I had a heart transplant 2 years ago and this video made me emotional, being a donor is such an amazing thing. I was 15 at the time and I randomly got sick and was in desperately in need of a new heart, thankfully I received one. I’m now 18 and just started university thanks to my donor. I know that when it’s my time to go I’ll be doing the same so that someone else can have a shot at life.
The doctor/nurse are completely wrong in this case. Glad Dr Choi changed his mind. This man was clearly in a state of mind capable to consent to his medical care. He knew he was dying, and with ALS it’s a slow, painful death where you end up trapped in your body waiting to die. He is fully understanding of the fact the Heparin would kill him within hours, and he wanted that in order to save his organs and donate them to others .
But it was still a selfish thing to do. Choi ALWAYS twists things to his narrative and manages to always change patients'minds somehow even if they never wanted to do something. It's called manipulation
@@Ebunoluwa13 it's not manipulation. You can't operate on a patient without their consent. If you do, you can suffer a loss. A big one, including cancellation of your medical license and penalty. This includes all the legal actions that come under patient rights and consent.
Why are people surprised or frustrated this has always been April’s character, she has always been anti-euthanasia always looking for ways to life not death. While Choi has always been a practical thinker that decides based on the patients situation, unlike April he doesn’t have a fixed stance so when euthanasia is requested and he knows it’s in their best interest and the interest of others he’s all for it. Plus you should understand April’s feeling here, having had a miscarriage. Their characters are dynamic that’s never going to change
The reason I'm so frustrated on her is because she tried to make him feel guilty because of her lose and the is down right disgusting. If you're going to use your personal life to try and effect the will of a patient then you shouldn't be in healthcare.
Being an RN myself, acting like that could easily cost her her license. It's so unrealistic. No RN actually acts that way. We respect our patients' decisions as long as they have clear and informed consent beforehand.
@@kattd7524 Thank you for saying that. I was wondering about how such a situation would be dealt with in real life and personally, even if I'm not a medical professional, I would always adhere to the patient's wishes, regardless of my own feelings, provided they are able and capable to make an informed decision based on ALL the information provided to them. I know it's a show and all, but in reality, as you say, I think that April wouldn't be working in the medical field long.
The problem is, he's not choosing between living or dying. He's choosing between quick painless death or a long, painful, slow, degrading death. It's not like he has cancer and there is a chance to beat it or something. There is no cure for ALS, it's a degenerative terminal disease, she should know this.
When Maggie goes to speak to him about changing his Advanced Directive, she does it so peacefully and explains it well. Also, looks exceptionally beautiful in that scene
I’m so happy I became an organ donor. Why waste essential body parts to the ground or in a furnace. If by the off chance that I die young, somebody else can have a chance to live
I want to be an organ donor too and my mom is a lawyer so it can be arranged or at least be better informed, but I guess for a mother it's something hard to comprehend or even consider
I'm on the organ donor list, although didn't tick the box to donate my whole body to medical science. Just a personal/family thing, I've heard stories from my step father who worked with cadavers while at university. They can have my organs though, not like I'm gonna need em.
My point of view is that we did not create ourselves, and as such, we have to return our body at the end, in as healthy a state as possible. I would never be a donor nor accept someone else's organ, to remain coherent to my own spiritual principles. I can not allow my body, which I consider sacred, to be cut into pieces.
From this clip I get the feeling that April is the kind of parent who would force the doctors to do anything to keep her child alive a little longer even if its born with something that will absolutely kill it and only brings unimaginable pain.
My first pregnancy was like that but I was 22 weeks and the baby if born would suffer respiratory failure. I chose to stop the pregnancy. Hardest decision for me but I didn’t want the baby to go through that . I cried for months. (Lethal perinatal hypophotasia) . Rare genetic disease.
@@JoJoGranum I'd say you did the right thing. saved a lot of worse pain. Of course I'm a 3rd-party person in this, but I always felt the hard choices are usually the better ones in the long run.
@@user-sw3er4dk6k if he died for himself, he would have chosen to live even for a few weeks. But he chose to die within hours just to save his organs that can possibly save more lives
I understand April's respect for life, but she has no respect for the patients wishes and thinks that what she wants should override others, even when they are fully informed and capable. I don't like that.
Rebecca Woodward pls understand that April thinks different to dr Choi, she thinks of life not death and she had a miscarriage so she understands how hard death is to other people. in this situation you should understand where she is coming from. While Choi is a more practical thinker he thinks of the patients and there should be nothing more to it bcs he doesn’t want to be written up for not following the patients orders. April has a right to feel into red by Choi bcs he did not listen to her when he knew the medicine was going to make his brain damage worse.
@@ellariley7399 there is a professional boundary that all medical staff need to adhere to. it is of essence to keep your personal feelings out pf the way when making a decision to stand by the patient’s wishes. by discrediting the patient’s well thought decision about their life, is damaging to any relationship created with them
My granddad was very sick at the end of his life. he had Heart problems for many years and all the medications that were helping him damaged other organs so he needed medications for that and so on. At the end he was so sick and in so much pain. It were the days before Christmas and I had a wish I hated. My wish was that my granddad would die rather sooner than later. He died last december 25th at home after a christmasparty with all his children and grandchildren eating his favorite food. He was listening to "you raise me up" with my grandmother. She said: Beautiful song. And he answerd yes a second before passing away. It couldn't be more beautiful.
