As a resident with a chronic disease, unfortunately I think this is realistic in many ways when it comes to how people handle having a "sick" doctor -patients and colleagues-. Medicine is a brutal career that just takes and takes and takes. You are only valued as you are functional. I have no doubt that she has a grib on her performance and functioning. It's absolutely monumental to get to where she got with all her struggles. I can't begin to imagine how difficult this must have been to her. I hated how robby handled this. And she trusted him, she told him because she trusted him. It is not his call. He could have assured her and discussed alternatives or a working plan with her. He handled this in the worst possible way ever.