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Ophthalmology
"That'll be all, Jonathan."
The Ophthalmologist is very knowledgeable about anything related to the eyes, but not much else in medicine. Unlike many other doctors, he has great work-life balance and goes to great lengths to avoid working on weekends or holidays. He is almost always accompanied by his Loyal Scribe Jonathan.
- Bad Boss: At times to Jonathan. He makes Jonathan do various tasks that are way beyond the scope of an ophthalmologist's scribe (e.g. cooking dinner) and blames Jonathan for his own mistakes.
- Brilliant, but Lazy: He is a good doctor, but depends on Jonathan for an absurd
number of tasks, and will wait until Monday to see a patient no matter how dire the situation is. - Crazy-Prepared: He has a primary Jonathan and a backup Jonathan just in case.
- Genius Ditz: He has extensive knowledge about anything related to ocular medicine but has absurdly little knowledge about medicine that's not eye-related.
- He does not know that people have two lungs.
- He gets COVID because he doesn't know that a patient being on "airborne precautions" does not refer to a patient's upcoming air travel.
Ophthalmology residency Program Director: What what will be your top priority in your first five years as an ophthalmologist?Ophthalmology residency applicant: Forgetting 99% of what I learned in med school. - Is There a Doctor in the House?: Having forgotten virtually everything about medicine not directly concerned with the eyes, his greatest fear is being the only medical professional on an aircraft during an in-flight medical emergency.
Jonathan, the Ophthalmologist's Loyal Scribe
(nods)
The Ophthalmologist's scribe and batman, who does a truly absurd of work and is dubiously human.
- Characterization Marches On: The better work/life balance of ophthalmology (compared to the punishing hours of other parts of medicine) is initially attributed to Ophthalmology being waited on by a manservant, but as Jonathan's character grows he becomes more outlandish: he doesn't need to speak, he does paperwork impossibly quickly, he emits a feeling that "everything is going to be okay" even over the phone, he can't be kept out of a locked room, and he suddenly appears when Family Medicine loudly wishes someone could do his charting.
- Conflicting Loyalty: Jonathan is implied to be torn between his loyalty to the Ophthalmologist and his allegiance to the Jonathan Resistance (the goals of which have yet to be revealed, but their plans involve Visine). These divided loyalties apparently cause him some psychological distress.
- Hyper-Competent Sidekick: Not only does Jonathan handle the Ophthalmologist's administrative work, warm his chair, cook for him, and carry him around the clinic, Jonathan sometimes also takes over surgeries! He can also work as an emergency medicine physician, a post-operative orthopedist, and (reluctantly) a neurologist.
- Insistent Terminology: The loyal scribe. Jonathan gives the Psychiatrist a dark look for missing out that part.
- The Silent Bob: Jonathan never speaks, but communicates very effectively via head nods and facial expressions. This even works over the phone.Dr Glaucomflecken (on reddit): He used to (speak), but he eventually mastered the art of being seen but not heard. Now he has no need for the spoken word.
Neurology
The Neurologist handles all things brains, because his is the best.
- Berserk Button: Do not say "altered mental status," "unremarkable," or "nonfocal" anywhere in the hospital. And definitely don't use a stethoscope as a reflex hammer.
- Brains and Bondage: In addition to considering himself the smartest person in the hospital, he has an intellectual humiliation fetish (from other neurologists, at least).Neurology residency Program Director: There’s one more thing I need you to do: roast me.Neurology residency Applicant: Nah, it wouldn’t be fair, you’re no more than an 8 on the Glasgow Coma Scale.Neurology residency Program Director: Oh come on, my grandmother with Broca’s aphasia can insult me better than that.Neurology residency Applicant: What’s with all the dendrites you have on your head? You don’t have enough neurons so you needed to grow one for yourself?Neurology residency Program Director: MORE!
- The Bully: Insults everyone he interacts with and is especially cruel to med students and residents. Even Jonathan is afraid of him.
- Deadpan Snarker: Delivers strings of insults in a very deadpan fashion.
- Einstein Hair: Considers himself one of the most intelligent members of the cast, and his hair has comparatively more volume.
- Freudian Excuse: His dad is a neurologist, who openly sees him as inferior to his brother. Despite his brother being a cardiologist.
- Insufferable Genius: Never lets anyone forget how brilliant he believes himself to be.
