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[[caption-width-right:240: They say an apple a day keeps the doctor away. After seeing this [[{{Jerkass}} guy]], make sure of it.]]

** There's also [[FanNickName Nurse Bedside Manner]], who [[spoiler: informs Chief that he can't give blood to his son because he's not the biological father, and gets irritated when Starbuck is talking to her unconscious husband because brain dead people can't hear.]] It's been suggested she was originally a [[TheMedic field medic]] and doesn't like being cooped up in Galactica's sickbay.

** Dr. Gregory House is the poster boy for this trope -- or maybe even the [[ExaggeratedTrope exaggerated version]]. This is the type of man who, if you saw him shambling up the corridor, you would duck into an elevator to avoid. He makes no bones about being a sadistic, misanthropic, and antisocial freak who maintains employment only because he happens to be smarter than everyone else, as well as massively over-qualified as an education diagnostician. (He could probably work for the CIA, and in fact, in one episode he did -- while taunting all the G-Men and constantly threatening to blow their cover). He has effectively blackballed himself in medical circles, but he doesn't mind, because it gives him ''carte blanche'' to rule over a Princeton teaching hospital albeit at a sharply reduced pay rate. In fact, pretty much the only reason he even still has a job, despite being an utter jackass, is that he's a ''damn'' good doctor.

* ''Series/{{Emergency}}'': Dr. Morton. And there was a character of the week who made even him look nice.

* One episode in ''WesternAnimation/KingOfTheHill'' has Bill be diagnosed with diabetes after eating a bunch of junk food at the fair and passing out due to a blood sugar spike. The kind doctor tells him that he can stop its progression through diet and exercise. After he binges on cookies, has a second blood sugar spike and ends up in the Hospital again, he gets a very cruel and uncaring doctor. The doctor tells the nurse that he has a medical degree while she has a lesser one, believing he is more intelligent and important than she is and the doctor just blatantly assumes that Bill, like many other patients before him, is someone that'll just ignore a doctor's orders and feels he is just wasting time treating Bill. To make Bill feel even worse, the doctor tells Bill that he will just lose his legs in a year so he may as well get a wheelchair while his health insurance is still good. Bill accepts this fate but after a few positive events, Bill not only cured himself of diabetes, [[LaserGuidedKarma he also goes to confront the doctor that treated him like crap and kicks his ass]], while the nurse he was mean to earlier in the episode turns a blind one when she hears the beating he's receiving.

** While not that mean, Willowshine tends to be this to cats that aren't Mothwing or Leafpool, often chiding Jayfeather, and [[spoiler: when Crowfeather asks [=RiverClan=] for help in dealing with the stoats, both she and Jayfeather refuse, while Leafpool is more reasonable]].

* One episode in ''WesternAnimation/KingOfTheHill'' has Bill be diagnosed with diabetes after eating a bunch of junk food at the fair and passing out due to a blood sugar spike. The kind doctor tells him that he can stop its progression through diet and exercise. After he binges on cookies, has a second blood sugar spike and ends up in the Hospital again, he gets a very cruel and uncaring doctor. The doctor tells the nurse that he has a medical degree while she has a lesser one, believing he is more intelligent and important than she is and the doctor just blatantly assumes that Bill, like many other patients before him, is someone that'll just ignore a doctor's orders and feels he is just wasting time treating Bill. To make Bill feel even worse, the doctor tells Bill that he will just lose his legs in a year so he may as well get a wheelchair while his health insurance is still good. Bill accepts this fate but after a few positive events, Bill not only cured himself of diabetes, [[LaserGuidedKarma he also goes to confront the doctor that treated him like crap and kicks his ass.]]

* Dr. Lancelot Sprat in the "Doctor in the House" series of films is overbearing with students and directly tells patients that examinations and diagnoses have nothing to do with them. But when students are in trouble, he will provide help for them, either directly, and behind the scenes.

** ''House'' has an excellent [[DistaffCounterpart female version]] of this with "Cutthroat Bitch" Amber Volakis, who didn't make the final cut on House's team... but who was so memorable and delightful a character that the fandom rejoiced when she returned as Wilson's girlfriend, and then cried when [[spoiler:she died]], and then rejoiced again when she returned as House's hallucination. Apparition Amber was even meaner than the genuine article(!), modeled as she was on House's vague recollections and [[EnemyWithin fragments of his own cruel psyche.]]

** Initially Kerry Weaver is presented this way, since one of her defining qualities is her strict adherence to the rules. When the other doctors went maverick in order to help people - something that happened a lot with Doug Ross and a fair amount with John Carter - she was there to smack them down. She softens during her time on the show, though.

* As ''Website/{{Cracked}}'' [[http://www.cracked.com/article_18822_5-famous-scientists-dismissed-as-morons-in-their-time.html explained]] ([[http://www.cracked.com/article_18501_7-incredible-scientific-innovations-held-back-by-petty-feuds.html twice]]), the prevalence of this trope in the 19th century was the reason why it took so long for hygienic practices to catch on in hospitals. Because medicine was seen as a gentlemanly profession at the time, doctors in that era ridiculed and attacked scientists like Ignaz Semmelweis who merely suggested that they wash their hands after handling corpses in the morgue, as it seemed to imply that they were unclean enough to kill people just by touching them, coupled to the fact that the doctors were unwilling to stick their hands in corrosive and carcinogenic carbolic acid, Semmelweis' preferred antiseptic, on a daily basis. Before Louis Pasteur's germ theory proved once and for all that such basic hygiene was the right course of action, it was more dangerous to give birth in a hospital than ''in the street'' due to how rampant disease was within hospitals (hence why we see women giving birth at home in period works so often).
* In fact, many older doctors can come off as jerkish to modern people as they are trained to believe in the concept of "medical paternalism" (i.e. doctor knows best). They are generally much more forceful in prescribing treatments, sometimes to the point of overruling the patient (a big no-no nowadays), and can actively go out of their way to deceive the patient if they feel it is for their own good. In other words, Dr. House is what happens when the ultimate "old-school" doctor (treat the disease first, the patient be damned) starts practicing medicine in an informed consent-based (with rare exceptions, the physician must abide by the patient's wishes, even if it means the patient will die) environment.
** On this subject, there's a cultural difference between the American and European approaches to healthcare. In America, it's routine for doctors to put elderly nursing home patients on ventilators for flu, pneumonia, etc. even if it will not change the outcome, and as long as the patient's family wants it and insurance provider is willing to pay for it, they will continue to do invasive interventions and procedures that only prolong suffering and do not improve quality of life. In European countries, whose culture is not as litigious as American culture, doctors tend to be more medical paternalists, giving them a lot more latitude to refuse to perform what they decide is “futile care” (whether that be transferring patients to higher levels of care, intubating patients, and even performing CPR). If the physician believes it will not benefit the patient, they are under no obligation to offer it.

* It also bears noting that while doctors don't have to be jerks, surgeons need to be emotionally cold at best, and psychopathic at worst just to do their job effectively when your life is on the line. They CANNOT afford to be distracted by emotions at all. A lot more surgeons follow this trope than doctors, and this is actually a good thing.

** Subverted with Ryuuken Ishida. Introduced from Uryuu's point-of-view, he seems abrasive, materialistic and uncaring. Eventually, it becomes clear he wants his son to think the worst of him for [[MysteriousPast unknown reasons]] that loyal friend Isshin knows all about. Behind Uryuu's back, he's much more gentle, protective and fatherly.

