History Characters / DrGlaucomflecken

* WhamEpisode: Bill actually [[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=fiJawvX04T graduates] from his residency

* EinsteinHair

* ProfessionalSlacker: Downplayed. He is just as good of a doctor as the others, with just as much training and expertise, and is absolutely indispensable for surgeries... but the majority of his job involves sitting in a chair and playing Sudoku or Candy Crush, as there is simply very little to do between putting the patient under and waking them back up. At one point, [[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Bx6KD7PWKfs a prospective resident]] simply ''pretends'' to do the petty task the surgeon is asking for, knowing that it's more about appeasing Surgery's ego than actually doing anything.

Anesthesiology's main job is sitting on a comfortable chair behind a curtain, playing Sudoku, and being at the surgeon's beck and call.

* ProfessionalSlacker: Downplayed. He is just as good of a doctor as the others, with just as much training and expertise, and is absolutely indispensable for surgeries... but the majority of his job involves sitting on a chair and playing Sudoku or Candy Crush, as there is simply very little to do between putting the patient under and waking them back up. At one point, [[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Bx6KD7PWKfs a prospective resident]] simply ''pretends'' to do the petty task the surgeon is asking for, knowing that it's more about appeasing Surgery's ego than actually doing anything.

Anesthesiology's main job is sitting on a cushion behind a curtain, playing Sudoku, and being at the surgeon's beck and call.

* ProfessionalSlacker: Downplayed. He is just as good of a doctor as the others, with just as much training and expertise... but the majority of his job involves sitting on a cushion and playing Sudoku or Candy Crush, as there is simply very little to do between putting the patient under and waking them back up. At one point, [[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Bx6KD7PWKfs a prospective resident]] simply ''pretends'' to do the petty task the surgeon is asking for, knowing that it's more about appeasing Surgery's ego than actually doing anything.

[[folder:Pediatrics]]

Pediatrics is a cheerful fellow, who loves stickers and lollipops and, most of all, children.

* BerserkButton: General Surgery saying that pediatric medicine is easy prompts Pediatrics to [[https://www.youtube.com/shorts/5b4x3arLQmY appear]] and lecture him on how ridiculous that statement is.
* EverythingTryingToKillYou: How he [[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Ww5aheNi7Io sees]] kids' birthday parties.
* FriendToAllChildren: Naturally.
* HumbleHero: Cheerfully does an [[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=IJ99l7rXXOc extraordinary]] amount of work because of the joy he gets from working with his patients.

[[folder:Emergency Medicine]]
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[[caption-width-right:300:"I'm so sorry I didn't call you sooner about this, I was busy doing chest compressions."]]

Staffs the emergency department, staving off burnout with adrenaline and caffeine.

[[folder:Rural Medicine]]
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[[caption-width-right:297:"Ha! That's Texaco Mike for you!"]]

A slightly jaded but deeply empathetic man, who spends a lot of his time convincing the people in his area that they need to come and see him.

* FrontierDoctor: Rural Medicine is a modern embodiment of the trope: the Town of [Unincorporated Land] may not technically be the frontier, but it's certainly remote and sparsely populated.
* JackOfAllTrades: On top of having to master every field of medicine, he also is the town mayor (until he lost his re-election campaign to a goat) and mailman.
* SeenItAll: Is completely unfazed by anything thrown at him by his patients.
* SuperDoc: Out of necessity. When the nearest tertiary care hospital is 200 miles away and getting there requires a trip on Texaco Mike's fan-boat...

[[folder:Texaco Mike]]

Rural Medicine's Jonathan. A wild man with a wide array of skills. Lives in and runs the local Texaco gas station.

* AlmightyJanitor: Operates the local fanboat and the MRI machine, and also runs the local Texaco.
* CharacterizationMarchesOn: First appeared as a random guy who ran a Texaco and had somehow gotten hold of an MRI machine, to whom United Healthcare wanted to send one of General Surgery's patients. His status as Rural Medicine's RenaissanceMan sidekick appeared a lot later.
* TheGhost: Often referred to, but never seen on screen (so far).
* HypercompetentSidekick: Can build a microscope out of a telescope, run a combination CT-MRI machine, drive a fan boat like no-one's business, mine iron ore from the vein that runs under the Texaco and turn it into suture needles, brew CT contrast solution in his spare time and apparently cook a mean Porterhouse steak when the MRI overheats.

[[folder:Bartholomew Banks, Private Equity]]
The private equity investor who buys the hospital (and at least some of the physician practices), and is concerned solely with profit.

* HyperCompetentSidekick: Not only does Jonathan handle the ophthalmologist's administrative work, warm his chair, cook for him, and carry him around the clinic, Jonathan sometimes also [[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=O5XlTn20RcE takes over]] surgeries! He can also [[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=faTQDF4xXhU work]] as an emergency medicine physician, a post-operative orthopedist, and (reluctantly) a neurologist.
* InsistentTerminology: The ''loyal'' scribe. Johnathan gives the Psychiatrist a dark look for missing out that part.

[[caption-width-right:299:United (top) and Jimothy (bottom)]

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* PetTheDog: There are a few exceptions to his normally overbearing behavior.

* PetTheDog: When he [[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_ijezc2FduU encounters]] a surgical resident who’s had a complication during surgery resulting in patient injury, and is suffering a deep crisis of confidence as a result, the surgical attending responds in an empathetic and constructive manner. This is one of the very few times when we see a side of him other than his usual overbearing self.