On last Monday s episode of The Good Doctor, Dr. Shaun Murphy (Freddie Highmore) interrupts his girlfriend Lea Dilallo (Paige Spara), the hospital s IT director, as she investigates a ransomware attack on the health care facility s network. (ABC/Jeff Weddell)
On the ABC medical drama The Good Doctor, the surgeons at San Jose St. Bonaventure Hospital constantly find themselves making life-or-death ethical and medical decisions.
But last Monday night, when the facility was infected with a ransomware program, the hospital staffers were forced to make another critical choice: Pay or donât pay?
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The Good Doctor might want to change its name to
The Woke Doctor. After previous episodes this season supported Black Lives Matter and abortion, Monday night’s episode, “Irresponsible Salad Bar Practices,” offered the double whammy of a pregnant trans man and systemic racism in medicine.
The episode began with trans man Rio Gutierrez (played by trans actor Emmett Preciado) at the hospital to receive treatment for a pituitary tumor. Rio tells the doctors about being engaged to a man, while the doctors bemoan the “messed-up software” that correctly records Rio’s gender as female.
Dr. Reznick: Your primary care doctor was right. The mass is on the smaller side. We ll confirm with the new images, but it should be manageable with medication. No surgery needed.
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