Tonight on NBC their new medical drama “The Good Doctor” airs with an all-new Monday, March 13, 2023, episode and we have you The Good Doctor recap below. In tonight’s The Good Doctor season 6 episode, 13 called, “The Good Lawyer,” as per the ABC synopsis, “Dr. Shaun Murphy seeks legal representation to help him win a case and puts his faith in a promising, young lawyer who has obsessive compulsive disorder.”
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Tonight’s The Good Doctor episode begins with Aaron and Shaun who are heading to a meeting with a lawyer for Shaun at Franklin Maxwell & Associates. Aaron says Ms. Stewart is smart and tough, she will be good. The meet and she tells Sean that she has good news, $300,000 will be paid by his malpractice insurance, all he has to do is sign some documents and agree to a six month supervisory period. He can still practice medicine, another doctor will just have to sign off on all his surgeries, it can be any doctor who oversees him.
Shaun doesn’t like it, he says it is very humiliating. If Shaun doesn’t agree, it will go to trial, and if that happens the medical board will get to decide if he has a future as a doctor. Shaun says he wills settle, after he goes to the bathroom. On the way back, a woman named Joni DeGroot tells him that she is curious about cancer patients whose exposure to pressed wood office furniture, she wants to know if heh has heard about it, he says no.
She returns to her office and he follows her, he asks her if she is working on his case. She says no, but she read the file and finds that he is amazing. She says she is surprised that he is settling his case, it doesn’t seem right, that he should be punished for saving a man’s life. He has overcome a lot and to have a mark like that on his record is humiliating.
Joni and Shaun returns to Ms. Stewart and Aaron, Shaun says that she is now his lawyer and will be representing him at trial. Essentially Joni stole her bosses client.
At home, Shaun tells Lea it was her decision and Aaron is worried about her lack of experience, but Shaun thinks her OCD can be useful because she is useful. This will be her first trial.
Ms. Stewart is not thrilled about what Joni did and in her first meeting with Shaun and Alex, she arrives late. They go over the evening in question, when Alex and Shaun were driving and found a car turned over in the street. They attend to a woman and she tells them that her brother Bob was in the car, he was driving,
Shaun checks the vehicle, Bob was thrown out. Shaun has a flashlight, he goes to look for Bob and finds him in a bed of mud and dirt, he is bleeding from one of his arteries, Alex can’t leave his sister, so Shaun is on his own. He slides underneath him and drags him, but Shaun is confused about the way he dragged him and maybe he tangled the spinal board which could have caused neurological injury, which means his neuro exam was off, which could mean he didn’t need to amputate his hand. Ms. Stewart ells for a break.
Joni asks him about his decision to amputate the hand.
Shaun says his breathing became labours and his pulse thready. His hand was irreversably damaged by lack of blood flow. The ambulance was two minutes away but they don’t carry ampuatation kits. Shaun felt there was no time and this would save Bob. Shaun removed the hand and they travelled safely to the hospital. Alex says that is not how he remembers it. Alex says he warned that it could be a vasospasm and warned Shaun that the ambulance could possibly restore the blood flow, but Shaun just proceeded. Ms. WInters says interesting.
Ms. Winters goes outside the room with Joni and tells her that she has to convince Shaun to settle, this is a disaster. Joni brings up another case with the same principal where the case was dismissed and she wants Ms. Winters to let her try.
Joni finds Shaun in the lab, he is about to test Bob’s hand to see if he did the right thing. She tells him to stop, because if he finds out the results she will have to share it with the other side. Instead, she wants him to trust her. He takes off his glove showing that he trusts her and she is shocked. She is a lawyer with OCD and no trial experience. He tells her that he trust her because the test doesn’t care. She says good answer. She tells him hat they are going to have a motion to dismiss the next day at 10am, don’t be late.
In court, Joni and Shaun arrive, she thinks back to when she was little and was also in court.
Joni tells the judge that Shaun cannot be accountable because he was a good Samaritan. She does very well or her argument, but then she just stopped. She heard a squeak and it distracted her. Later, Ms. Winter tells Joni that the settlement offer was pulled and she is being removed from the case and she needs to accept that she is never going to be a good lawyer.
Ms. Winter is with Shaun and he says no, he wants Joni on his case. She tells him that Joni has had issues since she has been with the firm. Ms. Winter tells her that Joni is amazing at research, but she cannot be his trial attorney.
Shaun goes to Joni’s house to see her, he asks her why she wants to be a lawyer. She says it is good firm, and it is not like she has a lot of options. Then she says a lawyer saved her family. Her father died in a car accident when she was eight, that is when her OCD started and she thought her mother was going to die. She didn’t, but she began to drink. There were judges, foster parents and one person made it right again, one lawyer. Shaun says he still wants her as his lawyer. She admits that she made a mistake because she has a problem. He says they all have problems.
The next day, Ms. Winters tells Joni that she is first chair but she will not say or do anything. In court, another doctor says the hand could have been saved, it was vapospasm. Joni gets up and start to talk, she gets up and shows photos of other cases of vapospasm and throw in a photo of Bob’s hand, and she proves that he did not have vapospasm.
Outside the courtroom, Ms. Winters tells Joni that tomorrow, she is first chair, real first chair.
Back in court, Joni asks Bob on the witness stand who sues a person who saves his life. He was speeding, not wearing a seatbelt, so a better adjective would be that he was lucky that Shaun helped him.
Shaun is next on the witness stand, he says that he did four things wrong, but they were not relevant and did not affect the patients outcome. And, if he and Alex didn’t stop, Bob would be dead. He doesn’t know if the amputation was correct, but if he had to do it again, he would do it the same way. She asks Shaun to share about himself, he says he has autism spectrum disorder and he has always wanted to be a doctor.
Joni practices her closing on Ms. Winters, then she is in court and does an amazing job. We get a glimpse back into Joni’s life, the lawyer who saved her family’s life was Ms. Winters.
The verdict is in, Joni won the case. Alex, Shaun and Joni celebrate with tequila shots. Then, Shaun heads to the lab and does the test on the hand.
THE END!