| “ | I have autism, it's part of who I am.
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| ― Dr. Shaun Murphy |
Dr. Shaun Robert Murphy is the main titular protagonist of The Good Doctor. As a surgical resident at St. Bonaventure, he was new to the hospital, and he had to learn the tricks and tropes of it. He would soon become an attending surgeon, and then later the Chief of Surgery.
History
Early life
As a young child, Shaun was raised alongside his younger brother Steve by their mother Marcie and father Ethan.
Shaun's childhood was very troubled; he has autism and savant syndrome, though it's unknown when he was diagnosed (although Ethan and Marcie did have arguments about testing him when he was young). Nonetheless, the fact that he wasn't like normal kids his age meant that he was bullied and teased by them. At least some of his teachers were better, but one of them Mr. Carl accidentally made things worse for him while trying to help stop him from being bullied. He also got abused by Ethan who was a resentful alcoholic and didn't want Shaun while Marcie stood by without intervening. This made Ethan ultimately kill Shaun's rabbit when he was fourteen. Shaun and Steve ran to the nearest "doctor place" (as Steve called it), where they met Dr. Aaron Glassman for the first time.[2]
The two ran away together and lived in an abandoned school bus together, where they were given furniture from their local town's people. Steve took care of Shaun, even giving him a small toy scalpel that would be treasured for years to come and a library copy of To Kill a Mockingbird. Unfortunately, Steve accidentally died while playing in an old building with a group of other children. Shaun was picked up by a police officer who tried to take him back to his parents; at this point, he fell apart in the back of the squad car, screaming and crying about Steve's promise to him. As a result, Shaun didn't see or speak to his parents again following Steve's funeral. [3] At one point, Shaun lived in foster homes, one of which was with a distant, tough-loving foster mother, Sybil Meeks, who was fond of saying "tough titmouse" in response to a challenging situation. After Sybil got diagnosed with a terminal illness, she sent Shaun away again (something she appeared to be saddened about) while Shaun was ultimately taken in by Glassman who raised him like a son.
Shaun soon had interests in becoming a doctor, finding science, biology and medicine reliable and wanting as few people as possible to have to deal with losses like he suffered from his rabbit and Steve. According to Glassman, Shaun had tendencies to isolate himself during high school and when he started medical school. He lived independently in Casper, Wyoming for some time (though both Glassman and Shaun have noted that his neighbors provided much-needed help). With Glassman as his mentor, he managed to develop his skills to be a doctor and to later control his emotions and remain calm in tough situations.
Season 1
Shaun came to San Jose to apply for a job as a junior surgical resident at St. Bonaventure Hospital, a job that he was only being considered for because Dr. Glassman (the hospital’s president) fought for it.
On the way to San Jose, arriving at the airport, Shaun was witness to a freak accident that injured a boy, Adam. Shaun immediately came to the rescue and instructed a fellow doctor how to perform life-saving measures, making on-the-spot diagnoses that seemed unusually pertinent but ultimately saved Adam's life. Riding along in the ambulance, Shaun noted abnormalities in the ECG that the EMT and later the doctors at the hospital explained away as irrelevant. However, Shaun realised that Adam needed an echocardiogram, but he was pegged as obnoxious by Dr. Claire Browne (one of the residents), thrown out of the hospital and prohibited to re-enter.
Shaun refused to leave, and luckily was sought out by Claire and the surgical attending Dr. Neil Melendez who acknowledged that Shaun was possibly on to something. Shaun was allowed back into the hospital and helped them diagnose pericardial effusion, watching the ongoing surgery from outside the OR doors. He was eventually allowed to speak in front of the board, and his moving speech had the board members agree to have him. He was then welcomed into St. Bonaventure’s residency program with Glassman promising to give up his position as hospital president to Dr. Marcus Andrews (the chief of surgery) if Shaun was anything less than excellent.
Shaun was assigned by Neil the suction on surgeries and the non-surgical scut work, the latter of which he found hard because he couldn't help but not send patients home because he thought they could've still be sick, but started to prove himself after he suspected a young girl had more than stomach problems as previously believed. While he lived in a rather small apartment, he met one of his neighbors Lea who knocked on his door to borrow batteries for her PlayStation controller that she urgently needed to finish her Uncharted game. They continued to keep running into each other on occasion, such as when she picked him up in her car when he missed his bus stop (with Lea taking an instant liking to him).
As Shaun kept honing his medical skills, Neil had a change of heart eventually about Shaun never doing anything more than suction. Shaun managed to prove his surgical worth and was being allowed more and more surgical work, although he still struggled with the emotional and social aspects of patient care. As he kept learning, he was supported by Claire and Dr. Jared Kalu, another junior resident, with Claire taking a particular interest in befriending Shaun, trying to understand how he operates and how to connect with him. Shaun soon started to encounter some interesting cases, including Evan, a boy who looked uncannily like Steve and was revealed to have terminal bone cancer that Shaun wanted to help with, and Liam, the first autistic person he met and who had grown up very sheltered by his parents, much unlike Shaun.
After Lea burst into Shaun’s apartment and stress-ate his last apple, complaining vocally about how the landlord shut off her power the night before because she was playing her music too loud, Shaun went to a nearby grocery store to buy more apples and got held at gunpoint in a robbery. Shaun’s ASD caused him to act somewhat erratically, not able to follow the thief's commands, which led to a young woman getting shot. He was able to save the woman and later got an apple from Lea who hugged him after finding out about what had happened (which Shaun seemed comfortable with), but Glassman got increasingly worried that Shaun was not equipped to live on his own and suggested someone to help Shaun with everyday life tasks and challenges. While Shaun may have thought Glassman had well-meaning intentions, he was uncomfortable and couldn't help but think that Glassman was doing this for himself and not for Shaun. He then ran off after accidentally hitting slapping Glassman in the mouth in frustration.
Knowing he messed up, Shaun subsequently packed some of his things and sought refuge at Lea’s apartment where he hid under her bed when Glassman came looking for Shaun. Lea protected Shaun and sat him down to tell him he needed to clear his head. Together, the two took an unsanctioned road trip in Lea’s vintage car which was very eventful for Shaun with Lea offering him several "firsts": the opportunity to drive her car (though it didn't go well), drink alcohol at a bar, sing karaoke and after their first "date", he even kissed her (his first kiss) at her encouragement. Unfortunately, he couldn't help but lament over how he made a mistake and would never be good enough for anything. Lea tried to tell him to embrace life and that he’d never be happy if he constantly lived in fear. Over breakfast that morning, Lea told Shaun that the road trip was good for her too, because she had decided to leave San Jose and go back to her home in Hershey for the dream job she always wanted – to fix up old cars together with her brother Donnie rather than work in a 9-to-5 tech job that wasn't fulfilling for her.
Shaun took this news hard, considering that he would be losing his friend. He later considered moving to Hershey to be with Lea and returned to an angry Glassman to whom Shaun stated his intents. While Glassman promised to back off if Shaun stayed in San Jose, he and Lea said they didn't want Shaun to leave (especially just to be with Lea). Shaun eventually decided to stay in San Jose. As a farewell gift, Lea gave him a baseball signed by Hunter Pence as a memento to remember her by, asking Shaun to come visit if he could. She gave him a last kiss before she stepped into the elevator.
While Shaun clearly missed Lea, he met a man named Kenny who moved into her apartment and was slightly shady with potentially malicious intentions that Shaun was completely blind to (even taking advantage of this several times). However, Kenny also helped Shaun once in breaking into a pool when Shaun wanted to see what it was like to just float on water after a patient had told him it was a liberating feeling. Across his first year of residency, Shaun continued growing as a surgeon, working closely with his fellow residents (including Alex Park and Morgan Reznick), Neil and fellow attending Dr. Audrey Lim on a number of interesting cases, his savant syndrome and eidetic memory often helping to recall medical details and visualizing complex medical circumstances and procedures.
