I actually think the doc wife character is acting like a rlly good person/very intelligent. Accepts self responsibility, understands consequences of the mistake, and regrets it with a high level of understanding the severity of what occurred. If I met her in real life I’d respect her a lot, as many people lack that skill. Admirable.

I love how the wife/actress of the wife is demonstrating a different side to how patients loved ones react to these sorts of things, not everyone breaks down crying and hysterical after a while.

I like DR. Charles reminding her she’s only human, and we all make mistakes. The wife didn’t know, and it’s not her fault; she was just doing what she thought was right.

Misdiagnosis is so hard, for everyone. And it's not just hard to forgive for getting it wrong, it's guilt for the time spent in pain with the wrong treatment that could have been prevented.

At least she was smart enough to reach for second opinions and be glad that other try to help. No anger that MRI was takes behind her back, only pure concern for her husband well being. She worked with the data she had and was able to accept new information.

Honestly nobody can really be at fault for the misdiagnosis, she got a second and third opinion which both came back with the same conclusion, and she also fully accepted the responsibility and consequences, shes a good doctor regardless

I remember this actress playing Straus in Criminal Minds! It’s great to see her in another role of a more likable character lol

I’ve also been dealt a misdiagnosis. Not as bad as this, but you have to learn to forgive yourself. Especially in situations like this.

I mean, you’d think the fact that she got a second AND third opinion, which all agreed, would help assuage her guilt a bit. It’s not like she just came up with a diagnosis and assumed she was right. Tho I’m sure it would be little comfort in such a situation ^^;

There's a reason doctors shouldn't treat or diagnose family, friends, or spouses.

We are only human. Even doctors can be wrong the only issue is when they're wrong it has dire consequences

This happened to me. My mom was having severe diarrhea for a few days and refused to go to the doctor, so on the day she almost died I got her some pedialyte that happened to be red. A few hours later, she tells me her diarrhea was bright red in color. I assumed it was food coloring and told her that if she didn’t feel better we needed to get her to urgent care in the morning because I was concerned about her beginning to exhibit signs of dehydration. Thirty minutes later I found her unconscious on the bathroom floor covered in blood, and the toilet was FILLED with blood. Diverticular disease with peritonitis. If I hadn’t checked on her she would’ve died from hypovolemic shock. I still carry the guilt of that with me even though I got an ambulance to the house almost immediately and they gave her a transfusion. Seeing her like that and feeling like I made it much worse than it had to be… it’s definitely left me traumatized. Edit: she was diagnosed with pancreatic cancer on March 3rd. Crazy to look back at this post and think that I could’ve prevented any of this from happening.

I do like that his wife owned up to her misdiagnosis....she seems to genuinely care and understand the consequences. The treatments for Lewy Body Dimentia could've seriously harmed him and his healing.

him screaming his wifes name just breaks my heart

They call medicine "practicing" for a reason, not only did she misdiagnose him so did 2 other doctors. I have been misdiagnosed numerous times by different doctors.. My first episode lasted 7 months, my intestines burst but 5 different doctors missed it, I suffered with peritonitis (a deadly disease) for 7 months before I went to a surgeon and begged him to fix me.. He operated 2 days later and removed 3.5 ft of my intestines and told my husband I shouldn't be alive, no one has ever survived peritonitis 😢. I did, that was over 15 years ago,I still have issues from it but I'm alive🙏🙏. Thank God for my surgeon, Dr Clifford Thompson an awesome man of God.

You can literally hear the fear in himself 😭😭😭😭😭

It took 6 doctors to finally diagnose my 17 year old son with GBS 7 years ago-recently my son had Covid and has been unable to walk unassisted,coughing,headaches,dizziness,nausea he’s had so many scans and bloodwork and just saw a second neuromuscular doctor who looked at me and said “there’s nothing on his scans so I don’t know what’s wrong with him?” I drove over 2 hours to have this “Doctor” tell me there is nothing wrong with my son I was so furious because he didn’t ask any questions and didn’t come up with any ideas or solutions to figure this out he just sat there like a dummy who reads what’s on his computer-I won’t stop just like the first time to get answers

Wait a minute…wait a…THATS ERIN STRAUSS FROM CRIMINAL MINDS!!!!!!!!

