Playing doctor: The husband and wife in the right to die case had played and would play doctors in recurring roles. Jayne Brook appeared on Chicago Hope (1994) for 5 seasons and Private Practice (2007) for 1 season, while Richard Schiff appeared on The Good Doctor (2017). In that series, Schiff also had a terminal illness.
Richard Schiff (David Green) appeared in 145 of the 155 episodes of The West Wing (1999), the show that made the "walk and talk" famous. Jordan takes Eli on a "walk and talk" up the stairs before the big conference room surprise, and Eli literally asks, "Is this little 'walk and talk' about how much I've disappointed you?"