Doctor ILLEGALLY Resuscitates Patient | Chicago Med | MD TV 

There is literally a DNR sign above her bed. This is so illegal. The actress does an amazing job of portraying her hatred towards him in her eyes when she’s intubated.

His level of personal projection onto the patient…far too much. She made her feelings clear and he decided to disregard them and the DNR for his own personal reasons. 😒

Worst part about this plot line is that the family does sue him and she later dies painfully anyway, but the husband thanks Halstead for what he did after he harasses the family into dropping the suit. Halstead was absolutely in the wrong - he totally disrespected a patients dying wishes, yet he learns absolutely nothing from this at all.

"This is not about you, its about her and what she wanted" Miss Goodwin put it perfectly to Dr. Halstead, all this time its what HE thought was right and HE projected his desire to save her upon his patient ignoring what she wanted. She could have gone peacefully with her family by her side but instead she was left half alive due to Dr Halstead's selfishness

“Dr. Halstead you’re not listening to me”. That’s the whole scene in a nutshell. I would’ve loved to see him be fired in the end.

I am a nurse and the look on her face when she woke up intubated.. she was heartbroken. For a split second she was free of pain and worry.

I was irritated the moment he asked if she was considering her family. This is her choice. She is sick and in pain. He doesn't know what she's been through. Some very ill people have been through so much that they are done fighting. He let his personal feelings and past with his mother get in the way.

this honestly makes my blood boil. not only did he take away her choice, but he traumatized her husband and daughter in the process

What he did not only was Selfish but very illegal. He should of lost his job right then and there.

This was so disrespectful!! DNR is a patient’s personal choice! Doctors must respect that! there is absolutely no reason to prolong someone’s life if it’s full of suffering

Is no one gonna talk about how he not only disrespected her wishes by resuscitating her but also signing her up to a clinical trial without talking about it to her first

She was looking at him with disgust. That man crossed the line. I feel bad for the nurses. They have no choice but to follow doctor’s orders.

“She’s going to thank me” I’m sorry what kind of egocentric narcissistic bs is that-She made her wishes INCREDIBLY clear. Husband should have stood up for that as his wife’s LITERAL last wish. Dr. Hal stead is showing that despite good people being doctors those same good people can be exceedingly selfish if they think they know what’s best because of their M.D.

This is the incident where Dr. Halstead made a permanent enemy of Sharon Goodwin. He was never able to earn her respect after this and she relished torturing him for the next 7 years - forever regarding him with suspicion and contempt. In most cases, rightfully so. He proved to be a menace to the department with his reckless, impulsive decisions.

Her actor was great...when she opened her eyes and saw Will and realized what he had done... You could feel the hatred and anger.

No doctor would ever disrespect a DNR to this degree, especially on a patient that is clearly palliative. What sucks is that if this was real life, the doctor would probably just get fined and not lose their license and all those code blue nurses would have lost theirs for following his order and then the poor patient would just have their suffering dragged on.

"My mother... if she had access to a drug like this, she might still be alive." Disrespectfully, this sounds like a YOU problem, sir. 🙄

I feel so bad for the wife she just wanted peace and he prolonged that for her.

"She's going to thank me" is so not how a doctor should act it's kinda sick.

"Is she considering her family?" Because her own feelings and pain and suffering don't matter. She should keep suffering so a doctor who doesn't know her or her family feels better about himself. This is why I had to stop watching this show. Halstead and Manning were constantly doing things like this. Made the show absolutely unwatchable how they were constantly shown as the heroes while breaking patient's boundaries and legal rulings in order to play hero.

"you have nothing to lose". So disrespectful, she doesn't want to fight another painful excruciating battle 😢 what she is loosing is more strength, more Patience, more peace.

How horrifying this was. When my mom was dying she told both me and the doctor she did not want to be resuscitated. I had to tell my brother and my aunts when she went unconscious. My brother tried to fight me on it and as much as I knew I would miss my mom, it’s what she wanted. She suffered a long time and wanted to die peacefully. If her doctor did what Halstead did, I probably would have murdered him and felt no guilt about it🤷🏽‍♀️

In real life, Halstead should've been terminated & her husband probably would have brought legal action against Halstead & the hospital. DNRs exist for a reason & doctors are required to acknowledge DNRs.

