How Zachary Quinto’s character on Brilliant Minds is different from any other TV doctor

Get ready to meet Zachary Quinto As a completely different kind of hero.

the The heroes University of Illinois graduate returns to NBC in new medical drama Brilliant mindsInspired by the extraordinary life and work of the revolutionary physician. Oliver SacksQuinto plays Dr. Oliver Wolf, a brilliant neurologist who uses unconventional methods to help his patients.

As E! News exclusively reports, his approach to his subjects is quite unconventional.

In the film’s introduction, an angry hospital official shouts: “He took an Alzheimer’s patient out of the hospital on a motorbike! The family is threatening to sue him.”

Yet, as Dr. Wolf says, “His world is getting darker by the day, and his days are numbered. I choose to walk with him. To find a way forward, because no one else will.”

While one of Dr. Wolf’s fellow doctors describes him as a genius in his methodology, another hospital worker thinks he’s just an “idiot.”