Good Doctor Reflection

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In 2017, ABC channel released a new show called The Good Doctor, a young surgeon with autism and savant syndrome who joins a renowned hospital’s surgical unit. Here he faces new lessons to connect with others, meeting new people and proving others wrong based on false consensus that people have about him. Along with him are two other surgical residents whom which he grows bonds with, Dr. Jared Kalu, and Dr. Claire Brown. Reaching the mid-season finale, this episode brings in Dr. Claire Brown (Antonia Thomas) switching to work for the day with Dr. Matt Coyle (Eric Winter). While working with him she notices how fondle his actions are. He oversteps by touching Dr. Brown’s lower back while she was with a patient. As her feelings grew displeasing, she talked to Dr. Kalu (Chuku Modu) about the incident and insisted on switching. However, Kalu made light of the situation by explaining that Coyle’s actions were probably to create a friendly bond. As Brown returns, Coyle makes another undesirable action. He asks out Brown promising as what he said, “a great massage...killer omelette in the morning.” When Brown steps up and confronts her discomfort, he retaliates saying, “ Try not to have such a stick up your ass about being asked out”. With the disgust Brown had felt, …show more content…

This unfortunate mishap has shaken the lives of many on realizing the amount of sexual violence that are going around and not being dealt with. In The Handmaid’s Tale, Atwood releases moments of sexual abuse to the the handmaids. Handmaid women are surrogates for the commanders- for that is their duty. They go in for checkups to see how they are doing and as Offred meets with her doctor he suggests that he could help her to bare a child. He slides his hand between her legs with no gloves on as he speaks to her. She becomes scared and declines his offer but tries not to show a bad impression for he could trick her into having a false

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