Dr. Natalie Manning quotes from Chicago Med

Dr. Natalie Manning

Fearing for your baby's safety is the most natural thing in the world. When I was pregnant, I lost my husband. I was afraid of a lot of things. And then one day, after I had my son, I was up in a high-rise building on the balcony and suddenly had this vivid image of myself falling over the railing. And my first thought was what would happen to my son if I wasn't here for him? And the craziest part is my favorite thing in the world had always been Ferris wheels and roller coasters and being up in the air. But from that day on, I had this totally irrational fear of heights. It is really scary being solely responsible for that tiny, defenseless person inside of you. But you are letting your fear win. And it's gonna end badly.

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.

Sarah Reese

I got Parker's test results back.

Dr. Natalie Manning

And?

Sarah Reese

You need to take a look. Here.

Dr. Natalie Manning

CT negative. We need to order...

Sarah Reese

An MRI, I know. I already did it. It shows excessive demyelination.

Dr. Natalie Manning

Explains the clumsiness, degeneration of motor skills...

Sarah Reese

And the seizure. I don't want to jump to conclusions, but I'm pretty sure he has...

Dr. Natalie Manning

Krabbe disease.

Sarah Reese

Yeah. He's eight, so it's late-onset.

Dr. Natalie Manning

Gives him five to seven years before he becomes confined to a bed and completely vegetative. [sighs] Poor kid.

Sarah Reese

What do you want to do?

Dr. Natalie Manning

Well, I've got to go talk to the par...

Sarah Reese

Dr. Manning? You okay?

Dr. Natalie Manning

No. I think my water just broke.

Dr. Natalie Manning

Oh my God. It did. I guess this is happening today.

Sarah Reese

Uh, can we get a wheelchair over here?

Dr. Natalie Manning

Look, I'm sorry, Sarah, but you have to go tell the parents.

Sarah Reese

What, me? No, I can't...

Dr. Natalie Manning

You have to.

Sarah Reese

I don't have the experience.

Dr. Natalie Manning

Go get Dr. Charles. He will help you. I have to go have this baby now.

Dr. Natalie Manning

Thank you.

Sarah Reese

[nervously] Okay.

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.

Sharon Goodwin

DCFS recommended that Griffin be separated from the family.

Dr. Natalie Manning

Good.

Sharon Goodwin

No. The Taylors aren't going to do it.

Dr. Natalie Manning

What? I don't understand. They saw.

Dr. Daniel Charles

"Heart will not accept what the eye can see." Willful blindness, right? I'm afraid this is not gonna end well.

Dr. Natalie Manning

Heart rate, BP's coming down.

[crying] What's happening to Bo?

Dr. Daniel Charles

He's terrified. Fear response is an involuntary reflex. Even though he's heavily medicated, he's aware he's in danger.

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. Natalie Manning

Remember when you were a kid and you lost a tooth and you kept running your tongue over the gap? Without my wedding ring, it's like the same thing. Something's missing.

Dr. Ethan Choi

Well, I don't know if it's any consolation, but what do they say? "One door closes and another one opens."

Dr. Natalie Manning

Do you think it's weird?

Maggie Lockwood

What, you hooking up with your late husband's best friend?

Dr. Natalie Manning

Not "hooking up".

Maggie Lockwood

Whatever you want to call it. You're asking me if it's weird.

Dr. Natalie Manning

Yeah.

Maggie Lockwood

Ehh, a little.

Maggie Lockwood

Don't stress out about it. I learned a long time ago that you have to do what makes you happy, even if some people think it's strange.

Dr. Natalie Manning

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 Halstead

Yeah, it could be almost anything.

Dr. Natalie Manning

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.

Dr. Natalie Manning

That's your pearl of wisdom? We can't get a history. We're lost in a maze.

Dr. Will Halstead

Then retrace your steps. Every decision you made, each path you took or didn't take. Examine it all.

Dr. Will Halstead

So, how you two doing?

Dr. Natalie Manning

What?

Dr. Will Halstead

You and Jeff.

Dr. Natalie Manning

What are you talking about?

Dr. Will Halstead

Natalie, everyone knows. It's good. It's... you know, you seem a lot happier lately. It's nice.

Dr. Natalie Manning

Okay, but when you say everybody, wh...

Dr. Will Halstead

ED staff, ambulance drivers, EMTs.

Dr. Natalie Manning

Huh.

Dr. Will Halstead

You know, the crazy guy out front who thinks he's Jesus.

Dr. Natalie Manning

Okay, so about the same people who know about you and Nina.

Dr. Will Halstead

Wait, seriously?

Dr. Ethan Choi

I knew it wouldn't help and so did you. I figured we had safety in numbers.

Dr. Natalie Manning

I know. But if we'd had an alternative plan to save his life, yeah, I would've held firm with you. But we didn't. So we tried the Hail Mary. And Goodwin knows that we did everything we could for her.

Dr. Ethan Choi

For her? Goodwin's not our patient, Reggie is. Right now, he's suffering. Best thing we could've done for him is to let him die with dignity.

I love my brother. I'd love to give him my kidney.

Dr. Natalie Manning

Well, what's stopping you?

I'm HIV positive.

Dr. Natalie Manning

[understanding] But giving him a kidney would be giving him HIV, as well.

Dr. Will Halstead

I'm guessing by his reaction that he doesn't know?

Not a clue.

Dr. Natalie Manning

May I ask why don't you tell him?

Because Jim is... incredibly homophobic. He thinks homosexuality is... disgusting, deviant behavior.

Dr. Will Halstead

Yeah, 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.

Dr. Natalie Manning

I understand, but just so you know, if you don't tell him soon, it may be too late.

What were you doing to my daughter?

Dr. Daniel Charles

I was trying to confirm a diagnosis. Um... I... I want neurology to run some tests, but based on this and Ariel's history, I think that she has a condition called mirror touch synesthesia.

What?

Dr. Daniel Charles

It's a condition that... that causes her to experience the physical sensations and emotions of the people that she's interacting with as her own. My left knee hurts, Ariel feels it in her right. I slap my right cheek, she feels like her left is being slapped. She's mirroring me.

Dr. Natalie Manning

Her stomach; she's responding to your ulcer, not imitating you. She's literally feeling your pain.

Whoever heard of such a thing?

Dr. Daniel Charles

It's a pretty recent discovery, the existence of these mirror neurons.

Is there a cure?

Dr. Daniel Charles

Not yet, but there are... coping strategies we can teach her to help her manage her condition.

[her cell phone buzzes]' Uh... I'm sorry, I... I have to get this. [answers the call as she leaves] Yeah?

Dr. Natalie Manning

I cannot believe this woman.

Dr. Daniel Charles

How's that old saying go? You can lead a horse to water, but you can't make it gaze at its own reflection.

She can really feel the pain of everyone she sees?

Dr. Natalie Manning

Yes.

Oh, god. I can't imagine how hard this has been for her. I took her to every specialist. I... I did what the doctors told me to. I thought she was faking.

Dr. Natalie Manning

There's no way you could have known.

I am hurting my own daughter. How am I supposed to protect her from this if I'm part of the problem?

Dr. Natalie Manning

It won't be easy. But... she feels what she sees. If she sees a happy person, she feels happiness. And if she sees someone who's constantly anxious...