The husband promises to support his wife despite the difficulties they will face together. Since Lea is only at 22 weeks, the baby is too young to survive outside of the womb. They havent had sex in nine days, and it leads Lea to resort to using a vibrator to boost her own morale, which unfortunately Shaun inadvertently walks in on. He tries to tell Pam and Mike that Lea has changed for the better and that she is definitely ready to be in a relationship with Shaun. The worse Lim gets, and the closer Shaun is to losing her, the more irrational his behavior gets, resulting in a breakdown. The Good Doctor (ABC, Sony) is a medical drama that airs on the ABC television network and premiered in September 2017. He can empathize with his struggling patients since he has had significant challenges of his own. In "Claire," Shaun works with Claire to treat Michelle Benton, a teenager who requires a gallbladder removal which excites Shaun as it will likely be Claire's first surgery. Shaunie (by Lea Dilallo) Danny eventually convinces Julianne to undergo surgery for the second tumor, but Julianne dies on the table after giving Shaun some final advice. Shaun Murphy is not only likeable, he is also extremely cute! The same year, Shaun Murphy received a . Claire later tells Shaun that she sees him as a role model on certain things and seeks Shaun's advice on how to deal with her mother. The episode Parenting introduces an interesting new dynamic with Leas parents coming to visit San Jose to see their daughter and meet her new boyfriend. The topic of shower sex becomes a prevalent topic in The Uncertainty Principle when Lea pitches the idea to Shaun but he is initially resistant because he feels its unsafe and inconvenient. This eventually results in the patients death, with both Asher and Shaun blaming themselves for their errors in communication. Claire later tells Shaun that every date is a disaster and every relationship is out of control, but if you stick with it, you'll end up with someone who will help you when you need to be helped, love you when you don't feel lovable and be with you no matter what. Shaun eventually snaps at Glassman to get out of his office. At the end of the day, Glassman tells Shaun that he intends to speed up his cancer treatment and recognizes that Shaun still has feelings for Lea, telling Shaun that he deserves to be happy. Their colleagues are interviewed about Shaun and Lea, and we see a surprise guest joining for the wedding Dr. Claire Browne is visiting from Guatemala! 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. However, he is wary of forming deeper relationships with people after the death of his younger brother and his rabbit. Instead, Shaun decides to try to perform an amputation in just minutes time and Vera in return asks Shaun to move on from Lea if she dies which he promises. When Shaun was first hired at the hospital, Andrews had expressed concern about this exact sort of thing as a reason against hiring him, worried that Shaun's autism and communication issues would negatively impact his ability to lead his own residents. Although Shaun struggles with more sensory issues and situational stress again, he fights through it and delivers the baby. Sometimes credited as Stoney , her recording career started in 1971 with Motown Records . After Shaun snaps out of it, Andrews, Glassman and Jordan trust his judgment to the point that they follow his directions with a simple explanation of how he came to his conclusion on the issue. And at the age of 8, Murphy was on car boot sales trying to earn a small amount of money to help his family. Appearances Shaun and Dr. Shaun's ability to relate to Tara due to his own experiences allow him to convince her to take a gene therapy that could cure her. In Islands, Part 2, Shaun returns to work where Glassman is livid that he just up and left, berating him that he cant be this irresponsible and that it may have cost him his job if Glassman hadnt lied for Shaun. Among the things Shaun dislikes are pickles, mushrooms, anchovies, olives, garlic, mayonnaise, walnuts, Chinese food, bread with cinnamon, nuts, seeds or berries in it, the way coffee makes him feel, and direct questions. Park helps Shaun understand that much of his issues come from fear and he decides to commit himself to trying the exposure therapy, finding that it is scary but worth it. [1] In Fault, Shaun misses non-verbal cues when Asher Wolke is unsure about a diagnosis and Shaun should have double-checked Ashers medical assessment. As an attending surgeon at St. Bonaventure, he must learn the ropes of hospital work and how to be a good mentor for residents, while facing unique challenges and embracing his strengths due to his diagnoses of autism and savant syndrome. At the same time, Dr. Glassman is given signals that Shaun doesnt actually need his guidance anymore as much as he used to, so he decides to pack some things and leave town for a while. Back home that night, Shaun and Lea need to talk about what they want to do with the pregnancy. In "Believe," Shaun struggles to adapt to working