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* ''Wiki/SCPFoundation'': One of the rare beneficial and benevolent [=SCPs=] found is SCP-2295, an autonomous teddy bear that can come to life and perform life-saving transplants by sewing together new organs out of nearby textile materials like cloth or yarn. The new organs work just like real human organs despite being made of fabrics and are never rejected by the patient. The one time they gave it a patient with brain hemorrhaging that even it couldn't save, it tried its hardest for about a minute in an increasingly panicked state before [[LetThemDieHappy producing a king-sized chocolate bar to give to the patient while cuddling them and crying until the patient died]].

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* Surprisingly common in table top role playing games, period, where Medicine is usually a single skill. Few games actually ask you to specialize like a real doctor would, and many that do simply provide you a bonus within your field rather than treat you as possibly inept outside of it. Examples:
** ''TabletopGame/DungeonsAndDragons'' has the fantasy variant, where the Heal skill treats everything. Magic outclasses mundane healings by orders of magnitude in utility, however. The D20 Star Wars variant added feats and the like for surgery.
** In the ''TabletopGame/WorldOfDarkness'', your Medicine skill functioned under the "bonus to your specialty" rule. ''TabletopGame/HunterTheReckoning'' had a gynecologist who was treating severe trauma. Somewhat justified, as all doctors have at least a little training in emergencies.
** In West End Games' ''TabletopGame/StarWars'' version, and WEG games in general, Medicine is a single skill.
** ''TabletopGame/UnknownArmies'' has an unusual variant where skills are not predefined. A small number of skills are used for universal abilities like Notice and Struggle. All other skills cover a wide aspect of what you are and do, such as a skill like Police Officer reflecting everything about being a police officer that isn't covered by the universal skills. Likely "Medicine" would be considered too vague; you would write in something like "Family Medicine Physician." You would use that skill for everything related to being such a physician, from practicing medicine to understanding paperwork and charts and insurance to figuring out which pharmacist might give you the compound you hope will keep the EldritchAbomination under your basement sedated without asking too many questions.
** ''TabletopGame/CallOfCthulhu'' has the 'Medicine is one skill' variant.
** ''Witch Hunter: The Invisible World'' has two foci for Heal skill, Medicine and Herbalism, with Medicine used to treat wounds and Herbalism to perform medicine. Don't ask.

* Trafalgar Law from ''Franchise/OnePiece'' is literally a miracle doctor as his Devil Fruit, the Op-Op Fruit, allows him to perform any kind of surgery that would otherwise be impossible for a regular surgeon. He has been shown treating poisoning, paralysis, dismemberment, and wounds ranging from bullet-sized to fist-sized in fatal areas.
** This is surprisingly {{Downplayed}} with the Straw Hats' own doctor, Tony Tony Chopper. While called on a few times to resolve esoteric injury/health problems, he usually has help from whatever specialist characters the Strawhats are meeting that arc, and is in general nowhere near as omnidisciplinary as [[SupremeChef Sanji]] is to cooking, or [[GadgeteerGenius Franky]] is to heavy construction. By default, he's treated as more of the TagalongKid than TheMedic.

* Simon ends up this on ''{{Series/Firefly}}''. He’s a FrontierDoctor InSpace with a crew of criminals. He’s mostly treating gunshot wounds and various caper-related injuries which are his specialty as a trauma surgeon. But he’s also doing psychiatry and neurology trying to get River on the right medicine to help her erratic brain. He also spent time treating sick settlers too, albeit against his will given he was kidnapped and forced into it.

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* Dr Julia Ogden in ''Series/MurdochMysteries'' appears to be on the way to becoming this. Initially introduced as a pathologist, she studies psychiatry in Season 5, and surgery in season 12. She can now assist her husband whether he needs a coroner, a profiler, or medical attention.

* Dr. Baldhead from ''VideoGame/GuiltyGear'', [[spoiler: better known as Faust,]] claims that he's nearly treated every disease under the sun, and is basically renown for his godlike powers of healing- until he goes insane as a result of [[spoiler:the Assassin's Guild (Zato-One in particular) killing one of his patients. Once he gets his sanity back (somewhat), he takes up the name Faust, covers his head in a paper bag, and [[TheAtoner tries to make up for the homicidal rampage he went on]] by putting his RealityWarper powers to use in the medical field once more]].