- Pet the Dog: He uses his powers for good when he turns his insults on United Healthcare to get his patient the medication they need for multiple sclerosis.
- Powerful People Are Subs: He certainly regards himself as being on top of the physician pecking order, and bullies his subordinates relentlessly, but also has an intellectual humiliation fetish.
- Sibling Rivalry: Reveals himself to be Neurosurgery's brother, and that their rivalry goes back to childhood. (They also have a third brother, who's a cardiologist at a more prestigious hospital.)
- Skewed Priorities: Spends so much time thinking of ways to insult people that he falls behind on his clinical duties.
- Speak of the Devil: Shows up to chew out Bill for not being able to localize a lesion, despite being on vacation 2,000 miles away.
- Tasty Tears: His lunch includes "a large glass of med student tears;" he keeps a pitcher of them in his refrigerator.
Ortho
"What up, [speciality] bro?"
The Orthopedic Surgeon. Always enthusiastic jock who loves working on bones (except in the chest, mouth and foot which are "body medicine", dentistry, and podiatry, respectively.)
- Buffy Speak: His understanding of other fields come out this way, calling the kidneys Nephrology's "little bean buddies" and EKGs "danger squiggles".
- Genius Ditz: Like Ophthalmology, he is very knowledgeable about his field of medicine but not knowledgeable in other fields. He is, however, self-aware enough that he frequently tries to get Internal Medicine to admit his patients.
- Literal-Minded: The psychiatrist's metaphors go straight over his head.
- Lovable Jock: Ortho is a stereotypical jock: he loves weight lifting and exercise (though he's scared of Yoga), and calls everyone "bro". He is, however, a generally nice guy.
- The Nicknamer: Everyone gets called "______ Bro", even female doctors. Psychiatry is Feelings Bro, OB/GYN is Lady Bro, and so on. When he doesn't call someone "bro", it's a sign that he's lost respect for them.Hospital CEO: Ortho, you know the rules: you can't start using new technology without a thorough patient safety evaluation, unless it's guaranteed to make the hospital a tremendous amount of money.Ortho: Yeah, but it makes me super efficient, and I feel better.Hospital CEO: Do your feelings pay the hospital bonus, uh, bills?Ortho: You're not an Admin Bro, you're just an Admin!
- Parental Favoritism: Ortho is apparently guilty of this to some degree.Psychiatry: Who named their first child "Femur", and their second child, who they don't like quite as much, "Fibula"?noteOrtho: I did!
General Surgery
"I could die without this surgery!"
The General Surgeon finds surgery to be a calling, not a job.
- Bad Boss:
- Flips out at the Anaesthesiology resident for telling him they had to cancel a surgery. Learning how to give bad news to surgeons is apparently a key part of being an anaesthesiologist.
- "The Easy Going Surgeon" shows him repeatedly being rude to everyone on the surgical team.
- He can't be bothered to learn Anaesthesiology's name.
- Berserk Button: He loses his mind when told that a surgery needs to be cancelled or when he is told that he needs to wait to perform surgery while an OR is turned over.
- The Chain of Harm: How the pattern of overwork and bullying behavior in general surgery perpetuates itself.General Surgery residency Program Director: As a surgical resident, what would an ideal week look like for you?General Surgery residency Applicant: Working so many hours that I fall asleep standing up and have word finding difficulties, all while convincing myself that this is actually what it takes to be a surgeon.General Surgery residency Program Director: Where do you see yourself in 10 years?General Surgery residency Applicant: Perpetuating a malignant culture because I've successfully convinced myself that this is what it takes to be a surgeon.
- Glad I Thought of It: Goes through the five stages of grief at the thought of cancelling a surgery, but is perfectly fine with it if you can convince him it was his idea.
- Hair-Trigger Temper: In "The General Surgeon Goes to Therapy," Psychiatry tells him that he has an anger problem. This is shown in "The Easy Going Surgeon," where we see him snapping at the surgical team for not being able to make the OR cold enough for his liking, not having the surgical drapes that he likes, and turning up the music too loud after he told them to turn it up.
- Insufferable Genius: Calls himself "the most important person in the hospital" and says that he has the largest brain in medicine.
- Never My Fault: Blames everything that goes wrong on anesthesia.
