Tonight on NBC their medical drama Chicago Med airs with an all-new Wednesday, March 29, 2023, episode, and we have your Chicago Med recap below. In tonight’s Chicago Med season, 8 episode 17 called, “Know When to Hold and Know When to Fold,” as per the NBC synopsis, “A documentary crew visits Med to film Crockett and Abrams’ groundbreaking surgery.
Archer refuses to ask for help for his kidney issues despite the staff’s unrelenting kindness. Will starts to develop feelings for a co-worker.”
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In tonight’s Chicago Med episode, some friends from the hospital were enjoying themselves at the bowling alley. It was Maggie’s idea. She loves bowling. They even have a team. Her husband Ben couldn’t join them because there was a science fair at his school and so Maggie decided to invite Dr. Grace Song to fill in for him. Maggie likes Grace.
She also thought Grace could be a good fit for Will. Which was why she invited Grace to bowling. Will was a part of the team and playing with Grace in a group setting could technically count as a group date.
Will quickly figured out he was being set up. Only he didn’t kick up fuss or complain. He respected Grace. He was single and so talking to her on their day off wasn’t going to hurt anyone.
He also knew it wasn’t going to go anywhere. He kinda let that part show when Grace later asked him to go bowling with just the two of them. He agreed. He just hadn’t sound enthusiastic about it. Nor did he give her the slightest encouragement that he saw this date as a date. Will treated Grace like a potential friend and he wasn’t ready to talk about it with anyone else. And that included Hannah
Hannah overheard them make a date for bowling. She wanted to encourage Will because they were friends now and she reminded him that “Will & Grace” had a good ring to it. He reminded her that those characters stayed friends all throughout the show. Will also didn’t want to discuss his private life in the hospital.
He’s probably had enough with his relationships getting judged by everyone. Also, the hospital was busy gearing up for a documentary. Dayton had asked the surgeons at Chicago Med to pull off a risky surgery and he felt so sure that everything would work out that he invited cameras in to record everything.
The cameras were there to record Kuan-Yu’s surgery. Kuan has a condition that means he can never stand up straight or risking being in pain if not dying and so the surgery was supposed to fix that.
He hasn’t stood up in nineteen years. No other doctors were willing to work his case until he got in touch with an international aide that introduced him to Jack Dayton. Dayton heard about the risky surgery. He felt for sure that his doctors could handle it. He also wanted to promote the OR 2.0. And the documentary was supposed to be one long commercial for that new technology.
Everyone at the hospital was happy to be in a documentary. They thought this surgery could put them on the map. They were ready to be better than the Mayo Clinic and so this surgery going well was important for everyone. Crockett and Dr. Sam Abrams were performing surgery on Kuan together. But it was just Crockett who was being helpful with the cameras. Crockett was explaining everything as it happened in real time. He even explained to the cameras when it looked like Kuan’s surgery was going south.
Crockett decided to take a risk. He was willing to make a possible career ending mistake on camera. Sam was more by the book. He didn’t entirely trust this new OR. He also didn’t like the cameras. He went out of his way to be unpleasant to those people and he might have seen those people for what they were. People that fed on drama with a capital “D”. Crockett being helpful meant that those camera crews knew how to take advantage. They waited until the surgery wasn’t going well to run to Kuan’s mother and tried to get her to cry on camera.
It was reprehensible! Sharon shut that down when she saw what the camera crews were trying to do. Daniel saw it as well and Daniel made sure that Da-Xia was as far away from them as possible. He had her wait in his office with him. They drank tea while Sharon told the camera guys that there was a line they couldn’t cross. The head guy claimed that Dayton hired him. He claimed only Dayton could tell him what to do. Sharon then informed him that in her hospital – she makes the calls.
Sharon sent the cameras back to focusing on the surgery. There were several setbacks and the surgery was thankfully pulled off with much success. Kuan was able to lay on his back. He saw his mother for the first time in years. She cried when she saw him. Da-Xia didn’t know what to do with herself if her son made it through surgery and yet that fear went away when she got to see him alive and the happiest he’s ever been. The camera crew didn’t catch that part because Sharon was once again defending their right to privacy. And not everyone at the hospital agreed with that decision.
Will meanwhile revealed to Hannah the real reason he didn’t think his relationship has a future. He first tried to say that Grace travels too much for them to ever have a future. Only he admitted later on that he doesn’t have a stellar track record with the women he dates. He tends to pick problematic people. He told Hannah as much and she didn’t get offended. She told him that his past shouldn’t stop from pursuing a woman he might genuinely like.
Will later asked Grace out for drinks. She said “yes” and they’ll take it from there.
Dean also realized that his kidney damage meant he’ll have to step back some, but he was finally willing to admit when he needed help and he asked for it right before the hospital made the decision to only accept people with great healthcare. There will be no more subsidized surgeries.
THE END!
