Tonight on NBC their medical drama Chicago Med airs with an all-new Wednesday, September 25, 2024, episode, and we have your Chicago Med recap below.
In tonight’s Chicago Med season, 10 episode 1 premiere called, “Sink Or Swim,” as per the NBC synopsis, “When a commuter ship capsizes, our ED finds itself underwater as they struggle to treat the influx of new patients and deal with the bold new employees taking charge.”
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In tonight’s Chicago Med premiere, Dr. Daniel Charles broke up with his girlfriend. Well, she broke up with him. His girlfriend was mad that he wouldn’t automatically take her side and that of her con-artist of a brother.
Her brother Pawel recently got beaten up. He blamed Dr. Ripley for his injuries. Pawel was trying to shake down Ripley as well as the hospital for money prior to the beatdown because he got into debt with the wrong kind of people.
Pawel was always looking for get rich quick scheme. He took the money his sister needed to buy herself a dream house. He tried to get Charlies to write him prescriptions. And Charles never fell for any of his cons.
Charles also warned Ripley about Pawel. Ripley was going to settle a lawsuit that Pawel brought forth when he complained to a friend. This friend was an old friend from when Ripley was a troubled kid.
Ripley may have grown up, but the friend didn’t. His name is Sully. He just became a new father. He was also battling lung cancer and still the guy did his best to goad Ripley into taking revenge against Pawel. Ripley said he didn’t want to do that when they talked only someone beat up Pawel.
No one was sure if it was Ripley or not. He still got to keep his job. His friend Sully was being a little too proud that no arrests were made in Pawel’s case and, when he wasn’t getting an atta boy from Sully, his love interest was avoiding him like the plague. Ripley had something going with Dr. Asher.
They were circling around each other. They were just about to go on an actual date when the Pawel thing happened. Asher didn’t think he was guilty of beating up Pawel. She just wanted space. She and Ripley are on a break.
It’s unclear if it was a Ross/Rachel kind of break or Brad/Angelina kind of break. Doris asked for a clarification and Asher couldn’t give her one. Love life aside, the ED was getting a new ED Chief. Dr. Archer now has to share that position with a new doctor. The new doc was Dr. Caitlin Lenox.
Sharon was going to tell everyone about her joining the hospital when a tragedy flooded the hospital with patients. There was a ferry that crashed. There were a lot of injuries. Sharon called in Lenox a week before she was supposed to start to help with the overflow.
Archer hated being blindsided. He also didn’t want to listen to someone young enough to be his kid. He literally asked Lenox how old she was and she replied by asking him the same question.
These two did not get off to a right start. Other than that, Lenox was impressive. She jumped right into the crowdy ED and she started treating people. Sharon even jumped in to lend a hand. They were short-staffed since Crockett left. They had his going away party the night before and now wasn’t the time to lose a surgeon.
Asher was assigned a pregnant woman that had been impaled. She was thirty-eight weeks. The impalement could kill both the mother and the baby so Asher did two things at once. She removed the baby along with the debris sticking out of the mother.
She received assistance from Archer. They managed keep both alive. Then it was right back to the crowdy ED. They were getting a second wave of patients. Archer didn’t think they could handle it. He told Maggie to send them to a different hospital and Lenox challenged that idea.
She said there was plenty of wasted space. They turned the conference room into a treatment center. They treated as many patients as they could and so they really needed to focus on those that needed urgent care. Only Maggie allowed a girl that wasn’t on the ferry to get an MRI. There was a Dr. Frost from a nearby hospital that needed to give his patient an MRI. He couldn’t do that at his own hospital because they sold their radiology equipment to keep the lights on. He then took his patient to Chicago Med because he had a theory.
Frost’s patient was Zoey. Zoey was abandoned as a little girl by her mother. She never knew her father. She was a foster kid and she’s been getting headaches for months. She’s also been losing her ability to speak.
The older kids at her group home made fun of her and they got rough with her. Frost was worried that under those conditions she might get worse. He convinced Maggie to do an MRI on Zoey. Dr. Abrams found out she has a tumor. They can remove it. There was going to be a downside though.
Removing the tumor might cost Zoey her ability speak. She didn’t have parents and so it was up to her to make a decision on her health. She was considering her possibilities when Charles had to counsel a mother. The mother’s name is Jeanine. She was on the ferry with her son and husband. The husband ran off after the accident.
He didn’t even wait long enough to see if their son survived. He ran off. Jeanine was left on her own to save her son. He got trapped under a few seats. Jeanine got him out of there and she stayed with him when he got to the hospital.
It was at the hospital that the father suddenly decided to show up. He felt bad about running off. He kept telling Jeanine he was sorry and she didn’t want him anywhere near their son.
She didn’t even think he had a right to make a choice about their son’s health. Their son was a hemophiliac. He developed an infection in his leg. Dr. Johnson said they needed surgery to save the leg. Jeanine wouldn’t listen at first. She was afraid of putting her son through a surgery with his condition. She wanted to play it safe by just using antibiotics and Charles had to tell her it could cost the boy his leg.
Surgery was a risk, yes. It was also the only option they truly have to preserve Ellis’s leg. Charles helped Jeanine see that and the only thing he couldn’t help her with was her husband.
He couldn’t give her explanation on her husband’s behavior because human behavior was sometimes unexplainable. Jeanine might still get a divorce after all of this only her son was going to make it. The whole ferry accident happened because the captain of the ship had a seizure. He’s been having seizures for the past six years. He takes medication to treat it.
Unfortunately, meds can sometimes stop working if It’s taken too long. People can build up a tolerance to it. That’s what happened with the captain. He failed to disclose his condition because he was the breadwinner with his family and he ended up killing over thirty people. He also caused Zach Hudgins his job.
The newbie doctor was still learning on the job. This was his first mass causality event. He had seen so much death in one day that he walked off leaving a patient in critical care. And alone with a nurse that was luckily Sharon.
Zach was later fired by Lenox. Archer tried to talk her out of it. He said he should have been consulted and Lenox said she doesn’t answer to him. She answers to Sharon. It was Sharon that approved Zach getting fired. So, Lennox didn’t care what Archer had to say.
And after a crazy day they had, Ripley finally admitted to Asher that it was Sully who beat up Pawel. He tried to stop it and that’s when Pawel saw his face. He can now face charges if a new witness comes forward saying they saw him there.
THE END!