Alex Park

Alex Park
Biographical Information
Born:	1973
Status:	Alive
Profession:	Attending General Surgeon Police Officer (formerly) Surgical Resident (formerly)
Workplace:	St. Bonaventure Hospital Unnamed Police Department (formerly)
Title(s):	Officer (formerly) M.D. F.A.C.S.
Relationships
Family:	Unnamed father Kellan Park (son) Eden West (adopted daughter) Caroline Reznick (mother-in-law) Unnamed father-in-law Cassie Reznick (sister-in-law) Ariel Reznick (brother-in-law)
Significant Other(s):	Mia Wuellner (ex-wife) Heather Boyd (ex-girlfriend) Morgan Reznick (wife)
Appearances
Portrayed by:	Will Yun Lee
First appeared:	Heartfelt
Last appeared:	Goodbye

Dr. Alex Park is an attending general surgeon at St. Bonaventure Hospital, a recurring character in the first season and a main one in the seasons following it.

History

Early life

Park's life was somewhat difficult; his father wasn't a loving man, but also was a taekwondo Grand Master and trained Park in the art growing up. Park even once sparred with Mike Tyson. At some point in Park's life, he met a woman, Mia Wuellner, and the two got married and had a son, Kellan. Sometime later, Alex caught Mia with another man and the two separated. Park was a police officer for 15 years before coming to the decision that he wanted to go into medicine and went to medical school. Once graduating, he got a job as a surgical resident at San Jose St. Bonaventure Hospital, where he worked alongside his attending, Dr. Matt Coyle.

Season 1

After Dr. Coyle was transferred out of the department due to allegations about sexual harassment, Park along with the other residents on his service, including Morgan Reznick, were redistributed to other attendings. Both Alex and Morgan were eventually transferred to Dr. Neil Melendez, working with Shaun Murphy, Claire Browne and Jared Kalu. He was involved in gaining organ donations from convicted murder Boris Tiryan , tried to help paraplegic Hunter Denoble walk again and was involved in a surgery to help teenager Gretchen Milman smile.

Park ended up questioning Blake, a young man whose friend Caden had been hurt while finding out (although furious) that Blake had been somewhat involved in why Caden got hospitalized. Following Caden's surgery, he was revealed to be suffering from a bleed as a result of a complication. It turned out that Shaun (who finished the surgery) got upset because he though Dr. Glassman was dying. Although it was quite clear that Morgan was just trying to rid herself of some of the competition, Park agreed with her statement about reporting it since it was regulation which earned Jared's ire until they just focused on helping Caden. They eventually did a surgery Shaun suggested which worked, while Neil treated everyone to drinks.

Season 2

After Park was involved in helping Melanie Arnott who had pulmonary hypertension, Asha who was circumcised and expecting mother Gina Porter, he helped with Mac, a boy with Fragile X Syndrome and whose mother Nicole was having trouble with him because of issues he had. Park tried to suggest putting him in a group home, while telling Neil about a troubled youth he once knew that needed a good doctor and a good police officer.

Park’s cynicism soon came through while he and Claire were treating Riley, a girl he thought was faking being ill (which he was partially correct on) while he confessed to being a father which he had never told anyone at the hospital before about. Park also treated Finn, a boy whose parents didn't believe in vaccines. Park tried to convince the parents to change their minds and vaccinated Finn after his mother claimed he got them to his way of thinking. However, she actually lied, causing a rift in her marriage. Park emotionally tried to change the husband's mind, using the story of his and Mia's marriage falling apart, though he claimed it happened to a friend of his. When the husband didn't buy it, Park claimed that he made the story up.

Park soon worked with Shaun on Billy Cayman, a young man in a juvenile detention center with a bent forehead who got injured. Park was sympathetic to Billy and wanted to help fix his dent, though Shaun wasn’t so much at first but suggested putting a breast implant in his forehead which wouldn’t have cost much. Although upset when Billy nearly died due to the surgery, Park knew that Billy was contemplating suicide and saw how much Shaun empathized with Billy.

