While Shaun turns out to be wrong about Nakano having made a mistake, he is correct about there being a problem and he stops the surgery in time to save the patient. At the same time, in the aftermath of his confrontation with Lim, Shaun appears to be secretly struggling, although he does his best to hide it. Jared ultimately approaches Lim about resuming his residency and he is granted a position on Shaun's team, although Jared will have to be a first year resident again. It was shown that despite her distant attitude towards Shaun, she truly cared about him and was devastated to have to send Shaun away. Portrayed by: While Shaun is in his element and enjoys the challenge, the new experience and surroundings, and the rare opportunity to apply his perfect Spanish, Lea is not having as great a time. Shaun finally succeeds in pleasuring Carly during sex who is left with a blissed-out smile on her face as Shaun sleeps next to her. Carly determines that a genetic mutation is causing James' condition, but there are over forty possible drugs that could be used to treat it. Dr. Andrews is unhappy with Shauns blunt and offensive approach, and instructs Shaun not to talk to Dr. Wedding planning also continues in Measure of Intelligence, with Lea stumbling across a Save-the-Date card addressed to Shauns mother that she is unsure whether she actually wants to mail it. He tries to tell Pam and Mike that Lea has changed for the better and that she is definitely ready to be in a relationship with Shaun. What Shaun struggles with is a question of whether Lea feels hes not good enough to be her husband, finally coming to the conclusion that she must love him and that he does want to marry her despite her flaws. How do autistic adults behave? 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! Born: Shaun is then forced to treat pregnant mother-to-be Viola who suffers complications requiring a C-section. In Sacrifice, this escalates into a fight that turns from verbal to physical when Glassman tries to somewhat inconsiderately intervene in Shaun's oncoming meltdown and the latter slaps him in the face in an attempt to fend off the unwanted physical contact, insisting that he does not want to be ordered around and wants to make his own decisions. Chambers is offended by the suggestion that he may have ASD. 15. high IQ (not low IQ) 96.7. He eventually decides that the billboard can stay up. Dr. Shaun Murphy Descriptive Personality Statistics Dr. Shaun Murphy is a character from The Good Doctor. Shaun appears visibly bothered during Glassman's accusations, before snapping and kicking him out. When Shaun was first hired at the hospital, Andrews had expressed concern about this exact sort of thing as a reason against hiring him, worried that Shaun's autism and communication issues would negatively impact his ability to lead his own residents. He does so, enjoying it very much, but right afterwards he needs to run to the bathroom to throw up from all the alcohol. They havent had sex in nine days, and it leads Lea to resort to using a vibrator to boost her own morale, which unfortunately Shaun inadvertently walks in on. In Irresponsible Salad Bar Practices, Shaun is somewhat flustered by the idea that he may have an irrational crush on radiology resident Cintia D'Souza, even though hes happy in his relationship with Lea. In Teeny Blue Eyes, Shaun wakes up in the morning to an otherwise empty bed. Shaun tells Andrews that Steve had always told him that being told to face reality is just a person's way of getting you to do something you don't want to do. There are 300+ professionals named "Shaun Murphy", who use LinkedIn to exchange information, ideas, and opportunities. When he tries to have Dr. Glassman overrule Lims decision, Glassman agrees with Lim. 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. [1] He buys a car fragrance tree that smells of pine trees because thats what he smelled when they were driving out of the city on their road trip, listening to the playlist that she put together for him. After Shaun snaps out of it, Andrews, Glassman and Jordan trust his judgment to the point that they follow his directions with a simple explanation of how he came to his conclusion on the issue. Though Melendez expresses doubt about Claire's ability to perform the procedure when it appears to be more complicated than previously thought, Shaun offers a solution that gets Melendez to agree to Claire performing the surgery. Chambers about autism again. At an opportune moment, Lea divulges to Shaun that she has an ex-husband whom she no longer has any contact with. At the same time, he treats a conspiracy theorist who believes he is being poisoned and who trusts only Shaun out of all the doctors due to his blunt honesty. Dr. Glassman states that he has known Shaun for 12 years, they met when Shaun was 14, making Shauns current age 26. Shaun is so relieved by the news that he gives Glassman a rare hug. Shaun apparently has a meltdown during the actual procedure and panics in the hallway. 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. 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. 