Line #283 Characters/StElsewhere


1	[[foldercontrol]]
2
3	! St. Eligius Staff
4
5	[[folder:Dr. Wendy Armstrong]]
6	!!Actor: Kim Miyori
7
8	!!Tropes:
9	* BigEater: Revealed to be bulimic.
10	* DrivenToSuicide: Following the board exams within Season 2, Armstrong learns she was accepted into the second year of residency. It pushes her over the edge, and we next see her as the patient wheeled into the ER, dying minutes afterwards near the end of the season.
11	* IJustWantToBeNormal: She told Cathy she originally wanted to be a dancer, but was too fat. It plays a big factor into her disorder years later.
12	* KilledOffForReal
13	* WhatTheHellHero: She's furious at Morrison for him continuing his friendship with Peter White, with her hatred bordering if not close to TranquilFury levels of rage.
14	[[/folder]]
15
16	[[folder:Dr. Daniel Auschlander]]
17	!!Actor: Creator/NormanLloyd
18	The hospital's avuncular Chief of Services, a liver specialist who has been diagnosed with [[{{Irony}} liver cancer]].
19
20	!!Tropes:
21	* CoolOldGuy: More affable and mischievous than either Westphall or Craig.
22	* DeadpanSnarker: One of the best St. Eligius has to offer in terms of snark, second next to Craig.
23	* {{Mentor}}: To Luther Hawkins.
24	[[/folder]]
25
26	[[folder:Dr. Eliot Axelrod]]
27	!!Actor: Creator/StephenFurst
28	Nervous medical student introduced in season 2. He becomes a resident in the next season.
29
30	!!Tropes:
31	* {{Adorkable}}: Has a huge amount of enthusiasm to spare, second only to both Fiscus and Morrison.
32	* BigEater: One small arc in season 4 has Eliot and his girlfriend go on a diet. She does better than he does.
33	* HollywoodPudgy: He's more cuddly than morbidly obese, but everyone treats him as if he were the latter. He even dies of a heart attack while still in his twenties and being only mildly overweight.
34	* KilledOffForReal
35	* MoralityPet: He becomes this for Mrs. Hufnagel.
36	* NiceGuy: Along with Luther, he's one of the more nicer characters, but even [[BewaretheNiceOnes he has his limits]].
37	* SkilledButNaive: During the beginning of season 2 in his first few appearances. He was able to treat a horse because his father is a veterinarian and knew the exact life-saving ingredients needed.
38	* TookALevelInCynic: Even admits it in ''Brand New Bag'' that his previous attempts to lose weight and the failure of not losing any in season 4 left him angry, bitter and cynical about it all.
39	[[/folder]]
40
41	[[folder:Dr. Hugh Beale]]
42	!!Actor: Creator/GWBailey
43
44	!!Tropes:
45	* ChuckCunninghamSyndrome: Like Dr. Samuels, he disappears without explanation after Season One.
46	* DeepSouth
47	* TheShrink
48	[[/folder]]
49
50	[[folder:Dr. Robert Caldwell]]
51	!!Actor: Creator/MarkHarmon
52
53	!!Tropes:
54	* BusCrash: The characters learn of his ultimate fate in season 6's ''Heaven's Skate''.
55	* ByronicHero: Particularly during season 4, when his impulsive and reckless side comes to the surface.
56	* DatingCatwoman: In season 2, he's involved romantically with Joan Halloran, who begins as an antagonistic character that clashes with the doctors over the hospital's expenses.
57	* MustMakeAmends: He apologizes to Halloran in their last episode together in ''Family Affair'' as well as to the rest of the staff about his earlier attitude in season 4.
58	* PornStache: In the first half of season 2, Mark Harmon had a very thick mustache. He gets rid of it in the episode "A Pig Too Far", but not before walking around with it half-shaved off.
59	* PutOnABus: He leaves to California to start work at an AIDS hospice after leaving St. Eligius near season 4's end.
60	* TookALevelInBadass: In the season 4 premiere by helping Chandler fight off some hecklers bothering him, Fiscus and Ehrlich. He takes another level later in season 4 by [[TheReasonYouSuckSpeech calling Craig out on his ignorance]], [[TheNapoleon calling him a little bastard]] when he learns Caldwell has AIDS and [[NWordPrivileges responds accordingly]].
61	* TookALevelInJerkass: In season 4, he decides he's had enough of being the nice guy, and begins giving in to all his lower impulses, sleeping around, groping nurses and giving Victor a [[TheReasonYouSuckSpeech verbal thrashing]] he may not have entirely deserved. The fallout from his behavior included getting his face slashed by a crazed one-night-stand, nearly getting slapped with a sexual harassment suit from Lucy, a dressing-down from Auschlander and, late in the season, realizing he'd contracted AIDS.
62	[[/folder]]
63
64	[[folder:Dr. Annie Cavanero]]
65	!!Actor: Cynthia Sikes
66	An OB-GYN who is just past her residency.
67
68	!!Tropes:
69	* BerserkButton: Wayne Fiscus is one to her whenever he's around Cathy sometimes, since she doesn't like him very much.
70	* BoomerangBigot: She believes that her new doctor friend's sexuality is deviant and unnatural. Her friend proves her wrong and tells her her bigotry won't go away that quickly. Goes hand in hand with ValuesDissonance as no doctor would possibly react the way that she did within the series.
71	* MarriedToTheJob: It seems like she's always been that way for the first three seasons.
72	* MistakenForGay: She is actually offended when rumors spread that she's sleeping with a new doctor who is an out lesbian.
73	* PutOnABus: At the end of season 3.
74	[[/folder]]
75
76	[[folder:Dr. Philip Chandler]]
77	!!Actor: Creator/DenzelWashington
78
79	!!Tropes:
80	* BillingDisplacement: Appears front and center on the DVD box despite him being just one part of an EnsembleCast, arguably a more minor character than fellow residents Jack Morrison, Victor Ehrlich or Wayne Fiscus.
