In the episode, Dane plays Matthew, a firefighter who struggles to tell his family about his Als diagnosis — and later struggles to accept help from them as the prognosis progresses. The episode is set against the backdrop of Thanksgiving.
“We really wanted to honor him and his experience and be really truthful about it. [We] didn’t want to sensationalize in any way,” Michael Grassi, the NBC medical drama’s creator and showrunner, explained over a call ahead of the episode’s airing.
Dane disclosed earlier this year that he had been diagnosed with amyotrophic lateral sclerosis, a neurodegenerative disease that affects nerve cells in the brain and spinal cord and causes loss of muscle control. There’s currently no cure. Grassi said that Dane…
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