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* ''Manga/SoulEater'' has Doctor Franken Stein, who is not only the school surgeon, but also the biology teacher and combat instructor. He is a complete sociopath due to having an insane wavelength, and upon meeting his apprentice Maka, he tried to dissect her. {{Justified|Trope}} in that he was [[TrainingFromHell trying to show his students that they needed to work together,]] and no one was actually harmed, but as the series progresses his advances towards Maka's (and his other students') organs become more sincere. He also tends to bash his patients for their carelessness.
* In ''Manga/OnePiece'', Dr. Kureha, a [[NeverMessWithGranny tough, sarcastic old lady]], is the only doctor on a small island where the inhabitants all call her a witch for her strange, violent, and greedy behavior. She won't just ask for a set amount of bills, but 50% of your income for the month. If you tip her, she may lower it to 49%. She's also willing to ''injure'' patients who don't follow her orders.
** Her protege Chopper ''tries'' to be this whenever he's complimented, attempting to put on a tough act and belittle the complimenter while grinning ear-to-ear and doing a HappyDance. It never works.
** Dr. Hogback is a much worse, being probably the best surgeon in the world and an actual villain. Even with the love of his life, he only cares about her body and thus patches her corpse up and lets her be revived with another person's soul.
** Trafalgar Law's response when someone asked what was going to happen if Luffy kept running around right after Law had done surgery on him? That the wounds would reopen and he'd die.
*** Also when telling Chopper that he'd removed the poison from the systems of some children that had been experimented on, he phrased it in such a way that Chopper thought he'd ''dismembered'' them, since Law was talking about the amount of painkillers some might need. Law made no move to correct the panicking reindeer.
** Crocus was picking fist fights with his patient ''and'' captain, Gol D. Roger, who was suffering from an incurable disease that was killing him. Mostly because [[TheGadfly Roger]] annoyed him.

* Dr. Manga/BlackJack is parodied with Dr. Iwata in ''Manga/ExcelSaga'' (complete with an x-shaped scar on his face, given to him by his cousin who he loves to exact horrible revenge on every opportunity he gets). Though he doesn't show up enough in the anime for his {{Jerkass}}ery to really shine through, in the manga he's a money-grubbing, skirt-chasing, selfish bastard. At one point, he's shown prescribing medication to people because the pharmaceutical company that makes it pays him for each patient he gets to take it, regardless of whether or not it will actually ''help'' them. Fortunately, he's usually accompanied by his nurse, who uses violence on him frequently to keep him in line. The sad part: he does actually show signs of competence -- he just doesn't ''care''.

* ''Manga/FruitsBasket'' has Hatori, who's more of TheWoobie, but he's still grumpy.
* Caren Ortensia from ''Manga/FateKaleidLinerPrismaIllya'', an elementary school nurse who has the tendency to consider patient's injuries 'boring' and ask they get hurt much more badly next time they come to see her. To add insult to non-injury, she often tells visitors to get lost because "healthy people make her sick."
* ''Manga/FairyTail'' has Porlyusica. While she will try her hardest to save her patients, she can't stand being around people, and will kick them out as soon as they are healed. She also doesn't like the friends of her patients hanging around waiting for them to get better.
* Entirely inverted by Fran Madaraki of ''Manga/FrankenFran'', who is the nicest, biggest LoveFreak you'll ever meet, willing to forgo payment on operations... but given the nature of these operations, you might actually wish she ''was'' actively villainous.

* Dr. Allison Mann in ''ComicBook/YTheLastMan'' spends much of her time either belittling Yorick or threatening his pet monkey with dire fates. When they finally part ways, Yorick's last request is to see her smile for the first time in four years; Mann's response is to break down in tears of frustration instead. She angrily denies that love is anything but a biological reaction, but is clearly desperate for love herself, [[spoiler:eventually finding it with Australian spy Rose Copen]].
* Dr. Big [=McLargehuge=] from ''ComicBook/{{Empowered}}'', whom Ninjette describes as "[[Series/{{House}} Dr. House]] [[UpToEleven the size of a house]]", has a total lack of bedside manners and is quite adamant that Emp gets her [[BadassNormal normal]] friend out of the suprahuman-specific wing ASAP so he can deal with more important cases.
* [[ComicBook/DoctorStrange Dr. Stephen Strange]] was one before the car accident that crippled his hands. He was so hated that the only jobs he was offered were of the KickedUpstairs variety, which he had too much {{pride}} to take. He squandered his fortune on quack remedies, becoming almost destitute until, nearly at the end of his rope, he heard of an old man known to work miracles. That old man turned out to be [[TheMentor the Ancient One]], the current Sorcerer Supreme, and Strange's life changed dramatically after they met. After becoming Master of the Mystic Arts when his mentor passed away and bequeathed the title to him, he mellowed out and lost most of his {{Jerkass}} qualities.

* ''ComicBook/SensationComics'': Dr. Pat tends to be fairly brusque and cuts people off if she feels they're wasting her time, but overall she's usually kind. Dr. Stanton on the other hand is an outright jerk, even when he's mellowed out a bit after getting back together with his eventual fiance Mona Blue.

* Dr. Lazarus in ''Film/{{Outland}}'' (1981) is a JerkWithAHeartOfGold who is ultimately the only person who helps our hero.
* As is fitting for a LifetimeMovieOfTheWeek, any [[TheUnfairSex male]] doctor to ever walk in on screen will go out of his way to be a jerk, especially when it isn't beneficial for anyone, not even himself. See Creator/HarrisonFord's character Dr. Stonehill in ''Extraordinary Measures''.
* Doctor Kuni in ''Film/KnockedUp'' is a bit of a jerk, and the couple don't like him, but ultimately he's all there is when the big moment comes. The character is played by Creator/KenJeong, who was a RealLife doctor before he took up comedy and acting.

* Harte from the Irish film ''Film/{{Calvary}}''. His first reaction to seeing a woman who has recently attempted suicide (indicated by the bandages on her wrist) is to make a joke about her poor method. He also seems to think it's his duty to carry the banner of athiesm by posing [[CynicismCatalyst utterly brutal questions]] to Father James, expecting him to account at once for all the misery in the world, ''just'' to see the priest get riled up.
* Dr. Lancelot Sprat in the "Doctor in the House" series of films is overbearing with students and directly tells patients that examinations and diagnoses have nothing to do with them. But when students are in trouble, he will provide help for them, either directly, and behind the scenes.
* [[DeanBitterman Dean Walcott]] of ''Film/PatchAdams'' supposedly is trying to train doctors to be capable of taking in the bitterness of dealing with people who may die under their care and not fall to pieces over it, but in reality, he (and pretty much every other doctor that appears on screen other than Patch and his friends) are StrawVulcan versions of this, doing such inhumane things as flatly telling a patient that they have a few months to live and walk away without saying another word or only refer to them through their file number or their sickness and or through whichever humiliating treatments such as amputation they may have been discussing to apply (''[[ImStandingRightHere while the patient is standing right next to them]]'').
* ''Film/DoctorStrange2016:'' The titular character starts as one, although not as bad as the comic version. He is a brilliant neurosurgeon, but he is arrogant, prideful, and would refuse to look into untreatable cases that could adversely affect his career. It all ends with a car accident that cripples his hands.
* ''Film/{{Creepshow 3}}'': Dr. Farwell, ''big time''. He's openly insolent and rude to his patients, shows NoSympathy to a teenage girl with a brain tumor, mocks an old woman going blind, and gives a hot dog he just dropped to a homeless man.
* ''Film/GhostTown2008'': Pincus starts out as a rude, misanthropic dentist. He even claims he'd chosen the profession because most of the time patients have things in their mouths and thus can't talk with him (he's very annoyed too when this isn't the case).