Shaun attempted to rekindle his and Glassman's friendship, but Glassman felt that they couldn't if he backed off Shaun (which later came back to bite Glassman). Nevertheless, Shaun set up Glassman with Debbie Wexler, the hospital barrister whom Shaun saw Glassman was attracted to. Unfortunately, Shaun was dismayed when Dr. Glassman revealed that he had brain cancer and only 12 to 18 months to live. This distracted Shaun to the point that he made a mistake during surgery and nicked an artery which caused the patient to have potentially life-threatening complications. At the same time, Shaun urged Glassman to get a second opinion, more tests and more imagining to truly confirm the diagnosis. After a bit of a journey, it is finally determined through a biopsy Glassman was reluctant to get that he had an operable low-grade glioma that was treatable with surgery, radiation and chemotherapy (which pleased Shaun to the point of giving Glassman a rare hug and making amends).
Following Shaun’s surgical mistake, the medical team deliberated whether to report the error, knowing full well it could've cost Shaun his job and also likely cost Glassman the hospital presidency. In the end, Shaun himself decided he wanted the error reported, and he and Glassman went to Andrews’ office together to do so. On the way up the stairs, Shaun told Dr. Glassman that he loved him, echoing the exact phrasing that Glassman had shared with Shaun that his daughter Maddie had used as a child to voice her love to her father.
Season 2
After Shaun said goodbye to Jared who went to work at another hospital, he was forced to deal with the unexpected return of Lea. Despite caring a lot about her, he struggled with her renewed presence in his life, now living in fear that she would leave again like she did the first time. Shaun thus being evasive and distant upset Lea who returned to San Jose in hopes of finding support from her friend after a bad experience in Hershey. The two ultimately reconciled and moved in together. Though they experienced some problems adjusting to being roommates, the two were able to find solutions and maintain a supportive platonic relationship.
At the same time, Shaun had to deal with Glassman's cancer diagnosis and the various problems Glassman had, particularly an increasing memory loss. Shaun was left torn between being a supportive friend and what the rules say, leading Shaun to take away Glassman's driving license. However, after learning just how badly this action hurt Glassman, Shaun learnt how to drive with Lea's help so that he could drive Glassman around instead. Although Shaun initially experienced problems with driving, Lea was able to help translate driving into medical terms and Shaun succeeded in learning the skill.
When a viral outbreak happened in the ER at Christmas time, Shaun got trapped in the emergency room department along with Morgan and Lim. While dealing with issues that Morgan and Park were able to help with, he had to treat pregnant mother-to-be Viola who suffered complications requiring a C-section. With no other doctors available, Shaun was forced to perform the C-section himself as his first solo surgery with Dr. Garcia supervising from outside the ER and only Nurse Deena Petringa assisting him. Although Shaun continued to struggle, he fought through it and delivered the baby. When both mother and baby suffered complications, Shaun treated them both at the same time with the help of Park's son Kellan. Shaun succeeded in saving both of his patients and later shared a rare hug with Glassman who was revealed to have meningitis. They and Lea soon spent a day together at her job, though Shaun remained concerned about Glassman who decided to leave the hospital early after his meningitis surgery. Glassman intended to speed up his cancer treatment and recognized that Shaun still had feelings for Lea, but Shaun couldn't tell her when he returned home as he was surprised and upset to discover that Lea got a boyfriend.
After Shaun confirmed to Diane Monroe (the mother of a child born with severe birth defects) that antidepressants she had taken during her pregnancy were possibly the cause behind the defects (though the child was saved because of Shaun), he got into serious trouble with the new Chief of Surgery, Dr. Jackson Han who thought it best to transfer Shaun to pathology (despite Shaun and his friends attempting to say otherwise). Although he proved to be exceptional and gained a crush on one of the workers, Dr. Carly Lever, he was uncomfortable and tried to get Dr. Han to give him his former job back. When he refused, Shaun attempted to stand up for himself but unfortunately got fired for apparently acting irrational. He then accidentally broke the scalpel Steve gave him and Claire sat with him, not knowing what to do.
Glassman got Shaun a job interview at San Jose General, but Shaun was too depressed to go and instead went to a bar to get drunk. While there, he met another man, Zack Cordell, whom Shaun accidentally angered when Shaun questioned if he too was sad and then got beat up until Zack collapsed. After escorting Zack to the hospital, Shaun evaded questions about how he found Zack out of fear of embarrassment, although Claire quickly figured out the truth on her own. Shaun took flirting advice from her and secretly sought treatment for his injuries with Carly's help. While visiting Zack, Shaun realized that he was been misdiagnosed and actually had treponema, though it was misheard as "trampoline" before Shaun collapsed due to his injuries. He was then left unconscious and on a ventilator for a brief period. When he regained consciousness with Lea and Glassman beside him, he initially started panicking about Zack until Claire revealed that she figured out what Shaun actually said. After he was later visited by Andrews, Glassman and Andrews stood up for him which led to Andrews firing Han in order to be able to rehire Shaun who got his job back despite the fact that it destroyed Andrews' career as president at the hospital. That night, Shaun visited Carly and successfully asked her out, though he forgot to give her his chocolates and flowers in his excitement.
Season 3
Shaun and Carly’s first date was eventful and had a lot of mishaps, but Carly ultimately told Shaun that she had a good time. Unfortunately, Shaun was oblivious to that and didn't have a good time because of how overwhelmed he was. He soon helped treat Suzanne, a newlywed bride who was revealed to have extensive cancer. Through a lot of work, Shaun suggested a radical surgery which removed Suzanne's cancer, but complications from the surgery meant that she would need an ileostomy bag for the rest of her life (for which Suzanne and her husband Alex agreed to work through their problems together). He also told his friends about his date with Carly though they didn't understand why he thought it a disaster. Despite Claire attempting to give Shaun dating advice and seeing the newly-weds and an elderly couple who shared such a relationship despite their trials, Shaun was left with uncertainty about whether or not his relationship was worth pursuing.
Shaun had to work with Andrews and Claire on the case of a Good Samaritan. Although it appeared that they weren’t able to help the man, Shaun and Andrews attempted to try and find a solution (even after going home). While Shaun continued to struggle with his relationship with Carly, he was given advice from Lea, Glassman and Debbie and soon confessed to Carly how he felt about their date. Carly then visited Shaun at home to talk and while going on a walk together, Carly explained that she understands Shaun so well; her little sister is autistic too and she had her own questions about their relationship, but she wanted to spend time with him so they could figure it out together. Shaun ultimately ran off in the middle of the conversation after coming up with the solution to his case and successfully worked with Andrews and Claire on it to help the man. Afterwards, Andrews privately approached Shaun and admitted that he had been driven by his own doubts and anger over the repercussions of Andrews' choice to save Shaun at the cost of his own career. However, Shaun's actions that day made Andrews proud of his sacrifice which he thanked Shaun for. He later visited Carly in the pathology lab and they had a more relaxed informal date they enjoyed.
Shaun went on another date Carly where he asked her several questions, mostly (albeit unintentionally) invasive for so early in their relationship. While Shaun was helping Claire on her first lead surgery (which was a success), she made him realize that he and Carly didn't kiss at the end of the date, nor did they plan their next one which caused doubt in him. Thankfully, Carly did like Shaun asking her questions which he continued with but struggled with Carly's desire to hold hands as he didn't like it. At the same time, he treated conspiracy theorist Mitchell Stewart whom Shaun realized had been inadvertently poisoning himself with herbs he was taking for virility. While Glassman was having cold feet regarding his approaching marriage to Debbie, he sought Shaun's advice for the first time. Although Shaun was excited, he didn't have anything to offer when he pointed out something; Glassman already seemed to have made up his mind as he now referred to his ex-wife as his first one, suggesting that he already had a second wife in his mind. After deciding to go through with the wedding, a small civil ceremony at City Hall, Glassman invited Shaun and Carly to attend. During the ceremony, Shaun and Carly crossed wrists as a compromise to Shaun's aversion to holding hands which pleased them both.
Shaun was assigned the case of Beth Eckert, a chef with esophageal cancer as his first lead surgery. As it approached, Shaun had dreams of Steve encouraging him as well as Glassman giving him an orange cap that had helped Glassman during his own first lead surgery. Shaun saw something during the surgery and remembered how he had earlier discovered a Japanese procedure to fix the issue, but his failed attempts to communicate it made everyone but Park think that he was dealing with a meltdown and panicked in the hallway. He was able to calm down and explain, though Lim and Andrews had to do it instead while Shaun guided them through it and was offered by Lim to put in the last stitch. At the same time, Shaun and Carly continued their at-home movie dates. However, Shaun refused to kiss Carly more than once every twelve minutes during the movie since he was uncomfortable touching more than one thing at once. After Shaun followed advice from Lea that Carly admitted was good, she had him touch one of her breasts for the first time, exciting Shaun who told Carly that she had no sign of lumps. After he got off work, Shaun visited Carly and asked to touch her other breast to Carly's pleasure.
