Wow. 100 episodes.
In case you missed it, the one centesimal birthday celebration on The Good Doctor Season 6 Episode 6 was a tribute to this milestone. That’s why they centered on the cake because the ending credit rolled.
The tales had been typical The Good Doctor fare, particularly Shaun’s perspective towards Powell.
Shaun had each proper to be offended that Powell satisfied Lim to not have the surgical procedure.
Powell thinks she’s being a superb incapacity advocate by encouraging Lim to simply accept her paralysis and dwell a full life regardless of it. She’s not fully fallacious, however she is not contemplating the whole image.
The determination Lim needed to make concerning the surgical procedure was an enormous one, and as Powell identified, there have been a ton of things to think about — not simply whether or not she will dwell a high-quality life if she by no means walks once more.
Lim must be enthusiastic about all of the potential advantages and dangers.
Both Powell and Shaun are too narrowly centered: Shaun thinks Lim ought to solely take into account the chance she might reverse the paralysis, whereas Powell thinks the one consideration is whether or not she’s speeding into surgical procedure as a result of she’s upset about being paralyzed.
Shaun was proper that there are different well being points associated to Lim’s paralysis to think about, reminiscent of the best way Lim reacts to excessive climate situations.
Thankfully, Shaun and Powell did not spend the whole hour relitigating Lim’s determination. Shaun’s refusal to take heed to any of Powell’s ideas about something was obnoxious sufficient!
Shaun has some nerve complaining about Powell contradicting him when he overrode Glassman’s orders and did Lim’s surgical procedure his means!
Shaun: Stop contradicting me! I’ve extra surgical expertise than you do.
Powell: Yes, and it is your job to show me.
Shaun: Then why do you retain appearing like you recognize greater than I do?
His anger was most likely extra about Powell contradicting him about Lim than about this affected person. He rejected each one in all her ideas out of hand, typically interrupting to inform her she was fallacious earlier than the phrases had been out of her mouth.
I’m glad she lastly stood as much as him. That habits was uncalled for.
It was additionally extremely unprofessional, particularly when Shaun contradicted Powell in entrance of the affected person.
I would not need medical care from a workforce that argued in entrance of me about the most effective strategy. Fortunately, the affected person was a enterprise proprietor who revered Powell for difficult Shaun, however that does not make any of this okay.
Shaun did not appear capable of grasp the affected person’s level about having somebody problem him. The affected person wished to make sure that Shaun was making the most effective selections for his medical care and knew that arguing with Powell would assist be certain that he’d seen all of the angles.
For that to occur, Shaun would have needed to take heed to Powell as a substitute of being irritated by each phrase she uttered, however the precept was nonetheless sound, and Shaun wasn’t getting it.
Once Powell stood as much as Shaun and he realized that they did have being outsiders with totally different concepts in widespread, issues went extra easily, and they even found a particular curiosity in widespread: surgical historical past.
I’m high-quality with you not liking me, however that does not imply you get to ignore my concepts. And I assumed you’ll perceive what it is wish to be handled just like the ‘different.’ You need to discover widespread floor? That’s our widespread floor.
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Hopefully, that’ll be the tip of Shaun’s animosity towards Powell. It wasn’t a superb look.
Park’s reluctance to function on Edna was simply probably the most compelling of all the opposite tales.
At 90, Edna was nonetheless energetic. She’d attributed her shortness of breath to previous age and did not enable it to intervene together with her happiness. She loved easy pleasures and had an lively, alert thoughts.
No surprise she wasn’t able to let most cancers take its course and go into hospice.
Her coronary heart had stopped and then restarted by itself. That felt like a merciless trick; she recovered from momentary coronary heart failure solely to be taught she had a probably terminal illness.
But even with the center situation, she was a greater candidate for surgical procedure than most 90-year-olds. There was no purpose to assume she was not competent to grasp the dangers and determine she wished the surgical procedure anyway.
Park: We cracked some ribs, which allowed us to do a CT scan… which confirmed a tumor working out of your stomach to your lungs.
Edna: Can you take away it?
Park: We can, however at your age I’m undecided your physique can take such an enormous surgical procedure. I like to recommend you permit it. You’ll have a fairly good six months, perhaps eight.
Edna: You saved my life as soon as right now. You can do it once more.
Park: Edna, I’m simply not snug doing the surgical procedure.
Edna: I would like some extra butterscotch pudding. And a second opinion.
Park’s issue with this got here extra from his emotions about his grandfather’s surgical procedure than anything. It appeared like that was a really totally different scenario, although, and he wasn’t being goal.
Thankfully, Edna turned out to be okay. Park would by no means have gotten over it if she hadn’t survived the surgical procedure.
Asher and Morgan’s story was a low level of what was in any other case a high-quality episode.
There was a possibility for a narrative about how aged sufferers are sometimes handled, particularly these with dementia. Nursing properties are sometimes crammed with sufferers who not often get guests, and relations generally cannot bear to see their family members this manner and keep away from coming to the house.
Instead of a transferring story about this, we received a foolish story about Asher and Morgan choosing up the fallacious previous man on the road.
Asher and Jerome each stated that this was a kidnapping, which was ridiculous. They thought Sam was their lacking dementia affected person, and he couldn’t inform them who he was; the hospital did its greatest to determine him and find his household.
There was by no means any probability Asher and Morgan had been going to jail over this. The “twist” of Kyle thanking them for rescuing his father as a substitute of urgent prices was predictable.
Jordan’s resolution for Mae’s dying want to see Paris was a much more delicate and compassionate story. I’d have most well-liked extra of that and much less of this silliness.
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