Shaun decides he wants to practice having dinner with Leas parents by inviting Morgan and Dr. Glassman to pretend to be Pam and Mike Dilallo. He loves to eat chocolate chip pancakes with a glass of milk. When Melendez is ready to send Shaun away from the OR, Dr. Andrews intervenes and pushing Melendez to treat Shaun like any other resident, which he grudgingly does (Mount Rushmore). However, the trip is doomed from the start, with Shaun not having made reservations for a campsite in time and them ending up in amongst a group of rowdy drunkards and their tent leaking in the overnight rain they had not anticipated. Morningstar and S&P Capital IQ 1 . 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! It was shown that despite her distant attitude towards Shaun, she truly cared about him and was devastated to have to send Shaun away. Steve and Lea are able to get Shaun to focus and he is able to determine the problem and save Lim's life. After making amends with Lim, Shaun stops isolating himself and moves back into his and Park's shared office, suggesting that Glassman may have been right that Shaun's guilt and hurt over the situation had caused his behavior. Shaun is revealed to have a great degree of proficiency, if not fluency, in Spanish. When their first operation less painful operation fails, the team is forced to go with the original more painful option which they try to sooth using restraints and music. However, Lea loses contact with Shaun in the process. He invites a doula to their home to discuss the details of their birthing arrangements and he also wants to help make the world better for women who are still disadvantaged in some aspects. 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's subsequent breakdown in the locker room causes him to break the toy scalpel Steve gave him as a child as Claire helplessly watches, unable to help her friend. . Jordan in particular proves to be good at working with his moments of uncertainty, even encouraging Glassman to learn from Shaun rather than their relationship being of Shaun only learning from Glassman. In The Shaun Show and The Lea Show, Shaun and Leas life is accompanied by Sophies crew and her camera operators, showcasing their everyday life and how the wedding preparations are going. by borrowing Shauns large flatscreen TV to play PlayStation with his friends or illicitly using Shauns cable TV access. Shaun later displays a moment of empathy for Nathan by wrapping his toy dog's head in bandages after the young boy had wanted the toy to undergo surgery with him in order to feel better. Trying to countersteer his low scores, he overcompensates and creates incredibly awkward moments with the daughter of the patient that he and Park are treating. Shauns ASD causes him to act somewhat erratically, not able to follow the thief's commands, which leads to a young woman getting shot. As a result, Shaun didn't see or speak to his parents again until much later in life. However, Shaun helps Park find a solution for Nathan that can be done in a single surgery rather than multiple ones. Glassman's own anger and frustration causes him to begin avoiding Shaun while Lim ends their friendship completely. Shaun also suffered discrimination from the parents due to his own autism, but with the help of Melendez and the patient, Shaun was allowed to perform the surgery and proved the parents wrong when he saved the young man's life during a dangerous part of the operation. With Glassman no longer there to offer support, Lea makes the questionable decision to delete some of the worst reviews patients left for Shaun so that his average scores go up, which Shaun later proudly reports to her as a big accomplishment on his part. Shaun questions whether this indicates a problem in their relationship, but Lea insists its just a dry spell and itll blow over because theyve both been busy. In Sons, Shaun and Lea are enjoying the tail end of their fake honeymoon that they appear to have spent at home in San Jose, Shaun remarking that they are very good at pretending to be married but very bad at actually getting married. Although the baby appears to be beyond saving, Shaun has a literal last minute inspiration that allows the team to successfully complete the surgery. A saddened Carly notices Shaun's departure which Shaun misses as he turns his back before she notices him. 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. Even more extraordinary is that Shaun's statement that Zack was misdiagnosed before collapsing from his injuries leads Claire to successfully replicate Shaun's thought processes to see through his eyes and save Zack's life. Carly eventually admits that she thought her friends might have trouble accepting Shaun, but realizes that she was wrong and apologizes. As a symbolic gesture, Lim has Shaun put in the last stitch. In real life, Freddie does not have autism. That night, Shaun visits Carly and successfully asks her out, forgetting to leave his chocolate and flowers with Carly in his excitement. [3] Ultimately, Glassman took Shaun in, and raised him like a son. After discovering Shaun's delay, a fed-up Melendez drags him into the patient's room and forces Shaun to give her the bad news. In season 2, Shaun is forced to deal with the unexpected return of Lea. 