** This is surprisingly {{Downplayed}} with the Straw Hats' own doctor, Tony Tony Chopper. While called on a few times to resolve esoteric injury/health problems, he usually has help from whatever specialist characters the Strawhats are meeting that arc, and is in general nowhere near as omnidisciplinary [[SupremeChef Sanji]] is to food, or [[GadgeteerGenius Franky]] is to heavy construction. By default, he's treated as more of the TagalongKid than TheMedic.

* Dr. Baldhead from ''VideoGame/GuiltyGear'', [[spoiler: better known as Faust,]] claims that he's nearly treated every disease under the sun, and is basically renown for his godlike powers of healing- until he goes insane as a result of [[spoiler:the Assassin's Guild (Zato-One in particular) killing one of his patients]].

** Doctor Strange takes this trope even further than his canon counterpart, revelling in the fact that he actually ''is'' That Kind Of Doctor. He delivers babies (including Harry, [[spoiler: Hermione]], and Tony and Pepper's daughter in the sequel), brews up psychic tea to fix damage to [[spoiler: Clark's]] soul, whips up infertility cures, and simultaneously performs the magical equivalent of extremely complicated heart surgery on Sif while resuscitating Harry Dresden (who, [[spoiler: having used his Death Curse]], was technically ''dead''). This is somewhat justified; he was [[spoiler: Camelot's]] Court Physician long before he became Sorcerer Supreme, making him necessarily a very skilled general practitioner who used magic in his medicine, and his time-travelling skills and immortality mean that he's had the time to learn from the very best in every era of history.

* Comicbook/DoctorStrange is either this or ForgotAboutHisPowers when it comes to medicine. He [[NotThatKindOfDoctor was a surgeon]] whose career ended in the 1960s, but he's still been asked to do anything from give an injection to deliver babies. Given the fact he's a doctor with super powers, he's also a ''literal'' [[StealthPun Super Doc]].

* ''Manga/TeamMedicalDragon'' has Dr. Asada, a surgeon so quick and precise with his hands that he can perform operation procedures that would normally be impossible for other doctors to even attempt. Dr. Kirishima, his rival, states that even a surgical robot would take at least a decade to catch up with Asada's skills.

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* Veterinarians. While some of them specialize in certain species (for example, horses), many are trained to treat numerous different forms of life.

* Trafalgar Law from ''Franchise/OnePiece'' is literally a miracle doctor as his Devil Fruit, the Op-Op Fruit, allows him to perform any kind of surgery that would otherwise be impossible for a regular surgeon. He has been shown treating poisoning, paralysis, dismemberment and wounds ranging from bullet-sized to fist-sized in fatal areas.

* The third Dr Mid-Nite (Pieter Anton Cross) from ''Comicbook/JusticeSocietyOfAmerica'', the world's most prominent superhero doctor. As a top physician Cross is capable of all maner of various surgeries, including doing it in the dark. He is often called upon when an autopsy is needed or when a hero needs major surgery. Among Cross' notable achievements as a physician includes determining [[ComicBook/GreenLantern Alan Scott]] was composed of the green flame of the Starheart, giving ComicBook/PowerGirl her annual checkups as well as testing her powers, emergency surgery on Hourman, removal of the Brainiac virus from Oracle, the autopsy of Sue Dibny in ''ComicBook/IdentityCrisis'', and removing the sniper bullet that wounded Lois Lane in Umec. He is also called upon by other medical agencies, such as S.T.A.R. Labs, when emergencies or dilemmas appear.
* Dr. Curt Connors was the main go-to guy for any of ComicBook/SpiderMan's ailments or genetic mixups. When he isn't the Lizard at the time.
* Night Nurse[[note]]who actually has an MD, but acknowledges the codename is better[[/note]] provides emergency medical care for superheroes when they can't go anywhere else, and seems able to treat anything from minor injuries to operating on heroes with unbreakable skin.
* Comicbook/DoctorStrange is either this or ForgotAboutHisPowers when it comes to medicine. He [[NotThatKindOfDoctor was a surgeon]] whose career ended in the 1960s, but he's still been asked to do anything from give an injection to deliver babies. Given the fact he's a doctor with super powers, he's also a ''literal'' [[StealthPun Super Doc]].

