Draft:The Good Doctor season 7

The Good Doctor
Season 7
No. of episodes	10
Release
Original network	ABC
Original release	February 20 (2024-02-20) – May 21, 2024 (2024-05-21)
Season chronology

The seventh season of The Good Doctor premiered on February 20, 2024, on ABC.

Cast

Main

• Freddie Highmore as Dr. Shaun Murphy
• Nicholas Gonzalez as Dr. Neil Melendez
• Antonia Thomas as Dr. Claire Browne
• Chuku Modu as Dr. Jared Kalu
• Beau Garrett as Jessica Preston
• Irene Keng as Dr. Elle McLean
• Hill Harper as Dr. Marcus Andrews
• Richard Schiff as Dr. Aaron Glassman
• Tamlyn Tomita as Allegra Aoki

Recurring

• Fiona Gubelmann as Dr. Morgan Reznick
• Will Yun Lee as Dr. Alex Park
• Christina Chang as Dr. Audrey Lim
• Paige Spara as Lea Dilallo-Murphy
• Jasika Nicole as Dr. Carly Lever
• Dylan Kingwell as Steve Murphy
• Elfina Luk as Nurse Dalisay Villanueva
• Teryl Rothery as Dr. Jan Lancaster
• Chris D'Elia as Kenny
• Sheila Kelley as hospital barista Debbie Wexler