81	* DrJerk: Whether it's towards Luther at one point, at Morrison in another, a Vietnamese patient that he's throwing their history back at the poor man or even being a jerk in general at Novino for one-upping him when she re-joins St. Eligius at the near end of season 4, Chandler and his own mouth earned himself nothing but trouble afterwards. It's been in root even before he comes back from Ecumena's corporate training in the final season.
82	* FantasticRacism: He tells a Vietnamese patient that his entire nation got what they deserved in the Vietnam War.
83	* InsufferableGenius: He likes to believe he's smarter than his colleagues or some of his patients due to his position within St. Eligius.
84	* ItsAllAboutMe: It's hinted at by other characters that Chandler tends to talk to them as if it's all about him.
85	* LonelyRichKid: Chandler's privileged upbringing alienated him from other Black children when growing up, and he never fit in with the rich kids because of his race.
86	* TheResenter: His targets included Luther for having Penny's heart, Morrison for his [[TheEmpath empathy]]... who ''doesn't'' he resent at times in the series?
87	** It's revealed after he goes off on a Vietnamese patient that he resents the way that his brother died in the Vietnam War, as revealed in the beginning of season 4. He later reminisces that he loved his brother.
88	* TookALevelInBadass: In the season 4 premiere he punches a heckler with his bare hands.
89	* TwoGuysAndAGirl: He once tried to woo Penny. Luther was the better of the two, earning him his ire due to his carefree attitude and being a nicer guy than Chandler is. It seems to be over with by the time season 4 rolls around with Chandler and Hawkins being friendly once again, with Hawkins also becoming a paramedic as well.
90	* WellDoneSonGuy: Chandler's main motivation for getting into medicine was to please his father.
91	* WrittenInAbsence: Was off in Missouri for training when Creator/DenzelWashington was filming a movie.
92	[[/folder]]
93
94	[[folder:Warren Coolidge]]
95	!!Actor: Byron Stewart
96
97	!!Tropes:
98	* GentleGiant: At 6' 8", he towers over patients and doctors. Used to moving effect in "Weigh In, Way Out", where he fulfills a dying man's request to be rocked like a baby.
99	* {{Transplant}}: From ''Series/TheWhiteShadow''.
100	[[/folder]]
101
102	[[folder:Dr. Mark Craig]]
103	!!Actor: Creator/WilliamDaniels
104	Ill-tempered Chief of Surgery at St. Eligius.
105
106	!!Tropes:
107	* BreakTheHaughty: Over the course of the series, he suffers a number of personal and professional setbacks: his heart transplant patient dies, his son Stephen develops a drug problem and eventually dies in a car accident, he injures his hand in a fit of rage and faces the prospect of never being able to operate again, his marriage to Ellen falls apart, his artificial heart patient ends up regretting the procedure before dying and at one point he's [[ArsonMurderandJaywalking mistaken for a homeless person]].
108	* CatchPhrase: "Oh, for crying out loud!" To a lesser degree, "For the love of Mike..." and "This is your fault, Ellen!"
109	* TheDeterminator
110	* DrJerk: Especially earlier in the series. In the second episode, after saving a man's life with a bypass operation, he comments to the patient's young, chubby son that his son's a doctor, and that maybe the younger Craig will operate on him someday.
111	* GoodIsNotNice: Type 2/Type 4. He is very blunt to the point of rudeness. He is impatient, fussy, and arrogant. What drives him, though, is a deep conviction in the preciousness of life, and he will not tolerate any less of others than he does himself.
112	* {{Mentor}}: A reluctant one to Dr. Ehrlich.
113	* TheNapoleon: His height's been mentioned before in previous episodes, with Caldwell in ''Family Affair'' calling him a little bastard at one point.
114	* NWordPrivileges: After learning Caldwell has AIDS in "Family Affair", he says he didn't know Caldwell was a "fag". Caldwell is briefly incensed as a result.
115	* TheReasonYouSuckSpeech: After the events of "Cheek to Cheek" he scathingly blasts Westphall for his community-outreach program failure by citing Morrison's rape as proof of its failure.
116	* [[UsedToBeASweetKid Used to Be a Sweet Doctor]]: If "Time Heals" is any indication, he was much more like Ehrlich in his earlier years before going to Boston General and his return to St. Eligius.
117	[[/folder]]
118
119	[[folder:Nurse Shirley Daniels]]
120	!!Actor: Creator/EllenBry
121	A younger nurse who usually associates with the residents.
122
123	!!Tropes:
124	* AxCrazy: Saying that she visited her sister in Nantucket and frightening her about her crime? Turns out there's no sister in Nantucket. Knitting a few tiny ski masks for Peter White Jr. was probably the final straw in what little sanity she had left and gleefully denying any of it. Pulling a gun out on a patient and calling said patient "Peter"? Then pulling the gun on Morrison before it was revealed to be a prop gun? ''Woo boy howdy''.
125	* DeathGlare: Pulls this on people throughout the series whenever she's pissed. Morrison returns one at her at some point in season 3.
126	* DontYouDarePityMe: She's reviled by how everyone in St. Eligius thinks of her in such pity in her final episode in season 5.
127	* DudeNotFunny: She pulls what appears to be a gun on a patient waiting after the patient gets irate in ''Murder, She Wrote'', but then afterwards turns the gun on Morrison, with it later revealing to be a BangFlagGun. She even says if anyone can take a joke before [[ScrewThisImOuttaHere leaving in disgust]].
128	* EvilFeelsGood: Upon her return in ''Red, White, Black and Blue'' she justifies her newfound attitude with this, saying that she never used to see the good side of the craziness before and only the bad part until now and plans to enjoy it, both grossing out and equally horrifying Fiscus at the same time, although then there's that other part later on that she wanted Morrison dead...
129	* HypercompetentSidekick: In earlier seasons.
