Dr. Connor Rhodes quotes from Chicago Med

Dr. Rhodes. I've been thinking about your pulmonary thrombectomy. I can't help but wonder if Dr. Bekker didn't... what's the word? Manipulate me for her own gain.

Dr. Connor Rhodes

I-I wouldn't worry about it, Dr. Latham.

I know that fellows compete for the most challenging cases to improve their résumés. Perhaps in the end, you fared better than Dr. Bekker.

Dr. Connor Rhodes

Is that why you gave me the transplant?

I'm not sure. Sometimes my motivations are a mystery to me, to be honest.

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Why is Mr. Willis insisting on surgery? Despite my explicit recommendations to the contrary?

Dr. Connor Rhodes

Dr. Latham, I...

Did you go behind my back?

Dr. Connor Rhodes

No. He asked if he had options. So I told him. I, in no way, suggested...

[muttering in frustration] You've shown extremely poor decision-making today. From this point on, you are not to set foot in the O.R. until I deem you ready to return. Do you understand?

Dr. Connor Rhodes

You're benching me?

For the foreseeable future. Yes.

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Dr. Connor Rhodes

Listen, my dad is a son of a bitch. He likes to destroy things.

And you... you like to fix things. People with blocked arteries or leaky valves. Unhinged girlfriends who like to shoplift.

Dr. Connor Rhodes

Meaning?

Wanting to save someone, needing to save someone, it's not the same as loving them.

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Dr. Connor Rhodes

You should eat. You'll feel better.

You take good care of me. I guess you do that for all your patients.

Dr. Connor Rhodes

Whoa, whoa, whoa. Hey. You are not my patient. I love you.

Do you? Because I wouldn't love me. I'd get rid of me.

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Dr. Connor Rhodes

Can you cover for me tomorrow?

Sure. Are you getting sick?

Dr. Connor Rhodes

No, I'm headed to Minneapolis.

That sounds even worse. Why are going there? [realizing] Oh, is that where Robin moved to?

Dr. Connor Rhodes

Yeah, it is.

So this is, what, a misguided attempt to win her back?

Dr. Connor Rhodes

Forget I asked.

No, I'm happy to do it. Mostly because I find your gift for self-flagellation fascinating.

Dr. Connor Rhodes

What is that supposed to mean?

Just that, from what I've gathered, this sounds like a fool's errand.

Dr. Connor Rhodes

[sarcastic] CT's own Dr. Phil? Thank you.

Doctor who?

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Asterid's transfer to County... I'm sure you can imagine my surprise when I learned it was suddenly unnecessary.

Dr. Connor Rhodes

Yeah, it, uh... it turns out that the hospital's charitable fund has enough money to cover her costs.

It does now. It seems a six-figure donation was made a few hours ago anonymously.

Dr. Connor Rhodes

That's good timing, I guess.

Mm.

Dr. Connor Rhodes

Good night.

Dr. Rhodes, be careful. Patients are going to keep coming. And as wealthy as you may be, your checkbook won't be able to keep up.

Dr. Connor Rhodes

But it did today.

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ARASA Ramirez

I'm ASA Ramirez, state's attorney investigating today's shootout. I'd appreciate if you could retrieve the bullet so that we can run ballistics.

Connor Rhodes

My priority is to save this man's life. You'll get your bullet if it's medically advisable.

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It must be hard remembering all their names. Now, I read that Derek Jeter used to send his conquests home with a gift basket, but a full cardio workup is-is much classier.

Dr. Connor Rhodes

Jeter, huh? You-you're... you're a baseball fan?

No. It's too boring. But I love gossip.

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MDMargo DiMilio

[learning she needs surgery] What do they say? "You reap what you sow"? This must be karmic retribution for cheating on my husband.

Dr. Connor Rhodes

Your coronary disease didn't just develop overnight. It's been building up for a long time.

MDMargo DiMilio

I've been cheating on my husband for a long time.

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NSDr. Noah Sexton

How could I have missed that? I did a chest x-ray and an EKG...

Dr. Connor Rhodes

Neither of which showed the aortic dissection. Look, every indication was that the guy was having a heart attack.

NSDr. Noah Sexton

What if I had just done a-a bedside echo?

Dr. Connor Rhodes

Why? Look, you thought your priority was to get him to the cath lab.

NSDr. Noah Sexton

But that was wrong.

Dr. Connor Rhodes

Look... we're all taught to see things a certain way, and most of the time, that works, just... not all the time. It is a very, very hard thing to see past our assumptions. Believe me, I'm still learning.

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Dr. Connor Rhodes

[about a juvenile transplant patient] We have to put him on ECMO.

What?

Dr. Connor Rhodes

He's satting in the 80s and wearing down. His respiratory muscles are going to give out.

But ECMO could introduce an infection. It's a partial contraindication of surgery.

Dr. Connor Rhodes

And Kansas is a two-hour flight. We have to keep him oxygenated 'till the lungs get here.

Those lungs only last four hours. If anything goes wrong before they get here, and he's stuck on ECMO, we may not be able to get him off. He could die.

Dr. Connor Rhodes

Then we make sure that nothing goes wrong.

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A transfusion is going to increase his antibody county. His PRA's already at 50. If it hits 80, we can't use those lungs.

Dr. Connor Rhodes

You think I don't know that? We don't have a choice.

We wouldn't be in this situation if you hadn't insisted on ECMO in the first place.

Dr. Connor Rhodes

You keep pointing out problems. What I need are solutions, so if you don't have any, just... just get out of my way, okay?

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Dr. Connor Rhodes

He fainted?

Yeah, getting out of the shower. When I pressed for details, he confessed to being light-headed all week.

Dr. Connor Rhodes

Labs?

[handing him a tablet] Yeah, troponin's way too high. Left ventricular ejection fraction is 10%.

Dr. Connor Rhodes

I've been treating Dan for six months. Steroids, calcium channel blockers, ACE inhibitors, beta blockers. No matter what I try, he just keeps getting worse.

Where is he on the transplant list?

Dr. Connor Rhodes

Way too low.

Don't let him give up.