* Ton Phanan of the ''Literature/XWingSeries'' is this, sort of, by the time we see him. He once wanted to do everything in his power as a doctor, but after an EmergencyTransformation he found that his extensive [[CyberneticsEatYourSoul cybernetics ate his future]], so he dropped out of medicine and became a pilot hoping to get back at those who had hurt him. Assigned as squadron medic, he had no bedside manner and snarked a lot - once his commander told him to "see our doctor" after an injury, and Phanan said "I'm far too important a doctor to see such a lowly person as myself" -- but he was a very sympathetic character, all told.
** Especially in TheReveal of his tragic past. [[spoiler: And his subsequent death, which includes pushing Face off Phanan's path.]]

* Hyrek from the ''Literature/ParadoxTrilogy'' is a xith'cal who serves as a doctor on a human ship and is generally disdainful toward Devi, the protagonist. Mostly because she keeps getting hurt.
* Calvar Syn in ''Literature/{{Legend}}'' by Creator/DavidGemmell.
* ''Literature/{{Kedrigern}}'' is a magical equivalent - an expert on counterspells. He has a reason for being grumpy - he hates travelling, and can't use magic to change into a falcon because he will need it to actually cure his patients.
* ''Literature/{{Temeraire}}'': Dr. Keynes is brusque and unfriendly during his tenure on the titular dragon's crew, but is an outstanding dragon-surgeon despite his total absence of bedside manner. When he's reassigned to England to help deal with ThePlague, Temeraire is very sorry to see him go.
* ''Literature/MitchTobin'': Dr. Fredericks from the third book is a psychiatrist version. He's an aggravating man more obsessed with proving his theories than actually helping the patients, but he is genuinely good at causing them to reach important breakthroughs.
* ''Literature/LetMeCallYouSweetheart'': Charles Smith is a brilliant plastic surgeon, but he's also blunt to the point of being rude, arrogant, obsessive, vengeful and just generally off-putting. It's {{deconstructed|trope}}, as Smith's jerk tendencies are actually costing him patients due to him making them uncomfortable.

* ''Series/{{House}}'':
** Dr. Gregory House is the poster boy for this trope -- or maybe even the [[ExaggeratedTrope exaggerated version]]. This is the type of man who, if you saw him shambling up the corridor, you would duck into an elevator to avoid. He makes no bones about being a sadistic, misanthropic, and antisocial freak who maintains employment only because he happens to be smarter than everyone else, as well as massively over-qualified as an education diagnostician. (He could probably work for the CIA, and in fact, in one episode he did -- while taunting all the G-Men and constantly threatening to blow their cover). He has effectively blackballed himself in medical circles, but he doesn't mind, because it gives him ''carte blanche'' to rule over a Princeton teaching hospital albeit at a sharply reduced pay rate. In fact, pretty much the only reason he even still has a job, despite being an utter jackass, is that he's a ''damn'' good doctor.
--->'''House:''' Would you rather a doctor who holds your son's hand while he dies, or ignores him as he gets better?
** ''House'' has an excellent [[DistaffCounterpart female version]] of this with "Cutthroat Bitch" Amber Volakis, who didn't make the final cut on House's team... but who was so memorable and delightful a character that the fandom rejoiced when she returned as Wilson's girlfriend, and then cried when [[spoiler:she died]], and then rejoiced again when she returned as House's hallucination. Apparition Amber was even meaner than the genuine article(!), modeled as she was on House's vague recollections and [[EnemyWithin fragments of his own cruel psyche.]]
** In fact, starting in Season 2, it becomes a running theme in the series that any doctor who spends too much time in House's orbit eventually becomes this. Much of Dr. Foreman's character arc involves trying to overcome his own House-like tendencies, to varying degrees of success:
--->'''Cuddy:''' ''[to Foreman]'' You're House Lite. Now, the only administrator who'll touch you is the one who hired House Classic.
* The handsome and rugged ''Ben Casey'', from the groundbreaking MedicalDrama of same name. Though a brilliant neurosurgeon, Casey was arrogant and impatient, often arguing and throwing insults at his colleagues. The series was a smash hit from 1961-1966, and [[AllGirlsWantBadBoys Vincent Edwards' portrayal of the surly doc won women over by the millions.]]
* Dr. Michiko Daimon of ''Doctor X'' is [[BrutalHonesty extremely blunt]], [[HandshakeRefusal refuses to even shake the hands]] of the [[CorruptBureaucrat corrupt hospital bureaucrats]] (let alone play along with their machinations), and charges [[ShockinglyExpensiveBill exorbitant fees]] as a freelance surgeon (which are mostly pocketed by her manager/mentor, and justified as she usually has cleaned up after the hospital's incompetence and let them take the credit). By the way, her mentor's cat is named after the above mentioned Ben Casey.
* ''Series/TheKnick'': Dr. John Thackery is an excellent and even pioneering surgeon, but he's also a total asshole and a casual racist.
%%* ''Series/BodyOfProof'': Dr. Megan Hunt.
* ''Series/NipTuck'': Both lead doctors, Sean [=McNamara=] and Christian Troy, have questionable bedside manner (even [[spoiler:berating their son Matt when he was burned in a meth lab explosion]]), and are generally morally questionable [[JerkAss assholes]].
* ''Series/SiliconValley'': Richard Hendricks' primary care doctor, played by Andy Daly, is cheerfully rude, condescending and otherwise upsetting to Richard during every visit.
* ''Series/DrKen'' is about a sitcom version of this trope and takes a significantly LighterAndSofter approach to exploring it. One episode had him going to an sensitivity seminar and discovering that while he's still rather prickly, there were doctors who were even ''worse''.

* ''Series/{{ER}}'':
** Dr. Romano. [[spoiler:Even though he died after [[DroppedABridgeOnHim a chopper crashed against him]], nobody even seemed to notice his absence until they were told so by the authorities.]] Dr. Corday was the only person who seemed to get along with him, and she was the only one who [[spoiler:[[LonelyFuneral attended his memorial service]].]] It's almost as though they wanted him to become TheWoobie though. The poor man [[spoiler:had his arm cut off by a helicopter in an earlier episode, spent some time trying to rehabilitate said arm, only to seriously burn it and need to have it properly amputated. And then the bloody chopper killed him. Probably the same helicopter, too. And they spent a long time showing him being afraid of it and putting him in a safer position out of fear. Where it managed to crash. Then, when he gave all of his wealth to the Hospital in his will, they used it to fund the one thing he would not have wanted it spent on.]]
** Peter Benton was Cook County's resident jerk before Romano got there, but they spent years making the audience know he was a JerkWithAHeartOfGold.
** Initially Kerry Weaver is presented this way, since one of her defining qualities is her strict adherence to the rules. When the other doctors went maverick in order to help people - something that happened a lot with Doug Ross and a fair amount with John Carter - she was there to smack them down. She softens during her time on the show, though.

