Sharon Goodwin quotes from Chicago Med

Just a head's up: the board is gonna push you for more growth. The bottom line has them concerned.

Sharon Goodwin

When hasn't it? Can set my watch over their money worries. I'll be fine.

It's different this time. C-Suite feels we can better recognize how medicine and business are one and the same.

Sharon Goodwin

Ah, let me guess. Um, scale back on outreach, combine responsibilities, outsource. So, basically, sacrifice patient care? I won't do that, Peter.

Well, Sharon, you have to do something, because the ED is hemorrhaging cash, and if the bleeding doesn't stop, it is not gonna be good for anybody.

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So, uh... yeah, things got a little... out of hand today, and, um... you know, if the offer's still good, I was thinking that... maybe I could use a few days off.

Sharon Goodwin

The offer's still good.

Okay. Thank you.

Sharon Goodwin

You're welcome.

[he turns to leave]

Sharon Goodwin

Don't stay away too long. We need you here.

Tough day?

Sharon Goodwin

We billed $16,000 to a family of a man who died in the waiting room. I managed to quash it, but... the system's broken, Daniel.

Well... don't know anybody better with a glue gun than you.

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Sharon Goodwin

You know, Dr. Choi, there's a pretty important statute, known as the HIPPA privacy rule, that protects every patient's personal health information from being shared with anybody else.

You heard her, Ms. Goodwin. She wants us to help her niece.

Sharon Goodwin

Still, it's not for you to tell her. That's the rule.

[turning to leave, he stops at the door] With all due respect, if all we were gonna do is follow the rules, we should've done what Stohl wanted and turfed her back to East Mercy.

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AKAbena Kwemo

These are your patients?

Sharon Goodwin

They were my patients, yes. They died in the '80s. I was their nurse. It was a terrifying time. Some days, we lost two, three patients. See, we barely understood what AIDS was back then, let alone how to treat it.

AKAbena Kwemo

I don't want to see these anymore.

Sharon Goodwin

I know. It's hard, isn't it? I could only imagine who they might've been, what they might've done with their lives, if they had a chance. They had such promise.

AKAbena Kwemo

These patients, how many of them died alone without their families?

Sharon Goodwin

Far, far too many.

AKAbena Kwemo

I don't want to live without my family.

Sharon Goodwin

And I'm sure they don't want to live without you. I can see it in your aunt's eyes. I know that look. She's terrified of losing you. You're so young, Abena. Don't rob yourself of a future that these young people could only dream about. I lost a lot of patients. I don't want to add you to this folder.

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I'm a charge nurse, and I'm hanging IV bags.

Sharon Goodwin

I know, Maggie. You're short-staffed.

For a month. When are we gonna hire more nurses?

Sharon Goodwin

We can't afford it. It's not in the budget.

Sharon, we are required to have one nurse for two beds. That's twelve nurses per shift. Four shifts, that's 48 nurses. Right now, I only have 42.

Sharon Goodwin

Well, even it out with overtime.

Time and a half? How is that supposed to save us money?

Sharon Goodwin

It doesn't, but overtime comes out of a different account. We still look good. Work with me.

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Mr. Janichek's scans were negative for concussion or any other acute injury.

All right, dodged that bullet.

[handing Sharon a tablet] But we did notice something else unrelated to his being sprayed.

Sharon Goodwin

An enlarged spleen?

Yes.

This our fault?

No. I ordered an enzyme activity level test to follow up. It showed Mr. Janichek is suffering from a genetic disorder called Gaucher's disease. An enzyme deficiency which presents with a vague constellation of symptoms; malaise, anemia, low platelets.

Please tell me there's a treatment. Because we cannot assault a man and then inform him he has an incurable disease.

His spleen is dangerously enlarged, so it has to be removed, but the deficiency itself is easily treatable with regular enzyme replacement infusions.

Sharon Goodwin

All right. You'll inform the patient.

Yes, ma'am.

