Colin Donnell: Connor Rhodes

Love Hurts

Connor Rhodes

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. Ethan Choi: Hey, what are we looking at?
Dr. Ava Bekker: He needs a new valve.
Dr. Connor Rhodes: Ava Bekker, CT fellow, Ethan Choi, Chief Resident of the E.D.
Dr. Ava Bekker: So we crack his chest, replace the valve.
Dr. Connor Rhodes: Well, we don't need to crack his chest. Uh, Mr. Crocker's been assessed as intermediate risk, and transcatheter aortic valve replacement, TAVR, is now FDA approved for patients at that level.
Dr. Ava Bekker: We get excellent results with open aortic valve replacement. With TAVR, you're just inviting complications.
Dr. Connor Rhodes: I don't agree. Why put the patient through a long operation and a long pump run? He could have a functional heart in under two hours.
Dr. Ethan Choi: The less invasive, the better.
Dr. Connor Rhodes: Exactly.
Dr. Ava Bekker: Excuse me. You're an emergency medicine resident. Why are we even talking?
Dr. Ethan Choi: [insulted] Excuse you?
Dr. Connor Rhodes: Because I value Dr. Choi's opinion. And I think you'll find that Dr. Latham will back me on the TAVR.

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.

Sharon Goodwin: I saw Robin's scheduled for surgery.
Dr. Sarah Reese: She has anti-NMDA Receptor Encephalitis. It's very rare. Dr. Charles had the idea to test for it.
Sharon Goodwin: It's some autoimmune response?
Dr. Daniel Charles: Gone awry. Robin has a mediastinal teratoma; a benign one, but her body's attacking the tumor, and it's also attacking her brain.
Dr. Sarah Reese: Yeah, and the resulting inflammation is what's caused her psychiatric symptoms.
Sharon Goodwin: So, when the tumor's removed?
Dr. Daniel Charles: Hopefully the psychosis should resolve itself.
Dr. Connor Rhodes: [entering] Wait. What's going on?
Dr. Daniel Charles: [getting onto the elevtor] Come on in.