“ | That is a child's dream. This is your life! This is my life, and it'd be more devastating to be resented by you than to have my heart broken.
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― Jessica Preston to Neil Melendez |
Jessica Preston was a main character in Season 1 of The Good Doctor and a guest in Season 4.
History[]
Early life[]
Jessica and Maddie Glassman were close friends when they were young, suggesting that they were the around the same age. They ran track together as either a hobby or after school activity, with Jessica remarking how fast Maddie was. As she was close to Maddie, Jessica spent a lot of time at Maddie’s father Dr. Aaron Glassman's house and was rather saddened when Maddie died.[1]
Years later, Jessica became the in-house attorney and Vice President of Risk Management at San Jose St. Bonaventure Hospital which her grandfather founded. She was also engaged to Dr. Neil Melendez, an attending surgeon.
When Dr. Glassman attempted to have a young man he knew, Shaun Murphy, hired at the hospital as a resident, Jessica supported Glassman who told her off when her doing so involved making a rather insulting remark to the Chief of Surgery, Dr. Marcus Andrews, who opposed Shaun being hired. After Shaun was hired, Jessica tried to talk to Neil who had put Shaun on scut work which Glassman wasn’t happy with. Alongside having to deal with a man who tried to forbade Neil from operating on the man’s wife who wanted the surgery, they soon got teased by Dr. Audrey Lim about their future wedding, the location of which Jessica and Neil had differing thoughts of.
Jessica soon found that Glassman was worried about Shaun who had some difficulties and questioned whether Glassman was willing to let Shaun learn. On the anniversary of Maddie’s death, Jessica told Glassman to be there for Shaun. Unfortunately, a dinner that Jessica had with her father and Neil turned sour when Jessica’s father tried to get her to quit her job at the hospital. Neil’s reaction to this and the fact that Neil wanted children while Jessica didn’t led to her breaking up with him, all the while having resident Jared Kalu sue the hospital; he got fired for assaulting an attending who was sexually harassing fellow resident Claire Browne despite the hospital keeping two "star doctors" that happened to be white (unlike Jared) and were still working there despite having committed similar offenses.
After Jessica was informed by Shaun that Neil had apparently made a mistake with a patient due to possibly being upset about Jessica breaking up with him which she tried to address (though it was revealed Neil did nothing wrong), she soon attended a fundraiser held at the hospital. Following this, Shaun informed Jessica that Glassman had cancer that Glassman believed to be terminal but Shaun had his doubts and tried to get Jessica to get Glassman to do farther imagining. When it appeared Glassman had less time left, some more imaging found the cancer was treatable and Jessica was with him when he informed Shaun of the news.
Jessica was still working at the hospital at the time of the pandemic and was part of an urgent virtual meeting concerning it.
Personality[]
Jessica takes her job very seriously and hopes to prove that she is more than just the granddaughter of the hospital's founder (which is how she got her high position). She was also very close to Dr. Glassman, president of the hospital, and had a close relationship to his deceased daughter, Maddie.
Appearances[]
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References[]
- ↑ "Apple": Season 1. Episode 8. David Renaud (writer) & Nestor Carbonell (director). [November 20, 2017].
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