That struck me like a train im so sorry dude I cannot comprehend your loss I hope your grandad is in a much better place free from all the medication and sickness free from the suffering I hope your family never suffers from anything like this including you please make your grandad proud man 🙏
Quality of life over quantity of life. This man was going to die one way or another. By giving the patient the option to go on blood thinners, knowing what it would do, you’ve given him the chance to help others like he wanted.
I just hot to say. The makeup team did great. The way throughout the episode you see him slowly descend. His eyes going fully bloodshot before he dies, the end of his nose going purple. They really did well in this episode.
He doesn’t personally have the ability to fire nurses. That being said, he could definitely report her refusal to treat and THEN the right person could penalize her.
Someone should have reported so many times, I don’t understand how she kept her job for so many years AND got into a competitive program to become an NP…. All this has probably shoved the stuck up her @$s even more.
"It looks like i'm giving up, but this is everything i've been living for." The delivery of this scene got me. Well done to the actor, they did such a good job in this role.
There was a twitch streamer who died of ALS very recently and in his final weeks he kept saying how depressed he was and how he just wants a normal life back. I would never wish this illness on anyone. Dying unable to move, eat, speak, even breathe, it just sounds like pure torture. I completely understand people who want to seek euthenasia while still being somewhat able to have control over their bodies. Nobody deserves to suffer like this.
Can they just once make a show were doctors understand that dying is better than living with something like ALS......is it really that hard to grasp i mean they of all people should know what kinda life awaits someone with that or say cancer, HIV,etc.......no no lets make them live through literal hell instead of just giving them some of the best pain killers and making their last weeks/days amazing...... extending peoples lives would do them more harm then good.....and i thought doctor's were supposed to do no harm?
Doctors IRL are much more understanding and much less emotionally brash than this show. It's been the only thing that has bugged me. Whether doctors IRL agree or disagree with a patient's decision, they must accomodate their choice within reason.
Exactly. When doctors sign up for med school at 18 years old, they should know that its the patients call, and the patients call only. As long as he knows the consequences, he gets to choose what he wants to do with his life.
HIV is actually fully treatable now, and people living with it can live full, long, healthy lives. But I totally agree that these doctors need to understand quality of life, as well as the wishes of terminal patients.
I see ur point ,but you got to know that we should always have hope and we can t predict the future ,amazing discoveries are being made every single day , you might have a year to live like hell with some disease but again in that year their might be some new treatment for it that could give you longer years to live ,but if you gave up in the biginning you just lost your ticket to that treatment , and for the pain :there is always pain killers to help the patients cope with it ! ...... like giving up to the idea of dying is a good thing so the person won t be in a full denial but giving up isn t the solution for it ! A person must never loose hope
We've just had a referendum here in New Zealand, the End Of Life Choice Bill, and it went through. Terminal patients who have a prognosis of 6 months or less are evaluated by psychiatrists and doctors who can sign off on the procedure l
And hopefully the government extend it in future so that those who are chronically ill or just super old and over life and choose to end their life (obviously if they’re of sound mind).
@@chadiverson9291 Drug cocktail; they choose a date and tim (and sometimes location, depends on the region), and at their request drugs are administered and they go to sleep and then die. Not all of those who choose MAID choose to donate or are able to, but if it is possible medically, it's usually something discussed with the patient in advance.
I honestly can't stand April. She has 0 respect for her patient. The way she went up to him and used her loss to try and guilt a dying man is just pure disgusting on so many levels. He was dying before his accident, he's making the hardest and final decisions he'd ever have to make; If she can't respect her /dying/ patient, she shouldn't be in the job.
And she was completely fine with "pressuring" him to treat the hematoma because of his organs failing. But when Choi gave the alternative, she gets on a high horse about what's "right" (even though every patient has the right to decide their treatment, which includes denying treatment)
When I registered with the Doctor's Surgery after moving I signed up to donate everything. If anything happens to me I figure I won't need it anymore so give it to someone who does.
My father developed PMA, which is under the ALS umbrella, my father passed in December, and my family had to fight for the hospital to respect his wishes about not being ventilated. This clip hit hard
Sometime we choose quality instead of quantity, and it usually leads to better happiness. I hope that when time comes, I will go with that level of dignity and hearth. How can you compare a miscarriage to living in increasing pain with no hope of improvement.
This one hit really hard. My stepfather's father, a man I always considered my grandfather suffered from ALS. When the prognosis came out he said that whatever organs they could use, they could have them. Then he got diagnosed with bowel cancer that had already spread rapidly. Man was the most worldly, life-loving man I knew and we had to watch him shrivel up and die a horrible, painful death because the doctors were afraid the pain meds people normally get for terminal cancer would exasterbate his ALS. In the end he couldn't even donate his organs because of the cancer.
