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Chicago Med season 3, episode 19 takeaways: Crisis of Confidence

By Brittany Frederick

CHICAGO MED -- "Crisis of Confidence" Episode 319 -- Pictured: (l-r) Norma Kuhling as Ava Bekker, Ato Essandoh as Isidore Latham, Colin Donnell as Connor Rhodes -- (Photo by: Elizabeth Sisson/NBC)
CHICAGO MED -- "Crisis of Confidence" Episode 319 -- Pictured: (l-r) Norma Kuhling as Ava Bekker, Ato Essandoh as Isidore Latham, Colin Donnell as Connor Rhodes -- (Photo by: Elizabeth Sisson/NBC) /
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Did Chicago Med come down too hard on Connor Rhodes? Did April Sexton do the right thing? Here are our Chicago Med season 3, episode 19 takeaways.

Last night’s Chicago Med had heartbreak for several of our doctors, so what can we come away with from their various tragedies?

Tuesday’s episode was called “Crisis of Confidence” and saw Dr. Connor Rhodes (Colin Donnell) make a judgment call that went as wrong as it possibly could. Meanwhile, Dr. Ethan Choi (Brian Tee) misjudged his sister, but not for lack of trying to find out the truth—which he still does not have.

If you missed any of this Chicago Med episode or just want a refresher on the events that we’re discussing, you can catch up with our “Crisis of Confidence” recap.

Here are our Chicago Med season 3, episode 19 takeaways:

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1) Connor failed, but how badly?

There’s no denying that Connor screwed up, making a call to avoid surgery that wound up resulting in the death of a woman and her unborn child.

But what’s worth discussing is whether or not it was such a terrible flub that he needed to pull himself off the upcoming twin surgery.

It’s also clear that Connor’s decision to scrub himself was motivated out of a moment of pure emotion; he hates himself right now and doesn’t want to take a risk that may backfire again. He’s going to second guess that once he processes what just happened.

Yet was Chicago Med a little too hard on him?

Contrast the events of “Crisis of Confidence” with the flub made by Dr. Ava Bekker (Norma Kuhling) in “An Inconvenient Truth.” Ava leaves a surgical instrument in a patient—not a judgment call, an out and out mistake—and the patient lives. Plus, not only does Connor comfort her, he goes out of his way to protect her from any consequences.

Conversely, Connor has to make a choice based largely on what his patient wants, and then his patient dies. Ava makes no move to even console him; she just gives him one semi-sympathetic look.

Does that seem a little imbalanced to anyone? Connor screwed up definitely, but in terms of how it was written, he got a raw deal.

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2) Is Will actually going to propose to Natalie already?

One of the last scenes from this Chicago Med episode had Dr. Will Halstead (Nick Gehlfuss) asking his brother for their mother’s wedding ring. The implication being that Will is going to propose in the upcoming season finale. But will he actually? Should he?

Will and Natalie have not been a couple that long. It’s at least less than a year. And part of that time included their weird two-week “break” in which Natalie accused Will of being overprotective for no reason. And then they had another fight when he said she needed everything her way. This relationship has issues and it’s still young—not the right time for a marriage proposal, as much as Manstead fans might want it.

Plus, can we address the awkwardness of Will asking Jay (Jesse Lee Soffer) for the ring that he had meant to give to his own girlfriend Erin Lindsay (Sophia Bush)? That has to smart if you’re Jay.

3) Should April have stopped Choi from leaving?

The main plot of “Crisis of Confidence” had April Sexton (Yaya DaCosta) convinced that Emily Choi (Arden Cho) had stolen painkillers from the hospital and sold them. Emily’s brother Ethan saw the tox screens of Emily’s ill friend and detected one of the elements in said painkillers, but he took his sister at her word and went off to apologize to her.

However, not long after he left the hospital, April confronted Emily’s friend with the knowledge that the drugs in his system were hospital grade, thus confirming that Emily had lied to Ethan. Is that not a piece of information she should’ve given to Ethan before he left? Or how did Ethan not catch that when he, too, had looked at the tox screens earlier?

It’s just setting him up for a broken heart, because he’s out there believing he’s in the wrong about Emily, when he couldn’t be more right.

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What did you take away from this week’s Chicago Med episode? Leave your thoughts about “Crisis of Confidence” in the comments.

Chicago Med airs Tuesdays at 10/9c on NBC.

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