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Dr. Jerk

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Dr. Jerk	comment	He's a very skilled doctor, so dedicated to his job that he doesn't seem to have any other kind of life; but he appears to have little to no compassion, is often narcissistic, a maverick, rebuffs any friendly gesture, and speaks only in snide put-downs, excessively Brutal Honesty, or irritable complaints about how stupid human beings generally are. He spits in the face of the image of doctors as saintly humanitarians — but of course, he's so prevalent now that he's become a trope of his own. His attitude is often explained by the notion that, in order to become such a good physician, he's had to make a habit of treating people as machines and "never letting his feelings get in the way". In his worldview, it would be unthinkable to cut another human being open and tinker with their insides, so he forces himself to view others as if they're not people. (Despite this, he still admits It Never Gets Any Easier; he just suppresses it.) In many ways, he's often the ultimate Jerk with a Heart of Gold, since he often demonstrates that he really does care about people deep down by doing whatever it takes to save their lives. He's also probably genuinely good at medicine, leading people to grudgingly admit Jerkass Has a Point. This character's attitude towards patient care can go two different ways: Either he will do anything within his power to heal the sick, or else he's in hospital administration and would shovel the patients into a furnace if it saved money. Either way, he's abnormally prone to Pet the Dog moments, so watch out. See also Morally Ambiguous Doctorate and Mad Doctor, when you have to question who in their right mind would give this person a license in the first place. See Battleaxe Nurse, Triage Tyrant, and Orderlies are Creeps for this character's support staff. Compare Quirky Doctor, whose personality flaws are less malicious.
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Dr. Jerk / int_10ddd3d5	comment	The possibly prejudiced Dr. Borville in The Legend of Zelda: Twilight Princess. While he claims to be ignorant about Zora physiology, he doesn't seem to care at all about Ralis' critical condition, and he's not above stealing items from patients in order to pay off his astronomical bar tab. He largely gets away with his lack of bedside manners and exorbitant fees due to being the only doctor in town.
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Dr. Jerk / int_1133352a	comment	Dr. Silberman from the Terminator franchise, especially in Terminator 2: Judgment Day. He's not so much interested in helping Sarah Connor recover as he is in getting his "work" with Sarah published in medical journals.
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Dr. Jerk / int_1463a028	comment	The pediatrician Dr. Norris in one episode managed to out-jock the uber-jock Dr. Cox (although Cox gets him back.) He's played by Christopher Meloni, perhaps the only actor in the business who can convincingly intimidate John C. McGinley.
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Dr. Jerk / int_15c6ea92	comment	Wonder Woman (1987): The Amazon surgeon Carrisa is short-tempered, abrasive, and rude, and is well known for her sharp tongue. She's an amazing surgeon though.
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Dr. Jerk / int_1a99afb8	comment	In 50/50 (2011), the main character's doctor completely ignores him and dictates into a voice recorder, then unloads a bunch of medical jargon on him before offhandedly mentioning that he's got cancer.
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Dr. Jerk / int_1c1d7608	comment	Entirely inverted by Fran Madaraki of Franken Fran, who is the nicest, biggest Love Freak you'll ever meet, willing to forgo payment on operations... but given the nature of these operations, you might actually wish she was actively villainous.
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Dr. Jerk / int_1cc09117	comment	Bleach: 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 unknown reasons that loyal friend Isshin knows all about. Behind Ishida's back, Ryuuken is much more gentle, protective, and fatherly. Subverted with Tenjirou Kirinji. Introduced as having a violent, abusive, delinquent mentality, he's eventually revealed to be much more gentle with his servants, as he seems to put his tutees and patients through various kinds of Secret Test of Character.
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Dr. Jerk / int_1d699932	comment	Dr. Black Jack is parodied with Dr. Iwata in Excel♡Saga (complete with an x-shaped scar on his face, given to him by his cousin who he loves to exact horrible revenge at every opportunity he gets). Though he doesn't show up enough in the anime for his Jerkassery 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.