* In ''Literature/{{Hurog}}'' averted with Oreg, who can heal wounds with magic, and has the necessary knowledge for treating wounds without using magic - but apparently he's helpless when it comes to psychological problems. He clearly is very fond of Ciarra, who is mute for what is likely psychosomatic reasons, but is never shown to have attempted to do anything about her muteness. Likewise, there's Ciarra's mother, whose brain is damaged by taking herbal drugs; that seems to be beyond Oreg's power, too. And that even though he is Really700YearsOld.

* James Nichols in the ''Literature/SixteenThirtyTwo'' series, but then again, he's a doctor of 2000 in the 17th century. His daughter, later in the series, earns almost as much of a "superdoc" reputation among downtime physicians.
** However, both of them (And every other uptime medical professional) frequently bemoan everything that they ''can't'' do; either because of lack of equipment or specialized skills. As an example, a violinist comes to James to see what can be done for his fingers-which were deliberately broken in a rival in such a way to make impossible for him to play. James is able to restore enough functionality for the fingers to at least be usable, but he's still unable to play. Afterwards he acknowledges that he knew an orthopedic surgeon back in Chicago who would have been able to completely fix them, but this is the best he can do.
* ''Literature/TheHungerGames'': Outside the poorer districts, medicine is far in advance of our own time.

* Any ''Franchise/StarTrek'' doctor -- ships' doctors, in space as at sea, have to be flexible to deal with whatever comes up far from help, but ''Trek'' doctors seem never even to struggle with the sheer breadth of medical issues facing them, only being troubled by completely new diseases and thought-impossible surgeries.
** "Bones" [=McCoy=] from ''Series/StarTrekTheOriginalSeries''. The example is when he successfully treated the Mother Horta, a silicon-based lifeform whose physiology is not only completely unfamiliar to [=McCoy=], but he didn't even believe such a lifeform even existed until that very moment.
--->'''[=McCoy=]:''' I'm a doctor, not a bricklayer!\\
'''Kirk:''' You're a healer, there's a patient. That's an order.
** Minorly subverted early on -- the second-ranking medical officer (Dr M'Benga) was indicated to be Bones' superior when it came to treating Vulcans, on account of having done his internship on Vulcan. Bones could still treat Vulcans, and do so well, but there were more than a few cases of Bones being surprised at some physical quirk of Vulcans. [=McCoy=] does however claim not to be a psychiatrist.
** Dr. Beverley Crusher from ''Series/StarTrekTheNextGeneration'' is a pathologist, physical therapist, internist, chemist, and general practitioner. She does have a larger medical staff than Bones did.
** Dr. Kathrine Pulaski, also from ''The Next Generation'', has the same skillset as Crusher.
** Dr. Julian Bashir from ''Series/StarTrekDeepSpaceNine''. He's actually such a standout doctor that he was once considered as a template for the next generation of Starfleet medical holograms. However, there are a few occasions where he runs up against a disease he ''can't'' cure in the allotted episode time and has to either find a backchannel method which was less than ethical[[note]]although in the case of the aphasia virus, ''Kira'' was the one who pulled an illegal act by abducting and exposing the virus' inventor to the disease[[/note]] or simply live with the consequences.
** "Doctor" (Emergency Medical Hologram) from ''Series/StarTrekVoyager'', with Kes or Paris as an occasional Nurse. The EMH kind of cheats here, as "he" is essentially a 24th century supercomputer integrated with a database of '''the ''entirety'' of Federation medical knowledge''', with holograms and forcefields used to provide a "body". Kes/Paris being used as a nurse/medic was more for when they couldn't bring the patient to the Doctor, as he was stuck in sickbay by his holographic nature (at least initially), there being no projectors elsewhere on the ship.
** Dr. Phlox (a rare non-human Super Doc) from ''Series/StarTrekEnterprise''. He claims to hold six degrees in interspecies veterinary medicine, as well as degrees in dentistry, hematology, botanical pharmacology, psychiatry, and other disciplines.
* Any ''[[Franchise/StargateVerse Stargate]]'' doctor.
** Dr. Janet Frasier (''Series/StargateSG1'')
** Dr. Carolyn Lam (''Series/StargateSG1'')
** Dr. Carson Beckett (''Series/StargateAtlantis'')
** Dr. Jennifer Keller (''Series/StargateAtlantis'')
* Jack from ''Series/{{Lost}}'' , as the series went on he went from applying first aid, to running a small pharmacy using drugs found on the plane, to performing amputations and blood transfusions in the jungle, with no medical equipment.