* ''Series/StElsewhere'':
** Dr. Mark Craig. Hilariously brusque, rude, sarcastic and unsentimental, with no bedside manner to speak of, almost everyone on staff -- certainly all those working under him -- finds Dr. Craig '''extremely''' difficult to deal with. However, he's brilliant at his job, is (frustratingly) usually right on the money in medical matters, and he will NOT let his interns or other staff members slack at ALL -- he has no compunction about berating them in public if he feels they aren't performing at their very best. But it's also clear he drives no one harder than he drives himself. Essentially an early version of Dr. House.
** Dr. Victor Ehrlich, sort of, at least in the early seasons of the show (which makes sense as he starts off as Craig's protege). However, Ehrlich's jerk-ish qualities are often more bumbling and wishy-washy than Craig's -- he doesn't possess Craig's devastating, castrating wit, and while he's a gifted surgeon, Ehrlich doesn't have Craig's formidable breadth of experience and knowledge. Both characters softened somewhat as the series went on.
* ''Series/{{Scrubs}}'':
** This is frequently played with. Dr. Kelso is the [[MeanBoss sadistic asshole administrator]]. The show extracts a great deal of humor and drama from playing his focus on bureaucracy off of Dr. Cox's focus on patient care. However Dr. Kelso is also frequently shown to be doing the best he can with tight resources, and his personality may be a result of [[StepfordSnarker having to deal with this every day.]] He also one occasionally deliberately acts as the "asshole administrator", because [[GenghisGambit if the staff aren't united in their hatred of him, they bicker among themselves so much that patients wind up in danger]]. Once he retires he becomes more than a bit likeable.
** Dr. Perry Cox is an unsociable and snide locker-room jock who happens to be [[JerkWithAHeartOfGold very courteous and professional]] underneath all the bluster. Ironically, when Kelso retires, Cox is selected as his replacement. He has to face the same decisions that Kelso did and relies on JD to take over his previous role as the guy who stands up to the chief of medicine to keep him on the straight and narrow.
** Though not really the case, Turk does receive this exact nickname from his interns (mostly because it rhymes).
--->'''J.D.:''' The girl one just called you Dr. Jerk!\\
'''Dr. Turk:''' That's nothing, you should hear their nickname for Dr. Mickhead.\\
'''J.D.:''' ...What?
** The pediatrician Dr. Norris in one episode managed to out-jock the uber-jock Dr. Cox (although Cox gets him back.) He's played by [[Series/LawAndOrderSpecialVictimsUnit Christopher Meloni]], perhaps the only actor in the business who can convincingly intimidate John C. [=McGinley=].
* Dr. Harris in ''Mercy''.
* ''Series/{{MASH}}'':
** Charles Emerson Winchester III uses snobbery rather than snarkiness (he often reminds everyone of his degree from Harvard), but appropriate PetTheDog moments show he is a good example of the first variety. And his fellow surgeons NEVER complain about his underlying competence.
** [[{{Jerkass}} Frank Burns]] is a rare example of an asshole doctor who is really incompetent, and has a fool's gold heart (he openly admits he was just in it for the money, and is one of the biggest bigots in the series). He also openly admitted (during the series that is) that he was in it for the skin care to get rid of his pimples, and he hoped to earn big money. In the TV series, he once stated that he flunked out of two medical schools and took twice the normal time to become a doctor. He was also tricked into admitting that he paid $400 (a large sum at the time) for the answers for a critical exam. He was worse in the original book. Burns was at the last era in history where a practicing physician could get a license ''without going to medical school''. In Frank's case, he served an apprenticeship under his father. In the film, he is extremely religious in public, hypocritical about it (see Maj. Houlihan), and falsely blames a man's death on a very timid orderly.
** In the spin-off ''Series/AfterMASH'', the characters of Mike D'Angelo (season 1) and Wally Wainwright (season 2) were jerkass hospital administrators.
** On ''Series/TrapperJohnMD'', Dr. Stanley Riverside II fit the arrogant-but-dedicated mold.
* This trope is a daytime soap staple: David Hayward on ''Series/AllMyChildren'', [[Creator/NolanNorth Chris Ramsey]] on ''Series/PortCharles'', Patrick Drake on ''Series/GeneralHospital''.
* ''Series/StarTrekTheOriginalSeries'' has Dr. "Bones" [=McCoy=], whose [[ImADoctorNotAPlaceholder cantankerous reminders of his actual occupation]] qualify for this trope. He certainly qualifies in "Friday's Child," where he persuades an obstinate, haughty patient to let him ease her pain... by slapping her in the face.
-->'''Kirk:''' Never seen that in a medical book.\\
'''[=McCoy=]:''' It's in mine from now on.
* Dr. Pulaski on ''Series/StarTrekTheNextGeneration'', a one season replacement for Dr. Crusher. When she first arrives, she's abrasive and often rude, especially to Data for being an android. The writers apparently were trying to make her a Dr. [=McCoy=] analog, though she didn't ultimately have the same dynamic with the crew. She ultimately gets some PetTheDog moments later in the season.
* Even ''Series/StarTrekDeepSpaceNine'' had the early Julian Bashir, though he was less mean and more completely tactless, calling Bajor 'the frontier' and 'wilderness' right to the face of the Bajoran who would be second in command of the station and didn't like the Federation being there. This was the first time they met. He gets better though.
* The Emergency Medical Hologram a.k.a. "Doctor" on ''Series/StarTrekVoyager''. Exactly why the Doctor was such a buzzkill varied between seasons. At first, he was annoyed that people treated him like an actual person rather than hologram; that is, being intended as a temporary supplement to a living doctor suddenly pressed into full service, he often found himself annoyed at being left on with nothing to do. Later, as he starts to develop more as a member of the crew, that reverses, making him more irritable because he wasn't treated ''equally''. Not helped by his social skills being [[TheBlindLeadingTheBlind programmed by]] [[SociallyAwkwardHero Reginald]] [[AmbiguousDisorder Barclay]]. His creator, Dr. Zimmerman, is the original Dr. Jerk (though he's NotThatKindOfDoctor) and based the Doctor's personality on his own. Eventually, the entire EMH line was scrapped and replaced with more jocular models.
-->'''Zimmerman:''' "Emergency Medical Hotheads." "Extremely Marginal Housecalls." That's what everyone used to call the Mark Ones until they were bounced out of the Medical Corps.
** Notably, one episode had as a plot point that having this kind of personality is actually a fairly important flaw for a doctor -- the Doctor was the ''only'' Mk. I still in active duty as a medical hologram by that point, because Starfleet had been very quick to get Zimmerman to develop new versions, with new personalities and looks (apparently, while the actual healing part had worked fine, the bedside manner had made the original quite unpopular). Zimmerman, having based the Mk. I's personality and appearance on his own, was a tad bitter about that.
--->'''[[http://www.docohobigfinish.blogspot.com/2012/02/voyager-season-one.html Doc Oho]]''': ''"He is made up of 200 memories and 47 individuals so if there’s anybody you want around in a medical crisis it’s the EMH. However his bedside manner leaves a lot to be desired. [[Series/StarTrekTheNextGeneration Crusher]] would bore you to death, [[Series/StarTrekDeepSpaceNine Bashir]] will try and shag you and the EMH will insult you – great choice of Doctors!"''
* The 2004 ''Series/{{Battlestar Galactica|2003}}'' series:
** Dr. Cottle. The man is a wisecracking sarcastic jerk who actually smokes on the job. His cantankerous attitude seems to be mostly related to authority figures trying to tell him what to do, making him a JerkWithAHeartOfGold, as he feels obligated to heal the sick, period, human or Cylon, regardless of what Adama's [[DeathGlare steely blue eyes]] would seem to dictate. Of course, he gets that sort of slack because he's just so damn good, as he [[spoiler:managed to save Commander Adama's life from a pretty brutal assassination attempt despite what most would consider fatal amounts of internal bleeding.]] Not to mention that with humanity reduced to under 50,000 people after the Cylon assault, he might well be one of the few doctors left ''alive''.
** Gaius Baltar could also count as this, the best example being his blunt attitude towards Sharon Valerii while testing to see if she's a Cylon sleeper agent. "So now we'll find out whether you're a human or [[TomatoInTheMirror an evil Cylon]]." He's also an egomaniacal jerk with the poetic sarcasm of Gregory House.
--->'''Cottle:''' I don't like what you're doing. It's unnatural and damned dangerous.\\
'''Baltar:''' Yes well given the patient's current condition, I'm not sure I can see the downside.
** There's also [[FanNickName Nurse Bedside Manner]], who [[spoiler: informs Chief that he can't give blood to his son because he's not the biological father, and gets irritated when Starbuck is talking to her unconscious husband because brain dead people can't hear.]] It's been suggested she was originally a [[TheMedic field medic]] and doesn't like being cooped up in Galactica's sickbay.
* Jack Shepherd from ''Series/{{Lost}}'' has a terrible bed-side manner and often brutally honest with his patients about their chances, but otherwise is a miracle-worker. His father Christian, on the other hand, was a snarky, condescending drunk that got a patient killed. In one instance, Jack actually tells a paralyzed woman that she has absolutely no chance of regaining the use of her limbs. Then he attempts surgery and cures her anyway. She later becomes his wife.
* Dr. Owen Harper in ''Series/{{Torchwood}}'', though he mainly works with the corpses of aliens, and of victims of the paranormal so he has few patients to distress. [[spoiler: He appeared to be soften a little in series 2. "Fragments" showed that prior to his fiancée's death, he was originally much less jerkish and got into medicine to save people and make the world a better place.]]