I am so incredibly sorry for your loss, and can only imagine the trauma your family experienced watching him go. What an awful way to die… they should have just given him the pain meds at that point and made him as comfortable as possible.
this is why im lowkey scared to be a doctor like i really want to become a singer and help people anyway, but being a doctor seems so traumatizing and i'd never trust myself helping people in medicine. i wish to help people but i can never trust myself with their health and lives. i respect doctors so much
I kinda know what you mean ... I wanted to become a doctor myself, but life and circumstances means that that dream died a death a very long time ago ... ... instead, I know that there are a number of First Aid courses I can take, and which I had been certified in, however that ran out. After the whole SARS-CoV-2 situation is over, I would love to recertified again, with as many additional qualifications available as possible, by, say, volunteering with the St. John's Ambulance ... I strongly suggest that, if you still have that passion to help people, and neither medical school for becoming either a doctor, nurse, or even a pathologist, is out of the question, just even having even knowledge about First Aid, especially in CPR, you never know if that may save a life ... Therefore, do your research, and see what is available within your grasp ...
im not saying we are the same, but i have the same exact aspirations. i love singing as well but i also wanna be able to help people. watching this show had me realize myself that i will definitely have emotional shock whenever i see people at the risk of dying in front of me, and what scares me is that i wont be able to handle it. fortunately, the medical field is vast and there are instances where your empathy and the ability to understand and listen to people matters a lot at most times (psychiatry for example, which im aspiring to be). i am with you. i feel that i cannot be trusted with the lives of people at haste. but there's a lot more to medicine than this, as you're aware.
Assisted suicide is actively giving the patient something to end their life. Everyone has the right to refuse treatment, since his advanced directive was done the hospital is not liable in his death, and treating him against his will is assault. Avoiding lawsuits is a priority in hospitals so the staff can't go against his wishes, if a doctor did treat him anyway they would personally be held responsible and the hospital would not have their back in court.
@@ubiquitouslight Yeah, he refused treatment, that part's fine. But then they gave him a bloodthinner which will actively worsen his condition and has no benefits for him personally, only the patients who need his organs. Again, morally totally fine, but I doubt the legality.
@@canaw1670 1. he agreed to it all 2. Technically the drug was meant to help the blood clots that almost killed him at one point during it. it was all consented to and legal
He sounds so similar, dies with a similar appearance (expression, discoloured eyes, etc.) and sacrifices himself to help others, definitely similar. Both memorable
this is a similar debate as 'should euthanasia be legalised?' where the doctors/nurses weigh out the pros and cons of the dfferent available treatments Edit: i know they are actors and this isn't really but it most likely could portray a real scenario in medicine
As a medical personnel myself, I can understand when both medical personnel's perspectives. Sometimes we are stucked in between in decisions in between what we think is the best for patient's survival and patient's atomy. U need to be in our position to fully understand. It is a tough thing for us also
Healthy doctors can't understand what it's like to lie in a bed, unable to walk or breathe and in constant pain. I only got through it because I knew it would end and I would get better. If I had to go back, knowing it was permanent.. I'd rather die and give 50+ other people a chance to live April is just a character, but there are a LOT of people like her in the medical field, making important calls for things they just can't even comprehend :(
@@potatopatooti It's not her authority to decide which treatment is best. Health care workers shouldn't influence or coerce patients to make a decision
@@gore0802 That's not what I was talking about. I was talking about perspective and understanding - which is a big problem in the REAL WORLD where medical personal have their own biases and do not understand the struggle of others. So their "kindness" ends up being toxic and wrong
@@miaipadkid8697 Well I want to be a heart surgeon or an actress as my career, so if I can then have the opportunity to save lives or save more lives I will take it. And I know when someone dies that you love it really is awful so at least my family will know that I’m not gone.
@@miaipadkid8697 you do understand that it doesn’t hurt since you’re already dead? Also, you’re saving the lives of others. Something good can come out of your death. And it’s not like there wont be a body to bury or cremate, the doctors dont take your entire body. Isn’t the possibility to save and better someone’s life at the cost of nothing a reason to register as an organ donor?
I have a huge respect for people who donate my dads donor allowed me to have him watch me graduate high school which we never knew possible before so if there’s any5hing I can say to you is as sad as death may be donating will allow someone to be a part of their kids or even their own special moments because people pass on but they can allow someone to keep their loved one around
This show does this so many times lol its literally none of the doctors business if a patient doesn't want treatment and wants to die. Some of these doctors are so self righteous. Jesus the guy is ready to die and you want to talk to him about your miscarriage?
i feel like this show cycles between each character having the "but the patient is refusing treatment and we should respect that" and "but how is it okay to just do nothing and let this patient die??" every single clip is like a dice toss of who gets to be who today.
A doctor and a nurse should have at least some understanding of quantity versus quality of life. Why would ANYONE want to live for another year, bedridden with broken bones, knowing that by the time the bones healed, their disease will have progressed to the point of making them a vegetable anyways? Living and being alive aren't the same thing.
My first reaction seeing them want to keep going despite is refusal was "stop being so selfish". If your patient tells you that they don't want treatment, they've lived their life, that they've accepted that they will die and are willing to die, that they're donating their organs after they die, and you still want to insist on "saving their life" you're being selfish. You're only thinking about what you're doing, what your 'job' or 'duty' is, only about yourself. That man had his time. He didn't want to be bound to a wheelchair and suffering, he wanted to go, and leave something good behind by donating his organs and tissues. They hyperfocused on saving his life as if it was the best option, but if he said he doesn't want to live and suffer, and he's giving his life to stop suffering and help people at the same time, why should they force him to keep living against his will? And seeing them try to "find a way" to make him keep living hurt to see too. Selfish.
I have hydrocephalus, it is absolutely excruciating when pressure builds up in my brain by either blood or spinal fluid. I don’t know how this guy is actually surviving this oh my lord I recently had a blood clot that took 3 months to chip away at but it cleared my shunt which helped the spinal fluid flow again. I understood the risk that bleeding was gonna be a lot heavier and I’d bruise a lot more but I didn’t want life to end cause I’ve done it several times over the last few years.
