Doctor Who Staffel 13
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Shaun and Vera bonded over being hung up on their exes, and Shaun is still having a tough time giving up on the idea of Lea (Paige Spara). But she helps him see that moving on is acceptance, not failure. She makes him promise that if she dies, he'll move on.
Melendez's numbers come back. They're not good. Lim scrambles for a solution, but Dr. Aaron Glassman (Richard Schiff) tells her straight up: Even if Melendez could survive the crazy treatments they're brainstorming, he would have almost no quality of life. He tells her it's time to stop being a doctor, and start being a friend. Melendez is going to die.
Park is so affected by this situation that he calls his ex-wife and tells her he's going to move so that he can be closer to her and their son. So that's another team member whose future looks uncertain at St. Bonaventure.
Despite having to perform an amputation with very little equipment, and while nearly drowning, Shaun manages to free Vera and get them both to safety. Lea is waiting for them, and here's how season 3 ends:
I started to watch tonight's episode of the Good Doctor on Sky Witness and was confused that I didn't remember the 'previously' details. On checking the episode list the episode aired as Ep2 was actually Ep4!
Thank you, @caesarome for the email address - I've been trying to find how to ask about this. I thought they'd made a huge leap from Lim's surgery to her already gadding about in her chair + we didn't know who the new doctors were!
Thought I was losing it when I couldnt remember the 'catch up' details...checked Episodes online to discover Ep 2 & 3 have been missed and tonights episode was 4. V annoying. Hope Sky do a double episode catch up for us before next week!
What I fell in love with about the last season, I continue loving this season. Life goes on. Dr. Glassman resigns as the President, like he promised, and Dr. Andrews is the new President. And like anyone taking over a position, he decides to review the doctors currently on his staff. Jared is spending his last day with Shaun treating the homeless. Jared views it as a brush off but Shaun views it as a way to try and connect with people better. They meet Harry, a homeless man with horrible gums, delusions, possibly schizophrenia. Jared thinks it is meningitis. Shaun is hesitant. After testing, it seems Harry did not have meningitis, and Dr. Andrews is mad because they wasted resources. Shaun leaves to read, but has a realization the patient has kaleidoscopic disintegration, often caused by pressure to the brain from a tumor.
The genius surgeon with autism and savant syndrome spearheads an unprecedented treatment to save his friend and former colleague Dr. Claire Browne, played by original cast member Antonia Thomas, who returned for the final two episodes.
RIP Dr. Aaron Glassman (Richard Schiff), the mentor and father figure who fought to hire Shaun at San Jose St. Bonaventure Hospital seven seasons ago. Glassman's brain cancer returned in the penultimate May 14 episode, and the brilliant neurosurgeon dies in the finale.
"The finale presented one case where the solution was found due to Shaun's refusal to give up, and one case where Shaun needed to accept what he couldn't help," says executive producer Liz Friedman. "The most challenging thing for Shaun is letting go of the idea of helping Dr. Glassman medically and simply being there for him emotionally."
"Good Doctor" fans have seen this high-stakes scenario before, with very different results. In the Season 1 finale, Shaun went on a mission to find a cure for Glassman's terminal brain cancer diagnosis. Glassman was ready to give up, taking Shaun on the carousel he frequented with his daughter to talk about dying.
This time, Shaun realizes there won't be a miracle solution for Glassman. However, the surgeon is adamant about administering untested treatment to Claire, even though the Food and Drug Administration denied the emergency use of the potential cure his team developed.
"I'm going to give it to her anyway, And I won't be a doctor anymore. And that's OK," Shaun tells his wife Lea (Paige Spara) and Glassman, knowing he'll lose his medical license. "I don't need to save everyone; I just need to save Claire."
The location of Shaun's speech is crucial: It's the same hospital conference room where Glassman passionately pounded the table and carried the day advocating for Shaun's hiring in the September 2017 pilot episode. In that premiere, Shaun spoke poignantly in the same boardroom about wanting to be a surgeon to save lives. "And I want to make a lot of money, so I can have a television" he added.
The finale jumps ahead 10 years, as Shaun, now chief of surgery, gives Glassman a eulogy of sorts during a TED Talk that he dedicates to his mentor. The audience is filled with Glassman's Bonaventure Hospital family, including Browne, who sits with her partner Dr. Jared Kalu (Chuku Modu) and their smiling young daughter.
The TED Talk screen features the names of the patients Shaun has saved, which the surgeon credits to Glassman. "He taught me that when you touch one life, you don't just touch one life," he says. "You touch every life that life touches."
Claire's is the last name to appear on the screen. The next slide shows that Shaun has honored his mentor's life with The Dr. Aaron Glassman Foundation for Neurodiversity in Medicine, which he runs with Browne.
After the applause, the hospital staff leaves the TED Talk forum with big hugs all around. In a voiceover, Shaun pays a final tribute to his mentor. "Because of Dr. Glassman, I have many friends, and I have a family," he says. "And I have two televisions."
"In my mind, Dr. Shaun Murphy is still out there helping people and saving lives with his unique, fascinating take on things," says Friedman. "I hope the audience feels those adventures are still happening. We just don't get to see them every week."
There is nothing more frustrating than a television series being canceled without notice, leaving audiences with a cliffhanger ending. Dramas such as Hannibal, A League of Their Own, and Quantum Leap have all ended with no conclusion in sight. That's why it can be so satisfying for shows to end on their own terms. When it was announced that ABC's The Good Doctor would be hanging up its stethoscope at the end of Season 7, viewers were worried that perhaps the writers wouldn't be able to tie up all the loose ends of the story. Luckily, the writing team devised a way to achieve a rewarding completion for the entire series.
For seven seasons, The Good Doctor narrated the journey of Dr. Shaun Murphy (Freddie Highmore), a young surgeon with autism and Savant syndrome. Each season follows Shaun as he becomes a more capable doctor and learns to open himself up to friendships and a romantic relationship with his girlfriend, and then wife, Lea (Paige Spara). Viewers are treated to in-depth storylines and intriguing medical mysteries that Shaun and the other doctors must solve in each episode. There are plenty of heart-wrenching conflicts and life-or-death situations, but also a hopeful tone, as the adventures unfold for those working at St. Bonaventure Hospital. With the series finally concluded, how does the story wrap up for everyone in The Good Doctor's Season 7 finale?
There has always been a great deal of tragedy for the characters of The Good Doctor, but Season 7 is even more distressing. One event in Episode 5 seemed as though it would be extra hard to recover from when the beloved character Dr. Asher Wolke (Noah Galvin) was brutally murdered in a hate crime. His death has plenty of long-lasting effects on his friends, including his devastated partner, Jerome (Giacomo Baessato), and his best friend, Dr. Jordan Allen (Bria Henderson). But there turned out to be glimpses of hope in the second half of the season, when the characters try to honor Asher's memory by continuing to save lives.
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