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Dr. Jerk / int_2170b9bf	comment	Dr. John Becker of Becker. He's a Jerk with a Heart of Gold, as he has stated the reason why his practice is in the crowded Bronx, is so he could provide medical care for people who normally wouldn't have access to it. Of course, because of that, a few of his patients are idiots... Personality-wise, Becker pretty much is House in a sitcom.
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Dr. Jerk / int_223e261f	comment	Dr. Ken is about a sitcom version of this trope and takes a significantly Lighter and Softer approach to exploring it. One episode had him going to a sensitivity seminar and discovering that while he's still rather prickly, there were doctors who were even worse.
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Dr. Jerk / int_2275c659	comment	House: Dr. Gregory House is the poster boy for this trope — or maybe even the 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 overqualified 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. House has an excellent Distaff Counterpart 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 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 fragments of his own cruel psyche. In fact, starting in Season 2, it becomes a running theme in the series that any doctor who spends too much time in House's orbit eventually becomes this. Much of Dr. Foreman's character arc involves trying to overcome his own House-like tendencies, to varying degrees of success:
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Dr. Jerk / int_22ae2327	comment	Dr. Ben from Louie invokes this, though he's more of a facetious asshole rather than a bitter one; for example, after giving a physical exam where he mentions he'd sooner remove the memory of Louie's penis over witnessing his fathers suicide, he phones him with the physical results:
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Dr. Jerk / int_22ffc0f8	comment	Riget: Swede Dr. Stig Helmer is a racist against Danes and borders on being a sociopath. KrogshÃ¸j after a Faceâ€“Heel Turn. The remake for US audiences, Kingdom Hospital, played Stig's counterpart, Stegman, as a massive, overbearing jerk as well — but did so more for laughs. Stegman never even comes close to poisoning Hook with tetradotoxin, and even his inevitable Villainous Breakdown becomes a lot funnier. Hook, the main protagonist, has his moments of jerkishness too — but he legitimately has a heart of gold.
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Dr. Jerk / int_2c022e46	comment	Harte from the Irish 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 atheism by posing 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.
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Dr. Jerk / int_2eab8d73	comment	My Left Nut: Downplayed. The doctor who sees Mick acts friendly to him, but he'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.
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Dr. Jerk / int_325cd081	comment	Pulsaciones At the beginning of the series, Ã�lex Puga acts as a complete jerkass towards his hospital co-workers, badmouthing Gloria for not promoting him when he's on his way out to a prestigious clinic.
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Dr. Jerk / int_32c541e6	comment	Dr. Knox from Fullmetal Alchemist. He's quite a good man, though a bit grumpy, and punches out Lan Fan and May Chang to prevent them from starting a fight, partly because of their injuries, partly to avoid them getting infected by his samples, and partly out of principle. But mostly to keep them from wrecking his house. Technically Knox isn't even a practicing doctor. Rather he's a PTSD ridden army medic turned coroner, who got roped into things because he was the only person with medical training who the heroes could trust. Which makes his poor bedside manner rather understandable.
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Dr. Jerk / int_3558eaa2	comment	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.
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Dr. Jerk / int_355bf9f2	comment	Your Friends & Neighbors: Cary is an absolute asshole, and it's treated as a twist midway through the film when it's revealed that he's a doctor. He 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). He also admits to having gang-raped a classmate in high school when asked about the best sex he's ever had.
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Dr. Jerk / int_379c9a85	comment	This trope is a daytime soap staple: David Hayward on All My Children, Chris Ramsey on Port Charles, Patrick Drake on General Hospital.
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Dr. Jerk / int_3b8c7015	comment	Ben Harmon, the troubled psychologist in the first season American Horror Story: Murder House, seems to have a cold demeanor with patients and even becomes irritated with a few. Though, considering all he's gone through, this is a bit excusable.