%% * Heston Carter in ''Series/{{Doctors}}'' is of the pompous and arrogant variety, though [[CharacterDevelopment he got better]].
%% * ''Series/GreysAnatomy'': Hahn, Yang, Karev, Stark...

** Simon is a brilliant young doctor who is on the run becuase he's helping his troubled sister. He starts out like this aboard ''Serenity''. He treats and heals the crew, but he's cold, distant and snarky. He gradually gets better when he starts trusting Mal Reynolds and others.
* ''Series/KamenRiderExAid'':
** Surgeon [[TheAce Kagami]] [[TheComicallySerious Hiiro]]/Kamen Rider Brave is stoic, often unplesant and contemptuous, but wants to help people and mellows out a bit as time passes thanks to Emu.
** Radiologist [[BackAlleyDoctor Hanaya]] [[CombatPragmatist Taiga]]/Kamen Rider Snipe is a contestant for the most unpleasant rider in general, whose [[ItsAllAboutMe selfish]] tendencies are overshadowed only by the main antagonist and rarely has even basic concern for patients at all. He seems to mellow out a bit after being stuck with a MoralityPet, who happens to be even more unpleasant that he is.

%% * Dr. Harry Harper of ''Series/{{Casualty}}''.
%% * Dr. Connie Beauchamp of ''Series/HolbyCity'' is a rare female version.
* Dr. John Becker of ''Series/{{Becker}}''. He's a JerkWithAHeartOfGold, as he has stated the reason why his practice is in the crowded Bronx, is so he could provide medical care for people who normally wouldn't have access to it. Of course, because of that, a few of his patients are idiots... Personality-wise, Becker pretty much ''is'' House in a sitcom.
%% * In the AndNowForSomethingCompletelyDifferent ''Series/{{JAG}}'' episode "Each of Us Angels" Patrick Labyorteaux (the actor that normally plays Bud) plays a character fitting this description.
* Doctor Franklin of ''Series/BabylonFive'' becomes more and more of a jerk as his personal story arc plays out over the first few seasons. Of course, he was also battling a stimulant addiction, and losing.
* Doc Cochran in ''{{Series/Deadwood}}'' is an alcoholic, partially shell-shocked FrontierDoctor who is as abrasive as he is intelligent. His conduct so alienates Alma Garret that he must beg her to accept his help in spite of his "defects of character" when her life is at risk.
* [[InsistentTerminology Professor]] Richard Craig of ''Series/AllSaints''. Thanks to his world-class surgical skills, he is able to get away with habitually disregarding the opinions of the nurses in spite of their proven diagnostic abilities, criticising his protege Luke for being willing to listen to them, regularly antagonizing patients when they decide against his (usually experimental) treatment suggestions, and in one case lying to a patient about his wife surviving their car accident. It's hardly surprising that Bron conceals the fact that he's her father, especially after he blackmails her into leaving the hospital in exchange for him saving the life of a friend. (To his credit, it's actually Bron that holds herself to this agreement, even though Bob died in surgery and Craig left at the same time.)
* ''Series/{{Community}}'' has Professor Ian Duncan, an amoral psychologist who has used sessions to hit on clients and is more interested in getting his papers in respectable journals than the well being of his patients.
* Dr. Simon Hill in ''Series/CombatHospital''. He's really a JerkWithAHeartOfGold though.
* Dr. Wu from the first season of ''Series/{{Glee}}'' comes off as a this, though it's probably because his patience with Terri and Kendra (who ''are'' batshit crazy) is wearing thin.

* ''Series/NorthernExposure'': Due to the culture clash of being a native New Yorker pressed into serving as a FrontierDoctor in a small Alaskan town, Joel Fleischman can be irritable and condescending with his patients, though he's still a decent guy and he warms to the town over the course of his time on the series.
* ''Series/AsTheWorldTurns'' had this in [[DefrostingIceQueen Dr. Reid Oliver]], who was constantly being compared to Dr. House, though he was more like [[Series/{{Scrubs}} Dr. Cox]].
* ''Monday Mornings'' features transplant surgeon Dr. Buck Tierney, who is abrasive, unpleasant, and extremely self-important, and neurosurgeon Dr. Sung Park, who always seems to be angry about something and is convinced that he can do no wrong.

* Carlos on ''Series/ThirdWatch'' was a Paramedic Jerk. After his first day on the job, his supervisor "Doc" Parker, seeing Carlos alone, comments that seeing people suffering can get to you, but Carlos says he's surprised because it ''didn't'' get to him. He didn't care at all about the people they took care of. Doc is surprised, but Carlos eventually turns out to be a very good paramedic with excellent technical skills. The fact that he's not the nicest guy in the world doesn't stop him from saving lives.
** In contrast Doc is too empathic and the job slowly takes a terrible toll on him until he [[spoiler:snaps, shoots up the firehouse and ends the series in a mental institution]].

* ''Series/{{Emergency}}'': Dr. Morton. And there was a character of the week who made even him look nice.

