The Good Doctor (4×07) The Uncertainty Principle Review

For our review of the last episode of The Good Doctor, click here.

Synopsis: Dr. Morgan Reznick discovers her patient’s wealth and obsession with extending his life is a dangerous mix that could end up costing more than he can afford. (IMDb)

If last week’s episode of The Good Doctor was a long way to say that Lim wasn’t okay, this week’s episode was to say that shower sex was okay (Lim made a brief appearance here). Well, it wasn’t exactly as simple as that but it saw the doctors dealing with the theme of change that saw their views on the meaning of life and relationships challenged as a certain case of the week especially peaked Murphy’s curiosity and prompted a boatload of questions of course. Meanwhile, there might be a new romance brewing (pun intended) between two of our doctors.

The Uncertainty Principle began with Murphy shaking off an offer from Lea (who revealed that she had an ex-husband) for shower sex for practicality reasons (he shared a poll for which most of the respondents approved). At the hospital, Lim was showing bruises from her recent accident. Approaching a three day weekend, things were going to get crazy so everyone had to get ready. The first patient was a woman who recently recovered from breast cancer with a workaholic venture capitalist husband (Allen saw this as an opportunity to pitch him her idea of course after tending to his wife so this was an ongoing subplot here as all she wanted to do was help people and make money doing it). The second was a wealthy man who used his fortune towards improving his health. Coming in with frostbite, his problems got worse from there,

The woman now had suffered from a thyroid carcinoma as her husband was absent from the new diagnosis. She was worried that her worsening condition was going to lead to losing him. Her body was sensitive therefore predisposed to developing cancers. Seeing the husband’s struggle with yet more bad news and him coping with the fact she might die by distracting himself with work, if he had thoughts of leaving her, Browne tried to stand up for her patients by trying to convince him to at least stay around through this new treatment. In the end, he vowed to be there for her, even giving up his job for her.

The man was discovered to have a disease commonly found in babies and younger people. He explained that he modified his own genetic code through CRISPR. His goal was to try to extend his own life through any means possible. Now it was up to the doctors to figure out what he did to himself in order to cure him. They would have to think outside the box and look at things differently. They would have to alter his genetic code to alter his previous altering (Glassman worked on a failed study that attempted this but the times were different now and Murphy found a possible solution). Obsessed with the path he put himself and his girlfriend on, he was unwilling to reverse course to stop his pain so he appeared to have lost her.

Guerin texted Browne asking if she would go out for coffee with him. Thinking that he meant it to be a date, Browne got stressed out knowing his past. She also had concerns about dating a coworker let alone a first year resident (though he assured her it was just an opportunity to get closer to one of his colleagues). Eventually, she went out for coffee with him which was really to the van he lived in in the parking garage. Whatever happened seem to work in his case, as Browne was willing to be friends.

Worried about their relationship changing over time, Murphy devised a warning system for whenever they were to drift apart. But before that were to happen, Murphy was ready to try shower sex.

Any opportunity for self-improvement for Murphy is always fun to watch but this episode was pretty much just that which is fine.

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Keith Noakes

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