The man had accepted his pending death and wanted to die with dignity while saving other people in dire need and all they could think about was extending his suffering to make themselves feel better. Where is the benefit in making a dying person stay alive against their will?
I think the nurse should not express her emotions in front of the patient so much. He is already going through hell and she is making everything worse for him.
3:14 ok, I am a hundred and ten percent sure this guy was the guy that played as a nurse in the Nancy Drew Delia Draycott Mystery. The one who told classified information in exchange for a food Ms. Gruen made.
doctors and nurses need to take into consideration quality of life personally I would prefer to die than to be attached to a machine for the rest of my life
@@arkre774 you won’t be able to say you want to be a donor when you’re about to die. Please don’t put that decision on your loved ones, decide for yourself and register your choice.
I totally agree with the patient. ALS is an incredibly scary disease, even scarier than cancer. and if I was in his position I would probably choose death too
I 100% stand by the patient and Dr. Choi. I have a 50% chance of having the genetic mutation that causes frontotemporal dementia and/or motor neurone disease (ALS is the most common type of MND). I am finding out whether I have the mutation, and if I do then I'm absolutely putting something similar to this advanced directive in place. I watched my Mum rapidly deteriorate and die as a shell of a human - I will do everything in my power to not let that happen to myself. And if I can save anyone else in the process through organ/tissue donation, then I will die happy.
My grandpa had als... he just gave up and stopped eating I miss him so much. I’ve gotten over death though because for the last eight years I’ve had over 20 deaths. Most animals. sad enough my grandpas name was Gary 😭
April cant just take her personal opinion to work, its not her decition, its not her life, its not her organs in the real world she could recieve a warning or even be fired for acting like that
I had a heart transplant 2 years ago and this video made me emotional, being a donor is such an amazing thing. I was 15 at the time and I randomly got sick and was in desperately in need of a new heart, thankfully I received one. I’m now 18 and just started university thanks to my donor. I know that when it’s my time to go I’ll be doing the same so that someone else can have a shot at life.
Congrats dude, I’m really happy for you!
Beautiful & heartbreaking news, my friend.
Live a long and healthy life, I don’t know you or your donor, but I’m grateful for both of you! ✌️
I feel you bro I feel you
@@ewwwitscosso2292 thank you sm 🥺x
@@maxwellwhite5852 this is so sweet omg! You’re amazing & thank you sm🥺x
The doctor/nurse are completely wrong in this case. Glad Dr Choi changed his mind. This man was clearly in a state of mind capable to consent to his medical care. He knew he was dying, and with ALS it’s a slow, painful death where you end up trapped in your body waiting to die. He is fully understanding of the fact the Heparin would kill him within hours, and he wanted that in order to save his organs and donate them to others .
But it was still a selfish thing to do. Choi ALWAYS twists things to his narrative and manages to always change patients'minds somehow even if they never wanted to do something. It's called manipulation
@@Ebunoluwa13 but in this case he wasn’t manipulating for his own narrative, he had decided to obey the patients original wishes
@@Ebunoluwa13 it's not manipulation. You can't operate on a patient without their consent. If you do, you can suffer a loss. A big one, including cancellation of your medical license and penalty. This includes all the legal actions that come under patient rights and consent.
It doesn’t matter they are actors lol
@@Mygolly915 exactlyyyyyyyy
This guy is a legend. He basically saved 58 people.
EDIT: ik is fake but still,if this were real,he would have saved 58 people
Yes I suppose so😎
Yea
In deed the guy is a legend.
Yea but isn’t it fake?
Well he is half hero, quarter normal, quarter mental
Why are people surprised or frustrated this has always been April’s character, she has always been anti-euthanasia always looking for ways to life not death. While Choi has always been a practical thinker that decides based on the patients situation, unlike April he doesn’t have a fixed stance so when euthanasia is requested and he knows it’s in their best interest and the interest of others he’s all for it. Plus you should understand April’s feeling here, having had a miscarriage. Their characters are dynamic that’s never going to change
The reason I'm so frustrated on her is because she tried to make him feel guilty because of her lose and the is down right disgusting. If you're going to use your personal life to try and effect the will of a patient then you shouldn't be in healthcare.
Choi is ex-military, which I think why he might be understanding to these kinds of situations.
Being an RN myself, acting like that could easily cost her her license. It's so unrealistic. No RN actually acts that way. We respect our patients' decisions as long as they have clear and informed consent beforehand.
@@kattd7524 Thank you for saying that. I was wondering about how such a situation would be dealt with in real life and personally, even if I'm not a medical professional, I would always adhere to the patient's wishes, regardless of my own feelings, provided they are able and capable to make an informed decision based on ALL the information provided to them. I know it's a show and all, but in reality, as you say, I think that April wouldn't be working in the medical field long.
The problem is, he's not choosing between living or dying. He's choosing between quick painless death or a long, painful, slow, degrading death. It's not like he has cancer and there is a chance to beat it or something. There is no cure for ALS, it's a degenerative terminal disease, she should know this.
When Maggie goes to speak to him about changing his Advanced Directive, she does it so peacefully and explains it well. Also, looks exceptionally beautiful in that scene
u a pervert wtf
She is sooooo gorgeous 😍
I’m so happy I became an organ donor. Why waste essential body parts to the ground or in a furnace. If by the off chance that I die young, somebody else can have a chance to live
I want to be an organ donor too and my mom is a lawyer so it can be arranged or at least be better informed, but I guess for a mother it's something hard to comprehend or even consider
I'm on the organ donor list, although didn't tick the box to donate my whole body to medical science. Just a personal/family thing, I've heard stories from my step father who worked with cadavers while at university. They can have my organs though, not like I'm gonna need em.
