M.D. Autistic adults may also have inflexible thought patterns and behavior, and may . Shaun's unique diagnostic skills are noted by many characters, including Dr. Jackson Han who displays prejudice against Shaun for his autism. Carly has Shaun touch one of her breasts for the first time, exciting Shaun who tells Carly that she has no sign of lumps. While Shaun is unable to contribute his knowledge, Claire replicates the conditions behind Shaun's thought processes with Zack and manages to figure out what Shaun had been trying to tell him, realizing that he was actually trying to say "treponema." During the procedure itself, Claire enlists Shaun as the assisting doctor while Melendez supervises. 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. Shaun later decides to wear the cap during the procedure itself. In "Old Friends," Shaun is excited by the return of Dr. Jared Kalu, a former surgical resident and friend of Shaun's who had left St. Bonaventure years earlier. Lea thinks Shaun is a little quirky but refreshingly honest, she takes a liking to him right away. Shaun manages to prove his surgical worth and is being allowed more and more surgical work, although he still struggles with the emotional and social aspects of patient care. Shaun later thanks Lim for some helpful advice she'd given him about his marriage to Lea, but she finally confronts him about causing her paralysis. Just before admitting his love for Carly, Shaun takes and holds her hand for a brief time despite his previous aversion to holding hands with Carly at all. However, during surgery to fix it, Shaun discovers that the bride has extensive cancer. Morningstar and S&P Capital IQ 1 . He and Lea wonder if that means that theres something wrong with their relationship, and Lea confesses that she is still attracted to a certain physical therapist who works at the hospital. Adult 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. I feel very fortunate to have been offered the part of Shaun, he told Digital Spy. Shaun is very much against the idea as he feels he should be able to provide Lea with everything she needs and he can learn how to get to that point or purchase physical aids to compensate for his shortcomings. He also mentions an interest in football in at least one episode. Ted he has Claire run a battery of tests on Lea. Meanwhile the hospitals board deliberates whether they should be hiring a surgeon with autism, with an initial decision made against it. But longevity is just part of the reason why Shaun is so memorable for Highmore. As the surgery approaches, Shaun has dreams of Steve encouraging him as well as Glassman giving him an orange cap that had helped Glassman during his own first lead surgery. He also decides that he wants to try shower sex with Lea. Shaun follows Lea's advice which Carly admits was good advice. Shaun leaves the wedding planning to Lea because she had said she wanted it to be perfect and Shaun didnt want to interfere. As an attending surgeon at St. Bonaventure, he must learn the ropes of hospital work and how to be a good mentor for residents, while facing unique challenges and embracing his strengths due to his diagnoses of autism and savant syndrome. Lea is happy and says yes, of course she will still marry him. However, a vision of Steve urges Shaun to let go of his guilt over Steve's death, reassuring Shaun that it wasn't his fault. Shaun says he would definitely listen since he hates the sound it makes. Despite being hurt by the truth, Carly appreciates it because Shaun's honesty is what she likes about him and doesn't want to lose him. Following his firing, Shaun's communication issues leads to him failing to catch the cues that Zack Cordell is angry with him at a bar, leading to Zack beating him up. When Glassman comforts him, Shaun initiates a hug that he only breaks because he has to go into surgery and is late. During the first two episodes of season 4 (Frontline, Part 1 and Frontline, Part 2), Shaun and Lea struggle with the challenges of social distancing due to COVID-19, Shaun insisting to completely cease physical contact due to the increased risk of Shaun getting infected and passing it on to Lea. As a symbolic gesture, Lim has Shaun put in the last stitch. After spending the night sleeping comfortably with Lea and having a brief meltdown over the potential of being alone, Shaun appears to lose some of his aversion to touch. At the same time, Lim performs her own investigation into her paralysis and comes to the conclusion that Shaun was indeed responsible for it, her blood pressure having dropped during his surgery and causing her spinal cord ischemia. Lea tries to tell him that he should be embracing life and that hell never be happy if he constantly lives in fear. The worse Lim gets, and the closer Shaun is to losing