Chicago Med (2015)

Watchseries; I love medical dramas. It's very rare that I don't like a medical drama, Chicago med is almost to the point of me not wanting to watch it. For some reason, it's found its niche in exploring ethical dilemmas in medicine. This shouldn't be a bad thing; there are a lot of ethical dilemmas that medical practitioners face, and it should be an interesting topic to explore. However, Chicago Med is executing it very poorly.

Rather than exploring them naturally as the show progresses, each episode now features a new ethical dilemma, to the point that they're interfering with time needed for character development and overarching plot line advancement. In one episode, for example, the staff divulge detailed medical information about a patient to another patient. This clearly is a severe HIPAA violation, which wasn't addressed. The only reason this was done was to increase the perceived drama regarding this ethical dilemma in an absurd way. It was literally like, "I'm sorry, we can't give you this thing we promised you would save your life because we had to give it to (patient's name) because (details of their health status)" just so the audience could see the emotional reaction of the first patient at being deprived something needed. It's scenes like this that have me just about done. They're poorly written and absurd with no respect the audience - that we might be able to think for ourselves and recognize that the writers are attempting to create even more drama than the situation warranted. The writers literally created the situation from the ground up, they should be able to do better.

They need to spend more time on day to day cases and character development, less time on these absurd scenarios, and explore more realistic ethical issues that span across multiple episodes that flesh out the aftermath and consequences.

I love medical dramas. It's very rare that I don't like a medical drama, Chicago med is almost to the point of me not wanting to watch it. For some reason, it's found its niche in exploring ethical dilemmas in medicine. This shouldn't be a bad thing; there are a lot of ethical dilemmas that medical practitioners face, and it should be an interesting topic to explore. However, Chicago Med is executing it very poorly.

Rather than exploring them naturally as the show progresses, each episode now features a new ethical dilemma, to the point that they're interfering with time needed for character development and overarching plot line advancement. In one episode, for example, the staff divulge detailed medical information about a patient to another patient. This clearly is a severe HIPAA violation, which wasn't addressed. The only reason this was done was to increase the perceived drama regarding this ethical dilemma in an absurd way. It was literally like, "I'm sorry, we can't give you this thing we promised you would save your life because we had to give it to (patient's name) because (details of their health status)" just so the audience could see the emotional reaction of the first patient at being deprived something needed. It's scenes like this that have me just about done. They're poorly written and absurd with no respect the audience - that we might be able to think for ourselves and recognize that the writers are attempting to create even more drama than the situation warranted. The writers literally created the situation from the ground up, they should be able to do better.

They need to spend more time on day to day cases and character development, less time on these absurd scenarios, and explore more realistic ethical issues that span across multiple episodes that flesh out the aftermath and consequences.

Chicago Med watchseries. I love Medical dramas. It is hard to believe that the creator of Chicago Fire created this borefest. Natalie is way too stiff and sensitive. April is a stuck up witch. All of them think they are holier than thou. I certainly would not want ANY of these doctors to treat me in an emergency!

This show is so unrealistic it's not even funny. Doctors constantly being unprofessional, forcing their beliefs onto patients. I can't watch this show anymore. The writers all need to be fired.

This possibly could be my last season watching this show. It started out good however it is getting to be more like a soap opera than a medical drama. This is the same reason why I stopped watching Grey's Anatomy. I personally like medical programs to have more medicine than romantic melodrama. This is Us is also way too melodramatic.

Well I quite like the characters portrayed in this series I have nearly given up watching because of the medical errors. Like open heart and lung surgery on an awake talking patient. Once you open the chest you need a tube down the throat to control breathing. Please get a better medical advisor.

I am surprised to see the positive reviews here. This is an e terribly phony depiction of an emergency department and hospital. I have worked in the medical industry for over a decade, but am usually very forgiving of the medicine depicted in fiction. However, this one was so unrealistic that I could not reasonably "suspend disbelief".

The medical situations seem plausible enough, but the dialog of the physicians and nurses is way off base - the histrionics, the unprofessionalism in front of patients, and, quite frankly, the time the staff has to mull over and worry about every single patient's personal life. Also, people should know that most physicians don't work directly for hospitals. They generally work in separate medical practices that do their own billing.