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 2014, he landed his first voice role in My Little Pony: Friendship is Magic as Pip Squeak. After deciding to go through with the wedding, a small civil ceremony at City Hall, Glassman invites Shaun and Carly to attend. We can assume the rest of the dinner goes reasonably well, but Leas parents later tell Lea that they dont think she is mature enough to be in a challenging relationship. Claire chose to bring a patient as her Plus One, a young boy with a tumor that needs surgery, to be provided by the surgical team at St. Bonaventure. With Lea's pregnancy now safe, Shaun loses much of his overprotectiveness and instead excitedly prepares for the impending birth of his son. Lea thinks Shaun is a little quirky but refreshingly honest, she takes a liking to him right away. Though Shaun was awkward in asking, Carly understood what he was trying to ask and accepted, leaving Shaun so excited that he forgot to leave the chocolates and flowers he bought for Carly. He dislikes direct questions and confrontation. 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. While his mentor Glassman tells Shaun he cant be perfect all the time and that everyone makes mistakes, he also advises Shaun to find comfort in the people who love him, accept the loss and move on after learning from the mistake. Shaun's childhood was not very happy. In doing so, Shaun made Claire a better doctor because he inspired her to look through his eyes and save a life. The two also share a very easy working relationship, quickly falling back into working together and bouncing ideas off of each other like no time at all has passed. SUBSCRIBE for the biggest and best videos from the only official World Snooker channel on YouTubeWebsite: www.worldsnooker.comTwitter: @WorldSnooker1Facebook. Shaun and Lea keep running into each other on occasion, such as her picking him up in her car when he misses his bus stop and has to wait to get the bus in the other direction. As a resident at St. Bonaventure, he must learn the ropes of hospital work, while facing unique challenges and embracing his strengths due to his diagnoses of autism and savant syndrome. Lea also sees how much Shaun is wrestling with the new performance rating system. At first, Shaun struggles with being a leader to his residents, causing him to make a number of mistakes. In "Change of Perspective," three months later, Shaun is now a surgical attending and shares an office with Park. I feel very fortunate to have been offered the part of Shaun, he told Digital Spy. Together, the two successfully remove the gallbladder and deal with a hemorrhage that develops. As Shaun recovers, he is visited by Andrews who learned of Shaun's failure to show up to his interview and tries to get Shaun to face reality and move on. Glassman tries to make a deal with Shaun, realizing that Shauns decision has to do with wanting to follow Lea, so he tells Shaun he doesnt want him to leave and that he will promise to back off if Shaun stays in San Jose. Mr. Murphy previously occupied the position of Managing Partner at KPMG (Ireland). However, Dr. Lim prohibits it since he is too emotionally attached. In Fault, Shaun misses non-verbal cues when Asher Wolke is unsure about a diagnosis and Shaun should have double-checked Ashers medical assessment. In the process, he inadvertently insults Lea and she is upset with him because he fails to see where he went wrong since in his eyes he was making her a compliment. Shaun Robert Murphy is the main titular protagonist of The Good Doctor. The Good Doctor (ABC, Sony) is a medical drama that airs on the ABC television network and premiered in September 2017. After getting transferred to pathology, Shaun struggles with the transition despite being able to still save lives from a distance. When Shaun returns home, he is surprised and upset to discover that Lea now has a boyfriend. After seeing how devastated Shaun is, Lim gets Beth to change her mind. However, after learning just how badly this action hurt Glassman, Shaun learns how to drive with Lea's help so that he can drive Glassman around instead. 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. The doctors are forced to operate on Lim without bypass and Shaun suffers a meltdown when they can't find the problem, consumed with guilt over his failure to save Steve and his inability to save Lim. Although Shaun had earlier not seen the point in such a gesture, he did it on his own specifically for Nathan after Park had explained why it was so important to the young boy. He eventually decides that the billboard can stay up. 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. Workplace: Chambers is offended by the suggestion that he may have ASD. 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. At Lim's request, Carly reluctantly remains as part of the team to treat James directly, but she struggles with dealing with a live patient whose life is in her hands rather than slides in pathology. Together, the two take an unsanctioned road trip in Leas vintage car while Glassman worries about an AWOL and radio-silent Shaun. He can empathize with his struggling patients since he has had significant challenges of his own. Due to her concerns about Andrews' motivations, Lim sends Shaun out of the room while she talks to Andrews privately, but he ultimately presents the patient with surgery and he accepts it despite the tremendous risks and the completely experimental nature of the procedure. However, the way Shaun communicates that to her, he sparks an unanticipated reaction in Lea that has her turn the argument around on him, accusing him that he thinks she is not good enough for him because he is now holding her past actions of rejecting him three years ago over her head. Dr. Glassman states that he has known Shaun for 12 years, they met when Shaun was 14, making Shauns current age 26. In Not The Same, Shaun pitches the idea for Lea to move back in, but Lea is reluctant since she believes it will be different if they live together as a romantic couple because she isnt sure that theyre having a high enough level of commitment and trust yet. 