However, Danni's difficulties with her attendings aren't just limited to Shaun as she refuses to learn from her mistakes or compromise, something that is later noted by Andrews before her firing by Lim. According to Glassman, this is proof that while Shaun may not communicate as others do, he does communicate and is heard and inspires others. On the show, he plays Shaun Murphy a young, autistic savant who is incredibly skilled with medicine but has trouble connecting with those around him. Glassman then starts to try and persuade and bribe him, to the point of Shaun making a half-hearted effort to accommodate Glassmans wishes. Shaun and Dr. Morningstar and S&P Capital IQ 1 . Shaun also inspires Andrews, who was once the most reluctant to hire him, to stand up to Han and fire him so that Shaun can be rehired by offering Andrews advice that Steve had once given to him. The Good Doctor Wiki is a FANDOM TV Community. Later, while celebrating with Lea and Jared, Shaun receives the news that he is being sued for malpractice. From the protagonist Shaun Murphy, whose brilliance has seen him get past many a hurdle, to Alex Park, who often stays in the background but is competent and efficient all the same, there is no dearth of smartness among the characters on this series. Meanwhile the hospitals board deliberates whether they should be hiring a surgeon with autism, with an initial decision made against it. Shaun becomes convinced the date was a disaster and tells the story to his confused friends over the course of the episode. . Shaun comes to San Jose to apply for a job as junior surgical resident at St. Bonaventure Hospital, a job that he is only being considered for because his mentor Dr. Glassman fought for, seeing how he is currently the hospitals president ("Burnt Food"). More at IMDbPro Contact info Agent info Resume Born February 14, 1992 Add to list Awards 13 wins & 36 nominations Dr. Glassman gets increasingly worried that Shaun is not equipped to live on his own and suggests an aid, or rather a therapist to help Shaun with everyday life tasks and challenges. This is something Shaun is shown working on such as learning how to drive to make up for taking away Glassman's ability to drive himself places by driving Glassman instead. She says she spent all day telling herself why terminating the pregnancy is a good idea, but now that it is actually happening, it she no longer wants to go through with it. Andrews later tells Lim he thinks Shaun failed as a surgeon for having to walk out despite doing something incredible as a diagnostician, but Lim reminds Andrews that it was a team effort that helped Beth which is more important. Claire chose to bring a patient as her Plus One, a young boy with a tumor that needs surgery, to be provided by the surgical team at St. Bonaventure. Adult While visiting Zack, Shaun realizes that he has been misdiagnosed and apparently utters a word that sounds like "trampoline" before collapsing from his injuries which leaves Shaun unconscious and on a ventilator for a brief period. He is extremely smart, knows several languages, plays clarinet and guitar (self taught), and plays a lot of video games. However, their initial reunion doesn't go well with Shaun exploding at his father and blaming him for Steve's death. Big changes are afoot at St. Bonaventure when the hospital is taken over by a corporation named Ethicure that has a profit-driven CEO at the helm by the name of Salen Morrison. At first Lea hides her emotional distress from Shaun, but at Claires behest admits to him that she is still overwhelmed with grief and would like to take her parents up on their offer to stay with them in Hershey for a while. He can empathize with his struggling patients since he has had significant challenges of his own. However, Shaun proves to be correct in his course of treatment and he manages to save Lim's whole liver. Shaun is pretty oblivious to the trouble hes in and tells Glassman he would like to give two weeks notice because he will move to Hershey to continue his residency there. Knowing he messed up, Shaun subsequently packs some of his things to go back to Wyoming but first flees to Leas apartment where he hides under her bed when Glassman comes looking for Shaun. Shaun later thanks Lim for some helpful advice she'd given him about his marriage to Lea, but she finally confronts him about causing her paralysis. Shaun admits that it's been a hard night, but he never would've been able to save Lim without Lea's support. They find out that Lea has a condition called vasa previa that is subsequently surgically corrected. He has also completely lost his aversion to physical intimacy with Carly with their first attempt at sex ending due to Carly's hesitations rather than Shaun's. However, Shaun finds it surprisingly difficult when it comes time to personally slaughter the pig, Wilbur, before Jerome