It is by no means straightforward when your hero falls from the excessive pedestal you have put them on in your thoughts.
On The Good Doctor Season 4 Episode 17, each Claire and Andrews had to deal with somebody they admired turning out to be extra frail than they cared to confess.
Elsewhere, Shaun’s refusal to take care of his grief led to one of the compelling The Good Physician Season four medical storylines.
Claire should know by now to not idolize anybody.
She tends to see one of the best in folks and is at all times shattered after they transform merely human, and this time was worse than ever as a result of it was somebody she had idolized for years.
Marian lives in a world of spin and preserving optics above all else, so she and Claire had been by no means going to talk the identical language.
However discovering that damage Claire extra deeply than it ought to have.
To a sure extent, it was inevitable that Claire’s worth system would conflict along with her one-time hero’s.
Claire: I feel lots of people would have sympathy for you.
Marianne: We do not vote for folks primarily based on sympathy. We would like sturdy leaders.
The writing was already on the wall when Claire butted heads with Marian over whether or not or to not depart her twitch alone.
Marian was so satisfied that it might wreck her picture with potential voters that having any type of minor imperfection wasn’t an choice for her.
It was unhappy that Marian felt such strain to be good, but it surely was comprehensible given the media scrutiny she’s below.
We have all seen tales speculating on politicians’ well being primarily based on minor points, and he or she did not wish to danger her profession getting derailed.
Tales like this make it obviously apparent that The Good Physician wants a employees psychiatrist.
If this had been Chicago Med or New Amsterdam, there in all probability would have been a psych seek the advice of as a part of her determination to go forward with a dangerous surgical procedure fairly than dwell with a minor concern.
As a substitute, we had been left with Claire’s makes an attempt to play counselor with Marian, which went nowhere.
Claire was in all probability proper concerning the state of Marian’s marriage, however Marian won’t ever admit it. And if she feels fulfilled in her life, who’s to say that her selections are flawed, even when they are not how most of us dwell?
After all, most of Claire’s discontent would have been prevented had Marian not chosen to inform an pointless fact. Claire did not have to know that the little lady with facial deformities did not actually exist.
How bizarre was it that the grasp of spin and lies blurted out an inconvenient fact that brought on Claire inside angst?
Was she imagined to be crazy from the anesthesia or what?
I am unsure how I really feel about Marian’s justification for making up that story about Evie St. Clair.
Fictional lives can save actual lives.
Marian
As somebody who writes fiction to empower others, I applaud her sentiment about tales being a robust software for change. However fiction disguised as truth isn’t the identical factor.
Then again, what distinction did it make now? The story impressed Claire and now she’s a physician.
It is not like she’s going to vary careers as a result of there was no youngster with a extreme incapacity insisting on getting an training. Moreover, even when that story was made up, I am certain there’s a actual youngster on the earth someplace who has struggled with that actual concern.
And Marian’s made-up tales had been meant to encourage, not hurt anybody. So it in all probability would have behooved Claire to simply let it go.
As traditional, Morgan was a sanctimonious ache within the neck whose opinion wasn’t needed or wanted. I nonetheless do not fairly get the purpose of this character, however a minimum of she wasn’t bugging Park this time.
The storyline with Park, Shaun, and Andrews was in some ways extra compelling than the Claire storyline.
Shaun could have been utilizing the hospital to run away from his and Lea’s grief, but it surely led The Good Physician again to its roots: Shaun vs. established docs who do not perceive him or his strategies.
The unique premise of the sequence has been misplaced considerably and as an alternative, the sequence focuses on the brand new first-years whereas Shaun’s tales are normally Lea-focused.
However not this time.
The brand new residents had little to no presence for as soon as and Shaun’s grief brought on him to revert to his blunt, by accident offensive method and to insist he was proper irrespective of who it aggravated.
Who else winced when he instructed that Dr. Nakano was too outdated to see the reality? I simply knew that fake pas was going to trigger hassle.
In a means, although, Andrews was in the same state of affairs to Claire.
Nakano was his mentor, who he very a lot admired, and that made him twice as laborious on Shaun, although it was fascinating that he defended him in personal to Nakano.
I additionally favored that Nakano wasn’t a complete ass who purely hated Shaun. He did not like that Shaun was disrespectful, however Shaun’s evaluation that he could be forgiven when confirmed proper turned out to be appropriate… simply not about his preliminary analysis, which was off-base.
And naturally, Shaun would have gotten additional if he’d instructed the aortic dissection as a risk as an alternative of insisting that that Nakano screwed up, however that is not in Shaun’s nature.
It was ironic in a means that Nakano determined to retire as a result of he made a minuscule error after combating with Shaun over whether or not he’d made an even bigger one, and doubly in order that Shaun instructed him a small mistake should not matter.
It is a disgrace he did not stick round, as he would have been an ideal addition to the hospital and Andrews might use a pal who’s his equal.
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