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** The episode dealing with a man left severely injured by a glass chandelier falling on him is so genuinely disturbing that Website/YouTube have actually put it behind a "viewer discretion is advised" screen. He is impaled by the shattered glass and when brought into the hospital, he's shaking and gasping, unable to even speak. By some miracle, the poor bastard survives.

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** The episode dealing with a man left severely injured by a glass chandelier falling on him is so genuinely disturbing that Website/YouTube have actually put it behind a "viewer discretion is advised" screen. He is impaled by the shattered glass 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.
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* RomanticPlotTumour: 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 UnfortunateImplications 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 to make it as a couple.

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* RomanticPlotTumour: 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 UnfortunateImplications 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 to make it as a couple.



** 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!.

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** 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!.wires!



** The end of watch scene from the end of ''Heart Matters''
* TheParanoiac: An innocent question from Dr. Charles at the start of "Control Alt", about if Dr. Reese knows anyone who might want to fill the late Dr. Wheeler's place in the ED, causes her to construct out of whole cloth the idea that he's trying to get rid of her. This causes her to mistreat her boyfriend, and later have an angry (and one-sided) confrontation with Dr. Charles, before stomping off in high dudgeon. Funnily enough, this would serve as ample cause for Charles ''to'' fire her, given that the ''psychology department'' might not be right place for someone so paranoid. And if he did, it would be 100% her own fault.

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** The end of the watch scene from the end of in ''Heart Matters''
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* TheParanoiac: An innocent question from Dr. Charles at the start of "Control Alt", about if Dr. Reese knows anyone who might want to fill the late Dr. Wheeler's place in the ED, causes her to construct out of whole cloth wholecloth the idea that he's trying to get rid of her. This causes her to mistreat her boyfriend, and later have an angry (and one-sided) confrontation with Dr. Charles, before stomping off in high dudgeon. Funnily enough, this would serve as ample cause for Charles ''to'' fire her, given that the ''psychology department'' might not be the right place for someone so paranoid. And if he did, it would be 100% her own fault.
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* DiagnosedByTheAudience: The way Ava Bekker [[Yandere behaves after her and Connor's breakup]] implies Borderline Personality Disorder. She is [[spoiler:DrivenToSuicide]].

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* DiagnosedByTheAudience: The way Ava Bekker [[Yandere [[{{Yandere}} behaves after her and Connor's breakup]] implies Borderline Personality Disorder. She is [[spoiler:DrivenToSuicide]].
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* DiagnosedByTheAudience: The way Ava Bekker behaves after her and Connor's breakup implies Borderline Personality Disorder.

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* DiagnosedByTheAudience: The way Ava Bekker [[Yandere behaves after her and Connor's breakup breakup]] implies Borderline Personality Disorder.Disorder. She is [[spoiler:DrivenToSuicide]].
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* DiagnosedByTheAudience: The way Ava Bekker behaves after her and Connor's breakup implies Borderline Personality Disorder.
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* DeterminedDoctor: Almost every doctor fits this trope to a T.

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* EnsembleDarkhorse: Interestingly, carried over from its parent show. Much whooping and hollering was heard when the news broke that Creator/JeffHephner, who played the cult favorite firefighter Jeff Clarke in season 2 of ''Series/ChicagoFire'', would have a multi-episode arc on this show.
* HarsherInHindsight: "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 [[spoiler:Doctor Latham]] pays the ransom anyway. A few months later, ''Series/TheNightShift'' had a similar episode with a ''much'' higher ransom.

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* EnsembleDarkhorse: EnsembleDarkhorse:
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Interestingly, carried over from its parent show. Much whooping and hollering was heard when the news broke that Creator/JeffHephner, who played the cult favorite firefighter Jeff Clarke in season 2 of ''Series/ChicagoFire'', would have a multi-episode arc on this show.
** Sam Abrams gets this treatment because of his DeadpanSnarker tendencies, and he is one of the few doctors on the show who does ''not'' violate ethical boundaries.
* HarsherInHindsight: HarsherInHindsight:
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"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 [[spoiler:Doctor Latham]] Doctor Latham pays the ransom anyway. A few months later, ''Series/TheNightShift'' had a similar episode with a ''much'' higher ransom.ransom.
** Maggie Lockwood had an arc about her cancer diagnosis. Two years later, Marlyne Barrett revealed [[https://people.com/health/chicago-meds-marlyne-barrett-has-cancer/ her own cancer diagnosis]].