Oliver Platt is excellent in his role as "Dr. Charles". Brilliant.

The last time i was this early Halstead wasnt a dick for illegally resuscitating a patient with a dnr

In a different style of show, i can imagine the story being that the wife misdiagnosed him on purpose to control him and being charged with medical spousal abuse.

misdiagnosis is really a hard case, what's even harder is when the one she misdiagnosed is the love of her life. it will haunt her for the rest of her life, a regret that she probably will be carrying till her death.

My poor mother kept on being misdiagnosed as psychotic by doctors and being drugged up for it, but her mother (my grandmother) had to keep explaining to the doctors that she wasn't. She'd had her thyroid removed (Graves disease) and was basically never given thyroxine tablets (to give her the hormone as her own body couldn't produce it with the thyroid gone), as a result she suffered from underactive thyroid which can lead to psychosis. My grandmother had to explain that to several doctors, who'd never heard of thyroid related psychosis. But it still took several years for my mum to finally be given the right medication for it, she even had a psychotic episode when I was a child (I wasn't hurt as my mum made sure I was safe before she fully broke down) and it was only after that point that she finally got all the meds she needed for her thyroid and could move on with her life.

It took me ten years to be diagnosed with hyperparathyroidism. No doctors could figure out what was wrong with me. I researched non stop before finally coming up with my own diagnosis. The doctors then performed the right tests. Thank god I found a wonderful surgeon also.

No wonder she misdiagnosed him. That’s Section Chief Erin Stauss from “Criminal Minds” 🤣🤣🤣

There are so many heartless physicians fast fooding people through the health systems it's mind blowing. So many have suffered misdiagnosis or never even being listened to. Its terrifying those type of sociopaths can have a heavy hand in how you function or even live. Then, you get a reminder that there are really good doctors still in the world too. Driven to save as many lives as they possibly can. The one who cry when a patient dies or shouts unto glory when one pulls through. Those superheroes make mistakes, honest heartbreaking mistakes too. This was a very sad and unfortunate mistake, she just didn't have enough data to decifer the subtle differences. We all face those harsh awarenesses every day... The ShouldaCouldaWouldas. All you can do is the best you can with what you know and what you have access to. Some days you can give it your all and you still won't make the goal. All we can do is our best while hoping for the best results.

Jayne Atkinson kills it, like always.

Erin Strauss from Criminal minds, and Georgie from the walking dead

She got second AND third opinions. This isn't her fault

Good episode & sad

So she and 2 other docs diagnosed LBD 4 years ago without doing an MRI? That makes no sense.

Damn this is a sad one😥

Oh my gosh! I was just diagnosed with hyperparathyroidism. Surgery next month. I will say, the symptoms are rough. And it can mimic many things in the early stages. This TV patient went so long with toxic calcium levels (and the beta blocker didn't help). Scary how far it can go! Never thought I'd see my diagnosis on a medical show. And it was good to see the actress from Criminal Minds!

For one thing though to get a second and a third opinion and NO ONE did an MRI on him? Lol all neurosurgeon’s too lol.

bro thats crazy

This is the reason why medical ethics state a physician should not generally treat themselves or their immediate family. Only in isolated emergency situations where no other qualified physician is available. Professional objectivity can be compromised by emotions and their personal feelings can unduly compromise the patient care. I'm going out on a limb and saying Chicago probably has at least a few people qualified to independently examine, diagnose and offer treatment. This is also why physicians often use a differential diagnosis to create a list of conditions sharing symptoms and narrow down the diagnosis via testing

Despite being wrong, it does present incredibly similar to someone with Alzheimer’s Disease.

She got other opinions. How did the other Dr's misdiagnose as well?

This is why you do not let family diagnose you. Too much attachment. You need a separate diagnosys from doctors.

BAU Section Chief Erin Strauss back from the dead!

