IMPACT x Nightline

When a young surgeon with autism and savant syndrome joins St. Bonaventure hospital's surgical unit, he must navigate the new environment and relationships in order to prove that his medical gifts will save lives.

Shaun's attention to detail complicates his first day.

A patient's honesty threatens his chance at surgery.

Dr. Murphy makes a big step with his colleagues.

Shaun learns his parents kept his diagnosis from him.

Jared struggles to emotionally connect with a patient.

Dr. Shaun Murphy has to confront prejudice from an unlikely source when he takes on the case of a patient with autism, and Dr. Jared Kalu has to learn to accept his limitations as a surgeon.

Dr. Glassman worries he isn't helping Shaun enough.

A young boy from the Congo has severe heart anomalies.

The surgical team is impressed with a charming doctor.

Dr. Andrews enlists Dr. Melendez on a sensitive kidney transplant between a pair of twins whose lives intersect in more ways than one. Meanwhile, overwhelmed by Dr. Glassman’s attempts to have him meet with a therapist and the demands at work, Shaun decides to take an impromptu trip with his friend Lea and leave everything behind.

Shaun decides he needs a more permanent change.

Shaun suspects his patient has lied about her injury.

A cancer patient identifies as a girl, but is male.

An patient's organ donor causes a moral dilemma.

A patient must choose to have a life-changing surgery.

Dr. Murphy questions the need for an elective surgery.

A distraction during surgery puts Shaun's job at risk.