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[[folder:Comic Books]]
->'''Henry Pym:''' What are you implying, you little witch? That I couldn't come up with that formula on my own?\\
'''Janet Van Dyne:''' Oh, you're such the polymath, aren't you? It's not enough that you're the cybertronics expert, but you have to be the world authority on super-genetics too, now, right? Well, let's see how many super soldiers you create which don't involve getting big, getting small or telling ants what to do through a helmet, jackass! Bruce Banner was twice the geneman you'll ever be and you know it, mister!
-->-- ''ComicBook/TheUltimates''
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[[folder:Fan Works]]
->''"Let me guess: [[ImADoctorNotAPlaceholder you're a doctor, not a doctor?]]"''
-->-- '''Captain Janeway''' to Dr. Zimmermann, ''Fanfic/RocketshipVoyager''
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[[folder:Film -- Animation]]
->'''Jim:''' Well, you've gotta help her!\\
'''Doppler:''' Dangit, Jim, I'm an astronomer, not a doctor! I mean, I am a doctor, but not that kind of doctor. I have a doctorate, it's not the same thing. You can't help people with a doctorate. You just sit there and you're useless!
-->-- ''WesternAnimation/TreasurePlanet''
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[[folder:Film -- Live-Action]]
->'''Buck Laughlin:''' Well, we're here with Dr. Theodore Millbank, President of the Mayflower Kennel Club, and Doctor, let me ask you something: I've got a little bursitis in my shoulder. Do you recommend heat or cold?\\
'''Dr. Millbank:''' I'm not that kind of doctor.\\
'''Buck Laughlin:''' ''[chuckling]'' I know that. ''[to the camera]'' I'm just kidding the doctor. He's not that kind of doctor, but he's got such a good sense of humor we like to have a few laughs.
-->-- ''Film/BestInShow''

->'''Karim:''' Who are you?\\
'''Dr. Fate:''' Call me Dr. Fate.\\
'''Karim:''' ''[has been shot and is bleeding out]'' How bad is it, Doc? Am I dying?\\
'''Dr. Fate:''' I'm not that kind of doctor.
-->-- ''Film/BlackAdam2022''

->'''Thor:''' Here! Take the wheel!\\
'''Bruce Banner:''' No! I don't know how to fly one one of these!\\
'''Thor:''' You're a scientist. Use one of your Ph.Ds!\\
'''Bruce:''' None of them are for ''flying alien spaceships!''
-->-- ''Film/ThorRagnarok''
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[[folder:Literature]]
->''"After I got my Ph.D., my mother took great relish in introducing me as, 'This is my son, he's a doctor but not the kind that helps people.'"''
-->-- '''Randy Pausch''', ''The Last Lecture''

->''Do you feel that people who insist upon referring to themselves as "doctor" simply because they hold Ph.D. degrees, which are about as rare as air molecules, tend to be self-important weenies?''
-->-- ''Literature/DaveBarrySleptHere'', Chapter Four, Discussion Question 3

->''"I do wish that you would all make a little more effort to recall that I may be called 'Doc' but that I know precious little about medicine. I am a doctor of science, and [[FishOutOfTemporalWater none of my science is of any avail here and now]]."''
-->-- ''''Doc' Theophilus Algernon Tanner''', ''Literature/{{Deathlands}}'', "Ice and Fire"
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[[folder:Live-Action TV]]
->''"My colleague is a doctor of medicine. I am a Doctor of many things."''
-->-- '''The Doctor''', ''Series/DoctorWho''

->'''Astrid:''' Oh, you're a doctor?\\
'''The Doctor:''' Well, not of any medical significance.\\
'''Astrid:''' Doctor of law? Philosophy?\\
'''The Doctor:''' Which law? Whose philosophy?
-->-- ''Series/DoctorWho'', "[[Recap/DoctorWhoS5E4TheEnemyOfTheWorld The Enemy of the World]]"