I THINK HE HAS A FEVER

If I'm not mistaken, Robin Williams was diagnosed first with Parkinson's, then with LBD, and that was why he took his own life. LBD is worse than Parkinson's. My dad died of Parkinson's, and he was a doctor, his wife a nurse, but I don't think even they knew how bad Parkinson's could get. In the end, my dad had withered to looking like a Holocaust prisoner, and was in so much pain a triple dose of morphine didn't make a dent in it. And I picked up the feeling from him, in my last days with him, that he felt horrible that his loved ones saw him like that. Because even now, almost a decade later, when his family is remembering the good times, the torment he went through is never far behind in our thoughts. I treasure every second I had with my father, but I sometimes wish he had died of something else a few years into his diagnosis, before things got really bad. Because my extra time with him wasn't worth him going through that pain, and I know he'd rather we'd not seen him that way. I'll just say it. I think Robin Williams made a brave choice. He spared his family horrific pain-and if you haven't lost someone you love to a wasting disease, you cannot rightfully judge someone who has. I believe Robim wanted to be remembered as he was, and spare his family losing him, little by little to escalating pain and loss of self. I know I'll get hate for saying that. No one wanted to lose Robin Williams. He was a genuine treasure of a person. And I don't condone unaliving oneself in general...but...how shall I put this... I think there are dark places we (humans) can find ourselves in that we can never find our way out of, and when all other efforts (therapy, medications, support, family/friends, etc.) have made no difference, will never make a difference, then there are very rare instances, when moving on to the next plane of existence may be the only choice. Now, I don't believe souls only live one life. But that's me, I don't say anyone else has to think that. But it makes my view of death a little different. So if you want to think of me as a whackadoodle, go right ahead. To me the strongest and most important beliefs we have are the ones that come from our observations and experiences in life. That's where mine come from. But feel free to disagree. And yes, I have lost people to suicide. So please know that none of my thoughts on it are glib or from lack of that type of loss. Okay, I'll end this essay here. Apologies to anyone this offends, I'm truly sorry. But watching this video just brought it all flooding to the front of my brain, and I had to put it out there. I hope no one who reads this goes through the kind of loss I and so many others have. Blessed be.

I know that some people say oh in a certain situation somebody can care for their family know there’s never a situation where a doctor can care for their family or friends, the reason that is a rule is because you’re emotionally wrapped up in that person you don’t wanna do anything that’ll compromise their life but sometimes you have to in order to make somebody better sometimes unfortunately someone’s gonna have deficits from the surgery that Hass to happen and a friend of that person might not wanna perform that surgery but that might be what killed them

They be taking science

The wife played Georgie in a episode of the walking dead

I’m confused. They know she is a doctor but refer to her as “Mrs” instead of “Dr”. Is this usual in the US or is it possibly because she is not in the role of a doctor, but a loved one?

Soo all those 2nd and 3rd opinions never did a brain scan to diagnose dementia? Oook 😂

It's what killed Robin Williams

I miss Sean Roman. ❤

I think I'll always think of her as Erin Strauss😅

Mom has dementia too.

as much as i’d like to say doctors should spend every second of every day figuring out for sure what is wrong with someone it’s sadly just not feasible. don’t get me wrong there are serious cases of gross negligence on doctors parts when it comes to diagnosing patients but a lot of the time doctors are faced with dozens of patients daily and as the saying goes “if it looks like a duck and quacks like a duck it’s a duck” (this has been used lately for gross bigotry but in this context it is meant to imply doctors will often accept the first obvious answer) just because they don’t have all the time in the world to find out a patient is experiencing something really rare or abnormal. it’s so sad and so tough but a typical doctor isn’t prepared for special cases.

Isn’t diagnosing your own spouse or relative a breach or a liability of sorts

Erin strauss i know that voice anywhere 😅

isn’t the actress for the wife also the actress for erin strauss from criminal minds?

Isn't the wife Strauss from Criminal Minds? Or do they just look a lot alike?

Isnt the paitents wife off of criminal minds?? She looks so familiar

2:55 everything happens for a reason that's what bullet train thought me

Who is the wife actress she looks so familiar 😂

What the name of the show

1:04

"He has Lewy Body Dementia." "What's that?" Me: _[ptsd flashbacks to August 11th, 2014]_

This is why doctors arent allowed to treat family.

25mg of quetiapine 🫠