Are we gearing up for a miserable storyline for Glassman?
The Good Doctor hasn’t identified what to do along with his character for some time. After spending most of The Good Doctor Season 5 considering retirement, Glassman returned and primarily acts as Shaun’s surrogate father.
So the sequence might have determined to chop its losses by permitting Glassman to have a deadly resurgence of his mind most cancers, as spoilers for The Good Doctor Season 6 Episode 18 counsel.
There does not appear to be wherever else for this storyline and character to go. Still, The Good Doctor will not be the identical with out Glassman if it chooses to go that approach.
Not to say that this may very well be one hell of a miserable storyline!
The Good Doctor isn’t any stranger to unhappy storylines. Its depiction of the COVID pandemic on The Good Doctor Season 4 Episode 1 was rattling good tv. It was additionally not possible to look at as a result of it depicted the worst elements of the illness’s trajectory so realistically.
You’d hope they’d have discovered their lesson and never determined to go the identical route with Glassman!
There hasn’t been any information about Richard Schiff leaving The Good Doctor, so this may very well be an elaborate fakeout. It could be simply as emotional for Shaun to concern shedding Glassman unnecessarily.
If Shaun has precise proof of Glassman’s situation deteriorating, it is but to have appeared on-screen. So far, all we have got is Shaun’s opinion that Glassman’s suture approach was sloppy.
That’s neither right here nor there. Shaun tends to be overprecise, so Glassman’s sutures may need been completely tremendous. (Maybe they need to head to Chicago Med and see what OR 2.0 thinks!)
And even when Shaun is true that Glassman’s approach was off, it does not essentially observe that one thing’s unsuitable along with his mind. Glassman does not do main surgical procedure commonly anymore and could also be out of shape.
When he’s within the OR, he is often supervising whereas different docs do the lion’s share of the work. While theoretically, surgical abilities needs to be second nature to him by now, an absence of follow may make him rusty.
In any case, does one slip level to mind most cancers? Glassman ought to discover out if he has any cognitive decline that may very well be harmful for sufferers and his well being, however Shaun appears to be leaping to conclusions.
Shaun’s concern of shedding his surrogate father, simply as Shaun’s son is about to be born, is dramatic sufficient with out Glassman having a critical illness.
Even if Glassman’s most cancers is again, it does not essentially imply he is dying this second. Brain most cancers is among the most extreme, deadly cancers, however Glassman beat the chances as soon as with Shaun’s assist.
Shaun refused to simply accept Glassman’s terminal prognosis throughout The Good Doctor Season 2 and ultimately discovered an unorthodox therapy that labored. Why ought to this time be any totally different?
While Shaun worries about Glassman, different docs are scrambling to search out solutions for a affected person whose COVID signs have not gone away regardless of being disease-free.
This may very well be a narrative about lengthy COVID; in that case, it is about time one of many medical dramas addressed this!
While most individuals, particularly these vaccinated, expertise solely delicate COVID signs at this level, a choose group of sufferers have signs for months or years.
Sometimes the signs are extreme — some folks have cardiovascular points, weak spot of their limbs, or respiration points — and different occasions, they’re merely annoying. Either approach, it is a threat with COVID that’s hardly ever talked about.
Having a affected person current with lengthy COVID may assist educate viewers about this syndrome and supply a dramatic storyline.
The worst a part of lengthy COVID is that beforehand wholesome folks change into kind of completely disabled, which gives an emotional storyline for this affected person.
The Good Doctor is equally vulnerable to miracles and miserable tales, so the group would possibly discover an experimental therapy that works for his or her affected person. They can also discover that this affected person does not have lengthy COVID.
The sequence appears to be keen on the trope of discovering a special critical situation whereas operating checks. Often, the docs discover tumors whereas MRIs and chest x-rays for an additional motive or in the midst of surgical procedure.
So it would not be stunning if the affected person’s signs turned out to be lung most cancers or another syndrome that is not COVID-related.
Bonus factors if it is an exceedingly uncommon syndrome! The Good Doctor appears to concentrate on such instances.
As ordinary, there’ll possible be loads of private drama combined in with the medical tales. In addition to Shaun’s fears for Glassman, spoiler photographs counsel a number of docs take pleasure in an evening out. In addition, Andrews and Villanueva attempt to work out the dynamics of their relationship.
Did we all know these two had been relationship? It had slipped my thoughts in that case.
In any case, this is the reason supervisors and their staff should not date. It was unhealthy sufficient when Lim and Melendez sneaked round so nobody would know they had been in a semi-inappropriate relationship. Let’s not have a repeat of that, please.
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