but not both.
Dr. Will HalsteadBenjamin needs an angio emolization more urgently than Josh needs surgery.
How can you say that? Josh isn't compensating for his blood loss as well. He's in worse shape.
Dr. Will HalsteadI understand you're trying to protect your patient, but you're being emotional.
[insulted] Emotional? And what are you being?
Our recommendation needs to be based solely on clinical criteria. So I'm handing it over to the triage team.
Dr. Rhodes, your opinion?
I have to agree with Dr. Halstead that Benjamin needs angio embolization more urgently than Josh needs surgery.
Not the issue. We're here to decide who has the best chance of survival, so...
Unfortunately, even if Benjamin gets the embolization, there's only a 15% chance that the bleeding in his pelvis will stop.
Exactly. Whereas with Dr. Manning's patient, as the pressure in his thighs builds, the bleeding will eventually slow. Worst case, Josh loses a leg, but there is no question he has the best chance of survival.
The CPS working?
Dr. Will HalsteadA-line pulsatility is decreasing.
Heart's beating less and less on its own.
Dr. Will HalsteadBut it's only been a few hours. The meds need a while to build in her system.
And we can't speed up the process? [seeing his reaction] We can?
Dr. Will HalsteadIVIG and plasmapheresis. It's a method to block Melody's immune system from attacking heart muscle as it tries to clear the infection.
Well, why aren't we doing it?
Dr. Will HalsteadThe science is unproven. The unknowns worry me. The risk of anaphylaxis, additional infections, inflammatory side effects.
Well, she already coded. Another one could be right around the corner. Isn't it worth trying anything?
Dr. Will HalsteadNot if it does more harm than good.
Dr. Will HalsteadYou ever seen this before? A resident ending it like this?
Unfortunately, I have. Yeah. Several times. You know that 400 doctors take their own lives every year, right? Most of any profession. I don't have a lot of evidence to back this up, but I got a strong hunch it's got something to do with taking people who have a powerful desire to help and throwing them into a game where the odds are just stacked against them. I mean, this I do know: situations like this, it's never just one thing. It's always a complex set of circumstances, and, um, you know, trying to figure it out, trying to assign blame... it's, uh... it's pretty pointless.
Helping people is just about the hardest job there is.
Dr. Will HalsteadYou've been doing it what? 25, 30 several years? What what's the secret?
Well, I'm still looking for that, but if I had to guess, I'd say it had something to do with, you know, just keep showing up, keep doing your job, put one foot in front of the other, 'cause when you start to get all tangled up in here, you know, that's when, I mean, it can just paralyze you.
Dr. Will HalsteadYeah. Still, it's gonna be a while before I can sleep again. [walks away sadly]
Dr. Halstead? [Dr. Halstead turns to look at him] I think we're lucky to have you here.
I'm sorry, but the note says that if we pay them thirty Bitcoins, they'll give us a decryption key, so...
It's hospital policy not to engage with extortionists.
So we're going to fly blind with one arm tied behind our back? It seems a little shortsighted. I mean, it's what, thirty, forty thousand dollars? It seems like nothing.
Dr. Will Halstead[quietly to Natalie] Says the guy with the trust fund.
Dr. Will HalsteadHey, pop.
What are you doing here?
I called him.
Wasted trip. I don't need you.
Are you kidding me? You missed two days of work, and you never miss work.
Dr. Will HalsteadPops, this is Connor Rhodes. He's another doc at Med.
[glares at Will] Told you I don't need this.
Dr. Will HalsteadCome on, you can barely talk.
I'm gonna take advice from someone who wet the bed till he was nine?
Never changes. [gets up to leave] I gotta get back to the district.
Dr. Will HalsteadThanks, Jay.
Don't let the door hit you on the way out.
Mr. Halstead, I'm seeing some things that tell me that your heart isn't working very well. Your fingertips are purple, you're having a hard time breathing, and your energy seems, uh... depleted.
Had this heart thing forever. It's... it's never been a problem.
You mind if I have a listen?
If it'll get you two off my ass.
[listening to Pat's heart] Apical holosystolic murmur and the lungs are wet.
In English?
It means that your heart has been compensating for the faulty valve for a very long time, and now it can't keep up, so fluid is backing up into your lungs.
Dr. Will HalsteadIt literally means you're drowning in your own blood. We need to get you to the hospital.
Mr. Walker didn't die of an MI.
Dr. Will Halstead[reading the autopsy report] Massive pulmonary embolism.
I can't believe it. I totally missed it.
Dr. Will HalsteadOh, come on. Even if we knew, there's nothing we could have done differently. It happened so fast. We didn't have time to get heparin on board, let alone send him upstairs.
No, I know, but still... I... I...
Dr. Will HalsteadWait. How did you get this so fast? These reports usually take at least three to four hours.
Nina brought it up to me.
Dr. Will HalsteadShe came upstairs and gave it to you?
Yeah. You know, I... I... I'm gonna go back over the chart. See if there were some clues.
Dr. Will HalsteadNat, listen. You did everything you could for that man, so don't get down on yourself over it. Hey, you're too good a doctor.
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