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Dr. Jerk / int_3e5de40b	comment	Scrubs: This is frequently played with. Dr. Kelso is the 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 having to deal with this every day. He also occasionally deliberately acts as the "asshole administrator", because 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. Dr. Perry Cox is an unsociable and snide locker-room jock who happens to be very courteous and professional underneath all the bluster. Ironically, when Kelso retires, Cox is selected as his replacement. He has to face the same decisions that Kelso did and relies on JD to take over his previous role as the guy who stands up to the chief of medicine to keep him on the straight and narrow. Though not really the case, Turk does receive this exact nickname from his interns (mostly because it rhymes). The pediatrician Dr. Norris in one episode managed to out-jock the uber-jock Dr. Cox (although Cox gets him back.) He's played by Christopher Meloni, perhaps the only actor in the business who can convincingly intimidate John C. McGinley.
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Dr. Jerk / int_40cd1746	comment	Monday Mornings features transplant surgeon Dr. Buck Tierney, who is abrasive, unpleasant, and extremely self-important, and neurosurgeon Dr. Sung Park, who always seems to be angry about something and is convinced that he can do no wrong.
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Dr. Jerk / int_4447019e	comment	The remake for US audiences, Kingdom Hospital, played Stig's counterpart, Stegman, as a massive, overbearing jerk as well — but did so more for laughs. Stegman never even comes close to poisoning Hook with tetradotoxin, and even his inevitable Villainous Breakdown becomes a lot funnier. Hook, the main protagonist, has his moments of jerkishness too — but he legitimately has a heart of gold.
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Dr. Jerk / int_455e3038	comment	King of the Hill: The episode "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, 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.
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Dr. Jerk / int_468bebb0	comment	Dr James "Mossy" Lawn of Discworld has elements of this, especially in his first appearance in Night Watch. 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 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 Going Postal, 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. According to Lawn, the Discworld version of Hippocrates is most famous for the quote "Am I going to get paid for this?"
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Dr. Jerk / int_4692527d	comment	Doctor Emil Behring in Charite is arrogant and socially conceited, treating people who are less intelligent and educated than him with contempt, Can't Take Criticism, and is unkind to his colleagues because he sees them as rivals. Nevertheless, he's a brilliant surgeon and immunologist whose scientific work results in a remedy for diphtheria, and he even puts his own health on the line to save a life. The follow-up season, CharitÃ© at War, gives us Doctor Ferdinand Sauerbruch, a renowned surgeon with a foul temper who's obnoxious, full of himself, and prone to belittling his students and yelling at his assistants. Also A Father to His Men, a Reasonable Authority Figure, and a Secret-Keeper for members of the resistance against the Nazi regime.
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Dr. Jerk / int_475972f0	comment	Dr. Allison Mann in Y: The Last Man spends much of her time either belittling Yorick or threatening his pet monkey with dire fates. When they finally part ways, Yorick's last request is to see her smile for the first time in four years; Mann's response is to break down in tears of frustration instead. She angrily denies that love is anything but a biological reaction, but is clearly desperate for love herself, eventually finding it with Australian spy Rose Copen.
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Dr. Jerk / int_486a1ca4	comment	American Horror Story: Ben Harmon, the troubled psychologist in the first season American Horror Story: Murder House, seems to have a cold demeanor with patients and even becomes irritated with a few. Though, considering all he's gone through, this is a bit excusable. Alex Lowe, the wife of Detective John Lowe in the fifth season American Horror Story: Hotel, 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.
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Dr. Jerk / int_492240cf	comment	MADtv (1995): Dr. Phil is parodied to be this in every sketch where he shows up (or just Oprah's lapdog if she's also present). His "advice" usually consists of insulting people or punching them in the face. Also, he's not really a doctor.