** The remake for US audiences, ''Series/KingdomHospital'', played Stig's counterpart, Stegman, as a massive, overbearing [[{{Jerkass}} jerk]] as well - but did so [[PlayedForLaughs more for laughs]]. Stegman never even comes close to [[spoiler:poisoning Hook with tetradotoxin]], and even his inevitable VillainousBreakdown becomes a lot funnier. Hook, the main protagonist, has his moments of jerkishness too -- but he legitimately has a [[JerkWithAHeartOfGold heart of gold.]]
* ''Series/GreenWing'': To some extent, the entire medical cast, but there are a few characters for whom jerkiness is a fundamental part of their psyche:
** Guy Secretan: A smug surgeon CasanovaWannabe who relentlessly bullies other staff members and once refused to resuscitate a women because she only had A-cup breasts.
** Mac: An aloof JerkWithAHeartOfGold.
** Alan Statham: An eccentric old-fashioned radiologist who has a hugely inflated opinion of himself but often seems to be more clueless than mean [[spoiler:until Johanna breaks up with him and he turns into a raging misogynist.]]
** Boyce: A junior radiologist who takes pranks to cruel and elaborate conclusions (such as propelling a drone with the word "homo" on it into Statham's office). By the end of the series, it seems much of his jerkiness comes down to being a StalkerWithACrush.
** Joanna Clore: As with ''Series/{{Scrubs}}'s'' Dr Kelso, Clore is an administrator struggling to manage the hospital. Unlike Kelso, she is just as cruel - if not even more so - in her personal life, frequently humiliating Statham.
** [[spoiler:Holly, Mac's ex: She dyes her child's hair ginger to [[MamasBabyPapasMaybe make Mac think it's hers]] and makes Dr Todd's life a misery.]]
* ''Series/{{Pulsaciones}}'' At the beginning of the series, Álex Puga acts as a complete {{jerkass}} towards his hospital co-workers, badmouthing Gloria for not promoting him when he's on his way out to a prestigious clinic.
* ''Series/{{MADtv}}'': Series/DrPhil is parodied to be this in every sketch where he shows up (or just [[Series/TheOprahWinfreyShow Oprah]]'s lapdog if she's also present). His "advice" usually consists of insulting people or punching them in the face. Also, he's not really a doctor.
* ''Series/TwinPeaks'' has Albert Rosenfield, an FBI forensic analyst who spends his entire time in Twin Peaks putting down everything from the medical facilities to everyone in the police department (especially Sheriff Truman) to the local doctor for mourning Laura Palmer. He later subverts the trope by declaring that he is an avowed pacifist who abhors violence and loves his fellow man, even if he's rude.
-->'''Albert Rosenfield:''' Mr. Horne, I realize that your position in this fair community pretty well guarantees venality, insincerity, and a rather irritating method of expressing yourself. Stupidity, however, is not necessarily a inherent trait, therefore, please listen closely. You can have a funeral any old time. You dig a hole, you plant a coffin. I, however, cannot perform these tests next year, next month, next week or tomorrow - I must perform them now. I've got a lot of cutting and pasting to do, gentlemen, so why don't you please return to your porch rockers and resume whittling.
* ''Series/TheGoodDoctor'':
** [[TheAce Dr. Neil Melendez]] is very good at his job but also very full of himself and quite prejudiced and mean to the autistic protagonist Dr. Shaun Murphy. However, he gradually comes to respect Shaun and mellow into a JerkWithAHeartOfGold. The same cannot be said for [[MeanBrit Dr. Jared Kalu]], who takes advantage of other surgeons and takes credit for Shaun's life-saving idea at one point, though before he departs at the start of Season 2, he puts in a good word for Shaun.
** {{Subverted|Trope}} with Dr. Marcus Andrews. He's mean to Shaun and Dr. Aaron Glassman, only agreeing to hire Shaun just so he can give him more responsible in the hope that he'll mess up, but he's kind toward his patients. Like Melendez, he softens up to Shaun over time, even firing Han at the end of Season 2 for his behavior towards Shaun.
** Dr. Morgan Reznick is generally just a bitch toward practically everybody.
** The latter half of Season 2 gives us Dr. Jackson Han, who is perhaps ''worse'' than Melendez, Andrews, and Reznick combined. He skips his own welcoming party to go straight to surgery, constantly berates Shaun because of his autism, refuses to listen to anyone else's attempts to speak up for Shaun (he even clashes with Melendez), and fires Shaun when he demands to be transferred back to Surgery and suffers a meltdown when Han adamantly refuses to assent to his wishes. In the end, he gets fired in the season finale.
* ''Series/TheNightOf'': All of John Stone's doctors are rather rude to him, but his pharmacist seems to take special pleasure in embarrassing him with loud comments about his symptoms and treatments.

* Doctor Emil Behring in ''Series/{{Charite}}'' is arrogant and socially conceited, treating people who are less intelligent and educated than him with contempt, CantTakeCriticism, and is unkind to his colleagues because he sees them as rivals. Nevertheless, he's a brilliant surgeon and immunologist whose scientific work results in a remedy for diphtheria, and he even [[JerkWithAHeartOfGold puts his own health on the line]] to save a life.
** The follow-up season, ''Series/ChariteAtWar'', gives us Doctor Ferdinand Sauerbruch, a renowned surgeon with a foul temper who's obnoxious, full of himself, and prone to belittling his students and [[MeanBoss yelling at his assistants]]. Also AFatherToHisMen, a ReasonableAuthorityFigure, and a SecretKeeper for members of the resistance against the Nazi regime.

