Shaun’s refusal to work with Charlie was the very best factor that might have occurred to her.
On The Good Physician Season 7 Episode 4, Charlie helped Park, Jared, and Jordan devise a workable answer for a affected person who was reluctant to endure mind surgical procedure whereas Shaun labored on a unique case.
Charlie had her probability to shine, and she or he did so superbly. Ought to she quit on Shaun?
Though Charlie nonetheless made a number of inappropriate feedback, she wasn’t almost as annoying — or possibly the remainder of her mentors had been simply extra tolerant of her quirks.
Charlie’s insertion of her opinion about Nathan and Jordan flirting wasn’t that far off from how the remainder of the docs discuss to one another. Jordan constantly and gently reminded her to maintain it skilled as a substitute of dropping her mood. That made a giant distinction.
Charlie Demonstrated She Belongs at St. Bonaventure
All through the hour, Charlie contributed loads to the case she was engaged on.
When Jared and Jordan had been busy discussing Jordan’s love life, Charlie was centered on medication and got here up with a number of concepts. Later, she discovered an obscure examine that pointed to an experimental therapy that met Nathan’s wants.
She confirmed off her medical abilities for the primary time, which she does not get to do with Shaun. He shoots down each thought she has and does not need her to speak.
His frustration on The Good Physician Season 7 Episode 3 was comprehensible since Charlie refused to simply accept suggestions. However her interactions with the remainder of the workers had been a lot much less annoying that I puzzled if the issue was Shaun.
“Persistence” and “tolerance” are usually not phrases in Shaun’s vocabulary. He needs issues the way in which he needs them, and he doesn’t need medical college students speaking incessantly.
It’s going to be laborious for Charlie to simply accept that the person she idolizes cannot stand to be in the identical room together with her. However when she’s not round Shaun, she will do much better work and is not always subjected to putdowns and harsh criticism.
Is she masking (trying to cover her quirks in order that she’ll slot in) when she’s round neurotypical docs?
She could permit herself to be extra authentically autistic round Shaun as a result of she thinks he’ll perceive. In that case, that is backfiring badly, as Shaun has written her off due to behaviors that irritate him.
The Good Physician Missed a Probability To Show Charlie’s Empathy
Opposite to a pernicious fantasy, autistic individuals aren’t devoid of empathy. Usually, we really feel different individuals’s feelings to such a level that we shut down as a result of it is too uncomfortable and intense.
The Good Physician didn’t push again towards the concept that autistic means missing empathy in Charlie’s storyline.
Nathan did not wish to have the surgical procedure as a result of he was afraid he would lose his listening to and now not be capable of sing. It could have been pure for Charlie to empathize with that.
Many autistic individuals have particular pursuits that they cannot think about life with out, simply as Nathan could not think about a life with out singing. It could have been a shifting psychological well being story if Charlie had linked with Nathan by bringing that up.
Nathan and Jordan vs. Jordan and Jared
I am not often a fan of affection triangles, particularly when the writers make clear who the individual will find yourself with when the mud settles, however Jordan made up her thoughts too shortly.
Was anybody else unhappy when she turned Nathan down? If he is every thing she’s praying for, it appears to me that embracing the unknown would imply giving him an opportunity.
Jordan needs to expertise life with Jared, so her resolution is smart. However it nonetheless felt just like the incorrect one.
He is tachycardic and heat. That is not per an OD. I feel he is having a stroke.
Jordan
A minimum of she and Nathan had the sense to attend till he was now not her affected person earlier than they thought of taking their relationship to the subsequent stage. So many docs on TV ignore that moral boundary, and it is develop into a drained TV trope (and a fairly gross one.)
Melendez and Lim had been dangerous sufficient, however at the least they had been each docs. We do not want different docs sneaking round so far somebody they should not.
Shaun’s Try to Search Steadiness Labored Effectively
Previously, I have never had a lot use for Shaun and Lea as a pair. However the two of them making an attempt to determine methods to spend time collectively now that they’ve a child was a compelling, relatable story.
Their try to make time for one another led to some humorous moments. I laughed at how Shaun signed his be aware to Lea, and the scene the place they tried to provide Jordan a billion directions was hilarious.
Solely Shaun Murphy would put collectively a thick e book to information the babysitter.
Jordan’s response to Shaun and Lea’s anxious instruction-giving was good. It is too dangerous she solely had a couple of minutes to show she was as much as the duty earlier than Lea and Shaun known as it an evening.
Shaun’s concentrate on the small print of the karaoke bar that had modified was so typical of Shaun. However Lea stole the present together with her commentary on their date.
I am sorry, this isn’t like previous instances. It isn’t simply the tequila and music which have modified. All the pieces’s modified. How I see the world, how I see you. One teeny tiny child, and the entire world appears to be like completely different.
Lea
Parenthood is a big adjustment, and Shaun and Lea are studying that as they go. Their dilemmas are sometimes foolish or annoying, however this one was one which many dad and mom may relate to.
Shaun’s Case Supplied an Attention-grabbing Parallel
Shaun might need been harried and exhausted, however he and Lea had their reminiscences intact, a blessing his affected person’s scenario made extra poignant.
Cam did not keep in mind Gilly, and she or he was contemplating terminating their child so she may dedicate herself full-time to his care, making them the precise reverse of Shaun and Lea, who had been looking for time for one another whereas caring for their toddler son.
Shaun offered a medical miracle on the final second. Thank goodness he found out what was incorrect earlier than Gilly went by way of with the abortion.
This is not about whether or not abortion is ethical. Gilly had absolutely the proper to have one if she determined that is what she wished.
Nevertheless, she was solely contemplating it as a result of she did not suppose she may maintain each her husband and a child, so it might have devastated each of them if he’d turned out to be okay after she’d already terminated the being pregnant.
Lim’s Mom’s Story Went in a Predictable Route
Lim’s mom confirmed up out of nowhere, pressed her daughter to work much less, and went out with Glassman when Lim did not wish to go.
The second she and Glassman met up for the purchasing journey, I knew they might find yourself collectively. Hopefully, Lim will not trigger them to break up for the sake of drama.
Glassman was extra relaxed than he’d been in months, however we already know from the spoiler video for The Good Physician Season 7 Episode 5 that Lim is not going to love this one bit. Ugh.
Some Extra Foolish Park/Morgan Stuff
Park and Morgan have lastly stopped bickering, not a minute too quickly.
I discover it obnoxious after they snark at one another, even when they discover it a turn-on. Nevertheless, this fixed seek for a spot to have intercourse wasn’t a lot better.
Morgan: It has been nearly two months. Park: Now we have the right excuse. Morgan: Individuals with youngsters have intercourse, proper?
A minimum of Morgan did not imitate Days of Our Lives’ Sloan Petersen, who’s jealous of the eye her husband offers the newborn and desires he’d cease to allow them to have intercourse. When Morgan first introduced up intercourse, I used to be afraid that is the place this was going.
I may have accomplished with out them making an attempt to do it in a provide closet and Lim’s workplace, even when that did give us some comedian reduction.
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The Good Physician airs on ABC on Tuesdays at 10./9/c.
