8.1/101,765 votes#1 - Hello
Season 2 Episode 1 - Aired 9/24/2018
Shaun’s proposed treatment for a homeless patient puts him and Dr. Kalu in Dr. Andrews’ crosshairs. Claire tries to overcome Dr. Melendez’s reluctance to do a risky heart operation. Dr. Glassman faces a difficult decision about his health.
Director: Mike Listo
Writer: Freddie Highmore
8.3/101,593 votes#2 - Middle Ground
Season 2 Episode 2 - Aired 10/1/2018
As Shaun pushes back against Dr. Melendez in order to treat a gravely ill hospital janitor, Dr. Lim risks a lawsuit to repair a teenage girl’s ritual circumcision. Dr. Glassman exercises demanding oversight in choosing a doctor for his brain surgery.
Director: Steve Robin
Writer: David Shore
8.1/101,540 votes#3 - 36 Hours
Season 2 Episode 3 - Aired 10/8/2018
Dr. Melendez, Dr. Brown and Dr. Park have given a young married couple two choices about their future: save the wife’s life or their future ability to start a family. Meanwhile, when Dr. Lim has to take care of some personal business, she leaves oversight of the emergency room to Dr. Murphy and Dr. Reznick; and Dr. Glassman’s post-op recovery leaves him struggling to get the rest he needs for recovery and also confronting his relationship with his daughter.
Director: Larry Teng
Writer: Thomas L. Moran
8.0/101,575 votes#4 - Tough Titmouse
Season 2 Episode 4 - Aired 10/15/2018
Shaun recalls his own past to help an intellectually disabled teenager face separation from his mother, while Claire is put between an injured teenage rock climber and her worried parents. Meanwhile, Glassman’s post-op hallucinations force him to confront a personal tragedy.
Director: Steven DePaul
Writer: David Hoselton
7.8/101,461 votes#5 - Carrots
Season 2 Episode 5 - Aired 10/29/2018
When a patient suffering from anorexia can’t gain the necessary weight needed to survive heart surgery, Claire suggests they perform an experimental surgery which Melendez strongly opposes. Shaun worries Glassman’s refusal to walk the hospital floor will keep him from being discharged and tries to persuade him to ambulate. Meanwhile, Shaun and Lea change the terms of their current relationship.
Director: Sharat Raju
Writer: Liz Friedman
7.9/101,408 votes#6 - Two-Ply (or Not Two-Ply)
Season 2 Episode 6 - Aired 11/5/2018
Morgan and Shaun’s indecision on how to treat a young violinist who visits the ER with an infected finger could affect her future in more ways than one. Meanwhile, Lim, Claire and Park can’t figure out if their young patient is really ill or looking for attention.
Director: Tara Nicole Weyr
Writer: Simran Baidwan
7.7/101,385 votes#7 - Hubert
Season 2 Episode 7 - Aired 11/12/2018
Dr. Shaun Murphy and Dr. Morgan Reznick must contend with two brothers who are bargaining over life and death. Meanwhile, Dr. Claire Brown’s friend who is dying of cancer asks her for something she doesn’t think she can give her; and Dr. Aaron Glassman is dealing with the effects of his treatment.
Director: Marisol Adler
Writer: David Renaud
7.9/101,364 votes#8 - Stories
Season 2 Episode 8 - Aired 11/19/2018
Dr. Shaun Murphy, Dr. Audrey Lim and Dr. Claire Brown’s E.R. patient is forced to reveal a secret to her husband after their treatment caused a complication. Meanwhile, Dr. Neil Melendez, Dr. Morgan Reznick and Dr. Alex Park struggle with a patient whose parents don’t believe in vaccinations.
Director: Michael Patrick Jann
Writer: Sal Calleros
8.0/101,371 votes#9 - Empathy
Season 2 Episode 9 - Aired 11/26/2018
Dr. Neil Melendez, Dr. Morgan Reznick and Dr. Claire Brown grapple with a patient’s wish to perform an operation that would keep him from acting on his pedophilic urges; and Dr. Shaun Murphy learns a lesson in empathy.
