The Chicago Med Season 11 fall finale doesn’t just end on a cliffhanger — it detonates one. Dr. Caitlin Lenox ( Sarah Ramos ), the rigid, hyper-competent head of the ED, spends the hour following a bad gut feeling about a familiar patient. By the end of the episode, that instinct leaves her bleeding on a kitchen floor, with viewers unsure whether she’ll survive the break until 2026.

Lenox has become one of the season’s most compelling presences: A rule-stickler shaped by her military past, blunt honesty, and a newly revealed genetic diagnosis she’s trying to process quietly. However, the fall finale drives her to her breaking point — literally — when she risks it all to save a woman who was trapped in a cycle of domestic violence. While the show doesn’t clarify for sure what w

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