Chicago Med (TV Series)

Theseus' Ship (2017)

Cameron Knight: Adam Moore

Quotes 

• Dr. Natalie Manning : We are aware that your son was prescribed a new oral chemo, and that you have been withholding it.

  Adam Moore : I'm not withholding them.

  Dr. Natalie Manning : I understand that you're a single father and that this must be incredibly hard for you...

  Adam Moore : It's not about me.

  Dr. Natalie Manning : But if you are willingly keeping your son off of his meds, then we...

  Adam Moore : It's his decision.

  Dr. Natalie Manning : Excuse me?

  Adam Moore : Gabe's. He's been through four courses of chemo. The nausea, the pain, the the drugs to treat the pain, it was awful.

  Dr. Natalie Manning : That doesn't mean you can just stop trying.

  Adam Moore : He begged me all through the last course. But I wouldn't stop it. And it didn't help at all. None of them helped. So this time, I let him decide.

  Dr. Natalie Manning : Well, he can't decide. He is eight years old, okay? His brain is literally not developed enough to process this. Life and death and forever are concepts that he cannot fully understand yet.

  Adam Moore : Gabe does understand.

  Dr. Natalie Manning : I'm sorry, but we need to start your son on his new chemo.

  Adam Moore : No. I won't authorize that.

• Adam Moore : He's breathing so hard.

  Dr. Natalie Manning : He's septic. We need to give the antibiotics time.

  Adam Moore : He'd scream out in his sleep when it first started, and get these pains. But he kept on fighting. I quit my job to take care of him.

  Dr. Natalie Manning : Then help him keep fighting. Tell him that there's a chance this new chemo could work.

  Adam Moore : Look at him. He's not fighting anymore. He's done. And I will not flog him against his wishes. My boy deserves better than that.