in pathology while his friends attempt to get Han to relent and for Shaun to stand up for himself to Han. He is shy and avoids social media. Kenny recognizes Shauns ASD based naivet and exploits it, e.g. In Piece of Cake, it quickly becomes clear that Salen has big ideas how the hospital can be made more profitable, and she starts implementing new rules and changes that arent always for the better where patient and physician care is concerned. In the aftermath, Lea kisses Shaun, having realized just much she loves him after almost losing Shaun. Together, Shaun and Jared discover that Roland has a tapeworm larva in his brain and successfully treat him. MBTI of The Good Doctor Characters. Shaun becomes convinced the date was a disaster and tells the story to his confused friends over the course of the episode. Shaun's diagnostic skills impress Han who decides to transfer Shaun to pathology against his wishes so that Shaun can continue to save lives, but will not have to interact with patients. Shaun pointedly rebuked the parents afterwards as they had caused their son to get sick and they subsequently began listening to their son rather than unilaterally making decisions for him. Despite a complication, Shaun, Andrews and Claire are successfully able to complete the procedure and save the patient's face. Shaun refuses to leave, and luckily the surgical attending Dr. Melendez and resident Dr. Browne acknowledge that Shaun may have been on to something and seek him out to ask for his input. Autistic adults may also have inflexible thought patterns and behavior, and may . Another interesting case that Shaun works on is a an autistic teenager, Liam, who is growing up very sheltered by parents, much unlike Shaun. At the same time, Shaun continues to struggle with his relationship with Carly to the point that he doesn't even complain when Lea blasts her music too loud. 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. In "SFAD," Shaun is able to empathize and bond with Tara, a young woman whose lack of immune system has trapped Tara in a bubble for her whole life. They find out that Lea has a condition called vasa previa that is subsequently surgically corrected. He assigns Shaun the non-surgical scut work while the other residents get to treat patients and actively assist in surgeries. Autistic people may find some aspects of communication and social interaction challenging. In a quiet moment as they wait for their plane back to the States, Lea makes a spontaneous decision and proposes to Shaun, asking him to marry her on a bench outside the airport. The show follows the life of Dr. Shaun Murphy, a young surgeon with autism and savant syndrome, as he tackles personal and professional challenges while making significant contributions to the medical field. Shaun puts the baseball on display on his shelf, next to the framed photo of him and Steve. After some pushing by Glassman and a case that has similarities to Lim's, Shaun finally reaches out to Lim and although he isn't sorry for what he did, Shaun admits that he is sorry for the pain that he caused her. Even after Andrews gets Kerry to reveal the truth to her husband, she continues to refuse. During Shaun's first attempt at a lead surgery, it is Park who recognizes that Shaun isn't having a meltdown but rather that he has seen something that he is having trouble expressing to the other doctors. Shaun develops a good rapport with his residents despite his initial struggles with Jordan and Asher both learning from him and supporting him as Shaun learns from and supports them in turn. It turns out this isnt actually necessary, because its Dr. Andrews who takes Salen down. Shaun admits that it's been a hard night, but he never would've been able to save Lim without Lea's support. With not enough time to call for an ambulance, he instructs Lea how to do impromptu field surgery on his foot with the emergency first aid kit he packed. This manifests in strange behavior such as repeatedly moving around his and Park's office furniture and moving out of their shared office into a disused storage closet for privacy. Chambers, sharing some of his own experiences and struggles with being an autistic surgeon and a difficulty with making friends. After figuring out how to perform the surgery, Shaun rushes to Andrews' home to bring him the news and together the two present the surgery to Lim. Born: This makes Shaun question how much trust they have, seeing how Lea had not told him this important piece of information until now. At the end of the episode, he accompanies Lea home but she collapses outside of the hospital with intense lower belly pain. Even though Shaun initially felt that the changes implemented by Salen werent necessarily bad, he finds himself starting to struggle with the continued disruption to his routines. Dr. Glassman states that he has known Shaun for 12 years, they met when Shaun was 14, making Shauns current age 26. Lea frustratedly decides to sleep in the car while Shaun stays in the leaky tent. St. Bonaventure Hospital Shaun is disconcerted by Glassmans absence and