Ever hopes to be. A place we hope will have the best doctor possible taking care of us. But what if that doctor cant see or hear or walk . Youre pretty tall. I thought there is no way i can stand at an operating room table. Would you feel comfortable trusting that doctor with your life . Have you ever had a single patient tell you, i dont want you treating me . What about a doctor forced to improvise . You cant be back here. I need a knife. Thats just another day in the office on mt. Everest. Saving a clients life with whatever she had on hand or foot. Were just making it up as you were going . I have to throw everything at this guy. He was dying. Tonight, you will see that sometimes the smallest differences can make all the difference. The good doctors brilliance and brave brave bravery. I need to get to san jose hospital. Lower amplitude means lower voltage. Hes the hero like any other. A brilliant visionary surgeon. That wont be enough to relieve the outlove of structure. Who just happens to have autism and his condition leads to strokes of medical genius. But also, moments of awkwardness and alienation. Why are we talking about that here . Theres the prejudice of a Hospital Board and staff. Surgeon needs to communicate. Can dr. Murphy do that . Im done bribing and im done talking. Lets go no, no, no. Reporter this may be the first time a doctor with a severe disability is the lead of a primetime drama, but its certainly not the first time such a doctor has put on scrubs in real life. Imagine if your doctor couldnt see . Dr. Tim cordes of wisconsin is blind, but hes able to identify irregular heartbeats without a stethoscope because of his advanced hearing. What if your doctor who couldnt hear . Dr. Philip zazove of michigan is deaf, but hes able to use a stethoscope because hes hypersensitive to vibration. He also reads lips to communicate. This locks in the knees. They are both locked in place. Those two . Reporter or, how would you react if you thought your surgeon was unable to stand over the operating table . And i have a belt in here. Reporter before you answer, meet dr. Chris mcculloh of the Morristown Medical Center in new jersey. Wow reporter his 20,000 standing wheelchair is a feat of engineering. I didnt know, chris, but youre pretty tall. Im 63, but that actually becomes more of a challenge. Reporter enabling this thirdyear general surgery resident to do something so remarkable, only a handful of paralyzed doctors in the country can do it stand. How many times a day do you do this . Five, six times a day. Reporter chris had always wanted to be a surgeon, but his medical career was almost over before it began. I had already been accepted to medical school. What happened . I was standing up from being seated at my desk. And i slipped, and my whole body went up and i came crashing down. Im 63, 200 pounds of me landed on the edge of a thick glass coffee table. My head snapped backwards and i broke the vertebra in my neck. I knew when i couldnt move my legs that something was wrong. In the back of my mind i was, i was yelling please dont let me be paralyzed, id rather be dead. Really, you actually thought that . I thought my life was over. Reporter the onetime avid skier underwent months of rehabilitation, strengthening his body, rebuilding his resolve. When i got to rehab they said, youre probably never going to walk again, and i said, oh, they dont know what theyre talking about. Reporter chris made it through medical school, and eventually learned that his socalled disability actually plays to his advantage. He comes into the room at a level thats more of a patients level. You mean, literally . At eye level. And that helps a lot. Reporter in fact, one Study Suggests patients perceive doctors to be giving them more quality time when the doctor is sitting during consults, instead of standing. So you think the fact that hes lower, actually, really helps. I think the fact that hes lower and and a lot of it is his innate personality. Reporter but right now, its all about chriss skill as a surgeon, not his bedside manner. We watch as he heads in to assist on a double mastectomy supported by his hydraulic wheelchair. It levels the playing field. I can get to everyones level and get to the table just like everyone else. I dont want to be treated differently than anybody else or ask for any different accommodations or ask for anyone to do things differently. So, this thing allowed your dreams to come true . It did. It absolutely did. You look a lot. Better than you did last week. I think it certainly gives me the opportunity to connect with patients. They look and they can see very visibly that ive been in the bed. I know whats like. Youre a nice kid, and youre very