* Doubly impressive on ''Series/{{Farscape}}'' since Zhaan isn't a trained physician at all and Noranti's skills are... dubious, to say the least.
** And Joolushko, who was established as being essentially a med student, though granted from a race that seems to prize intellect and learning above all else. Then she apparently switches specialties to archaeology. . .

* Dr. Michaela Quinn in ''Series/DrQuinnMedicineWoman''. She was a general practiotioner, diagnostician, surgeon, gynaecologist, obstetrician, paediatrician, epidemiologist, ophthalmologist,... Justified as she was a FrontierDoctor and the only physician in the area. Among the most amazing things she did was sucessfully performing a brain surgery on a child (to be fair, she tried to get a specialist) and a complicated reconstructive plastic surgery. She was often shown studying books and preparing thoroughly for more complicated procedures.
* PlayedForLaughs with Brett Montgomery in the Quebec parody show Series/LeCoeurASesRaisons, who is called a gynecologist by everyone but is seen doing absolutely anything but gynecology, including first aid, open surgeries, psychiatry, and things that have nothing to do with health in the first place.

* Zig-zagged in ''Series/{{House}}''. The fact that House is a Super Doc is pretty much the show's ''premise,'' and he has a ridiculously vast and long-reaching understanding of different forms of medicine, both modern and historical. On the other hand, the entire reason House has a team (with their own sub-specialties) is to round out his knowledge and keep him from slipping up. Other doctors seen on the show are played more realistically, and specialists who are featured will stick to their field of medicine; Wilson for example is an oncologist and he's never seen treating anyone other than cancer patients.
* Dr Julia Ogden in ''Series/MurdochMysteries'' appears to be on the way to becoming this. Initially introduced as a pathologist, she studies psychiatry in season 5, and surgery in season 12. She can now assist her husband whether he needs a coroner, a profiler, or medical attention.

* ''TabletopGame/{{GURPS}}'' has Wildcard Skills (Skills that end with an exclamation mark, and cover everything their name could possibly cover), so it is possible to create a Super Doc with the "Medicine!" Wildcard Skill.

* Mordin-f**king-Solus from ''VideoGame/MassEffect2''. Cures a bio-engineered plague in a mob-controlled Wretched Hive while three factions of gangs battle it out and try to gun their way inside his clinic just for the spite of it. Later goes on to become a chief medical officer aboard the Normandy, helping Commander Shepard save the galaxy, rarely breaking any composure.
** Dr. Chakwas. Despite being an old woman, and the fact that humanity has only had thirty or so years' experience dealing with alien species, she knows how to treat just about any wound on any sort of species. Liara T'Soni (a 106-year-old asari scientist) is impressed at how much she knows about her species' physiology. She later proves how unflappable and determined she is by surviving the destruction of the original ''Normandy'', leaving the Alliance just to serve aboard the illegally-constructed second ''Normandy'', and pulling herself together after being abducted and almost liquified by the Collectors. She flat out tells you that she'll go through any sort of hell to serve at your side. How's that for UndyingLoyalty?

* Nurse Joy in any ''Franchise/{{Pokemon}}'' game, at least, from a Pokemon's point of view.
* The Medic from ''VideoGame/TeamFortress2'' has his medigun that can keep a fellow team member alive under heavy bullet rain at such a degree they'll die only via concentrated effort from the opposing team. The "Meet The Medic" video shows that if he has the peace and quiet and equipment for it, he can easily keep a patient conscious and talking without a ''heart''.

* Both a Super Doc and an even more literal "Super" Doc would be ''[[WebComic/TheAdventuresOfDrMcNinja Doctor McNinja]]'', who has a degree in almost literally everything (he spent his college years being in dozens of places at once through the power of cloning) and also has great experience treating the kind of medical problems for which there are no degrees (like a disease that turns people into Paul Bunyans or makes your ass turn into a spider at night). On top of that he fights crime and saves the world in his spare time.