Miss Goodwin should have fired him immediately and had security waiting to arrest him for what he did.

This is how you get sued

Oh man. That's how you end up stripped of your license and imprisoned for assault.

It's scary how people disregard what people want, that the husband could override his wife's wishes. What a nightmare!

I get how he feels bc in the show he’s mother had cancer but if someone has a dnr you need to respect it doesn’t matter how you feel tbh

This is so cruel. She’s been suffering, you prolong her suffering to fulfill your own narcissistic agenda of self-satisfaction. Its sick(and against the hippocratic oath).

If it was up to me, Halstead would never practice medicine again. I don't care what his rationale was.

My grandparents were killed in a car accident. My grandmother died instantly and my grandfather died 10 days later. My grandfather had a DNR and a Healthcare directive stating he didn't want to be kept alive on machines. When the end came, half of my dad's siblings decided to agree, honor his wishes, and allow the doctors to remove life support. The other half fought tooth and nail for 3 days to see if he could come back from it. It was horrifying for the family. I was only 19 at the time and didn't realize the dishonor my aunt and uncles had in fighting grandpa's wishes. I didn't even know what a DNR was back then until my family was fighting over one. They finally agreed and he was taken off life support. Easily the most traumatizing event of my 47 years of life.

dr manning is so sweet like the way she said thank you when the girl handed her the pen

It’s fascinating just how every horrible decision in this show is due to personal drama/grief. From Manning to whenever there’s a baby-child patient and Halstead every time something in his childhood blends with the patient. Seriously he’s lucky the husband didn’t deck him in the face when he brought up the trial.

If I was this patients relative I wouldn't rest until that doctor was in prison

I hate how they showed the nurses as so submissive and willing to just do whatever a doctor said. I would have grabbed him and called the cops if I was that patient’s nurse.

It’s not just illegal because he didn’t respect her wishes. CPR is brutal. You break ribs. It’s a physical trauma. What he did was battery under the law.

The only thing i i feel the mother went wrong on was asking the child out of the room when explaining why she wanted to die. Be honest with your child. She will feel like you just left her alone willingly when you had an opt out

One of the dumbest choices Halstead ever made. Especially because she only got a placebo in the study.

He should be fired for disregarding her wishes and I'm if he was sued, which I'm assuming he was the hospital would fire him him for causing them such a massive financial burden. He is unbelievable selfish and unprofessional. Those nurses should never have assisted and he put their careers at risk.

How self-righteous can this doctor be? Y’know how traumatic it’d be for the daughter and husband to see her wasting away in this state. Someone who’s endured so much pain has the right to go out on their own terms, and yet this is the image that would’ve been ingrained into their minds. A tube down your throat that you can’t swallow or blow your nose, you can’t talk to your loved ones, a catheter in your urethra, in constant pain, and just exhausted that you just want to sleep; how dare a doctor like Halstead determine that that’s how his patient should live her final days. That’s just awful.

CPR, when done correctly, is incredibly hard and painful on the body. The amount of pain this woman was in, physical, mental, and emotional, was just compounded by the additional strain and stress he just added. And that’s not even taking into account what he just did to her family. Seeing a parent undergo CPR and having the defibrillator used is not something you ever forget. I saw it happen to my dad over 25 years ago and still have nightmares to this day.

I know it's NOWHERE NEAR cancer, but I was born with Spina Bifida and sometimes I feel like i'm being pressured to stay alive for my family, not all the time, but sometimes. It's not a great feeling

It's one thing if this unfortunately happens on accident due to misunderstanding or misinformation, it's another for a doctor to be fully aware of a pts DNR and consciously make the decision to ignore it.

As her doctor, Will had a moral responsibility to FOLLOW her DNR order. A DNR sign and a crash cart never belong together in the same place. He had no right to bark orders at everybody like that. I remember a few years back when our government proposed a measure illegalizing DNR. Thankfully, it didn't pass, but it was the same attitude Dr. Halstead had about this case.

