I always think of my other favorite fictional Chicago doctor when Chicago Med‘s Crockett Marcel is on screen.
The news that Marcel is leaving Med is heartbreaking, but I’ve been there before, in 1996 when Mandy Patinkin’s Jeffrey Geiger left Chicago Hope.
The two characters have a lot more in common than both working for fictional Chicago hospitals, including similar tragedies in their pasts that drove less than desirable behavior during their early episodes.


Mandy Patinkin’s Jeffrey Geiger Was A More Over-The-Top Version of Crockett Marcel
He Did Things Marcel Would Never Dream Of, But For Similar Reasons
Jeffrey Geiger personified over-the-top behavior in a way that Crockett Marcel does not.
He often lost his temper and did things that would be unthinkable in real life, such as breaking another driver’s headlights with a golf club when the driver took his parking space and made a snarky comment about Geiger being late for a golf game.
The thing that drew me to him as a moody sixteen-year-old wasn’t his outlandish behavior (though I was a fan of the time he bit another doctor’s finger and then used that to diagnose him!).
It was the pain behind it.
Like Chicago Med’s Dr. Marcel, Geiger’s infant child had passed away.
While Marcel’s daughter was stolen from him by leukemia, however, Geiger’s had been murdered … by his wife.
Geiger’s wife was schizophrenic, though the exact reason she had killed their son was never explained, only that she drowned him in the bathtub.


Geiger’s whole existence, like Marcel’s, was a moving mental health storyline.
Both of my favorite fictional Chicago doctors threw themselves into work to try to move on past the unspeakable pain of this early loss.
We never had the chance to see Marcel deal with his child’s mother after the loss, which is a shame.
Chicago Hope offered some beautiful scenes with Geiger and his wife, albeit in a mental hospital, such as him singing to her while trying not to cry.
Both Of My Favorite Fictional Chicago Doctors Were Dedicated To Their Jobs
They Were Workaholics, But Truly Wanted Their Patients’ Lives To Improve
Geiger and Marcel were both characters who desperately needed therapy, but they were also men who were dedicated to their jobs and went into them for the right reasons.
They were willing to go to extremes to stand up for patient care.
In an early episode, Geiger got in trouble for confronting the mother of a braindead baby who wouldn’t take her child off life support or donate the heart to another baby who desperately needed it.
Marcel fought just as hard for his patients, though he left the impulsive, upsetting-to-patients method of doing so to Zola, the newbie intern who didn’t last because she couldn’t learn to control herself.


Still, there were many times when both of my favorite fictional Chicago doctors pushed hard for experimental treatment or other care for patients who would otherwise die.
Marcel and Geiger Both Left Because Of Trauma
They Needed To Get Themselves Together For Different Reasons
While they were at their respective hospitals, Marcel and Geiger both struggled with psychological issues related to the trauma of losing their child so young, such as fear of intimacy.
They both ended up having splits for the sake of drama with people they tried to date after the tragedy.
And worst of all, both of my favorite fictional Chicago doctors ended up leaving Chicago because of further trauma.


Geiger’s exit was one of the most heartbreaking episodes of any TV show, ever.
He was unable to save the hospital counsel, Alan Birch (Peter MacNichol), after Birch was shot during a mugging, and was despondent over it.
However, Birch had left behind his newly adopted daughter, Alicia, who was an infant a little older than Geiger’s son had been when he died, so Geiger adopted the child himself and took an indefinite leave of absence to spend time with her.
It’s only in retrospect that I realized my favorite fictional Chicago doctor’s story came full circle, with him being able to adopt another child and raise her after the time he spent grieving his son’s death.
The episode was powerful, raw, and sad. So was what appears to be Marcel’s swan song.
We don’t yet know if Marcel will get a wrap-up episode, only that Dominic Rains is out as a series regular on Chicago Med.


However, Marcel was thrown off by two tragic and seemingly unnecessary deaths.
After being unable to help a kid who needed a liver transplant but had an infection, Marcel learned that the boy had died… and so did his father, who completed suicide.
It brought back all of Marcel’s memories of how he felt when his daughter died, and it didn’t seem like he’d be able to move on anytime soon.
That’s likely why he will leave Chicago Med.
I could go on forever about my two favorite fictional Chicago doctors, but now I’ll turn it over to you.
If you watched Chicago Hope as well as Chicago Med, what similarities did you see between Geiger and Marcel? Did you enjoy these characters?
Hit the comments and let us know!
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