History Main / KidnappedDoctor

* ''Manga/BlackJack'': Some mobsters force their way into the eponymous doctor's remote clinic and threaten to kill him unless he fixed their boss's gunshot-wound.
* ''Manga/BlueRamun'': PlayedStraight, {{Inverted}}, {{Downplayed}}, and ZigZagged all over the place in the span of [[Recap/BlueRamunChapter9 Chapter 9]]. A doctor with the fantasy equivalent of a revoked doctor's license kidnaps a terminally ill patient and another doctor with healing powers -- not to force the kidnapped doctor to treat the patient, but to kill the kidnapped doctor and harvest his body's innate healing powers for an experimental treatment. A third doctor with healing powers is led away from her practice under false pretense by the kidnapper, who intends to force ''her'' to kill the kidnapped doctor, brew up the experimental treatment, and test it on the terminally ill patient.
* ''Manga/{{Monster}}'': The protagonist is a doctor - a surgeon, at that - but he's also on the run from the law due to being framed as a serial killer. Thus, he sometimes wind up working as a Crime Doctor of sorts, including situations like these.

* In the Franchise/{{Batman}} comics, Dr Thomas Wayne (father of Bruce Wayne) was once kidnapped away from a masquerade party to treat the wounds of gangster Lew Moxon.

* In ''[[Fanfic/TheTouchOfGreenFire The Healer's Touch]]'', Ann and several other medical experts are kidnapped by a wealthy criminal who wants to lobotomize his son in order to harden his personality.
* In the ''Series/TheMusketeers'' fanfic ''[[https://www.fanfiction.net/s/13425388/1/Prisoner-of-War Prisoner of War]]'', Aramis is abducted by refugees who are in need of a medic. The twist is that they're not Spanish refugees - they're French. When Athos, Porthos and d'Artagnan eventually find him, he is not in a good way.
* Sinilar to the series, the ''{{Series/Firefly}}'' fic “[[https://m.fanfiction.net/s/5502176/1/ Freedom to the Free]]'' has Simon kidnapped because he’s a doctor. The area is crawling with slavers, but they only get interested in Simon when told his skill. Wash and Kaylee are brought along for their mechanical skills and River…ends up too dangerous to let out even though they bring her along.

[[folder:Film — Live-Action]]

* ''Film/{{Predators}}'' seems to do this with Edwin, who initially appears to be a hapless human doctor kidnapped by the Predators to act as medic for the assorted human killers and make the hunt more challenging. Except [[spoiler:he turns out to be a serial killer with a fondness for poisons - as well as a doctor]].
* ''Film/SawIII'': Jigsaw's apprentice kidnaps a doctor named Lynn and fits her with an ExplosiveLeash to force her to treat (and later perform cranial surgery on) the terminally ill cancer-ridden Jigsaw. [[spoiler:Which was just ''one'' reason for her kidnapping, as Lynn is also married to Jeff, Jigsaw's latest karmic victim, and he wanted to put Jeff through a SecretTestOfCharacter.]]

* ''Literature/HonorHarrington'': In ''Storm from the Shadows'', during the post-Battle of Monica standoff, Monican authorities demand Terekhov let them evacuate "ill" personnel from a space station. Terekhov suspects this is a bluff [[note]]and he's right[[/note]], but doesn't want to send a medical team to the station — even if the illness is real, the Monicans are certain to take the Manticoran doctors prisoner.
* The ''Literature/TheIndianInTheCupboard'' series has an unusual variant--the eponymous cupboard can bring plastic figures to life by transporting real people through time. When some of the people transported this way are injured, Omri uses the cupboard to animate a hospital nurse and a UsefulNotes/WorldWarI combat medic to treat their wounds.
* ''Franchise/StarWarsLegends'': In ''Literature/DarthBane'', Bane and Zannah each force a renowned healer, Caleb, to tend to Bane at various times with threats to his family. In Bane's case, he spares Caleb's life afterwards [[PragmaticVillainy expecting he may need the healer's services again]], but [[spoiler:Zannah kills Caleb as part of a ruse to make the Jedi think the Sith are finally gone for good]].
* ''Literature/TheExecutioner''. In ''Texas Storm'', Mack Bolan does a low key version where he intercepts a doctor in the hospital parking lot and walks him over to a van where he's got a DamselInDistress he found drugged in a Mafia hardsite. After examining the woman, the doctor goes back to work at the hospital without bothering to call the police.

* The ''Series/DiagnosisMurder'' episode "Murder on the Run" has Dr Mark Sloan being taken hostage by a convicted murderer who ended up in Community General Hospital following a prison transport crash. Mark later has to perform impromptu surgery on him when the broken rib he suffered during the crash punctures his lung.
* Once on ''Series/EarthFinalConflict'' Dr. Julianne Belman was kidnapped by a serial killer so she could modify his brain implant, allowing him to operate a Skrill, an alien parasite capable of discharging energy blasts.
* Inadvertently done on ''Series/{{ER}}'', when Carol is taken hostage during a convenience store robbery. The perpetrators don't know she's a nurse until she identifies herself in order to treat those who are injured. In a later episode, this is played completely straight when gang members kidnap Abby so that she can treat one of them.
* In an episode of ''Series/{{Firefly}}'', Simon, their doctor, is kidnapped by a village on a rural planet to tend their people and live there forever. He isn't very happy about it.

