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The Good Doctor is winning praise for a sensitive and authentic portrayal of a pregnant transgender man.
The TV series, which stars Freddie Highmore as a doctor with autism and Savant syndrome, broached new ground with its depiction of transgender parenthood.
The Good Doctor cast trans actor Emmett Preciado as Rio Gutierrez, as a gay transgender man who discovers he is pregnant while also battling a brain tumour in a recent episode.
In the process of dealing with the revelations, the pregnant man and his partner, played by Johnathan Sousa, take both viewers and the main characters to school after being unnecessarily quizzed about their sex life and identity.
Tonight on NBC their new medical drama
“The Good Doctor” airs with an all-new Monday, February 15, 2021, episode and we have you The Good Doctor recap below. On tonight’s The Good Doctor season 4 episode, 9 called, “Lim is challenged by the unique circumstances surrounding a pregnant patient with an aggressive tumor. Elsewhere, after misdiagnosing a patient, Claire makes a disconcerting discovery about certain practices at the hospital.
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Monday’s episode of
The Good Doctor not only addressed racial profiling in modern medicine, but forced one of the residents to take a good, hard look in the mirror and confront her own preconceived notions.
After misdiagnosing a patient, Claire made a disconcerting discovery about certain practices at the hospital. When it comes to pain management, data showed that St. Bonaventure has been under-treating African American and Latinx patients by a considerable margin, and they’ll need to do better. The numbers were crunched after Claire used pattern-processing techniques taught in medical school to treat Zara Norton, a 34-year-old Black female who was rushed to the ER following a cardiac event. Based on her preconceived notions about this “loud and messy” patient, Claire administered an ACE inhibitor to bring down Zara’s blood pressure. Be