Chicago Med (TV Series)

Nothing to Fear (2017)

S. Epatha Merkerson: Sharon Goodwin

Quotes 

• Sharon Goodwin : You're looking more rested.

  Daniel Charles : Trying my best. What's the word?

  Sharon Goodwin : The board is deciding whether to put metal detectors at all the hospital entrances, so I have to go prepare my recommendation.

  Daniel Charles : Which way you leaning?

  Sharon Goodwin : Towards "yes".

  Daniel Charles : Really? Doesn't that kind of fly in the face of being a trusted community institution? You know, putting up barriers between us and the people that we're trying to help?

  Sharon Goodwin : One of those people shot you in the gut, Daniel.

  Daniel Charles : Yeah, outside the hospital. What kind of detector's gonna stop that?

• Sharon Goodwin : You want to feed a patient against her will.

  Will Halstead : A pregnant mother who's killing her baby.

  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.

  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?

  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.

  Will Halstead : But there are two patients here.

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

  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.

  Natalie Manning : And in the meantime?

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

• Daniel Charles : How'd that metal detector thing turn out?

  Sharon Goodwin : I changed my mind.

  Daniel Charles : Really?

  Sharon Goodwin : Yeah. I saw a woman today who almost killed her baby because she didn't trust us. And I thought "How can we encourage people to trust us more if we don't show them trust first?".

  Daniel Charles : Couldn't agree more.