History Series / TheGoodDoctor

** In Season 5, businesswoman Salen Morrison and her company Ethicure purchase the hospital and implement a lot of controversial changes, even going as far as to put a poster of Shaun ("Some doctors are different, some hospitals too") to boost its reputation. Shaun, of course, is against it and immediately demands for the poster to be removed, but he eventually relents after a young patient Holly reveals how inspired she was by him. [[spoiler:When another patient almost dying on the table on Andrews' watch becomes the last straw for Shaun to quit, Glassman and Lea encourage Shaun to ask Salen to rehire him, so Shaun turns the table on Salen by bringing up the poster, knowing that dragging him out of the hospital "kicking and screaming" (as Glassman puts it) would result in a PR scandal. [[NiceJobFixingItVillain It works, leaving Salen with no choice but to allow him back.]]]]

*** Ferman and Beliz, Adil and Selvi, Demir and Açelya, Güneş and Gülin.

* SparedByTheAdaptation: At least three examples with the Turkish adaptation ''Mucize Doktor'':

** Season 1: Jared and Claire, Melendez and Jessica
** Seasons 2-3: Glassman and Debbie, Lim and Melendez, ''Claire'' and Melendez
** Season 4: Glassman and Debbie, Park and Morgan
** Season 5: Park and Morgan, Andrews and Salen, Asher and Jerome
** Season 6: Asher and Jerome, Jordan and Perez, Andrews and Villanueva

* AdaptationRelationshipOverhaul: Claire and Morgan are initially not acquainted with each other and are constantly at odds due to their differing work methods. However, in the Turkish adaptation, their equivalents (Nazli and Acelya) are actually best friends and flatmates from the start of the series. But like Morgan, Acelya initially starts off as a jerkass and bullies Ali because of his autism before having a change of heart.

** Lea suffers from this in the first half of Season 3, absent from 6 of the 20 episodes. This is justified by the fact that Lea is the only character in the main cast who is not a doctor, and also because the season spends much of the first half in Shaun's relationship with Carly. Still, the writers seem to have realized this problem, as in the second half Lea gets a job as an assistant to Glassman, allowing her to interact with the rest of the main cast and appear at the hospital in every episode.

* SparedByTheAdaptation: At least two examples with the Turkish adaptation ''Mucize Doktor'':

** Rachel Bay Jones (Salen) is credited as a guest star despite being an integral character to the StoryArc of the first half of Season 5, and appearing in all such episodes.
** Brandon Larracuente (Perez) is credited as guest star in Season 6, despite appearing in all but two of the first episodes, and then being promoted to a series regular since the twelfth episode "365 Degrees" and regularly appearing for the rest of the season's run before his departure in the finale.

** In Season 5, businesswoman Salen Morrison and her company Ethicure purchase the hospital and implement a lot of controversial changes, even going as far as to put a poster of Shaun ("Some doctors are different, some hospitals too") to boost its reputation. Shaun, of course, is against it and immediately demands for the poster to be removed, but he eventually relents after a young patient Holly reveals how inspired she was by him. [[spoiler:When another patient almost dying on the table on Andrews' watch becomes the last straw for Shaun to quit, Glassman and Lea encourage Shaun to ask Salen to rehire him, so Shaun uses the poster as leverage against her when she refuses, knowing that dragging him out of the hospital "kicking and screaming" (as Glassman puts it) would result in a PR scandal. [[NiceJobFixingItVillain It works, leaving Salen with no choice but to allow him back.]]]]

** In Season 5, businesswoman Salen Morrison and her company Ethicure purchase the hospital and implement a lot of controversial changes, even going as far as to put a poster of Shaun ("Some doctors are different, some hospitals too") to boost its reputation. Shaun, of course, is against it and immediately demands for the poster to be removed, but he eventually relents after a young patient Holly reveals how inspired she was by him. [[spoiler:When another patient almost dying on the table on Andrews' watch becomes the last straw for Shaun to quit, Glassman and Lea encourage Shaun to ask Salen to rehire him, so Shaun uses the poster as leverage against her when she refuses, knowing that causing a scene (namely dragging him out of the hospital "kicking and screaming" as Glassman puts it) would result in a PR scandal. [[NiceJobFixingItVillain It works, leaving Salen with no choice but to allow him back.]]]]

