When she offers to let Glassman keep his office in the clinic, he accepts the offer. Bonaventure's clinic if Glassman will return as President. Aoki later visits the clinic and offers to reopen St. Shaun realizes that Glassman's patient has an infection in his foot from diabetes and helps Glassman treat the man. When Glassman is late for lunch, Shaun visits him at the clinic and tells Glassman some of the story of his date with Carly Lever. Aoki trying to get him to return to the hospital, but he refuses. Bonaventure and now works at a clinic, trying to make a difference with a new outlook on life. In " Disaster," Glassman has quit his job at St. To everyone's surprise, Andrews backs Glassman up and fires Han in order to be able to rehire Shaun. Though no longer President of the hospital, Glassman remains on the board and fights to get Shaun rehired, using Shaun's ability to inspire Claire to see things through his eyes to save a patient as proof that he belongs at the hospital. He also reveals to Lea Shaun's feelings for her after Shaun ends up in the hospital following a fight at a bar. In " Trampoline," Glassman attempts to propose to Debbie who rejects him at first, but later accepts his proposal. Blaize leads her to suggest that Glassman's ordeal has changed him for the better. He completes his chemotherapy in " Believe." In " Breakdown," Glassman's final test results show him to be completely cancer free. In " Aftermath," Glassman makes the decision to accelerate his cancer treatment after his successful meningitis surgery. In " Quarantine: Part Two," Glassman is diagnosed as having meningitis instead of his cancer having returned which explains his memory loss and is treatable. Throughout season 2, Glassman undergoes treatment for his cancer while dealing with the various side effects, including an increasing degree of memory loss.Īt the end of " Quarantine," Glassman discovers that his cancer has apparently returned. Thanks to Shaun's insistence on testing, the cancer is determined to be treatable. Glassman decided to take the boy in for the night, and promised him tomorrow they’d “figure out the rest." Ultimately, he ended up acting as a surrogate father to Shaun well into the future.Īt the end of season 1, Glassman is diagnosed with brain cancer. He refused to go home, and police were lost on what to do with him. When Shaun asked if the rabbit had gone to heaven, Glassman awkwardly replied he was sure that was what had happened.īy the time Shaun and Aaron reconnected, Steve had died and Shaun was to be taken back to his parents. The brothers had hoped he would be able to save Shaun's pet rabbit, though it had already died when their father threw it against the wall. He lived and practiced as a doctor in Casper, Wyoming at one point before relocating to San Jose.Īround a decade prior to the start of the show, he met Shaun and Steve Murphy when they arrived at his office on foot. Bonaventure following his cancer treatment, Glassman is offered the position of president of the hospital back and ultimately accepts the job.Īaron has been a doctor for at least 20 years (the exact length of time is unknown). While their reason for leaving is a bit unclear, it was presumably because he spent so much time on work and caring for his patients. Glassman is shown to be lonely, due to his wife and kids having left him. He has recently been diagnosed with a presumably inoperable glioma and will have to go through chemotherapy and radiation therapy, predicted to be seen in the second season.
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He also shows a great deal of caring towards other hospital staff, such as when Claire makes a minor mistake that turns out to be fatal for a surgical patient. He backs off when Shaun wants to leave the hospital, saying he wants to make his own mistakes and get out from underneath Glassman's wing.
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He cares very deeply about Shaun, even to the point where Shaun feels suffocated by it. Shaun Murphy, having known him since he was a young teenager. Aaron Glassman is the president and a surgeon at St. We hire Shaun, and we give hope to those people with limitations that those limitations are not what they think they are, that they do have a shot!" -Aaron Glassman ĭr. Especially those who who don't have the same advantages that we have. " Aren't we judged by how we treat people? I don't mean as doctors.