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The Good Doctor Season 6 Episode 5 Recap “Growth Opportunities”

Don’t miss Celebrity Myxer’s recap of The Good Doctor Season 6 Episode 5 “Growth Opportunities.” Shaun, Asher, and Powell treat a young patient on Halloween with a rare hereditary disease, sending them down an uncharted path. Meanwhile, Glassman and Shaun must overcome their differences to work together to try and find a solution for Lim’s paralysis. Here’s what you missed!

Air Date & Time: Monday, October 31, 2022, at 10 pm ET, 9 pm CT, and 7 pm PT on ABC!

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Watch The Good Doctor Season 6 Episode 5 “Growth Opportunities”

Previously on The Good Doctor Season 6 Episode 4, the team operates on a military reenactor whose attempt at authenticity has created an explosive predicament that even Dr. Shaun Murphy couldn’t predict. Meanwhile, Dr. Jordan Allen and Dr. Daniel Perez are on a race against time as they search for a severed foot.

Warning… Spoilers below!

On The Good Doctor Season 6 Episode 5, Shaun suggests a radical plan to “fix” Dr. Lim’s paralysis! He suggests correcting the deformity in her spine, which in theory, will restore her range of motion, and she would be able to walk again.

Restored & Declined

Shaun on The Good Doctor Season 6 Episode 5. Photo Credit: Jeff Weddell/ABC.

Shaun on The Good Doctor Season 6 Episode 5. Photo Credit: Jeff Weddell/ABC.

Dr. Glassman was still upset at Shaun for overriding his medical treatment decision. Thus, he was snappy at Shaun whenever he suggested surgery options. Lea spoke with Glassman to get him to be the first to reach out to Shaun. However, it wasn’t until he witnessed the fussy interaction between a father and daughter in the hospital’s cafeteria did he realize he was treating Shaun like his daughter, Maddie (portrayed by Wise Alvarez.)

In a flashback, he punished Maddie, and she told him that she hated him. When Glassman finally approached Shaun, he told Shaun that he was still upset with him but that he loved him. That opened the door for them to connect and look at Shaun’s surgery idea.

Will Dr. Lim allow Shaun to operate on her again on The Good Doctor Season 6 Episode 5. Photo Credit: Jeff Weddell/ABC.

Will Dr. Lim allow Shaun to operate on her again on The Good Doctor Season 6 Episode 5. Photo Credit: Jeff Weddell/ABC.

They presented the idea to Lim, and Dr. Andrews approved it. They all needed Lim’s approval- she decided to take some time to decide. Just as she considered it, Dr. Powell convinced her not to go forward with the surgery. She related to herself (being an amputee) and shared how she would have done anything to regain her limb when she initially lost it. Now, she feels she is a better person.

Ultimately, Lim declined the surgery, and Shaun challenged it. Both Glassman and Andrews had to hush Shaun from the start of an episode as he claimed it wasn’t fair that Lim didn’t want to pursue the corrective surgery.

I’m Mick

Another heartfelt story jerked tears. A teen girl, Skylar (portrayed by Diana Tsoy), needed an emergency liver transplant, and her mother or stepfather wasn’t a match. The biological father was never told about his teenage daughter until she was on her deathbed. She had hours to live. When the staff asked him several times to donate part of his liver, he declined because he had a wife and two boys. He didn’t know the girl…

The man, Mick (portrayed by Dennis Oh), was a great singer and Lea crashed his set to show him a video of the daughter he never knew singing like an angel. In the eleventh hour, Mick and his wife visited Skylar in the hospital.

Skylar recovered from surgery and was told a man donated part of his liver so she could live. She asked who he was. He simply told her, “I’m Mick…”

Brotherly Love

Dr. Park worked on a case of a man with a tumor in his abdomen. A second tumor was discovered while in surgery, and they were forced to close him up and halt. They, unfortunately, had to give him notice that there was nothing else they could do.

The man lived for his autistic younger brother. He didn’t want to tell his brother he was dying, but Dr. Perez managed to convince him to tell his brother. Perez told the man a story of his brother who got injured, was prescribed Oxcicodon, then escalated to heroin. The family cut him off then he hit rock bottom. This painfully allowed him to heal.

Later on, Perez shared with Dr. Allen that the brother was actually him. And that his battle with his addiction and becoming a doctor was his top priority, hence why he didn’t have the capacity to date her to the full expectation.

Park asked Shaun to speak with the brothers as a way to show them that the younger brother could survive without the older one when he passed. The younger brother knew he could survive without his older sibling…

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The Good Doctor Cast

  • Freddie Highmore as Dr. Shaun Murphy
  • Paige Spara as Lea Dilallo
  • Hill Harper as Dr. Marcus Andrews
  • Richard Schiff as Dr. Aaron Glassman
  • Christina Chang as Dr. Audrey Lim
  • Fiona Gubelmann as Dr. Morgan Reznick
  • Will Yun Lee as Dr. Alex Park
  • Bria Henderson as Dr. Jordan Allen
  • Christina Chang as Dr. Audrey Lim
  • Noah Galvin as Dr. Asher Wolke

Guest Starring

  • Savannah Welch as Dr. Danica Powell
  • Brandon Larracuente as Dr. Daniel Perez
  • Giacomo Baessato as Nurse Jerome
  • Audrey Wise Alvarez as Maddie Glassman
  • Reggie Herold as Ollie McGowan
  • Dennis Oh as Mick
  • Diana Tsoy as Skylar
  • Joel de la Fuente as the Stepfather

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The Good Doctor Season 6 Episode Guide

Season Episode Title Air Date
6 22 Love's Labor” The Good Doctor Season 6 Finale May 1, 2023
6 21 A Beautiful Day April 24, 2023
6 20 Blessed April 17, 2023
6 19 Half Measures April 10, 2023
6 18 A Blip April 3, 2023
6 17 Second Chances and Past Regrets March 20, 2023
6 16 The Good Lawyer March 13, 2023
6 15 Old Friends March 6, 2023
6 14 Hard Heart February 20, 2023
6 13 39 Differences February 13, 2023
6 12 365 Degrees February 6, 2023
6 11 The Good Boy January 30, 2023
6 10 Quiet and Loud” (Winter Premiere) January 23, 2023
6 9 Broken or Not” (Mid-season Finale) December 12, 2022
6 8 Sorry, Not Sorry December 5, 2022
6 7 Boys Don't Cry November 28, 2022
6 6 Hot and Bothered November 21, 2022
6 5 Growth Opportunities October 31, 2022
6 4 Shrapnel October 24, 2022
6 3 A Big Sign October 17, 2022
6 2 Change of Perspective October 10, 2022
6 1 Afterparty” The Good Doctor Season 6 Premiere October 3, 2022

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