misses his guidance and advice. Chambers is on the autism spectrum and his wrist pain is caused by his repetitive suturing technique. Shaun is of course extremely worried and wants to participate in the surgery, quoting that hospital policy would technically allow him to since he and Lea are not married. Shaun Murphy (born May 6, 1948) is an American blues and R&B singer songwriter, best known for her powerhouse singing style. They both agree that they have a whole lot of things they need to work through in terms of their individual insecurities. Shaun loses out on his first lead surgery, instead guiding Lim and Andrews through the procedure he uncovered. Glassman's own anger and frustration causes him to begin avoiding Shaun while Lim ends their friendship completely. During the procedure itself, Claire enlists Shaun as the assisting doctor while Melendez supervises. When Glassman says he hasnt and the boy will likely die, Shaun is very distraught, and Glassman suggests that perhaps this case is hitting home for Shaun because he is an expecting father and thus it affects him more than hed like to admit. An engagement party is being prepared, all the while big decisions need to be made about what their wedding should be like. 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. Title(s): Jared ultimately approaches Lim about resuming his residency and he is granted a position on Shaun's team, although Jared will have to be a first year resident again. In Newbies, Shaun is asked to help evaluate the six new resident applicants but struggles with connecting to them on a more personal level. 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. However, at the same time, Shaun's rash decisions come back to haunt him with increased isolation from Lim and Glassman, two of his mentors and close friends, as a result of Shaun going against Glassman's explicit orders and performing a surgery that may have caused Lim's paralysis. However, when Shaun, Andrews and Glassman check on a recovering Lim, they discover that her injuries have left Lim paralyzed from the waist down. They run more tests in the wake of this, and Claire has to deliver the devastating news to Shaun that there is another blood clot in the umbilical cord and the babys development process is already compromised with no way to save their unborn child. And he always says what he means. Unaware that Lea is trying to right this wrong for Shaun, he purchases an embroidery kit as a tactile reminder to try and deal with the feelings of being abandoned by yet another person dear to him in his life. Asher Wolke, who has been estranged from his family for years, his father in particular, jokingly suggests having Shaun help Asher and his father resolve their issues with each other as a result. Both agree that its not too troubling to have a harmless crush as long as nothing more develops from that. Lea Dilallo (wife)Cintia D'Souza (former crush)Carly Lever (ex-girlfriend) Lea tries to tell him that he should be embracing life and that hell never be happy if he constantly lives in fear. While visiting the pathology lab, Shaun admits to Carly he had a horrible time and hated the date, causing Carly to visit him at home to talk. The damage appears to be too severe to repair, requiring the team to wire the man's mouth shut for the rest of his life. Together, the two successfully remove the gallbladder and deal with a hemorrhage that develops. The 25-year-o. This page summarizes crowd sourced ratings of their personality collected from users of the Statistical "Which Character" Personality Quiz. M.D. However, Shaun proves to be correct in his course of treatment and he manages to save Lim's whole liver. Shaun, however, isnt ready to let the notion slide and manages to persuade Dr. Highmore plays Dr. Shaun Murphy, who is living with autism. Shaun begins seeking the advice of his friends with Morgan advising Shaun against leaving Carly for Lea, calling Lea a flake. While Shaun is unable to contribute his knowledge, Claire replicates the conditions behind Shaun's thought processes with Zack and manages to figure out what Shaun had been trying to tell him, realizing that he was actually trying to say "treponema." Workplace: Lea tells him shes glad that Shaun bounced back more easily than she did, and it appears they are at a bit of an impasse. 