When a Baby's Survival Depends on Another's Death | Chicago Med | MD TV 

Whenever a medical drama has two babies in one episode, you know something horrible is going to happen.

I'm saying this with no medical background at all, but asking parents prematurely if they are open to organ donation is in my opinion, the biggest smack in the face you can give.

7:01 The one time Natalie is rationally upset. If I were a doctor and another wanted my patient for spare parts, I'd have the doctor asking to do it themselves.

the baby girl ended up recovering, she was exposed to a chemical that made her sick in the park, she was given an anti toxic and recovered

I hate it when bad things happen to kids. They didn't do anything to deserve something like that.

That was so difficult for Nat. But because she's also a mother she knew what is felt like holding a child's hand. 😢 She went through with it and she bravely asked the other family if they wanna donate Alicia's organs.

I would NEVER want to be in any of these situations as a Parent!! 😬🥺

Pediatric organ donation is such a sensitive topic but this show is brave to bring it up. It’s an unfortunate circumstance and painful to Imagine losing your baby before they’ve had a chance to live their life. But if their organs can save the life of another-how do you ask a grieving parent if their child’s organs can be harvested? It’s difficult enough with an adult, for a baby it’s just….terrible. Im an organ donor and pregnant with my first, it’s a difficult to think what would happen if I was in this case even as an organ donor

If i were her id agree to testing the baby's blood but id have him deliver the news and make the case himself

Alicia ended up being okay: she got botulism while playing in the park with her brothers.

1. They could have a general procédure asking all patient's parents for organ donation consent as a regular intake procedure. Medical record would be held at hospital, or better, in national state register, and can be used in future. 2. Seems highly unlikely and dangerous to give heart from a sick infant to another baby without having a single clue of a diagnosis, no?

Honestly, I would have told Rhodes if he was so desperate to hurt those parents to be the monster himself. Coward.

I love how understanding manning is with the mother here, wish she was just as understanding to the mother with the baby who had a intercranal hemorrhage from the very beginning 🥺 she did come around after but she should have withheld judgement from beginning as being a mother herself to an infant

Rhodes was way out of line with his request!

This would terrify any Parent..

if only the US health care system was actually like this.. they are so quick to order tests on this show but when i tore my meniscus, it took 2 months before they would even do an mri💀💀couldn’t walk first time I went in and dr had the audacity to tell me to “just take some aleve”

The iconic kid sentence: Mooooooooooomeeeey ammmmm thurrrrssttttiiii

I just don't understand why dr. Manning was just jumping to conclusions automatically thinking that she was brain dead and running all these test

I'm a mom too and my son is 4. I wouldn't know what to do if I ever have to send my son to the hospital.

I had a child born with hypoplastic left heart in 1990. She lived 3 days. She died in my arms……

This is why grieving mothers like this should be checked out by psych before they are discharged. And of course Dr Manning didnt help the situation in the episode when she gave them false hope and recesscitated him when he clearly wasnt meant to survive!

A baby with no muscle and tendon reflexes means the heart is not usable since it is just a complex muscle. Trying to find a non-trauma induced infant death makes them stupid.

Oh my word. I am laying in bed with my baby during a contact nap, and this left me in tears 😢 I can't imagine...

The baby boy went into V FIB they even the CODE BLUE went off

Demetria McKinney is a great actress ❤❤❤❤

So that's it??? That was the connection between the 2 babies??? That when one of them dies, the other one has a chance to live?!?!?😮😮😮

I feel bad for little baby

First thought Spinal Muscular Atrophy

My god I hope is baby is alive.

This is the only hospital where the doctors not only work in the PICU, ITU, ER as well as all the other wards. Now I know specialist work all over the hospital but here they seem to work primarily in ER but everywhere else when they feel like!?

The doctors have think fast to save a life

I would neveret them do that to my baby

I hate when I go and watch a new video and then the first comment gives the whole thing away LOL😂😂 but at the same time, I read the comment😅😅

I have the same condition as the little baby boy ❤️

When I was born I also turned blue

Why are they cutting into a baby with a crowd present and no masks???

Wow

I need to know what happens next

I would just test the blood 1st then ask the parents. They had a case like this on er where both parents met the blood type is AB rare

Anyone knows what episode and season is this

What episode??

My name is Alesha

Does it ever occur to these people that these patients might be *SUPERHEROS* and these types of "conditions" might actually be their bodies mutating and evolving and we just go flying in chopping and changing stuff? What did they say "plastic something" that could easily have been the next plastic man or something!?...😅

What was baby Alicia's diagnosis?

S Is this real or is it an act if not why so abrupt.

My sister Daisy Randy away because she was scared because the baby was sick

I was appalled by this episode. I can't imagine one patient's doctor - a patient needing a transplant - discussing the medical condition of a potential donor. Were I the parents of the girl - the potential donor, I'd have alerted the hospital administration and the authorities to these doctors' request. I would also state at the outset, there will be no test and my daughter WILL NOT be a donor, to remove any and all motivation to "hurry things along". As a parent, my duty is to my daughter, and my daughter only. My concerns would be: 1) The conflict of interest. Who is Dr. Manning's patient: my daughter, or the boy across the hall? Will she do everything in her power to treat my child? How would I know? How could I be sure? I think I'd ask for another doctor. 2) The potential for collusion. I don't know these doctors. Are they married? Lovers? Financial partners? Again, I'd ask for another doctor for my daughter, and a legal "stay away" order for both doctors AND the parents of the boy across the hall. I'd also want security posted to protect my daughter. The temptations to speed things along are too great. 3) The possible pressure to not treat the potential donor so that an organ comes available. Donations are anonymous and independently coordinated (by Gift of Hope) for a reason - to ensure no malfeasance. Of course, it's just a TV program, and the writers need to be creative to provide riveting drama. But this episode departed from reality by a wide margin. Or at least, I hope so. Or we're entering the universe portrayed in Coma (1978).

You know. you think that 10000000000% grams allowed to babies will make ded

What episode is this?

She doesn't give up on her patient but forces Dr.Halstead to give up on his... So selfish!

Ooh Im early!

These doctors behave like gangsters. It’s so disgusting.

Yiu Ep Meier

Lil baby is cute

Im happy i wont get children...

This is why I'm not an organ donor... if you're not the favorite, you signed your own death certificate.

It's funny that the black baby is the one the white doctor looks to for spare parts.

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Hot take: it should be legal for doctors to run tests like this without parental/patient/family consent. If the sample they need has already been taken, and thus contact with the patient isn’t even required, there is no impact to the patient by running the test. It should be legal to find out whether they are a match BEFORE even bothering the parents about directed donation. That way if they aren’t a match, the conversation doesn’t need to happen. Of course if a new sample is required, even something as simple as a skin swab, consent should be obtained.

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ok de name is dick wolf de kid

Babies are overrated they’re exactly the same as animals.

Yea the white baby was more important to them

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idc about nobody else baby I'm not killing my baby to save no random baby y'all better find somebody else cause the minute you ask me I'm saying no and idgaf idc if that sounds selfish take it how you want