If hall think this is only example of Chicago Med not respecting patient autonomy, you are far mistaken.

As a terminal patient this makes me so angry. A Dr doing this to me, and deciding to continue my suffering because they want to play God the miracle worker is my worst fucking nightmare. When I decide I'm done fighting I'M DONE! Don't decide you know my body and my limits better than me when I'm the one going through it.

If you want to resuscitate her, you do it yourself Dr. Halstead. That’s my response. That is a lawsuit in the making.

Did they get sued into oblivion and lose their licenses for this?

I think the father should also have said no regardless of the daughter screaming and crying for her mother and this is just heartbreaking. Even in the long scheme of things if it did help her she is clearly not going to be able to live a normal life. You need to look at the future. Sometimes it is unfortunately better to choose to die.

He was doing his chest compressions way too fast before he had the nurse take over. Ah-ah-ah-stayin' alive.

I have to say sometimes it’s the best to just let the person go. And it’s hard but sometimes it’s what is best for them.

He lets his emotions get in the way of his job WAY too often & this is a job where you can’t let your emotions get in the way

Emotional attachment tends to lead to stupid decisions. He was too attached to the patient and not let him emotions get the better of him.

I get that humans have emotions, and doctors are no exception to this. But he let his emotions get in the way, why would you want to prolong someone’s pain for? She is not his mother.

"I'll take responsibility!" Then proceeded to defend his actions

That doctor was completely out of line. When a patient say they are done they are done. Respect their wishes.

What about "I'm done" does he not understand?! People with terminal illnesses can only take so much pain and disappointment. Those of us that are healthy may see death as an horrible outcome, but those whom are suffering see death as a peaceful resolution. He had no right to take that away from her just because he lost his mother.

This is why I have an advanced directive and the fiercest woman in the world, my mum, as my ‘enduring guardian’ (it’s what we call it here in Australia). She would never waver in fighting any doctor who tried to force treatment on me.

Mrs. Baker may have been in pain, but it sounds like she was in as perfect mind as she could've been competency-wise. She knew that the new treatment had a small chance to offer remission, but decided against it herself after going through so much already. She was sick, in pain, suffering, and outright stated that she wanted to spend the last of her life at home with her family instead of in the hospital. This made it abundantly clear that she knew she would absolutely die without medical intervention, but was accepting of that reality. Maybe the treatment would've saved her, or maybe it would've just caused her more anguish for a longer time. Either way, Mrs. Baker made her decision about her own life while knowing the gravity of such a decision. Instead of doing the respectful thing, her doctor betrayed her wishes. Instead of being let go, she was still sick and in pain, just with even more drugs, the aftermath of electric shocks, an intubation tube, and potentially some broken ribs too; and she couldn't even talk to her family anymore. I find it cruelly symbolic that her voice was forcibly silenced by a medical procedure to keep her "alive" Dr. Halstead let his own trauma and grief get in the way of proper patient care, and in the process, he delivered a terrible trauma on that man and his daughter. The father dearly wanted her by his side, but knew she was suffering and maturely put his desires aside, putting Mrs. Baker first when it came to her own sickness. The daughter was too young to understand the situation, desperately clinging to the hope that her mother would get better and the doctors were saving her. Instead of learning an important reality of the world that holding on can do more damage than letting go in some cases, a negative mentality and confusing trauma was enhanced. It's horrible to see a child learn such a thing so young, but these sorts of things happen and need to be handled appropriately for their development. It wasn't Dr. Halstead's place to make this decision; and because he did, he only caused more and prolonged suffering. Modern medicine has its limits, and preventing a death doesn't always save the patient's life.