* Victor Niguel, of the ''VideoGame/TraumaCenter'' series. He's genuinely dedicated to his medical research (as his character description in the manual and his reactions during the Pempti operations show); but he also apparently hates everybody, and is the only one to curse in written or spoken dialogue. Consider his description of Paraskevi: ''"This one is fibrous... which basically means it's a pain in the ass"''. Conveniently, that's what the player [[NintendoHard will be probably thinking in the following seconds]].
** Gabriel Cunningham from ''Trauma Team'' also is this, though not to the extent of Victor.
* Dr. Turner Grey from ''VisualNovel/PhoenixWrightAceAttorneyJusticeForAll''. One of his nurses is accused of malpractice, and dies in an auto accident a few weeks later. Upset that business at his clinic is bad, he wants to commission a spirit medium to call her back from the dead, so she signs a note admitting the incident was her fault. Morgan expresses distaste for his motivation for calling the nurse's spirit, [[spoiler:but it appears that [[JerkassHasAPoint he was actually correct]] and the nurse was indeed the one responsible, though apparently him overworking her led her to mix up the patients' medications]].
** Pal Meraktis from ''VisualNovel/ApolloJusticeAceAttorney'' counts as well. He [[spoiler:botched a surgery for the [[{{Yakuza}} the Kitaki family's Wocky]], and both he and the nurse hid the botched surgery from Winfred "Big Wins" Kitaki so he wouldn't get blamed for it]]. While he did feel genuine remorse for what he had done (at least according to his rival) he nevertheless left a 19-year-old to die so the killer of that case [[spoiler:the nurse]] could go on with their plan to inherit the fortune.
** [[spoiler:Pierce Nichody]], the culprit of the DLC case in ''[[VisualNovel/PhoenixWrightAceAttorneySpiritOfJustice Spirit of Justice]]'' counts as well. [[spoiler:After he's outed as the culprit and a surgeon, he compares the attorney, the judge, and the prosecutor to malignant cancerous tumors.]] However they have some sympathetic moments so they're not as bad as the above two.
* TheMedic class in ''VideoGame/TeamFortress2'' is this trope [[MorallyAmbiguousDoctorate on a GOOD day]]. He may be the team healer, but a vast majority of his lines include a word meant to insult the addressee, be it in English or [[GratuitousGerman German]]. Not only that, but apparently the healing is an unintended side-effect of his own morbid curiosity and an eagerness to rip apart people's chests. To top it off, it's heavily implied that he got his medical degree in [[ThoseWackyNazis Nazi Germany]], though WordOfGod has explicitly stated that "he is not, and has never been, a Nazi". He can be friendly to his teammates (unless he thinks they're being stupid like ignoring the mission objective), though he still uses them for experiments. He also, to no one's surprise, [[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=36lSzUMBJnc lost his medical license.]]
** It has been said that he got his medical training in a time and place where the Hippocratic Oath had been downgraded to an [[http://www.teamfortress.com/images/posts/medic_front.jpg optional Hippocratic Suggestion]].
* In ''[[VideoGame/{{Myst}} Myst: The Book of Ti'ana]]'', Jarl of the Guild of Healers actually tells Ti'ana that it would be better for young and sickly Gehn, who is only half Ronay, to die. Not unsurprisingly, [[MamaBear she throws him out on his ass.]]
* Dr. Kaufmann in ''VideoGame/SilentHill1''. Serving as a supplier for a drug dealing cult that [[spoiler:sacrifices children to their dark goddess]] probably puts him far enough across the MoralEventHorizon for him to [[MorallyAmbiguousDoctorate be quite a bit more evil than a typical Dr. Jerk.]] The Dr. Kaufmann in ''VideoGame/SilentHillShatteredMemories'' fits this trope much better. He's an abrasive, condescending, manipulative ''therapist'' who is nonetheless trying to help the patient.
* The possibly prejudiced Dr. Borville in ''VideoGame/TheLegendOfZeldaTwilightPrincess''. While he claims to be ignorant about Zora physiology, he doesn't seem to care at all about Ralis' critical condition, and he's not above stealing items from patients in order to pay off his astronomical bar tab. He largely gets away with his lack of bedside manners and exorbitant fees due to being the only doctor in town.

* The fourth ''[[Series/CSICrimeSceneInvestigation CSI]]'' game had Dr Bandareet, the victim. Only counting what was uncovered in the case about his medical practices, [[spoiler: he's the reason his wife is blind. Due to pride, he refused to have anyone else operate on his wife's cataracts despite not being trained in that specific type of surgery. He even made her sign a waiver, forbidding her from seeking legal repercussions against him. While she did kill him, it was for [[MamaBear an]] [[AbusiveParents entirely]] [[ArrangedMarriage different]] [[ConArtist reason]].]]

* ''VideoGame/Cyberpunk2077'' has Trauma Team, a cross between EMS and PrivateMilitaryContractors. Each member of Trauma Team is a CombatMedic armed with state-of-the-art weapons and are all too happy to demonstrate how proficient they are with those weapons if you should so much as stand too close to them while they are on the job.
* Downplayed in ''VideoGame/RedDeadRedemption2'' with Dr. Joseph R. Barnes. He has good bedside manner and is deeply empathetic towards his patients, but generally puts money first so he can provide for his family, as seen when he reminds a man to pay up in the middle of an arm amputation, and asking Arthur Morgan for money before [[spoiler:examining him for an obviously severe illness]].
* ''VideoGame/HarvestTown'' has Lee Yau, the doctor's son whose favorite line is: "Can you get out of my way?" Considering that he only became a doctor to gratify his own pride rather than any genuine concern for his patients' well-being, it makes sense that he wouldn't have the best bedside manner.

* ''Webcomic/LucidTV'' is an entire series of this, played for laughs. [[BlackComedy Very dark, very evil laughs]]. Think ''Series/{{Scrubs}}'' [[JustForFun/XMeetsY in the style of]] ''ComicStrip/ThePerryBibleFellowship''.

* ''Webcomic/HannaIsNotABoysName'' features Doc Worth, a chain-smoking med-school dropout who operates out of an alley and enjoys tormenting and shouting at anyone who makes him angry. However, he is solidly in the JerkWithAHeartOfGold category, since he seems pretty laid back when he's not screaming in Conrad's face, genuinely cares for Hanna, and doesn't appear to charge him for his frequent visits. The good Doc actually subverts this a bit, since [[WordOfGod Tessa]] likes to point out that he is in fact ''not'' a skilled doctor - he's probably a mediocre one at best. Or he would be, if he had ever finished med school and actually become a doctor.

* WebVideo/AskThatGuyWithTheGlasses doesn't like any doctors because he trusted "[[MeaningfulName Dr. Love]]" and ended up being raped.

%%* Dr. Hofschneider in ''WesternAnimation/TheOblongs''.

* Dr. Ball on the second ''Franchise/StarWars WesternAnimation/RobotChicken'' special.
* One episode in ''WesternAnimation/KingOfTheHill'' has Bill be diagnosed with diabetes after eating a bunch of junk food at the fair and passing out due to a blood sugar spike. The kind doctor tells him that he can stop its progression through diet and exercise. After he binges on cookies, has a second blood sugar spike and ends up in the Hospital again, he gets a very cruel and uncaring doctor. The doctor tells the nurse that he has a medical degree while she has a lesser one, believing he is more intelligent and important than she is and the doctor just blatantly assumes that Bill, like many other patients before him, is someone that'll just ignore a doctor's orders and feels he is just wasting time treating Bill. To make Bill feel even worse, the doctor tells Bill that he will just lose his legs in a year so he may as well get a wheelchair while his health insurance is still good. Bill accepts this fate but after a few positive events, Bill not only cured himself of diabetes, [[LaserGuidedKarma he also goes to confront the doctor that treated him like crap and kicks his ass.]]
* Dr. Daisy Blake (one of Daphne's [[UncannyFamilyResemblance identical sisters]]) from ''WesternAnimation/ScoobyDooMysteryIncorporated'' is ''very'' rude, stuck-up, and condescending.
* Dr. Potterswheel in ''WesternAnimation/MoralOrel'' who has a LackOfEmpathy.
-->'''Bloberta:''' ''[who was trying to seduce him]'' You don't really care about me...\\
'''Dr. Potterswheel:''' Well, I care FOR you...
* In one episode of ''WesternAnimation/{{Kaeloo}}'', [[CatsAreMean Mr. Cat]], who went to med school (or at least claims that he did), is trying to teach Kaeloo how to be a doctor. Most of his tips involve being rude and selfish.
-->'''Mr. Cat:''' Make sure your patient can pay. You're not the Salvation Army.
* As {{Flanderization}} kicked in, Dr. Julius Hibbert of ''WesternAnimation/TheSimpsons'' became a BitchInSheepsClothing version of one. The man is perfectly willing and able to let you die if you have no way to pay his consultations (at his nicest, he will just ''handcuff you to the bed until you can pay''), is more eager to find ways to prevent people from suing him for malpractice than actually doing his job right, is a corporate goon that sells crappy medicine if he's paid enough, is a hard-core member of the local Republican party (which InUniverse is a bunch of {{Card Carrying Villain}}s) and overall he will treat any patients like a bunch of complete hopeless morons and guffaw in their faces about it.
* The episode ''Roger 'n' Me'' from ''WesternAnimation/AmericanDad'' introduces Dr. Gupta. Upon meeting Stan, she immediately (and without any provocation) assumes he is stunned that a top brain surgeon is a woman, that she is incompetent and that Stan is only interested in her sexually. She then flashes him her bare chest (again without provocation) in order to allow them to "move on." Later, she enters Francine's hosiptal room and again makes the unfair assumption Stan holds sexist prejudices against her.
* Dr. T'Ana in ''WesternAnimation/StarTrekLowerDecks'' is described in her character profile as an excellent doctor who's unpleasant to work with, fitting in with CatsAreMean as well (since she's a felinoid alien). That said, her attitude is generally a combination of being no-nonsense within Sickbay and a crabapple outside of it. She actually values bedside manner as an essential skill in her medical team and refuses Rutherford's transfer request because he causes a patient to panic, despite his good technical skills, and sends in the cheerful Tendi instead.