smart, but you dont belong here. How many times was that said to you . More than i can count. Reporter tyler sextons journey from patient to doctor has been one long uphill battle. He suffers from spastic diplegia. It is a form of cerebral palsy, a chronic neuromuscular condition that affects balance, as well as movement below the but, his condition affects more than his legs. Does the disease also affect your eyes . Theres no visual impairment at all but, there is a lazy eye is the common term. So, yes. Reporter an obstacle that has tripped up this good doctor since he was born six weeks premature. The doctor called us in and he said he will definitely be physically disabled and may never get out of a wheelchair. He will probably be mentally disabled. Doctors would tell me that i wouldnt amount to anything. That i could sharpen pencils for a living. Doctors told you that . Yes. Reporter when tyler was 3, he got his first walker but he still had trouble keeping his balance. You broke bones because you fell so much. Correct. Ive broken almost every bone in my body. Major bones, from knees to wrists, to ankles, all my six times a day. Reporter but, instead of giving up, he kept getting up. Needing help with his own two legs, he turned to someone with four, this is danny, tylers service dog. So youre using his body weight to keep yourself from falling . Correct. Because the way i walk my body, is it goes back and forth. It keeps me controlled. I can go slow, go up and downstairs. Reporter tyler says there were years growing up when the teasing was relentless. It got so bad i would pretend that i was blind, and nobody would mess with the blind guy. Reporter tyler says he could handle the taunts from other kids, but the discouragement from adults is what threw him off balance. I had an interview at this medical school, and he looked at me. He said, you will never be a doctor. And i said, why . He said, because they wont come to you. Did you start to rethink your commitment to becoming a doctor . I will tell you that i was broken. Reporter broken but not beaten, he applied to a dozen medical schools in the United States, and despite having straight as, every Single School rejected him. Still, he refused to accept that patients would shun him. He just needed that degree. You did manage to get into a medical school i did. Outside the country. I did. I went to the university of Sint Eustatius school of medicine on an island of statia. Reporter a small medical school in the middle of the caribbean. Tyler graduated in 2011, and was surprised when a hospital back in the states was willing to take him on for his residency. The kind of support dr. Shaun murphy finds in the good doctor. We hire shaun, and we make this hospital better for it. We hire shaun and we are better people for it. I could give you a list of the doctors that did believe in me. The good doctors. How in the World Medical schools passed on him, is incomprehensible. Its a shame because they missed out on a rock star. Reporter now the head of pediatrics at this hospital in mississippi, tyler says most of his patients a special needs of their own, theyve never objected to a doctor with a service dog. And as for those College Advisers who told him people would not want him as their doctor. Have you ever had a single patient tell you, i dont want you treating me . Never. Not once. Matter of fact, they ask for me. Without dr. Sexton we dont know where wed be. We were so grateful to find him. Dr. Sexton is a pediatric god. Reporter to make his young patients feel at ease, he wears superhero tshirts. Do you have one of those tshirts on every single day . Every day. And i teach kids that theyre Something Special and theyre super. Were all handicapped. Mine, the world can see, but were all struggling with something, and my disability gives me credibility. Action coming up next the very good actor. Whos become the good doctor. One that comes with a bright responsibility to ptr an authentically as possible. 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Shaun murphy has brought acclaimed for act actor, earning in tv drama. I think people have responded to shauns optimism, to his hopeful outlook on the world. The fact that hes not judgmental. Reporter youve first met the 25yearold english actor as a boy when he landed a key role in the movie finding neverland. Thank you. Reporter he turned to a darker more adult role with his star turn as norman bates in the a and e drama bates motel. For his latest role, he said he found the opportunity to play the complexing demanding role dr. Shaun murphy to be an irresistible challenge. A great responsibility to portray him as awe thennicly as possible. With regards tos his autism. Reporter