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Dr. Jerk / int_49ff762	comment	Dr. Owen Harper in Torchwood, though he mainly works with the corpses of aliens, and of victims of the paranormal so he has few patients to distress. He appeared to be soften a little in series 2. "Fragments" showed that prior to his fiancÃ©e's death, he was originally much less jerkish and got into medicine to save people and make the world a better place.
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Dr. Jerk / int_4b882a66	comment	St. Elsewhere: 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. Dr. Victor Ehrlich, sort of, at least in the early seasons of the show (which makes sense as he starts off as Craig's protege). However, Ehrlich's jerk-ish qualities are often more bumbling and wishy-washy than Craig's — he doesn't possess Craig's devastating, castrating wit, and while he's a gifted surgeon, Ehrlich doesn't have Craig's formidable breadth of experience and knowledge. Both characters softened somewhat as the series went on.
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Dr. Jerk / int_4c095a1f	comment	G1 Ratchet is portrayed in fanon as being similar to his later incarnations, as a talented doctor who was also grouchy, constantly threatening his patients with various punishments. The Marvel G1 version was actually supposed to be a party animal, who was known for making the best high-grade around. This aspect of his portrayal was dropped fairly early on, though.
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Dr. Jerk / int_4d1ba412	comment	The Adventures of Dr. McNinja: Dr. McNinja is normally a very good doctor, though he does occasionally punch out his patients. He hates diabetics (because he considers them overdemanding to the point of whininess), and on other occasions ignored his patients while possessed. In one story, when heading out to do plot instead of treating the patients who had appointments, he tells his patients, "There's a man outside who was murdered because he was a patient of mine," naturally causing all of his patients to hastily leave. Also, he is known to get very irate at anyone who questions his more outlandish diagnoses, such as the mother who was incredulous about "Paul Bunyan's Disease". Incredulous right up until her son transformed into a giant lumberjack.
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Dr. Jerk / int_4d8cfb70	comment	Alex Lowe, the wife of Detective John Lowe in the fifth season American Horror Story: Hotel, 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.
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Dr. Jerk / int_51bd3e35	comment	Dr. Simon Hill in Combat Hospital. He's really a Jerk with a Heart of Gold though.
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Dr. Jerk / int_5293b208	comment	Kamen Rider Ex-Aid: Aside from Ex-Aid himself, every other Rider among the core cast qualifies at the start of the show due to various personal traumas. Kagami Hiiro/Kamen Rider Brave is a genius surgeon, but stoic and contemptuous of others due to being in mourning over the death of his girlfriend. Hanaya Taiga/Kamen Rider Snipe was just as much of a genius radiologist before he was framed for malpractice and banned from practicing medicine, leading him to become a selfish, bitter mercenary as a way of trying to keep anyone else from suffering the same fate. Kujo Kiriya/Kamen Rider Lazer is a coroner and Manipulative Bastard who habitually lies after being honest about a friend's condition caused them to commit suicide. All of them get better over the course of the show as their traumas are addressed, and dial back their mannerisms to healthier levels.
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Dr. Jerk / int_52c6e73a	comment	Sensation Comics: Dr. Pat tends to be fairly brusque and cuts people off if she feels they're wasting her time, but overall she's usually kind. Dr. Stanton on the other hand is an outright jerk, even when he's mellowed out a bit after getting back together with his eventual fiance Mona Blue.
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Dr. Jerk / int_54277b38	comment	Doc Cochran in Deadwood is an alcoholic, partially shell-shocked Frontier Doctor who is as abrasive as he is intelligent. His conduct so alienates Alma Garret that he must beg her to accept his help in spite of his "defects of character" when her life is at risk.
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Dr. Jerk / int_570e6a95	comment	Fetch Quest: Saga of the Twelve Artifacts: Dr. Lindsay Troy crosses this with Jerk with a Heart of Gold; she is perpetually ill-tempered and shockingly efficient, yet she knows just what the purpose of a doctor is.