While Park was helping Chris Santos who needed chemo therapy and a bone marrow transplant from his father Bob at Christmastime, he had Kellan visit and he became trapped during a quarantine caused by a viral outbreak. While the two were separated, Park risked his life and job to break into the quarantine and help Kellan who was having an asthma attack. After Bob who had regrets regarding his family mirroring Park's own died of complications, Park reconciled with Kellan who had helped Shaun save a mother and newborn baby. At the end of the quarantine, Park for once allowed himself to become emotional over what he had experienced and accepted comfort from Mia when she arrived to pick up Kellan.

While Park was out with Mia and Kellan at the batting cages, he considered reconciling his marriage with Mia who kept complaining about his refusal to open up. She soon thanked him when he made an effort to do so, while they apparently also tried to reconcile as he bonded with Kellan. He also helped treat Sunny Lee, a woman with a mechanical heart, a surrogate daughter and a biological daughter she had been estranged from for 15 years and whom Park urged into making peace with Sunny.

Park and Lim were soon put in charge of Sadie Barns, a young woman who appeared to simply have anxiety which Park thought was ridiculous as they had given her an MRI but still complied in helping her. After Shaun got moved to Pathology when the new Chief of Surgery Dr. Jackson Han thought that he wasn’t fit for surgery, Park was one of the few staff who felt sorry for Shaun being moved. However, they were able to help Sadie thanks to Shaun figuring out that she had worms. He still thought it was pointless trying to help Shaun when Claire wanted to, while also working with Morgan on Ida, an elderly woman who appeared to be sick but Park thought otherwise.

Season 3

Park competed with Morgan to become the first resident to lead their own surgery. The two got the case of an elderly man with dementia who also had treatable kidney cancer. However, Park eventually began advocating to the man's wife to leave the cancer untreated so that he could enjoy the time he had left rather than linger for years with dementia. With Morgan's help, Park convinced the wife to discontinue treatment beyond symptom management. The two would still compete over who would get the first lead surgery, only for it to go to Claire while also giving Shaun love advice concerning his relationship with Dr. Carly Lever and compared it with his own failed love life with Mia.

Park and Morgan worked to treat Shamus O'Malley, a man with a giant marlin impaled in his leg and was more worried about its safety. After an MRI caused the marlin to explode, Shamus had to be rushed into emergency surgery to fix a severed femoral artery. However, his condition deteriorated, confusing Morgan and Park until Claire realized that Shamus had cancer in his leg. It had to be amputated, but Shamus was excited to be presented with the now-stuffed marlin by his friends as the injury caused the discovery of Shamus' cancer and saved his life.

After the two had to help work on conspiracy theorist Mitchell Stewart, Park worked with Shaun on Beth, an esophageal cancer patient whose surgery was originally slated to be Park's first as lead surgeon. Though disappointed, Park was happy for Shaun and later offered Glassman advice based on his own experiences with owning a gun due to Glassman being uncomfortable with his wife Debbie having one. After Shaun left the surgery due to apparently being in the middle of a meltdown, Lim assigned Park to finish the surgery. However, Park refused, recognizing that Shaun possibly saw something and was having trouble communicating it to them. Park got Shaun to calm down and explain that he had earlier learned about a Japanese procedure that could’ve fixed the issue, but one too complicated for Shaun himself to perform. As Shaun guided Lim and Andrews through the procedure, Park had to be called away to another surgery. It turns out the call had been an appendectomy which he had been allowed to take lead on. Park expressed his condolences that Shaun missed his chance at his first lead surgery, while Shaun congratulated his friend on his own.

The two and Andrews soon worked on Dr. Rosalind Elion, who had done valuable extensive research into leukaemia and whose husband Park had to convince into making amends with. He soon helped out on football player Art Kelman, only to end up at odds ends with Claire while they were trying to treat Luca Jones who was a drug addict and whom Park (despite Claire’s protests) wanted to inform the authorities about as it was regulation. They were soon able to treat Luca, but he couldn’t let his addiction go and took the drugs that were from pathology.

Park soon helped out on Caroline Reznick, Morgan’s mother who had Cav-Mals. Throughout it all, he took note of how Caroline is a lot like Morgan. After Neil tried to address how a favoritism complaint had been made against him, Park told Claire that it was apparently him (though he possibly secretly believed it was Morgan as Claire thought) as he tried to get Claire to be focused while they were trying to treat Fran, a woman who was attacked by a dog while claiming to be concerned about Claire getting special treatment (though the two ended up in conflict a lot throughout the case).