- Pet the Dog: There are a few exceptions to his normally overbearing behavior:
- When he encounters a surgical resident who’s had a complication during surgery resulting in patient injury, and is suffering a deep crisis of confidence as a result, the surgical attending responds in an empathetic and constructive manner. That said, his first instinct was still to ask whether the complication was Anesthesia's fault.
- Pathology is just so darn nice that the surgeon can't help but respond in kind.
- When he encounters
- The Unapologetic: Never apologises for anything, because he is "the most important person in the hospital." His operating room colleagues are are shocked when he's says he's sorry for being late, having counted 4,456 days since his last the last apology. He immediately tries to deny that he apologized at all.
- Workaholic: Can't abide being outside the OR for too long; being a surgeon without surgery to perform makes him fall into an existential crisis.Surgeon: What am I meant to do now? Go home!? Where my family lives!?
Neurosurgery
Like the General Surgeon, but this surgeon specifically handles brains. The character is, in many ways, a more extreme version of General Surgeon.
- Bad Boss: Makes his residents live in the hospital and doesn't allow some of them to talk.
- Death Glare: Not the most intense variety, but meeting his direct gaze results in overwhelming imposter syndrome.
- Insufferable Genius: Psychiatry says that if he's not able to provide therapy sessions, then "Neurosurgery's ego will consume us all."
- Married to the Job: Sees his wife and child so rarely that he doesn't know what they look like, and has forgotten his wife's name.Neurosurgery residency Program Director: Are you married?Neurosurgery residency Applicant: For now.Neurosurgery residency Program Director: Do you have kids?Neurosurgery residency Applicant: I don't know, you'll have to ask my wife.
- No Social Skills: He's deeply lacking in interpersonal skills, since he devotes all his time and energy to his work.Psychiatry: Now, I brought you two here together to discuss your professional relationship.Neurosurgery: Our what?Psychiatry: Your relationship.Neurosurgery: [affectless stare]Psychiatry: The way in which two people form a connection with each other.Neurosurgery: [affectless stare]Psychiatry: You know what, never mind.
- Sibling Rivalry: Reveals himself to be Neurology's brother, and that their rivalry goes back to childhood. (They also have a third brother, who's a cardiologist at a more prestigious hospital.)
- The Un-Smile: His attempt at a smile could be mistaken for someone with a traumatic brain injury.
- Workaholic: So devoted to his job that he lives in the hospital and sleeps in the blanket warmer.
- When Psychiatry tells him he needs to go home, he replies, "Why would I do that? I don't have an operating room there...yet."
Anesthesia
"What is your greatest fear?"
"The drape falling down and everybody seeing how easy my job is 95% of the time."
"The drape falling down and everybody seeing how easy my job is 95% of the time."
Anesthesiology's main job is sitting in a comfortable chair behind a curtain, playing Sudoku, and being at the surgeon's beck and call.
- Butt-Monkey: General Surgery has yet to learn his name despite them working on many operations together, orders him to do petty tasks like raising the operating table a few inches, and blames him for everything that goes wrong in a surgery.
- The Gadfly: How he (sometimes) gets back at General Surgery.Psychiatry: Last week, at the end of a 10 hour case, you asked the General Surgeon how his work-life balance was going.Anesthesia: I was just trying to make small talk.Psychiatry: Anesthesia, you know Surgeons don't have work-life balance!Anesthesia: That's not my problem.
- Like an Old Married Couple: With Surgery. They even have couple's therapy together.
- O.O.C. Is Serious Business: If Anesthesia gets up from his chair during surgery, everyone else immediately assumes the patient is dying.
- Professional Slacker: Downplayed. He is just as good of a doctor as the others, with just as much training and expertise, and is absolutely indispensable for surgeries... but the majority of his job involves sitting in a chair and playing Sudoku or Candy Crush, as there is usually very little to do between putting the patient under and waking them back up. At one point, a prospective resident simply pretends to do the petty task the surgeon is asking for, knowing that it's more about appeasing Surgery's ego than actually doing anything.Anesthesia residency Program Director: What would an ideal work day look like for you?Anesthesia residency Program Applicant: 3 minutes of sheer panic followed by 8 hours of excruciating boredom.
Pediatrics
"Now, next item on the agenda: aren't kids amazing?"
Pediatrics is a cheerful fellow, who loves stickers and lollipops and, most of all, children.
- Berserk Button: General Surgery saying that pediatric medicine is easy prompts Pediatrics to appear and lecture him on how ridiculous that statement is.
