Peter Kalmick quotes from Chicago Med

Peter Kalmick

So much easier to run a hospital without doctors.

Peter Kalmick

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.

Peter Kalmick

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.

Peter Kalmick

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.

Dr. Ethan Choi

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

Peter Kalmick

All right, dodged that bullet.

Dr. Ethan Choi

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

Sharon Goodwin

An enlarged spleen?

Dr. Ethan Choi

Yes.

Peter Kalmick

This our fault?

Dr. Ethan Choi

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.

Peter Kalmick

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

Dr. Ethan Choi

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.

Dr. Ethan Choi

Yes, ma'am.

Sharon Goodwin

Thank you.

Dr. Ethan Choi

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

Peter Kalmick

A genetic disease?

Dr. Ethan Choi

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.

Peter Kalmick

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.

Peter Kalmick

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.