Chicago Med quotes

April Sexton

We cannot do this, Ethan.

Dr. Ethan Choi

He was clear in his decision.

April Sexton

Because you pressured him, made him feel like he had to choose right now.

Dr. Ethan Choi

No, I gave him his medical options, and he decided on what was best for him. Don't put this on me.

April Sexton

It is on you. Your hands may have been tied by his advance directive, but giving him heparin knowing it's lethal, that's assisted suicide.

Dr. Ethan Choi

April, we can't save Gary, but one organ donor can save up to eight lives. One tissue donor can improve the lives of up to fifty others. Because of him, fifty-eight people get a second chance. Put in the order for heparin.

April Sexton

No.

Dr. Ethan Choi

Then I'll do it myself.

Jay Halstead

I spoke to the parents together and independently.

Dr. Natalie Manning

And?

Jay Halstead

I don't like the stepdad for the guy. He offered to give a polygraph and submit his DNA. Offenders don't usually behave that way.

Dr. Will Halstead

Any other leads?

Jay Halstead

Allison's comprehensive tox screen detected trace amounts of triazolam in her blood. That's a benzo, right?

Dr. Natalie Manning

Yeah. A sedative hypnotic with amnestic properties.

Jay Halstead

The stepdad's an accountant. I don't see him getting his hands on that.

Dr. Natalie Manning

Unless maybe he was prescribed it. I mean, it is sometimes used for insomnia.

Dr. Will Halstead

Yeah, it definitely puts you out. The hospital uses it mostly to treat patient anxiety, usually before procedures, MRIs scans, things like that.

Jay Halstead

So she could have gotten it here. Did you give it her before the CT scan?

Dr. Natalie Manning

No.

Dr. Will Halstead

[checking his tablet] No.

Jay Halstead

Another doctor then, maybe. Did the mom mention any other recent medical issues?

Dr. Natalie Manning

No, nothing. Other than the symptoms that brought her in today. [remembering something] Braces. Allison did just get her braces on.

Dr. Will Halstead

Dentists also sometimes use triazolam.

Sharon Goodwin

Making a break for it, Keoni? Really?

Seemed like a good idea at the time. Figured Maggie was sending over a shrink.

Sharon Goodwin

Oh, no. You get me.

I appreciate the red carpet, but there's nothing you can do. In the back of my mind, I knew it was diabetes. I should've never come to the hospital.

Sharon Goodwin

Because what, denial is a good solution?

You don't understand, Sharon. My family, diabetes kills. Now it's my turn.

Sharon Goodwin

Your genetics don't doom you, Keoni.

No? I eat healthy. I don't drink the coladas or the daiquiris that I make at the bar. I exercise. Yet here I am. I did what I was supposed to do.

Sharon Goodwin

Yeah, and unfortunately, people like you and I have to do that and more to break the cycle. Yes, I have diabetes, too. And I've lost family also.

I didn't know.

Sharon Goodwin

Many don't. And it's not because I'm hiding it, but because I've got it under control. And I have for the last fourteen years. There are people in this hospital who have to surrender. You have an opportunity. [handing him a pamphlet] You better take it.

The orthodontist? I was in the waiting room the whole time just checking my e-mails. When she came out, she smiled, showed me her braces, didn't seem any different.

Dr. Will Halstead

The police suspect instead of nitrous, he used triazolam. It knocked her out, ensured she had no memory of the assault.

Sick bastard.

Dr. Natalie Manning

I know this is a lot to process, but once Allison is stronger, the detective would like to come in and ask her a few questions.

Look, Ali just had a brush with death, and all she cares about is if she can still go to the junior high dance. She's so innocent. I don't want to take that from her. One day we'll have to, but not today.

Dr. Natalie Manning

We understand. We'll be back in the morning to check on her.

Dr. Daniel Charles

[Robin has been brought into Med after a psychotic break] So, you, um... you starting to figure out why I didn't want her leaving the hospital?

Dr. Connor Rhodes

She was rational. She was lucid.

Dr. Daniel Charles

I warned you.

Dr. Connor Rhodes

Robin was fine, okay? Suddenly, she just...

Dr. Daniel Charles

Suddenly, look at her now! This is on you. You did this.

Dr. Sarah Reese

I have been reviewing Robin's history just to make sure we haven't missed anything, and... well, uh, some of her symptoms, they're not consistent with a psychiatric disorder.

Dr. Daniel Charles

Dr. Reese...

Sharon Goodwin

Let her finish.

Dr. Sarah Reese

Two days ago when Robin came to the hospital, she was running a mild fever, 100.2, and her BP was elevated. Now, at the time, we didn't think anything of it...

Dr. Daniel Charles

That's cause it's a very mild fever. And of course her BP was elevated. She was on a forced hold. She was agitated.

Dr. Sarah Reese

But when Robin was brought in today, it seemed she was experiencing visual hallucinations. Now, auditory hallucinations indicate a mental disorder, but visual hallucinations should be considered organic until proven otherwise.

Dr. Daniel Charles

I think we all wish that Robin had a treatable physical condition rather than...

Dr. Sarah Reese

I want to check her ceruloplasmin levels and run an FTA-ABS, as well as an MRI and EEG to rule out scelerosis and epilepsy.

Sharon Goodwin

Of course. Do it.

Sharon Goodwin

What's the matter with you?

Dr. Daniel Charles

She's trying to make me feel better. And bless her, but she's grasping at straws. Come on.

Sharon Goodwin

Are you so blinded by your fear that Robin inherited her problems from you that you won't even entertain an alternative?

Dr. Daniel Charles

False hope, Sharon. Come on. I don't need any.

Sharon Goodwin

You don't know that. Where's the Daniel who leaves no stone unturned when diagnosing a patient? Where's the Daniel who never gives up? Don't you think your own daughter deserves that much?