130	* ItsPersonal: She deeply resents Rosenthal for transferring her out of ER after the incident that demotes Dr. White to morgue duty. Rosenthal doesn't feel the same way.
131	** It's revealed later on that she had a deep-seeded hatred AND a grudge towards Boomer due to his earlier ThoseTwoGuys relationship with Peter White. She even says to Morrison that she made a mistake... and that she should've splattered him all over the sidewalks of the hospital itself, earning a well-deserved death glare back from him.
132	* LackOfEmpathy: Upon Wayne mentioning Cathy Martin's return to the residential unit while they're both visiting at a local bar, she initially appears glad for Martin and then says it's proof that everyone gets better... [[StealthInsult if they want to]]. It deeply scares Fiscus just how nonchalantly she was about her former friend.
133	* SanitySlippage: Experiences it after murdering White. It's what makes her fall to darkness even harder.
134	* ScrewThisImOuttaHere: She walks away from the hospital after the entire incident in ''Murder, She Wrote'' she caused in holding Morrison at gunpoint with the prop gun. Some of the staff lampshade it by saying Auschlander never officially hired her back.
135	* SmugSnake: She develops this during the course of her leaving St. Eligius for awhile in season 3, to where she's no better than White.
136	* UnresolvedSexualTension: Towards Morrison at one point before her vacation in season 3. Morrison directly says it to her that he thinks of their relationship as JustFriends.
137	* UnstoppableRage: Pulls this on Lucy Papandrao for working a surgery Ehrlich required her assistance on in season 3, feeling she betrayed the nurses' trust by "scabbing". She later tries this on Rosenthal due to a bitter resentment she has towards her as well as Rosenthal organizing the strike, which is a case of HypocriticalHumor when she tried to do that on Papandrao.
138	[[/folder]]
139
140	[[folder:Dr. Victor Ehrlich [[spoiler: born Bernard Oseransky]]]]
141	!!Actor: Creator/EdBegleyJr
142	Tall, blonde, bespectacled surgical resident from California, and usually on the receiving end of Dr. Craig's wrath.
143
144	!!Tropes:
145	* BelligerentSexualTension: Throughout season 5 with Lucy Papandrao.
146	* ButtMonkey: Nothing Ehrlich says or does is right, even if it's similar to something someone else just said or did.
147	* CharacterDevelopment: Matures both as a doctor and as a person to the point where he is HappilyMarried with Nurse Lucy Papandrao.
148	* DrJerk: A much milder case than Dr. Craig, though.
149	* HawaiianShirtedTourist: He usually wears Hawaiian shirts with neckties as part of his hospital attire.
150	* HugeGuyTinyGirl: A non-sexual example: he is at least a foot taller than his fellow surgical intern Jackie Wade.
151	* InnocentlyInsensitive: When Cathy Martin returns to work after her stay in the psych ward following her second rape in season 3, he manages to be even more insulting while apologizing for his past behavior.
152	* NoSocialSkills
153	* PhraseCatcher: Particularly through season 2, where every major character utters a variant of "You're a pig, Ehrlich."
154	* SurferDude: Before coming to Boston, Ehrlich was one of these in California. His friend Dogger still is.
155	* ThatCameOutWrong: Ehrlich never means any harm, but he consistently finds the worst way to phrase things, often making things worse just by continuing to speak.
156	[[/folder]]
157
158	[[folder:Dr. Wayne Fiscus]]
159	!!Actor: Creator/HowieMandel
160	A sarcastic emergency medicine resident.
161
162	!!Tropes:
163	* AllLoveIsUnrequited: He's been pining for Cathy Martin since season 1, which didn't work out well for him afterwards. It gets much worse at the end of season 3 for him when she falls in love with Kochar.
164	* AmazinglyEmbarrassingParents: His mother's arrival interrupts one of his sexual trysts, and she tells his co-workers a particularly mortifying story about his childhood.
165	* ArchEnemy: Peter White serves as this to him after he saves Armstrong.
166	** Even after White's death, it still sticks as of ''After Life'', but eventually they come to a tentative peace between them.
167	* BigApplesauce: He was born and raised in New York City.
168	* BigBrotherMentor: To Dr. Axelrod, which also becomes ThoseTwoGuys by extension of Axelrod tagging along with him from season 2 onwards.
169	* BigDamnHeroes: He saves Armstrong from being raped by Peter White near the end of season 2 by using a fire extinguisher to bash him unconscious.
170	* DeadPersonConversation: Has quite a few of em' in "After Life" ranging from Eve Leighton, Ralph Selover, Peter White and St. Eligius himself. He also has a funnier conversation with God too, as well, before being brought back to life.
171	* GallowsHumor: Jackie Wade mentions he has it in ''Slice O'Life''.
172	* JewishMother: Frieda Fiscus.
173	* LikeBrotherAndSister: With Dr. Wade in the final season.
174	* LookingForLoveInAllTheWrongPlaces
175	* ManlyTears: When he, Shirley Daniels and Jackie Wade can't revive Wendy Armstrong after her suicide attempt.
176	** Also happens right after he wakes up for the first time after being shot. When he sees his surgical scar on his chest, he weeps.
177	* TheReasonYouSuckSpeech: He gives a pretty good one to Westphall in ''Sanctuary'' about responsibilities. Westphall gives him an equally epic one about [[AllMenArePerverts his womanizing]] when he protests about his assigned elderly community outreach program.
178	* TheStoner: From time to time, he mentions his drug experimentation while at Tulane.
179	* TookALevelInCynic: In season 4 onwards. It even shows in how he gets tired of Westphall's speech about responsibilities in ''Sanctuary'' after the death of one of his longtime friends.
180	[[/folder]]
181
182	[[folder:Dr. John Gideon]]
183	!!Actor: Creator/RonnyCox
184
185	!!Tropes:
186	* BadBoss
187	* ObstructiveBureaucrat
188	[[/folder]]
189
190	[[folder:Dr. Seth Griffin]]
191	!!Actor: Creator/BruceGreenwood
192
193	!!Tropes:
194	* ArchEnemy: He seems to have one in Luther Hawkins, as he's the only one who doesn't like him and dismisses him as an orderly.