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. After one of his mistakes in leadership costs a patient his life as Shaun does not check on Asher's work, Shaun refuses to continue training residents until Lim makes Shaun talk Asher through a procedure on another patient. However, when Shaun, Andrews and Glassman check on a recovering Lim, they discover that her injuries have left Lim paralyzed from the waist down. The Good Doctor Wiki is a FANDOM TV Community. Asher Wolke, who has been estranged from his family for years, his father in particular, jokingly suggests having Shaun help Asher and his father resolve their issues with each other as a result. Profession: However, the time in Guatemala helps Lea greatly to come to terms with her grief, and she realizes that she would not have gotten there without Shaun. In "Shrapnel," Shaun, Asher and Danni treat Charlie, a military reenactor with shrapnel in his arm. In "Quarantine," a buzzing light and the stressful situation caused Shaun to go into sensory overload and collapse into the fetal position; Morgan was able to get him through it by getting him focused on surgery and Park realized what was causing Shauns distraction and eliminated the source by smashing the light. This manifests in strange behavior such as repeatedly moving around his and Park's office furniture and moving out of their shared office into a disused storage closet for privacy. Based on certain observations, Shaun concludes Dr. Autistic adults may also have inflexible thought patterns and behavior, and may . As Lea fears for the worst, word comes that someone else has been found. While he cares a lot about her, he struggles with her renewed presence in his life, now living in fear that she could leave again like she did the first time. 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 isnt open to listening, he feels betrayed by her lying about her trip to Montana, falsifying his scores and refusing to make it right by telling Salen about it. Lea frustratedly decides to sleep in the car while Shaun stays in the leaky tent. Despite Shaun's troubled childhood, he maintains a generally positive outlook on life, choosing to pursue medicine in the hopes of improving the lives of others. Lim eventually helps Shaun figure it out by comparing his focus on sex to Shaun's focus on surgery. With Lea's pregnancy now safe, Shaun loses much of his overprotectiveness and instead excitedly prepares for the impending birth of his son. 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. At the same time, Shaun faces a personal crisis when his friends point out that Carly didn't invite Shaun to spend time with their friends and they have not officially defined their relationship as that of boyfriend and girlfriend. 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. 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 continues to struggle with his relationship with Carly to the point that he doesn't even complain when Lea blasts her music too loud. 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. Notably, Shaun was the only person in the entire hospital to suspect that Dr. Marcus Andrews would choose to remain Chief of Surgery instead of choosing a new one, resulting in Shaun winning the betting pool everyone created on the decision. Shaun acts as first responder, saving the life of a pregnant woman with an acute cardiac problem whom he keeps treating at the hospital for the injuries she sustained. Shaun is caught in a dilemma of wishing to tell the truth to Evan because he thinks he should know about his condition and going against the parents wishes not to let their son know. Sometimes credited as Stoney , her recording career started in 1971 with Motown Records . At the end of the episode, Lea does move back in and Shaun tells her he thinks having her back in the apartment is not the same as when they were roommates, its better. Shaun's frustration reaches a peak when his medical knowledge and prowess saves a patient with a 200-pound tumor, but Han continues to refuse to give him his job back. Ted he has Claire run a battery of tests on Lea. Shaun later suffers an emotional breakdown that leads him to forcefully demand his job back and causes Han to fire him. In post-op, Lea develops a pulmonary embolism and has to have more surgery to prevent further complications. Shaun Murphy is not only likeable, he is also extremely cute! Lea thinks Glassman was wrong not to trust Shaun and has him actually taking her car out into the street after they go a few rounds on a motel parking lot. Shaun eventually explains that he was overwhelmed by the unpredictability of it all and thus didn't have a good time and isn't sure if Carly did either. 