Fans are eager to know who dies in The Good Doctor Season 7, the series finale. The medical drama has concluded its impressive seven-season run, wrapping up lingering storylines and character arcs for much of the core cast, including Freddie Highmore‘s surgeon Dr. Shaun Murphy. Many fans were eager to find out if either Shaun’s mentor, Dr. Aaron Glassman, or his close friend, Claire Browne, would die in the finale. Here is everything you need to know.
Does Dr. Aaron Glassman die in The Good Doctor Season 7 finale?
Yes, Dr. Aaron Glassman dies in The Good Doctor Season 7 finale. He passes away from terminal brain cancer. However, his death happens off-screen.
Dr. Aaron Glassman was first diagnosed with cancer in Season 1 and, through chemotherapy, battled the illness and became cancer-free. However, in the second-last episode of Season 7, Glassman’s cancer returned, and this time it was terminal. He revealed this heartbreaking news to his protégé, Shaun Murphy, and mentioned he only had three to six months left to live.
Shaun, unwilling to let his mentor die, tried to find a treatment for him. However, Glassman rejected his efforts and stressed the side effects that could occur with a potential treatment. Shaun eventually accepts Glassman’s decision to not undergo treatment and lets his mentor live out his final months in peace with Shaun and his family.
Does Claire Browne die at the end of The Good Doctor Season 7?
No, Claire Browne does not die. She survives and makes it to the end, eventually marrying Dr. Jared Kalu and sharing a daughter with him.
Claire Browne returns to San Jose from Guatemala at the end of Season 7, where she is diagnosed with Stage 1 breast cancer. Complicating matters is an acinetobacter infection diagnosis, that resists antibiotics. However, Claire is then put into a coma by the hospital team and is then given an experimental bacteriophage treatment devised by Shaun and Charlie that saves her life, despite FDA disapproval.
The finale then took a 10-year leap following Glassman’s demise. During this time, Claire and Shaun opened and ran the Dr. Aaron Glassman Foundation for Neurodiversity in Medicine.
