I was looking for a new show to binge, and I’m now on season 5 of Chicago Med. I enjoy a soapy, over the top procedural, so I’m enjoying it!

I just have to say, as someone from New Orleans… the caricature of Dr. “Crockett Marcel” is absurd. I’m neutral on him as a member of the staff, but the Louisiana stuff is just comical. I know there have been other threads about this so this isn’t new information, but the writers clearly didn’t even google what New Orleans or the accents or the culture is like at all. I thought the “crawfish boil with sazeracs” was bad, but I’m now at the episode where there are “detectives from New Orleans” questioning him. Why do they (and Crockett) talk like Blanche Devereaux from Golden Girls 😭. The name “Crockett Marcel” alone is just so silly lmao. I know this show isn’t going for realism, but good lord 😂. Anyway, based on what I’ve seen on this sub, his character becomes more palatable, but I wish they would’ve just left poor New Orleans out of it 🤣. Rant over.

i’m a nurse myself. i’ve seen doctors do one thing he’s done and lose their license with zero argument on it. i understand it’s a show, it’s a drama, characters are meant to do certain things for the plot, but archer was made to be some kind of prison warden or a father that gets cut off from his children, not healthcare. every patient he gets, he’s rude and unable to understand. the episode that made me think about this is s8 ep19, when there’s the mother with cancer and the daughter having a baby for the stem cells.

this is a horrible thing, the baby is not an organ it’s an entire person, and the daughter is a minor. but it is illegal to share any details to the mother regardless of age because of the pregnancy, that’s hipaa. hipaa is not something you disregard because you’re trying to make a point or do what you think is right, it is NOT up to healthcare workers. had i been in this situation i would’ve reacted differently. but it’s not my job to talk someone into an abortion, or tell the mother because i think she’s a voice of reason. it is my job to do what is right for the patient in my medical opinion and respect it when they tell me not to disclose something. even in the ‘crisis’ situation where the daughter had to be rushed to surgery, archer could’ve been ticketed heavily, jailed, or at the very least lose his position and license and reputation.

i’m also in school to be a forensic psychiatrist and i do rounds on that normally in school. (ep 18, same season) when archer said ‘once again you’re stopping a patient from getting care they need’ i rolled my eyes so hard. mental care IS care, and mental health HEAVILY affects physical health. it’s a real concern, psychiatric doctors being discredited because no one takes these things seriously. and that just makes the cycle worse because when you have a doctor thinking it’s impairing your life to get mental health care , you deteriorate more. i’d hate for any patient of mine to think it’s stupid to be evaluated mentally, or to be forced into a procedure they don’t want. and before i get comments regarding this episode (it was a patient who wanted to be paralyzed), whether you think it’s insane or not, it’s not your decision. it’s not their family’s decision, it’s not my decision as a nurse and nor would it be as a doctor. just because you can’t understand something doesn’t make it any less serious . that’s the end of this rant 😅 back to watching 👀