This is even worse than those misguided family members who wont sign a dnr on their weak sick 89 year old demented parent and refuse to even allow proper palliative care out of some fear that theyll become addicted when they are dying. We are so removed from death that we sometimes force people to fight against their will and common decency for more days of agony. Its one thing to give info about this clinical trial but another entirely to do all this and push people and an actual crime to go against the dnr. I would pursue assault charges and any other charges I could against everyone involved if they did that to my familiy member with a dnr. Now on top of cancer she gets to suffer from the absolute physical trauma involved in this

I never understood DNR's until about a year ago when I went to the hospital and they asked me that if something went wrong, would I want to be resuscitated. Nothing would go wrong because I was there for an infected piercing, but her question made me do research. What he did was awful. She's in pain and is sick and doesn't want to go through the treatments that would prolong her suffering. He should've let her pass. 😔

Honestly, the nurses that helped by getting Halstead the cart etc are also partially to blame. They can see the DNR sign. They know what that means.

I say, if you're sick, no matter the disease, you shouldn't be pressured to live longer than YOU want. So what if other people want you to live longer? That's THEIR problem!

My mom died from cancer. And i know how painful it was for her that even the slightest touch of cloth makes her in so much pain. That CPR is totally terrifying idea to a cancer patient.

It's nice that they wrote it so that Manning isn't the one with a wildly unprofessional, unethical, and unlawful approach to the patient.

I know he wanted to save her but for the most part,he was trying to make it up to his mom and that's wrong.

It makes me so angry to see how selfish this doctor is. He's doing this because its his "moral obligation" when realistically, it was him trying to play pretend and thing he was saving his mom instead of a random woman who he doesn't personally know. My grandma, who is more like a mother to me, has a DNR. Although I wish I could have her around as long as possible I know she is in pain. She had a heart attack and was resuscitated, carried out of our house in a body bag while she was still alive and tubed against her will when it was her biggest fear to wake up with a tube in her throat. The doctor told us that if we take the tube out, that she'll die, it was my aunt's call as she's her medical power of attorney, we ALL were ready to let grandma go, but some idiot doctor put her through more pain and now her lungs are failing and she's bound to her bedroom.

If someone has a DNR in place, the only thing that can override that (besides that individual wishing to revoke it) is a Court Order

His bright smile when he walks into the room at the end was absolutely disgusting... look at this family: they have grieved enough; and the woman's eyes while he's all bright and chipper. It made me furious 😡

My grandfather suffered for YEARS from diabetic related illnesses. He became weak, brittle, and thin. He signed a DNR. He passed away when I walked into the room. My grandmother held his face and told him to rest. She loved him enough to let him go and the doctors did not coerce her or interfere with her husband's choice. Dr. Halstead was just disrespectful and acting out of his ego.

I've hated Halstead since season 1, mostly because of what he did with this patient. Doctor or no, he had no right to do this. In the real world, he should have lost his license.

I am nowhere near as ill as this patient but I have a DNR on file. I don't want to wake up with crushed ribs and brain damage.

My grandmother's greatest fear was being sent to a nursing home. She made my mother promise not to let the doctors interfere with the dying process and mom kept them away from her. But it was Mom's youngest brother -- the "baby" of the family -- who was the greatest problem. He'd lived with or next door to his mother for his entire life, and in spite of fathering six sons he couldn't face the prospect of life without his mommy. He sobbed, begged and pleaded for her to fight off death, but gran was fed up with pain, exhaustion and raising children... especially those who were grandparents themselves! Family members with unresolved emotional issues can be a bigger stumbling block to a peaceful death than even the most "devout" medical team.

In real life he'd lose his job automatically.

I can't stand either of em, but manning was 100% correct to try to block him. Idek why he would even try to do somethibg so morally incorrect😭

This was hard to watch…. She had suffered for so long and wanted to pass peacefully…

The fact that he illegally resuscitated her without the husband’s consent is far more worse than anything. I know the husbands look and he was not happy