that commitment to authenticity is evident here behind the scenes of the good doctor in vancouver, canada. He rehearses for an upcoming scene with his actors. To replicate a real working hospital. Im dr. Shaun murphy. Im a surgical resident. Reporter that attention to accuracy is seen in st. Bonaventure o. R. Where dr. Clair brown. Somethings wrong. Reporter is rehearsing for a surgery scene. A medical consultant is to make every procedure is performed by the book. Hello, im dr. Shaun murphy. Im a surgical resident. Reporter but when it comes to portrayal of a doctor with autism, is the good doctor truly accurate . One aspect of the show that some might find hard to swallow is when dr. Murphy performs an incredible feat of die know ses that shows him remembering intricate past. The shaun vision, trying to get inside his mind and see how his experiencing a particular moment. There tends to be one area theyre practically gifted and skilled in. Reporter she says those stroke of diagnosing genius is entirely possible for a person with autism. One information differently theyre really good at pattern recognition or picking up on patterns. Less intrusive cut. For dr. Murphy its able to put together this picture and figure out whats going on in an out of box sort of way. Many documented cases of people with savant. A man named kim peak who inspired the movie rain man. Here Dustin Hoffman shows how his character uses his ability to instantly count hundreds of objects to cheat at cards. There are lots of them . Very big. Reporter but there can be a flip side to that kind of genius. And awkwardness with social interaction. This is perhaps the greatest challenge facing the character of dr. Shaun murphy, who lacks anything approaching a typical bed seidl nn a malignant tumor. Its definitely malignant. If it werent malignant zmrsh more typical of a person on a spectrum. Its not that he doesnt have empathy, its more challenging and a little bit more difficult to put themselves in another persons shoes. It doesnt shy away from fully embracing shauns persona. Part of my weirdness is that i keep thinking about things. Reporter as seen in the mid season finale. Where he has a meltdown. The unfortunate truth is that shaun like everyone else will make mistakes and that will be heartbreaking when they have more severe consequences. Reporter in the end, he real itselfic portrayal can make people think twice about those with autism can achieve in work place. I think shaun could of course exist in the real world. Hes not a caricature. Im sure theres shaun out there in the world. Next, he can turn an Airline Terminal into makeshift o. R. She can do the same on the side of mt. Everest. Saving a life. I felt like hes going to die. With makedo medicine. We used viagara. Viagara . When we come back. And i quit smoking with chantix. I tried, um, cold turkey. I tried the patches. I was tired and i was fed up. I wanted to try something different. Along with support, Chantix Varenicline is proven to help people quit smoking. Chantix reduced my urge to smoke. Compared to the nicotine patch, chantix helped significantly more people quit smoking. 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There are just a handful of us physicians who find this great challenge and its just a real turnon to be able to macgyver, you know, a way to deal with an emergency. How to get somebody better when you dont have all the equipment. Reporter here at mt. Everest, the worlds tallest, and deadliest mountain, known to locals as goddess mother of the world, sits a tented in medical improvisation is a must. Dr. Luanne freer has acquired the skills of a virtuoso. Freer, a wilderness enthusiast, launched this place 14 years ago. It sits nearly 18,000 feet high on the side of the mountain and its open two months each spring, when hundreds of people come from around the world, to try and summit mt. Everest. In her time, freer has fashioned a stretcher from coiled rope a tarp. Shes set broken bones with trekking poles. Too much pain . Reporter shes even extracted teeth with pliers from local sherpa guides. Yeah, its pretty rooted in there. Reporter but its the visiting climbers who usually need the most serious attention. This is a deadly and has been a deadly adventure for many people. Tragedies happen every year, live in this austere environment. Theres no oxygen, the conditions are brutal. Reporter so brutal that nearing the 29,029foot summit, oxygen ceases to exist. Its an area called the death zone. By far the greatest risk to climbers is High Altitude pulmonary edema or hape reduced oxygen in the air causes some blood vessels in the lungs to dangerously constrict. The pressure causes those vessels to leak, filli