@@blazeclarke Same. I'll donate my organs and tissues to save lives but I won't donate my body to science.
@@nanana8928 I dont understand why that would be hard for a mother to understand, in fact she would probably know best as she created you.
My point of view is that we did not create ourselves, and as such, we have to return our body at the end, in as healthy a state as possible. I would never be a donor nor accept someone else's organ, to remain coherent to my own spiritual principles. I can not allow my body, which I consider sacred, to be cut into pieces.
From this clip I get the feeling that April is the kind of parent who would force the doctors to do anything to keep her child alive a little longer even if its born with something that will absolutely kill it and only brings unimaginable pain.
My first pregnancy was like that but I was 22 weeks and the baby if born would suffer respiratory failure. I chose to stop the pregnancy. Hardest decision for me but I didn’t want the baby to go through that . I cried for months. (Lethal perinatal hypophotasia) . Rare genetic disease.
@@JoJoGranum I'd say you did the right thing. saved a lot of worse pain. Of course I'm a 3rd-party person in this, but I always felt the hard choices are usually the better ones in the long run.
I’m going to miss that guy. What a legend he was
This is just a show he didn’t actually die
@@mahsa848 LMAO
@@mahsa848 no shadooldes Sherlock
Couldn’t have said it better
Facts
He died a hero for so many. What a legend 😭
You do realise this is fictional
This isnt real you know that right
@@aj_mtb-t8d @20_PatrickHogan_20
We know, but still worth a mention.
Bruh he died for himself (which is ok) but he wasn't a legend
@@user-sw3er4dk6k if he died for himself, he would have chosen to live even for a few weeks. But he chose to die within hours just to save his organs that can possibly save more lives
I understand April's respect for life, but she has no respect for the patients wishes and thinks that what she wants should override others, even when they are fully informed and capable. I don't like that.
Rebecca Woodward pls understand that April thinks different to dr Choi, she thinks of life not death and she had a miscarriage so she understands how hard death is to other people. in this situation you should understand where she is coming from. While Choi is a more practical thinker he thinks of the patients and there should be nothing more to it bcs he doesn’t want to be written up for not following the patients orders. April has a right to feel into red by Choi bcs he did not listen to her when he knew the medicine was going to make his brain damage worse.
@@janelow5144 yall take her opinion too seriously it’s just a show jeez
@@ellariley7399 there is a professional boundary that all medical staff need to adhere to. it is of essence to keep your personal feelings out pf the way when making a decision to stand by the patient’s wishes. by discrediting the patient’s well thought decision about their life, is damaging to any relationship created with them
@@jodichua15 I understand
Thank you
My granddad was very sick at the end of his life. he had Heart problems for many years and all the medications that were helping him damaged other organs so he needed medications for that and so on. At the end he was so sick and in so much pain. It were the days before Christmas and I had a wish I hated. My wish was that my granddad would die rather sooner than later. He died last december 25th at home after a christmasparty with all his children and grandchildren eating his favorite food. He was listening to "you raise me up" with my grandmother. She said: Beautiful song. And he answerd yes a second before passing away. It couldn't be more beautiful.
Sorry for your loss
damm, that hurts, sorry for your loss, but I asume it was definitely less painful knowing he died that way
Sorry for your loss
That struck me like a train im so sorry dude I cannot comprehend your loss I hope your grandad is in a much better place free from all the medication and sickness free from the suffering I hope your family never suffers from anything like this including you please make your grandad proud man 🙏
He will always be with you! Xx
Quality of life over quantity of life. This man was going to die one way or another. By giving the patient the option to go on blood thinners, knowing what it would do, you’ve given him the chance to help others like he wanted.
This man lost his life saving over 58 people he is an example of legends
I just hot to say. The makeup team did great. The way throughout the episode you see him slowly descend. His eyes going fully bloodshot before he dies, the end of his nose going purple. They really did well in this episode.
She is literally insufferable. “Get the meds.” “No” “okay, you’re fired.” Could have a quick and clean break.
He doesn’t personally have the ability to fire nurses. That being said, he could definitely report her refusal to treat and THEN the right person could penalize her.
Someone should have reported so many times, I don’t understand how she kept her job for so many years AND got into a competitive program to become an NP…. All this has probably shoved the stuck up her @$s even more.
A doctor and a nurse don't understand consent and autonomy????
he's a brave man, and very selfless. truly a hero
"It looks like i'm giving up, but this is everything i've been living for." The delivery of this scene got me. Well done to the actor, they did such a good job in this role.
God I’ve binged watch this show for so long help me
SAMEEEE
I am watching the while shoe 1 to 5
OMG IVW WATCHED THEM ALL
@@peach6984 SAME
@@peach6984 on youtube or the actual episodes
It was the moment before he died and an ad for life insurance came up
TH-cam is sick
There was a twitch streamer who died of ALS very recently and in his final weeks he kept saying how depressed he was and how he just wants a normal life back. I would never wish this illness on anyone. Dying unable to move, eat, speak, even breathe, it just sounds like pure torture. I completely understand people who want to seek euthenasia while still being somewhat able to have control over their bodies. Nobody deserves to suffer like this.