In some States, what he did wouldn't be illegal if the husband agreed. But the husband didn't. What he did was not only illegal but also immoral. My mom died from Cancer after deciding not to pursue anymore treatment. She deserved to be respected and her wishes to not have her suffering prolonged respected. When my mom was close to death, I was lucky enough to have a kind and understanding group of doctors come by to give her final assessment and recommend ceasing further life saving treatment and to only pursue paladive care. The next day she transported to a hospice. But those doctors listened to all of her wishes, her concerns, and my family's too. Gave her real meaningful control and dignity. The hospice staff was also really really amazing. They would explain things as best as possible, and give us as many options as possible to stay with her. We filled her room with things she loved. Soft bunny plushies, her own blankets and pillows, basket of fake purple roses, pictures of her family and friends, music she loved. I slept in her room every night, even as she declined, because no matter what I didn't want to abandon her. They had fresh hot soup for us everyday, and offered to make me any food I wanted, but I could never think of anything... The hospice was amazing with her end of life care. She passed with as much dignity and respect as is possible for someone slowly dying. And I am very happy that a maniac didn't try to save her life or push her to pursue treatment. It would have only put her through more pain.

Both of these doctors always let their emotions play into the cases too much.

He is super lucky he did not get fired! Whether a patient has DNR, religious exemption, or any other kind of legally binding documentation that says "I don't want this treatment", you are REQUIRED to follow that request & instructions to the letter! If your moral conscience can't accept that your patient wants to die to end his/her suffering, you have NO rhyme or reason to be a doctor! CASE CLOSED!!

This actually happened in real life. We don't ignore DNRs because it is illegal. Plus, the patient will file a lawsuit against you.

The plus side? The lawsuit is going to set her family up for LIFE.

6:44 “what have you done?” Said Natalie and she’s not happy

I’ve seen so many horrible things happen because people don’t have their wishes on paper. This poor woman. I’m so glad it’s a tv show

Even house wouldn’t do it if she had no hope of getting better

I love how Goodwin just wants everyone to be safe and out of trouble.

“i will take responsibility!” NO YOU WONT. YOU NEVER DO BRO??

my grandfather had DNR in his files. he was a healthy man but he knew if something ever happened he’d want to pass away and stay that way. of course when he eventually had a heart attack EMT’s didn’t know that and my grandmother was too panicked too tell them so we was brought back to life. he was never the same again. the damage was done so all we had was a shell of a man who looked like my grandfather but couldn’t breathe without a tube down his throat and it forced us to have to take him off the machines helping keep him alive bc we knew he would have ripped us all a new one for keeping him alive like that. it broke our hearts and of course EMT had no idea that he was DNR, but if you KNOW someone is DNR, honor it. my grandfather died the day of his heart attack even if his body didn’t fully. it would have been better if he had

A couple months back, my grandma had breast cancer and it had gotten bad. It has spread and it was killing her. She asked for DNR for herself and honestly, I don't blame her. I saw her two days before she passed and it hurt me so bad to see my grandma in that state. I would not wish that kind of suffering on anyone. I would have been mad if a doctor did this to my grandmother

I feel like if a patient is on dnr there should be a set of doctors with special training for this. People become doctors to save lives which is why dnr patients are hard for them because it goes against everything they stand for and the reason they became a doctor in the first place. Now if there were doctors set specifically to care for dnr pasents the moral conflict would be less of a problem because they know thats why they're there to let the patient go peacefully not to save them.

She had it over and done and he forced her back to have to go through it all again. What a selfish, awful move on his part. If this were real life he should absolutely lose his medical license. He deserved her look of pure loathing.

In reality, Halstead would have lost his job and his license faster than you can say "lawyer's field day." Man should never be allowed to practice medicine again.

Honestly afterwards, Halsted got off way too easy

How arrogant do you have to be to think that your opinion as a doctor is more important than the legal wishes of the patient.

Halstead’s problem is that he has a level of unneeded stubbornness. He has a tendency to listen to himself more than he does his patients. And as a doctor you have to listen to your patients even if they may disagree with your logic.

To anyone who wants to know: Dr. Halstead's Mom died of being ill and the ill patient reminds him of his own mother.

I hated him for not respecting her wishes!!!!

this hospital must have the BEST lawyers on earth🤣

I was a cna for a little over a year. And what the doctor did is unethical we do not let emotions take control of the situation. Anyone in the medical field knows this because u can go to jail and the hospital will get taken to court

You know this is totally a fictional show because in a real life hospital he would have lost his job and been in some legal trouble instead of a slap on the wrist like 'stay away from her family'.