After Carly was revealed to have dumped Shaun, Park was sympathetic to him when he appeared to be needlessly obsessing over a woman, Maribel, who suddenly died at the hospital which Shaun tried to investigate. Park still went along with helping Shaun and even had to bail him out when Shaun got arrested for trying to get Maribel to allow them to do an autopsy on her (but Shaun was able to find out the truth). While the team were working on Wes Keeler, who works with at risk youths to prevent them from making his own mistakes, Park was furious to find that Kellan was smoking marijuana. Kellan admitted to being angry that Park barely had any interest in talking to him and the vaping helped his feelings.

After an earthquake caused a building collapse at a brewery, Park was made part of the team to help rescue and treat the victims. He found an underage boy, Casey Anderson, who was trapped under a beam and about Kellan’s age, which led to them bonding. Unfortunately, despite their best efforts, it was found that they couldn’t remove the beam without killing Casey. While unable to so much as contact Casey’s father, Park went along with Casey hallucinating him as his father to offer Casey to reconcile with him and let go of the past when Casey believed he killed his mother for not reporting a drug issue he found that she had. After Casey died, Park decided to move back to be closer to Mia and Kellan.

Season 6

In "Afterparty," Park is outside of the hospital during the lockdown, having left the party early. Through the phone, he guides Morgan and Asher on a patient that they are treating while being held on hostage. Afterwards, Park ends his relationship with Morgan despite her choosing to stay in San Jose because she chose her career over their relationship.

In "Change of Perspective," three months later, Park has become a surgical attending alongside Shaun with the two sharing an office together. However, his relationship with Morgan has deteriorated into them snapping at each other and having trouble working together to the point that Andrews has to get involved. Park chooses to have Jordan Allen as his resident while Shaun takes Asher Wolke and the two appear to share newcomers Daniel Perez and Danica Powell.

In "A Big Sign," Park, Jordan and Danni treat Katie, a girl with bipolar disorder whose parents clash about how to treat her injured wrist as the stepfather wants to institutionalize her. After Danni messes up and releases the girl's restraints, she escapes, but in the process, Park realizes that Katie has actually been misdiagnosed and has hydrocephalus which also caused her psychiatric issues. Park and his team successfully treat Katie and Danni apologizes to Park for her mistake. Accepting this, Park thanks Danni for her naval service.

In "Shrapnel," Park, Jordan and Danny treat Andy, a young man who accidentally had his foot cut off while skinny dipping. Park works to keep Andy's leg viable, desiring to reattach the foot. Park is nearly forced to close the wound, but the foot is found in time and successfully reattached despite some complications. However, Andy's dating woes remind Park of his own relationship issues, and he stares longingly at a picture of Morgan while going through a dating app. At the same time, Park comes into conflict with Shaun who begins rearranging the furniture in the office that they are forced to share due to budgetary constraints when Shaun and Park were hired as attendings. This eventually leads to Shaun moving into a disused storage room which Glassman claims is a sign of Shaun isolating himself from everyone around him rather than facing up to likely causing Lim's paralysis.

Personality

Park has quite a cynical personality because he has seen the worst of people. His relationship with Kellan has also been somewhat estranged and barely shared anything of his personal life with Mia. However, he felt sympathetic to Billy Cayman for his condition and being in a juvenile detention center. He also dislikes football, seeing that the sport doesn’t care about skill or talent, but is a Marvel fan, maybe partically of the X-Men.

While having worked with them the most, Park feels the closest to Shaun and Morgan though he has clashed with them a lot; with Shaun, it's mostly because he has had difficulty in empathizing with patients that Park has. His cynicism has also made him have beliefs he sees are true about certain patients which Morgan doesn't believe. However, he has also recogized Morgan's somewhat amoral compass when she won't. He also has a competitive attitude with her that matches her own. Nonetheless, he has been observed to have a brotherly relationship with Shaun and loves Morgan, seeing her as the reason he gets up every morning.

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