195	* DeceptiveDisciple: Rosenthal sees right through his "meek" nature in the first episode he's introduced in in season 5.
196	* HeelFaithTurn: After possibly contracting AIDS, Griffin becomes a born-again Christian when he meets the new hospital chaplain. It seems to be a genuine conversion, despite some snarky comments from his colleagues.
197	* ItsAllAboutMe: If he's up to playing other first-year residents against each other and wants to look out for himself, ''woo boy howdy''.
198	* PlayingBothSides: Done this in season 4 with both Novino and Birch trying to pit them against each other.
199	* PowerFist: After he tells Birch she shouldn't have killed his patient after she's let go from the residency in St. Eligius, Birch gives him an awesome hard punch to the face this way in ''Not My Type'' and promises to go after him when he least expects it for ruining her career. Griffin is horrified and retreats as a result.
200	* SmugSnake: The very epitome of this in his first set of appearances.
201	* TheStoolPigeon: He reports Luther to Westphall in ''Brand New Bag'' simply because [[ForTheEvulz he could]] and to simply be an obstacle in Luther's progress up St. Eligius.
202	[[/folder]]
203
204	[[folder:Joan Halloran]]
205	!!Actor: Nancy Stafford
206
207	!!Tropes:
208	* DefrostingIceQueen: Her softer side starts showing up in season 3.
209	* GirlFriday: To Auschlander during season 3.
210	* HeelFaceTurn: Introduced as someone who would butt head with the doctors over the hospital's expenses.
211	* PutOnABus: At the end of season 3, with one final appearance in season 4.
212	[[/folder]]
213
214	[[folder:Luther Hawkins]]
215	!!Actor: Eric Laneuville
216
217	!!Tropes
218	* IWasHavingSuchANiceDream: Has an excellent one in "Sweet Dreams" with Music/ZZTop performing their hit Legs. It goes as well as you'd expect it, complete with Luther dressed up in white and accompanied by both the band and a trio of ladies following them throughout St. Eligius with Craig and Caldwell stunned by the ladies around them.
219	* NiceGuy: One of the few within St. Eligius that tries to be nice to everyone around him.
220	* OrderliesAreCreeps: Averted. Luther is the one person any doctor, nurse or patient would be glad to have around. Even his crashing of the women's aerobic class in "Newheart" is laughed off.
221	* UncleTomfoolery: Chandler calls Hawkins out on this in "Equinox", using his [[InsufferableGenius genius]] as an excuse and being an [[{{Jerkass}} ass]] to him because he wanted to impress Penny, a girl they both fell in love with. It ends with Penny going with Luther anyways, to Chandler's dismay.
222	[[/folder]]
223
224	[[folder:Dr. Paulette Kiem]]
225	!!Actor: France Nuyen
226
227	!!Tropes:
228	* PetTheDog: She treats Ehrlich and Wade with kindness and gives proper criticism throughout the remaining seasons to them.
229	* ReasonableAuthorityFigure
230	[[/folder]]
231
232	[[folder:Dr. Virindakumar Jutswahtla “VJ” Kochar]]
233	!!Actor: Kavi Raz
234
235	!!Tropes:
236	* ButtMonkey: Frequently the target of Dr. Craig's racism.
237	* ChuckCunninghamSyndrome
238	* DemotedToExtra: Was a regular during season 1 and 2, only billed as a guest star thereafter.
239	* ForeignExchangeStudent: The "foreign doctor wants to study medicine in America" variety.
240	* RescueRomance: He and Cathy Martin fall in love at the end of season 3. Sadly things didn't work out for them...
241	[[/folder]]
242
243	[[folder:Dr. Cathy Martin]]
244	!!Actor: Barbara Whinnery
245	Pathology resident with a spacey demeanor, heightened sexuality, and a tendency to dress in black.
246
247	!!Tropes:
248	* AdaptationalSelfDefense: She knocks someone out who roughed up Fiscus near the end of season 3. She revealed to Fiscus that she started taking up self-defense classes after her rapes.
249	* BrokenBird: Especially after being raped. '''Twice'''.
250	* BunnyEarsLawyer: It is revealed in ''Rough Cut'' that she had the highest score out of the first-year residents' board certification exams. A brief scene with her after she switches to psychology indicates she's particularly skilled with younger patients.
251	* CloudCuckoolander: At one point, after Ehrlich comments "Is there an echo in here", she says "I don't know. Is there? Hello?"
252	* CreepyMortician: A mild case. Outgrows this after Season 2's end.
253	* ForgivenButNotForgotten: She does this with White after her anger cools at the end of season 2.
254	* PutOnABus: At the end of season 3, but only returns once for the episode ''E.R.'' at the end of season 4, spotted only by Chandler before she departs.
255	* RescueRomance: In her final episode in season 3 she falls in love with Kochar, who equally returns the feelings. Sadly things didn't last for them.
256	* TheReasonYouSuckSpeech: Gives a few to Peter White after he rapes her.
257	* TraumaCongaLine: After being raped, Martin is not quite as spacey; she suddenly switches her residency to psychology after her trauma leaves her unable to handle being in the morgue and stops dressing in black. After her second rape, it takes her awhile to recover while taking self-defense classes and she soon leaves St. Eligius altogether.
258	[[/folder]]
259
260	[[folder:Dr. John Steinbeck "Jack" Morrison]]
261	!!Actor: Creator/DavidMorse
262	Compassionate resident who often has trouble with trusting his own judgement and remaining objective about his patients.
263
264	!!Tropes:
265	* ButtMonkey: Very much so. Some of it IS [[LaserGuidedKarma pinpointed]], of course.
266	* DeadPersonConversation: In "Sweet Dreams", due to a visit in-dream with Peter White from beyond the grave, who confesses to Morrison that maybe he deserved to be killed.
