Miami Medical - All Fall Down, S01E04

As the first season of Miami Medical develops, the character development continues to balance nicely with the surgeries and medical cases. We continue to feel for the injured, and hope for their recoveries, while we learn more about our team through details revealed in circumstances focused on patient care.

Although the ratings dropped for this episode, there is still hope. If you are enjoying it, make sure you are watching and making sure the network knows there is a fan base. This is the most interesting medical drama to premiere this season, and possibly more interesting than Grey's Anatomy and Private Practice, which I dropped midway through the 5th and 2nd seasons, respectively.

The episode started, as always, with the accident. We got just enough details about the couple to care about their futures before their balcony collapsed. All I have to say is Thank God for modern medicine, because even though they survived the fall, they would have died without proper treatment which we likely could not have provided even 30 years ago.

I was, of course, interested to know what had happened at the Crab Shack the previous week, which had resulted in Eva (Lana Parrilla) waking up naked in Proctor (Jeremy Northam)'s bed, but it did not steal focus. In the lull between patients, Eva and Chris (Mike Vogel) were both interested in discovering what happened to her that night, but the comments were short, and as soon as they were interrupted by the call of a patient needing help, the subject was dropped. Naturally, the explanation discovered by the end - Eva passed out and Proctor took her home to sleep off the alcohol she had consumed, and then slept on the couch like a gentleman - made great sense.

As for the case, when the wife refused dialysis, things got interesting. Why would she do that? It likely meant her death, and it made very little sense. Even her husband was baffled, until the forms she had to fill out to complete an adoption were read. If she had dialysis, the adoption wouldn't be able to go through. She wanted that child so much that she was ready to essentially commit suicide rather than have to check a box which would prevent her from getting her wish. And Proctor, like any good and intelligent doctor, got her to take a treatment which was essentially dialysis, but called it something else so that she would not have to check the box and give up the child. Motherly love and logic coming together for a happy result.

What disaster awaits us next week? Who will get hurt and what will they need to be saved? Will Alpha team finally lose a patient whom we care about and who wasn't dead from the get go? We'll have to watch and find out.