History Main / DrFeelGood

* A ''NewTricks'' episode focusing on the death of a rock singer, had his former band mates point the detectives at 'Doc' who supplied them all with drugs back in the day. The guy turned out to be just a dealer rather than actual doctor.

* A VictimOfTheWeek on ''{{The Glades}}'' was one of these and the clinic he operated was a 'pill mill'. It turned out that the clinic was only one of a whole chain of pill mills operated by a corrupt medical company. Also the dead doctor was doing it [[spoiler: so he could raise money for medical supplies to send to earthquake ravaged Haiti]]

* Music/TheBeatles song "Dr. Robert" was about the real-life New York City doctor Max Jacobson (despite the NationalHealth reference) whose nickname was the TropeNamer. He got involved with JFK, giving him several controversial treatments. Some of these involved illegal drugs such as methamphetamines. Many of Kennedy's medical problems and treatments were only recently declassified

* Music/PinkFloyd's "Comfortably Numb" has verses apparently sung by such a doctor (who's aiming to revive the KO'd protagonist to make him perform a show; the movie of [[TheWall the album]] shows it's not that glamorous. The song was partially inspired by Music/RogerWaters' encounter of one when he fell ill on tour ):

* Pretty much ''every'' doctor in UsefulNotes/NaziGermany who wasn't a MadDoctor was one of these instead (often both). Germany's early successes in the war were in large part due to the soldiers being prescribed gargantuan quantities of meth [[PsychoSerum to remove their need for sleep and ability to feel pain]]. Hitler's own personal physician was quite the candyman, which probably explains quite a bit.

* [[http://skippyslist.com/list/ "37. Our medic is called �Sgt Larwasa�, not �Dr. Feelgood�."]]

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The TropeNamer is the Music/MotleyCrue song, in which the titular doctor does many things (including making cocaine for the Mexican mob). Not to be confused with the ArethaFranklin song or the British pub rock band.

* Music/PinkFloyd's "Comfortably Numb" has verses apparently sung by such a doctor (who's aiming to revive the KO'd protagonist to make him perform a show; the movie of [[TheWall the album]] shows it's not that glamorous):

* In ''TheCannonballRun'', Dr. Nikolas van Helsing is the habit of injecting himself (and anyone else who asks for it) with the unspecified contents of a hypodermic he always carries, which causes him to get a blissful grin and then pass out.

* The doctor in ''RequiemForADream'' who continues to write Sara Goldfarb a prescription for diet pills, even when she complains of strange side effects and is clearly developing an addiction.

[[DiscreditedTrope They are getting quite rare nowadays]] as most medical regulating bodies are able to electronically track a physician's prescribing history and flag anything suspicious. In fact, there have been cases of doctors withholding nacotics from legitimate pain patients for fear of appearing like a DrFeelgood.

The TropeNamer is the Music/MotleyCrue song, in which the titular doctor does many things (including making cocaine for the Mexican mob.) Not to be confused with the ArethaFranklin song or the British pub rock band.

* PinkFloyd's "Comfortably Numb" has verses apparently sung by such a doctor (who's aiming to revive the KO'd protagonist to make him perform a show; the movie of [[TheWall the album]] shows it's not that glamorous):

* ''Series/{{House}}'': Dr. Gregory House is his own Dr. Feelgood, what with the Vicodin addiction and all. However, due to the rules against doctors writing prescriptions for themselves, he usually has Wilson or one of his minions get the goods for him.

* The doctor who first prescribed Mary Tyrone morphine in ''LongDaysJourneyIntoNight'', as well as the doctors who continue to do so while she's OffTheWagon.
* Wendla, the female teenage protagonist in the original stage play of ''SpringAwakening'', [[spoiler: is killed by pills prescribed to her as an abortifacient. The doctor never tells her she's pregnant and insists they are for anemia.]]

* Dr. Finegarten in ''Film/{{SOB}} who doles out prescription drugs like candy. He supplies Sally with the sedatives to relax her enough to do her topless scene.

* MichaelJackson seems to have accessed pain killers through several of these, and a particularly unethical one, Conrad Murray, was found guilty of involuntary manslaughter and grievous negligence in his death by prescribing a surgical anesthetic as a sleep aid.

* Referenced in an episode of ''MalcolmInTheMiddle'', when a new neighbor asks Lois who her doctor is. Lois asks what the problem is, and the neighbor replies "back pain," and goes on to imply that she will say anything to get the pills she wants. Lois replies, "Sorry, my doctor's honest."

->-- "Doctor Robert", Music/TheBeatles

* French SerialKiller [[http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Marcel_Petiot Marcel Petiot]] was a doctor who attracted attention of French medical authorities by prescribing drugs to notorious junkies. I was before he committed all the murders for which he is remembered today.