[Editor’s Note: The following contains spoilers from “The Good Doctor” Season 2, Episode 4, “Tough Titmouse.”]“The Good Doctor” showrunner David Shore throws everything at Dr.
Aaron Glassman (Richard Schiff).
He just underwent surgery for a brain tumor, but Monday’s episode deals with another kind of trauma when he starts interacting with a hallucination of his dead daughter Maddie (Holly Taylor).“We wanted an opportunity to deal with what is the most important event in his life and his own unresolved issues,” Shore said.
“This seemed like an opportune time as he is himself facing his own mortality.”Glassman’s hallucination stems from the a combination of brain surgery and extreme sleep deprivation, with psychosis as the result.
“ICU psychosis is fairly common.
Psychosis obviously can mean many, many things, but sleep deprivation can cause the onset of it,” said Shore.
“You experience all this as if it is completely real.
It can be disturbing.”Conversation between father
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