Chicago Med Season 8 Episode 15 Review: Those Times You Have to Cross the Line

David Sullivan ended up in the ED once more.

It was inevitable after Chicago Med Season 8 Episode 1 when his dad and mom refused to imagine that he had schizoaffective dysfunction and refused to get him psychiatric assist.

But on Chicago Med Season 8 Episode 15, David had been on psych meds for some time earlier than having one other psychotic episode. Who may have predicted that after his dad and mom’ perspective the final time?

Since David’s dad and mom had refused therapy, it could have made extra sense if David’s auditory hallucinations and perception he was lifeless got here from being unmedicated.

However, the place would the story have gone if Chicago Med had gone in that course? We already had the story of the dad and mom refusing to settle for that their son wanted assist; we did not want a repeat.

Cuevas mentioned she had handled David a number of instances, so we’re supposed to assume that the dad and mom had returned to the ED with him off-screen and eventually accepted the want for therapy.

I want the complete arc had been on-screen, however this installment was nonetheless compelling. David appeared depressed and agitated, and till he mentioned he was already lifeless, I used to be apprehensive he was suicidal.

I’m undecided when Cuevas began seeing sufferers on her personal — up till this level, she had labored beneath Charles’ supervision — however it labored for her to be the preliminary level of contact whereas Charles was supposedly taking the day without work.

Thank goodness considered one of the psychiatrists was in the hospital. Hannah was unprepared to take care of a schizoaffective affected person in disaster; she did the proper factor by paging Cuevas.

Charles’ strategy to David’s case was a masterclass in how to take care of delusional sufferers. Although it might need been tempting to ask how David may talk if he was lifeless or in any other case strive to argue with him, it could have been pointless.

Psychosis is immune to logic, and the extra medical doctors strive to persuade a psychotic affected person of actuality, the angrier and extra insistent they turn into that their delusions are correct.

Charles: I took a take a look at David’s chart. He had a birthday and now he is 18, so he is legally an grownup. He has the proper to refuse remedy.
David’s father: David can barely hold it collectively. What’s he going to be like with out meds?

Earlier in the season, Charles tried to impress that on Cuevas; I’m glad she’s realized it.

Charles’ use of Frankenstein and the thought of “life after death” have been nice methods of entering into David’s world whereas guiding him to do one thing good for him.

David would not have accepted ECT if he thought it was supposed to remedy his delusions, however he was keen to strive to resurrect himself since he believed he was lifeless.

The solely flaw on this story was that it did not make sense that David did not have a healthcare proxy.

While Charles was proper that folks over 18 could make their very own healthcare choices, I’d suppose that would not apply to David since he was incapable of understanding what was taking place and the probably penalties of his decisions.

Of course, his dad and mom hadn’t set something up beforehand, so it might need taken a courtroom order to set up that David was incompetent. Still, it was odd that David’s age was the finish of the story.

Hopefully, David’s extra lucid state after the ECT therapy will likely be everlasting!

Elsewhere, that DCFS employee ought to affirm with the hospital that she’s wanted earlier than she makes any extra journeys. This is the second week she received despatched away upon arrival.

Oddly, she was pissed that Marcel determined he’d received issues unsuitable however had no drawback with Hannah telling her she was unneeded on Chicago Med Season 8 Episode 14.

Either means, Marcel jumped the gun. Maggie was proper that youngsters who reside on farms usually work on them and that it’s not little one neglect to enable them to use machines that may trigger critical hurt.

It’s not as if Abby was taking part in with the machine or her dad and mom weren’t supervising her use of it. The accident occurred whereas she was climbing onto the seat in order that she may assist her father, who was the one driving the machine.

Maggie: Why did you name DCFS?
Marcel: This little one ought to by no means have been close to that machine.
Maggie: You do not perceive how it’s on a farm. Kids work all the time. It’s a part of the tradition.
Marcel: Yeah, effectively that tradition goes to lose this little one her foot.

Marcel was performing like they’d left the keys to the machine mendacity round and left her house with out supervision. Parents — whether or not in city or rural settings — have to resolve what’s acceptable for his or her children to do.

Marcel’s choice wasn’t any totally different than if he’d referred to as DCFS on a father or mother who decided it was protected for his or her elementary school-aged little one to stroll to faculty with out an grownup.

In addition, Abby was eleven. Many city and suburban children her age work with harmful machines of their center faculty woodworking courses — is that little one abuse too?

Maggie was proper that Marcel was judging one thing he did not perceive. Thank goodness he realized his mistake earlier than it was too late.

I anticipated the strike story to be greater than it was, too. The challenge of the custodial workers happening strike, Dayton refusing to budge, and the strikebreakers not doing an excellent job may have stretched over a number of episodes.

Charles was caught in the center. Sharon did not appear comfortable that he was on the picket line when he was a health care provider at the hospital (and her buddy!), however nothing got here of that, and Sharon despatched Dayton messages by way of George about the strike, however Dayton stayed off-screen.

The bedbugs have been gross, and the hospital was negligent in not preserving the therapy rooms sanitary throughout the strike.

Sharon: We have bedbugs in the ED. A affected person developed a rash from a bug chunk and so did a nurse. This strike wants to finish now.
George: I hear you. Jack will not give in until the unions agree to extra concessions. He says we won’t afford what they need.
Sharon: And what about legal responsibility lawsuits? Can we afford that?

Will Walter sue? He was sad about what occurred and mentioned he was now not impressed with the hospital.

I’m additionally curious how Liliana’s mates will react to Charles. He could also be her boyfriend, however he is additionally a health care provider, and spending his downtime on the picket line may not be sufficient to endear him to them.

Finally, we received Archer’s softer aspect for the first time. He spoke truthfully with Sean and broke down in tears after apologizing for the previous.

I did not anticipate something like that when Archer first confirmed up at Chicago Med, breaking the guidelines and imposing his will on reluctant sufferers. Did you?

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Chicago Med airs on NBC on Wednesdays at 8 PM EST / PST. The subsequent new episode airs on March 22, 2023.

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