Dr. Connor Rhodes

I was wrong to take Robin out of the hospital. I'm sorry.

Dr. Daniel Charles

Well... I have certainly been wrong, too. Seeing the whole thing through the prism of my own fears.

Dr. Connor Rhodes

Since I was a kid, I always wondered if there was something I could've done to stop my mom from killing herself. I obviously couldn't save my mom, but I was sure as hell gonna try and save Robin.

Dr. Daniel Charles

You know, at one point, I considered bringing that up. Decided it probably wouldn't have been helpful.

Dr. Connor Rhodes

[they share a snicker] Yeah, probably not.

Dr. Daniel Charles

Well, she's not gonna want to have anything to do with me after all this is over, that's for sure.

Dr. Connor Rhodes

You saw Mr. Crocker?

Dr. Ethan Choi

Yeah. Pretty young to have that kind of heart trouble.

Dr. Connor Rhodes

Well, could be genetics or... he said he's alone, right? He's not married. No friends. No family.

Dr. Ethan Choi

None.

Dr. Connor Rhodes

Loneliness puts you at risk for heart disease.

Dr. Ethan Choi

That for real?

Dr. Connor Rhodes

Yeah. I think we all know that love can hurt, right? But loneliness, that'll kill you.

Dr. Robin Charles

A tumor?

Dr. Connor Rhodes

Yeah. Reaction to your antibodies caused your psychiatric symptoms.

Dr. Robin Charles

So I was crazy, but I wasn't crazy?

Dr. Connor Rhodes

Yeah, something like that.

Dr. Robin Charles

Okay.

Dr. Connor Rhodes

You should know something. It was your dad that came up with the diagnosis. Robin, he's hardly left your side. You should talk to him.

Dr. Sarah Reese

Were you aware that Dr. Charles was testifying in Kellogg's defense?

Sharon Goodwin

I found out today. Dr. Charles wants him remanded to a psychiatric facility.

Dr. Sarah Reese

Which means he won't go to jail. That's absurd. The man came here and tried to kill a medical health professional because he wanted attention.

Sharon Goodwin

Well, I'm as upset as you are. I'm the one who found him bleeding on the sidewalk.

Dr. Sarah Reese

Jack Kellogg is a devious sociopath. He'll con his way out of mental institution and be back on the streets. We have a responsibility, a public responsibility, to make sure that doesn't happen.

Sharon Goodwin

Unfortunately, Dr. Reese, there's nothing you or I can do. It's up to the jury.

Dr. Charles, prosecution's calling a rebuttal witness. What do I need to know about Sarah Reese?

Dr. Daniel Charles

What?

[they see Sarah walk past with Peter Stone] Tell me your own resident isn't here to poke holes in your testimony.

Dr. Daniel Charles

Oh, there you are, Dr. Reese. Uh, you'll be happy to know that Mr. Kellogg was found guilty.

Dr. Sarah Reese

I'm not happy, but I am satisfied with that verdict. He'll still receive treatment in jail.

Dr. Daniel Charles

Through the Department of Corrections? You have any idea what their success rate is? In that environment? His chances of rehabilitation are practically nil. Not that it really matters, because more than likely his temper will get him killed within a week.

Dr. Sarah Reese

Those outbursts are an act calculated to convince you he's crazy.

Dr. Daniel Charles

Is that what he was doing? Dr. Reese, I've been evaluating psychiatric patients for more than thirty years. Is it conceivable to you that I might have more insight into his behavior than you do?

Dr. Isidore Latham

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.

Dr. Isidore 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?

Dr. Isidore Latham

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

Sharon Goodwin

You want to feed a patient against her will.

Dr. Will Halstead

A pregnant mother who's killing her baby.

Dr. Natalie Manning

We believe she has something called orthorexia, an obsession with healthy living that has limited her diet so severly that it's become dangerous.

Dr. Will Halstead

And has led to a pathologic distrust of the entire medical system. She won't let us do anything.

Sharon Goodwin

Well, is she delusional? Can she make decisions on her own?

Dr. Natalie Manning

No, she is very clear about what she wants and what she does not want.

Sharon Goodwin

Well, then we can't prove incompetence, and we can't force her to do anything to her body she doesn't want. The law sides with her.

Dr. Will Halstead

But there are two patients here.

Dr. Natalie Manning

Yeah, one of whom has no control over what's being done to it.

Dr. Will Halstead

This is child abuse.

Sharon Goodwin

Well, I can convene an emergency ethics committee. It's possible they may find grounds to override her decision.

Dr. Natalie Manning

And in the meantime?

Sharon Goodwin

See if you can find a way to help her trust us.

Dr. Sarah Reese

You paged about a consult?

Dr. Daniel Charles

Yeah. Yeah. Um... 50-something guy, post-op after getting shot by a patient.

Dr. Sarah Reese

Is this a joke?

Dr. Daniel Charles

No. I'm serious. Give me your clinical evaluation of my recovery.

Dr. Sarah Reese

No residual anger or fear.

Dr. Daniel Charles

Mm-hmm.

Dr. Sarah Reese

Normal intellectual and emotional functioning. You seem like you have moved on.

Dr. Daniel Charles

Yeah. And you should, too.

Dr. Sarah Reese

Excuse me?

Dr. Daniel Charles

I'm just wondering if today was less about your patient and more about lingering fears for our safety. It is certainly true that a very few patients can be dangerous. But the overwhelming majority are... harmless, and in fact very grateful for our help. Only they can't get that help if you come to work scared.

Dr. Sarah Reese

I'm not scared.

Dr. Daniel Charles

This is not an accusation, Doctor. I just want you to know that every psychiatrist goes through this at some point or another. And then it passes. And it'll pass for you, too.