GOOD DOCTOR, THE: SHE (TV)

Summary

One in this dramatic medical series, based on the South Korean series of the same name, about Shaun Murphy, a young and brilliant surgeon with autism and savant syndrome.

In this episode, Dr. Morgan Reznick joins the team and is paired with Brown when Melendez and Lim decide to have a patient-satisfaction competition. Murphy, teamed up with Kalu and assigned to treat teenage Quinn Darby, immediately refuses to accept Quinn's identity as a transgender girl, feeling that genitals and chromosomes make "him" a boy. Melendez, Reznick, and Brown treat Howard Shaw, a widowed father of two who has ruptured his appendix with a dangerous combination of at-home drug treatments; elsewhere, Andrews and Barnes, worried that they have waited too long to have children, undergo fertility tests. Murphy peppers Quinn with tactless questions about why she "thinks she's a girl" as Kalu tries to explain her dysphoria. Murphy quickly realizes that she has testicular cancer as well as osteopenia, or low bone density, caused by the puberty blockers that she has been hiding from her disapproving grandmother. Reznick reminds Brown that they are competitors, not friends, as Brown shows a warm sense of bedside manner toward Shaw, who is desperate to return to his kids.

Murphy advises a distressed Quinn to cease taking the puberty blockers; when Reznick cozies up to the pharmacist to get a rush on Shaw's labs, she finds that he has a bacterium that is resistant to all antibiotics, thanks to his unwise self-treatments, and can only be treated with a life-altering colostomy bag. Murphy causes further trouble when he suggests that Quinn should have a bilateral orchiectomy to prevent both further bone damage and development of male characteristics. Her grandmother, refusing to accept her identity and wishing to preserve her fertility, refuses. Kalu complains that they have surely lost the competition thanks to Murphy's attitude toward Quinn and her family. Andrews and Barnes argue about her decision to put off having a child for the sake of her career — only to find that the medical fertility problem lies with him, not her. Glassman gently warns Quinn's parents that her grandmother may try to sue for custody on "child abuse" grounds; her parents agree to the surgery that Quinn wants.

Brown, taken aback when Reznick seems disinterested in Shaw's "major bummer" of a situation, comes up with a risky but intriguing idea to introduce "healthy flora" into Shaw's body and thereby cure his illness without lasting effects. Glassman sits down with Quinn's family as her parents try to explain her profound unhappiness when forced to live as a boy; Melendez agrees to Brown's daring suggestion, for which Reznick attempts to share credit. Quinn tells Murphy about her feeling of freedom when finally allowed to embrace her female self. When she experiences dangerous testicular torsion and the doctors need an immediate decision, her parents agree to preserve the non-cancerous testicle for her potential fertility later on. Murphy and Kalu figure out her source of internal bleeding as a grateful Shaw makes a full recovery — for which he seems to credit Reznick more than Brown. Quinn is frustrated to hear about the unilateral surgery, telling Andrews that she can adopt if she desires children. Brown and Reznick are deemed the patient-satisfaction winners, earning Melendez a dollar from Lim. He advises Brown to continue making proactive suggestions as she did with Shaw. Murphy finally calls Quinn "she"; after pointedly rejecting Glassman's invitation, he enlists his neighbor Kenny to help him break into a pool, where he tries to understand Quinn's description of blissful "floating" as her true self. Includes commercials and promos.

Details

• NETWORK: ABC
• DATE: 10:00 PM
• RUNNING TIME: 0:58:48
• COLOR/B&W: Color
• CATALOG ID: 132211
• GENRE: Drama, medical
• SUBJECT HEADING: LGBTQ+ Collection - Drama; Drama, medical; Transgender people; Cancer; Bacterial diseases; Asian American Pacific Islanders Collection
• SERIES RUN: ABC - TV series, 2017-
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  • TV - Promos - "American Idol"
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  • TV - Promos - "For the People"
  • TV - Promos - "Grey's Anatomy"
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CREDITS

• Daniel Dae Kim … Executive Producer, Developed by
• David Shore … Executive Producer, Developed by
• Seth Gordon … Executive Producer, Director
• David Kim … Executive Producer
• Sebastian Lee … Executive Producer
• Thomas L. Moran … Executive Producer
• Mike Listo … Executive Producer
• Lindsay Goffman … Co-Executive Producer
• Erin Gunn … Co-Executive Producer
• William L. Rotko … Co-Executive Producer
• David Hoselton … Co-Executive Producer
• Simran Baidwan … Supervising Producer, Writer
• Konshik Yu … Producer
• Min Soo Kee … Producer
• Freddie Highmore … Producer
• Shawn Williamson … Producer
• Rebecca Moline … Co-Producer
• Lloyd Gilyard Jr. … Writer
• Dan Romer … Music by
• Freddie Highmore … Cast, Dr. Shaun Murphy
• Nicholas Gonzalez … Cast, Dr. Neil Melendez
• Antonia Thomas … Cast, Dr. Claire Browne
• Chuku Modu … Cast, Dr. Jared Kalu
• Beau Garrett … Cast, Jessica Preston
• Tamlyn Tomita … Cast, Allegra Aoki
• Hill Harper … Cast, Dr. Marcus Andrews
• Richard Schiff … Cast, Dr. Aaron Glassman
• JoBeth Williams … Cast, Ruth
• Chris D'Elia … Cast, Kenny
• Christina Chang … Cast, Dr. Audrey Lim
• Marsha Thomason … Cast, Dr. Isabel Barnes
• Fiona Gubelmann … Cast, Dr. Morgan Reznick
• Sophie Giannamore … Cast, Quinn Darby
• Adam J. Smith … Cast, Howard Shaw
• Michelle Morgan … Cast, Quinn's Mother
• Keith Allan … Cast, Ty Darby
• Kristin Lehman … Cast, Finola
• Teryl Rothery … Cast, JL
• Adil Zaidi … Cast, Nurse Dhanoa
• Alvina August … Cast, Nurse Paikin
• Zahf Paroo … Cast, Dr. Ashique Selim
• London Cardinal … Cast, Keira Shaw
• Waverly Cardinal … Cast, Sammy Shaw
• Nelson Wong … Cast, Lab Tech