Andrews’ team advised her to terminate her surrogate pregnancy

[Jin Wah]

Monday’s episode of The Good Doctor marked the end of the Ethicure CEO’s reign of terror — but not before she nearly decimated the careers of St. Bonaventure’s finest MDs. Was it Lim’s “Magnificent Seven” that was ultimately responsible for “throwing her bandit ass out of town,” or was it up to an outside force? Read on to find out…

At the start of the hour, Lea and Glassman convinced Shaun to walk back his resignation and return to work. Best of all, there was nothing Ms. Morrison could do about it. (What, was she going to make a stink about the return of the hospital’s defacto poster child?) Still, Shaun was determined to speak out against the new boss alongside his fiancée Lea, his friends and colleagues at an upcoming board meeting, no matter the risk it posed to his residency.

In response to Salen’s actions, coupled with new chief Andrews’ decision to take it on the chin, Park resigned in solidarity with his fallen colleagues. Even Morgan, who earlier this season lied to patient Nira about her best course of treatment for personal gain, finally saw the light. Rather than continue to kowtow to Salen in hopes of claiming Glassman’s clinic for herself, Dr. Reznick joined boyfriend Park and the other docs at the board meeting. She also shared with Park a letter she had sent to Nira confessing that she purposely failed to disclose an exploratory procedure that could have fully restored her vision.

Jordan also attended the meeting in solidarity, though it did not appear as though she planned to speak. She’d already explained to fellow second-year Asher that as a Black woman in one of the top surgical residencies in the country, she had to fight and fight hard to get where she is. She wasn’t scared to stand up to Salen; simply put, she was exhausted — a totally valid argument.

In the end, it was Andrews who finally took a stand against his crooked girlfriend. After pleading with Salen to hear Lim and his longtime comrades out, Andrews presented her with opposition research… on himself. If she was going to stick to her guns and proceed with the takeover without reconsidering some of her recent indiscretions, he, too, would speak out against her, and she’d in turn have to take him down. Alas, whether it was her brief relationship with Andrews that meant so much to her, or the fact that she had no more allies inside the hospital, Salen decided to cut her losses and call off Ethicure’s acquisition. In turn, Park returned to work; Shaun, Lea and Lim were reinstated; and Andrews reclaimed his former job as hospital president. Unclear from the episode-ending montage was whether Lim was reinstated as chief of surgery (presumably she was, seeing as how Andrews serving as both president and chief became an issue in Season 2), and to what capacity Glassman has returned to the hospital — if at all.

Shaun made up with Lea, accepting her flaws, they had a lot of healing to work through. However, he had issues with a risky surgery that nearly killed a popular singer. Surgeons got “lucky” averting another death due to bad medicine. That was too much for him so he resigned immediately!

Glassman avoided politics for the longest, however, he ultimately joined Lim’s standpoint against Salen’s money before patient care stance.

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Warning… Spoilers below!

On The Good Doctor Season 5 Episode 10, Dr. Lim hired an investigative reporter to write a piece about Salen’s business practices.

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Lim rallied Glassman, Park, Wolke, and Lea for a strategy meeting yet Salen showed up and crashed their meeting. Salen demanded Park and Wolke get back to work yet they refused. Suddenly, she fired Lim, Glassman, and Lea! Glassman signaled to Park and Wolke to take off before they lost their jobs.

Andrews had to take over Lim’s case of a pregnant woman, Grace, who developed cancer. Her options were to terminate the pregnancy or go to chemo. She chose the latter.

Shaun had returned after quitting and worked on a case to only focus on the medicine. In a meeting with Andrews, Reznick, and Park, he advised the new head of surgeon to trust his opinions about medicine. Later on, Shaun examined their patient, Ryan, and he was exhibiting alternative symptoms.

After Grace experienced a crash, Andrews’ team advised her to terminate her surrogate pregnancy yet she insisted on chemotherapy.

Park confronted his girlfriend Reznick since she wasn’t a target of Salen’s. He dug up her past case where she bet Salen for the ownership of the clinic. He guilted her about not presenting all of the medical options to the woman. Park ultimately turned in his resignation because he couldn’t look the other way of profits over good medicine.

Salen learned of the rebel surgeons who would speak out at the pension fund meeting that night and Andrews tried to plead with her to talk with them else, lose more than the hospital. Salen stifled him and prepped for the meeting…

At the meeting, Andrews turned on Salen, offering a file on the mistakes he has made as a physician. He told her if she continued, then he would have to destroy him as well. He pleaded with her to walk away.

He offered paperwork for her to sign and turn everything over to him. She did and told him that the hospital was all his problem.

Later that evening, Reznick sent Nira (the woman whose treatment she sacrificed for her gain of the clinic) an admission of malpractice. She claimed she confessed to the woman not for Park but for the righteous woman he encourages her to be.

Dr. Lim returned and received an applause while Andrews is now the President of the hospital…