Basic Trope: A doctor who can treat practically every kind of disease or health problem.
- Straight: Dr. Jones can treat patients with illness as minor as fever to performing complex surgeries such as neuroendoscopy.
- Exaggerated: Dr. Jones's healing abilities goes beyond normal human capabilities. He can regrow missing limbs and other body parts, cure sensory losses, do a complete physical reconstruction of an organism, and even revive the dead.
- Downplayed: Dr. Jones can serve as a GP, a general surgeon, a cardiologist and a neurosurgeon, but he wouldn't be called for trauma and orthopedic surgery due to his lack of expertise in those areas.
- Justified: Dr. Jones has The Gift of medicine, and his steady hands and keen understanding of the human anatomy allows him to perform operation procedures that even machines would struggle to keep up with.
- Inverted: Dr. Jones is a bumbling doctor who is Afraid of Blood and never gives a correct diagnosis for his patients no matter how obvious their symptoms are.
- Subverted: Dr. Jones normally is a heart surgeon, but is called to do an emergency brain surgery when no one else is available. Despite his best efforts, he fails the surgery and the patient dies.
- Double Subverted: Only because the patient is already a lost cause even before the surgery begins. Dr. Jones is just as skilled as the best neurosurgeon in the department.
- Parodied: Dr. Jones uses Meatgrinder Surgery to cure his patients, even when the procedures seem completely nonsensical (e.g. sawing off the patient's leg to cure fever). Somehow, all his patients come out of his room looking as good as new with no sign of the doctor's surgery.
- Zig Zagged: Dr. Jones's skill level fluctuates between "realistically competent" to "practically godlike" Depending on the Writer.
- Averted: Dr. Jones is a general practitioner who can do his job well, but will leave complex surgeries to the respective specialists.
- Enforced: The Team face numerous dangers that puts them in harm's way Once per Episode, but the series's writers don't want to have to create more than one medic to handle the various types of ailments and injuries that would normally require a different specialist and surgical team.
- Lampshaded: ???
- Invoked: Dr. Jones spends decades for his residency and training—far longer than normal—in order to expand his areas of expertise.
- Defied: When a nurse comes to Dr. Jones' office to ask him to help in a surgery with the Neurological team, he refuses, telling her that he's a cardiologist.
- Discussed: "Dr. Jones is the only doctor at our hospital. But don't worry, he can handle any disease."
- Conversed: ???
- Deconstructed: Dr. Jones still needs to work with a surgical team to complete a procedure and his less skilled colleagues are unable to keep up with his amazing pace. Their attempts to do so end up distracting him more than they help. As a result, Dr. Jones's operations kill more patients than they save due to his colleagues' errors, which they would not have made if they haven't been so busy rushing to catch up with what the good surgeon is doing.
- Reconstructed: Dr. Jones finds himself a better team that allows him to maximise his potential.
- Played For Laughs: Dr. Jones's amazing talents is matched only by his hilariously unprofessional conduct, such as wearing bloody lab coats and carrying around grotesque props to troll his patients and fellow doctors and nurses.
- Played For Drama: Dr. Jones polishes his skills by performing illegal procedures as a Back-Alley Doctor and has killed hundreds of patients in his "practice" operations. He wouldn't have been as good as he is in various surgeries if not for those deaths.
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