** In Season 5, businesswoman Salen Morrison and her company Ethicure purchase the hospital and implement a lot of controversial changes, even going as far as to put a poster of Shaun ("Some doctors are different, some hospitals too") to boost its reputation. Shaun, of course, is against it and immediately demands for the poster to be removed, but he eventually relents after a young patient Holly reveals how inspired she was by him. [[spoiler:When another patient almost dying on the table, partially because of Andrews, becomes the last straw for Shaun to quit, Glassman and Lea encourage Shaun to ask Salen to rehire him, so Shaun uses the poster as leverage against her when she refuses, knowing that causing a scene (namely dragging him out of the hospital "kicking and screaming" as Glassman puts it) would result in a PR scandal. [[NiceJobFixingItVillain It works, leaving Salen with no choice but to allow him back.]]

** In Season 5, businesswoman Salen Morrison purchases the St. Bonaventure Hospital and implements a lot of controversial changes, even going as far as to put a poster of Shaun ("Some doctors are different, some hospitals too") to further promote the hospital's image and her company Ethicure. Shaun immediately demands for the poster to be removed, but he eventually relents after a young patient Holly reveals she was inspired by it. After Shaun unceremoniously quits, Glassman and Lea encourage Shaun to ask Salen for his job back, so Shaun uses the poster as leverage against her, knowing that causing a scene (namely drag him out of the hospital "kicking and screaming" as Glassman puts it) would result in a PR scandal.

** The series contains several references to UsefulNotes/PlayStation. One episode ends with Shaun and his neighbor Kenny playing VideoGame/MortalKombatX on the [[UsefulNotes/PlayStation4 PS4]]. The show is produced and distributed by Sony Pictures Television.

* LooseLips: Charlie Lukaitis

** Inverted with Lea, whose last name wasn't even known until the end of the 3rd season.

** In the Season 6 premiere, Villanueva's abusive ex, Owen, who storms into the hospital and seriously injures both her and Lim when they try to stop him, and later the hospital is under siege because of his violent nature. However, he's truly sorry for what he did and unsuccessfully tries to commit suicide by cop, but he survives and is arrested. But in the process, the severity of Lim's injuries and Shaun's involvement in her surgery leave her paralyzed from the waist down. Throughout the first half of the season, even though Owen was the one to blame, Lim instead angrily blames Shaun for her situation, even going as far as to make their relationship go from mother-son figure to superior-subordinate only and shooting down any attempt of his to strike up a conversation. They eventually patch things up when Shaun comes to Lim's office and, while he's not sorry for the risks he took to save her life, he does apologize for all the pain he caused her, and Shaun's planned surgery cures her paralysis, finally allowing Lim to walk again, albeit with the aid of a cane.

* AdaptationNameChange: The Turkish adaptation obviously goes with changing the names of the main characters. Dr. Shaun Murphy is Dr. Ali Vefa, Dr. Neil Melendez is Dr. Ferman Eryiğit, Dr. Claire Browne is Dr. Nazli Gülengül, Dr. Jared Kalu is Dr. Demir Aldirmaz, Jessica Preston is Beliz Boysal, Allegra Aoki is Kıvılcım Boysal, Dr. Marcus Andrews is Dr. Tanju Korman, Dr. Aaron Glassman is Dr. Adil Erinç and Dr. Morgan Reznick is nurse Açelya Dingin. No counterparts of Lea, Dr. Alex Park and Dr. Audrey Lim are present. Tere is no equivalent of Dr. Jackson Han either.

* AdaptationNameChange: The Turkish adaptation obviously goes with changing the names of the main characters. Dr. Shaun Murphy is Dr. Ali Vefa, Dr. Neil Melendez is Dr. Ferman Eryiğit, Dr. Claire Browne is Dr. Nazli Gülengül, Dr. Jared Kalu is Dr. Demir Aldirmaz, Jessica Preston is Beliz Boysal, Allegra Aoki is Kıvılcım Boysal, Dr. Marcus Andrews is Dr. Tanju Korman, Dr. Aaron Glassman is Dr. Adil Erinç and Dr. Morgan Reznick is nurse Açelya Dingin. No counterparts of Lea, Dr. Alex Park and Dr. Audrey Lim are present.