Can they just once make a show were doctors understand that dying is better than living with something like ALS......is it really that hard to grasp i mean they of all people should know what kinda life awaits someone with that or say cancer, HIV,etc.......no no lets make them live through literal hell instead of just giving them some of the best pain killers and making their last weeks/days amazing...... extending peoples lives would do them more harm then good.....and i thought doctor's were supposed to do no harm?
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Doctors IRL are much more understanding and much less emotionally brash than this show. It's been the only thing that has bugged me. Whether doctors IRL agree or disagree with a patient's decision, they must accomodate their choice within reason.
Exactly. When doctors sign up for med school at 18 years old, they should know that its the patients call, and the patients call only. As long as he knows the consequences, he gets to choose what he wants to do with his life.
HIV is actually fully treatable now, and people living with it can live full, long, healthy lives. But I totally agree that these doctors need to understand quality of life, as well as the wishes of terminal patients.
I see ur point ,but you got to know that we should always have hope and we can t predict the future ,amazing discoveries are being made every single day , you might have a year to live like hell with some disease but again in that year their might be some new treatment for it that could give you longer years to live ,but if you gave up in the biginning you just lost your ticket to that treatment , and for the pain :there is always pain killers to help the patients cope with it ! ...... like giving up to the idea of dying is a good thing so the person won t be in a full denial but giving up isn t the solution for it ! A person must never loose hope
We've just had a referendum here in New Zealand, the End Of Life Choice Bill, and it went through. Terminal patients who have a prognosis of 6 months or less are evaluated by psychiatrists and doctors who can sign off on the procedure l
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And hopefully the government extend it in future so that those who are chronically ill or just super old and over life and choose to end their life (obviously if they’re of sound mind).
We have MAID in Canada too.
@@chadiverson9291 Drug cocktail; they choose a date and tim (and sometimes location, depends on the region), and at their request drugs are administered and they go to sleep and then die. Not all of those who choose MAID choose to donate or are able to, but if it is possible medically, it's usually something discussed with the patient in advance.
I honestly can't stand April. She has 0 respect for her patient. The way she went up to him and used her loss to try and guilt a dying man is just pure disgusting on so many levels. He was dying before his accident, he's making the hardest and final decisions he'd ever have to make; If she can't respect her /dying/ patient, she shouldn't be in the job.
And she was completely fine with "pressuring" him to treat the hematoma because of his organs failing. But when Choi gave the alternative, she gets on a high horse about what's "right" (even though every patient has the right to decide their treatment, which includes denying treatment)
bruh who caress its just a show lmao
@@carmelmalcolm6062 Still interesting to debate the morals and ethics and the feelings they cause.
@@carmelmalcolm6062 and this means shows don’t ever depict things that happen in real life because…why, exactly? You said so? How naive.
@@carmelmalcolm6062 Why participate in a discussion you don't care about? seems like a waste of time
I knew this man for 10 minutes and I ready know he's a Legend
When I registered with the Doctor's Surgery after moving I signed up to donate everything. If anything happens to me I figure I won't need it anymore so give it to someone who does.
a premature death of a fetus is not comparable whatsoever to a life of pain. that nurse is so incredibly full of herself
The doctor and nurse got way to involved, this man wanted to go out an awesome hero - his choice
My father developed PMA, which is under the ALS umbrella, my father passed in December, and my family had to fight for the hospital to respect his wishes about not being ventilated. This clip hit hard
Sometime we choose quality instead of quantity, and it usually leads to better happiness. I hope that when time comes, I will go with that level of dignity and hearth.
How can you compare a miscarriage to living in increasing pain with no hope of improvement.
This one hit really hard. My stepfather's father, a man I always considered my grandfather suffered from ALS. When the prognosis came out he said that whatever organs they could use, they could have them.
Then he got diagnosed with bowel cancer that had already spread rapidly. Man was the most worldly, life-loving man I knew and we had to watch him shrivel up and die a horrible, painful death because the doctors were afraid the pain meds people normally get for terminal cancer would exasterbate his ALS.
In the end he couldn't even donate his organs because of the cancer.
I am so incredibly sorry for your loss, and can only imagine the trauma your family experienced watching him go. What an awful way to die… they should have just given him the pain meds at that point and made him as comfortable as possible.
i really dont like how april is always so emotional about everything !
"you can't let my organs die before I do"
i cant look at bloodshot eyes it makes me tear up idk why
Empathy ?
Yeah same makes mine sting 😂😂 it’s a weird mental trick
Me too
I’m wondering how you it can you
this is why im lowkey scared to be a doctor like i really want to become a singer and help people anyway, but being a doctor seems so traumatizing and i'd never trust myself helping people in medicine. i wish to help people but i can never trust myself with their health and lives. i respect doctors so much
I kinda know what you mean ...
I wanted to become a doctor myself, but life and circumstances means that that dream died a death a very long time ago ...
... instead, I know that there are a number of First Aid courses I can take, and which I had been certified in, however that ran out. After the whole SARS-CoV-2 situation is over, I would love to recertified again, with as many additional qualifications available as possible, by, say, volunteering with the St. John's Ambulance ...
I strongly suggest that, if you still have that passion to help people, and neither medical school for becoming either a doctor, nurse, or even a pathologist, is out of the question, just even having even knowledge about First Aid, especially in CPR, you never know if that may save a life ...
