Risk and Reward 

The new chief of surgery questions whether to keep Shaun after his blunt honesty with a mother of a critically ill infant.

Director:

Freddie Highmore

Writers:

David Shore (developed by), Jae-Beom Park (based on the Korean Broadcasting System television series by) (as Jaebeom Park)

Stars:

Freddie Highmore, Nicholas Gonzalez, Antonia Thomas

Cast

Episode cast overview, first billed only:
Freddie Highmore	...	Dr. Shaun Murphy
Nicholas Gonzalez	...	Dr. Neil Melendez
Antonia Thomas	...	Dr. Claire Browne
Tamlyn Tomita	...	Allegra Aoki
Fiona Gubelmann	...	Dr. Morgan Reznick
Will Yun Lee	...	Dr. Alex Park
Christina Chang	...	Dr. Audrey Lim
Paige Spara	...	Lea Dilallo (credit only)
Hill Harper	...	Dr. Marcus Andrews
Richard Schiff	...	Dr. Aaron Glassman
Robyn Lively	...	Diane Monroe
Ravi Kapoor	...	Minesh Goyal
Joe Adler	...	Larry Childs
Alison Araya	...	Dr. Garcia
Peter Benson	...	Nigel Monroe

Storyline

The new chief of surgery questions whether to keep Shaun after his blunt honesty with a mother of a critically ill infant.

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Plot Keywords:

giving birth | physical | drawing blood | chemotherapy | stress test | 

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Genres:

Drama

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Certificate:

TV-14

Did You Know?

Trivia

Three actors in this episode have appeared with Jethro Gibbs (Mark Harmon) on JAG (1995) or NCIS (2003): Robyn Lively, Richard Schiff, and Ravi Kapoor.

User Reviews

Inaccurate but entertaining

As a parent of a child with both a midline defect (omphalocele) and various heart issues I'm very familiar with what the parents are going through in this episode. Their description of the rough choices is accurate but their depiction of how midline defects and heart issues are handled is not. No wrapping of the organs after birth?! Heart and repair surgery at once?! Never would happen. I am glad this show brought awareness to a fairly rare defect but I do wish they'd named it instead of calling it a "bowel issue". I am pretty sure it's not an omphalocele, it's a similar defect called gastroschistis. I suppose it could be a ruptured o though.

Details

Language:

English

Release Date:

18 February 2019 (USA)

Company Credits

Production Co:

3AD, EnterMedia Content, Shore Z Productions

Technical Specs

Runtime:

43 min

Sound Mix:

Stereo

Color:

Color

Aspect Ratio:

16:9 HD