The hospital's in Chicago, right? It should be nothing but gunshot victims, with names like Treyshawn, Leonard Earl and Shawanda. Instead, it's a never ending stream of pasty faced white folks with mysterious ailments, both physical and psychological, that the intrepid MD's struggle to diagnose and cure. Still a terrific show, however.
shareChicago's a big city. Maybe this hospital is in a location that caters to these types of ailments. Just a thought.
"I could've sworn there was one more peanut butter left." -- Morgan, The Walking Dead
Also, its so lucky that it only have an influx of patients in the beginning of the episode. Code Black is much better.
shareCome on guys. No PC.Ask anyone who knows anything about Hollywood and they'll tell you if introduce a bunch of black characters then many viewers tune out.
Hollywood still mainly makes shows geared to mostly white audiences.
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? The show has black characters in the cast...
shareIRL, Chicago suffers from an overabundance of heroin and fentanyl OD's, just like is reflected in the show...
sharefake storylines? some reason that doesnt make a great title because its a fictional show and well it is kinda fake kinda what makes it good tv lmao.
shareThey probably just don't show all the gunshot victims because they think it'd get boring if all they showed were gunshot victims.
It's set in the Chicago Fire universe, where are all the burn victims they keep sending to Chicago Med?
I have to agree. And I find there are quite a lot of different GSW's and OD's.
That being said, I get it. If the hospitals see more OD's and GSW's and they don't portray it, it's kind of misrepresented and that would be frustrating. However...
Some of the diseases that people get on the show, would NEVER be discovered in a simple ED visit. It would take months and months and months and months to get a diagnosis.
No psych would be able to diagnose all the patients that Dr. Charles does in thirty seconds.
Also, doesn't Chicago have a children's hospital of some sort? Unless it was life threatening, I would think they would take the kids there.
Dr. Manning is not an oncologist. She would not have treated that girl with cancer.
i could go on and on. I do like the show, but I have to watch it as just that. I can't think of any of it as reality. Because I can assure you, in a way it isn't. The diseases are real...but. How quickly they are diagnosed often isn't. And where are the flu patients, the people with colds, the people who need a stitch or two? That probably makes up a good 75% of the people who would typically visit an ED.
One other note. I will be honest, I don't know much about the flesh-eating disease. Or how it is diagnosed. I will say that the doctor that lost his license for not taking the guy with a pimple on his arm seriously made me roll my eyes. Maybe there are routine labs the doctor could have sent him for that would have diagnosed him or something, but I felt that was a stretch.
Just my two cents. The storylines are real, but not real at the same time. But it's not real for everyone, not just the absent GSW and OD storylines.
Good point about Chicago Fire. With all the structure fires in Chicago, Chicago Med should have an entire wing of the Emergency room dedicated to handle all the patients brought in by Boden's crew.
sharewouldn't the Chicago fire crew sending people to Chicago med make sense, neither are the only fire house or hospital in the city, makes sense to me that those two overlap a lot because their located within the same area, like unless it's a major incident why would 51 or med be called out/receive casualties from normal incidents located closer to other hospitals or fire houses?
shareExcellent point and tbh I would like to see more victims from Fire and PD show up in Med. If not with a real story then at least as a cameo (by getting released from hospital. And since some patients die they could put that in too. Or them just lying there in a bed or maybe passing through).
Imho they don't utilize the connection to Fire and PD enough. At least Fire crosses over to PD occassionally (like something that happened at Fire gets mentioned in PD or even gets more than just mentioned without it actually being a crossover. I don't think that ever really happened with Med, at least not with any patients.