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Dr. Jerk / int_5ce3fc86	comment	Soul Eater has Doctor Franken Stein, who is not only the school surgeon, but also the biology teacher and combat instructor. He is a complete sociopath due to having an insane wavelength, and upon meeting his apprentice Maka, he tried to dissect her. Justified in that he was trying to show his students that they needed to work together, and no one was actually harmed, but as the series progresses his advances towards Maka's (and his other students') organs become more sincere. He also tends to bash his patients for their carelessness.
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Dr. Jerk / int_60f02ddb	comment	The episode "Roger 'n' Me" from American Dad! introduces Dr. Gupta. Upon meeting Stan, she immediately (and without any provocation) assumes he is stunned that a top brain surgeon is a woman, that she is incompetent and that Stan is only interested in her sexually. She then flashes him her bare chest (again without provocation) in order to allow them to "move on." Later, she enters Francine's hospital room and again makes the unfair assumption Stan holds sexist prejudices against her.
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Dr. Jerk / int_6276800c	comment	A few doctors pop up in The Nostalgia Critic's show to treat him when he's sick or wants to kill himself, but they always end up forcing him to keep going with the review.
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Dr. Jerk / int_6401889e	comment	Dr. Stanley in The Terror. Compared to much kinder and friendlier Dr. Macdonald and Mr. Goodsir, Stanley is downright cruel. He berates and mocks a dying teenager, brushes off Mr. Collins' concerns about his mental state, and refuses to help an Inuit man with a chest wound due to racism. It's not known if the real Stephan Stanley was this much of a Jerkass.
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Dr. Jerk / int_68ff28c8	comment	Dr. Kaufmann in Silent Hill. Serving as a supplier for a drug dealing cult that sacrifices children to their dark goddess probably puts him far enough across the Moral Event Horizon for him to be quite a bit more evil than a typical Dr. Jerk. Dr. Kaufmann in Silent Hill: Shattered Memories fits this trope much better. He's an abrasive, condescending, manipulative therapist who is nonetheless trying to help the patient.
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Dr. Jerk / int_6c1d09b3	comment	The prevalence of this in Fallout 3's medical doctors adds a subtle challenge element to the game, in that the player will more than likely only resort to talking to them when they really, really need their help. Doc Church in Megaton is the Player's first taste as being overworked and underappreciated (and having a few skeletons in his closet) has made him pissy. The Mister Gutsy Sawbones in the Pentagon is one of the last as while he does know how to perform surgery he doesn't know how to do surgery (at least without doing harm). He also likes and wants to hurt humans but behavior limiters prevent him from purposefully hurting people if they aren't deemed a threat. He and his personality are based on the EMH Mk I from Star Trek: Voyager, including his penchant for poetry.
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Dr. Jerk / int_6f6971b5	comment	O'Mara, the chief psychologist at Sector General, 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.
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Dr. Jerk / int_72e68fc6	comment	Pierce Nichody, the culprit of the DLC case in Spirit of Justice counts as well. After he's outed as the culprit and a surgeon, he compares the attorney, the judge, and the prosecutor to malignant cancerous tumors. However, unlike the above two, this one's assholery doesn't extend to their actual medical practice, having only fallen into villainy after leaving the field. He only reassumes his doctor persona during a mental breakdown.
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Dr. Jerk / int_73b1d3f	comment	Dr. Jeffrey Geiger in Chicago Hope. Well, pretty much everyone on Chicago Hope, to some degree or another.
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Dr. Jerk / int_73d7930f	comment	Even Star Trek: Deep Space Nine had the early Julian Bashir, though he was less mean and more completely tactless, calling Bajor 'the frontier' and 'wilderness' right to the face of the Bajoran who would be second in command of the station and didn't like the Federation being there. This was the first time they met. He gets better though.