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. However, Andrews is sympathetic enough to excuse Shaun's behavior despite his anger because Shaun is grieving over the recent loss of his child. 1992Casper, Wyoming, U.S.[1] By WN Writer Quick Information Date of Birth Aug 10, 1982 Age 40 Years, 8 Months Nationality British Profession Snooker Player Marital Status Married This shows that he is a highly visual learner. Shaun suggests a treatment for Caroline's seizures that will cure the seizures but not the underlying problem that Morgan objects to as she wants to force her mother to get the lobectomy she needs; Shaun's suggestion ultimately fails as the suspected cause of the seizures proves to be incorrect. In particular, Shaun asks for advice from Andrews about love because Andrews has been in a long and happy relationship while Glassman got divorced once. Similar traits. 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. 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. While visiting Zack, Shaun realizes that he has been misdiagnosed and apparently utters a word that sounds like "trampoline" before collapsing from his injuries which leaves Shaun unconscious and on a ventilator for a brief period. 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. The Good Doctor stars actor Freddie Highmore as Dr. Shaun Murphy, a surgical resident with autism. In "Aftermath," Shaun and Glassman spend a day with Lea at her job, though Shaun remains concerned about Glassman who decides to leave the hospital early after his meningitis surgery. 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. Shaun, in turn, struggles with Leas somewhat unpredictable mood swings and the changes to the dynamic of their relationship. Verchere was born in Vancouver, British Columbia on February 4, 2002. Carly has Shaun touch one of her breasts for the first time, exciting Shaun who tells Carly that she has no sign of lumps. He had just won a new friend, had been given signals that there may be more than platonic friendship in the stars, and now shes leaving. Sometimes credited as Stoney , her recording career started in 1971 with Motown Records . Afterwards, Andrews privately approaches Shaun and admits that he had been driven by his own doubts and anger over the repercussions of Andrews' choice to save Shaun at the cost of his own career. 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. Progressing to week 7 of her pregnancy, in Spilled Milk, Lea is struggling with hormonal changes and morning sickness. As a surgical attending, Shaun proves himself to be an effective leader of his own team and good at dealing with his patients, both of which had been a concern that Andrews had raised while arguing against hiring Shaun as a resident, although Shaun still turns to his friends and mentors for advice. Chambers, who has issues with his wrist. Lea kissing Shaun before leaving for Hershey leaves him deeply hurt to the point that he's rude and mean to Lea when she returns, expecting to find a supportive friend as Shaun wants to avoid getting hurt again. Despite only knowing Shaun for a relatively short time compared to Shaun's other close friends, Jared Kalu's faith in Shaun's abilities are such that he specifically seeks Shaun out for help years after leaving the hospital and had described Shaun as being the best to his client. However, Shaun suggests a radical surgery that carries many risks with the alternative being the bride's almost certain death from cancer. 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. Shaun also inspires Andrews, who was once the most reluctant to hire him, to stand up to Han and fire him so that Shaun can be rehired by offering Andrews advice that Steve had once given to him. In "Sex and Death," Shaun works with Melendez to treat Oliver, a man who is enjoying life to the fullest while dying of cancer; the infection Oliver develops from one of his stunts ultimately causes Oliver's own immune system to attack and shrink the tumor to the point that it can be removed. Throughout the case, Shaun encourages his old friend to return to surgery. After getting off work, Shaun finds Carly waiting for him. What is The Good Doctor's disability? After he gets off work, Shaun visits Carly and asks to touch her other breast to Carly's pleasure. After hearing the young man's story, Shaun actually empathized with the patient and came up with a simple and ingenious solution that fixed the problem while also saving costs. In post-op, Lea develops a pulmonary embolism and has to have more surgery to prevent further complications. Additionally, he becomes fixated on certain objects at times, most notably the toy scalpel that Steve gave to him. The wedding is cancelled just before its about to get started. At the end of the episode, he accompanies Lea home but she collapses outside of the hospital with intense lower belly pain. I'm not quite sure how to interpret this question, but I'll try nonetheless. Over breakfast that morning, Lea tells Shaun that the road trip was good for her too, because she has decided she will leave San Jose and go back to Hershey for the dream job she always wanted to fix up old cars together with her brother Donnie rather than work in a 9 to 5 tech job thats not fulfilling for her. He has been married to Elaine O'Reilly since June 2016. However, during surgery to fix it, Shaun discovers that the bride has extensive cancer. Subsequently, the two continue with more informal dates, but Shaun struggles with the effects of his touch aversion upon their intimacy. He also has trouble forming an emotional connection to his unborn child that is so far only a somewhat abstract concept of a small fetus in Leas womb. 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