* In ''Series/{{Lost}}'', The Others kidnap Jack in hopes of getting him to operate on [[spoiler:a tumor in Ben's spine]].

* In ''Series/{{Sanctuary}}'', group of criminals kidnapped Dr. Will Zimmerman and forced him to treat their boss. [[NotThatKindOfDoctor Not a wise choice, by the way]]
* In an episode of ''Series/TerminatorTheSarahConnorChronicles'', Sarah kidnaps an ER physician after being shot in the leg. She quickly [[StockholmSyndrome wins over]] the doctor by making her think that she's fleeing an abusive man.
* ''Series/{{V 1983}}''. When Willy is injured, the humans have no idea how to treat him so kidnap a Visitor medical student. Fortunately he turns out to be a member of the [[LaResistance Fifth Column]] (which they had assumed had been purged) so is more sympathetic than they expected.
* This happened a few times in ''Franchise/StarTrek'':
** ''Series/DeepSpaceNine''. Played with when Dr Bashir is captured by a unit of Jem'Haddar soldiers who are entirely willing to execute him on the spot until he reveals that he's a doctor. Turns out these Jem'Haddar are renegades who are looking for a cure for the addictive substance that keeps them SlaveMooks.
** ''Series/StarTrekEnterprise''. The Klingons kidnap Dr Phlox to force him to work on their SuperSoldier program, [[MadScience which has run into a few setbacks]]. Because KlingonScientistsGetNoRespect their medical knowledge is not as advanced as that of other planets, but their own doctors can't just ''ask'' for help because the Warrior Caste would see it as being weak, dishonorable and exposing their vulnerabilities to their enemies. It doesn't appear to have occurred to the kidnappers that abducting someone at gunpoint and then giving them access to samples of what was ''supposed'' to be a BeneficialDisease but turned out to have dangerous side effects could backfire... [[spoiler:It backfires. Phlox succeeds in creating an effective treatment, then deliberately causes an outbreak of the disease among his captors and forces them to release him in return for telling them how he did it.]]
** In one episode of ''Series/StarTrekTheNextGeneration'', a terrorist organization has created a device, known as an inverter, which serves as an undetectable teleporter and allows them to sneak up on enemies, but also destroys their genetic code and has left several of their members bedridden. They kidnap Dr. Crusher so she can treat their sick, as well as use her as a bargaining chip.

* In ''VideoGame/{{Fallout 2}}'' Darion, the leader of a raider gang, had a vacationing medical doctor kidnapped in order to work on his heart condition. The man complies largely because this also allows him to provide assistance to the Vault 15 squatters.
* In ''VideoGame/FalloutNewVegas'', the Legion quest "Et Tumor, Brute?" is about finding some way to treat Caesar's brain tumor. Your options are to [[FetchQuest get some parts to repair]] an AutoDoc, perform surgery yourself (which will succeed with a high Medicine skill [[AchievementsInIgnorance or Luck score]]), or make Arcade Gannon--the player companion with the best medical skill, who despises the Legion--[[MadeASlave into Caesar's slave]]. [[spoiler:If you do the latter, Arcade is DrivenToSuicide in the epilogue.]]
* ''VideoGame/TraumaCenter'': In the second game, there's one chapter in which the Delphi terrorists kidnap Derek and Angie, forcing them to operate on one of their injured members. To make things harder, they're inside a moving truck and their only source of ilumination is a small flashlight.

* In the ''WesternAnimation/BatmanTheAnimatedSeries'' episode "Paging the Crime Doctor", Leslie Thompkins is kidnapped to perform an emergency surgery on Rupert Thorne.
* This has happened to Billy Quizboy in ''WesternAnimation/TheVentureBrothers'' more than once. He's a BackAlleyDoctor, and yet his patients still prefer to just grab him and go. It helps that he's basically travel-sized and can be easily carried around in a potato sack.

* In ''Series/{{Lost}}'', The Others kidnap Jack in hopes of getting him to operate on [[spoiler:a tumor in Ben's spine]].
* In ''Series/{{Sanctuary}}'', group of criminals kidnapped Dr. Will Zimmerman and forced him to treat their boss. [[NotThatKindOfDoctor Not a wise choice, by the way]]
* In an episode of ''Series/{{Firefly}}'', Simon, their doctor, is kidnapped by a village on a rural planet to tend their people and live there forever. He isn't very happy about it.
* ''Series/PrisonBreak'': After the "Fox River 8" escape the titular penitentiary, T-Bag gets his hand cut off when he cuffs himself to Michael. He later takes a veterinarian hostage to force him to stitch it back on despite the man's protests that he's trained to treat animals, not people. T-Bag kills him when he's finished anyway.
* In an episode of ''Series/TerminatorTheSarahConnorChronicles'', Sarah kidnaps an ER physician after being shot in the leg. She quickly [[StockholmSyndrome wins over]] the doctor by making her think that she's fleeing an abusive man.