Sharon Goodwin

Thank you.

I should say that Mr. Janichek will find this to be good news.

A genetic disease?

He's been suffering a long time, unable to find a diagnosis. In fact, I was ready to send him home. We never would have ordered that pan scan if Dr. Reese hadn't done what she did. She might have saved his life.

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Sharon Goodwin

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

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

Sharon Goodwin

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

That's good timing, I guess.

Sharon Goodwin

Mm.

Good night.

Sharon Goodwin

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.

But it did today.

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Sharon Goodwin

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

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?

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

Sharon Goodwin

Dr. Reese doesn't know?

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

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I didn't have any choice. All of our ED doctors were tied up because of the lockdown, the patient was in laryngospasm. I couldn't get the tubes past her cord. At that point, I had to trach her. Any doctor would have the same problem.

Sharon Goodwin

Yeah, except, Maggie... they're doctors. They're allowed to perform these procedures.

Sharon, what would you have done?

Sharon Goodwin

Exactly what you did, but, unfortunately, that's not going to help you.

Sharon, am I gonna lose my job over this?

Sharon Goodwin

I hope not, but until I can figure something out... I've got to suspend you, Maggie.

Sharon.

Sharon Goodwin

I'm sorry.

[turning in her badge] The patient would've died. I have no regrets.

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Dr. Will Halstead

Given the placement and orientation of the handprints on Carter's back, there's no way they're his own.

Sharon Goodwin

Okay? So?

Dr. Will Halstead

So, Carter told my brother Jay that he tried to slap out the flames on Bo. Now, I haven't said anything to Jay.

Sharon Goodwin

So you think Carter may have started the fire and is blaming Bo?

Dr. Will Halstead

Carter tested positive for THC. Bo was clean.

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Look, Sharon... CFD and CPD will conduct their own very thorough investigation, and it is in the hospital's best interest, and frankly yours, to not put yourself in the middle.

Sharon Goodwin

But I am in the middle, Peter. Carter's my godson. I've known this boy since he was in diapers. He's not some master manipulator. If he lied, it's because he was scared.

Beside the fact that the Singletons are your friends, they are also major donors to this hospital, and there is a multi-million dollar relationship at stake here. So if the kid is gonna get in trouble, please, let PD be the bad guys.

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Sharon Goodwin

Dr. Stohl, we've got incoming.

Dr. Stanley Stohl

How many?

Sharon Goodwin

25, at least ten critical.

Dr. Stanley Stohl

That's too many. We're already swamped. They need to be rerouted to East Mercy or Lakeshore Memorial.

Sharon Goodwin

They can't. They're choked up, too. They're trying to send patients to us. So let's get Maggie to double up patients into treatment rooms and trauma bays. Remove the dividing walls to make the space. April, with me. We need to help unload these ambos.

[they enter the ambulance bay and see the number of vehicles, plus more incoming]

April Sexton

Two per room? That's not gonna do it.

Sharon Goodwin

No, not even close.

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Ms. Goodwin, we're stabilizing patients, but if we can't get them to surgery, we'll start losing them. Unless something changes, the ED's gonna collapse.

Sharon Goodwin

Well, if you have an idea, now's the time.

Casualty collection areas. Designated zones for specific treatments, especially surgical eval. Doctors stay put, patients shuttle between zones.

Sharon Goodwin

An assembly line. All right, you set it up in Triage, I'll spread the word.

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Jay Halstead

So, the officer saw the guy ditch the assault rifle, then he got a shot off, and then he lost him in the crowd.

Sharon Goodwin

And you think now he's here?

Jay Halstead

Yeah, maybe. He was wearing a hoodie. We recovered it at the scene. Tested positive for gunshot residue, and there was blood on it.

Sharon Goodwin

So the officer might have shot him.

Jay Halstead

Well, that's the theory. We're thinking either the paramedics brought him in or he's hiding among the injured, so we're checking all the hospitals against the officer's partial description.