Decisions and Conflicts: Chicago Med "Natural History"

This week's episode might have been better than last week's episode as it had two relatives on different sides a doctor still dealing with a new mentor.

At a family BBQ reunion of Maggie's, Halstead joins the party and meets everyone there. When Maggie's sister comes, she only stays for a few minutes and tries to fly back to Dallas, TX. Well, that flight will have to make a detour to Med when she crashed her car while leaving the party.

Maggie's sister doesn't want to get any tests or stuff, but after a talk with Maggie, Halstead runs some tests. It was then that one of the tests showed something that's not quite right as in she could have cancer. It was soon that Halstead had to run an ultrasound on her and soon saw something that was not right, but apparently, Maggie's sister had a prostate gland, and she told him that she was transgender. This doesn't come as a surprise to Maggie as she knew and didn't tell Halstead.

This opened both Maggie and her sister to the topic that Maggie misses her brother. But after the two argued they've never been closer than before. After getting the right test results, it showed that Maggie's sister had cancer and she decided to stay in Chicago and get treated.

Rhodes deals with a patient that is in desires to get into surgery when the patient is a high-profile businessman. The patient needs surgery and his wife can't wait for a second opinion so Rhodes takes the case and has a plan, something that Downey would do.

But when Goodwin doesn't like what Rhodes is doing, she tells him to get Dr Latham to perform the surgery even though it's a Jewish holiday.  Latham didn't like the idea of what and how Rhodes decided to perform this kind of surgery but it shows that when Latham ordered Rhodes to step back when time was getting close to call.

The two settled and it seems that things are back to the way they were. Hopefully, Rhodes would think of other options down the road instead of just using what Downey would have done.

Choi gets a patient who's pregnant but later comes to find out that she's not. He goes to Charles and Reese about it and Reese thinks it's hysterical pregnancy. Even though she might look pregnant and feel pregnant, there's no baby in there.

It was Reese who had to break the news to the couple and that didn't turn out well for her at all. But that only made Reese find a way to prove that she's not really having a baby, but Choi and Charles believe that the best is to let them leave under their will.

She doesn't take the defeat too well but she does have a chance to talk to the mother and she gives Reese some thought about looking into one of the psychologist's theories and giveCharliees something to think about...taking a couple of chips from her.

I thought this episode was wonderful. We got to meet Maggie's family for a little bit but also her sister too and the fact that the two have a bit of a conflict over her sister's transgender was a good storyline. Every time I see Reese doing something and it doesn't go well I just feel bad instantly but that's how it's done. I've really never seen a pregnancy like that before.

I also feel that Jeff might be pushing it a bit much to Natalie with the comments and other things. And not to mention Rhodes and Latham is a really good character storyline this season. Rhodes is likely to go over Latham's head from time to time and using what he learns from Downey isn't gonna help him get through this year, so maybe he might need to be better at learning too from Latham.

Overall I give this episode an 8/10.

You can catch Chicago Med Thursdays at 9/8c on NBC.