** The episode dealing with a man left severely injured by a glass chandelier falling on him is so genuinely disturbing that Website/YouTube have actually put it behind a "viewer discretion is advised" screen. He is impaled by the shattered glass and when brought into the hospital, he's shaking and gasping, unable to even speak. [[spoiler:By some miracle, the poor bastard survives.]]

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** The episode dealing with a man left severely injured by a glass chandelier falling on him is so genuinely disturbing that Website/YouTube have actually put it behind a "viewer discretion is advised" screen. He is impaled by the shattered glass and when brought into the hospital, he's shaking and gasping, unable to even speak. [[spoiler:By By some miracle, the poor bastard survives.]]
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* SomeAnvilsNeedToBeDropped: The show can get pretty heavy handed with its {{Aesop}}s, such as in the anti-vaxx episode, which is pretty much one big call-out aimed at anti-vaxxers.
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** Natalie burying her ring next to her husband’s grave in ''Withdrawal''.
** The end of watch scene from the end of ''Heart Matters''
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* AcceptableTargets: Anti-vaxxers ‘natch as it is a medical show.
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** 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 [[GroinAttack messily attempts to castrate himself.]]
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* EnsembleDarkhorse: 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 ''Series/ChicagoFire'', would have a multi-episode arc on this show.

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* EnsembleDarkhorse: Interestingly, carried over from its parent show. Much whooping and hollering was heard when the news broke that Jeff Hephner, Creator/JeffHephner, who played the cult favorite firefighter Jeff Clarke in season 2 of ''Series/ChicagoFire'', would have a multi-episode arc on this show.
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* SugarWiki/HeartwarmingMoments: 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: [[TheRealHeroes a hospital volunteer vest]]. The "hero" is last seen wearing the vest and talking with patients.
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* {{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.
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** 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. He is impaled by the shattered glass and when brought into the hospital, he's shaking and gasping, unable to even speak. [[spoiler:By some miracle, the poor bastard survives.]]

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** The episode dealing with a man left severely injured by a glass chandelier falling on him is so genuinely disturbing that {{YouTube}} Website/YouTube have actually put it behind a "viewer discretion is advised" screen. He is impaled by the shattered glass and when brought into the hospital, he's shaking and gasping, unable to even speak. [[spoiler:By some miracle, the poor bastard survives.]]
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* NightmareFuel:
** 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. He is impaled by the shattered glass and when brought into the hospital, he's shaking and gasping, unable to even speak. [[spoiler:By some miracle, the poor bastard survives.]]
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* SomeAnvilsNeedToBeDropped: The show can get pretty heavy handed with its {{Aesop}}s, such as in the anti-vaxx episode, which is pretty much one big call-out aimed at anti-vaxxers.

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* RomanticPlotTumour: 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 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.

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* RomanticPlotTumour: 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 UnfortunateImplications 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 to make it as a couple.



* TheParanoiac: An innocent question from Dr. Charles at the start of "Control Alt", about if Dr. Reese knows anyone who might want to fill the late Dr. Wheeler's place in the ED, causes her to construct out of whole cloth the idea that he's trying to get rid of her. This causes her to mistreat her boyfriend, and later have an angry (and one-sided) confrontation with Dr. Charles, before stomping off in high dudgeon. Funnily enough, this would serve as ample cause for Charles ''to'' fire her, given that the ''psychology department'' might not be right place for someone so paranoid. And if he did, it would be 100% her own fault.

