Tonight on NBC their medical drama Chicago Med airs with an all-new Wednesday, January 8, 2025, episode, and we have your Chicago Med recap below.
In tonight’s Chicago Med season, 10 episode 9 called, “The team fights to save the life of one of their own. Frost and Abrams butt heads with their patient. Dr. Charles and Dr. Reese continue to clash over a patient, dredging up unresolved issues between them.”
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In tonight’s Chicago Med episode, the night at the hospital seemed like any other night. There were a few drunks. There were a few people needing to sleep the night off and so the incident with Sharon Goodwin was new for them. Sharon was the hospital administrator. She often has to make tough calls.
Only tonight was the first time someone tried to kill her because of those calls. The wife of a former patient tried to kill Sharon because Sharon gave some much needed blood to the man that caused the boat accident and not to that woman’s wife. Her wife was allowed to die. And she blamed Sharon for her spouse’s death even though there was no chance of saving her.
The poor woman was too forgone when she got to the hospital. The extra blood wouldn’t have saved her. Sharon couldn’t have saved her and the wife was refusing to move on. She tried to kill Sharon tonight to make herself feel better. She didn’t care that Sharon was a mother or that she was dating a great guy or that she was surrounded by amazing friends.
This woman still tried to kill a perfect stranger. What she didn’t count on was Dr. Archer. Archer stopped by Goodwin’s office because he wanted to resign. He was leaving when Sharon escaped the mad woman and begged for help.
Archer raced to Sharon’s side. He got the stabbing woman away from her. He got Sharon to the ED and she survived. The madwoman also received treatment. Sharon fought her off. She even stabbed her. The woman received medical treatment at Chicago Med and Maggie let the cops know that this woman needed to be transferred out as soon as possible.
None of the doctors wanted to treat the woman. Their concern was with Sharon. Dr. Charles thought something had gone wrong when he got pulled out of an appointment with a client and it turns out Sarah Reese filed a professional misconduct complaint against him.
She could cost him his license because he stepped in with a troubled patient of hers. Sarah was giving the woman a placebo pill and telling her it was an anti-depressant. Now there was nothing wrong with doing that. There were cases in which such an action worked out for the patient.
It just didn’t work with this particular patient. The woman tried to overdose on the medication. She later claimed that she forgot she took the pills and she took too much by accident. Charles had her put on a suicide hold while Sarah filed a complaint against him.
She filed it before the thing with Sharon. Which she later explained during mediation. She expressed her sympathies and she told Charles and the hospital’s lawyer that she was pursuing the claim.
Charles could do nothing other than to accept it. He’s been sued before. He’s just never faced a complaint from a fellow doctor and he felt he had no reason to back down or apologize. Charles was so busy in the mediation that there was no one to support Sharon’s family. Sharon’s daughter chose a simple procedure for her mom that could require her never eating by mouth ever again.
The young woman didn’t want to take a bigger risk in spite of the greater reward. Her mom was elderly. She was diabetic as well. Sharon’s children also just put their father in a care facility for his dementia. They couldn’t or wouldn’t take a risk with the sole parent they have left. Charles could have talked to them.
Calmed them. He was still in mediation and so Archer chose to go full cowboy. Archer performed the much tougher surgery without their say so. Maggie tried to talk him out and he simply chose to ignore her.
Charles meanwhile got Sarah to drop her complaint. Charles had told her patient that she was taking placebos. Then the troubled woman forgot what he said and Ariel asked for her daily dosage an hour later. Both Charles and Sarah had been wrong about her. She wasn’t depressed. She suffers from EML.
Episodic Memory Loss. She really did forget she took her pills and kept taking more by accident. The EML wasn’t a symptom of poor mental health. It was a symptom of a physical condition. And so Charles worked with Sarah to figure out what it was.
They were coming up with Addison’s disease when Dr. Frost was dealing with a troubled girl. The girl’s name was Allie. She’s had two other brain surgeries and she gets bullied for her bald head when she goes back to school. She told Dr. Abrams tonight that he had to perform surgery without cutting her hair or he doesn’t get the surgery.
Allie was a mouthy preteen. She even told Dr. Abrams that an article claimed he wasn’t the best neurosurgeon around. Allie was a foster kid and so no one could force her to do the surgery. Only Frost found a way to convince her.
Frost offered to let her cut his hair off. So that they have matching baldness. Allie loved the idea so much that she agreed to surgery and Abrams was finally able to treat her. She never has to have another surgery.
She also still has her hair. Abrams gave her what she wanted and he braided it quite nicely. He learned that from having a daughter on top of three older sisters. Something Allie had to make fun of him for.
Sarah Reese left Chicago Med tonight on better terms with Charles tonight. Charles also talked through his feelings with Jackie and they both felt better off after doing so.
Sharon thankfully survived surgery. Archer’s risk worked. The two of them also talked when she woke up because Sharon wanted to know how bad it really was and she knew Archer wouldn’t sugarcoat it.
Something she was right about. Archer told her she came incredibly close to dying, but he did promise her that he wouldn’t quit or leave Chicago Med.
THE END!
