I hate this fucking show. The fact that it's run by the same dude who made House is mindboggling.
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What I didn't like about this show is that they act like being a doctor and having autism is so contradictory whereas historically doctors probably where mostly on the autistic side:
They didn't participate in the normal social activities outside their work but instead tried to classify and understand every or certain diseases obsessively
They did weird things no one else wanted to do or was even forbidden by society, eg autopsies or examining body liquids, excrements etc.
Also they kind of needed some lack of empathy to do the early treatments which often consists of hurting or doing something bad to patients because rationally it was better for them in the end - I think this part is shown quite well in the show eg when he is in the collapsed building and has to amputate the woman's leg.
I think it's only a kind of recent development that doctors are expected to be overly empathetic to patients and talk to them a lot and even explain them everything. In my experience, how the "normal" doctors in the show act is still rather the exception than the norm.