Guest

• Sharon Leal as Breeze Browne

Episodes

Main article: List of The Good Doctor episodes

No. overall	No. in season	Title	Directed by	Written by	Original air date	U.S. viewers (millions)
117	1	"Baby, Baby, Baby"	Rebecca Moline	Liz Friedman & Jessica Grasl	February 20, 2024 (2024-02-20)	2.86
Shaun and Lea clash over how to handle baby Steve who is now two weeks old. Shaun returns to work and joins Lim in treating baby Jack Pierce who desperately needs a new heart. However, complications arise when Morgan's adopted daughter Eden needs a new heart as well. Shaun is forced to make the difficult decision to give the heart to Jack who is sicker, but he comes up with a plan to transplant Jack's healthy valves into Eden in order to save her. Although there are some minor complications, both surgeries are successful. Morgan attempts to handle everything herself rather than relying on Park, but after he confronts her about it, she changes her mind, even referring to Eden as their child. Jordan struggles with feelings of isolation after Danny's departure, but goes out to eat with Jared after the case. Following Andrews' departure, both Glassman and Lim attempt to get the other elected Interim President of the hospital, resulting in them becoming Co-Interim Presidents instead. Although Glassman is still at odds with Shaun, he takes Steve to let Shaun and Lea get some sleep and introduces himself as the baby's grandfather.
118	2	"Skin in the Game"	Freddie Highmore	Garrett Lerner & Nathalie Touboul	February 27, 2024 (2024-02-27)	2.52
Shaun, Jared, Jordan and new autistic med student Charlie Lukaitis treat a man named Rich who has silicosis and needs new lungs. Charlie idolizes Shaun, but her constant mistakes rub Shaun the wrong way. Charlie accidentally finds out that Rich's daughter Grace is a sex worker, which causes Rich to back out of the surgery when she tells him. Shaun convinces Rich to accept his daughter regardless of what she does for a living. Park, Asher and another newbie, also Charlie's friend, Dominick Hubank deal with Sal, a gambler who has a brain tumour. Park is distrustful of Sal, but decides to do the surgery on him, which is successful, but he doesn't keep his promise to quit gambling. Lea struggles with giving Steve formula instead of breast milk and bonds with Morgan over how challenging motherhood is. Glassman and Lim keep trying to outdo each other on their first day as interim co-presidents, but they eventually call a truce to share the workload fairly. Shaun refuses to attend Morgan's party for Eden as he doesn't want to see Glassman due to him not showing up for Steve's birth, but he changes his mind; Shaun and Glassman come to terms with their conflict and apologize to each other.
119	3	"Critical Support"	James Genn	Thomas L. Moran	March 19, 2024 (2024-03-19)	2.15
Shaun, Jared, Asher and Charlie treat Phipps, a college student who injured his head during a fraternity party. Shaun becomes irritated by Charlie's intrusive and unprofessional behavior, but she refuses to admit any wrongdoing. Lim and Glassman's differing work methods to appease to the hospital board cause them to give conflictive advice to Shaun on how to handle Charlie. As he is about to perform surgery on Phipps, Charlie asks to feel the gall bladder until she finds a sharp item in it, leading to the realization that Phipps has metals in his body, which Shaun safely removes. Despite Charlie's breakthrough, Shaun tells her that she is unfit to be a surgeon. Lim and Glassman try to convince Shaun to give Charlie a chance, but he refuses, reminding them of similar situations he had faced with people like Melendez, Andrews and Han when he started working. Meanwhile, Park, Dominick and Jerome work on a man whose hand was caught in a meat grinder. Despite Dominick's fear of blood, he proves to be useful in saving the man's hand. Morgan tells Lea that she is appointing her and Shaun as Eden's guardians should anything happen to her. She is initially reluctant to add Park as a guardian too, but she changes her mind after Dominick praises him as a doctor and a person. Asher meets Jerome's family at his niece's confirmation party.
120	4	"Date Night"	Allison Liddi Brown	David Hoselton & Tracy Taylor	March 26, 2024 (2024-03-26)	2.51
Shaun, Dominick and Asher treat 38-year-old Cameron, who has early onset Alzheimer’s disease and crashed his car, and whose wife Gilly is pregnant, but fears that taking care of both him and the baby will be too much for her to bear. However, Shaun later determines that Cameron doesn't actually have Alzheimer’s and was instead suffering from a compressed jugular, making him viable to operate on surgery. Meanwhile, Jordan, Jared, Park and Charlie are trying to figure out how to help Nathan, a friend from Jordan's church choir, whose hearing he fears will be affected by the removal of a benign brain tumor. Charlie's AI research ultimately proves to be useful to remove the tumor without damaging his hearing. Lim's mother, Eileen, makes a surprise visit, but Lim brushes off her concerns on her wellbeing and asks Glassman to take her shopping in exchange for covering him for two meetings with the board. Park and Morgan try to get intimate since the last time they were together, but their efforts are interrupted by Eden, Lim and Charlie, and it takes a trivial argument for them to finally go through with it. Shaun and Lea have barely spoken to each other due to Shaun taking care of Steve and Lea always being tired, so they both decide to have a date night at the karaoke bar they used to frequent while leaving Jordan to babysit Steve, only to find that everything in it has changed, coming to the realization that their lives will never be the same as before, but will also be better.
121	5	"Who At Peace"	Dinh Thai	Peter Blake & Adam Scott Weissman	April 2, 2024 (2024-04-02)	2.56
At Lim's and Glassman's insistence, Shaun reluctantly agrees to work with Charlie regardless of her behavior. Along with Jared, they treat Lucy, a morbidly obese 14-year-old girl. Lucy agrees to a gastric sleeve surgery, but when Charlie lists the risks without pointing out their unlikeliness, Lucy and her mother decide against the surgery, angering Shaun. Charlie is able to change their minds by opening up about receiving accommodation for her condition at school. Charlie makes another mistake during the surgery, resulting in Shaun kicking her out of the OR. Shaun informs Glassman that he does not want to work with Charlie anymore; Glassman reveals that Charlie filed a complaint against him. At the same time, Park and Asher treat Scott, a 75-year-old man whose much younger fiancée Ronit is Jewish. Ronit is diagnosed with inoperable stage 3 ovarian cancer, leaving the couple despondent that Scott, now recovering from hip surgery, won't be able to complete his conversion to Judaism in time for them to marry under Jewish law before Ronit dies. Asher's cynicism about marriage upsets Jerome, until Jordan convinces Asher to reconsider. He contacts Benjamin, a rabbi, to facilitate Scott's conversion and the wedding inside the hospital. Later, Benjamin and Asher confront two anti-semites vandalizing Benjamin's synagogue. After Asher acknowledges that he is gay and Jewish, the men strike Asher in the head with a metal bar, killing him. Jerome is left waiting at a restaurant where he planned to propose to Asher. An onscreen message identifies a hotline to report hate crimes.
122	6	"M.C.E."	Mike Listo	David Renaud & Tristan Thai	April 9, 2024 (2024-04-09)	2.62
Still reeling from Asher's murder, the hospital has to deal with a mass casualty event with half of the staff away at a medical conference when a man drives a car through a crowd. As Lim operates, she places Shaun in charge as he won't let his emotions get in the way, but Lim struggles with continually losing her patients, including one who resembles Asher. Lim's mother later reveals that her father had secretly suffered from clinical depression, something that she's worried Lim might have as well. Taking her mother's advice, Lim bonds with a patient as she treats his injured arm. Consumed with anger over losing Asher, Jordan finds it difficult to treat the driver, but finds empathy for the young man after talking to his mother. At Shaun's request, Glassman returns to the OR to successfully treat a critical patient and enjoys ending his surgical career on a win. Charlie helps Shaun when he gets overwhelmed and they save a father of two together, changing Shaun's opinion of her and leading Charlie to withdraw the complaint. Lim later commends Shaun for his leadership during the crisis. While treating non-critical patients, Dom is forced to contend with his squeamishness, and Morgan reassures Dom that his inventiveness at one point proves that he belongs. At the end of the day, Asher's friends gather to share their fond memories of him.
123	7	"Faith"	Steven DePaul	Teleplay by : Melania Wright & Garrett Lerner Story by : Melania Wright & Jessica Grasl & Garrett Lerner	April 30, 2024 (2024-04-30)	2.58
Shaun and Jordan deal with Naomi, a mother in need of a kidney transplant. A man named Emmanuel volunteers to donate his kidney, but Jordan is reluctant to proceed when he claims that he is "Jesus". She even unleashes her pain and anger to Emmanuel over Asher's death when he brings it up, having lost her faith in God. Shaun deduces that Emmanuel has a pheochromocytoma on his kidney, which explains his mental state. However, after waking up from his surgery, the man confesses his real name is Carl and doesn't want to donate his kidney anymore. But after noticing how worried Naomi's family is, Carl reconsiders his choice. Park and Jared treat Paul, who has an inoperable brain tumor and got injured after a parachute landing went awry. They learn that the tumor can be removed, although the surgery would end up leaving Paul as a quadriplegic, a solution he refuses, not wanting to be a burden for his influencer daughter Eve. Jerome, who is still reeling from Asher's death, talks some sense into Paul. Meanwhile, Glassman treats Hannah, a girl he suspects has a painkiller condition, and whom his late daughter Maddie reminds him of. He also gets results of some imaging he had requested that appear to be bad news. Lea and Morgan get into a fight over Joelle, a nanny she wanted for Steve but Morgan hired first for Eden, and end up dragging Shaun and Park in the middle, until Shaun suggests using the hospital daycare so both couples get to share her. Shaun is worried that Steve might be showing early signs of autism after learning from Joelle that he didn't react to his and Lea's departure.
124	8	"The Overview Effect"	Tracy Taylor	Teleplay by : Yaou Dou & David Hoselton Story by : Yaou Dou & David Hoselton & Peter Blake	May 7, 2024 (2024-05-07)	2.20
Park, Jordan, and Dom treat Mason, a botanist suffering from illnesses related to his time in space and who has a new outlook on life. Although Mason and his wife Ana are at odds about their future together, they find a compromise after Mason nearly dies. Shaun, Charlie and Jared treat Tayo, a young boy with a third arm from his absorbed twin brother which is threatening his health. Shaun is able to come up with a way to use the nerves from the third arm to give Tayo a fully functional left arm thanks to some inspiration from Charlie. Glassman attempts to help Hannah who overdoses on fentanyl in his bathroom, causing Glassman to agree to give her controlled doses of oxycodone. Morgan proposes to Park who at first rejects her, but changes his mind after seeing Mason and Ana together. Shaun insists upon getting Steve tested for autism, driven by memories of his childhood while Lea is reluctant out of her own fears. Although Lea eventually agrees to the testing after talking to Glassman, Shaun changes his mind after remembering how supportive his brother was when his parents fought about getting Shaun tested.
125	9	"Unconditional"	Unknown	Unknown	May 14, 2024 (2024-05-14)	N/A
126	10	"Goodbye"	Unknown	Unknown	May 21, 2024 (2024-05-21)	N/A