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Dr. Jerk / int_75149ccd	comment	Ton Phanan of the X-Wing Series is this, sort of, by the time we see him. He once wanted to do everything in his power as a doctor, but after an Emergency Transformation he found that his extensive cybernetics ate his future, so he dropped out of medicine and became a pilot hoping to get back at those who had hurt him. Assigned as squadron medic, he had no bedside manner and snarked a lot - once his commander told him to "see our doctor" after an injury, and Phanan said "I'm far too important a doctor to see such a lowly person as myself" — but he was a very sympathetic character, all told. Especially in The Reveal of his tragic past. And his subsequent death, which includes pushing Face off Phanan's path.
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Dr. Jerk / int_765be284	comment	The Knick: Dr. John Thackery is an excellent and even pioneering surgeon, but he's also a total asshole and a casual racist.
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Dr. Jerk / int_7884ec15	comment	In the Seinfeld episode "The Package," almost every doctor Elaine goes to acts like this. She goes in to have a bad rash she has checked, but every doctor she goes to won't treat it because, according to Elaine's file, she's "difficult."
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Dr. Jerk / int_78fc0025	comment	Twin Peaks has Albert Rosenfield, an FBI forensic analyst who spends his entire time in Twin Peaks putting down everything from the medical facilities to everyone in the police department (especially Sheriff Truman) to the local doctor for mourning Laura Palmer. He later subverts the trope by declaring that he is an avowed pacifist who abhors violence and loves his fellow man, even if he's rude.
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Dr. Jerk / int_7d5ae033	comment	An extreme example is "Fake Healer" from the Metal Church 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 got no qualms about leaving poor patients to die if they can't afford his services.
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Dr. Jerk / int_80ec188c	comment	Doc Martin: Dr. Martin Ellingham, a top Harley Street surgeon, develops 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 Running Gag 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! In the 4th series, there's a new character of Dr. Edith Montgomery, who not only shares Martin's lack of bedside manner but unlike him does not have any actual concern for the well-being of her patients.
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Dr. Jerk / int_8125b468	comment	Batman: Scarecrow, a.k.a. Dr. Jonathan Crane. An accomplished psychiatrist and former college professor. Now a supervillain and part of Batman's Rogues Gallery. Thomas Elliot counts as well. He used to be the son of two wealthy Gothamites until he decided he deserved their money more. So he became an orphan. Thomas Wayne then saved his mother, so he had to wait for the money. His own psyche then made him go after Bruce Wayne because he had it so easy, what with his mom and dad having died at an early age...
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Dr. Jerk / int_815220e8	comment	Micron Legend (Armada) Ratchet, known to Western fans as Red Alert, is The Spock and thus seemed to be emotionally detached from his patients in the first episodes.
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Dr. Jerk / int_81692f99	comment	Continuing the lengthy trend of this type of character on Star Trek, Star Trek: Borg gives us Dr. Thaddeus Quint. Simply put, when Q chooses to impersonate him, he doesn't even have to change his personality to convince everyone.
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Dr. Jerk / int_84823809	comment	In one episode of Kaeloo, Mr. Cat, who went to med school (or at least claims that he did), is trying to teach Kaeloo how to be a doctor. Most of his tips involve being rude and selfish.
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Dr. Jerk / int_85a5a3b9	comment	Prime Ratchet also has the old and crotchety thing going on ("My pistons may be rusty, but my hearing is as sharp as ever!"), in addition to being a snarky scientist type who gets extremely annoyed whenever any of his equipment is damaged. Unfortunately for him, that tends to happen a lot. He starts to mellow out, but it's a slow process.
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Dr. Jerk / int_86c3beca	comment	Doctor Sun of Girl Genius is a Deadpan Snarker who is infamous for his "Sun-ny bedside manner". He's also perfectly willing and able to beat his own patients unconscious if that is what it takes to get them some bed rest.
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Dr. Jerk / int_87b652bb	comment	In Starcraft II the Medivac pilot. The lore mentions one who shot a few marines for calling her ship a "heal bus".