her, the more irrational his behavior gets, resulting in a breakdown. Steve appears to Shaun, reassuring his brother that his death wasn't Shaun's fault and urging Shaun to let go of his guilt over it. His attending and direct boss, Dr. Melendez, thinks Shaun has a significant deficit and Shaun will never do anything more than suction under his supervision. Ironically, when the time comes, Shaun himself ends up conflicted on the matter and he is relieved when an alternative arrives at the last minute. After a bit of a journey, it is finally determined through a biopsy Glassman was reluctant to get that he has an operable low-grade glioma that is treatable with surgery, radiation and chemotherapy. In "Quarantine," a viral outbreak in the ER at Christmas time traps Shaun in the emergency room department along with Morgan and Lim. They both silently agree to abort the pregnancy. MBTI of The Good Doctor Characters. Lea seems happy with that, but admits to Shaun later that shes also disappointed that shes not going to have a more ceremonial white-dress wedding a concern that Shaun voices to Dr. Glassman. Appearances 15. high IQ (not low IQ) 96.7. He loves to eat chocolate chip pancakes with a glass of milk. Sometimes credited as Stoney , her recording career started in 1971 with Motown Records . Mr. Murphy is also on the board of KPMG International Cooperative, KPMG Georgia LLC and Ardagh Metal Packaging SA. However, Shaun's bluntness at times has proven helpful such as in "Disaster" when he pointed out a couple's doubts, causing them to confront those doubts and reach a resolution. The Good Doctor Season 6 Episode 21 Release Date and Time In "Friends and Family," Shaun returns to Wyoming to visit his dying father who Shaun has not seen since Steve's funeral when he was fourteen. The Good Doctor stars actor Freddie Highmore as Dr. Shaun Murphy, a surgical resident with autism. Andrews realizes that Lim assigned the case to Shaun due its apparent ease and Beth's friendly demeanor and warns Lim about coddling Shaun. Lim later suffers an emotional breakdown over her condition, blaming Shaun for it and angrily declaring that she hates him. 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. Shaun is of course extremely worried and wants to participate in the surgery, quoting that hospital policy would technically allow him to since he and Lea are not married. Lea Dilallo (wife)Cintia D'Souza (former crush)Carly Lever (ex-girlfriend) However, Shaun finds it surprisingly difficult when it comes time to personally slaughter the pig, Wilbur, before Jerome interrupts with the news of the arrival of a compatible human donor, much to everyone's relief. Shaun goes to a nearby grocery store to buy more apples and gets held at gunpoint in a robbery. Lim eventually helps Shaun figure it out by comparing his focus on sex to Shaun's focus on surgery. He bonds with a 10-year-old patient over shared experiences (The Family), while he and Lea decide that they want to put their wedding plans on hold and live in the moment. Shaun and Leas wedding on the hospital roof is beautiful, Glassman manages not to botch the speech this time and talks about how much Shaun means to him, and they happily dance with most of their closest friends and colleagues in attendance. However, Shaun and Park discover that a surgery Beth endured as a baby prevents the fix they believed would work, forcing Beth to use a feeding tube for the rest of her life. Shaun eventually realizes that he has trouble being intimate and vulnerable, but still can't have sex with Carly. Shaun's childhood was not very happy. She's like Shaun, but also the opposite. This brings the cowbell into the mix, which Shaun wants them to ring if either of them ever feels they are veering off-course. Shaun is left torn between being a supportive friend and what the rules say he must do, leading Shaun to take away Glassman's driving license (Empathy). In the aftermath, Shaun tells Lea about seeing Steve and that he is trying to take his brother's advice and accept that Steve's death wasn't his fault. An autopsy confirms Shaun's diagnosis of a second tumor which would've killed Julianne within just a few months time. Carly, having done research on James' life, is devastated that her choice might cost his life, but Shaun comforts her. He enlists the opinion of several hospital colleagues, even sets up a poll to hear thoughts from a larger audience. When a problem arises, Shaun is able to come up with a surgical solution that makes Lea's pregnancy safe for her, although he subsequently isolates Lea in recovery while annoying her with his overprotectiveness. The latter ignores the messages, also encouraged by Lea who says he shouldnt think about work or his everyday life for a while. 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