Most of the big moments were covered in last week’s season premiere of Chicago Med. However, getting over trauma and other significant turning points are sometimes harder in the aftermath. You know how you don’t let the fear win? By having someone you trust by your side. Usually that’s the hard part, but surprisingly that wasn’t the type of trust that was lacking in this week’s episode. The most dangerous trust you can lack is a trust in yourself, and your instincts.
Manning and Halstead aren’t lacking in trust in themselves or each other, but teaching that to someone else is a different story. Their journey to their first official date is interrupted by a patient with orthorexia. Who knew there was actually a medical term for an obsession with healthy eating? The problem is that this patient is pregnant, and her obsession with healthy eating and an uber healthy environment is actually starving her child. I’m all for a healthy lifestyle, but there’s a limit. Manning is a mother and a doctor. She can’t in good conscience allow a mother to hurt her child. Trying to force this woman into changing her mind doesn’t help anyone. Connecting with her mother-to-mother is what it takes. There’s a relatable fear there. For anything else, Halstead is there to take away any residual fear with love.
Someone who is not feeling the love? Dr. Charles and Dr. Reese. Things have been very frosty between them since Reese took to the stand against Dr. Charles’s shooter. She will never admit that she was wrong, but it makes their work situation very difficult. Things are made even worse because of sociopathic patient who steals Reese’s prescription pad, and then physically attacks her. Dr. Charles accuses his protegee of working from a place of fear instead of compassion, though a clinical assessment by a third party might suggest that neither Charles nor Reese have gotten over their fear. However, Reese was not wrong on this one, as evidenced by her slashed tires.
Dr. Choi and April’s honeymoon phase hits a bump when Choi puts April in a tough position with a patient. In order to get the patient to agree to a treatment, Choi puts April on the spot because the patient trusts her. April loses that trust because of Choi. He still believes he made the right call for the long-term solution. She was right to defend a patient she has known for years, but he was also right to do his due diligence as a physician. This way, the patient gets the news of his cancer from someone he trusts.
There’s no love or trust lost between Rhodes and Bekker. Since Day 1 the woman has been out to prove she is a better physician than Dr. Rhodes. He would love nothing more than to shove Dr. Bekker’s condescension in her face. Unfortunately, this week, she’s right. Rhodes has been burning the candle at both ends, and it’s now affecting his work. His relationship with Robyn is no longer an equal relationship. He’s become her caretaker. It very nearly costs him his career. If he didn’t figure out in time that it was an equipment failure, and not human error, that caused his patient to deteriorate, things could have ended far worse. Again, I give Dr. Latham a lot of credit for how far he has come in recognizing when his protegee needs to take a step back. The fact that it’s Latham telling Rhodes he needs to slow down is what really worries Rhodes. If Robyn doesn’t get better soon, how much longer can he keep this up?
Which relationship will survive this season, and which could reach an early end?
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