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Dr. Jerk / int_89b6a091	comment	Let Me Call You Sweetheart: 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, as Smith's jerk tendencies are actually costing him patients due to him making them uncomfortable.
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Dr. Jerk / int_8a6d835c	comment	As the World Turns had this in Dr. Reid Oliver, who was constantly being compared to Dr. House, though he was more like Dr. Cox.
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Dr. Jerk / int_8b7ae90b	comment	On Trapper John, M.D., Dr. Stanley Riverside II fit the arrogant-but-dedicated mold.
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Dr. Jerk / int_8c87467	comment	Green Wing: To some extent, the entire medical cast, but there are a few characters for whom jerkiness is a fundamental part of their psyche: Guy Secretan: A smug surgeon Casanova Wannabe who relentlessly bullies other staff members and once refused to resuscitate a woman because she only had A-cup breasts. Mac: An aloof Jerk with a Heart of Gold. Alan Statham: An eccentric old-fashioned radiologist who has a hugely inflated opinion of himself but often seems to be more clueless than mean until Johanna breaks up with him and he turns into a raging misogynist. Boyce: A junior radiologist who takes pranks to cruel and elaborate conclusions (such as propelling a drone with the word "homo" on it into Statham's office). By the end of the series, it seems much of his jerkiness comes down to being a Stalker with a Crush. Joanna Clore: As with Scrubs's Dr Kelso, Clore is an administrator struggling to manage the hospital. Unlike Kelso, she is just as cruel — if not even more so — in her personal life, frequently humiliating Statham. Holly, Mac's ex: She dyes her child's hair ginger to make Mac think it's hers and makes Dr Todd's life a misery.
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Dr. Jerk / int_8d7f29ec	comment	Dr. Wu from the first season of Glee comes off as this, though it's probably because his patience with Terri and Kendra (who are batshit crazy) is wearing thin.
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Dr. Jerk / int_8d814070	comment	There was also a minor doctor named Burns who, on top of being a jerk, was quite incompetent. It doesn't help that his namesake is Frank Burns.
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Dr. Jerk / int_8d817ccb	comment	Jack Shepherd from Lost has a terrible bedside manner and is 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.
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Dr. Jerk / int_8e5aaa2d	comment	Dr. Jed Hill in Malice â€“ essentially the defining trait of the character. He threatens other staff members with violence and even delivers a literal A God Am I speech in an important meeting with attorneys when one would really expect him to tone it down.
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Dr. Jerk / int_8e7eb681	comment	Ask That Guy with the Glasses doesn't like any doctors because he trusted "Dr. Love" and ended up being raped.
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Dr. Jerk / int_8ef19f57	comment	Nip/Tuck: Both lead doctors, Sean McNamara and Christian Troy, have questionable bedside manner (even berating their son Matt when he was burned in a meth lab explosion), and are generally morally questionable assholes.
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Dr. Jerk / int_8fd3db0b	comment	Star Trek: Lower Decks: Dr. T'Ana is described in her character profile as an excellent doctor who's unpleasant to work with, fitting in with Cats Are Mean as well (since she's a felinoid alien). That said, her attitude is generally a combination of being no-nonsense within Sickbay and a crabapple outside of it. She actually values bedside manner as an essential skill in her medical team and refuses Rutherford's transfer request because he causes a patient to panic, despite his good technical skills, and sends in the cheerful Tendi instead.
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Dr. Jerk / int_8ffd1b86	comment	Doctor Strange (2016): 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.
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Dr. Jerk / int_90f42a9b	comment	In The Wheel of Time, the Yellow Ajah (the healers) are known for being arrogant and impatient. Nynaeve is a compassionate and brave young woman who earnestly wants to cure the sick and help those who need it. She is also an ambitious, self-righteous, and condescending Control Freak.
