Let's take a look at the plot. The main character, Sean Murphy, has Scholar's Syndrome (a disorder that affects 10% of people with autism), and is a gifted young doctor. He joined St. Bonaventure Hospital in San Jose as a resident after being highly recommended by its president, Aaron.
In contrast to the plodding plots of some American dramas, "The Good Doctor" opens with a dazzling bang. Our hero, Sean, is a genius right out of the gate, with his own 3D brain, so watch out: Sean is able to analyze a patient's body structure in his brain, so what kind of medical drama is this, it's a medical sci-fi drama.
The beauty of American drama is that it's not good enough, it's harsh and realistic.
The genius Sean is not perfect. Growing up autistic, Sean and his older brother Steve ran away from home because they couldn't stand their abusive father. The only brother Steve who could give Sean warmth and love died in front of Sean in an accident.
In the first episode, he goes to the hospital for an interview and is asked why he wants to be a doctor. Sean froze for a long time as the episode flashed back to being with his brother as a child. Then staring with big flashing eyes (hmmm! For a moment I thought Sean was playing a blind man in this show). Speaking of:
"The day I watched my rabbit go to heaven, the day it got to the point where the rain smelled like ice cream. The day the copper pipes in the old building smelled like burnt food. I watched my brother go to heaven, I couldn't save them! Neither of them had a chance to grow up to be adults, they should all be grown up by this time, they should have had children and enjoyed heaven, I wanted to bring their chance to others." Finished with tears in her big eyes, gentle and lonely, just tell me who could refuse such a divine doctor?
After his brother's death, it was Dean Aaron who always gave him the warmest love, also a teacher, a friend and a father, who not only brought him into the halls of medicine, but also brought him to St. Bonaventure Hospital in San Jose. Sean, who became a resident doctor, because of his autism and social ineptitude, often stared at his big flashing eyes and said with an innocent face, "How can a charismatic person lie? Since you've asked me to do chores, I'm sure I can grow in those chores."
Nerdy, lonely, warm, and a genius in general, Sean, even with his medical skills, has moments when he can't do anything to save the day.
Season 1, episode 5, in which Sean meets Ivan, a young patient who looks exactly like his brother, is also the episode that kept me up all night tearing up.
Ivan accidentally breaks his arm in gym class, and while helping Ivan with a brain scan, Sean discovers that the reason Ivan fell is because he has a tumor in the back of his cerebellum.
It turns out that Ivan's parents learned a year ago that their son had been diagnosed with osteosarcoma, and to make matters worse, the angelic Ivan has only one year to live. Ivan's parents wanted him to live a happier life in his remaining days, so they never told Ivan the truth.
Sean looked into the data, hoping to find a cure for Ivan, and even found evidence that Ivan had been misdiagnosed. The results were still brutal; not only had Ivan not been misdiagnosed, but it had metastasized to his lungs, which is why he was coughing up blood.
Ivan, who looks exactly the same as his brother, turned out to have known about his osteosarcoma for a long time, "Which developmental pain in the parents will give the thing to buy a game console, I went online and checked my symptoms and osteosarcoma. But no matter, everyone is going to heaven anyway."
Having watched his brother die in front of him and not being able to do anything about it, the book given to his brother Steve, the last pages of the book that his brother didn't get to finish. Sean's regret is fulfilled here in this episode with Ivan, "Can I read these pages to you?" The name of the book is To Kill a Mockingbird, and after reading the book Sean gently takes out the bookmark inside and silently places the book in Ivan's hands. The next shot is of Sean walking out of the hospital room with tearful eyes, and in a rare outpouring of emotion, the sequence is a storm of tears.
Sean has the superpower of forgetting all kinds of medical knowledge, so his brain is just like a medical computer, and the logic of analyzing all kinds of human structure and nerves is super awesome. He's a brilliant doctor, warm and nerdy, and does his best to help every patient, operating on a girl who does porn, performing a bone transplant on a groom who was in a car accident while getting married, and operating on a boy who is autistic like himself ......
In "The Good Doctor," there are no good doctors with brilliant medical skills, but there are no superheroes who raise the dead! . Death is a necessary lesson that we must face, inescapable yet inevitable. In the face of death, we can only and must be forced to be brave, to say goodbye, to accept our powerlessness, to guard our boundaries, not to over-consume our emotions or over-indulge our grief.
Highly recommended, "The Good Doctor" not only has a warm and powerful plot, but actor Freddie Highmore takes Sean, an autistic man's inner fears and struggles, and gets it just right, vividly and realistically.
The doctor himself, the defective Sean left behind the medical books, walked off the operating table, in the life of this mandatory course to harvest growth, feel love, embrace love. This bowl of healing but not chicken soup, warm but not pretentious, sensational but not deliberate chicken soup I first dry as a toast to the healer, to the life of Hai Hai!