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6	[[caption-width-right:350:You may question his degree, but his bedside manner is second to none.]]
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8	->''"Wherever the art of medicine is loved, there is also love of humanity."''
9	-->-- '''[[TropeMakers Hippocrates]]'''
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11	An index of medical professionals. See also {{Indexitis}} and HealingAndCuringTropes for other tropes related to diseases and medicine.
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13	Not to be confused with tropes regarding [[Series/DoctorWho a certain Time Lord]].
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15	!!Tropes:
16	[[index]]
17	[floatboxright:
18	'''Related indexes:'''
19	+ HealingAndCuringTropes
20	+ HospitalTropes
21	+ MedicalHorror
22	+ MedicalTreatmentTropes
23	+ SurgeryIndex
24	+ TropesOnScienceAndUnscience
25	]
26	* AfraidOfDoctors: A character has an intense fear of doctors.
27	* {{Autodoc}}: Instead of a human treating you, it's a machine.
28	* BackAlleyDoctor: Illegitimate doctors who work in seedy conditions.
29	* BattleaxeNurse: The nurse is cruel, cold, and overall not very nurselike.
30	* CaretakingIsFeminine: Certain healthcare professions are thought to be the job of women.
31	* CandyStriper: Hospital volunteers who wear an iconic striped uniform while performing their duties.
32	* TheColoredCross: Doctors, nurses, and medical staff in media are given green or blue cross logos as shorthand,
33	* CombatMedic: Just because they're stuck behind the front lines healing people, it doesn't mean they can't fight.
34	* CourtPhysician: A private doctor assigned to a head of state.
35	* CreepyPhysical: A physical examination gets a little ''too'' physical.
36	* DeadlyDoctor: A capable fighter who has a medical motif.
37	* DepravedDentist: A dentist who takes advantage of the "appointment" to do some unsavory things to their poor, poor patient.
38	* DeterminedDoctor: Medical care must be rendered no matter what.
39	* DoctorsDisgracefulDemotion: A MadScientist lost their medical license for performing some horrible experiment.
40	* DoctorsOrders: The doctor has the last word on everything.
41	* DoctorVonTurncoat: A doctor or scientist switches sides in a conflict and avoids punishment because their expertise is considered too valuable.
42	* DrFeelgood: The doctor is giving out drugs to those who don't need them. Maybe because they don't care. Or maybe there's some money involved.
43	* DrJerk: Man, the doctor is so good at their job! If only they weren't a total {{Jerkass}}.
44	* DressedToHeal: The best way to tell if a character is a medical professional is to look at their clothes.
45	* FrontierDoctor: Caring for the sick and needy in the TheWildWest.
46	* HealerGod: The divine version of a healing specialist often with medicine as a domain.
47	* HospitalHottie: The medical personnel are as helpful as they are attractive.
48	* TheIntern: Not quite a doctor yet; this character is still in training.
49	* KidnappedDoctor: If you can't bring the person to the hospital, [[RussianReversal just bring the hospital to the person!]]
50	* KindlyVet: A character who is a veterinarian is also as kind as can be.
51	* LabcoatOfScienceAndMedicine: If the character is a worker in Science and/or Medicine, they ''must'' be wearing the white labcoat.
52	* LikeASurgeon: Characters who aren't surgeons act like they are, performing something that is not surgery.
53	* MadDoctor: The doctor just so happens to also be certifiably, AxCrazy ''insane''.
54	* MartialMedic: A medic who is just as skilled in healing bones as they are in breaking them.
55	* MDEnvy: If you're not a physician, you're not a ''real'' doctor.
56	* TheMedic: In a team, this character is the one whose main skill is tending to the injured.
57	* MedicineShow: There's no better way to sell your amazing new medicinal creation than to show it off!
58	* ObsceneOBGYN: A gynecologist or urologist who behaves unethically.
59	* OneDoseFitsAll: Any varying factors don't matter--anyone administered with a dose of the same medicine will get the same effect at the same time.
60	* OpenHeartDentistry: Sometimes, characters just make do with whatever medical professional they have, whether the situation is in their field or not.
61	* OrderliesAreCreeps: An orderly takes advantage of their position to do whatever they please, however unmoral it is.
62	* PlagueDoctor: This doctor has a creepy birdlike mask, dark clothes, and a focus on treating the bubonic plague.
63	* PlayingDoctor: Children are naturally curious about ''everything''. To satiate this curiosity, they "play doctor."
64	* PostTreatmentLollipop: Doctors reward good patients with candy.
65	* PsychoPsychologist: They put the "psycho" in "psychology".
66	* QuackDoctor: A "doctor" whose medical legitimacy is quite questionable.
67	* QuirkyDoctor: They are weird, but in a funny way.
68	* RoadsideSurgery: A proper hospital room isn't always available, so surgery must be done wherever is available.
69	* SchoolNurse: A school's resident medical professional. Is usually a HospitalHottie or a BattleaxeNurse with no middle ground.
70	* SelfSurgery: There's no one to do your surgery except yourself.
71	* ShootTheMedicFirst: The medics are the ones who heal the enemies back to strength. Ergo, they're primary targets.
72	* ShotToTheHeart: To keep the heart beating, it's stabbed with a syringe full of adrenaline.
73	* TheShrink: The psychologist can only be three things: good, bad, or "well-meaning".
74	* SuperDoc: This doctor has '''godlike''' skills.
75	* SurgeonsCanDoAutopsiesIfTheyWant: Medical practitioners carrying out procedures outside their area of expertise with no complications.
76	* TrojanAmbulance: Usually involves characters being disguised as paramedics.
77	* TurnYourHeadAndCough: The stock method to see if a male patient has a hernia.
78	* TriageTyrant: How bad the injury is doesn't matter to them as much as if they like or value the injured.
79	* VampireDoctor: A vampire or other monster who works in a profession their own dietary needs and compulsions make extremely difficult and unexpected.
80	* WitchDoctor: These guys are often practitioners of pre-modern traditional medicine.
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82	!!Tropes that have little to do with medical professionals, but still have them in the title:
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84	%% Do not include TheNthDoctor, the trope has nothing to do with doctors.
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86	* DrFakenstein: An {{Expy}} of Dr. Frankenstein with a name that isn't ''exact'', but very, very similar.
87	* DrFrankenstein: The titular public domain character of Frankenstein who is often a Doctor.
88	* DrGenericius: Names that end with "ius" are popular for doctor characters.
89	* HerrDoktor: The doctor also just so happens to be German/Austrian.
90	* ImADoctorNotAPlaceholder: A stock phrase for people who are asked to do something outside their field and are offended by it.
91	* ImNotADoctorButIPlayOneOnTV: Just because someone portrays a profession on television, it doesn't mean they're actually ''knowledgeable'' in that profession.
92	* IsThereADoctorInTheHouse: A stock phrase for when someone is injured in a public place full of other people.
93	* LikeASurgeon: Any situation other than a real surgery is treated like one.
94	* MorallyAmbiguousDoctorate: When the doctor chooses to use their medical skills to pursue their evil endeavors.
95	* NaughtyNurseOutfit: The short, tight, {{Fanservice}}-packed costume that no real nurse wears.
96	* NotThatKindOfDoctor: If you have the title of "doctor", you must be of the medical sort.
97	* TrustMeImAnX: A stock phrase used by one character to another to assure that they can trust what they're saying.
98	[[/index]]

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