The Good Doctor

You okay?

I stamped and addressed all the Save the Date cards.

I hope two months' notice is enough.

The wedding planning books all said four to six is best.

You definitely could have waited until you had a day off.

I couldn't sleep.

I'm sorry.

I know change is hard for you.

Salen's changes are not hard because of my ASD.

The new soap, hand dryers, and scrubs

are all inferior to what we had before.

Now I have to bring my own soap and paper towels.

I've seen you adapt to things before.

Like the toilet paper and how I cut avocados.

She uses the same stuff at her other hospitals,

and the staff apparently likes them.

I need to show her my evidence.

I'm sure Salen has her own evidence.

She's all about collecting data.

I'm not wrong.

I didn't say you were.

Maybe you should see what the others think first.

If the studies prove I'm right,

what others think doesn't matter.

To you, yes,

but she installed smile-frown buttons in every room.

To get Salen to change her mind,

you need to think about what's important to her, not you.

That is...

Good advice.

Uh, thank you.

You're welcome.

And thank you for taking care of these.

I will mail them out today.

This is so exciting.

Yes, it is.

Well, you signed a year lease.

Might be worth buying a couch, putting some art on the wall.

The art I like I can't afford.

And you didn't like watching TV in bed?

I definitely liked not watching TV in bed.

At least get a damn coffee maker.

Si, Jefa.

Andrews is tu jefe now.

Mmm, suerte la mia.

I know it's been a while since you've been supervised.

I've got enough on my plate dealing with Salen,

so please... Make it work.

I've worked with trust fund donors and dictators.

I can manage Andrews.

** Oh, what a beautiful morning

** Oh, what a beautiful day

Somebody's in a good mood.

Just had my first personal training session

in our new fitness center.

I highly recommend Rafael.

Cute? Very.

And he knows just how hard to push when stretching you out.

I'll stick to working out at home.

Where he can pretend he's Rocky Balboa.

More like Soo Woong Lee.

Salen would probably install a heavy bag if you asked.

She seems eager to upgrade the amenities.

She's eager for a reduced rate on our health insurance, which a gym gives her.

And you prefer she pay more?

After she's done with the paint and window treatments,

the cuts will come.

You're complaining about upgrades you agree with

because you're annoyed about cuts

that haven't even been proposed?

If you're so optimistic,

why were you tossing and turning all night?

I was hot, and I hate your mattress.

Don't you have an ACL to repair?

It was in the low 60s last night.

I got tacos on the way home,

and then I couldn't...

You know, while we were in bed.

I am still in so much pain and totally bloated.

Would you fart in front of a boyfriend? Absolutely no.

I'm all for being real, but not that...

Good morning.

We were just saying...

How much we love the gym. It's...

Stop talking.

I had an inspiration in the shower.

I never wait to jot down a good idea.

All right.

First time I sleep over at a guy's place,

in the morning, while he's in the shower,

I go in, take a seat on the toilet, drop a deuce.

Really separates the men from the boys.

We need some help over here!

27-year-old male. Severe craniofacial trauma.

Non-responsive. Breathing's shallow.

Need an airway cart and ICP bolt set-up.

He get hit by a car?

His front tire got caught in a drain grate.

Flew over the handlebars and crashed face-first into the curb.

His mouth is full of blood.

We need to secure his airway before we lose it.

I need to get a brain and face CT.

We're also going to need 3-D CT recon scans.

To create a stereolithographic model of the two...

Actually three surgeries he'll need

to repair his mandible, nasal bones, frontal sinus,

and skull and the orbital blowout fractures.

Damn. That's gonna be awesome.

That we get to help him.

It's also going to be some very cool surgeries.

Thank you.

Surgery number one will be a creation of

a submental airway.

The new soap smells awful

and it takes too long to rinse.

Do you agree? I like it.

Surgery number two will be an ORIF

to repair his nasoorbitoethmoid frontal bone

and sinus fractures.

And the jet air hand dryers are too loud,

and they aerosolize germs, increasing their spread.

They're better for the environment,

and if you've washed properly,

there shouldn't be any germs to spread.

Okay, you're wrong.

I'll show you the research before I talk to Salen.

The third and final surgery will be ORIF

of the bilateral mandible fractures, ZMC,

and complex repair of all orbital fractures

with free tissue transfer, customized miniplates,

and PEEK implants.

This is gonna be awesome.

You're gonna talk to Salen about the hand dryers?

And the soap and scrubs.

Start prepping him for the submental airway

while I brief Dr. Lim.

There's new soap?

The device was implanted into my skull two years ago.

And you're still experiencing the seizures.

No.

For the first time in my life, I'm able to go on walks alone,

drive a car, actually interact with clients at work.

Well, if it's working so well, why does Dr. Karlson want to take it out?

The company that made the implant

wants to turn it off.

That doesn't make any sense.

They can't force her to have it removed.

Yeah, but they can stop

the software updates it needs to work,

which could make her seizures even worse.

The implant's an experimental prototype.

Worked only for a tiny percentage of patients,

which makes it not profitable enough to continue support.

That's absurd. It's evil.

It's capitalism.

Karlson's right. It has to come out.

But he's wrong that going back to the old meds

is her best treatment option.

What if we swapped the RNS device

for a vagal nerve stimulator?

She already had one. Didn't work.

I was thinking laser interstitial thermal therapy.

Would only be partially effective.

She was having 50 seizures a day.

"Partially" can make a big difference in her life.

Not big enough.

What about combining multiple subpial transections

within the eloquent cortex with intraoperative ECoG

to resect the adjacent seizure focus?

That would be complex, and being even a few millimeters off target

could leave her a hemiplegic.

Could happen... If another surgeon was doing it.

I'm confident with you at the helm, we can pull it off.

Trying to "manage up"

is not the way to get an idea approved by me.

But I'll never turn down a good idea

because it was presented poorly.

And it's actually a great idea.

I see you've scheduled a surgery

that has no billing code

because it's never been done before.

Yes, the client consented,

and we've already gotten insurance pre-approval.

Fantastic. Have you also run it past legal?

Why would we do that?

Because we could get sued and it sounds risky.

Is there a Plan B?

There isn't a comparable option. Not even remotely?

Well, as is usually the case, there is a less risky option,

but would also be less effective.

Seems better to start with an approach

that leaves us with less liability.

But as long as it's covered by insurance...

It's your call.

That was weird.

More like totally inappropriate.

Hold up.

She's not even a doctor.

She is our boss.

So we're gonna tell the patient,