{"id":48496,"date":"2017-10-24T07:22:09","date_gmt":"2017-10-24T07:22:09","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.biphoo.com\/bipnews\/?p=48496"},"modified":"2017-10-24T07:22:09","modified_gmt":"2017-10-24T07:22:09","slug":"the-good-doctor-shaun-fights-to-save-a-boy-with-an-uncanny","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.biphoo.com\/bipnews\/entertainment\/tv\/the-good-doctor-shaun-fights-to-save-a-boy-with-an-uncanny.html","title":{"rendered":"\u2018The Good Doctor\u2019: Shaun Fights To Save A Boy With An Uncanny Resemblance To His Late Brother"},"content":{"rendered":"

A young boy with an extraordinary likeness to Shaun\u2019s late brother is admitted to the hospital, and Shaun goes to great lengths to try to save him.<\/strong><\/span><\/p>\n

Dr. Shaun Murphy (Freddie Highmore) shows up ready for work on time and excited for the day, even adding in some of his own dry sense of humor. Soon, though, that is all disrupted when Shaun sees a patient who looks truly identical to his late brother Steve. The patient\u2019s name is Evan Gallico (Dylan Kingwell) and he\u2019s in the hospital after tripping and breaking his arm during a school trip.<\/span><\/p>\n

Also in San Jose St. Bonaventure Hospital, a man arrives in excruciating pain after going into anaphylactic shock when his son arrived home from an extended stay in Thailand. While the man sits in the hospital, he and his son argue over the son\u2019s whereabouts the last six months. The doctor\u2019s interrupt to reveal they found a lesion on his pancreas and he will need surgery. While this is a small storyline within the episode, the bigger focus is this boy, Evan, with an uncanny resemblance to Shaun\u2019s brother and it\u2019s taken a toll on the resident, which has Dr. Aaron Glassman on edge.<\/span><\/p>\n

As Evan and Shaun bond during his CT Scan, Shaun discovers that Evan has a tumor behind his ear. As he approaches the boy\u2019s parents to tell them the news, Shaun\u2019s surprised to find that they already know about his diagnosis. \u201cEvan was diagnosed with Stage 4 bone cancer. They gave him a year to live\u2026 that was seven months ago,\u201d his mom revealed through tears. Then, the real kicker, the dad added, \u201cHe doesn\u2019t know about his diagnosis. We would really like to keep it that way.\u201d A shocked and seemingly devastated Dr. Shaun Murphy nodded along.<\/span><\/p>\n

Shaun struggles with keeping the news from Evan and battles it out with Dr. Glassman. \u201cWhat\u2019s so wrong with Evan being able to enjoy as much of his life as possible?\u201d Glassman says to Shaun, before realizing that the real reason Shaun is so distraught is that of his brother. Shaun flashes back to gifting his brother To Kill A Mocking Bird for his birthday when they were living in the bus.It\u2019s too late for Glassman to even protest, as Shaun abruptly leaves the lunch table to find Claire. \u201cI need you to lie for me,\u201d he tells her. Claire approaches Evan\u2019s parents to tell them he needs pins in his arm so that Shaun would have the opportunity to run some tests.<\/span><\/p>\n

As Dr. Murphy is pricking and poking at Evan, the two bond more than Shaun has with anyone on the show. As the boys were discussing whether you tell someone the truth even if it will hurt them, Shaun drops the bombshell: \u201cYou have cancer.\u201d Surprisingly, Evan responds \u201cYeah, I know.\u201d He reveals that he Googled my symptoms after spending days in the hospital for what he thought was a sore shin and figured out he had cancer or growing pains. However, Evan reveals, \u201cI\u2019m not afraid to die. I\u2019m not afraid about the actual death part. If I believe in Heaven then I have to believe in God. It\u2019s just easier to think that it\u2019s all random, and then when it\u2019s over, it\u2019s just over.\u201d Whoa. Some major insight to hold on to from this wise boy.<\/span><\/p>\n

Shaun digs into his research and figures out that Evan may have been misdiagnosed. After pitching his idea to Dr. Neil Melendez (Nicholas Gonzalez) and concluding that there is only a .3% chance he is correct, Melendez shuts him down and tells him to leave it alone. However, this is Dr. Shaun Murphy and Evan is not a regular patient. Shaun goes to Glassman asking him for advice on lying, goes behind Melendez\u2019s back and tries to conduct a bone marrow extraction to do the final test and make sure Evan doesn\u2019t have cancer.<\/span><\/p>\n

While Shaun is trying to hide what he\u2019s doing, Evan sees right through Shaun telling him that the tests he\u2019s running are \u201cno biggie.\u201d He reveals to Evan that he may have been misdiagnosed, and, as Shaun prepares to take the bone marrow, Evan\u2019s parents burst through the door. Recall, the two don\u2019t know that Evan even knows about his cancer diagnosis, so they\u2019re not only horrified that a doctor is about to take bone marrow from their son, but they\u2019re devastated to find their son knows about his terminal diagnosis. However, as Evan\u2019s father pushes Shaun out of the room, Evan starts to vomit blood and is rushed into surgery. While Melendez successfully removed Evan\u2019s embolism, he found lesions on his ribs \u2014 evidence that cancer spread to his chest cavity.<\/span><\/p>\n

As Shaun looks on at Evan reuniting with his parents after surgery, he flashes back to the dark moments following Steve\u2019s funeral. Young Shaun is seen sitting alone on the bus in his suit and tie, unsure where to go next. He sees To Kill A Mockingbird sitting on Steve\u2019s bed and notices he was only three pages away from finishing. Back in the present, Shaun approaches Evan once the coast is clear, pulls up a chair and asks if he can read him something. Shaun brings out the haggard copy of To Kill A Mockingbird, removes the bookmark from where Steve left it and reads the final three pages. It is the most gut-wrenching, emotional and human moments of the entire season so far.<\/span><\/p>\n

Source<\/strong>:\u00a0http:\/\/hollywoodlife.com\/2017\/10\/23\/the-good-doctor-shaun-murphy-brother-patient-cancer-recap\/<\/span><\/p>\n

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