Dr. Melendez was an attending cardiothoracic surgeon at St. Bonaventure and overseer of the residents, including Shaun, at the start of The Good Doctor. Like some of his colleagues, he doubted ...

The Good Doctor has a bad track record handling actor exits, with the show typically putting them through the wringer. It happened to Dr. Neil Melendez and Dr. Asher Wolke, with both men being ...

The West Wing star Richard Schiff, now starring in ABC’s The Good Doctor ... Nicholas Gonzalez as Dr. Neil Melendez, Hill Harper as Dr. Marcus Andrews, Richard Schiff as Dr. Aaron Glassman ...

He finally found help in the form of Dr Aaron Glassman, who took Shaun in and raised him as a son, while recognising his potential as a doctor, mentoring him in ... including his own cancer diagnosis.