Chicago Med Season 10 Episode 9 arrives with fear and excitement.
Everyone involved in “Medical” is being very careful not to let Sharon’s fate leak out, and I’m sure we’re in for something traumatic — or an arc as horrific as the similar stabbing incident on “The Good Doctor.”
I should have more faith in Chicago Med. The only thing I got right is that it will be emotional, it is, but in a good way.
I’m usually an optimist, but I’m always waiting for the other shoe to drop
One of the best things about “No Love Lost” was how quickly Sharon’s rescue sequence came together, but I spent the rest of the episode waiting for bad news.
There is nothing draggy about this storyline.
Archer has a thrilling scene where he has to break the glass on a stairwell door in order to help subdue Sharon’s attacker, but after that she’s quickly rushed to hospital and undergoes surgery.
Still, I expected terrible news every time she wasn’t there, and it didn’t help that there were still 15 minutes to go before Archer told Tara that Sharon was recovering.
She had just experienced a huge scare before the commercial break and it looked like her chances of survival were slim, and with so much time left, I was prepared for a tragic turn where she developed a serious complications and died soon after.
Daniel: You scared the shit out of me today, you know that?
Sharon: It’s been a long time since you got rid of me..
Sharon’s survival was more exciting than her death.
The steady stream of visitors who came to see her without any unnecessary trouble brought tears to my eyes.
Most importantly, Sharon insisted that Archer rip up the resignation letter. It doesn’t look like he’s 100% on board with staying in Gaffney yet, but he’ll get there. (Check out Steven Weber’s thoughts on this on TV Fanatic!)
Archer saved Sharon’s life (and her character) forever with his stubbornness
When Archer first joined Gaffney in Season 6 of Chicago Med, I had little use for him, especially when he intentionally put patients into comas so that he could overcome their disagreement with the surgery he thought they needed. situation.
But this time, he made the right decision.
I don’t know if the argument that he agreed to be covered because more damage was discovered during surgery holds water in the meetings that Dr. Charles was forced to sit in on.
But it doesn’t matter. In the end, Sharon was alive and recovering, and she thanked Archer for protecting the quality of life she wanted to maintain.
This is good news. This means we don’t have to endure a tedious storyline of Sharon being angry about the life-saving surgery she underwent, like we did with Lin in The Good Doctor.
It will also hopefully mean Archer finally feels recognized. When he asked Maggie why no one listened to him, he wasn’t just talking about Sharon’s family.
The reason he wanted to resign was because he felt his demotion was a sign that everyone considered his ideas outdated and abandoned him in favor of the younger, more forward-thinking Lenox.
But Sharon knew Archer made the right decision and he understood her wishes better than her family did.
This must have meant something to him, especially since she then told him how much she wanted him to stay in Gaffney.
The conflict between Reese and Charles was finally properly resolved
I thought Charles’ recent fight with Reese would have some impact, but I didn’t expect her to be so quick to try to threaten his job.
I spent the first half of the episode angry at her. She seemed determined to disrupt Charles’ career, and perhaps a little too much.
Peter should have dismissed the whole thing as tit-for-tat nonsense. Rhys was furious that Charles had revoked her privileges. Charles was furious that Reese was wasting his time.
Sharon’s precarious situation also casts a pall over the proceedings. When Rhys told Charles that she filed the complaint before she knew Sharon had been seriously harmed, she seemed more like herself than when she vented her anger.
Still, the arrangement allowed her and Charles to finally clear up a lot of unexpressed hurt and resentment.
Surprisingly, the issue of her father’s death was never brought up.
In “Chicago Med” Season 4 Episode 1, Reese left Gaffney because she believed Charles’ hesitation before starting chest compressions contributed to her father’s death, but in the episode, she listed a list of things she didn’t want to do: Questions that include this.
I could see both sides of their old conflict. As Reese’s supervisor, Charles had a responsibility to encourage her to course correct when he thought she had made a serious mistake, especially one that harmed a patient.
However, Charles is overzealous in protecting his patients’ mental health, which might come across as presumptuous to students trying to learn how to become better doctors.
Ironically, Cuevas had some of the same problems as him, although Reese insisted that Cuevas was biased against Charles because she worked for him.
The two of them should find a time to exchange opinions!
I loved the temporary truce between these two to figure out what was causing the patient’s memory loss, and Sarah finally admitting that she felt anxious around Charles because she second-guessed herself after years of working with him.
I’m surprised I didn’t realize the reason she was giving her patients placebos.
When Charles interviewed this woman, I remembered from my clinical social work training that SSRIs may cause suicidal ideation in some patients, but never connected this to why Sarah made this choice.
Furthermore, when she mentioned consulting with colleagues, I realized there was a fatal flaw in Charles’s approach.
It would be foolish to think that Sarah, wherever she works now, made this placebo decision on her own without looking at the research or talking to other psychiatrists about what she should do.
However, it’s great that the two of them have finally cleared up their misunderstanding and can now be colleagues and friends. This is the ending Reese never got the first time he left so suddenly.
Abrams finally meets his match
No one has ever undercut Abrams’ ego before, and it’s hilarious that a middle school kid can do that.
Ellie’s story is serious, but her interactions with Abrams were the comedic relief I needed after all those heavy salon scenes.
Abrams is baffled by this girl who is as confident as he is, at least when it comes to scolding adults who are accustomed to receiving more respect than they give.
Ellie: Did you braid my hair? Do you have a daughter?
Abrams: Yeah, I have two sisters who made me braid their hair constantly when I was growing up.
Allie: Did it ever occur to you that they wished they were associated with the number one neurosurgeon in the country instead of you?
Ellie understandably refused to undergo surgery that required a haircut. Her illness brought her unwanted attention, ridicule, and bullying—things that needed to be taken more seriously than most schools.
She also never had a stable family situation and didn’t believe her current foster mother would want to keep her for more than a few months, so she wanted to control what she could.
I don’t understand why they couldn’t at least give her a realistic looking wig so the other kids don’t realize she has no hair.
Frost’s solution is even better, though.
Abrams probably thought it was ridiculous to have his hair braided on top of his head so he could have surgery without shaving his head, but I think it’s great.
Over to you, Chicago Med fanatics.
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