* Similarly, Dr. Hartman from ''WesternAnimation/FamilyGuy''. He even performed a sex change operation.
* ''WesternAnimation/{{Rugrats}}'' -- Susie Carmichael's mom, Lucy, appears to be this, because aside from obstetrics (she delivered Dil Pickles) and pediatrics, she's also mentioned doing surgery (such as organ transplants). Dr. Carmichael is also the primary for Tommy Pickles' family.

* ''Manga/BlackJack'': The titular protagonist is a world renowed surgeon for his ability to perform treatment on virtually any species, from humans to whales to ''aliens''. While Black Jack expertizes in cardiovascular surgery, he is noted to be skilled in virtually all medical fields. He has been shown performing nigh-impossible operations, like giving a dog a human voice or turning a human into a bird with ''flyable'' wings.

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* Manga/BlackJack, from the manga of the same name.

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* Dr Curt Connors was the main go-to guy for any of ComicBook/SpiderMan's ailments or genetic mixups. When he wasn't the Lizard at the time.

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* Literature/{{Discworld}} series:

-->"If it takes an Igor to bring you back, you were dead. Briefly dead, it's true, which is why the murderer will be [[GallowsHumor briefly hanged]]."
* Madame Pomfrey from the ''Literature/HarryPotter'' series, although having access to magical remedies does help a lot.
** And her training is clearly meant to treat more minor (relatively) injuries. More serious cases get sent to a fully qualified hospital.

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* Any ''Franchise/StarTrek'' doctor--ships' doctors, in space as at sea, have to be flexible to deal with whatever comes up far from help, but ''Trek'' doctors seem never even to struggle with the sheer breadth of medical issues facing them, only being troubled by completely new diseases and thought-impossible surgeries.
** "Bones" [=McCoy=] from ''Series/StarTrekTheOriginalSeries''. The example is when he successfully treated the Mother Horta, a silicon based lifeform whose physiology is not only completely unfamiliar to [=McCoy=], but he didn't even believe such a lifeform even existed until that very moment.
--->'''[=McCoy=]:''' I'm a doctor, not a bricklayer!
--->'''Kirk:''' You're a healer, there's a patient. That's an order.
** Minorly subverted early on -- the second-ranking medical officer (Dr M'Benga) was indicated to be Bones' superior when it came to treating Vulcans, on account of having done his internship on Vulcan. Bones could still treat Vulcans, and do so well, but there were more than a few cases of Bones being surprised at some physical quirk of Vulcans.
** [=McCoy=] does however claim not to be a psychiatrist.
** Dr Beverley Crusher from ''Series/StarTrekTheNextGeneration'' is a pathologist, physical therapist, internist, chemist, and general practitioner. She does have a larger medical staff than Bones did.
** Dr Kathrine Pulaski, also from ''The Next Generation'', has the same skillset as Crusher.
** Dr Julian Bashir from ''Series/StarTrekDeepSpaceNine''. He's actually such a standout doctor that he was once considered as a template for the next generation of Starfleet medical holograms. However, there are a few occasions where he runs up against a disease he ''can't'' cure in the allotted episode time and has to either find a backchannel method which was less than ethical[[note]]although in the case of the aphasia virus, ''Kira'' was the one who pulled an illegal act by abducting and exposing the virus' inventor to the disease[[/note]] or simply live with the consequences.

** Dr Phlox (a rare non-human Super Doc) from ''Series/StarTrekEnterprise''. He claims to hold six degrees in interspecies veterinary medicine, as well as degrees in dentistry, hematology, botanical pharmacology, psychiatry, and other disciplines.

** Dr Janet Frasier (''Series/StargateSG1'')
** Dr Carolyn Lam (''Series/StargateSG1'')
** Dr Carson Beckett (''Series/StargateAtlantis'')
** Dr Jennifer Keller (''Series/StargateAtlantis'')

* ''Series/BabylonFive'': Dr. Stephen Franklin, a xeno''[[NotThatKindOfDoctor biologist]]'', can operate on any alien species, perform autopsies, dissect alien organisms, and is so efficient at medical research that he can engineer medicines to combat diseases he hadn't even heard about previously in a matter of days. He can also engineer electronic devices to interface with a telepath's mind to control telepaths up in ''orbit'' when most telepathy requires "line-of-sight".
** In one episode, however, when dealing with a disease that threatened to kill ALL the Markab people, he enlisted the help of a Markab friend, Doctor Lazarenn, who manages (before succumbing to the disease himself) to point Franklin in the right direction. However, when Dr. Franklin is ready to test his experimental vaccine, all the Markab in the station have died.
* Doubly impressive on ''Series/{{Farscape}}'' since Zhaan isn't a trained physician at all and Noranti's skills are...dubious, to say the least.

