The Good Doctor Season 6 Episode 5 Review: Growth Opportunities

St. Bonaventure celebrated Halloween! Sort of, anyway.

On The Good Doctor Season 6 Episode 5, a number of employees members wore costumes for the primary ten minutes of the hour, however as soon as the tales kicked into larger gear, it appeared like some other day on the hospital.

How odd! At least we bought some compelling medical tales out of it and an finish (for now) to Shaun and Glassman’s battle over Lim.

Maybe Shaun informed Asher off-screen to take off his Halloween make-up. He was bewildered by why Asher wore it, and Asher needed to ship awkward information.

It most likely is not sanitary to put on Halloween make-up within the OR, and it could be tougher to take a physician dressed like a inexperienced goblin critically.

Skylar’s storyline took an odd flip when the docs did the genetic testing. I anticipated her to have a uncommon dysfunction that required a dangerous, experimental process. Instead, the docs bought concerned within the drama surrounding the kid’s parentage.

The docs claimed they needed to monitor the bio-dad all the way down to warn him about his genetic abnormality. That felt like a stretch; there was no solution to inform him about this with out revealing the way it got here up.

He and some other kids he had weren’t in speedy hazard; it wasn’t as if he have been somebody who had not too long ago had shut contact with a affected person who had COVID or HIV.

Telling Mick he was Skylar’s organic father felt just like the docs have been going into territory that was none of their enterprise.

Once Skylar went into liver failure and wanted a dwelling donor ASAP, the medical group had extra of a purpose to trace down her organic father. Of course, there was no assure he can be a match simply because they have been associated, however there was an opportunity he may save her life.

However, he wasn’t obligated to donate a part of his liver to a digital stranger simply because they shared DNA, and his causes for not desirous to get entangled have been comprehensible. The surgical procedure was dangerous and would put him out of fee long-term, and he has a household of his personal elsewhere.

Although this story had a contented ending, I did not really feel comfy with Lea going to the bar the place he performs frequently and displaying him a video of Skylar singing.

It was manipulative and bordered on harassment since she was the third or fourth individual to attempt to persuade him to do that.

This mess occurred as a result of Shaun supervised this case with out anybody giving him suggestions. While he is an attending now, he ought to nonetheless be consulting frequently with senior docs about his sufferers, which wasn’t taking place right here.

Shaun additionally determined to delegate a lot of the soiled work to the residents so he may concentrate on discovering a solution to make Lim stroll once more.

Andrews would not have been blissful if he knew that is what Shaun was doing. He’d most likely say that was a dereliction of obligation, as Shaun is meant to oversee residents, not inform them to deal with sufferers solely on their very own.

Lim’s potential surgical procedure grew to become another excuse for Glassman and Shaun to butt heads.

Why was it as much as Glassman to resolve whether or not the surgical procedure was too dangerous? This ought to have been Lim’s choice from the get-go. It’s her physique, not Glassman’s, and she or he neither requested for nor wanted his safety.

Glassman’s angle towards Shaun was aggravating till Lea talked some sense into him.

Lea: Look, Shaun is not going to apologize. Someone has to make the primary transfer.
Glassman: And it must be me?
Lea: Of course it must be you.
Glassman: Shaun is a grown man and also you’re his spouse.
Lea: He has ASD. And he is your son.

Glassman saved harping on Shaun’s needing to take duty for inflicting Lim’s paralysis. I nonetheless have not seen any proof that Shaun was chargeable for that.

Glassman COULD have stated that he was sorry she suffered this final result — that is simply good bedside method — however there was no have to take duty past that.

Thank goodness Lea bought Glassman to lastly recover from himself.

His habits was extra infantile than Shaun’s. He saved avoiding Shaun and insisting that Shaun was guilty for the rift as a result of he wasn’t doing what Glassman wished.

Glassman is a superb neurosurgeon, and there isn’t any doubt he saved Shaun’s life when he was youthful. But he is also overcontrolling and usually refuses to think about anybody else’s perspective.

Those flaws contributed to his daughter’s demise and his latest divorce. They virtually induced a everlasting rift with Shaun. And he was taking up Lim’s medical choices, which finally would have pissed her off too.

Lim made the precise choice by rejecting the surgical procedure, even when Shaun did not perceive it.

Powell was proper that she was for the improper causes — she thought being able-bodied once more would repair her life and was nonetheless grieving the lack of her limbs.

I did not perceive what had occurred with Lim’s date. The little we noticed concerned him salvaging the night after the restaurant’s humiliating suggestion about tips on how to take care of the dearth of wheelchair ramps.

When she despatched him residence, I did not get the sense that it was as a result of he wasn’t concerned about her romantically; I assumed she was upset about what had occurred on the restaurant.

While Lim would not owe Shaun an evidence, it could be good if she shared that she needs to attempt to settle for herself as she is and appreciates his efforts.

Shaun was doing this as a result of he wished to salvage his relationship with Lim, so realizing that she would not hate him would go a protracted solution to ending his makes an attempt to strain her into altering her thoughts.

When Ollie and his brother got here into the ED, they jogged my memory of Shaun and his brother, so I knew it could find yourself with Shaun speaking to them.

What a tragic story, although!

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The Good Doctor airs on ABC on Mondays at 10 PM EST / PST. The subsequent new episode will air on November 14, 2022.

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