Talk:List of fictional physicians

What about "Scrubs"

Vote for Deletion
This article survived a Vote for Deletion. The discussion can be found here. -Splash 19:20, 9 August 2005 (UTC)

My two cents
I missed the vote, but I'll throw my two cents in anyway. I would have voted to keep the list. The role of the physician is a special one in society, which is why there are so many television shows about medical doctors. Having completed a doctorate (or Ph.D.), by contrast, is incidental in any dramatic work I'm aware of. In Flash Gordon, for example, Hans Zarkov could be a scientific genius without any sort of advanced degree, and very little about the story would have to change. Therefore, fictional physicians deserve a separate list. ChrisWinter 16:13, 11 August 2006 (UTC)

Musings about who to include
If this list is to include not only the main characters of a TV show (or other work) who are physicians but, as seems intended, every physician who appears, there are many omissions. From ST:TNG, for example, there is the doctor who replaces Picard's heart ("I need better focus on the thoracic polychromatics!"  ) and the one who treats Worf as a "guinea pig" when his spine is injured.

However, in literature it would be best to include only central characters who are physicians. Doctors Conway and Priclila from Sector General certainly deserve mention. ChrisWinter 16:42, 11 August 2006 (UTC)