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* TheParanoiac: An innocent question from Dr. Charles at the start of "Control Alt", about if Dr. Reese knows anyone who might want to fill the late Dr. Wheeler's place in the ED, causes her to construct out of whole cloth the idea that he's trying to get rid of her. This causes her to mistreat her boyfriend, and later have an angry (and one-sided) confrontation with Dr. Charles, before stomping off in high dudgeon. Funnily enough, this would serve as ample cause for Charles ''to'' fire her, given that the ''psychology department'' might not be right place for someone so paranoid. And if he did, it would be 100% her own fault.fault.
* WriterOnBoard: Season 1 took a very hard stance against surrogate parenting services and the way surrogate mothers are often treated by the couple whose child they are carrying. It was the subplot of several episodes, and Sharon Goodwin directly compared it to human trafficking on one occasion.
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* HarsherInHindsight: "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 [[spoiler:Doctor Latham]] pays the ransom anyway. A few months later, ''Series/TheNightShift'' had a similar episode with a ''much'' higher ransom.
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* RomanticPlotTumour: 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. 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.

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* RomanticPlotTumour: 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.episodes, even resulting in two healthy relationships being destroyed 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.
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* TheParanoiac: An innocent question from Dr. Charles at the start of "Control Alt", about if Dr. Reese knows anyone who might want to fill the late Dr. Wheeler's place in the ED, causes he the construct out of whole cloth the idea that he's trying to get rid of her. This causes her to mistreat her boyfriend, and later have an angry (and one-sided) confrontation with Dr. Charles, before stomping off in high dudgeon. Funnily enough, this would serve as ample cause for Charles ''to'' fire her, given that the ''psychology department'' might not be right place for someone so paranoid. And if he did, it would be 100% her own fault.

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* TheParanoiac: An innocent question from Dr. Charles at the start of "Control Alt", about if Dr. Reese knows anyone who might want to fill the late Dr. Wheeler's place in the ED, causes he the her to construct out of whole cloth the idea that he's trying to get rid of her. This causes her to mistreat her boyfriend, and later have an angry (and one-sided) confrontation with Dr. Charles, before stomping off in high dudgeon. Funnily enough, this would serve as ample cause for Charles ''to'' fire her, given that the ''psychology department'' might not be right place for someone so paranoid. And if he did, it would be 100% her own fault.
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** 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!.

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** 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!.wires!.
* TheParanoiac: An innocent question from Dr. Charles at the start of "Control Alt", about if Dr. Reese knows anyone who might want to fill the late Dr. Wheeler's place in the ED, causes he the construct out of whole cloth the idea that he's trying to get rid of her. This causes her to mistreat her boyfriend, and later have an angry (and one-sided) confrontation with Dr. Charles, before stomping off in high dudgeon. Funnily enough, this would serve as ample cause for Charles ''to'' fire her, given that the ''psychology department'' might not be right place for someone so paranoid. And if he did, it would be 100% her own fault.
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* RomanticPlotTumour: 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. 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.
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** 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.

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** 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.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!.

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* {{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 as well as of Dr. Halstead having his hand shoved 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.

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* {{Squick}}: It's a medical drama, so there is a ''lot'' of blood, broken bones, and people being sliced open. open.
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Special mention goes to Dr. Rhodes setting a broken leg -- ''that was turned completely the wrong direction'' -- on-camera as well as of on-camera.
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Dr. Halstead having to shove his hand shoved 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.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.
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* {{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.

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* {{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.on-camera as well as of Dr. Halstead having his hand shoved 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.
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* EnsembleDarkhorse: 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 ''Series/ChicagoFire'', would have a multi-episode arc on this show.
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* SatelliteLoveInterest: Dr. Zanetti, for Dr Rhodes. The only things we know about her so far is that she's a surgeon, she's an alcoholic, and that they're hooking up during their downtime.
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* SatelliteLoveInterest: Dr. Zanetti, for Dr Rhodes. The only things we know about her so far is that she's a surgeon, and that they're hooking up during their downtime.

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* SatelliteLoveInterest: Dr. Zanetti, for Dr Rhodes. The only things we know about her so far is that she's a surgeon, she's an alcoholic, and that they're hooking up during their downtime.
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* SatelliteLoveInterest: Dr. Zanetti, for Dr Rhodes. The only things we know about her so far is that she's a surgeon, and that they're hooking up during their downtime.
* {{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.

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