Director: Joanna Kerns
Writer: Karen Struck
8.9/102,304 votes#10 - Quarantine (1)
Season 2 Episode 10 - Aired 12/3/2018
Dr. Shaun Murphy and Dr. Alex Park treat two patients who collapse at the local airport and whose symptoms point to an infection that may become airborne. The staff races to contain the infection before it spreads to the rest of the patients in the ER, resulting in a hospital quarantine during the holidays.
Director: Mike Listo
Writer: Lloyd Gilyard, Jr., Liz Friedman
8.7/101,715 votes#11 - Quarantine (2)
Season 2 Episode 11 - Aired 1/14/2019
The hospital is still in quarantine as Dr. Shaun Murphy continues to be overwhelmed by the chaos and noise in the emergency room; Dr. Morgan Reznick struggles to keep her patients alive, and Dr. Audrey Lim fights for her life. Meanwhile, Dr. Neil Melendez and Dr. Claire Browne must find a way to complete their patient’s bone marrow transplant, despite the quarantine.
Director: Mike Listo
Writer: Simran Baidwan, Mark Rozeman
7.8/101,390 votes#12 - Aftermath
Season 2 Episode 12 - Aired 1/21/2019
In the aftermath of the quarantine, the staff tries to return to their normal routines. Meanwhile, as Dr. Lim recovers from the virus, she and Dr. Melendez navigate their new personal and working relationship, while Dr. Murphy and Dr. Glassman visit Lea.
Director: Dawn Wilkinson
Writer: Thomas L. Moran
7.8/101,311 votes#13 - Xin
Season 2 Episode 13 - Aired 1/28/2019
Dr. Shaun Murphy, Dr. Morgan Reznick and Dr. Audrey Lim treat a woman with autism and a delicate brain condition while navigating the complicated relationship she has with her roommate, who is also on the spectrum. Meanwhile, Lea and Shaun are still figuring out their friendship and roommate status.
Director: David Straiton
Writer: Brian Shin
8.6/101,528 votes#14 - Faces
Season 2 Episode 14 - Aired 2/4/2019
Dr. Andrews tries to convince a grieving family to donate their teenage daughter’s face to another young girl whose face was horribly disfigured in an accident.
Director: Allison Liddi-Brown
Writer: David Hoselton
8.1/101,290 votes#15 - Risk and Reward
Season 2 Episode 15 - Aired 2/18/2019
Shaun’s blunt honesty with a distraught mother of a critically ill newborn baby causes the new chief of Surgery to question keeping him on as a resident.
Director: Freddie Highmore
Writer: David Renaud
7.9/101,274 votes#16 - Believe
Season 2 Episode 16 - Aired 2/25/2019
The new chief of surgery, Dr. Jackson Han, believes Dr. Shaun Murphy is a liability more than an asset and works to keep him out of the operating room permanently.
Director: Alrick Riley
Writer: Karen Struck, Sal Calleros
8.8/101,756 votes#17 - Breakdown
Season 2 Episode 17 - Aired 3/4/2019
Dr. Shaun Murphy is desperate to join the team on a dangerous procedure involving a patient’s tumor removal. However, having been removed from the surgery team by Dr. Jackson Han, Shaun must use his talents to help figure out the cause of an infant’s injuries.
Director: Mike Listo
Writer: Thomas L. Moran, Lloyd Gilyard, Jr.
8.9/101,713 votes#18 - Trampoline
Season 2 Episode 18 - Aired 3/11/2019
As a barroom fight sends Dr. Shaun Murphy to seek treatment at St. Bonaventure’s, Dr. Alex Park and Dr. Audrey Lim disagree over an elderly woman’s post-operative symptoms. Meanwhile, Dr. Neil Melendez and Dr. Lim make their romance public, and Dr. Aaron Glassman continues to pursue a relationship with a good friend.
Director: David Shore
Writer: David Shore, David Hoselton, Mark Rozeman
The Best Episodes of The Good Doctor Season 2
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Shaun Murphy, a young surgeon with autism and savant syndrome, relocates from a quiet country life to join a prestigious hospital's surgical unit. Unable to...
Genre:Drama
Network:ABC
Season 2 Ratings Summary
"Hello" is the best rated episode of "The Good Doctor" season 2. It scored 8.1/10 based on 1765 votes. Directed by Mike Listo and written by Freddie Highmore, it aired on 9/24/2018. This episode is rated 0.2 points higher than the second-best, "Middle Ground".