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. Shaun follows Lea's advice which Carly admits was good advice. After deciding to go through with the wedding, a small civil ceremony at City Hall, Glassman invites Shaun and Carly to attend. With Lea crashing at Jordans apartment for a few days, in Yippee Ki-Yay, Lea and Shaun are still at odds and avoiding each other while Jordan tries to talk some sense into Shaun that he should stop digging up things from the past to hold them against Lea. The two ultimately reconcile and move in together. His autism is depicted as obvious to many of the people he interacts with. In "Debts," Shaun works with Andrews and Claire on the case of a Good Samaritan who had half of his face destroyed after saving a total stranger from a groping on the subway. At the same time, Shaun reveals to Claire that he and Carly went on another date involving a walk and a visit to a deli. After meeting Lea Dilallo, Shaun is immediately attracted to her, but his lack of knowledge in romantic matters leads to confusion, particularly after he asks Claire for advice on flirting. In Rationality, Shaun is faced with the challenge of getting Salen to take down the large billboard she put up outside the hospital that uses him and his ASD status as a literal poster boy for diversity hiring at the hospital. In Irresponsible Salad Bar Practices, Shaun is somewhat flustered by the idea that he may have an irrational crush on radiology resident Cintia D'Souza, even though hes happy in his relationship with Lea. Additionally, he becomes fixated on certain objects at times, most notably the toy scalpel that Steve gave to him. What is The Good Doctor's disability? At the same time, Shaun urges Glassman to get a second opinion, more tests and more imagining to truly confirm the diagnosis. However, the time in Guatemala helps Lea greatly to come to terms with her grief, and she realizes that she would not have gotten there without Shaun. Disheartened, Shaun decides that Salens regimen and hospital policies are making him into a bad doctor, so he goes to Andrews office and quits his job. In Cheat Day, Shaun stands up for himself when he tells Salen he wants to rescind his decision to quit his job that she grudgingly accepts on the grounds of not wanting the PR disaster that Shaun threatens otherwise. In "A Big Sign," Shaun, Asher and Danny treat Julianne, a famous marriage counselor with a brain tumor. Lea reluctantly agrees, Shaun loses consciousness halfway through the procedure but Lea successfully manages to restore blood flow to Shauns toes. In "The Family," despite his initial reluctance to form personal connections with his patients, he becomes close with Isla Liu, opening up to her about his guilt over Steve's death to help Isla with her own guilt. The Good Doctor Wiki is a FANDOM TV Community. Shaun goes to a nearby grocery store to buy more apples and gets held at gunpoint in a robbery. Claire eventually speaks to Carly who admits that she enjoyed Shaun asking so many questions as Carly hates small talk. Now a concierge doctor, Jared returns to the hospital specifically in search of Shaun's help to treat his client Roland Barnes to whom Jared had spoken very highly of Shaun. In The Good Doctor, the autistic . Shaun immediately comes to the rescue and instructs a fellow doctor how to perform life-saving measures, making on-the-spot diagnoses that seem unusually pertinent but ultimately save the boys life. They smile and embrace happily. Lea tells him he can start by being an amazing dad to their daughter and raising her to be strong with all the love and support they can give. This shows that he is a highly visual learner. Shaun encounters an unexpected reminder to his brother Steve when he runs across a patient in the ER who looks uncannily like his brother. A feel good show for some, an inspiration for many, The Good Doctor was inspired from a South Korean medical drama of the same name. In "Letting Go," Shaun rather brashly accuses Dr. Paul Nakano of making a mistake with his behavior getting to the point that Nakano claims that in Andrews' position, he would've fired Shaun. He questions whether he is a coward to take the advice given by Glassman and Lea to keep his head down so that he doesnt lose his job. Biographical Information At the same time, in the aftermath of his confrontation with Lim, Shaun appears to be secretly struggling, although he does his best to hide it. Shaun's frustration reaches a peak when his medical knowledge and prowess saves a patient with a 200-pound tumor, but Han continues to refuse to give him his job back. With Glassman, he managed to develop his skills to be a doctor and to later control his emotions and remain calm in tough situations. At the same time, Carly reveals to Shaun that she did not enjoy their sex as Shaun failed to give her an orgasm. Shaun is alone in the world and unable to personally connect with those around him, but he finds his niche using his extraordinary medical skill and intuition to save lives and challenge the skepticism of his colleagues. Chambers about autism again. Shortly after Lim ends their friendship, Shaun begins rearranging his and Park's shared office furniture, leading to him and Park clashing before moving into a disused storage room as his private office. Though the surgery appears to go off without a hitch, at the end, Shaun gets into an argument with a nurse about the way she hands him an instrument, ending with Shaun kicking her out of the operating room. Just before admitting his love for Carly, Shaun takes and holds her hand for a brief time despite his previous aversion to holding hands with Carly at all. In "Shrapnel," Shaun, Asher and Danni treat Charlie, a military reenactor with shrapnel in his arm. Lim later suffers an emotional breakdown over her condition, blaming Shaun for it and angrily declaring that she hates him. Jared Kalu expresses fondness for it years after last seeing Shaun with Asher Wolke commenting that it's the highlight of his day to watch Shaun do it. 