I Gave Myself a Tapeworm | Chicago Med | MD TV

Dr. curry drives me insane. I get that it’s her character that she’s a PhD student and research is her thing but her bedside manner and ethics are horrendous! If someone acted liked this outside of a tv show they’d definitely see some consequences and they’d be deserved

First clip I've seen where Dr. Charles isn't the most calm and stable presence he usually is.

That blonde woman with the glasses shouldn't have made that judgment on her own without consulting her superior. That wasn't her call to make.

Dr. Charles puts people on psychiatric holds like he's giving out candy

Everyone over here hating on Dr. Curry for THIS decision of all things? The patient asked to be discharged. They CAN'T hold her there against her will unless it's deemed that she cannot make her own medical decisions. However, she was alert, aware, and able to understand the consequences of being released in her condition. Therefore, she might have to sign an "against medical advice" form, but they had to let her go. A psych hold was unwarranted, and this is the first clip I've seen where Dr. Charles was in the wrong.

In my opinion, Dr. Curry is offering an effective means of keeping the patient healthy. The patient isn’t going to give in and expel the tapeworm, so to make sure the patient doesn’t get more ill, doing a case study and monitoring her vitals on a regular basis is a great way to check up on her health while at the same time gathering valuable information.

It irked me so much when Dr. Curry said "it looks like anorexia, but she's not underweight". While yes, she wasn't actually anorexic, being underweight is not! a! prerequisite! for! an! eating disorder!!!!

The medical student gets on my nerves 🙄

this attending has always been for herself first and nothing else. she has done time and time again out patients lives at risk

Dr. Charles and Dr. Curry standing next to each other is so funny to me. Like the size difference is hilarious. 😂

Ingesting tapeworms/tapeworm eggs was sadly a common trend in the 70s I believe, many lost their life doing the pill that contains tapeworm eggs to achieve the “perfect body”. Mothers who use their children for money (liek beauty pageants) also do this so their child don’t get “obese” when in reality the child already has a good weight for their age. But I never heard of someone using tapeworm pills for MS 🤔 I have many friends who have MS but they never talked about this type of treatment

I'm no doctor and I understand the hippocratic oath, but some people just don't want any help. You can't force someone to get better if they don't want to. I would've just let that lady walk out and not lose any sleep if anything happened to her. He warned her and she ignored it.

For once Dr Charles is wrong. The patient has every right to leave. Patients with cancer can refuse treatment, patients with a parasite can also refuse treatment. He had no right at all to put her on that hold.

I know the tapeworm treatment is bad for the patient's health, but putting her on a psych hold wasn't the right thing to do. I'm glad Dr. Charles dropped it. I hope the patient got better, too.

I respect that the one time Dr Charles is wrong, he reverses his decision directly after.

One of the times I was in the ER I had a PA (physician's assistant) do an initial assessment on me and examined me. It's important to know that this had been probably my 20th visit to the er in the past 2 years, and I have a regular doctor who works at the hospital who usually takes care of me and he was on vacation but I was in terrible pain and I had to go to the er. Anyway, she walked in the door holding my papers and the first thing she said was "why are you here again? You were told to follow up with a specialist. Did you do that? There's nothing else we can do for you here" and I said that I was in really terrible pain much worse than usual and she said "you look fine to me. We're not going through this again, go see a different doctor" and walked out. I was stunned and shocked by her attitude and behavior and the way she spoke to me. We submitted a formal complaint to the hospital and she got a citation or something, but that affected me mentally for weeks. That woman reminds me of the blonde med student. Almost exactly.

That student had no business making a single judgement call.

okay, y'all - yes dr curry is HELLA annoying most other episodes, but this is one where she was in the right. not only did she work with the patient, but she did everything in a respectful environment and the patient seemed enthusiastic about research; there really wasn't overstepping on her part, but for the first time it was dr charles because this was personal to him.

I have MS the lengths we go to end our constant suffering is sometimes unimaginable

1:42 god grief...but being disabled sick and desperate... I know how desperate she is...