267	* DesignatedVictim: Starting in season 2, something bad would usually happen to Morrison.
268	** Season 2: His wife Nina dies after slipping and hitting her head in the bathroom. He is cut from the residency program. Is only reinstated because a slot opened up after Wendy Armstrong's suicide.
269	** Season 3: Faces the end of his career over a WorthlessForeignDegree.
270	** Season 4: Injures himself while running to make rounds and slipping on vomit. Son Pete is kidnapped. Raped while doing a Westphall-mandated community outreach service in a local prison.
271	** Season 5: Suffers from PTSD as a result of his rape. His attacker escapes from prison and stalks his family. Son Pete inadvertently shoots his attacker dead.
272	** Season 6: Second wife Joanne moves back to Seattle after her first husband sues for custody following the death of Morrison's attacker.
273	* DumbButDiligent: One of the most dedicated residents in the program, and it is that dedication alone that gains him any favor with Westphall or Auschlander. Unfortunately, he's also not very knowledgeable or skilled, and frequently makes poor diagnoses. He does get better over time, though.
274	* HeroicBSOD: He suffers this as a result of the prison rape at the end of season 4.
275	* ItsPersonal: He immediately holds a grudge against Turner as a result of how she tears into him regarding a baby Chandler had cared for and decides to operate on the baby behind their backs. His earlier guess on the baby's appendix problems are proven correct.
276	* NotWantingKidsIsWeird: He feels this way in season 3 with his then-girlfriend when she doesn't want kids regardless of if he marries her or not.
277	* TheEmpath: It's a trait of his, which has both hindered but blessed him in the series... though it also doesn't make him well-liked by Chandler, Craig or Caldwell, as he does not espouse to their politics, either.
278	* TheHeart: He cares for his patients and their families. It's even lampshaded in season 2 how much he cares for people in particular.
279	* TheLostLenore: Nina. Much of Morrison's arc in season 2 is him dealing with her sudden death.
280	* ThoseTwoGuys: With Peter White in the first two seasons at times, up until White's death.
281	* TraumaCongaLine: And ''how''.
282	* WhatTheHellHero: He gets a pretty nasty one from Roxanne Turner in ''You Beta Your Life'' regarding a baby under Chandler's care, which he later reverses on Chandler himself after the baby's appendix had burst. Chandler is immediately crestfallen about the baby's status as a result.
283	* WorthlessForeignDegree: In the pilot episode, Morrison tells a patient that he had to go to medical school in Mexico because his grades were not good enough for American universities. In season 3, it is revealed that the school was a shady "accelerated" program that counted experience instead of giving a full medical training, and Morrison has to fight to keep his job.
284	* YouShouldHaveDiedInstead: Shirley Daniels directly says it in a way to him in ''Murder, She Wrote'' by saying she should've splattered him all over the sidewalk, [[HiddenDisdainReveal revealing her truly murderous grudge towards him]].
285	[[/folder]]
286
287	[[folder:Dr. Carol Novino]]
288	!!Actor: Cindy Pickett
289
290	!!Tropes:
291	* OfficeRomance: She and Westphall begin a romantic relationship while she is finishing med school. They continue to do so after she begins her residency at St. Eligius. Oddly enough, this conflict of interest is not what breaks them up. She later starts a forbidden romance with [[spoiler:married Dr. Morrison]].
292	* RememberTheNewGuy: She's introduced halfway through Season Four, but due to the fact that she was once a nurse at St. Eligius, plus a close friend of the Westphall family, she is treated by them, as well as Craig, Auschlander and Rosenthal, as if she's always been a core part of the cast. Somewhat understandable, as her absence from the first few seasons can be explained by her being away at med school, but she was never even mentioned at all by any of the Westphalls until she starts working at St. Eligius again, at which point it's made clear that she's considered an honorary member of Westphall's family. That being the case, it's odd she never would have visited them during her school career.
293	* UnequalPairing: She and Westphall begin dating shortly after she starts her final med school rotation at St. Eligius, and they continue seeing each other once she starts her residency. This is despite his being the director of the residency program and one of the senior administrators, meaning she's literally sleeping with the boss, which causes no small amount of jealousy and rumors among the other residents. This is to say nothing of the fact that there is an 18-year age difference between them. Ultimately none of this is what breaks them up.
294	[[/folder]]
295
296	[[folder:Nurse Lucy Papandrao]]
297	!!Actor: Jennifer Savidge
298
299	!!Tropes:
300	* AlphaBitch: Her attitude at first starts like this, endearing her to no one in particular.
301	* AscendedExtra: Goes from an uncredited BitCharacter in the pilot to a more prominent RecurringCharacter in season 3, then a PromotionToOpeningTitles in season 6.
302	* AtLeastIAdmitIt: Says it as much to Daniels when accused of "scabbing" to help Ehrlich, which only further enrages her.
303	* BitchSlap: She receives an '''epic''' one from Helen Rosenthal when she pushes her BerserkButton about her family problems too far in ''Watch the Skies''.
304	* ConflictKiller: She originally sues Rosenthal for the slap that resulted from her pushing Rosenthal's buttons, but later decides to kill the lawsuit, makes peace with Rosenthal and goes on vacation. Later on she and Helen get along once more near the end of season 4.
305	* DefrostingIceQueen: It begins in ''Sanctuary'' with her finally admitting her aloofness and tough attitude to Jackie Wade in confidence while [[TenderTears crying]], though it takes a drunken liaison with Victor Ehrlich in season 5 to result in a serious relationship and both are HappilyMarried by the end of the series.
306	* HatesEveryoneEqually: Always more than willing to denigrate the doctors if given an inch, as she's repeatedly done with Fiscus, Ehrlich, Morrison, Axelrod and even extending to Luther, Chandler, Craig, Caldwell and Auschlander... but is NOT above denigrating Shirley Daniels at one point and later Helen Rosenthal after her transfer back to her original post. She even overlaps this with NWordPrivileges at one point by calling every male doctor 'retarded' at one point.