* One episode in ''WesternAnimation/KingOfTheHill'' has Bill be diagnosed with diabetes and a kind doctor and after his attempt to keep it under control fails and he ends up in the Hospital again, he ends up getting a very cruel and uncaring one. The doctor tells the nurse that he has a medical degree while she has a lesser one, believing he is more intelligent and important than she is and the doctor just blatantly assumes that Bill, like many other patients before him, is someone that'll just ignore a doctor's orders and feels he is just wasting time treating Bill. To make Bill feel even worse, the doctor tells Bill that he will just lose his legs in a year so he may as well get a wheelchair while his health insurance is still good. Bill accepts this fate but after a few positive events, Bill not only cured himself of diabetes, [[LaserGuidedKarma he also goes to confront the doctor that treated him like crap and kicks his ass.]]

* ''Manga/SoulEater'' has Doctor Franken Stein, who is not only the school surgeon, but also the biology teacher and combat instructor. He is a complete sociopath due to having an insane wavelength, and upon meeting his apprentice Maka, he tried to dissect her. [[JustifiedTrope Justified]] in that he was [[TrainingFromHell trying to show his students that they needed to work together,]] and no one was actually harmed, but as the series progresses his advances towards Maka's(and his other students') organs become more sincere. He also tends to bash his patients for their carelessness.

* Dr. Manga/BlackJack is parodied with Dr. Iwata in ''Manga/ExcelSaga'' (complete with an x-shaped scar on his face, given to him by his cousin who he loves to exact horrible revenge on every opportunity he gets). Though he doesn't show up enough in the anime for his [[{{Jerkass}} jerkassery]] to really shine through, in the manga he's a money-grubbing, skirt-chasing, selfish bastard. At one point, he's shown prescribing medication to people because the pharmaceutical company that makes it pays him for each patient he gets to take it, regardless of whether or not it will actually ''help'' them. Fortunately, he's usually accompanied by his nurse, who uses violence on him frequently to keep him in line. The sad part: he does actually show signs of competence -- he just doesn't ''care''.

* Tenma's boss in ''Anime/{{Monster}}'' is the heartless administrator variety, until he [[KarmicDeath gets killed]]. Tenma himself inverts this trope, as he's [[AllLovingHero one of the nicest people imaginable]].

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* The fanfic ''Heart of Azazel'' has [[WebVideo/TheNostalgiaCritic Dr. Bitch Spasms]]. Not only is he a complete disaster as a doctor, but he also makes for a terrible husband.
* Dr. Onimemo in ''[[https://www.fanfiction.net/s/8661803/1/ The Eyes Have It]]'' is the doujutsu doctor for Konoha and a complete prick. He tells Sakura he calls her [[YouAreNumberSix Patient 719]] because he doubts he'll ever see her again. In reality, he calls her that even after they'll be seeing each other regularly. It's later shown that he calls everyone by either their patient number or, if they a patient's friend/teammate/family, by a patient number plus an addendum. For example, Sakura's teammate Kiba is 719-c. He's later shown to be considerably ruder to people who don't make appointments outside extenuating circumstances (Sasuke's Sharingan developing further doesn't warrant an immediate visit but Sakura's developing doujutsu causing her pain does).
** It bears noting that on the one occasion Sakura visits the doctor at his home, she discovers that he married a ManicPixieDreamGirl and is a complete teddy bear in her presence.
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* ''{{Series/Firefly}}'':

* ''{{Series/Emergency}}'': Dr. Morton. And there was a character of the week who made even him look nice.
* {{Series/Riget}}: Swede Dr. Stig Helmer is a racist against Danes and borders on being [[TheSociopath a sociopath]].

** Gabriel Cunningham from ''[=Trauma Team=]'' also is this, though not to the extent of Victor.

* The prevalence of this in ''VideoGame/{{Fallout 3}}'''s medical doctors adds a subtle challenge element to the game, in that the player will more than likely only resort to talking to them when they really, ''really'' need their help.

* The fourth [[Series/CSICrimeSceneInvestigation CSI]] game had Dr Bandareet, the victim. Only counting what was uncovered in the case about his medical practices, [[spoiler: he's the reason his wife is blind. Due to pride, he refused to have anyone else operate on his wife's cataracts despite not being trained in that specific type of surgery. He even made her sign a waiver, forbidding her from seeking legal repercussions against him. While she did kill him, it was for [[MamaBear an]] [[AbusiveParents entirely]] [[ArrangedMarriage different]] [[ConArtist reason]].]]

[[folder:Web Comics]]

* Schtein from ''Webcomic/StringTheory'', though he's NotThatKindOfDoctor.

* The fanfic ''Heart of Azazel'' has Dr. Bitch Spasms (gee, [[WebVideo/TheNostalgiaCritic I wonder where that name came from]]). Not only is he a complete disaster as a doctor, but he also makes for a terrible husband! Just read it and tell me you weren't cheering for Azazel near the end!

** There's also [[FanNickName Nurse Bedside Manner]], who [[spoiler: informs Chief that he can't give blood to his son because he's not the biological father, and gets irritated when Starbuck is talking to her unconscious husband because brain dead people can't hear.]] I've heard she was originally a [[TheMedic field medic]] and doesn't like being cooped up in Galactica's sickbay.

* Dr. Shamal from ''Manga/KatekyoHitmanReborn''. Only [[ChivalrousPervert towards men]], though. And unfortunately for him (and them), 99% of the cast is comprised of {{Bishonen}}.

* ''Series/AsTheWorldTurns'' had this in [[DefrostingIceQueen Dr. Reid Oliver]], who was constantly being compared to Dr. {{House}}, though he was more like [[Series/{{Scrubs}} Dr. Cox]].

** Nynaeve is a compassionate and brave young woman who earnestly wants to cure the sick and help those who need it. She is also [[AntiHero an ambitious, self-righteous, and condescending ControlFreak.]]

** On ''Trapper John, M.D.'', Dr. Stanley Riverside II fit the arrogant-but-dedicated mold.

* Dr. T'Ana in ''WesternAnimation/StarTrekLowerDecks'' is described in her character profile as an excellent doctor who's unpleasant to work with, fitting in with CatsAreMean as well (since she's a felinoid alien). That said, her attitude is generally a combination of being no-nonsense within Sickbay and a crabapple outside of it. She actually refuses Rutherford's transfer request because of his inability to keep a patient calm, despite his good technical skills, and sends in the cheerful Tendi instead.