Good Doctor

Season 1 Episode 1

The First Trial

Air date: Jul 12, 2018

About the Episode

In the first episode, while introducing the harsh environment surrounding pediatric surgeons, who are statistically 0.3% of all over 300,000 doctors, Akira Shiga, the director of Togo Memorial Hospital, where Minato is accepted. (Akira Emoto) tells the understaffed pediatrics department that he will invite a new resident starting today. Doctors are against Minato, who has an autism spectrum disorder. However, Shiga highly appreciated Minato's ability as a doctor, who also has Savant syndrome. In the meantime, Minato, who met an emergency patient on his way to work for the first time and dealt with it with his amazing memory, saves a life-threatening child.

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