Why could not Shaun be flawed this one time?
He spent most of The Good Doctor Season 6 Episode 18 insisting that Glassman’s latest surgical efficiency proved that Glassman’s mind most cancers had returned. Most of his proof appeared nonsensical, and Glassman did not assume there was any trigger for concern.
But when Glassman agreed to do the scan, I knew there was extra to the story than that. Ugh.
Any story involving Glassman’s mind most cancers might be emotional, nevertheless it’s not one thing we have to revisit.
Shaun’s willpower to discover a remedy the primary time is burned into my reminiscence eternally. It was a traumatic, emotional storyline — and one I do not need to relive. Glassman’s first battle with mind most cancers was miserable sufficient!
It’s lifelike; most cancers does come again typically, and survivors should get common scans to maximise their potential to remain alive and wholesome.
But that does not essentially imply that it makes good tv. Realistic most cancers tales are sometimes miserable to the purpose that they are arduous to observe, particularly if there are graphic depictions of chemotherapy uncomfortable side effects or the particular person getting progressively weaker.
Shaun: You closed a affected person with eight sutures when it’s best to have used ten. We have to determine why.
Glassman: Why do now we have to determine why? Two sutures is nothing. It’s a blip.
The Good Doctor already made that mistake with their overly lifelike depiction of COVID on The Good Doctor Season 4 Episode 1, so let’s hope Glassman’s story does not go in that path.
Shaun’s causes for believing Glassman’s most cancers was again had been spurious at greatest, and it might have been a stronger story if it was all about his anxiousness.
Many individuals miss minor particulars of labor they have been doing for a very long time. That does not imply they’ve mind most cancers!
Shaun additionally grossly invaded Glassman’s privateness. Glassman wasn’t keen on Shaun’s seemingly random opinion about his well being and did not consent to Shaun going by means of his data with a fine-tooth comb.
Shaun adopted that up by telling Glassman in entrance of a affected person that he believed he had mind most cancers. I do know Shaun has social deficits, however come on!
The method this was written, it felt like Shaun cared extra about being proper than anything, and that is not a very good factor on the subject of a buddy presumably having a deadly illness.
Shaun’s seek for proof of most cancers additionally overshadowed his different work. He was imagined to be on Lim and Asher’s staff however saved disappearing to gather proof that Glassman’s most cancers had returned.
What a disgrace, particularly since this was an interesting case that might have used extra of Shaun’s enter.
Asher: Time for some WWSMD.
Lim: Whatever you and Jerome do by yourself time is –
Asher: What would Shaun Murphy do?
The lady supposedly had mind fog resulting from lengthy COVID, however did her COVID an infection have something to do together with her cognitive points?
Jared thought she’d been oxygen disadvantaged for years, and her uncommon coronary heart situation brought on poor circulation and oxygen consumption. Since COVID disrupted her physique’s potential to compensate for her coronary heart issues, she started exhibiting signs of that illness.
Technically, COVID brought on her mind fog, however I saved ready for somebody to appropriate the misunderstanding because the coronary heart defect was the true wrongdoer. No one ever did.
Understandably, this affected person did not need to lose any extra of her cognitive operate. Lim had stated the operation would not restore it, however since her oxygenation points contributed to her mind fog, it appeared possible it might.
Lim’s story about her emotions about her paralysis was a very good attempt at connecting empathetically with the affected person, however I might perceive why the lady did not see it as analogous.
As she identified, Lim’s strolling once more, and there have been no ensures that the affected person’s cognitive operate would enhance.
In addition, cognitive points really feel completely different than bodily paralysis. Yes, Lim needed to be taught to dwell together with her incapacity till she did not. And she was annoyed at instances. But there is a distinction between that and the shortcoming to recollect phrases or learn.
Lim might nonetheless do her job regardless of her paralysis. The affected person could not do hers and will barely operate in any respect. So to her, the problems had been very completely different.
Jordan and Jared’s case was probably the most compelling of the night (although that close to kiss was not — what occurred to her curiosity in Perez?)
At first, Jordan appeared to be minding different individuals’s enterprise once more together with her disapproval of Daphne’s reliance on her daughter to assist her together with her severe well being points.
But after Daphne’s try at dialysis led to an an infection, and Jordan spoke together with her, it made extra sense and was inspiring.
Jordan inspired Daphne to cease residing in concern and to take cost of her well being regardless of no matter had occurred prior to now, and Daphne rose to the event fantastically.
She inspired her daughter to go to Prague, consented to the surgical procedure, and awakened able to dwell extra totally.
If nothing else, t his story demonstrated that being a physician is about greater than treating the particular person’s signs or bodily sickness. Jordan and Jared had been involved about Daphne’s high quality of life and her and her daughter’s psychological well being.
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