307	* TheSnarkKnight: She gives as good as she gets if her heated interaction with Shirley Daniels for working a surgery Ehrlich needed her help on in the beginning of season 3 is any indication. Daniels' [[UnstoppableRage seething rage]] is barely contained as a result, accusing Papandrao of "scabbing" and betraying the nurses' trust.
308	[[/folder]]
309
310	[[folder:Dr. Michael Ridley]]
311	!! Actor: Creator/PaulSand
312
313	!!Tropes:
314	* DullSurprise: He's a rather flat character at times for a psychiatrist, as seen in season 2.
315	* TheShrink
316	* SuspiciouslySimilarSubstitute: Averted somewhat; while Ridley is a replacement for Dr. Beale, their demeanors are pretty different.
317	[[/folder]]
318
319	[[folder:Nurse Helen Rosenthal]]
320	!!Actor: Creator/ChristinaPickles
321
322	!!Tropes:
323	* BerserkButton: Do '''NOT''' mention her family problems. Lucy Papandrao learned this [[BitchSlap the hard way]].
324	* BigScrewedUpFamily: Five children from four different marriages, ranging from adulthood to preteen. The kids call each other by their last names and run roughshod over her.
325	* DrugsAreBad: After her breast implants are infected she learns of Bobby Caldwell's death in season 6, which combined with her family issues, she becomes addicted to prescription drugs and ends up in rehab thanks to her family's intervention.
326	* SerialSpouse: Already on husband number four at the beginning of the series. Her affair with Richard Clarendon doesn't end in marriage, but develops into a long-term cohabitation.
327	* TeamMom: For a majority of the series, she's the "mother" of the hospital compared to Westphall's "father".
328	[[/folder]]
329
330	[[folder:Dr. Ben Samuels]]
331	!!Actor: Creator/DavidBirney
332
333	!!Tropes:
334	* ChuckCunninghamSyndrome: While billed second only to Ed Flanders, his character becomes less prominent over the course of the first season. He is neither seen nor heard from again after the 20th episode of the season, and no explanation is given.
335	* OutlivingOnesOffspring: Early in the first season he drunkenly confesses to a stranger that his wife left him after their son shot himself to death after finding her gun, which she bought in a panic due to living in LA during the Manson murders. For some reason, she decided it was his fault.
336	* ReallyGetsAround: A subplot of the pilot episode involves Samuels telling all his sexual conquests that he's contracted a venereal disease.
337	[[/folder]]
338
339	[[folder:Dr. Roxanne Turner]]
340	!!Actor: Creator/AlfreWoodard
341
342	!!Tropes:
343	* TheBusCameBack: Repeatedly. She leaves the hospital midway through Season 4 as described below. She returns to St. Eligius at the end of Season 4 and stays until the end of Season 5, then for some reason declines to return for Season 6. But then she shows up at the end of the season, just in time to be Phil Chandler's date for the Doctor of the Year dinner and whisk him away to a better life.
344	* ButNowIMustGo: She leaves the hospital after hearing about her home town's dire need for a skilled doctor.
345	* DeepSouth
346	* PutOnABus: Twice. The first time, as mentioned above, has her later return to the hospital after finding a suitable doctor for her town. The second time is an unexplained unwillingness to return to St. Eligius after Ecumena reopens it.
347	* TookALevelInJerkass: Coupled with WhatTheHellHero, going off on Jack Morrison for getting involved with Chandler's assigned baby in ''You Beta Your Life''. Morrison [[ItsPersonal holds a grudge against her and Chandler]] by proxy as a result, [[TranquilFury icily answering Chandler when he asks about the baby's condition after the baby's appendix had burst]].
348	[[/folder]]
349
350	[[folder:Dr. Jacqueline Wade]]
351	!!Actor: Sagan Lewis
352	Mature and capable surgical resident from Lewiston, ME; a friendly rival to Dr. Ehrlich.
353
354	!!Tropes:
355	* AscendedExtra: Has one line in the pilot during a grand rounds scene, then becomes a RecurringCharacter later in the season. She gets her PromotionToOpeningTitles in season 6.
356	* DeadpanSnarker
357	* HugeGuyTinyGirl: Fellow residents Victor Ehrlich and Jack Morrison tower at least a foot over her.
358	* LikeBrotherAndSister: With both Jack Morrison and Wayne Fiscus throughout the series, with the feeling mutual on all sides.
359	* MarriedToTheJob: Wade's eleven-year marriage ends in season 5 as the long hours of her residency leave husband Robert to seek affection from a younger woman.
360	* PetTheDog: She holds onto Morrison's hands at the end of ''Cheek to Cheek'' in season 4 when Morrison undergoes serious SanitySlippage after his prison rape and return to St. Eligius.
361	* PluckyGirl
362	* ShorterMeansSmarter
363	* YouAreBetterThanYouThinkYouAre: Says it to Morrison in one point to the series and tells him to stop second-guessing himself in season 4. She also got this from Kiem in Kiem's first introductory episode in season 5 during a surgery she does with her, helping her to ease her own fears.
364	[[/folder]]
365
366	[[folder:Dr. Donald Westphall]]
367	!!Actor: Ed Flanders
368	Chief of Medicine of St. Eligius, widower and father of Elizabeth and Tommy.
369
370	!!Tropes::
371	* BenevolentBoss
372	* TheChainsOfCommanding: Seems to bear the weight of both his staff and patients, especially when his community outreach programs have disastrous consequences
373	* DarkAndTroubledPast: Survived an apartment fire that killed most of his family when he was six years old.
374	* EmptyNest: His arc in the second half of season 3 is about dealing with this after daughter Lizzie goes away to college and son Tommy is placed in a group home.
375	* AFatherToHisMen: He looks out for the residents under his wing and tries to help with their problems.