* DeathByAdaptation: In the Turkish adaptation (''Mucize Doktor''), Dr. Glassman's equivalent does succumb to his cancer.

* AdaptationalRomanceDowngrade: Melendez and Claire start developing romantic feelings for each other in Season 3, but it takes until the finale to admit them, [[spoiler:only for Melendez to sadly pass away.]] Whereas in the Turkish adaptation, Ferman and Nazli's relationship remains strictly professional, especially since Ferman is in a relationship with Beliz (Jessica, as with Season 1 of the American show) and Nazli is ''actually'' the love interest to Ali, the main character.

* AdaptationSexuality: The Turkish adaptation changes two same-sex couples to heterosexual couples due to same-sex marriage being illegal in Turkiye. The wedding bus crash patient whose wife died in the crash in "Not Fake" was changed from female to male, and the gastric bypass patient from "Carrots" had his "shallow" spouse changed from male to female.

* AdaptationRelationshipOverhaul: Claire and Morgan are not acquainted with each other and are constantly at odds due to their differing work methods. However, in the Turkish adaptation, their equivalents (Nazli and Acelya) are actually best friends and flatmates. But like Morgan, Acelya initially starts off as a jerkass and bullies Ali because of his autism before having a change of heart.
* AdaptationalRomanceDowngrade: Melendez and Claire start developing romantic feelings for each other in Season 3, but it takes until the finale to admit them, [[spoiler:only for Melendez to sadly pass away.]] Whereas in the Turkish adaptation, Ferman and Nazli's relationship remains strictly professional, especially since Ferman is in a relationship with Beliz and Nazli is ''actually'' the love interest to Ali, the main character.

** The tenth episode of Season 4, "Decrypt" is mainly focused on Lea having to resolve a hacking attack at the hospital.

** In 2019, a Turkish adaptation, ''Mucize Doktor'', premiered. This version is closer to the American adaptation than the Korean original. Many plots are taken directly from ''The Good Doctor'', often with minor changes due to a smaller main cast. Early in the series, [[CompositeCharacter ''Mucize Doktor'' had no equivalent of Dr. Lim, so Dr. Melendez's equivalent also took Lim's roles in the plots where she was involved. There was also no Lea character, so Claire's equivalent is Shaun's neighbor and love interest instead.]] Both of these characters' equivalents were added later on, however.

* LastNameBasis: Drs. Aaron Glassman, Marcus Andrews, Neil Melendez, Audrey Lim, Alex Park, and Daniel Perez, as well as Chairwoman Allegra Aoki, are all more commonly referred to by their last names, even in casual conversation. They are also identified by their last names in the scripts, and on the [[UsefulNotes/ClosedCaptioning closed captions]] and UsefulNotes/AudioDescription (the latter of which was added in Season 4), while the other characters are identified by their first names. Nurse Dalisay Villanueva is also mostly referred to by her last name, except by Lim. The original draft script for the pilot also referred to Jessica Preston by her last name, though the show proper would use her first name.

* AdaptationNameChange: The Turkish adaptation obviously goes with changing the names of the main characters. Dr. Shaun Murphy is Dr. Ali Vefa, Dr. Neil Melendez is Dr. Ferman Eryiğit, Dr. Claire Browne is Dr. Nazli Gülengül, Dr. Jared Kalu is Dr. Demir Aldirmaz, Jessica Preston is Beliz Boysal, Allegra Aoki is Kıvılcım Boysal, Dr. Marcus Andrews is Dr. Tanju Korman, Dr. Aaron Glassman is Dr. Adil Erinç and Dr. Morgan Reznick is nurse Açelya Dingin.

* AdaptationNameChange: The Turkish adaptation obviously goes with changing the names of the main characters. Dr. Shaun Murphy is Dr. Ali Vefa, Dr. Neil Melendez is Ferman Eryiğit, Dr. Claire Browne is Dr. Nazli Gülengül, Dr. Jared Kalu is Dr. Demir Aldirmaz, Jessica Preston is Beliz Boysal, Allegra Aoki is Kıvılcım Boysal, Dr. Marcus Andrews is Dr. Tanju Korman. Dr. Aaron Glassman is Dr. Adil Erinç and Dr. Morgan Reznick is nurse Açelya Dingin.