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I think we're dealing with a case of folie à deux.
Which is...
A shared delusion.
[approaching] Heads up, guys, I got an arrest warrant for Brittany Coleman, attempted murder. Gonna transfer her to the psych ward at Cook County.
Before you do that, there's somebody I'd like you to meet. Two minutes.
That guy who didn't immunize his kid, did I hear you call him an idiot? That was a very Will Halstead moment.
I just... I can't stand it. No matter how much science we give people, no matter how much proof, they just go on believing what they wanna believe. I mean, the guy who started this whole anti-vac thing has been completely discredited. So what is wrong with people? Why do they keep clinging to this myth?
Mass hysteria.
Yeah, and that baby pays the price.
[about a juvenile transplant patient] We have to put him on ECMO.
What?
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.
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.
Then we make sure that nothing goes wrong.
Dr. Reese, how was your dinner with your dad?
It was good. Uh, I mean, I'm glad we're talking again. He's funny, smart.
You don't sound entirely convinced.
Well, it's just kinda hard to look past the last twenty years. I know he wrote me those letters, but... there were other ways to contact me if he wanted. Makes me wonder.
Well, you know what, I've always been immensely impressed with your instincts, so... no reason to stop listening to them now.
We found a large growth in your larynx. It's almost certainly cancer.
All right.
Now, the good news is we have an excellent oncology department, so I'd like to arrange for a biopsy and a consultation, so that they can determine...
It's okay. I'm not interested.
Mr. Thomas, the sooner you begin treatment, the better your chances of survival.
You don't understand. I'm... I'm ready to die.
I know it's a lot of information, and it can seem overwhelming, but I...
I said no.
Can you tell me why you're so resistant to treatment?
Because I've made it 56 years without molesting a child, and I can't stand it anymore.
I'm sorry?
I'm a pedophile. And I wanna die.
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.
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.
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?
Dr. Halstead has a point. Is this man, this pedophile, really being rational?
Funny enough, it sounds to me like he is.
So we just have to, uh, stand by and watch him kill himself?
Not treating your cancer is not the same thing as committing suicide. I mean, it's his decision. He's allowed to make it. More to the point, I think what he may be trying to do is looking for a way to... escape his urges.
By dying.
Dr. Reese, have you ever seen a pedophile's PET scan?
[she shakes her head 'no']
The prefrontal cortex and the putamen, they... they light up. There's a very good chance that pedophilia could be genetically hardwired into the brain.
There-there-there's nothing he can do about it?
Well, yes and no. I mean, the thinking is you can't change the hardware, but the software is another question, and it sounds to me like... like that's what Mr. Thomas has been trying to do. If you look at it from his perspective, the whole thing seems quite rational.
Well, she's not catatonic. Whatever knocked her out, it's not psychiatric. What'd her tox screens show?
Yeah, she's clean. Blood alcohol, arterial gases, and all other labs, too.
Diabetic ketoacidosis?
Blood sugar's normal.
Liver failure?
Ammonia level's normal.
Tumor?
Chest x-ray and all the CTs were clean.
The scar on her cheek?
Plate from an old fracture. No apparent connection to her unconsciousness.
[approaching] Just got off the phone with PD. Ruzek ran Rachel's name through the system. She got busted a few times: DUI and possession.
And yet a clean tox and BAC. Hmm, the plot thickens. Good luck.
He fainted?
Yeah, getting out of the shower. When I pressed for details, he confessed to being light-headed all week.
Labs?
[handing him a tablet] Yeah, troponin's way too high. Left ventricular ejection fraction is 10%.
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?
Way too low.
Don't let him give up.
First you're treating my father, and now you're blackmailing him?
What?
You heard me.
Look, I don't know what he told you...
He said you're jealous of our relationship, that you have some twisted paternal feelings for me, that you threatened him, and said if he didn't stay away from me, you'd sabotage his chances of getting on the list.
I threatened him? Wh... sabotage?
Yes.
I'm a shrink in a sweater vest, not a secret agent.
[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.
Are you serious? Is she in danger?
Well, I haven't picked up any violent tendencies yet, but he's an extremely effective manipulator.
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.
Natalie, you can't sit on this.
If I report it, Catherine will likely be removed as Sam's guardian. I wanna pull in social services.
This goes beyond family counseling. It's a criminal matter. She intentionally stopped trach care to cause her son's death.
To end his suffering. You know, she looked into moving to a state where assisted suicide is legal? But because Sam isn't terminally ill and can't express his wishes, he didn't qualify.
Exactly. Which means you can't be certain this is what he wants.
No one knows what Sam wants more than his mother.
Then she needs to go to court and make her case, petition a judge to get his feeding tube removed. Look, Natalie, I'm not arguing she's wrong, but what she did is illegal. You have to call the police.
Then I will.
[after Natalie proposes an experimental treatment] You gave him those drugs?
Mm-hmm.
I told you not to, and you did it anyway.
His wife wanted to give 'em a try.
You shouldn't have even suggested it.
She deserved a choice.
You went behind my back. I can't believe you did that.
You wouldn't listen to me.
I did listen to you. I just hope you haven't put a nail in this man's coffin.
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.
Yeah, except, Maggie... they're doctors. They're allowed to perform these procedures.
Sharon, what would you have done?
Exactly what you did, but, unfortunately, that's not going to help you.
Sharon, am I gonna lose my job over this?
I hope not, but until I can figure something out... I've got to suspend you, Maggie.
Sharon.
I'm sorry.
[turning in her badge] The patient would've died. I have no regrets.
I know what you're gonna say. I should not have lied to Joanna. It was wrong. She's just a desperate, troubled woman, not a psychopath.
I agree.
She's not, but am I? Am I a psychopath?
What?
Look how easily I lied to her, how I coldly manipulated her.
In this context, that's hardly an indication of psychopathy.
Well, how about my life? Would you say that I'm able to form lasting relationships? I mean, I have no real friends, no significant romantic attachments. I think I have emotions, but maybe they aren't real. Maybe they're just imitative.
You just told me that you felt guilty about lying to a patient, which means that you have a conscience, which means that you're not a psychopath.
Whatever you wanna call it, I am my father's daughter.
Well... well, you're also my resident, and I find you to be a... a deeply compassionate person, who's capable of great empathy. I just never would've roped you into this whole psychiatry thing if I wasn't entirely convinced of that.
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