The Good Doctor

Autism... a mental condition

characterized by difficulty in communicating.

Does it sound like I'm describing a surgeon?

You saved his life.

I'm Dr. Shaun Murphy.

Steve: Never forget, you're the smart one

and I'm proud of you, Shaun.

My brother went to Heaven...

...in front of my eyes.

He's got a serious deficit.

Glassman: We hire Shaun,

and we give hope to those people with limitations

that those limitations

are not what they think they are,

that they do have a shot!

If Shaun doesn't live up to everything I know he can do,

I will resign my position as president of this hospital.

Where to?

San Jose St. Bonaventure Hospital.

I'm a surgical resident. Today is my first full day.

I meant floor.

Oh, ground floor.

I'm taking the bus.

[Car horn honks, police siren in distance]

This is Mitchell Brand, 55 years old,

post-op day one from a radical prostatectomy.

Morning, Mitchell. I'm Dr. Melendez.

These are my residents Dr. Browne and Dr. Kalu.

Your surgery went perfectly.

Mitchell: Yeah.

Am I ever gonna walk again?

Yes. Of course.

This is Mitchell Brand. I reviewed his chart.

He's 55 years old from Chicago,

divorced with two children.

You did a radical prostatectomy on him yesterday.

There are many possible complications

but none related to motor neurons.

There is no chance you won't be able to walk.

He... he wasn't worried about his legs.

Oh, yes.

There's a significant chance of impotence.

Dr. Murphy, you're late.

No, the bus was late.

The schedule was clear. They post it online.

But the 4 bus was late which meant...

- You're late. - Five minutes, we've all been...

On your first day, no less. It is your responsibility to be here.

if you are not, you have failed in your responsibility,

- which makes it your fault. - Okay, how can it be my fault?

- I did nothing wrong. The bus... - Yeah.

This is gonna work out great.

The board clearly made the right choice in hiring you.

Thank you.

Orderly: Dr. Melendez, we've got an emergent consult in the E.R.

You should be fine

if you can leave it alone for a couple days.

Dr. Park: Four days of indigestion,

bloating, constipation, and nausea.

- Stephanie: - Melendez: And a lot of pain, apparently.

Yeah.

- Did you give her morphine? - Yeah, 10 milligrams.

Hasn't touched her pain.

You have time to get a CT?

Yeah. That's why I called you.

That's very big.

Yes, it is.

What are we looking at?

Claire: It's definitely abutting the aorta and the left kidney.

Renal angiomyolipoma?

- Do you see an extensive blood supply? - No.

Maybe some kind of neurogenic tumor.

Or maybe a lymphoma.

She has a sarcoma, a malignant tumor.

Malignant?

- That means it's killing me, right? - Yes.

Not necessarily. We're just speculating right now.

No. It's definitely malignant.

If it weren't malignant...

- Please stop saying "malignant." - Should we talk outside?

Give her more morphine. As much as she wants.

- Stephanie: - Okay.

Jared: You scared her.

- Didn't need to be so blunt. - Why?

Her prognosis is terminal

without immediate medical intervention.

Isn't that scary?

Well...

That fear does her no good.

Does she have a malignant sarcoma?

Are we gonna be doing a laparotomy?

We need intra-operative staging for the biopsy,

extensive dissection of the retroperitoneum,

and excision of the mass with wide, clear margins.

I want in.

Claire: You do know you're drooling, right?

About cutting open a 40-year-old woman.

Real person. Right behind that door.

It's called bedside manner...

no such thing as outside-the-door manner.

Shaun: It is exciting, Claire.

We'd be saving a life, and we'd be learning.

See?

Dr. Browne, you're my number two.

- With all due respect, doctor... - Comments that start that way

rarely come across that way.

- I was gonna say that's an excellent call. - Thank you.

- Jared, prep the surgical team. - Sir, what do I do?

- Scut work. - What's scut work?

Today, I'm gonna need my surgeons to have no distractions.

So I'm gonna need you to handle those distractions.

All the work they do every day

that they hate doing,

you're handling it for them.

Melendez: Make sure they know we still need a consent on that one.

Am I being punished for something?

No.

Okay.

So that's it?

You just accept my answer at face value?

Why?

You're very arrogant.

Arrogant people don't think they need to lie.

So you must be doing this to teach me.

I look forward to learning from scut work.

- Say "Ahh." - Ahhh.

How long will this be?

Seven minutes.

Without any complications, it takes seven minutes

to do a discharge examination properly.

Dr. Dunsmuir has already cleared him to go

- and we need the bed. - Okay.

Protocol requires that the surgical department

also clears him.

You have an ear infection.

Yes, that's why he's here.

My hearing's been a little muffled,

and I've had some ringing.

They gave him amoxicillin.

And we're sending him home.

Which is why you're here.

To send him home.

I'd like an MRI

of the head and internal auditory meatus.

I'm not being discharged?

What do you think is wrong?

I'll tell you when I know for sure.

I don't want to scare you.

Shaun.

What are you doing down here?

I'm waiting for her to fart.

Flatulence.

But I'm using the word "fart" in front of the patient

to be more casual.

But you're the president of the hospital,

so I'll say "flatulence" to you.

Well, I appreciate that.

Why are you doing that?

She had her deviated septum repaired.

Before we can release her,

we have to be sure she isn't suffering

from post-operative ileus.

Ah.

This is what Dr. Melendez feels

you'll be most useful doing today?

Waiting for farts?

- I'm not just waiting for farts. - Thank goodness.

I'm doing all the scut work.

Well...

Welcome to your surgical residency.

Thank you.

There. I think that was it.

I don't think so.

I'll wait a little longer.

This is important.