* Veil from ''Series/IntoTheBadlands'' was kidnapped by the Widow and her Butterflies after she sustained a life-threatening injury after a duel with Sunny.
* ''Series/{{V 1983}}''. When Willy is injured, the humans have no idea how to treat him so kidnap a Visitor medical student. Fortunately he turns out to be a member of the [[LaResistance Fifth Column]] (which they had assumed had been purged) so is more sympathetic than they expected.
* Played with in ''Series/TheFugitive''. As the protagonist is a doctor on the run from the authorities, he sometimes encounters people who hold him against his will or threaten to turn him in unless he works for them as a BackAlleyDoctor.

* ''Series/DeepSpaceNine''. Played with when Dr Bashir is captured by a unit of Jem'Haddar soldiers who are entirely willing to execute him on the spot until he reveals that he's a doctor. Turns out these Jem'Haddar are renegades who are looking for a cure for the addictive substance that keeps them SlaveMooks.
* This happened a few times in ''Franchise/StarTrek'':
** In one episode of ''Series/StarTrekTheNextGeneration'', a terrorist organization has created a device, known as an inverter, which serves as an undetectable teleporter and allows them to sneak up on enemies, but also destroys their genetic code and has left several of their members bedridden. They kidnap Dr. Crusher so she can treat their sick, as well as use her as a bargaining chip.
** ''Series/StarTrekEnterprise''. The Klingons kidnap Dr Phlox to force him to work on their SuperSoldier program, [[MadScience which has run into a few setbacks]]. Because KlingonScientistsGetNoRespect their medical knowledge is not as advanced as that of other planets, but their own doctors can't just ''ask'' for help because the Warrior Caste would see it as being weak, dishonorable and exposing their vulnerabilities to their enemies. It doesn't appear to have occurred to the kidnappers that abducting someone at gunpoint and then giving them access to samples of what was ''supposed'' to be a BeneficialDisease but turned out to have dangerous side effects could backfire... [[spoiler:It backfires. Phlox succeeds in creating an effective treatment, then deliberately causes an outbreak of the disease among his captors and forces them to release him in return for telling them how he did it.]]

* ''Series/StarTrekEnterprise''. The Klingons kidnap Dr Phlox to force him to work on their SuperSoldier program, [[MadScience which has run into a few setbacks]]. Because KlingonScientistsGetNoRespect their medical knowledge is not as advanced as that of other planets, but their own doctors can't just ''ask'' for help because the Warrior Caste would see it as being weak, dishonorable and exposing their vulnerabilities to their enemies. It doesn't appear to have occurred to the kidnappers that abducting someone at gunpoint and then giving them access to samples of what was ''supposed'' to be a BeneficialDisease but turned out to have dangerous side effects could backfire... [[spoiler:It backfires. Phlox succeeds in creating an effective treatment, then deliberately causes an outbreak of the disease among his captors and forces them to release him in return for telling them how he did it.]]

* ''Film/Predators'' seems to do this with Edwin, who initially appears to be a hapless human doctor kidnapped by the Predators to act as medic for the assorted human killers and make the hunt more challenging. Except [[spoiler:he turns out to be a serial killer with a fondness for poisons - as well as a doctor]].

* The ''Series/DiagnosisMurder'' episode "Murder on the Run" has Dr Mark Sloan being taken hostage by a convicted murder who ended up in Community General Hospital following a prison transport crash. Mark later has to perform impromptu surgery on him when the broken rib he suffered during the crash punctures his lung.

* ''Manga/{{Monster}}'': The protagonist is a doctor - a surgeon, at that - but he's also on the run from the law due to being framed as a serial killer. Thus, he sometimes wind up working as a Crime Doctor of sorts, including situations like these.

* ''Series/{{V}}1983''. When Willy is injured, the humans have no idea how to treat him so kidnap a Visitor medical student. Fortunately he turns out to be a member of the [[LaResistance Fifth Column]] (which they had assumed had been purged) so is more sympathetic than they expected.

* ''Series/StarTrekEnterprise''. The Klingons kidnap Dr Phlox to force him to work on their SuperSoldier program, [[MadScience which has run into a few setbacks]]. Because KlingonScientistsGetNoRespect their medical knowledge is not as advanced as that of other planets, but their own doctors can't just ''ask'' for help because the Warrior Caste would see it as being weak, dishonorable and exposing their vulnerabilities to their enemies. It doesn't appear to have occurred to the kidnappers that abducting someone at gunpoint and then giving them access to samples of what was ''supposed'' to be a BeneficialDisease but turned out to have dangerous side effects could backfire... [[Spoilers: It backfires. Phlox succeeds in creating an effective treatment, then deliberately causes an outbreak of the disease among his captors and forces them to release him in return for telling them how he did it.]]

* ''Series/StarTrekEnterprise''. The Klingons kidnap Dr Phlox to force him to work on their SuperSoldier program, [[MadScience which has run into a few setbacks]]. Because KlingonScientistsGetNoRespect their medical knowledge is not as advanced as that of other planets, but their own doctors can't just ''ask'' for help because the Warrior Caste would see it as being weak, dishonorable and exposing their vulnerabilities to their enemies.