->'''Rita:''' What exactly happened to him?\\
'''The Doctor:''' [[HesDeadJim He died.]]\\
'''Rita:''' You are a ''medical'' doctor, aren't you? You haven't just got a degree in, I don't know, cheese-making or something.\\
'''The Doctor:''' No! Well, yes, [[OmnidisciplinaryScientist both, actually.]]
-->-- ''Series/DoctorWho'', "[[Recap/DoctorWhoS32E11TheGodComplex The God Complex]]"

->'''The Doctor:''' You're a medic, I'm the Doctor.\\
'''Mabli:''' A doctor of medicine?\\
'''The Doctor:''' Well, medicine, science, engineering, candyfloss, Franchise/{{Lego}}, philosophy, music, problems, people, hope. [[HopeBringer Mostly hope]].
-->-- ''Series/DoctorWho'', "[[Recap/DoctorWhoS37E5TheTsurangaConundrum The Tsuranga Conundrum]]"

->'''Aris Boch''': Dr. Jackson, if you don't mind treating my wound.\\
'''Dr. Jackson''': I'm an archaeologist.\\
'''Aris Boch''': I know, but you're also a doctor.\\
'''Dr. Jackson''': ...of ''archaeology''.
-->-- ''Series/StargateSG1''

->'''Police Officer:''' I'm sorry Mister Cooper but...\\
'''[[InsufferableGenius Dr. Sheldon Cooper]]:''' ''Doctor'' Cooper.\\
'''Police Officer:''' ''[to [[OnlySaneMan Leonard]]]'' Seriously?\\
'''Dr. Leonard Hofstader:''' Not the kind with access to drugs.
-->-- ''Series/TheBigBangTheory''

->'''Bobby Draper''': ''[to Dr. Calvet]'' Do you give out a lot of shots?\\
'''Dr. Emil Calvet''': Haha, I am not a medical doctor, I am a professor.\\
'''Don Draper''': When you have a high degree in any field, they call you a doctor. It's from the Middle Ages.\\
'''Emil''': That's right.
-->-- ''Series/MadMen'', "At the Codfish Ball"

->'''Amy''': I thought you were a doctor?\\
'''Rachel''': Ross actually has a [=PhD=].\\
'''Amy''': ''Ew.''
-->-- ''Series/{{Friends}}''

->'''Ross:''' ''[at a hospital]'' I'm Doctor Ross Geller.\\
'''Rachel:''' Ross, stop it. That actually means something here.
-->-- ''Series/{{Friends}}''

->'''Rory:''' You can fix me!\\
'''Dr. Stein:''' Me?\\
'''Rory:''' You're a doctor.\\
'''Dr. Stein:''' Of ''nuclear physics.''\\
''[later]''\\
'''Sara:''' What are you doing?\\
'''Dr. Stein:''' ''[about to cut open Rory's skull]'' Brain surgery! What does it look like?\\
''[=[=][[UnusuallyUninterestingSight Sara and Jax shrug and leave]]]''
-->-- ''Series/LegendsOfTomorrow''

->'''Dale:''' You do realize we're not... doctors.\\
'''Stacey:''' Well, not surgeons.\\
'''Catherine:''' You went to medical school.\\
'''Stacey:''' Yeah, in the nineties.
-->-- ''Series/Runaways2017''

->'''Maze:''' How do I keep this human from dying?\\
'''Linda:''' Take him to a hospital, that's how! How many times do I have to tell you I'm not that kind of doctor?
-->-- ''Series/Lucifer2016'', "[[Recap/Lucifer2016S03E03MrAndMrsMazikeenSmith Mr. & Mrs. Mazikeen Smith]]"
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[[folder:Video Games]]
->'''Dogen''': What do you think's wrong with my brain, Doctor?\\
'''Dr. Loboto''': How should I know? I'm a ''dentist''.
-->-- ''VideoGame/{{Psychonauts}}''

