Tonight on NBC their medical drama Chicago Med airs with an all-new Wednesday, April 20, 2022, episode, and we have your Chicago Med recap below. In tonight’s Chicago Med season 7 episode 19 called, “Like A Phoenix Rising From The Ashes,” as per the NBC synopsis, “Will and Hannah work to save a surrogate’s baby. Charles cares for a former patient of Lonnie’s who’s on a hunger strike.
Ethan and Archer help a patient with ties to Ethan’s late father. Dylan and Maggie are stumped by a drunk patient who claims to be sober.”
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In tonight’s Chicago Med episode, Scott claimed he could handle his relationship with Milena. But that was just words. He couldn’t handle it. He found himself constantly looking over his shoulder for potential threats and he was now more paranoid than the actual cop. Scott wasn’t sleeping. He was worried all the time. His relationship with Milena and the fear he has for Milena was pushing him to his breaking point.
He should never have gotten back together with her. She was an undercover cop. She leads a dangerous life. She wasn’t going to change a single thing for him and so he should have chosen someone safer. Someone who wouldn’t cause him to lose sleep. It sounds great in songs, but in actuality it sucks.
Back at the hospital, the doctors met a man desperately in need of help. Luis Pena was a protestor. He was passed out in front of the mayor’s home because he had been protesting the mayor’s decision to move a chemical plant from an affluent neighborhood to the low-income neighborhood where he lives. This chemical plant was dangerous. It’s why the rich people didn’t want it around. The mayor then tried to force on the poorer people and people like Luis didn’t want to accept that decision. Such a plant shouldn’t be in residential neighborhoods, to begin with. It was dangerous to everyone’s health and so it didn’t matter that it brings jobs.
Not if those jobs also put people at risk. The mayor was ignoring the facts and pretending that Greyland Recycling was going to follow the rules to the letter, but everyone knows that it just takes one person to cut corners and the whole thing comes tumbling down. Luis was doing his best to highlight that. He went on a hunger strike. He hasn’t eaten in over thirty days and he was down to the bones. He looked sickly. His doctors at Chicago Med tried to convince him to eat. They even called in Dr. Charles and unfortunately, Charles said there was nothing mentally wrong with Luis. He was a passionate advocate.
Luis prepared to die for his cause. There was nothing Charles could do about it. Charles’s friend Dr. Richardson stopped by the hospital and the fellow therapist mentioned that Luis was a patient of her private practice. Luis has struggled with depression for years. He’s been suicidal. She thinks his hunger strike was a way for him to kill himself and not have anyone stop him. She wanted to put Luis on a psychiatric hold. Only Charles told her it wouldn’t help. They could put it on a hold and it still wouldn’t change whether Luis was willing to eat or not. It also doesn’t help that Luis had a journalist named Mindy in the room.
Mindy’s sole concern was her story. Not Luis. If Luis dies, it would actually be a bigger story because then the death could be blamed on the mayor and people could be riled up into righteous anger. The article would fail to mention Luis’s mental health or history. That was Richardson’s concern. That was Charles’s concern. They just couldn’t do anything about it. They were watching over Luis’s situation as Halstead was working with an ex on a pregnant patient. The patient’s name was Ingrid. She came in with complaints of feeling something was off with her baby. She later admitted that her baby had a rare medical condition that was diagnosed in her first trimester.
After a blood test proved she couldn’t possibly be her baby’s mother, she then admitted she was a surrogate. She was funnily enough hiding her pregnancy from the birth parents because they ordered her to get a termination when they thought their baby had the life-ending disease. The couple hadn’t wanted their son to be born and only know pain. They thought they were saving themselves all the trauma by terminating the pregnancy. Ingrid disagreed with them. She continued on with the pregnancy and so the doctors had to report it to the biological parents. They did so. Those people were rightfully furious.
But it later came as a surprise when the born was healthy. The baby didn’t have the disease after all. They never ordered a follow up exam and so they hadn’t known the baby was in the clear until they saw it for themselves. Then, that’s when they started talking about their son as a blessing. The biological parents wanted the baby. Ingrid also wanted the baby. She never told them this only a friend of hers had also been a victim of that test and the baby came out healthy. Ingrid kept that part to herself because by then she wanted to keep the bay. She had grown attached. She still was. She wanted to keep the baby and she couldn’t because she was just the surrogate.
The baby had biological parents who wanted him. They also had a signed contract with Ingrid. She signed over any rights she might have had to the child and so they could have snatched him from her, but they instead let her say goodbye to him. The parents live out of state. This was probably going to be the last time that Ingrid ever saw him again. So, she said her goodbyes. Ingrid was going to be a great mother one day. It just wasn’t going to be to this child. The doctors witnessed this as they witnessed everything else. Choi helped a patient who knew his dad. They served together and so Choi had someone go through his dad’s old things for a photo album.
An old photo of his patient showed he did know Choi’s dad. His car had also changed. It turns out the man had a tumor on one of his glands and so that photo helped them diagnose and treat their patient. As for Luis, Richardson got a court order to force a feeding tube on him. He later had Mindy loosen his restraints and that’s when he set himself on fire. Luis was suicidal. This was all about his suicide and he later died from his wounds. Mindy got her story. She championed Luis as a heroic figure. This forced the mayor to put a hold on the chemical plant, but this one hurt Richardson. She’s lost patients before. Just never like this.
And Scott ended his relationship with Milena. His father had confronted him about dating a drug dealer and, while he hadn’t told him the truth about Milena, he realized it was too risky to continue dating her.
And Choi learned something about his father. The friend wasn’t just a friend. He and Choi’s father were in love all these years and they couldn’t come out because of the times.
THE END!
