Tonight on NBC their medical drama Chicago Med airs with an all-new Wednesday, April 5, 2023, episode, and we have your Chicago Med recap below. In tonight’s Chicago Med season, 8 episode 18 called, “I Can See the Writing in The Wall,” as per the NBC synopsis, “Dr. Grace Song launches her pilot program, giving the E.D. a technological facelift.
As his health worsens, Archer clashes with Charles on a patient faking paralysis. Hannah helps a pregnant mother with a heart condition.”
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In tonight’s Chicago Med, Dr. Dean Archer was getting dialysis for his condition. He was battling kidney disease. He was a real jerk about it when he was first diagnosed and now he’s more or less accepted his condition. He was even willing to receive help from his co-workers now because he knew he couldn’t operate like usual.
The only thing he wasn’t willing to do was ask his son to get tested to see if he was match. Archer needed a new kidney. His only biological child could potentially be a match for him. It would save him from having to wait on the donor list. He’d also wouldn’t have to worry about it affecting his son because kidney donations were relatively harmless.
Only Archer refuses to ask Shaun to get tested. Shaun has been in recovery for the past year. His kidneys were in the free and clear medical wise and so it was just Archer’s pride that was stopping him from asking his son.
Archer didn’t want to accept a kidney from his own child. He was the parent and he felt he should sacrifice for his son. Not the other way around. Archer was going to refuse any kind of help that Shaun offers and he ignored Hannah when she told him that his son would want to help.
Archer just didn’t care. He was also busy. He later got a patient that tested him on several levels. The patient’s name was Kurt. Kurt claimed to be paralyzed from the waist down.
He came in because he suffered a fall and his medical history said that he had been paralyzed since he was in high school, but Archer noticed something as he was examining Kurt. He noticed that Kurt did have feeling below the waist. He was doing an examination of his back when Kurt said “ow” because his back was tender from the fall. And at first everyone had thought it was a miracle.
One of the nurses thought maybe the fall had reversed the paralysis. Archer had never heard of that happening before and so he ran more tests. He was able to determine that Kurt wasn’t actually paralyzed.
He had never been paralyzed. Kurt suffers from a mental disorder. No one had a put a name to it only he only feels relief when he’s in the wheelchair. Kurt hates that he still feels his legs and, after he was told that he needed surgery from the fall, Kurt refused medical care because he was hoping to become paralyzed.
There was a chance of that if he didn’t go ahead with the surgery. Kurt was refusing the surgery and Archer called in Dr. Daniel Charles to help talk Kurt around. Archer thought Daniel would be on his side. He had been wrong to assume that because Daniel didn’t automatically side with doctors. Daniel actually talked to Kurt. He knew that Kurt has seen several therapists as well as been hypnotized. Kurt has also seen neurosurgeons who thought maybe it was a neurological problem that was forcing him to feel discomfort when he could move his legs. And those guys hadn’t found anything to prove their hypothesis.
Kurt just simply has a medical disorder that makes him believe he’s in pain if he thinks he can walk. He even saw a psychic who thought he was struggling with a past life. Kurt has tried everything and the only bright spot had been this accident. He didn’t mean to hurt himself. There were plenty of witnesses to prove he never intentionally sought to hurt himself. He just wanted to enjoy the benefits of finally being able to live a life without pain and it was Archer who was stopping him. Archer didn’t care that Daniel said he had a right to make his own medical decisions.
Daniel could bring up plenty of studies of people with the same condition being deemed sane. He therefore thought it perfectly reasonable if Kurt didn’t want the surgery. He sided with Kurt and that made Archer see red. Archer accused Kurt of intentionally throwing himself down the stairs. He said that he fooled Daniel and that he doesn’t fool him, but Daniel overheard him. He took Archer to task after that. He said he was too experienced of a doctor to let anyone “fool” him and Archer later apologized to both him and the patient.
Kurt went home without doing the surgery. Archer realized that he was angry that a perfectly healthy young man wanted to paralyze himself and there he was fighting for his life. Only Dean wasn’t alone in making mistakes. Dr. Grace Song had implanted several reforms around the hospital. She thought she was helping when in actuality she was hurting more than she was helping. Her idea to let the patients have full access to their own file on their portal system hadn’t worked out in Will’s case.
Will’s patient had seen that she could have a rare disease. She then demanded several expensive and exhaustive tests. She even had someone cut into her brain just disprove she had the condition and she almost died because she had a bad allergic reaction to one of the medications. Alicia came to realize that maybe she should have a little faith in her doctors over what an AI was telling her. Grace’s reforms also affected Baylin. Baylin has schizophrenia. And the new red lights that were supposed to remind everyone to keep their voices down had affected his mental health.
The poor guy thought there was an alien invasion. He thought he was being attacked and security had to restrain him before he let anyone treat him. So, Maggie eventually told Grace that her reforms were just try to automate them out of their jobs while making everything harder. She refused to see any of their benefits. She didn’t care what Will had to say about it either because she felt he was compromised. He was dating Grace after all. And so Maggie tried to complain about the reforms to Sharon.
But Sharon didn’t have time for petty complaints. Sharon was forming a resistance party against Jack Dayton. Dayton wanted to turn the hospital into a for profit hospital. He wanted to cut down on everything that wasn’t making a profit. He was going to kick out patients if they couldn’t pay. And he was just the worst, which is why Sharon was mounting a resistance and try to get the board to stop him.
And Hannah lost a patient. She lost a woman who refused to admit she was sick until it was too late and now that woman has left behind two children without a parent. The kids were going to live with their aunt and uncle. The family was good people. They were going to have a great life, but it reminded Hannah that she lost her own mother because her mother died in childbirth with her. And so she made a decision to contact Archer’s son.
Hannah told Shaun about Archer’s condition.
THE END!
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