376	* TheFettered
377	* {{Mentor}}: To Dr. Jack Morrison in particular.
378	* ReasonableAuthorityFigure
379	* {{Southies}}: Westphall grew up in South Boston.
380	* TakeThisJobAndShoveIt: Following its takeover by an HMO, Westphal resigns from St. Eligius by [[{{Mooning}} dropping trou and telling new boss John Gideon "You can kiss my ass, pal".]]
381	* TranquilFury: After White is found not guilty of rape, Westphall makes him aware that he not only is disappointed in him, but now he has no respect and utter contempt for him as a human being.
382	** Craig gave him a very '''scathing''' taste of this after the events of ''Cheek to Cheek'' which infuriated Westphall enough to leave the room after Craig cited Morrison's prison rape as proof of his community outreach program failures.
383	* VerbalTic: Has a tendency to address people as "pal" or "lady".
384	[[/folder]]
385
386	[[folder:Dr. Simon Weiss]]
387	!!Actor: Philip Sterling
388
389	!!Tropes:
390	* TheShrink: The longest lasting psychiatrist character, although less prominent than Beale or Ridley.
391	[[/folder]]
392
393	[[folder:Dr. Peter White]]
394	!!Actor: Creator/TerenceKnox
395	A resident with trouble juggling his work and family responsibilities. He begins a long mental and emotional slide in season 1 that only gets worse as the show goes on.
396
397	!!Tropes:
398	* ArchEnemy: Wayne Fiscus was definitely one to him near the end. Saving Armstrong from his plot didn't help.
399	** He [[MustMakeAmends tries to make peace]] with Fiscus while he's on the other side, which mostly succeeds.
400	* DeadPersonConversation: He has one with Morrison from within his part of the other side, saying he saw Wendy Armstrong and Nina and reassures Morrison that he's doing his best as a person... but also mentions that maybe he deserved to be killed after refusing to answer him on who killed him, complete with JumpScare images of him in his ski masks.
401	** He later has one with Fiscus as well in Hell, which at first descends into a full-blown argument before he tosses him off his boat. Later on after Fiscus returns to his boat, they both reach a tentative peace between each other, but not before talking Fiscus into skiing and the resulting HeelFaceDoorSlam afterwards explodes White's boat, making White DeaderThanDead.
402	* DrJerk: Well before his slide into complete darkness, he is shown to have barely-controlled anger management issues, which he takes out on whoever is nearby; other doctors, support staff, patients and even his wife. He tries managing it with drugs and affairs. It doesn't work.
403	* DrugsAreBad
404	* FaceHeelTurn: Irredeemably so after [[spoiler: he begins raping women at the hospital, including fellow resident Cathy Martin and nearly raping both Wendy Armstrong and Annie Cavanero]].
405	* GoMadFromTheIsolation: His ultimate fate on the other side, which he laments to Fiscus on in ''After Life'' that he hasn't seen human contact in a long time there.
406	* KilledOffForReal
407	* LaserGuidedKarma: Coupled with AssholeVictim.
408	** [[spoiler:When Daniels guns him down in the morgue following his rape of several women, including Cathy Martin, her first shot is right in the crotch. "Goodbye, Peter."]]
409	* SanitySlippage: He undergoes this following the results of the hearing and being demoted to morgue duty.
410	* SmugSnake: After he is found not guilty of the [[spoiler:rapes, for which he is as guilty as sin]], he develops this attitude, basically acting as if he’s untouchable.
411	* ThoseTwoGuys: With Jack Morrison during the first two seasons before his death.
412	[[/folder]]
413
414	! Patients and Families
415	[[folder:Stephen [=McAllister=] ]]
416	!!Actor: Jack Bannon
417
418	!!Tropes:
419	[[/folder]]
420
421	[[folder:Ralph "The Birdman" Selover]]
422	!!Actor: Richard Marcus
423
424	!!Tropes:
425	* DeadPersonConversation: In the other side in ''After Life'' he initially appears downtrodden while talking with Fiscus in Purgatory, but then afterwards Fiscus's positivity inspires him to pilot a helicopter for the first time, finally earning his own happier ending in helping Fiscus talk to God.
426	* DitzyGenius
427	* DrivenToSuicide
428	* SanitySlippage
429	[[/folder]]
430
431	[[folder:John Doe #12]]
432	!!Actor: Creator/TomHulce
433
434	!!Tropes:
435	[[/folder]]
436
437	[[folder:Eve Leighton]]
438	!!Actor: Marian Mercer
439	Dr. Craig's heart transplant patient in early season 2.
440
441	!!Tropes:
442	* DeadPersonConversation: She's quite friendly to Fiscus in ''After Life'' and helps ease him to the afterlife while he's there.
443	* TooGoodForThisSinfulEarth
444	[[/folder]]
445
446	[[folder:Florence Hufnagel]]
447	!!Actor: Florence Halop
448	A frequent patient in season 3.
449
450	!!Tropes:
451	* JerkAss: Mrs. Hufnagel gets passed around from doctor to doctor because of this. Even kindly Dr. Westphall pawns her off on Dr. Craig.
452	* PetTheDog: She had a few moments like this with Axelrod, who, out of all the doctors she exasperated, did actually care for her.
453	* ScrewPolitenessImASenior
454	* ShoutOut: At one point, she mentioned she and her husband used to have a diner together, [[Music/FrankZappa Flo & Eddie's]].
455	[[/folder]]
456
457	[[folder:John Doe #6]]
458	!!Actor: Creator/OliverClark
459	Amnesiac patient in season 4 and 5.
460
461	!!Tropes:
462	* AmnesiacsAreInnocent: While he was obviously still very smart, he often exhibited the mentality of a child, deciding on a whim that he was Mary Richards of ''Series/TheMaryTylerMooreShow'' and those around him were Rhoda, Murray, Ted, Mr. Grant, etc., as well as his various hair-brained methods of discovering his identity.