Therefore, do your research, and see what is available within your grasp ...
im not saying we are the same, but i have the same exact aspirations. i love singing as well but i also wanna be able to help people. watching this show had me realize myself that i will definitely have emotional shock whenever i see people at the risk of dying in front of me, and what scares me is that i wont be able to handle it.
fortunately, the medical field is vast and there are instances where your empathy and the ability to understand and listen to people matters a lot at most times (psychiatry for example, which im aspiring to be). i am with you. i feel that i cannot be trusted with the lives of people at haste. but there's a lot more to medicine than this, as you're aware.
He was such an amazing actor
They did the right thing morally imo, but is this still legal? Wouldn't this count as assisted suicide? "Do no harm"?
Assisted suicide is actively giving the patient something to end their life. Everyone has the right to refuse treatment, since his advanced directive was done the hospital is not liable in his death, and treating him against his will is assault. Avoiding lawsuits is a priority in hospitals so the staff can't go against his wishes, if a doctor did treat him anyway they would personally be held responsible and the hospital would not have their back in court.
@@ubiquitouslight Yeah, he refused treatment, that part's fine. But then they gave him a bloodthinner which will actively worsen his condition and has no benefits for him personally, only the patients who need his organs. Again, morally totally fine, but I doubt the legality.
@@canaw1670 except that he agreed to update his advanced directive and signed it
In some countries. In America I think it is legal but only if like cancer or something.
@@canaw1670 1. he agreed to it all 2. Technically the drug was meant to help the blood clots that almost killed him at one point during it. it was all consented to and legal
This guy and others like this, are so brake, and to know how big his heart is, to face pain to save others, that is is brave and loving, makes me cry!
Side note: The actor playing the patient has such lovely eyes 🥰.
He reminds me so much of Lee Everett from the Walking Dead
yeaaa
Was thinking the exact same thing, i was looking for a comment like this 😂
He sounds so similar, dies with a similar appearance (expression, discoloured eyes, etc.) and sacrifices himself to help others, definitely similar. Both memorable
this is a similar debate as 'should euthanasia be legalised?' where the doctors/nurses weigh out the pros and cons of the dfferent available treatments
Edit: i know they are actors and this isn't really but it most likely could portray a real scenario in medicine
Actors*
U mean actors lol
Haha 😂
nobody cares though
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Mad respect for this guy.
(Yeah, I know it's a show and not real, but still: mad respect for this man.)
The RIGHT TO LIVE OR DIE BELONGS TO THE PERSON IN QUESTION AND NO ONE ELSE. period. Respect that.
that actor is incredible. wow. i hope he finds many big roles.
I’m an organ donor. When I die. I’d hope to save lives
Man: taking his last breaths
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This really hit me in the core. It got me in my feelings. So touching.
He is a hero❤
I’m crying 😭😭😭 this is so emotional!!!! 💜💜💜
I didn’t know this show was still on my but I love it. Keep up the good acting guys!
As a medical personnel myself, I can understand when both medical personnel's perspectives. Sometimes we are stucked in between in decisions in between what we think is the best for patient's survival and patient's atomy. U need to be in our position to fully understand. It is a tough thing for us also
This is the most if cried to a Chicago med episode 😭😭
This guy is a legend he. basically saved 58 people 👍
How have 1.5 thousand people seen this in 11 mins
Big world and most people are indoors, bored, and most likely already on their phones. Or YT messing with us again hahaha
@@ThePinayanimegirl true
TH-cam is drunk again
Well it is normal, some videos get alot more qnd 1,5 Thousand isn't that many.
@@QueenMachine. ik that but in 11 mins is crazy
The patient is a legendary actor !!!
They shouldn’t let their personal beliefs effect their work and how they work. like you signed up for this 😬
Also yes ik its a tv show
He chooses what is good for him.
People shouldn't judge.
He would never get healthy.
Healthy doctors can't understand what it's like to lie in a bed, unable to walk or breathe and in constant pain.
I only got through it because I knew it would end and I would get better. If I had to go back, knowing it was permanent.. I'd rather die and give 50+ other people a chance to live
April is just a character, but there are a LOT of people like her in the medical field, making important calls for things they just can't even comprehend :(
April is a nurse though, not a doctor
@@gore0802 :| ...does that change anything I said after the word "doctor" ?
@@potatopatooti It's not her authority to decide which treatment is best. Health care workers shouldn't influence or coerce patients to make a decision
@@gore0802 That's not what I was talking about. I was talking about perspective and understanding - which is a big problem in the REAL WORLD where medical personal have their own biases and do not understand the struggle of others. So their "kindness" ends up being toxic and wrong
The guy has a HEART OF GOLD.🫀
what i need is for this show to come back on TV!!
i love how they always plonk their patients on the bed lol i feel bad ahahahah
Ahaha right its like *plop* "AH DAMMIT"
Thanks to Chicago med I am now an organ donor. So I save lives and my loved ones know that I still live on.
So after death you want some people to saw open your body and rip out your organs and put them into other people...
@@miaipadkid8697 Well I want to be a heart surgeon or an actress as my career, so if I can then have the opportunity to save lives or save more lives I will take it. And I know when someone dies that you love it really is awful so at least my family will know that I’m not gone.
@@tiny_rose9761 whatever you say
@@miaipadkid8697 you do understand that it doesn’t hurt since you’re already dead? Also, you’re saving the lives of others. Something good can come out of your death. And it’s not like there wont be a body to bury or cremate, the doctors dont take your entire body. Isn’t the possibility to save and better someone’s life at the cost of nothing a reason to register as an organ donor?
@@jamcat1584 I'm still not. Even though I have a chance to save others I'm not getting my body harvested of my organs.
