Chicago Med season 3, episode 8 preview: Lemons and Lemonade

Is Chicago Med starting to come apart at the seams? Look ahead to tonight’s episode with our Chicago Med season 3, episode 8 preview.

The doctors and nurses of Chicago Med seemingly always have it together, but this week’s episode makes it seem like they could be losing their grip.

Season 3, Episode 8 is called “Lemons and Lemonade,” which is ostensibly a callback to the phrase, “When life gives you lemons, make lemonade.”

But there are quite a few Med characters who’ve been handed lemons recently, and so this episode will have to deal with problems on every level of the hospital.

And how many problems can pile up before the hospital breaks?

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Tonight we’re going to see Dr. Sarah Reese (Rachel DiPillo) officially return from her suspension. She was doing paperwork on the sidelines, but in this episode Reese is back on active duty, and how is she going to handle it?

Just as important, how is Dr. Daniel Charles (Oliver Platt) going to handle her? He was so concerned about failing her that he was ready to hand her off to another mentor, so will he be overprotective? Will their relationship change in any significant way after what they’ve both been through in the first seven episodes of Chicago Med season 3?

After all, it wasn’t so long ago that he was shot—with the three-month time jump in the season premiere, we’re looking at maybe half a year since that fateful evening. It’s not ancient history.

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Upstairs, Chicago Med will bring us more drama for Sharon Goodwin (S. Epatha Merkerson) and Maggie Lockwood (Marlyne Barrett), ostensibly about the hospital’s finances. Dr. Stanley Stohl (Eddie Jemison) is back in “Lemons and Lemonade” as well, so it’s a safe bet these three will be butting heads again over the business of medicine.

That’s an interesting storyline, but so far it hasn’t been executed very well. The last attempt, at having Goodwin and Maggie coerce paramedics to bring patients to the ED with pizza and TV, felt like Med trying to do what was best for the hospital instead of the people in the ambulances. The show hasn’t seriously dug into the issue yet.

Now, it doesn’t have the time to devote to the plot in the same way as other shows (CBS‘s Code Black season 2 did a great exploration of the topic with Jeff Hephner), but it can do better. So will this be the week where it does? And with Goodwin trying to hold onto things upstairs, will she not be as aware of everything going on down in the ED? Like, perhaps, a superbug:

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What are your predictions for tonight’s Chicago Med episode? Let us know what you think will happen in “Lemons and Lemonade” in the comments.

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