->''"I'm'' a ''doctor, not'' the ''doctor."''
-->-- '''Dr. Zev Cohen''', ''VideoGame/MassEffect1''

->''[ComicBook/DoctorOctopus crashes through the wall of the Daily Bugle newsroom]''\\
'''J. Jonah Jameson:''' [[ComicallyMissingThePoint Doc Octopus? You're a real doctor, right? Cause I have a pain right here... down there... oh, and that bit over there, wow!]]\\
'''Doctor Octopus:''' Your cheap health plan doesn't cover office visits. ''[Marches through office, trashing tables as he goes, punches through the wall and climbs out]''
-->-- ''VideoGame/LEGOMarvelSuperHeroes''

->''"Not the healing kind of doctor."''
-->-- The Villain Vault description for Dr. Krankcase, ''[[VideoGame/{{Skylanders}} Skylanders: Trap Team]]''
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[[folder:Webcomics]]
->''(In a flashback)''\\
'''Nameless Extra:''' I thought you were, like, a real doctor. Like in hospitals? I can't date a liar, so it's not gonna work out.\\
'''Li Yun:''' (a glaciologist) Liar? I have a Ph.D.--
-->-- ''Webcomic/BailinAndLiYun''

->'''[[MadScientist Dr. Schtein]]:''' Really? You're gonna go all med degree superiority on me right now? ...Besides, you're a dentist! You're slightly above a foot doctor on the scale of how much a doctorate impresses chicks. I'm a goddamn nuclear physicist.\\
'''[[BackAlleyDoctor Dr. Granger]]:''' Holy moley, so you're the guy who [[TheyCallMeMisterTibbs makes people call him ‘Doctor’]] outside of professional settings, huh?
-->-- ''Webcomic/StringTheory2009'', Chapter 9 [[https://www.stringtheorycomic.com/comic/chapter-9-page-3/ Pages 3-4]]

-> '''Laura:''' Alright, I've heard enough.\\
'''Jenny:''' Gosh, you're ''good'' at this. And I never even knew you ''had'' a psychiatry degree!\\
'''Laura:''' …Well. I have a ''[[ExactWords degree]]''.
-->-- ''Webcomic/JennyAndTheMultiverse'', Chapter 2, [[https://jennyandthemultiverse.thecomicseries.com/comics/13#content-start Page 1]]
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[[folder:Web Original]]
->''"Oh hell, is that guy dead? Dammit, I'm a doctor[[note]] of theoretical physics[[/note]] not a... normal doctor!"''
-->-- '''[[VideoGame/HalfLife Gordon Freeman]]''', ''WebVideo/FreemansMind''
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[[folder:Western Animation]]
->'''Fionna:''' Help her, Simon, you're a doctor!\\
'''Simon:''' I'm an antiquarian, damn it.
-->--''WesternAnimation/AdventureTimeFionnaAndCake'', "Destiny"

->''"I don't think he's the kind of doctor who'd say, 'Turn your head and cough!'"''
-->-- '''Spider-Man''', ''[[WesternAnimation/UltimateSpiderMan2012 Ultimate Spider-Man]]'', on Doctor Doom

->'''Dr. Burr''': Give me room, I'm a doctor!\\
'''Alfred''': Wait! Are you a medical doctor?\\
'''Dr. Burr''': I am tonight.
-->-- ''WesternAnimation/BewareTheBatman'', "Safe"

->'''Simpson Family''': [[PhraseCatcher AAAAAH! Sideshow Bob!]]\\
'''Sideshow Bob''': ''Doctor'' Sideshow Bob.\\
'''Homer''': Real Doctor or [=PhD=]?\\
'''Sideshow Bob''': ''[grumbles]'' [=PhD=].
-->-- ''WesternAnimation/TheSimpsons'', "[[Recap/TheSimpsonsS25E13TheManWhoGrewTooMuch The Man Who Grew Too Much]]"
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