- Everything Trying to Kill You: How he sees kids' birthday parties.
- Friend to All Children: Naturally.
- Humble Hero: Cheerfully does an extraordinary amount of work because of the joy he gets from working with his patients.
Emergency Medicine
"I'm so sorry I didn't call you sooner about this, I was busy doing chest compressions."
Staffs the emergency department, staving off burnout with adrenaline and caffeine.
- Blatant Lies:
- When talking with Jonathan on the phone about an emergency room patient with an eye problem:
Emergency Medicine: Yeah, we couldn't get a good eye exam, all our equipment is broken.Jonathan: [glares]Emergency Medicine: All right, you got me! I just don't know how to use any of it, and I'm not willing to try.- When talking to Ophthalmology on the phone about a different emergency room patient with an eye problem, Ophthalmology asks Emergency Medicine to look through the patient's chart, which Emergency Medicine agrees to do. He then plays a computer game for a few seconds before claiming that there was no relevant information in the patient's chart.
- Bread, Eggs, Milk, Squick: The three things he always carries with him are granola bars, ketamine, and overwhelming dread that he missed a potentially fatal diagnosis.
- Everything Trying to Kill You: Working in emergency medicine has given him this perspective on snow days.
- The Gadfly: Enjoys pushing Neurology's buttons.
- Must Have Caffeine: Always has a caffeinated beverage (usually Diet Coke, but sometimes Red Bull) on hand: he may have been born without a circadian rhythm, but still needs caffeine to cope with his strange shift schedule.
- Omniglot: Since he often needs to consult with other specialists, he speaks the languages of ortho, Jonathan, and (reluctantly) ophthalmology.
- O.O.C. Is Serious Business: When he drives somewhere rather than biking, it means that his level of burnout is seriously elevated.
- Stealth Hi/Bye: He can appear and disappear around the emergency department at will, in order to trap unwary doctors passing through the emergency department in a consult, or becoming Emergency staff.
- Thrill Seeker: Hollowed out by the relentless demands of emergency medicine, he does adrenaline-pumping sports to feel alive. He either bikes or rock climbs to work, and if his heart rate drops below 100, he burns out immediately.
Family Medicine
"Oh, yeah, sorry, I had a busy afternoon being the backbone of medicine."
Family Medicine is the backbone of medicine, perpetually overworked and underpaid.
- Butt-Monkey: is constantly expected to complete an impossible amount of work and is taken advantage of by his coworkers, who ask him to do things like complete their resiliency modules.
- Expressive Accessory: So busy that his clothes are dishevelled and his glasses are askew. On the occasions where he gets help, he's immediately straightened out.
- Perpetual Poverty: Family Medicine being underpaid and strapped for cash is a recurring theme, though he never runs out of money. This is due to presumably making six figures but having huge amounts of student loan debt and being paid less than other medical specialties.
Psychiatry
The hospital's mental health professional, whose patients are the other doctors.
- The Cobbler's Children Have No Shoes: Psychiatry gets so absorbed in helping his patients that he neglects his own mental health; he eventually resorts to giving himself therapy by talking with himself in a mirror.
- Hilariously Abusive Childhood: His parents really pushed him into becoming a psychiatrist.
- The Man in the Mirror Talks Back: How he gives himself therapy.
- Mirthless Laughter: His reaction when asked whether he has succeeded in improving his colleagues' mental health.
- My God, What Have I Done?: His reaction after he accidentally convinces Ortho that he can manage his patients' diabetes.
- Only Sane Man: To the others, keeping his colleagues' eccentricities under control and maintaining functioning relationships between rival specialties, but at the cost of his own mental health.
- Older Than They Look: Claims to have given therapy to Neurology when he (Neurology) didn't match into residency on his first attempt; when asked if that makes him (Psychiatry) 70 years old, he quickly ends the conversation, so it might be a case of Vague Age.
- Parental Substitute: Deliberately gives off a fatherly aura as a therapeutic tool (though not everyone is susceptible to it).Psychiatry: Do you speak in a fatherly tone to let people know that you're trustworthy, but also a little disappointed?
- The Shrink: Provides talk therapy to other doctors and med students, though we never see him prescribe medication.
- Straight Man: Mostly appears giving therapy to the other doctors, questioning them on or reacting to their behaviour.