interrupts with the news of the arrival of a compatible human donor, much to everyone's relief. [3] Ultimately, Glassman took Shaun in, and raised him like a son. Leas own relationship with her parents hasnt always been the best, her parents tend to negatively judge all the boyfriends she has, thinking she is only dating certain types to get under their skin. Shaun later decides to wear the cap during the procedure itself. Constantly distracted by a buzzing light even before the quarantine, Shaun goes into sensory overload that turns into an autistic shutdown after Park's son Kellan suffers an asthma attack and collapses. Crazytown adds another challenge for Shaun, namely Salen implementing a new patient satisfaction scoring system where physicians are now rated by patients how well they are performing. From Dr. Shaun Murphy to Jared Kalu, we take a look at the Myers-Briggs Personality Types of The Good Doctor characters. Shaun also visits Glassman, now working at a clinic and tries to convince him that he should be working on patients with exciting symptoms rather than boring ones. As much as Shaun had loved Lea before, he loves her even more now and is happy that Lea is his wife. After spending the night sleeping comfortably with Lea and having a brief meltdown over the potential of being alone, Shaun appears to lose some of his aversion to touch. In The Good Doctor, the autistic . At the hospital, Shaun consults with Dr. Glassman and tells him that Lea is pregnant, which comes as a big surprise to Glassman, but he also asks Shaun if they want to keep the baby. This shows that he is a highly visual learner. Freddie Highmore (adult)Graham Verchere (teen)Winslow Fegley (child) In "Old Friends," Shaun is excited by the return of Dr. Jared Kalu, a former surgical resident and friend of Shaun's who had left St. Bonaventure years earlier. Together, Shaun and Jared discover that Roland has a tapeworm larva in his brain and successfully treat him. by borrowing Shauns large flatscreen TV to play PlayStation with his friends or illicitly using Shauns cable TV access. Shaun and his brother ran to the nearest "doctor place" (as Steve called it), where they met Aaron Glassman for the first time. In the later years of his residency, Shaun becomes more assertive and sure of himself, although sometimes this results in slightly disastrous results when Shaun argues with his superiors. Shaun forgives Carly and declines her invitation to meet them the following weekend. In Letting Go, he fixates on a random patient who isnt even his to treat, antagonizing an important cardiac key opinion leader who was brought in to consult on a case. Shaun was picked up by a police officer, who tried to take him back to his parents; at this point, he fell apart in the back of the squad car, screaming and crying about Steve's promise to him. As a result, like Shaun, she has spent a great deal of her life as an outsider. Shaun manages to prove his surgical worth and is being allowed more and more surgical work, although he still struggles with the emotional and social aspects of patient care. Shaun succeeds in saving both of his patients and later shares a rare hug with Glassman after learning of Glassman's meningitis diagnosis. Shaun finally lets himself be comforted by Glassman and clings to his chest while Lea looks on helplessly. Chambers reconcile their friction when Shaun repairs the mug he inadvertently broke and gives it back to Dr. In particular, Shaun asks for advice from Andrews about love because Andrews has been in a long and happy relationship while Glassman got divorced once. When the bride and her husband hesitate to make a decision, Shaun's blunt honesty causes them to confront their fears and accept the surgery. Meanwhile, Shaun tries to figure out what kind of cake they should be offering at their wedding, polling all his colleagues on what their favorites are. However, while Shaun admits that it wasn't terrible to become close to a patient, he still doesn't want to do it moving forward. [2] Shaun was fourteen when these events occurred. Although Shaun initially experiences problems with driving, Lea is able to help translate driving into medical terms and Shaun succeeds in learning the skill. He does so, enjoying it very much, but right afterwards he needs to run to the bathroom to throw up from all the alcohol. As a surgical attending, Shaun proves himself to be an effective leader of his own team and good at dealing with his patients, both of which had been a concern that Andrews had raised while arguing against hiring Shaun as a resident, although Shaun still turns to his friends and mentors for advice. The paramedic who ends up transporting Shaun to the nearest hospital afterwards remarks he is very lucky to have a resourceful partner such as Lea, which Shaun wholeheartedly agrees with. 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