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2025-04-25
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2026-07-28
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Sink or Swim | „The Good Doctor”

Summary:

A middle age woman, Audrey Lim is known for being the best surgeon in the country, but not many people known that she's currently battling a deadly cancer in the same hospital she works in - Saint Bonaventure hospital in San Jose.

Will the terrible disease bring her soulmate and her together after a concerning break up and even more concerning follow up?

BASED ON THE SHOW "The Good Doctor"

Chapter 1: PROLOUGE

Chapter Text

- "Dr.Lim, it's a stage 4 diffuse midline glioma."- The nurse said clearly worried, it all became even more obvious when the chief of surgery looked up and caught intense eye contact.

- "Any chances for a treatment plan?"- The steadiness in Audreys voice was almost scary.

- "I'm afraid there's not much we can try besides a surgery.."- The soft voice of the young nurse got cut off by Lim.

- "So I either sink, or I swim."

• TRIGGER WARNINGS: •
- chemotherapy, radiation
- mentions of death and end of life/palliative care
- surgeries
- coughing blood / throwing up
- suicidal thoughts and mentions
- mentions of a medically induced weight loss
- NG tube placement explained
- medical procedures in details