Infectious Disease
- The Ace: Other doctors regard him with awe, and he’s the doctor they call in when they’re stumped by a patient’s disease. His nickname is “The Closer.”
- Cool Shades: Almost always seen wearing a pair.
- Crazy-Prepared: Always carries tweezers (for removing ticks) with him on hikes, and a dedicated hiking microscope to identify the species of tick.
- Everything Trying to Kill You: Says this verbatim about hiking in the woods.
- Shout-Out: To Dr. House: he’s able to make accurate diagnoses from limited data, is a font of esoteric knowledge about infectious diseases, and writes insanely detailed patient histories. Unlike Dr. House, though, he doesn’t condone breaking and entering, and isn't addicted to Vicodin (as far as we know).
OB/GYN
"They've never seen one of you before."
"A woman?"
"No, a gynecolo– actually, I don't know, maybe."
"A woman?"
"No, a gynecolo– actually, I don't know, maybe."
The only woman on the team. Tough, no-nonsense and completely unwilling to take anyone's crap.
- Iron Lady: One of the few people that can shut Surgery up.
- Women Are Wiser: Refuses to get involved in the petty conflicts between other specialties.
Radiology
"Answer correctly next time or you get the light."
Radiology perpetually lurks in the darkness of the imaging lab, though he does come out for faculty meetings.
- Cool and Unusual Punishment: Sending doctors who vex him to "the box," which is just a storage closet with the light left on.
- Dark Is Not Evil: He's just as passionate about medicine as the other doctors, he's just dark-adjusted.
- Glasses Pull: On occasion with his dark goggles. Of course, he has a second pair underneath the first pair.
- No Social Skills: He spends so much time alone that he forgets how to dress himself, resulting in him interviewing a potential resident while not wearing pants.
- Weakened by the Light: An exaggerated form of Day Hurts Dark-Adjusted Eyes: he's so sensitive to light that he wears sunscreen and two pairs of sunglasses indoors and punishes med students who answer his questions incorrectly by shining flashlights at them.
Rural Medicine
"Ha! That's Texaco Mike for you!"
A slightly jaded but deeply empathetic man, who spends a lot of his time convincing the people in his area that they need to come and see him.
- Frontier Doctor: Rural Medicine is a modern embodiment of the trope: the Town of [Unincorporated Land] may not technically be the frontier, but it's certainly remote and sparsely populated.
- Jack of All Trades: On top of having to master every field of medicine, he also is the town mayor (until he lost his re-election campaign to a goat) and mailman.
- Seen It All: Is completely unfazed by anything thrown at him by his patients.
- Super Doc: Out of necessity. When the nearest tertiary care hospital is 200 miles away and getting there requires a trip on Texaco Mike's fan-boat...
Texaco Mike
Rural Medicine's Jonathan. A wild man with a wide array of skills. Lives in and runs the local Texaco gas station.
- Almighty Janitor: Operates the local fanboat and the MRI machine, and also runs the local Texaco.
- Characterization Marches On: First appeared as a random guy who ran a Texaco and had somehow gotten hold of an MRI machine, to whom United Healthcare wanted to send one of General Surgery's patients. His status as Rural Medicine's Renaissance Man sidekick appeared a lot later.
- The Ghost: Often referred to, but never seen on screen (so far).
- Hypercompetent Sidekick: Can build a microscope out of a telescope, run a combination CT-MRI machine, drive a fan boat like no-one's business, mine iron ore from the vein that runs under the Texaco and turn it into suture needles, brew CT contrast solution in his spare time and apparently cook a mean Porterhouse steak when the MRI overheats.
Bartholomew Banks, Private Equity
The private equity investor who buys the hospital (and at least some of the physician practices), and is concerned solely with profit.
- At Least I Admit It: His perspective on only caring about profits.Bartholomew Banks: Health insurance companies don't care about you. They only care about one thing: making money.Anesthesia: Well, don't you only care about making money?Bartholomew Banks: Yeah, but at least we're honest about it.
- The Bad Guy Wins: Whenever he shows up, it's almost guaranteed he's going to get his way through exploiting other people's greed - the only one able to defeat him was Rural Medicine due to the rural hospital being just too unprofitable for his tastes.
- Briefcase Full of Money: How he bribes the hospital CEO into selling the hospital's emergency department, and ultimately the whole hospital, to him.
- Corrupt Corporate Executive: His only goal is making the hospital more profitable by brutally cutting expenses, so that he can then sell the hospital for even more money than he paid for it.
