YMMV / Chicago Med

• Adorkable: Naturally kind, humble and sometimes insecure, Sarah comes across as this. Whilst she's taking to her new role as a psychiatrist resident, she takes to "shrinking" everyone she runs into on sight. Maggie and April find it hilarious.
• Designated Hero: If Will and/or Natalie gets personally involved with a patient, expect them to wear this trope on their sleeves throughout the entire episode's runtime, as they can and will take morally dubious actions that would be more than enough to get them discharged just to validate their own personal biases. Natalie in particular seems to have her own Berserk Button triggered constantly, since it also makes her go off on parents who make honest or minor mistakes, and Will's own trauma lead to him breaking DNR and resuscitating a cancer patient who explicitly stated didn't want to be saved having done all she could and not wanting her family to suffer any more, and she ends up dying anyways. Despite this, they will try to make them seem like they're in the right, and in Will's case, have the cancer patient's husband thanks him and drop all case charges against him... despite Will harassing him throughout rest of that episode.
• Diagnosed by the Audience: The way Ava Bekker behaves after her and Connor's breakup implies Borderline Personality Disorder. She is Driven to Suicide.
• Ensemble Dark Horse:
  • Interestingly, carried over from its parent show. Much whooping and hollering was heard when the news broke that Jeff Hephner, who played the cult favorite firefighter Jeff Clarke in season 2 of Chicago Fire, would have a multi-episode arc on this show.
  • Sam Abrams gets this treatment because of his Deadpan Snarker tendencies, and he is one of the few doctors on the show who does not violate ethical boundaries.
• Harsher in Hindsight:
  • "Control Alt" has a hacker disable the hospital's computer system with an agreement to restore control if he's paid a thirty bitcoin ransom. Goodwin refuses to pay even that small an amount saying that the next one will ransom them for more, but Doctor Latham pays the ransom anyway. A few months later, The Night Shift had a similar episode with a much higher ransom.
  • Maggie Lockwood had an arc about her cancer diagnosis. Two years later, Marlyne Barrett revealed her own cancer diagnosis.
• Heartwarming Moments: In "Lose Yourself", a costumed vigilante has to be cut out of his suit to be hospitalized. The loss of his costume completely devastates him, and he doubts if he can ever be of help to anyone ever again. Reese offers a replacement of sorts: a hospital volunteer vest. The "hero" is last seen wearing the vest and talking with patients.
• Nightmare Fuel:
  • The episode dealing with a man left severely injured by a glass chandelier falling on him is so genuinely disturbing that YouTube have actually put it behind a "viewer discretion is advised" screen. The chandelier impales and crushes him simultaneously after landing on his chest, and when brought into the hospital, he's shaking and gasping, unable to even speak. By some miracle, the poor bastard survives.
  • The episode where a teenaged boy takes the entire emergency room hostage rather than let his newborn son be adopted. Sharon has to take the newborn before the gunman can run off with his son and lure the gunman into the line of sight of a sniper in order to end the siege.
• Romantic Plot Tumour: The writers alternate between thinking Will and Natalie should be together or that they work better apart, with the needle swinging wildly back and forth between episodes, even resulting in two healthy relationships being destroyed in the second season for flimsy reasons. There's no real point in them being together, but it's as if someone mandated that every Chicago show has to have some form of intra-office romance plot. When you add on top of that the implications in Will's claim from season 1 that he sometimes treats Natalie badly because he has a crush on her, it's really hard to root for them as a couple. This migraine of a romantic conundrum is further reinforced by the two apparently getting back together again upon Nick Gehlfuss' departure from the show.
• Squick: It's a medical drama, so there is a lot of blood, broken bones, and people being sliced open.
  • Special mention goes to Dr. Rhodes setting a broken leg — that was turned completely the wrong direction — on-camera.
  • Dr. Halstead having to shove his hand into a patient's chest cavity well past his wrist (to manually clamp a patient's aorta) as Drs. Shore and Sexton struggle to keep the patient's ribs spread with their bare hands.
  • Drs. Choi and Manning treat a man infected with a parasite. When they lift up his shirt they see hundreds of little worms crawling just beneath the patient's skin.
  • Latham and Rhodes perform open heart surgery on a teenage girl. The camera travels from her face to her open chest and then Rhodes says "OK, let's close her sternum" and we see the doctors pull her ribcage back together with wires!
  • One episode has Dr. Choi dealing with a young man named Elliot who suffers from extreme sexual urges, and he begs to be castrated so he doesn't hurt anyone. When Choi catches him in a female patient's room, Elliot locks himself in the bathroom with a scalpel and messily attempts to castrate himself.
• Tear Jerker:
  • Natalie burying her ring next to her husband’s grave in Withdrawal.
  • The end of the watch scene in Heart Matters.