Adam

**Adam** is a boy who was injured at the airport. Shaun's quick-thinking and persistence saved his life.

## Biography

### Season 1

As Shaun arrives at San Jose Airport, the airport sign falls and shattered glass shards rain over a young boy, Adam. The boy collapses on the ground, bleeding. Someone rushes over claiming to be a doctor. He asks for a clean cloth. Boy's mother quickly hands him a fresh change of clothes from her bag. The man puts the cloth on the boy's neck. Shaun tells him he would be in the right place if his patient was an adult, but he is a boy and he needs to put pressure higher up. He walks up and takes over, realizing he has glass in his belly but says he will be fine. He then walks up the TSA and asks for a knife, when he scoffs at him Shaun says he needs a narrow tube, high proof alcohol and tape; the guard wishes him luck with that but says he is not going to give him a knife. Shaun says it's a medical emergency, and he sees the top of a sharp knife in the objects bin; so when the guard refuses again, Shaun grabs it and runs, but is tackled by two other guards as the first one calls him an idiot. They boy's mother rushes up to them saying Shaun is trying to save her son's life. Shaun returns to Adam, as everyone watches in awe and wonder while he works. He envisions what he has to do and makes an incision while the parents watch in terror. The doctor is impressed that Shaun created a one-way valve and says Shaun saved the boy's life.

On their way to the hospital, Shaun gets distraught when he notices that Adam's ECG changed and the EMS worker makes fun of him, telling the parents he is just concerned about a 20-year-old equipment while traveling in a vehicle going 40 miles an hour. When they arrive at the hospital, Claire takes in the patient. Shaun tells her to do ECG on Adam, but she doesn't let him in and tells him to wait outside.

In the OR, some of the surgeons are impressed with how Shaun saved him. Claire suggests having a ECG done on him, but the surgeon says based on his stats his answer is no, wondering if he missed anything and Claire says no. Shaun tries every door to get in the hospital but security stops him at every entrance. Claire admits there was this "weird guy" who kept insisting the boy needed an ECG; when his stats drop the surgeon orders the team to do an ECG and tells Claire to come with him to find her weird guy. Melendez asks Shaun why the ECG and he stutters; Claire asks him why but while he is explaining they got a call saying it came back normal and just wasted their time. Shaun begins to visualize everything again and Claire tells him to come with her. Shaun and Claire are shown the ECG results and Shaun asks to see them over and over; Jared says it looks normal to him but Shaun tells him there is a deformity in the right atrium. He is told even if he is right it wouldn't manifest there; but Claire defends him saying it could happen by a glass going through his jugular and entering his bloodstream to the heart.

Meanwhile, the video of Shaun saving Adam's life at the airport went viral and the board members watch it as Glassman struggles to convince them to hire Shaun. Soon they learn that the boy is in OR 2 and Melendez isn't sure if he makes it. Shaun watches the surgery as Melendez tells Claire that she was right. In the end, surgery goes well and the doctors manage to save Adam's life.

## References

1. ↑ "Burnt Food": Season 1. Episode 1. David Shore (writer) & Seth Gordon (director). [September 25, 2017].