History Main / DrJerk

* 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]].

* In ''Film/{{Saw}}'', the audience never directly sees much of Dr. Gordon's behavior at his workplace save for him not remembering a patient's name and being condescending to an orderly, but [[SerialKiller John Kramer]] took so much offense at his bedside manner that he arranged for him to be put in an elaborate life-or-death trap purely designed to torture him emotionally and physically for hours on end. Kramer also [[Film/SawVI describes him to his insurance agent]] as being cold and inattentive.

** ''House'' has an excellent DistaffCounterpart 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.]]

* An extreme example is "Fake Healer" from the Music/MetalChurch album ''Blessing in Disguise'' (1989). This doctor is least bothered about treating illnesses, and most bothered about earning big money. He'll lie to patients about terminal disease and take full advantage of their ignorance, to extract plenty of money. He's also open to leaving poor patients to die if they can't afford his services.

* The ''Film/DoctorSeries'' has Sir Lancelot Spratt, the head surgeon at St. Swithin's. He's a terrifying man and will rage at the medical students at the slightest agitation.

* 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.]]

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* On the softer side, Dr. Michel Cymes (often dubbed "The French Doctor House"), host of a health show on French TV, is never short of a snide remark, mainly at the expense of his co-host Dr. Marina Carrère d'Encausse (sometimes referred as his Lisa Cuddy).
* Ernesto "Ché" Guevara was originally a practicing doctor before turning revolutionary. His methods could be downright brutal, and bedside manner wasn't really his strong suit. Many people who knew him described him as humorless and mean. He was, however, considered to be a very proficient doctor.
* [[https://assets.documentcloud.org/documents/20497231/dod_ig-jackson.pdf A report from the Department of Defense Inspector General]] describes former Physician to the President [=RADM=] Ronny Jackson as bad-tempered, belittling subordinates with abusive language and behavior, and generally producing a hostile and unprofessional work environment.
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** Dr. Robert Romano. [[spoiler:Even though he died after [[DroppedABridgeOnHim a chopper crashed down 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.]]

** 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.]]

* ''Film/YourFriendsAndNeighbors'': Cary is a doctor, and shamelessly abuses his position of authority (such as pilfering some hospital letterheaded paper in order to send a letter to an ex falsely informing her that she has tested positive for HIV). Not to mention his admitting to [[spoiler:having gang-raped a classmate in high school]].

See also MorallyAmbiguousDoctorate and MadDoctor, when you have to question who in their right mind would give this person a license in the first place. See BattleaxeNurse, TriageTyrant, and OrderliesAreCreeps for this character's support staff.

** Probably the original trope namer, considering he purposely plays himself as a devil, but gets repeated PetTheDog moments, including how much he beats himself up for his mistakes, i.e. he treats his patients like crap, and manipulates them, but angsts over every single death. Plus, the {{Diabolus Ex Machina}}s that follow him...

** Subverted with Ryuuken Ishida. Introduced from Uryuu Ishida'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 Ishida's back, Ryuuken is much more gentle, protective and fatherly.

* 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/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.

** 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.

** 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.

* ''ComicBook/WonderWoman1987'': The Amazon surgeon Carrisa is short tempered, abrasive and rude, and is well known for her sharp tongue. She's an amazing surgeon though.

* Dr. Onimemo in ''Fanfic/TheEyesHaveIt'' 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).

* 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.
* ''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 and force-feeds him humble pie.
* Dr. Gillespie in the ''Film/DrKildare'' film series. Reduced to a wispy old man in a wheelchair from an accident (RealLifeWritesThePlot, there, as actor Lionel Barrymore was crippled and could only play stationary characters), he's become bitter and highly temperamental from not being able to act on his own. He "fires" his successor-to-be, Dr. Kildare, in a fit of pique with every movie, only to [[GeorgeJetsonJobSecurity re-hire him in a roundabout fashion.]]

* 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.

* Dr. Jed Hill in ''Film/{{Malice}}'' – essentially the defining trait of the character. He threatens other staff members with violence, and even delivers a literal AGodAmI speech in an important meeting with attorneys, when one would really expect him to tone it down.

* Dr James "Mossy" Lawn of ''Literature/{{Discworld}}'' has elements of this, especially in his first appearance in ''Literature/{{Night Watch|Discworld}}''. His deep cynicism comes, paradoxically, from the fact he seems to be the only doctor in Ankh-Morpork who ''cares'' if his patients get better, since the fee gets covered either way. Living under the regime of Lord Winder doesn't help; he's had to treat people questioned by the [[SecretPolice Cable Street Particulars]], and when Vimes takes a CSP officer to have a broken arm treated, Lawn offers instead to point out some sensitive places Vimes could kick him. He's mellowed out noticeably when he appears in ''Literature/GoingPostal'', probably at least partly because he's in charge of a large and well-equipped hospital offering free medical care to the indigent, funded by a very generous endowment from the Duke of Ankh.