--> '''Brett:''' As you know, my formation as a gynecologist taught me to speak the language of dolphins.
--> '''Ashley:''' Yes, we all knew that.
* Zig-zagged in ''Series/{{House}}''. The fact that House is a SuperDoc is pretty much the show's ''premise,'' and he has a ridiculously vast and long-reaching understanding of different forms of medicine, both modern and historical. On the other hand, the entire reason House has a team (with their own sub-specialties) is to round out his knowledge and keep him from slipping up. Other doctors seen on the show are played more realistically, and specialists who are featured will stick to their field of medicine; Wilson for example is an oncologist and he's never seen treating anyone other than cancer patients.

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* Dr. Crusher in Roleplay/DinoAttackRPG is not only a qualified surgeon but also engineered a cure to neurotoxins after the XERRD fortress battle and helped develop a cure to deal with possession by [[EldritchAbomination The Maelstrom]].

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** ''TabletopGame/DungeonsAndDragons'' has the fantasy variant, where the Heal skill treats everything. Magic outclasses mundane healings by orders of magnitude in utility, however. The D20 StarWars variant added feats and the like for surgery.

** In West End Games' TabletopGame/StarWars version, and WEG games in general, Medicine is a single skill.

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* Dr. Baldhead from ''VideoGame/{{Guilty Gear}}'', [[spoiler: better known as Faust,]] claims that he's nearly treated every disease under the sun, and is basically renown for his godlike powers of healing- until he goes insane as a result of [[spoiler:the Assassin's Guild (Zato-One in particular) killing one of his patients]].

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* Dr. Hibbert from ''WesternAnimation/TheSimpsons'' is both a GP and a surgeon. Marge refers to him as a pediatrician at one point, but that hasn't stopped him from treating her and most of Springfield's adult population.

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** Within emergency medicine itself, UsefulNotes/{{Australia}} has developed a reputation for training the world's most skilled providers and punching far above its weight in contributions to the research literature. Of course, given the nature of practicing on a continent ''made'' of EverythingTryingToKillYou, this invokes a certain degree of HadToBeSharp.
* During the [[https://projects.dailynews.com/north-hollywood-shootout/ February 1997 North Hollywood bank shootout]], two police officers who were shot (one with a life-threatening injury) received emergency first-aid treatment from a dentist when they took shelter in his office, who manged to slow the bleeding and disinfect the wounds using only hydrogen peroxide and sterile gauze pads.

* ''Franchise/WonderWoman'': Epione seems to be capable of aiding the Amazons with any medical concerns they might have, acting as anything from surgeon to psychologist. She at least has the excuse of being several thousand years old and having been practicing medicine for most of her life to excuse her wide array of expertise.

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* Doctor Alexander Steubbing, a professor of biochemistry who is better known as "Lifeline", one of the heroes of the ''Roleplay/GlobalGuardiansPBEMUniverse'', is a literal SuperDoc. He has superpowers that allow him to heal injuries, cure diseases, and regenerate tissue at a touch (he can even raise the dead, assuming they haven't been dead for longer than a couple of hours or so, but he doesn't advertise that fact). The fact that he doesn't keep a secret identity and is called "Doctor Steubbing" in the press as often as he's called "Lifeline" has lead a lot of people to [[NotThatKindOfDoctor assume he is another kind of doctor]]...

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** Dr "Mossy" Lawn from ''Discworld/NightWatch''. And since he's the only ''good'' doctor around, he seems to go without sleep.
** Slightly subverted in the earlier ''Discworld/FeetOfClay''; due to a lack of ''any'' competent (or trustworthy) doctors in the city, the poisoned Patrician has to rely on horse doctor "Doughnut" Jimmy. When the mob owns most of the racehorses around, a vet has to get ''results''.
** In ''Discworld/UnseenAcademicals'', the surgical skills of {{The Igor}}s is such that there is a law in Ankh-Morpork that says: