Glassman’s mini-stroke should not have led to him realizing he could not function anymore.
On The Good Physician Season 6 Episode 21, Shaun grew to become a ache in Glassman’s ass, consistently standing over him and insisting he did not know what he was doing.
After which, when Glassman was too distracted by Shaun’s nonsense to verbalize his subsequent step, Glassman concluded that Shaun had been proper all alongside to need him to cease doing surgical procedures.
I get that the writers had been going for a transferring story about Glassman realizing he may not do the issues he used to do, however they did not pull it off.
Glassman appeared 100% competent till the final second. That is not a narrative. That is the writers pulling the rug out from beneath us for the sake of the plot.
It could have been one factor if, all through the season, we would had a seamless arc involving Glassman seeming to have misplaced his contact or made errors that put his competency doubtful.
As an alternative, his solely issues had been minor issues that did not matter, and Shaun got here throughout as obsessive about proving Glassman’s mind wasn’t functioning nicely.
The largest mistake Glassman made was not eradicating Shaun from the OR remark deck earlier in order that Shaun could not distract him. He did a fancy surgical procedure completely nice, even clamping a bleed that everybody else doubted was coming from the place he stated it was coming from.
Then Shaun demanded he show his competence, and he froze. Was that harmful for the affected person? Sure. Was it as a result of Glassman was not competent to do surgical procedure? Under no circumstances.
Glassman: I would like Shaun off the case.
Lim: It is his affected person.
Glassman: I do not need to crack somebody’s cranium open whereas somebody is standing subsequent to me who’s ready for me to screw up.
That occurred as a result of Shaun wasn’t leaving him alone, not as a result of he couldn’t do surgical procedure when not distracted by an boastful resident who was decided to show him incompetent.
Lim even informed Shaun to not observe, but agreed that Glassman ought to verbalize his subsequent step when she had been working facet by facet with him and noticed he was competent.
Glassman’s takeaway from this could not have been that Shaun and Lim had been proper and that it was in his sufferers’ greatest curiosity for him to cease working.
It ought to have been that his intuition to take away Shaun from the room was right and that he ought to work for a special hospital the place folks weren’t rooting for him to fail for no cause.
This wasn’t about Shaun seeing one thing that nobody else noticed. It was about him being so decided to be proper that he created the state of affairs that “proved” his level.
The stupidest factor about this was that Glassman had misplaced curiosity in surgical procedures way back, however he was pushed again into it.
He had been glad working in his clinic — if folks had left him alone, he would not have been within the OR doing difficult surgical procedures once more, and this problem would by no means have come up.
Glassman was indignant that Shaun was “proper however humiliated him.” He ought to have been livid that Shaun undermined him and made it seem he was incompetent when he wasn’t.
Now, Shaun goes to attempt to get Glassman to forgive him. So we’re proper again the place we had been initially of the season when Glassman was indignant that Shaun did not hearken to him about which surgical procedure to do on Lim.
That point, Glassman was fallacious.
This time, Shaun was.
Both approach, this season has had extra episodes involving Glassman giving Shaun the silent therapy than not. Cannot the writers discover something higher to do with these two?
Shaun’s affected person was parallel to the Glassman state of affairs otherwise that was barely touched upon. The affected person’s mind tumor had modified his persona for the higher, and he did not need to have surgical procedure although Shaun thought that was greatest for him.
Glassman did not assume he may do something in regards to the affected person’s choice and initially advocated for him to have a shorter lifespan and a greater relationship together with his daughter.
It could have been unbelievable for this story to assist Shaun perceive why he wanted to depart Glassman alone as an alternative of ending within the contrived approach it did.
Glassman: He would not need the tumor eliminated, so I see nothing to debate.
Shaun: THe tumor is urgent on his frontal lobes so he’s not competent to make that call.
Glassman: You assume I’m not competent to be a physician, so there’s that.
This story was juxtaposed with a miserable story a couple of terminally sick youngster and a father who did not need to let go.
I cringed when Andrews referred to as Sebastian egocentric. He was proper, however these had been harsh phrases for a grieving father. Could not Andrews have gotten his level throughout in a extra compassionate approach?
The Morgan child stuff was predictable however cute. I knew Morgan would really feel overwhelmed when the joy over adopting a child subsided.
Anybody who has had youngsters may relate to Morgan’s frustration with Eden’s refusal to cease screaming and fall asleep. Morgan just isn’t precisely often called probably the most affected person individual on the planet, so it was refreshing that she discovered methods to bond with the child regardless of the problem.
Park was at his greatest when telling tales about his experiences when his son was an toddler. He and Morgan dropped the sniping, making their time collectively much more gratifying.
They nearly felt like co-parents. If they’ll keep like this, I’d get behind this couple.
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The Good Physician airs on ABC on Mondays at 10 PM EST / PST. The season finale airs on Might 1, 2023.
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