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. Murphy was qualified for the 2005 World Championship after he beat John Higgins and Peter Ebdon in two qualifying matches. It appears that the source of the pain is harmless since it was initially diagnosed as round ligament pain, but Shaun wants to make sure that nothing is wrong with the baby, so in Dr. At the same time, Shaun faces a personal crisis when his friends point out that Carly didn't invite Shaun to spend time with their friends and they have not officially defined their relationship as that of boyfriend and girlfriend. 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. Refreshingly, he is quite down to earth, even at times quite unsure of himself. In "Quarantine," a buzzing light and the stressful situation caused Shaun to go into sensory overload and collapse into the fetal position; Morgan was able to get him through it by getting him focused on surgery and Park realized what was causing Shauns distraction and eliminated the source by smashing the light. The wedding is cancelled just before its about to get started. Chambers, who has issues with his wrist. In "Take My Hand," Shaun struggles with Carly's desire to hold hands as Shaun doesn't like it. Glassman reassures Shaun that he could never get sick of him, causing Shaun to calm down and pull Glassman into a hug that he only ends when Shaun realizes that he's going to be late for surgery. As a result, after talking about their doubts and getting advice from multiple people, Shaun chose to continue his relationship with Carly by seeking out a more relaxed informal date that wouldn't be so overwhelming to him and had been described by Claire as something she greatly enjoyed when Claire was using her own dating experiences as an example. 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. Shaun says of course he will, he loves her, and they happily announce the news to their colleagues who all cheer with them. During the ceremony, Shaun and Carly cross wrists as a compromise to Shaun's aversion to holding hands which pleases them both. In "Incomplete," Shaun helps treat Jeanie, a young woman who must lose the ability to have sex to save her life from tumors. Another example is how he treated Lea after her return due to being hurt over her leaving in the first place which made Shaun rude and mean to his friend. But longevity is just part of the reason why Shaun is so memorable for Highmore. Shaun makes it clear that he wishes to remain a surgeon despite the problems that come with his communication skills. Doctor Jackson Han suggests that while Shaun may make a good surgical resident, he would not make a good surgeon because of his communication issues which would hamper Shaun with interacting with his patients and leading a team of his own residents and believes that Shaun is able to function as a resident because he has the safety net of his attendings and fellow residents. The surgical team from San Jose is given the hard choice to pick the few patients they can treat in the time they are there, having to turn some of them away for various reasons. Shaun takes flirting advice from Claire and secretly seeks treatment for his injuries with the help of Doctor Carly Lever, his old boss from pathology. Carly, having done research on James' life, is devastated that her choice might cost his life, but Shaun comforts her. Receiving the notification about Lim and Villanueva, Shaun rushes to their aid along with Jordan and Lea, joined soon afterwards by Andrews and Glassman. Shaun finally lets himself be comforted by Glassman and clings to his chest while Lea looks on helplessly. Steve and Lea help Shaun to focus and he is able to save Lim's life. Notably, during this ordeal, despite Shaun's behavior, his friends recognize that it comes from his concern for Lim and, despite Shaun arguing with them and at one point completely going against Glassman's orders, they don't hold it against him. As a result of his behavior, Glassman accuses Shaun of acting childish and isolating himself like he did in high school and the beginning of med school, ironically while Glassman had been avoiding Shaun so as to not deal with his own emotions on the matter. While back home, Shaun takes the time to visit Steve's grave and is tempted by Lea to go swimming in the middle of the night. Even though hes rejected the notion in the past, he knows now that Dr. Glassman is more of a father to him than his biological one ever was, and he finally finds a way to express that to Glassman while the latter tries to help Shaun get dressed up in his tux. In turn, Shaun is excited to have his old friend back, encouraging Jared to return to being a surgeon and reassuring Jared that he's not a failure as Jared fears. I'm not quite sure how to interpret this question, but I'll try nonetheless. 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