Shaun got another chance at leading a surgery in the form on an appendectomy. Unfortunately, it was pointed out to him that Carly didn't invite Shaun to spend time with her friends and she had not officially defined their relationship as that of boyfriend and girlfriend (which continued to haunt him). Though the surgery appeared to go off without a hitch with Shaun doing well, he got into an argument with one of the nurses, Nurse Hawks, about the way she handed him an instrument, ending with Shaun kicking her out of the operating room. After he failed to apologize when he believed he didn't need to, a formal complaint was put on his record and he was told to not do so again or his employment would be terminated, leaving Shaun distraught. Carly eventually admitted that she thought her friends would've had trouble accepting Shaun, but realized that she was wrong and apologized. While Shaun forgave Carly and declined her invitation to meet them the following weekend, he was excited when she officially define their relationship as boyfriend and girlfriend.
When Carly went away on a business trip, Shaun hesitated to text with her. At the same time, he helped treat Tara, a young woman with no immune system who had been isolated most of her life as a result. Shaun's ability to relate to Tara due to them both being outsiders for most of their lives led to him greatly empathizing with Tara and forming a friendship. When she hesitated to take gene therapy that could've potentially cured her condition, Shaun related to her his own struggles with being alone and how his life is much better now with loved ones in his life and convinced Tara to take the treatment. Inspired by his experience with Tara, Shaun began properly responding to Carly's texts.
While Shaun helped to treat Rosalind, a doctor who pushed away everyone in her life while advancing the field of leukemia treatment (and soon died of heart failure with her ex-husband with her) and Jeanie (a young woman who had to lose the ability to have sex to save her life from tumors), he had trouble experiencing increased intimacy with Carly, causing her to become greatly frustrated (though he did try at times). He sought help from Park (who made him understand that much of his issues came from fear) and Glassman (who distanced himself from the issue on Debbie's advice). Shaun eventually realized that he had trouble being intimate and vulnerable and after they shared their own fears, the two at Carly's request simply held each other, with Shaun going so far as to actually hold Carly's hand, but he quickly became uncomfortable and had to leave. Upon returning home, Shaun was greeted by Glassman who received a call from Marcie; Ethan had been diagnosed with pancreatic cancer, with only had a few days left to live.
Shaun returned to Wyoming with Lea and Glassman to visit Marcie and Ethan, though his and Ethan's initial reunion didn't go well with Shaun exploding at him and blaming him for Steve's death. After a conversation with Marcie, Shaun decided to hear Ethan out, but he only proved to have venomous words for Shaun at the end, devastating him. After Glassman brought news concerning Ethan's death, Shaun cried but was comforted by Lea, holding Shaun in her arms with Shaun showing none of the hesitation or trouble he had with Carly. He later had to help Morgan treat Kerry Gaston, a woman with a badly broken leg who constantly refused anesthetic due to being an opioid addict. While supporting her during the surgery, his night with Lea left him unsure about who to be with and he kept avoiding Carly, hurting her in the process and then even more when Shaun revealed the truth. This made him later suffer an emotional breakdown in Glassman's office out of fear that everyone would get sick of him and ultimately leave. Getting emotional himself, Glassman assured Shaun that he would get through it and is an extraordinary doctor whom Glassman could not have been more proud of. After getting off work, Shaun ultimately chose to be with Carly but her uncomfortableness of him living with Lea led to Carly asking Shaun to have her move out which he accepted.
Unfortunately, Carly and Shaun continue to struggle with intimacy due to Carly still being upset over Shaun and Lea's night in Wyoming. At the same time, the two worked at Lim's request on James McDougall who had swelling due to fluid build-up. They saved James' life and had sex for the first time (much to Shaun's excitement). Unfortunately, Carly didn’t enjoy their sex because Shaun didn’t give her an orgasm. While he was working with Neil to treat Oliver, a man who had a tumor that was removed, he like the other doctors was intrigued by the presence of Morgan's mother Caroline as a patient and the insight into his friend's past. Shaun dedicated himself to figuring out how to pleasure Carly, though without much success. Lim eventually helped Shaun figure it out by comparing his focus on sex to Shaun's focus on surgery, which pleased Carly as Shaun slept next to her.
Unfortunately for Shaun, he was treating Kayley, a social media influencer who made him famous. Although he was unsure about spreading his story because he felt uncomfortable, he ultimately said that he wanted to be a good doctor and not a good autistic doctor. While meeting with Lea, she told him that she felt unfulfilled with her life after he asked her to move out and he suggested that she work for Glassman in the hospital's IT Department (which Glassman reluctantly accepted to). Although Carly felt uncomfortable, Shaun assured her that he liked her and not Lea like that. However, while Shaun and Carly were singing karaoke with Lea and her then boyfriend, Carly noticed about how much Shaun liked her more. While Shaun attempted to state otherwise, Carly knew the truth and dumped him so that he could be with Lea.
After a while, Shaun accepted that Carly was telling the truth and wanted to confess his feelings for Lea. Unfortunately, he kept fearing about Lea possibly not reciprocating how he felt which meant that they couldn't even be friends (let alone together). After a woman suddenly died at the hospital, Shaun attempted to find out why and any family she had. Although most of his friends thought he was still upset about Carly, he convinced Park to help him and they were able to find the woman's son. Unfortunately, he kept avoiding them because he thought his mother didn’t love him and Shaun was arrested but bailed out by Glassman while banned from going near the man. When he convinced Carly to help him, he found that the woman had a disease which her son possibly inherited. While Shaun was able to warn the man and convince him that his mother probably did love him, he was encouraged by Carly and Glassman to tell Lea the truth. He did and while Lea reciprocated his feelings, she felt that they couldn’t be together because of how she apparently wouldn't have been good for him because of her issues and his autism.
Shaun tried in vain to get Lea to see that he can adapt for her, but she wouldn't listen and just outright told him that he "can’t fix" his autism. This devastated Shaun and he didn't come to work for three days. When he did, he constantly acted like a jerk around Finn, a salesman with dwarfism that he, Claire and Neil were treating. When Finn's girlfriend destroyed his car after realizing that he had cheated on her, Shaun considered doing the same to Lea's striped tomato car but instead yelled at her about her flaws which left them both in tears.
After an earthquake, Shaun was made part of the team at the hospital trying to rescue the people trapped at a brewery. He desperately tried to reach Lea who was trapped but without success. Instead, he found a trapped woman named Vera who was also left heartbroken by a relationship while Lea was rescued by the rest of the workers. While Shaun's comms were open, he told Vera about his love for Lea who unknown to him overheard it all. An aftershock then caused a nearby pipe to burst, leaving Shaun and Vera in danger of drowning. Unable to saw through the rebar stuck in Vera's leg and since rescue workers couldn't reach them in time, Shaun decided to try to perform an amputation. The two were both submerged underwater but Shaun succeeded in saving Vera and both were lifted out of the basement by the firefighters. In the aftermath, Lea kissed Shaun, having realized just much she loves him and they became a couple.
Season 4
Shaun regularly had Lea visit him, during which she kept leaving belongings of hers behind. When she accepted to staying the night with him, he was kept very busy during the COVID-19 pandemic and he and Lea were separated which Shaun struggled with. With Lea still living in her own apartment, Shaun temporarily invited Dr. Park to move into the guest room and they lived together for several weeks. However, Shaun refused to acknowledge that he missed the physical intimacy with Lea. But after failing to connect with the imaginative aspects of phone sex, he finally came to the realization how much he missed having Lea near him. After the state of emergency in California was lifted and life returned to a semblance of normalcy, Shaun allowed Lea to visit again in person and invited her for a hug when she came to his apartment.
When Shaun was asked to help evaluate the six new resident applicants, he struggled with connecting to them on a more personal level. In the process, he inadvertently made Lea think that he was making sexual comments about her and insulting her. She was then upset with him over this and how he failed to see where he went wrong since in his eyes he was complimenting her. They talked it out and at the end they hugged with Shaun telling Lea he loves her and Lea telling Shaun that she appreciates his honesty. He also tried to get her to move back in, but she was reluctant since she believed it would've been different if they live together as a romantic couple because she wasn't sure that they had a high enough level of commitment and trust by then. Lea eventually decided that she wants to be with Shaun for the long haul and that their living together would be inevitable. While Lea moved back in, Shaun said he thinks having her back in the apartment is not the same as when they were roommates; it's better.
With the four new first year residents (Asher Wolke, Jordan Allen, Olivia Jackson and Ricky Guerin) under their wing, Shaun’s role as a seasoned resident was also to teach and mentor. Unfortunately, he missed non-verbal cues when Asher was unsure about a diagnosis and Shaun should have double-checked his medical assessment. This eventually resulted in a patient's death, with both Asher and Shaun blaming themselves for their errors in communication. This put him off continuing to teach the residents until Lim got him to do otherwise.
Lea pitched an idea about shower sex to Shaun but he was initially resistant because he felt it unsafe and inconvenient. He enlisted the opinion of several hospital colleagues, even setting up a poll to hear thoughts from a larger audience. At an opportune moment, Lea divulged to Shaun that she had an ex-husband whom she no longer has any contact with. This made Shaun question how much trust they have, seeing how Lea had not told him this important piece of information until now. Shaun came to the realization that it's inevitable that people will change, but that it's most important that people change as a couple in the same general direction and agreed to try shower sex with Lea.
When Lea's judgemental parents Pam and Mike came to visit San Jose to see their daughter and meet her new boyfriend, he had to deal with their prejudices against him and convince them to mend their strained relationship with her (which worked). Unfortunately, Shaun was working on the case of Rio, a transgender man who was pregnant, when he became somewhat flustered by the idea that he had an irrational crush on radiology resident Cintia D'Souza and Lea had to help him through it. He also unintentionally interrupted Lea while she was trying to stop hackers from stealing the hospital's information, which made her think that he was being sexist to her. However, he soon made up for that and gave her the encouragement to stop the hackers.
While Lea got her car towed by an extortionist tow truck driver, Shaun noted that she'd been acting somewhat erratically and was on the receiving end of it when she got mad at him not defending her. While Shaun was also at odds ends with Morgan over a man's comatose wife who soon died, he was advised by Claire to support Lea who plotted to get back at the man for his coercive practices. He did and later found out that Lea's behavior was because she recently discovered that she was pregnant.
Shaun wanted to support Lea, who was plagued by doubts whether having a child then was the right thing to do and that they needed to consider it. He was soon presented with a patient and fellow surgeon, Dr. Chambers, whom Shaun concluded is on the autism spectrum, which offended Chambers who nonetheless was persuaded to take an autism test that indicated he is very likely to be on the spectrum. While the two were able to reconcile their friction and shared experiences of their lives with autism, Shaun also sought advice from Claire concerning whether he could ever be a good father; he had doubts that he could offer the right kind of emotional support to his own child. Claire reassured him that she thought he would be great because he cares and would strive to always change for the better. While Shaun and Lea thought over the pregnancy, they agreed to abort it until they decided against that and held each other.
While Lea was progressing with her pregnancy and dealing with her issues, Shaun, in turn, struggled with Lea's somewhat unpredictable mood swings and the changes to the dynamic of their relationship. He also had trouble forming an emotional connection to his unborn child that was so far only a somewhat abstract concept of a small fetus in Lea's womb. This caused resentment between with the idea that Shaun would not be able to connect with the baby during the pregnancy. However, Shaun did finally accept the idea of Lea carrying a little growing human inside her when he joined her for her OB-GYN appointment and together they saw and heard the baby's heartbeat on the ultrasound.
Lea and Shaun made plans to go to birthing class and also learnt that their baby was going to be a girl. Attending the birthing class, they ended up being thrown out when Shaun kept interrupting the instructor with unhelpful medical details about the birthing process that disrupted the class and disconcerted the other couples in attendance. Lea decided that she wanted a doula for the birth because there were some things that Shaun could not help her with, such as a massage or other emotionally supportive aspects. Although Shaun was initially against it because he thought he could learn to do that for Lea, he decided that it was okay not to be good at everything and that he would need help in order to give Lea everything she wanted. He invited a doula to their home while also promising to raise their daughter to be strong with all the love and support they could give.
Shaun was assigned a case of Mason, a young boy with bullet shrapnel that traveled to his brain and would've possibly resulted in his death. Through working with Dr. Glassman (who felt that this was personal to Shaun since he would soon be a father), he was all the same able to help Mason. While happy, he was accompanying Lea home but she collapsed outside of the hospital with intense lower belly pain. It appeared that the source of the pain was harmless, but Shaun still had Claire run a battery of tests on Lea. They found out that Lea had vasa previa, which was subsequently surgically corrected. However, he wasn't allowed in the surgery for fear of being too emotional. In post-op, Lea developed a pulmonary embolism and had to have more surgery to prevent further complications. After more tests in the wake of this, Claire delivered devastating news to Shaun that there was another blood clot in the umbilical cord and there was no way the baby could've survived. The two were then forced into agreeing to have the pregnancy terminated, which left the two in a lot of grief.
Shaun tried to work through the loss of their child, which affected him in unexpected ways. He even fixated on a random patient who wasn't even his to treat, antagonizing an important cardiac key opinion leader who was brought in to consult on a case (but he was able to help with). With both him and Lea struggling with the loss of their baby in different ways, Shaun realized he needed to be there and support Lea and let her grieve in her own way.
Shaun suggested he and Lea take a camping trip in an attempt to have a change of scenery and provide some much needed reprieve. Although they had to deal with a lot of problems, they tried to make the best of their bad situation but Lea was ultimately not happy with it. The next day they agreed to at least go on a hike before heading home, but Shaun fell off a toppled tree and dislocated his ankle, rupturing an artery in his foot. With not enough time to call for an ambulance, he instructed Lea how to do impromptu field surgery on his foot with the emergency first aid kit he packed. Though Lea reluctantly agreed, Shaun lost consciousness halfway through the procedure but Lea successfully managed to restore blood flow to Shaun's toes (for which Shaun was very grateful to Lea).
A medical relief mission took Shaun to Guatemala, along with Lea and some of his colleagues, to provide a rare opportunity to the locals to receive life-saving surgery that otherwise wouldn't be offered to them out in the rural area they live in. Although several of the patients had to be turned away for various reasons, Shaun enjoyed the challenge, the new experience and surroundings and the rare opportunity to apply his perfect Spanish. Unfortunately, Lea was not having as great a time and still struggled with the loss of their baby, particularly when a young mother came to the clinic in hopes of saving her baby's life that hung in the balance.
While Shaun supported an offer from Lea's parents to have her return to Hershey for a while, he was saddened that Lea was so unhappy. Thankfully, the time in Guatemala helped Lea greatly to come to terms with her grief, and she realized that she would not have been able to get there without Shaun. After he said goodbye to Claire who stayed behind to work there, Lea made a spontaneous decision and proposed to Shaun, which he agreed without a moment's hesitation.
Season 5
Shaun left the wedding planning to Lea who wanted it to be perfect and Shaun didn't want to interfere. Though he found that she was somewhat stressed out, she insisted to Shaun that everything was fine (even though she kept flip-flopping between wanting to cancel the engagement party or not). When the party eventually took place, it was less than perfect and ultimately ruined by an awkward, drunken speech Glassman gave where he revealed Debbie had left him. The next day, Shaun offered to help Lea plan the wedding, so that they could share the blame or credit depending on the outcomes.
When business woman Salen Morrison and her company Ethicure Medical took over the hospital, Shaun initially thought the changes Salen made weren't so bad until he found himself starting to struggle with the continued disruption to his routines. When he and Lea were planning their wedding, he thought he had to invite Marcie (even though he was uncomfortable about doing so). While he proved to be able to stand up for himself to some of Salen's changes, he was also pleased when Lea said she didn't want Marcie at their wedding anymore than Shaun did to not make things awkward.
Shaun with Lea continued to face more challenges with other changes Salen made to the hospital. These included a large billboard she put up outside the hospital that used him and his ASD status as a literal poster boy for diversity hiring at the hospital (which he felt uncomfortable about until he treated a young girl who said she had been inspired by him) and a new patient satisfaction scoring system. Shaun's scores were unsurprisingly low due to his sometimes brutally honest and no-nonsense bedside manner, so he tried to work to get them up and they did (though not in the way he thought).
While Shaun butt-heads somewhat with Park concerning a heart transplant, he had to deal with Glassman (his best man) refusing to pick up as he felt that Shaun didn't need him anymore. He and Lea also had to help Alma Garcia, a pregnant woman with an acute cardiac problem who was caught up in a car crash. At the hospital, Alma at Shaun's suggestion asked that a C-section be performed on her. Unfortunately, Lea confessed to Shaun the truth about his scores; she actually deleted the bad reviews left about him to try and make him feel better. Like with Mr. Carl, Shaun couldn't help but feel that Lea had just made things worse for him through her good intentions. What's more is that while Shaun was carrying out the C-section on Alma, her baby required medication but it transpired that everything in the pharmacy had expired due to budget cuts Salen enforced there and the baby died. While Shaun was upset, he pushed Lea away and called off their wedding. He also got upset with Glassman whom Shaun thought was abandoning him despite promising he wouldn't and he completely broke down, though Glassman was able to comfort him.
Although Shaun soon came to understand Lea's motivations, a patient, Phil, who got hurt because a woman he liked didn't like him in return made Shaun question whether Lea thought he was good enough for her. This unfortunately made Lea think that Shaun didn't see her as good enough for him and stormed off. However, when he explained the truth to her, they both said that they thought the other is good enough for them and they reconciled. He was later part of a surgery on former country singer Nellie Current, which Shaun knew would've been dangerous but Andrews refused to listen as he wanted to impress Salen. The surgery was only barely a success because of Current's unusual clotting factors, but Shaun saw that Salen wasn't good for the hospital and quit.
While Lim, Lea and Glassman were part of a team to try and stop Salen, Shaun was convinced into not getting involved because of his vulnerabilities and instead return to the hospital for his work (which Salen reluctantly accepted, since Shaun being fired would've been a PR disaster). Unfortunately, Salen found out about this, fired Lim, Lea and Glassman and then Park quit since barely anyone else wanted to stand up to Salen. Shaun then insisted that he get involved in their fight, since they have stood up for him and he wished to do the same with them. However, Dr. Andrews ended up being the one to stop Salen.
While Shaun and Lea decided to put their wedding plans on hold and live in the moment, he had to take care of a 10-year-old patient, Isla, whom he bonded with. After Isla pointed out that Lea had no engagement ring, he couldn't help but get stressed out a bit by the lack of plans. After he had to comfort Isla who felt guilt to having caused an accident she and her parents were in and save her, he made a ring for Lea while also re-proposing to her. He also tried to help with a dry spell that Lea claimed they were going through concerning their sex (which he feared for a while was due to a problem in their relationship) while allowing for a patient who had never had sex have some with her visiting boyfriend.
Shaun soon treated Trent (a biohacker with a strained relationship with his mother, Carrie), tried to help deduce why everyone was acting crazy during a potluck when it turned out that magic mushrooms had accidentally got into the brownies there and treated Joan, one of his polio survivor patients living in an iron lung. When Lea had to be called in to fix it, their relationship was noted by Sophie (Joan's niece) who said she was developing a reality show that features atypical couples and wanted Shaun and Lea for her pilot. After some deliberation since Sophie offered to pay for their wedding if they did it, the two of them finally agreed that it would've been a great way to advocate for neurodiversity and be an inspiration to others who feel like they're different and don't fit in.
Shaun and Lea were accompanied by Sophie's crew and camera operators, showcasing their everyday life and how the wedding preparations are going. Unfortunately, the cameras distracted him while he was trying to treat Dana (a woman with burns to her face) and accidentally misdiagnose her. Although Shaun was disappointed in himself, Jordan said that his mistake was an inspiration to her which made him feel better and he was able to treat Dana. During a party celebrating their wedding, Shaun was reunited with Claire who brought Lucho, a young boy with a tumor that needed surgery to be provided by the surgical team at St. Bonaventure. Although it appeared that they weren't able to treat Lucho, Shaun and Claire all the same were able to do so. However, Shaun and Lea felt that the wedding Sophie planned out for them wasn't what they wanted and they left the venue.
While Shaun and Lea were enjoying their fake honeymoon, Shaun remarked about how bad they were at getting married and suggested they just do so at the courthouse the next day. Lea seemed happy with that, but admitted to Shaun later that she was also disappointed that she wasn't going to have a more ceremonial white-dress wedding. When Glassman and Jordan realized this, they surprised the couple with a new plan; to get married on the roof of the hospital in classic tux and wedding dress with Dr. Andrews officiating. Shaun and Dr. Glassman shared an intimate moment when Glassman handed Shaun heirloom wedding rings that were meant for Maddie, a meaningful symbol that Shaun knew how to appreciate and the two said that they loved each other. Shaun and Lea's wedding on the hospital roof was beautiful, with Glassman managing not to botch the speech this time and talked about how much Shaun meant to him and he and Lea happily danced with their family at the hospital in attendance.
Season 6
Eventually, Shaun and the rest of the hospital staff were informed that Lim and her friend Nurse Dalisay Villanueva had been stabbed by Villanueva's violent ex-boyfriend. When Shaun saw what had happened, he couldn't help but see flashbacks of him losing Steve. Shaun was part of the team to operate on Lim when Glassman ordered part of Lim's liver to be removed, but Shaun knew that it would've cut down her lifespan. Unfortunately, there was barely any other option which Shaun agreed with when Glassman left to help Andrews with Villanueva, during which Shaun realised that Lim's state left them able to do an angio-embolization he thought of. Although Glassman wasn’t happy about this, Shaun proved to be correct in his course of treatment and he managed to save Lim's whole liver.
Unfortunately, Lim went into distress due to previously undetected damage to her heart. Both Lim and the attacker Owen (who had attempted suicide by cop) required heart bypass, leading to Shaun arguing that Lim have it even if Owen had to die, but he was overruled by Andrews and Glassman. Shaun suffered a meltdown during the surgery, consumed with guilt over his failure to save Steve and inability to save Lim. Steve appeared to Shaun, reassuring his brother that his death wasn't Shaun's fault and urging Shaun to let go of his guilt over it. Steve and Lea were able to get Shaun to focus and he was able to determine the problem and save Lim's life. He then thanked Lea for helping him and told her that he loves her more than he already did. However, when Shaun, Andrews and Glassman checked on a recovering Lim, they discovered that her injuries left her paralyzed from the waist down.
Three months later, Shaun was made a surgical attending while sharing an office with Park. On his first day as an attending, Shaun clashed with new resident Dr. Danica "Danni" Powell who was chosen by Shaun for his team along with Asher while Park got Jordan and Daniel "Danny" Perez. Shaun and Danni's difference of opinion over a xenotransplant from a pig nearly led Shaun to fire her before changing his mind after getting some advice from Lim. However, Shaun found it surprisingly difficult when it came time to personally slaughter the pig, Wilbur, before Jerome (a nurse) interrupted with the news of the arrival of a compatible human donor, much to everyone's relief.
While Shaun, Asher and Danny were treating Julianne (a famous marriage counselor with a brain tumor), Shaun struggled with his differences of opinion about household habits with Lea, especially after Julianne warned him about such habits becoming permanent for the rest of the relationship. Although Julianne ultimately died because of a second tumor, Shaun ended up taking her advice to let Lea know how much he loves her. Unfortunately, Lim found that it appeared Shaun had caused her paralysis and ended her friendship with him in anger despite his attempts to say that he saved her.
While Shaun, Asher and Danni were treating Charlie, a military reenactor with shrapnel in his arm, an unexpected secondary detonation during surgery caused even more damage. Although Asher and Danni thought that Charlie's arm had to be amputated, Shaun refused to give up and he eventually managed to find a surgical solution that saved Charlie's arm. Unfortunately, despite claims that he was fine, he appeared to be anything but and kept repeatedly moving around his and Park's office furniture and moving out of their shared office into a disused storage closet for privacy. Unfortunately, Glassman had sided with Lim and soon confronted Shaun whom Glassman accused of isolating himself again and insisted that Shaun must take some kind of responsibility for his actions. Although Shaun got upset with Glassman over this, he tried nonetheless to work with Glassman on a surgical solution to fix Lim's paralysis.
However, Glassman kept refusing to even consider Shaun's ideas since he thought that they would all end badly. Shaun, on the other hand, thought that Glassman was letting his anger get the better of him, to which Glassman confessed that he was. All the same, Glassman said that he still loved Shaun and thought his ideas had some potential. Unfortunately, Lim rejected the surgery out of concern that it was too dangerous. Although upset, he agreed to a request by Park to talk to a disabled young man and his brother who were both patients of Park about him and Steve.
During a heatwave at the hospital, Shaun and Danni were working together which he found hard after finding out that she had advised Lim against having the surgery and kept contradicting him while he kept shooting down her ideas. All the same, Shaun was encouraged to find common ground with her and they were able to work out their issues. He was also working with Danny on treating a baby born a sextuplet when he kept remembering Lea's miscarriage, but was able to get through it. He also had to comfort Lea who was upset when it appeared that she could no longer be pregnant and was encouraged by Glassman to make amends with Lim, whom he told that he was sorry that he had put her in pain (though not about what he did) and that he missed her (which Lim reciprocated).
While unintentionally putting Danni and Danny in competition with each other with a rating system he introduced (and later got rid of), he worked with Lea to get a house that they both liked before learning that Lea was pregnant again. He got Glassman and Lim to help Lea with her pregnancy, but he couldn't help but be overprotective of her to the point of isolating Lea until Asher convinced him otherwise. Nonetheless, Shaun was proven correct when it was revealed that Lea was suffering from internal bleeding. Thankfully, it turned out the cause was just from Lea's previous miscarriage and the two were soon revealed to be having a boy.
While Shaun and Lea were on their babymoon, they saw a dog get hurt and Shaun was convinced by Lea (who had become attached to the dog) to help it. Shaun soon noted that Lea was stressed out, to which she confessed that she was worried about how good a parent she would be. While he tried to help her, Shaun too couldn't help but get attached to the dog while healing it until it's owners came for it. He and Lea also had Glassman stay with them for a while after his house got infested with termites and then burnt down, all the while having to work through his and Lea's differences concerning their unborn son until they and Glassman started to think about looking forward to their family life.
However, Glassman soon became too much for Lea to deal with which Shaun expressed to Glassman, who was nonetheless pleased that Shaun saw him as his unborn child's grandfather and moved into an apartment near him and Lea. Shaun was also excited by the return of Jared, who was now a concierge doctor. He returned to the hospital specifically in search of Shaun's help to treat his client Roland Barnes to whom Jared had spoken very highly of Shaun. Together, Shaun and Jared discovered that Roland had a tapeworm larva in his brain and successfully treated him. Throughout the case, Shaun encouraged his old friend to return to surgery. Jared was soon granted a position on Shaun's team, albeit as a first year resident again.
Shaun soon received news that he was being sued for medical malpractice by Bob Patton, a man whose hand Shaun thought that he had to amputate while trying to help him when Shaun and Park found him injured. Glassman and his lawyer, Janet Stewart, tried to convince Shaun to settle, only to meet Joni DeGroot, a young lawyer with OCD whom Shaun chose to represent him. Though through a lot of work, Joni was able to defend Shaun from any wrongdoing he was accused of.
Although Shaun became somewhat frustrated when Jared's zeal caused him to cut corners, the two were able to come to an understanding and work together. Unfortunately, Shaun soon found out that Glassman had missed a couple of sutures on a surgery he had just finished and began to worry that his cancer was back. Although it turned out it wasn't, Shaun realised that Glassman had missed a step while he was putting together Shaun and Lea's baby's crib. With Lim, Shaun found that Glassman had suffered a mini-stroke and had permanent brain damage which meant that he couldn't continue surgery.
Shaun was part of a team to perform surgery on Kurt, a man who appeared to have gone through a personality shift due to a tumor in his brain that would've killed him if it wasn’t removed. Although Kurt was reluctant since he had become a better father to his daughter Talia due to the tumor, he agreed to it after Glassman convinced him to. Unfortunately, Shaun kept being over-protective of Glassman due to being worried about him making a mistake during the surgery. This led to Glassman removing Shaun from the surgery, though Glassman was sadly unable to complete it. While the tumor was removed and Kurt appeared to have at least some of his new personality with him, Glassman felt that Shaun had betrayed him and demanded that Shaun leave him alone.
Soon enough, Shaun was informed by Lea that their baby was coming early. While he was trying to be there for Lea, he was called to a surgery on a young girl who was injured in a massive vehicle pile-up in a tunnel. Shaun and Asher were able to help the girl, but the father of the family suffered similar complications and unfortunately died. Shaun then told the mother about when he lost Steve but had Glassman with him (though Shaun was worried about losing him as well) and to be strong while losing a loved one to continue being there for those that are still around. He was then there for Lea while she was giving birth and pleased when their son (whom Shaun named Steve) was born. They were soon joined by their family at the hospital, apart from Glassman who all the same had a blanket delivered to them which had the baby's name in it (knowing what Shaun would've named him). Later, Shaun fully named his and Lea's child Steven Aaron Murphy.
Season 7
Shaun mostly took care of Steve, eventually returning to work two weeks later to help Jack (a baby in need of a heart transplant) and Morgan and Park's adopted daughter Eden (who had turner's syndrome). While Shaun and Lea ended up having differences in raising Steve, they were able to come together in doing so. Although he agreed to have Glassman give Shaun and Lea a break, they didn't officially make up until they both attended a party Morgan threw for Eden.
The hospital soon got some junior residents, Charlie Lukaitis and Dom Hubank. Shaun ended up working with Charlie who was a long-time admirer of his and who also has autism which led to her making mistakes, all the while Shaun unfortunately treated her similarly to how he had been by Neil and Han (something that was pointed out to him). He even asked if he could swap with Park who was working with Dom, all the while having Charlie launch a complaint against him out of seeing that he would have sabotaged her hopes of being a doctor.
While Shaun also continued to be a good father, he and the others suffered the loss of Asher who was murdered in an antisemitic hate crime. He didn't seem upset at it at first, possibly because of his autism, but came to admit that Asher was a good friend. At the same time, the hospital took in victims of a mass casualty event while Lim was in surgery. The situation allowed Shaun to shine as a leader, even being able to make tough and unpopular calls like forcing Jordan to abandon a fatally injured man who had saved a young girl's life to instead focus on treating the man responsible for the event and performing an emergency C-section to save the baby of a seemingly fatally injured woman, only to turn his attention to the woman and save her after having one of his insights that revealed the true cause of her condition. At one point, Shaun became overwhelmed when he had multiple people looking to him for answers all at once. But after Charlie helped Shaun to focus on one problem at a time, he was able to use his visualization skills to find an answer to each problem.
When the hospital opened up a daycare, Shaun and Lea were able to get Steve in it but Shaun soon became concerned for Steve; he didn't seem upset when he was left behind unlike the other babies which made Shaun believe that Steve had inherited Shaun's autism. Shaun then kept fighting with Lea over getting Steve tested, only to remember how supportive his brother Steve was when Marcie and Ethan had the same arguments concerning Shaun.
Claire later returned to the hospital to receive treatment for stage 1 breast cancer, developing a deadly post-op acitobacter infection at the same time that Glassman informed Shaun that his cancer returned and was terminal, leaving Glassman with only three to six months to live. Shaun struggled with the idea of losing two people who were so important to him, causing him to obsessively dive into finding a solution, rejecting Glassman's attempts to convince Shaun to accept the inevitable in his case. Although Shaun and Charlie developed an experimental bacteriophage treatment, the FDA refused to approve it. In tears, Shaun called Glassman and Lea into the conference room where Shaun had first made his case to become a resident at the hospital, recalling how he had started out trying to save everyone, but now realized that saving one person close to him was more important. Although Shaun was willing to sacrifice his career to save Claire, Glassman took on the responsibility instead to save him, already in the middle of retiring due to his cancer.
Having finally accepted Glassman's impending death, Shaun went on to spend Glassman's remaining months with him. Six months after Glassman's death, Shaun opened with Claire the Dr. Aaron Glassman Foundation for Neurodiversity in Medicine to help people with neurological conditions get careers in medicine. Over the next ten years, Shaun and Lea also had a daughter, Maddie, and Shaun eventually became the Chief of Surgery at St. Bonaventure. Shaun soon held a TED talk attended by his friends and family about his journey and the impact that Glassman had on his life. By this point, Shaun had saved 1,524 people's lives, all of whom he can remember the names of.
Personality
Shaun has "almost perfect recall", extraordinary and genius-level intellect and the excellent analytical abilities that allow him to make highly accurate diagnoses. He is highly perceptive and often bluntly voices these perceptions, such as noting that Neil, his superior, was "arrogant" on the first day that they met. Notably, Shaun was the only person in the entire hospital to suspect that Dr. Andrews would choose to remain Chief of Surgery instead of choosing a new one, resulting in Shaun winning the betting pool everyone created on the decision. During hospital scenes, Shaun's thought process is frequently captured in an overlay for viewers, demonstrating his eidetic memory. This shows that he is a highly visual learner. Over time, Shaun's unique visualizing process has become evident to those around him to the point that they have realized what he is doing simply by looking at him. Claire was even able to realize that after Zack described what Shaun looked like before he collapsed. Shaun's unique diagnostic skills are noted by many, including Dr. Han who displayed prejudice against Shaun for his autism. Jared expressed fondness for it years after last seeing Shaun with Asher commenting that it was the highlight of his day to watch Shaun do it.
His autism is depicted as obvious to many of the people he interacts with. He displays several traits of his condition, including heightened sensory sensitivity, abnormal inflection when speaking, lack of interest in eye contact and heavy reliance on routine. Additionally, he becomes fixated on certain objects at times, most notably the toy scalpel that Steve gave to him. He insists on eating the same thing for breakfast every day: yogurt and a green apple except for Mondays when he had breakfast with Dr. Glassman at the hospital. He loves to eat chocolate chip pancakes with a glass of milk, while having had a love from childhood of peanut butter and jelly sandwiches on white bread and chocolate chip cookies. While Shaun was clearly uncomfortable treating Liam (the first autistic person he met), his unique insight into the young man's condition allowed him to recognize that he was autistic and not psychotic as was originally believed, help calm him through most of the MRI and figure out what was wrong with him. He was also able to get Liam's parents (who initially discriminated Shaun because of his autism) to see that they had caused their son to get sick while they subsequently began listening to Liam rather than unilaterally making decisions for him. When a buzzing light and the stressful situation caused Shaun to go into sensory overload and collapse into the fetal position, Morgan was able to get him through it by getting him focused on surgery and Park realized what was causing Shaun’s distraction and eliminated the source by smashing the light. When Shaun went into sensory overload again during a C-section, his first solo surgery, he was able to fight through it and come up with a solution to the problem.
Despite Shaun's troubled childhood, he maintains a generally positive outlook on life, choosing to pursue medicine in the hopes of improving the lives of others. However, he was wary of forming deeper relationships with people after the deaths of his rabbit and younger brother and was possibly the cause of shutting himself away. Shaun has a great degree of proficiency, if not fluency, in Spanish and knows eight (two of which he was taught by Jared) words in Yoruba, though he still has communication problems in whatever language he knows. He also mentions an interest in football at least once, alongside 'Starsky and Hutch'. Among the things Shaun dislikes are pickles, mushrooms, anchovies, olives, garlic, mayonnaise, walnuts, Chinese food, bread with cinnamon, nuts, seeds or berries in it, the way coffee makes him feel, confrontation and direct questions. He has an aversion to physical touch unless he is the one to initiate it and/or it comes from people he is very comfortable with. After he started dating Carly, Shaun was comfortable with her kissing him, but not with holding hands and only liked touching one thing at a time. He is shown as being fond of cats, fish and rabbits, but not so much of dogs until his own bond with Buddy.
As a result of his autism, Shaun has trouble with cognitive empathy (discerning why people are upset), but is fine with emotional empathy (being able to see that they are). This is something that he himself notes. As a result, he may make a decision that is rational and by the rules, but morally wrong or otherwise harmful such as taking away Dr. Glassman's license due to the rules dictating it while not understanding why Glassman was angry with him (though it was clear to him that he was upset). This is something Shaun was shown working on such as learning how to drive to make up for taking away Glassman's ability to drive himself places by driving Glassman instead. Another example is how he treated Lea after her return due to being hurt over her leaving in the first place which made Shaun rude and mean to his friend. He wasn't able to empathize with some of his patients at first, but ultimately went beyond the norms of helping treat them such as with Billy Cayman and Nathan Nayar.
Shaun's trouble with empathy and communication led to him telling Diane Monroe while treating Persephone that Diane's anti-depressants possibly caused Persephone's severe birth defects, something that no other doctor would have ever said. However, Shaun's bluntness at times has proven helpful; he pointed out Suzanne's doubts over Alex staying with her following her surgery to remove her cancer, causing the couple to confront said doubts and reach a resolution. Carly even found Shaun's bluntness and obvious care for his patients cute when they first met, a contrast to many people who are put off by that bluntness. She and Lea have both also believed Shaun to be the most genuine and honest person they know. While he was treating Mitchell Stewart and Isla Liu, both of them wanted the truth which they knew he would give.
Shaun's communication issues led to him failing to catch the cues that Zack Cordell was angry with him at the bar, while farther angering Zack when Shaun said that he doesn't like to be touched. As noted by Glassman, Shaun all the same showed mercy to Zack despite his cruel and violent actions which is extraordinary in and of itself. Even more extraordinary was that Shaun's statement that Zack was misdiagnosed before collapsing from his injuries led Claire to successfully replicate Shaun's thought processes to see through his eyes and save Zack's life. In doing so, Shaun made Claire a better doctor because of how he inspired her. According to Glassman, this is proof that Shaun does communicate (just not how others might) and is heard and inspires others. Shaun also inspired Andrews - who was once the most reluctant to hire him - to stand up to Han and fire him so that Shaun could be rehired by offering Andrews advice that Steve had once given to him. Claire even thought of Shaun as a role model on certain things and sought his advice on how to deal with her mother.
Another problem Shaun often has is with romantic relationships. He was immediately attracted to Lea when they first met, even though he did not know much about relationships and his attitude to her when she returned. He also had trouble adjusting to her having a boyfriend and showed signs of possibly being in love with her, which he appeared to possibly move on from (or as at least try to) as he decided to ask Carly out instead, getting coaching from Claire on how. Despite his "disaster" of a date, Shaun had genuine feelings for Carly and followed good advice to have more relaxed dates with her which went well (despite his uncomfortableness concerning excessive touching).
After spending the night sleeping comfortably with Lea and having a brief meltdown over the potential of being alone, Shaun appeared to lose some of his aversion to touch. When Glassman comforted him, Shaun initiated a hug that he only broke because he had to go into surgery on Kerry Gaston and was late. During the subsequent surgery, when Kerry grabbed his hand hard due to the immense pain she was in, Shaun did not stop her and instead told the other doctors to allow it as it distracted Kerry but to hurry though he was clearly uncomfortable, though this was likely at least in part due to how hard Kerry was gripping his hand. Just before admitting his love for Carly, Shaun took and held her hand for a brief time despite his previous aversion to holding hands with Carly at all. He even did it again rather than the crossing wrists compromise he had had to use previously. He also completely lost his aversion to physical intimacy with Carly with their first attempt at sex ending due to Carly's hesitations rather than Shaun's.
Although he temporarily feared that he drives everyone away from him, he is grateful in having gained the friends he has. In particular, Shaun became close friends (even brothers) with Dr. Park and although the two have clashed professionally over patients (including when they both had a patient that they tried to put over the other and while they were treating Nathan), they choose not to let it affect them on a personal level. During the COVID-19 pandemic, Shaun even allowed the homeless Park to be his roommate for a time. Shaun also quickly developed a close friendship with Claire who proved to be one of the first people to understand and relate to Shaun, while Jared (despite not knowing Shaun for as long as his other friends) had faith in Shaun's abilities to the point that he specifically sought Shaun out for help years after leaving the hospital and had described Shaun as being the best to his client. He was saddened whenever they left or died, but also pleased when Jared and Claire returned and quickly fell back into working together with them and bouncing ideas off of each other like no time at all had passed. He also (despite appearing to be OK with it) appeared to feel guilt for having caused Lim's paralysis which made her end their friendship until he made up with her.
In the later years of his residency, Shaun's greater experience with patients led to him becoming more visibly empathetic and less blunt, at one point only agreeing to deliver a bluntly honest diagnosis because Lim, as his boss, ordered him to do so. Despite his initial reluctance to form personal connections with his patients, he became close with Tara (who had grown up like him, an outcast, and was able to get her to take gene therapy to help her) and Isla, opening up to her about his guilt over Steve's death to help Isla with her own guilt. While Shaun admitted that it isn't terrible to become close to a patient, he still refused to do it moving forward. His combination of empathy and blunt honesty resulted in Trent and Carrie reconciling with each other, impressing Lim who stated that conflict resolution is an important quality for an attending physician. Asher (who was estranged from his family for years, his father in particular) even jokingly suggested having Shaun help him and his father resolve their issues with each other as a result.
Due to emotionally connecting so much with his colleagues, Shaun took it very badly when Lim was severely wounded and constantly disagreed over the best course of treatment. A large part of this was that her situation reminded Shaun of Steve's death, his inability to save his brother and Shaun's guilt over it, though he appeared to let go of it (or at least try to) thanks to his vision of Steve while also saving Lim's life. The incident and Lea's unwavering support of him throughout it caused Shaun to only love Lea even more. Notably, during this ordeal, despite Shaun's behavior, his friends recognized that it came from his concern for Lim and (despite Shaun arguing with them and at one point completely going against Glassman's orders) they didn't hold it against him. Glassman went so far as to praise Shaun's save to Lim despite his initial anger and see that Shaun was the one that they needed, not himself. After Shaun snapped out of it, Andrews, Glassman and Jordan trusted his judgment to the point that they followed his directions with a simple explanation of how he came to his conclusion on the issue.
Shaun was uncomfortable at first when he was called upon to help train new residents and with being a leader to them, causing him to make a number of mistakes (which Andrews was concerned about). This made Shaun refuse to continue training residents until Lim talked him into continue trying. Eventually, Shaun adapted and proved himself to be a capable leader and teacher greatly respected by Asher and Jordan as well as Olivia and Ricky before they left the hospital. Shaun has developed a good rapport with his residents despite his initial struggles with Jordan and Asher both learning from him and supporting him as he learnt from and supported them in turn, especially Jordan.
In the later years of his residency, Shaun became more assertive and sure of himself, although sometimes this resulted in slightly disastrous results when Shaun argued with his superiors. He rather brashly accused Dr. Paul Nakano of making a mistake with his behavior getting to the point that Nakano claimed that in Andrews' position, he would've fired Shaun. While Shaun turned out to be wrong about Nakano having made a mistake, he was correct about there being a problem and he stopped the surgery in time to save the patient. Shaun's intervention and solution of the problem earned him Nakano's respect with the older doctor going so far as to ask Shaun to join him in the surgery and then later tell him that it was nice operating with Shaun. While working with Glassman when most of the staff were affected by magic mushrooms, their differing styles in the operating room caused Shaun to go so far as to publicly argue with Glassman over the matter, leading to a falling out for a time and Shaun getting into trouble for his behavior. After Glassman was convinced by Jordan to possibly learn from Shaun whom Glassman gave the lead on a surgery and was able to find an innovative solution, Shaun tried to be more accommodating to Glassman's way of doing things in return during the surgery which Glassman appreciated.
As a surgical attending, Shaun proved himself to be an effective leader of his own team and good at dealing with his patients, which were also concerns that Andrews had raised while arguing against hiring Shaun as a resident, although Shaun still turned to his friends and mentors for advice. He had difficulties with Danni, Charlie and also Jared when he became a first year again, getting frustrated with them while apparently forgetting that they were like how he was (especially Charlie, who also has autism) when he was new to the hospital, though Glassman (who still tried to convince Shaun otherwise) knew it was only out of how he had been treated. As a result, Shaun clashed with Danni and Jared and he even went as far as to publicly berate Charlie until they made up. Shaun and Danni were even able to work together during Danni’s time on Shaun's team and he admitted to being wrong about Charlie, whom he even sought advice from when he considered getting his son Steve tested for autism and spoke fairly well of her to Claire, but wasn't overly complimentary (something that Claire suggested he work on). He was later able to shine during the mass casualty event, having been made the leader since he doesn't let his emotions get the best of him, but found it difficult to deal with until he had help from Charlie.
Shaun always wanted to be a father, thinking that he could be good at it. Despite his initial failed connection with the baby Lea was first pregnant with, he still wanted to support Lea during her pregnancy and also soon became attached to the baby. He initially didn't appear to be as upset as Lea was following her miscarriage, but had to admit that he was. While he was supposedly pleased when Lea said that she had become pregnant again, his fears (which weren't wrong due to how they were warned about the dangers of Lea getting pregnant again) couldn't help but make him overprotective of Lea. Although this irritated her, Glassman saw that this helped save Lea while Shaun lost much of his overprotectiveness and instead excitedly prepared for the impending birth of his son (all the while completely losing the former detachment from himself and the unborn baby) and then showcased himself (which Lea was impressed with) to be good at balancing being a father and attending surgeon. Although he had concerns about what his son Steve would do as a career and the possibility that he has autism, Shaun has never thought that he wouldn't want Steve in his life.
After reuniting with Shaun when she returned to San Jose for treatment for breast cancer, Claire pointed out how much he'd changed from when they first met; he was soaking wet and barely able to communicate, as opposed to the top attending and wonderful husband and father who is extremely good at helping people that he had become. He was even soon able to become Chief of Surgery, a testament to Shaun's talent and leadership.
Appearances
| Ep. | 1 | 2 | 3 | 4 | 5 | 6 | 7 | 8 | 9 | 10 | 11 | 12 | 13 | 14 | 15 | 16 | 17 | 18 | 19 | 20 | 21 | 22 |
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| S2 | ✔ | ✔ | ✔ | ✔ | ✔ | ✔ | ✔ | ✔ | ✔ | ✔ | ✔ | ✔ | ✔ | ✔ | ✔ | ✔ | ✔ | ✔ | ||||
| S3 | ✔ | ✔ | ✔ | ✔ | ✔ | ✔ | ✔ | ✔ | ✔ | ✔ | ✔ | ✔ | ✔ | ✔ | ✔ | ✔ | ✔ | ✔ | ✔ | ✔ | ||
| S4 | ✔ | ✔ | ✔ | ✔ | ✔ | ✔ | ✔ | ✔ | ✔ | ✔ | ✔ | ✔ | ✔ | ✔ | ✔ | ✔ | ✔ | ✔ | ✔ | ✔ | ||
| S5 | ✔ | ✔ | ✔ | ✔ | ✔ | ✔ | ✔ | ✔ | ✔ | ✔ | ✔ | ✔ | ✔ | ✔ | ✔ | ✔ | ✔ | ✔ | ||||
| S6 | ✔ | ✔ | ✔ | ✔ | ✔ | ✔ | ✔ | ✔ | ✔ | ✔ | ✔ | ✔ | ✔ | ✔ | ✔ | ✔ | ✔ | ✔ | ✔ | ✔ | ✔ | ✔ |
| S7 | ✔ | ✔ | ✔ | ✔ | ✔ | ✔ | ✔ | ✔ | ✔ | ✔ |
Trivia
- Freddie Highmore, the actor who portrays Shaun, studied Spanish, which his TV series character is fluent in.
- Dr. Glassman states that he has known Shaun for 12 years; they met when Shaun was 14, meaning Shaun was born in 1992.
- Shaun may know Japanese as in "First Case, Second Base," he watched a procedure in the language and knew the procedure well enough to walk Andrews and Lim through it later. When Shaun watched the video, there was no sign of English subtitles that could've been guiding him.
- Shaun was the only character to appear in every single episode in the series, while he and Glassman were the only members of the group of main characters to appear throughout every season.
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Season 3
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References
- ↑ "Heartfelt": Season 1. Episode 15. Thomas L. Moran/Johanna Lee (writer) & Regina King (director). [February 26, 2018].
- ↑ "Burnt Food": Season 1. Episode 1. David Shore (writer) & Seth Gordon (director). [September 25, 2017].
- ↑ "Incomplete": Season 3. Episode 9. Brian Shin (writer) & Marisol Adler (director). [November 25, 2019].