463	* MistakenIdentity: In his first appearance, he's mistaken for a visiting doctor here to evaluate the residency program. He decides to go along with it, mainly because for all he knows he ''is'' a doctor, and hopes the charade will spur a memory. It doesn't, but he fakes it so well it fools Auschlander.
464	[[/folder]]
465
466	[[folder:Murray Robbin]]
467	!!Actor: Murray Rubin
468
469	!!Tropes
470	[[/folder]]
471
472
473	[[folder:Augusta Endicott]]
474	!!Actor: Dorothy [=McGuire=]
475
476	!!Tropes:
477	* {{Expy}}: For Rose Kennedy.
478	[[/folder]]
479
480	[[folder:Brett Johnson]]
481	!!Actor: Creator/KyleSecor
482
483	!!Tropes:
484	* StraightGay
485	[[/folder]]
486
487	[[folder:Andrew Reinhardt]]
488	!!Actor: Creator/TimRobbins
489
490	!!Tropes:
491
492	[[/folder]]
493
494	!Family and other outsiders
495	[[folder:Aunt Charisse]]
496	!!Actor: Louise Lasser
497	Dr. Ehrlich's aunt, who raised him after his parents died.
498
499	!!Tropes:
500	* CloudCuckooLander
501	* HardDrinkingPartyGirl
502	[[/folder]]
503
504	[[folder:Ellen Craig, nee Harper]]
505	!!Actor: Creator/BonnieBartlett
506
507	!!Tropes:
508	* HeroicBSOD: Has one when son Stephen dies in a car accident.
509	* {{Parental Substitute}}: Tends to be this to Dr. Ehrlich.
510	[[/folder]]
511
512
513	[[folder:Stephen Craig]]
514	!!Actor: Scott Paulin
515
516	!!Tropes:
517	* DrugsAreBad: Stephen's drug addiction causes friction with his father. His drug use is also a factor in [[spoiler: the car accident that kills him]].
518	* GenerationXerox: Following in his dad's footsteps by becoming a doctor.
519	[[/folder]]
520
521	[[folder:Elizabeth "Lizzie" Westphall]]
522	!!Actor: Dana Short
523
524	!!Tropes:
525	* BrattyTeenageDaughter: An aversion.
526	* TheCaretaker: She is this for her autistic brother Tommy, to the point where she feels guilty for going to Vassar and ends up transferring to a local school.
527	* DeadGuyJunior: Named for Dr. Westphall's mother, who died in a fire when he was young.
528	[[/folder]]
529
530	[[folder:Tommy Westphall]]
531	!!Actor: Creator/ChadAllen
532	Autistic son of Donald Westphall
533
534	!!Tropes:
535	* DeadGuyJunior: Named for Dr. Westphall's late father Thomas.
536	* HealingHands: On the receiving end of them from Fr. Joseph [=McCabe=] in ''Where There's Hope, There's Crosby''. They're enough to calm him into serenity.
537	* HollywoodAutism: On top of highly exaggerated versions of the best-known symptoms, Tommy shows signs of severe intellectual impairment, and appears to lack imagination outright. That is, until "The Last One" reveals [[spoiler:he spends whole days sitting and staring at a snowglobe while he daydreams the events of the show.]]
538	* HulkSpeak[=/=]ThirdPersonPerson: Due to his autism, he always refers to himself in the third person and in very simple, broken phrases. ("Tommy want cereal", "Tommy go now")
539	* OOCIsSeriousBusiness: He speaks to his father normally in ''You Beta Your Life'', with his father warmly hugging him and mentioning that he's cured. [[HarsherInHindsight The rest of his wording AND how he says he'll NEVER be alright should tell you volumes about that moment]]. [[DreamWeaver He then tells his father that it's a dream, to which we see his father still sleeping.]]
540	* RealityWarper: If you count his daydreams within ''The Last One'' AND his off-moment in ''You Beta Your Life'' as this with regards to the snowglobe, very much so. He is very much the DreamWeaver as well.
541	* WalkingSpoiler: Due to his role in the SeriesFinale "The Last One".
542	[[/folder]]
543
544	[[folder:Richard Clarendon]]
545	!!Actor: Herbert Edelman
546	Union negotiator who begins a relationship with Helen Rosenthal in season 3.
547
548	!!Tropes:
549	* NiceGuy
550	[[/folder]]
551
552	[[folder:Marcy Eisenberg]]
553	!!Actor: Creator/JeannieElias
554	Helen Rosenthal's eldest child.
555
556	!!Tropes:
557	* CallingTheOldManOut
558	* TheResenter
559	[[/folder]]
560
561	[[folder:Jeff Rosenthal]]
562	!!Actor: Ian Fried
563	Helen Rosenthal's youngest child.
564
565	!!Tropes:
566	* MouthyKid: At one point, he calls SantaClaus an "old fairy" to his face.
567	[[/folder]]
568
569	[[folder:Myra White]]
570	!!Actor: Karen Landry
571	Long-suffering wife of Dr. Peter White
572
573	!!Tropes:
574	[[/folder]]
575
576	[[folder:Nina Morrison]]
577	!!Actor: Deborah White
578
579	!!Tropes:
580	[[/folder]]
581
582	[[folder:Roberta Sloan]]
583	!!Actor: Jean Bruce Scott
584	Dr. Victor Ehrlich's first wife.
585
586	!!Tropes:
587	* ManicPixieDreamGirl
588	[[/folder]]
589
590	[[folder:Katherine Auschlander]]
591	!!Actor: Jane Wyatt
592
593	!!Tropes:
594	[[/folder]]
595
596	[[folder:Judge Farnham]]
597	!!Actor: Jack Dodson
598
599	!!Tropes:
600	* KilledOffForReal
601	[[/folder]]
602
603	[[folder:Alex Corey]]
604	!!Actor: Jeff Allin
605
606	!!Tropes:
607	* KilledOffForReal
608	* MadArtist

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