I LOVE ALL OF THE CHICAGO SERIES
I can feel his pain when they transfer him from the stretcher >~
Nothing but respect for him
I have a huge respect for people who donate my dads donor allowed me to have him watch me graduate high school which we never knew possible before so if there’s any5hing I can say to you is as sad as death may be donating will allow someone to be a part of their kids or even their own special moments because people pass on but they can allow someone to keep their loved one around
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This show does this so many times lol its literally none of the doctors business if a patient doesn't want treatment and wants to die. Some of these doctors are so self righteous. Jesus the guy is ready to die and you want to talk to him about your miscarriage?
Ikr I'm kinda upset too
Bruh
I hate when people do that. They start telling you smth bad that happened to them.
This guy is legend.
What a gem patient
the actor as the patient is really good :o
i feel like this show cycles between each character having the "but the patient is refusing treatment and we should respect that" and "but how is it okay to just do nothing and let this patient die??" every single clip is like a dice toss of who gets to be who today.
Oh man this one made me cry.
A doctor and a nurse should have at least some understanding of quantity versus quality of life. Why would ANYONE want to live for another year, bedridden with broken bones, knowing that by the time the bones healed, their disease will have progressed to the point of making them a vegetable anyways? Living and being alive aren't the same thing.
This was so intense… and seemed so real🤯
He killed his self to save other ppl he’s such a kind person!!!
Excellent acting all around. Am in puddle of tears....
My first reaction seeing them want to keep going despite is refusal was "stop being so selfish". If your patient tells you that they don't want treatment, they've lived their life, that they've accepted that they will die and are willing to die, that they're donating their organs after they die, and you still want to insist on "saving their life" you're being selfish. You're only thinking about what you're doing, what your 'job' or 'duty' is, only about yourself. That man had his time. He didn't want to be bound to a wheelchair and suffering, he wanted to go, and leave something good behind by donating his organs and tissues. They hyperfocused on saving his life as if it was the best option, but if he said he doesn't want to live and suffer, and he's giving his life to stop suffering and help people at the same time, why should they force him to keep living against his will?
And seeing them try to "find a way" to make him keep living hurt to see too. Selfish.
This show always make me shiver
I have hydrocephalus, it is absolutely excruciating when pressure builds up in my brain by either blood or spinal fluid. I don’t know how this guy is actually surviving this oh my lord
I recently had a blood clot that took 3 months to chip away at but it cleared my shunt which helped the spinal fluid flow again. I understood the risk that bleeding was gonna be a lot heavier and I’d bruise a lot more but I didn’t want life to end cause I’ve done it several times over the last few years.
aw, i’m sorry
you’re strong💕
Stay strong ❤️sending all my love
This reminds me of when my mum had her miscarriage. I know how she feels 😔😟😭😢
This dude reminded me of Lee from telltales the walking dead
The man had accepted his pending death and wanted to die with dignity while saving other people in dire need and all they could think about was extending his suffering to make themselves feel better. Where is the benefit in making a dying person stay alive against their will?
I think the nurse should not express her emotions in front of the patient so much.
He is already going through hell and she is making everything worse for him.
0:13 just gonna leave that there...
3:14 ok, I am a hundred and ten percent sure this guy was the guy that played as a nurse in the Nancy Drew Delia Draycott Mystery. The one who told classified information in exchange for a food Ms. Gruen made.
Yes he did!! Nancy gave him one of Hannah’s brownies
doctors and nurses need to take into consideration quality of life personally I would prefer to die than to be attached to a machine for the rest of my life
Please become an organ donor everybody. Doctors will not kill you for your organs and you can save many lives. Please go become an organ donor!
Yo I ain't gonna go be one but if I'm ever about to die then yeah ofc
@@arkre774 you won’t be able to say you want to be a donor when you’re about to die. Please don’t put that decision on your loved ones, decide for yourself and register your choice.
I totally agree with the patient. ALS is an incredibly scary disease, even scarier than cancer. and if I was in his position I would probably choose death too
I know it’s fake but I’m crying
He is the reason I believe angels live on earth. God lives on earth ❤️
Why do I watch these when I know I’m gonna cry 😢
I 100% stand by the patient and Dr. Choi. I have a 50% chance of having the genetic mutation that causes frontotemporal dementia and/or motor neurone disease (ALS is the most common type of MND). I am finding out whether I have the mutation, and if I do then I'm absolutely putting something similar to this advanced directive in place. I watched my Mum rapidly deteriorate and die as a shell of a human - I will do everything in my power to not let that happen to myself. And if I can save anyone else in the process through organ/tissue donation, then I will die happy.
I always wonder where the family is in moments like these
Same!!!! No goodbyes or anything.
Some of us don't want family around because we would have to deal with their emotions. And some of us don't have family period
My grandpa had als... he just gave up and stopped eating I miss him so much. I’ve gotten over death though because for the last eight years I’ve had over 20 deaths. Most animals. sad enough my grandpas name was Gary 😭
April cant just take her personal opinion to work, its not her decition, its not her life, its not her organs in the real world she could recieve a warning or even be fired for acting like that
Goddammit man,my throat got fcking balled up this scene is SAD😟😟😟
Takes courage of conviction to calmly walk purposefully into the Unknown
We should have the right to die just as we have the right to live. We need to stop viewing death as a completely negative thing.
nurses be like: just put some ice on it!! lmfao🤣😂🤚🏻