Season 1

Episodes

18

Premiered

November 17, 2015

Concluded

May 17, 2016

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Season 1 of Chicago Med premiered on November 17, 2015 with the episode Derailed. The season consisted of 18 episodes. The finale episode Timing aired on May 17, 2016.

Before the start of the series, a backdoor pilot "I Am the Apocalypse" was aired on Chicago Fire Wiki.

Summary[]

Set in Chicago, Med is the third series in Dick Wolf's Chicago franchise. It focuses on the Emergency Department at Gaffney Chicago Medical Center and on its doctors and nurses as they work to save patients' lives.

Cast[]

Main Cast[]

Recurring Cast[]

Episodes[]

#	Title	Airdate	Summary
1	Derailed	November 17, 2015	The grand opening of Chicago Med's emergency department is interrupted by victims of an elevated train crash, pushing the staff to their limits.
2	iNO	November 24, 2015	Ethan finds himself at odds with Natalie and Sharon as he treats a teenage mother who abandoned her newborn baby in an alley.
3	Fallback	December 1, 2015	Connor is forced to confront his past when he takes on the case of a close family friend who's been impaled by glass shards.
4	Mistaken	December 8, 2015	In the aftermath of a movie theater shooting, the doctors work to treat the victims while Sharon tries to keep the press at bay.
5	Malignant	January 5, 2016	As Doctors Rhodes and Zanetti race against the clock to save a fallen member of Firehouse 51, the case of a woman clinging to life is discovered to be similar to those of other patients.
6	Bound	January 19, 2016	Sharon is visited by the Department of Homeland Security regarding two airplane stowaways who are brought to the hospital with major injuries.
7	Saints	January 26, 2016	Sharon must decide whether to put her job on the line for a patient in need.
8	Reunion	February 2, 2016	A Saudi prince arrives for a surgical procedure, while Dr. Manning returns from maternity leave and treats a teen with a long history of medical issues.
9	Choices	February 9, 2016	Dr. Halstead jeopardizes his career when he goes against a family's orders and revives a terminally ill cancer patient.
10	Clarity	February 16, 2016	Doctors Rhodes and Downey set aside their differences to operate on a 9/11 hero with pulmonary fibrosis.
11	Intervention	February 23, 2016	Doctors Rhodes and Choi disagree over a dying patient's request.
12	Guilty	March 29, 2016	Maggie is arrested for refusing to take blood from a suspected DUI patient without his consent.
13	Us	April 5, 2016	Will and Sharon deal with a husband intent on harvesting his recently deceased wife's eggs. Daniel is brought in by Ethan to aid a patient who is trying to remove his own arm from his body. April befriends the father of a child who is rushed into the hospital after swallowing magnets. Sarah finally learns about where she will do her residency, but has last-minute second thoughts.
14	Hearts	April 19, 2016	Doctors Choi and Charles are left with a patient claiming his heart is pounding in his head, while Dr. Manning suspects that a young boy with a broken wrist has deeper problems.
15	Inheritance	April 26, 2016	Doctors Manning and Charles have a 16-year-old patient with abdominal pain who refuses to take drugs, while Dr. Halstead has a patient who turns out to be an old high school classmate.
16	Disorder	May 3, 2016	Doctors Rhodes and Downey have a disagreement over a patient's emergency heart surgery.
17	Withdrawal	May 10, 2016	April and Dr. Halstead treat an alcoholic homeless man with a broken leg.
18	Timing	May 17, 2016	Dr. Rhodes treats Dr. Downey while Dr. Halstead receives clarity from Goodwin.

Notes and Trivia[]

Every episode has a one-word title. The first two episodes initially did not follow this pattern and were renamed before airing: Derailed was renamed from "The Green Branch" and iNO was renamed from "Just Two Blocks Away".