* ''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.

* O'Mara, the chief psychologist at ''Literature/SectorGeneral'', is bad-tempered, cutting, and sarcastic to pretty much everyone he meets...except people he thinks are in actual need of his services, with whom he is quiet and considerate. The Dr. Jerk behavior is therefore sort of reassuring to the rest of the hospital staff, because they know that when he drops it, they're in serious trouble.

* Jayfeather, [=ThunderClan=] medicine cat from ''Literature/WarriorCats'' and terror of multiple generations of lazy apprentices. He wanted to be a warrior, but congenital blindness (and [=StarClan=]-gifted psychic abilities) prevented that. [[spoiler:Finding out [[VowOfCelibacy his mentor]] was also [[BastardAngst his mother]] didn't help. ]]He even at one point proclaims, "I'm a medicine cat. If you want sympathy, go to the nursery." He never gives up on a patient however, and legitimately cares for his Clan, making him also a JerkWithAHeartOfGold.
** Yellowfang is a rare female example, albeit for very good reason. You would be abrasive, too, if you had to give up a child, and watch from the sidelines as he grew up to be a mass murderer.

** Alex Lowe, the wife of Detective John Lowe in the fifth season ''Series/AmericanHorrorStoryHotel'', is snarky and removed from her patients, and has zero tolerance for parents who don't vaccinate their kids. While most people probably agree with her, she often ends up coming off as ice cold, judgmental and bitchy. Again, she's been through a lot.

* ''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. Martin Ellingham, a top Harley Street surgeon, develops [[AfraidOfBlood a fear of blood]], retrains as a local G.P and moves to Cornwall. He's a brilliant doctor, but he's also a sour, pompous and miserable git almost entirely lacking in charm and bedside manner. There's a minor RunningGag that Martin will accurately treat/diagnose people on the fly, but repeatedly fails to remember what their name was, even when he actually ''bothered'' to ask for it!

* 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/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/{{Emergency}}'': Dr. Morton. And there was a character of the week who made even him look nice. Dr. Brackett also comes off as a bit of a jerk at times, he's generally a nice person, but has a short temper.

** 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. She is also, from the outset, show to be an exceptionally skilled and talented doctor who is a FriendToAllChildren and, surprisingly, has an excellent bedside manner with patients of all ages. Unfortunately she [[TookALevelInJerkass takes a number of levels in jerkass]] as the series goes on.

** In "Ariel", Mal and Zoe met a Dr. Jerk while looking for the "payment" for Simon's Burglary-with-good-intentions. Of course under the circumstances he had reason to be jerky. He just didn't know it.

* 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/TheGoldenGirls'': One episode has Dorothy convinced there's something wrong with her. She goes to a doctor but he can't figure what's wrong with her specifically and brushes her off, writing her claims as "you're old and senile". After a visit to another doctor or two, it's revealed that she was right, something IS wrong and it's treatable[[note]]for the record, the diagnosis was [[http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmedhealth/PMH0002224/ Chronic Fatigue Syndrome]][[/note]]. As they're out to dinner to celebrate she runs into the first doctor again, and tells him off about not having compassion for his patients. Thank goodness SOMEONE on television had the brains to realize "doctor jerks aren't helpful". The doctor in question was played by the same actor who played Summer Sloane from ''Series/{{Cheers}}''. It's [[TypeCasting not the least bit surprising]] that he's so unsympathetic.

** 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.

** 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. It is even talked about in one episode that the hospital has their own budget for House alone due to how often the board thinks they will be sued due to House's personality.

* Dr. Bykov in the Russian show ''Interny'' ("Interns") is an {{Expy}} of Series/{{House}} and [[Series/{{Scrubs}} Cox]]. He's a complete jerk to his patients and interns, as well as his boss and best friend. He often punishes the interns for slightest offenses or even for no reason at all (this usually involves being given impromptu night shifts, especially if they have plans). Like House, he has a strenuous (sometimes romantic) relationship with his female boss, who only tolerates his antics because he does the job well. Also, for a bit of irony, Bykov is played by a priest, who took time off from the church to do the show. The newest intern, Polina Ulyanova, only got hired because she accidentally pissed off all the other major characters whom she attempted to vouch for her in front of Bykov. Bykov, in his true style, immediately hires her to annoy everyone else.

