Chicago Med Review: Ghosts In the Attic (Season 4 Episode 13)
Perceptions aren’t everything but projecting those perceptions onto every patient is. At least that’s the running theme on this week’s messy but engaging Chicago Med Season 4 Episode 13, “Ghosts in the Attic.”
What’s impressive about this hour is that absolutely no one is immune from falling prey to this mistake. Everyone from Maggie to Natalie to Ethan falls into the trap, each with their own painful consequences.
Ethan and April’s is particularly tough to watch because of both the ethical implications of Ethan’s accusations but also because of the breach of trust and the professional relationship they had with each other post-breakup.
Like another couple in the hour, it’s challenging to see how they will be able to come back from, you know, Ethan insinuating that April killed a patient because of that patient’s devastating history with another nurse in the ED.
But where do Ethan and April go from here, not just in the personal sense but in the professional sense as well?
Meanwhile, Natalie’s convinced that her cancer patient is faking it. But in the midst of getting the truth out of the patient by any means, she finds herself carelessly overstepping boundaries and getting in trouble with Goodwin.
To make things worse, the truth is that he has cancer and it’s worse than he’s let on. The answers we get about this patient doesn’t necessarily paint Natalie’s medical instincts in the best light and seems to project her sense of distrust onto this patient’s relationship.
Granted her distrust in terms of her own life is rightfully placed, and some of the Chicago Med boundaries get blurred in the name of “doing what’s right for the patient.” But it feels like Natalie’s overstep in Jared’s case is a step too far and actually goes against what’s right for the patient.
Elsewhere, Maggie’s snap judgment of an old student that went to the same school as her leads to certain consequences that far outreach the episode. Maggie’s usually so even-handed in terms of patient care that it’s surprising that this is how she decides to act.
I’m curious to see how she will be working through that inevitable guilt for how it all happened.
Imagine, each of these stories would have gone differently if these nurses and doctors’ perceptions weren’t cluttered by their own personal history or preconceived notions.
Random Thoughts
It was a fun surprise to see Nina return to help Ethan find out his patient’s cause of death.
Will’s gun has felt like a ticking time bomb over the last few episodes so it makes sense that when it comes to light that he didn’t give it up, Natalie would ultimately end their relationship. It’s honestly the only way that story could go that would make sense.
The aftermath of Connor and Ava’s blow up is not as bad as I would have imagined and I’ve got questions about what that comment the OR nurse makes at the end of the hour supposed to mean.
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Chicago Med airs Wednesdays at 8/7c on NBC.
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