‘The Good Doctor’ Season 3 Episode 17: Fans call out unrealistic portrayal of medical practices, say it's 'wrong'
ABC’s hit medical drama might be about an autistic surgeon with Savant syndrome, but the show is still a medical procedural by the definition of it. And when it comes to anything medical or scientific, it's a grey area to tread on.
So far, people never raised an issue on how the show has portrayed medical conditions. But in ‘Fixation’, the latest episode, the audience couldn’t hold their disappointment when they saw a patient with a rare and undiagnosed brain condition comes to seek help at St. Bonaventure Hospital. Viewers felt that the doctors are being unrealistic. One user on Twitter comments, “It’s wrong to portray chronic illnesses as misdiagnosis that you can make magically better. #TheGoodDoctor”
To this, another user responds with an explanation that while the show always seems close to facts, there should also be room for creative liberty. He says, “#TheGoodDoctor usually gets points for realism, but I guess even they need to stretch the truth once in a while.”
Many viewers do not, however, agree to this. After all, when dealing with medical information, it is important to be accurate with medical facts, information, trivia, and treatment, or it can send a wrong message.
Apart from this, fans are also appalled at the way Dr Shaun Murphy handled surgery. He practically used his hands instead of a surgical tool to operate onto the adrenal gland of a patient. “Melendez let Shaun lead the surgery and he squeezed the adrenal gland with his hand's Nauseated face that closeup #TheGoodDoctor,” surprisingly remarks a fan.
No matter how great the characters might be on the show, the audience feels that there cannot be room for any ambiguity of information, especially that relates to medical procedures and practices.
However, all said and done, people are still loving the show and it has only been on rare occasions that such a complain arises. Guess, the writers would want to keep that in mind.
‘The Good Doctor’ Season 3 airs every Monday at 10pm/9c, only on ABC.