In the episode "Brother's Keeper," the hospital takes on an epidemic when two patients come in with the same condition. Choi and Rhodes take on a patient whose son is ready to let him go but not the patient's girlfriend.
This episode might be a bit overdramatic in its promo, but it was an excellent episode to start. First, I can't forget to mention that there was a TV icon on the show. Daniel J. Travanti, Captain Frank Furillo from Hill Street Blues, had a guest spot as Dr. Choi and Rhodes' patient, who comes in with confusion and needs surgery to remove a tumor. But his son tells them he doesn't want any heroic measures.
But when Choi's patient had difficulty breathing, he heard him say save me and got Rhodes to take him to surgery. Surgery was a success, but when Choi told him about his girlfriend being strong, he made a remark and told him that she was just a gravedigger.
Meanwhile, Halstead and Manning dealing with their patients suffering from the same conditions, which has them thinking of an outbreak of a super bug. Goodwin calls on Dr. Charles's daughter, the newest member of the epidemiology department. Things got scary when Manning's cancer patient wasn't breathing, but finding a blockage in her throat, she got in there and pushed out the puss. It turns out that the cause of this illness was an instrument used on them a couple of weeks ago.
Dr. Charles and Reese handle a case of a boy who resists against male doctors and wants to leave the hospital. Reese talks to him and seems to calm down just a bit. Soon, "his mother" comes, and Reese doesn't think he's comfortable with her. Trying to get him to stay, Reese gets a chest x-ray on him and finds a chip in his chest. Charlies believes that he's part of a drug ring and that the "mother" is his pimp. But he left before they could do anything, but that won't be the last time she'll see him.
In the episode, Extreme Measures," Halstead, Shore, April, and Noah are at a marathon, but someone gets hit by a van. It leaves Halstead in a challenging situation of how to treat him.
When April and Noah are helping at the local marathon, they get pulled into someone who just got hit by a van. No ambulance could get there in time, and Halstead and Shore were a couple of feet away. So Noah tries to perform a chest tube but does it successfully, but not to the approval of Halstead when he gets there.
The four of them try to figure out how to keep him alive. It led Halstead to take a risk that even Rhodes was questioning. When they brought him in, the patient went to surgery, but after, Halstead wasn't sure that this guy would make it. After a while, the patient woke up but couldn't move his legs, which got Halstead upset until Rhodes asked the patient to wiggle his toes, and he did. That leads him to an underwhelming moment.
Dr. Choi treats an elderly patient who hasn't taken all her medicine and appears malnourished, too. Choi tries to open up to her about it, but she tells him he's okay even though the test proves otherwise. It wasn't until her friend came in that Choi asked her about her friend and soon realized that she was not doing healthy money-wise and was trying to make a good impression from what her friend was showing her. Some friend, right?
Manning takes on an eight-year-old girl who's losing her hearing. The test shows that the girl has had old fractures, to which the mother says that it was from the child's father, who says that he'd died. It turns out that the mother lied about the father; he's still alive, but she says she believes that he abused her, and so she took her away from him. That also led to Manning performing another test, which showed she had a condition that caused the fractures. That put the girl's mother in a bad situation as Al and the CPD took her.
Overall, I enjoyed these episodes. Even though "Brother's Keeper" was a bit over-promoted, it was still a perfect hour of drama; Reese and patient were excellent.
"Extreme Measures" was one of my favorite episodes, as it pushed Halstead figuratively and emotionally to the limit of treating and saving the patient.
I've noticed that Choi has been getting exciting storylines with excellent guests.
The next episode will be a crossover event with Chicago PD as Reese's patient returns for help dangerously.
Overall, I give "Brother's Keeper" an 8.5/10 and "Extreme Measures" a 9/10.
You can catch Chicago Med Thursday nights at 9/8c on NBC.
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