Production

In May 2014, CBS Television Studios began development on an American remake of the hit South Korean medical drama Good Doctor with Daniel Dae Kim as producer. Kim explained the appeal of adapting the series as "something that can fit into a recognizable world with a breadth of characters that can be explored in the long run". The story of an autistic pediatric surgeon was to be set in Boston, and projected to air in August 2015, but CBS did not pick up the project, and it moved to Sony Pictures Television with a put pilot commitment from ABC in October 2016. The series was developed by David Shore who is credited as executive producer alongside Kim, Sebastian Lee and David Kim. ABC officially ordered the series to pilot in January 2017.

On May 11, 2017, ABC ordered to series as a co-production with Sony Pictures Television and ABC Studios, and it was officially picked up for a season of 18 episodes on October 3, 2017.

Ratings

Viewership and ratings per episode of The Good Doctor season 7

No.	Title	Air date	Rating (18–49)	Viewers (millions)
1	"Baby, Baby, Baby"	February 20, 2024	0.3	2.86
2	"Skin in the Game"	February 27, 2024	0.2	2.52
3	"Critical Support"	March 19, 2024	0.2	2.15
4	"Date Night"	March 26, 2024	0.2	2.51
5	"Who At Peace"	April 2, 2024	0.2	2.56
6	"M.C.E."	April 9, 2024	0.2	2.62
7	"Faith"	April 30, 2024	0.2	2.58
8	"The Overview Effect"	May 7, 2024	0.1	2.20

External links

• Official website
• The Good Doctor at IMDb

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