Hospital politics are at all times messy. Even when no company overlord is making an attempt to steer the establishment in a course which may not be finest for sufferers, board members usually conflict with healthcare suppliers.
Chicago Med Season 8 Episode 19 is the newest medical drama to discover what occurs when a non-doctor with their very own agenda features a controlling curiosity in the hospital (each The Good Doctor and New Amsterdam supplied comparable tales in 2022).
Jack appeared all proper as a hospital proprietor — till he wasn’t. But his newest victory was completely predictable.
With all the noise Sharon, George, and Will stored making about how Vernon would swing the vote their method, how may he not betray them at the final second?
Will went to a ton of bother to make sure Vernon may vote whereas Jack tried his hardest to intervene — just for Vernon to realize a brand new perspective after his surgical procedure.
Surprise! NOT. Vernon hadn’t thought-about the situation earlier than falling ailing; he solely went together with Sharon as a result of he’d been on the board for 23 years and trusted her opinion.
Although Vernon got here via the surgical procedure high-quality, due to OR 2.0 and Abrams’ surgical abilities, I’d suppose he’d want greater than an hour in the restoration room earlier than he may sit via a board assembly, even by video. The man simply had mind surgical procedure!
Television mind tumor survivors usually get up with drastically completely different personalities, so it was seemingly that Vernon would assist Jack for that motive. The solely twist was that 2.0’s saving his life made him resolve that Jack’s imaginative and prescient for the hospital was the strategy to go.
I do not know George and Sharon’s counterarguments, however they allowed Jack to border the dialogue in a method that benefited his place. Why goes to for-profit standing the solely method to make sure Gaffney continues providing cutting-edge medical expertise?
Instead of arguing that for-profit standing is opposite to the hospital’s established mission, which board members did not seem to care about, the counterargument ought to have targeted on for-profit standing being pointless to realize the objective of being a frontrunner in the medical tech sector.
They may have targeted on the concept that Gaffney may very well be that chief AND proceed to supply care to all sufferers, no matter earnings degree.
This missed alternative will change Gaffney without end — or at the very least till the board votes to repeal the for-profit standing. But the irony of Will’s plan inflicting the reverse results of what he wished was SO scrumptious!
Grace balked at Will asking for her experience when it meant that Jack’s proposal is likely to be defeated, however will she change her tune now that Vernon votes for the plan?
What Will did wasn’t totally unethical.
Yes, getting Vernon’s spouse to comply with surgical procedure meant Vernon may take part in the board assembly. But Vernon wanted the surgical procedure anyway; he needed to be intubated, with no assure that the various remedy would do something to resolve his tumor.
Grace might need felt used, however she DID assist Vernon get the wanted remedy, so there was that.
Archer’s habits was much more questionable. At least half the motive he broke Kira’s confidentiality was to get again at Asher for telling Sean about Archer’s medical situation.
He gave her a BS rationalization about Kimberly being Kira’s proxy if one thing went fallacious throughout surgical procedure, however come on. Every different phrase out of his mouth was about how now Asher believed in confidentiality when she did not earlier than.
This petty habits and refusal to acknowledge sufferers’ rights made me hate Archer when he arrived at Med. He’s been extra tolerable these days and, in some methods, extra relatable.
But not this time. He was fallacious to violate Kira’s confidentiality, and even when Asher was fallacious to interrupt his, that is no excuse. Didn’t Archer be taught that two wrongs do not make a proper lengthy earlier than he was sufficiently old for medical faculty?
The Kira scenario was surprisingly reverse of what I anticipated.
When Chicago Med Season 8 Episode 19 spoilers said that Asher and Archer can be coping with a stem cell illness and a pregnant daughter, I predicted that the mom would need her daughter to surrender the child in order that she may use its stem cells.
That would have been a fascinating ethical dilemma, but the actual story was fantastic. Still, I wondered why the doctors couldn’t use the stem cells from the non-viable fetus to cure Kimberly’s disease, assuming they were a match.
I’m glad that Marcel helped Tanaka-Reid get his self-confidence back.
I could have done without most of this story, which featured a bunch of residents acting like high school students. The teasing and bullying were inappropriate behavior. Tanaka-Reid acted like the stereotypical nerdy kid who pretends not to care but secretly fears his bullies are right to tease him.
Marcel was right that the other residents were reacting to Tanaka-Reid acting like he was far superior for the last year or so, but again — two wrongs don’t make a right. And in this case, there was far too much immature behavior for my liking.
At least Marcel and Tanaka-Reid have settled into a more respectful mentor/mentee relationship! Tanaka-Reid was insufferable when he used to try to replace Marcel’s judgment with his own.
Charles’ main story was interesting. I liked that Maggie could interpret ASL so that they could catch Sandy making up stories about what her brother was communicating.
Aiden’s desire to keep the imaginary voices in his head because he could HEAR them was also interesting, and I wish there’d been more time to develop that part of the story.
And what was with Lilian’s obnoxious brother? Charles went from one language barrier to another in that last scene, and Pavo did nothing to endear himself to viewers. I wondered if he thinks Charles is too good for Liliana or believes a doctor must have an ulterior motive for dating his sister.
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