- Every Man Has His Price: His standard method of persuasion is bribery.
- Evil Cannot Comprehend Good: He can't understand why doctors are concerned about anything other than money.Bartholomew Banks: What is it with health care?Anesthesia: What do you mean?Bartholomew Banks: Everybody considering the needs of others when they make decisions.Anesthesia: It's kind of what we do here.Bartholomew Banks: Not if I can help it.
- Faux Affably Evil: When persuading doctors to sell their practices to him, he initially argues that he'll be able to negotiate more effectively with insurance companies for reimbursements. He always ultimately resorts to cold, hard cash to get his way, however.
- Good Hair, Evil Hair: Wears his hair slicked back, to go with his greed-focused persona.
- Ignored Epiphany: The result of his therapy session with Psychiatry.Bartholomew Banks: Huh- maybe I am a bit evil. Look at that: enlightenment. Nice therapy session, doc.
- Man of Wealth and Taste: Always dressed in a suit and tie, with slicked back hair.
- Obviously Evil: All the doctors who haven't been bribed clearly see that he's very bad news.
United Healthcare
United (top) and Jimothy (bottom)
An evil health insurance executive and his assistant, Jimothy, who is his Straight Man to point out the inherent corruption of for-profit healthcare.
- Arc Villain: In a sense, United Healthcare, along with other insurance companies and components of the healthcare system in America, are the overall antagonist of the "30 Days Of US Healthcare" series.
- Bland-Name Product: Averted. United Healthcare is a real health insurance company that has an actual history of denying coverage for flimsy reasons.
- Corrupt Corporate Executive: United is perfectly happy to let people die of treatable diseases so long as it makes the company profit.
- Deal with the Devil:
Word of God says that this how their medical review doctors are hired, which is why you shouldn't feel sorry for how they're treated.Dr. Glaucomflecken (in the comments): The captured physician is an unscrupulous individual who was promised untold riches in exchange for his soul. - Fourth Wall Greeting: The start of United's holiday message.United: Oh, hi! I didn't see you there! I was just making a generous donation to charities!
- Morally Ambiguous Doctorate: The doctors they hire for peer-to-peer review are exclusively this. Though "hire" is a strong word, as "How To Order A Medication" shows that they're kept locked in a closet until needed.United: We don't want Nobel prize winners encumbered by ethical standards! We want the opposite of that!
- Only in It for the Money: All United cares about is making sure that the "flesh-covered bags of money" (also known as "people") keep paying premiums and don't actually use their insurance, and will deny coverage for ridiculous reasons to avoid paying out.
- Paper-Thin Disguise: United's alter-ego, Optum the Pharmacy Benefit Managernote , is just him with a fake mustache on a stick. He even makes sure to tell Jimothy that he's really United Healthcare in disguise.
- Punchclock Villain: Jimothy has a conscience and clearly does not like what United is doing, but remains on their payroll.
- Screw the Rules, I Have Money!: United is allowed to get away with everything because, "When you make enough money, you get to write the laws."
Bill
A much-abused resident in the hospital, who is emblematic of the inhumane treatment of medical trainees.
- Butt-Monkey: Neither the attending physicians nor the hospital administration treat him with any respect or humanity.
- Cornered Rattlesnake: It's implied that if he's pushed just a little bit farther, he might snap and take out his anger on one of the attending physicians.Med Student: If you had to choose a doctor from any specialty to fight-Bill: The Cardiologist. I want to fight the Cardiologist.
- Cutting Back to Reality: His daydream about leaving the hospital and smelling the flowers.
- Empty Shell: The stress of residency, unrelenting work schedule, and abuse from senior physicians are making him feel like one.Hematology: Bill, what's your favorite (type of blood cell)?Bill: Uh, red blood cell.Hematology: Why?Bill: Well, it's empty inside, it does the same job until it's no longer useful to anybody, and I would describe my body type as a biconcave disc.
- Repetitive Name: Though he's (almost) only ever called Bill, his full name is Bill Bill.Dr. Glaucomflecken (in the comments): His full name is Bill Bill which is short for William William.
- Sad Clown: Bill making a med school student loan payment, and contemplating the remaining balance.
- Throw the Dog a Bone:
- Wham Episode: Bill actually [[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=fiJawvX04T graduates] from his residency