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. Instead, Shaun decides to try to perform an amputation in just minutes time and Vera in return asks Shaun to move on from Lea if she dies which he promises. After getting transferred to pathology, Shaun struggles with the transition despite being able to still save lives from a distance. Murphy is a surgical resident on the show, and he is on the autism spectrum. [3] Ultimately, Glassman took Shaun in, and raised him like a son. Lea tries to tell him that he should be embracing life and that hell never be happy if he constantly lives in fear. In a bout of resentment and anger, she tells him they shouldnt get married and perhaps they shouldnt even live together. After escorting Zack to the hospital, Shaun evades questions about how he found Zack, although Claire quickly figures out the truth on her own. However, this time its on Carly's side due to still being upset over Shaun and Lea's night in Wyoming. Eventually, Shaun adapts and proves himself to be a capable leader and teacher who is greatly respected by Asher and Jordan Allen as well as Olivia Jackson and Ricky Guerin before they leave the hospital. Olivia is capable, but isn't confident. Shaun says the price of parenthood is not worth it if it makes him upset and irrational. Shaun also discovers that someone else moved into Leas old apartment a fellow named Kenny who is slightly shady with potentially malicious intentions that Shaun is completely blind to. Despite a complication, Shaun, Andrews and Claire are successfully able to complete the procedure and save the patient's face. When Tara hesitates to take gene therapy that could potentially cure her condition, Shaun relates to her his own struggles with being alone and how his life is much better now that he has friends in his life and convinces Tara to take the treatment. Shaun dedicates himself to figuring out how to pleasure Carly, though without much success. He questions whether he is a coward to take the advice given by Glassman and Lea to keep his head down so that he doesnt lose his job. Before The Good Doctor, many shows and movies relegated characters with autism as being "other.". It follows Shaun Murphy, a 25-year-old surgeon with Autism and Savant Syndrome. Shaun later decides to wear the cap during the procedure itself. In particular, Shaun becomes close friends with Alex Park and, although the two clash professionally in "One Heart" with Shaun threatening to report Park for his behavior, the two choose not to let it affect them on a personal level. Lying in bed with Carly afterwards, Shaun smiles in excitement at having had his first time. However, during surgery to fix it, Shaun discovers that the bride has extensive cancer. His first shot of Tequila, his first time singing karaoke, his first time kissing a girl. As a result of his autism, Shaun has trouble with cognitive empathy, but is fine with emotional empathy, meaning he can pick up when someone is upset but often has trouble discerning why, this is something that he himself notes. They both agree that they have a whole lot of things they need to work through in terms of their individual insecurities. Dr. Glassman decides that he doesnt want to have any part in the hospital takeover and makes a deal with Salen to nod and smile in his role as hospital president for the sake of employee motivation but that he doesnt want to work at the hospital any longer under the current circumstances. After some pushing by Glassman and a case that has similarities to Lim's, Shaun finally reaches out to Lim and although he isn't sorry for what he did, Shaun admits that he is sorry for the pain that he caused her. Shauns ASD causes him to act somewhat erratically, not able to follow the thief's commands, which leads to a young woman getting shot. Crazytown adds another challenge for Shaun, namely Salen implementing a new patient satisfaction scoring system where physicians are now rated by patients how well they are performing. Shaun pointedly rebuked the parents afterwards as they had caused their son to get sick and they subsequently began listening to their son rather than unilaterally making decisions for him. The surgical team from San Jose is given the hard choice to pick the few patients they can treat in the time they are there, having to turn some of them away for various reasons. Shaun comes to San Jose to apply for a job as junior surgical resident at St. Bonaventure Hospital, a job that he is only being considered for because his mentor Dr. Glassman fought for, seeing how he is currently the hospitals president ("Burnt Food"). 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 struggles with the decision not to join Dr. Lim in her fight to get Salen extricated from St. Bonaventure. 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. While visiting the pathology lab, Shaun admits to Carly he had a horrible time and hated the date, causing Carly to visit him at home to talk. In "The Family," despite his initial reluctance to form personal connections with his patients, he becomes close with Isla Liu, opening up to her about his guilt over Steve's death to help Isla with her own guilt. After Jordan urges Glassman to try to learn from Shaun, Glassman gives him the lead on a surgery after Shaun comes up with an innovative solution and takes the chance to learn from Shaun, rather than remaining in charge himself. Shaun is very happy to hear that and welcomes the decision that they are going to have a child. 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. 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