* ''Series/LittleHouseOnThePrairie'': In "To Run and Hide," this appies to Dr. Baker's temporary replacement, Dr. Asa Logan, a Philadelphia-born and university-trained physician, when Baker decided to give up medicine after a terminally ill patient died and couldn't take the harassment from Mrs. Olesen. Logan's ill-character quickly shows as he has little to less-than-zero empathy for his patients, demands immediate payment from his patients even when they can't afford the cost and keeps strict hours. It isn't long before the good doctor – after a pep talk by series protagonist Charles Ingalls – runs the asshole doctor out of Walnut Grove.
* 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.

** [[{{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.

* ''Series/MyLeftNut'': {{Downplayed|Trope}}. The doctor who sees Mick acts friendly to him, but it's obviously either uncaring or clueless to the obvious discomfort Mick has in being used as a guinea pig to his medical students. And when he seemingly acts supportive and respectful at the end of the exam, the moment Patricia and Mick leave his office, he calls a colleague to gossip about Mick's comical problem.

* ''Series/{{Oz}}'': Dr. Frederick Garvey, who takes charge of Oz's medical ward after Governor Devlin makes a deal that allows a private contractor to take over prison medical care. Garvey is an incompetent quack who doesn't give a damn about his patients and is perfectly fine with them dying so long as it's cheaper than actually helping them, and [[CantTakeCriticism refuses to take any sort of criticism, firing Dr. Nathan for questioning him.]] [[LaserGuidedKarma She wind up keeping her job because Garvey is caught up in a scandal after the media discovers he was a back-alley doctor who once killed a patient, and he's fired not to long afterwards.]]
* On ''Series/PersonOfInterest'' Sam Shaw was revealed to have once been a medical resident. She was an excellent technical doctor who went above and beyond to save her patients. However, she has a personality disorder that causes her to have very little empathy for strangers. This culminated in her eating an energy bar while notifying a family that their father had died. Her logic was that she was hungry and the manner in which she notified the family wouldn't have changed the fact that the man was dead. Others did not see it her way and her supervisor asked her to leave the program, since he did not feel that she could be trusted to always place her patients first. Shaw then became a top notch government assassin.

** 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.

* ''Series/SiliconValley'': Richard Hendricks' primary care doctor, played by Andy Daly, is cheerfully rude, condescending and otherwise upsetting to Richard during every visit.

* 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 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.

--->'''[[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!"''

** 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.

** 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]].

-->'''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.

* 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]].

* 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]].
* 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.

* Túsū Wine from ''VideoGame/TheTaleOfFood''; there's a reason he's nicknamed "Doctor Strange". As personification of a ritual medicinal wine and having studied under famed historical medic Huà Tuó, he's an undisputed expert in his field, but since he TookALevelInCynic way back, he's also a bitter, dismissive recluse who is as mean as he gets, even if he [[JerkWithAHeartOfGold ultimately means well and turns out to be helping in the end]].

* ''WebAnimation/KlayWorld'': Dr. Bob is a jerk even in his initial appearances, pushing over one of his patients and calling him a freak when he accidentally ran into him while choking, and proceeding to drink his Coca Cola before throwing it at his head for annoying him. He retires from doctoring in the finale, where he reveals [[spoiler: he killed most of his patients on purpose because it was funny.]]

* ''WesternAnimation/KingOfTheHill'': The episode "[[Recap/KingOfTheHillS13E1DiaBillIcShock Dia-Bill-Ic Shock]]" has Bill 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 nurse who is with him suggests nutritional counseling, but he brushes her off (assuming her advice to be of no value since he is a doctor and she is "only" a nurse) and assumes that there is no hope of Bill making the necessary changes to his lifestyle. 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.

* On the softer side, Dr. Michel Cymes (often dubbed "The French Doctor House"), host of a health show on French TV, is never short of a snide remark, mainly at the expense of his co-host, Dr. Marina Carrère d'Encausse (sometimes referred as his Lisa Cuddy).

* ''WesternAnimation/TheProudFamily'' zigzags this. Dr. Payne is mostly only a jerk towards Oscar Proud, though it's justified as [[{{Jerkass}} Oscar]] frequently provokes him and ignores his orders.

** 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. It is even talked about in one episode that the hospital has their own budget for House alone due to how often the board thinks they will be sued due to House's personality, it's under-budget.

** ''[[Film/{{Transformers}} Film]]'' Ratchet is basically the same as ''G1'' Ratchet, once even threatening to weld Jazz's vocal unit shut. Oddly, he fits definition one for this trope despite starting out as a politician [[AllThereInTheManual in the UK comic]].

* Dr. Potterswheel in ''WesternAnimation/MoralOrel'' who has a LackOfEmpathy.

* 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.

--->'''[[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!"''

* Seinosuke Yamada from ''LightNovel/BleachCantFearYourOwnWorld'' is a cynical man who claims healing patients who are begging for death is 'a bit of a hobby'. However, his jerkiness manifests as veiled mockery as opposed to insulting anyone directly.