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Dr. Jerk / int_91e45f5	comment	Pal Meraktis from Apollo Justice: Ace Attorney counts as well. He botched a surgery for the the Kitaki family's Wocky, and both he and the nurse hid the botched surgery from Winfred "Big Wins" Kitaki so he wouldn't get blamed for it. While he did feel genuine remorse for what he had done (at least according to his rival) he nevertheless left a 19-year-old to die so the killer of that case the nurse could go on with their plan to inherit the fortune.
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Dr. Jerk / int_9a7088bc	comment	Star Trek: The Original Series has Dr. "Bones" McCoy, whose cantankerous reminders of his actual occupation qualify for this trope. He certainly qualifies in "Friday's Child," where he persuades an obstinate, haughty patient to let him ease her pain... by slapping her in the face.
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Dr. Jerk / int_9b8fd034	comment	Doctor Kuni in Knocked Up is a bit of a jerk, and the couple doesn't like him, but ultimately he's all there is when the big moment comes. The character is played by Ken Jeong, who was a Real Life doctor before he took up comedy and acting.
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Dr. Jerk / int_9e2f90f4	comment	In One Piece, Dr. Kureha, a tough, sarcastic old lady, is the only doctor on a small island where the inhabitants all call her a witch for her strange, violent, and greedy behavior. She won't just ask for a set amount of bills, but 50% of your income for the month. If you tip her, she may lower it to 49%. She's also willing to injure patients who don't follow her orders. Her protege Chopper tries to be this whenever he's complimented, attempting to put on a tough act and belittle the complimenter while grinning ear-to-ear and doing a Happy Dance. It never works. Dr. Hogback is 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. Trafalgar Law's response when someone asked what was going to happen if Luffy kept running around right after Law had done surgery on him? That the wounds would reopen and he'd die. Also when telling Chopper that he'd removed the poison from the systems of some children that had been experimented on, he phrased it in such a way that Chopper thought he'd dismembered them, since Law was talking about the amount of painkillers some might need. Law made no move to correct the panicking reindeer. Crocus was picking fistfights with his patient and captain, Gol D. Roger, who was suffering from an incurable disease that was killing him. Mostly because Roger annoyed him.
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Dr. Jerk / int_a144cb39	comment	Dr. Potterswheel in Moral Orel who has a Lack of Empathy as well as being heavily implied to be a sexual sadist who is aroused by descriptions of violence.
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Dr. Jerk / int_a6181362	comment	The resident doctor of La Paz in The Pearl caters only to "rich" clients. When Kino's baby son Coyotito was stung by a scorpion and seeks treatment, upon learning Kino doesn't have enough money the doctor simply refuses to attend to the family, saying "he's NOT interested in treating insect bites for little Indians"... until Kino found the titular object, a gigantic, valuable pearl the size of a goose's egg, which can fetch a high price, at which point the doctor personally comes over to visit, "heals" Coyotito by injecting some unknown medicine into the baby, and said he'll be back for a second treatment after Kino had sold the pearl at a high price.
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Dr. Jerk / int_ae727300	comment	Hyrek from the Paradox Trilogy is a xith'cal who serves as a doctor on a human ship and is generally disdainful toward Devi, the protagonist. Mostly because she keeps getting hurt.
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Dr. Jerk / int_af583f46	comment	Dr. Turner Grey from Phoenix Wright: Ace Attorney â€“ Justice For All. 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, but it appears that 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. Pal Meraktis from Apollo Justice: Ace Attorney counts as well. He botched a surgery for the the Kitaki family's Wocky, and both he and the nurse hid the botched surgery from Winfred "Big Wins" Kitaki so he wouldn't get blamed for it. While he did feel genuine remorse for what he had done (at least according to his rival) he nevertheless left a 19-year-old to die so the killer of that case the nurse could go on with their plan to inherit the fortune. Pierce Nichody, the culprit of the DLC case in Spirit of Justice counts as well. After he's outed as the culprit and a surgeon, he compares the attorney, the judge, and the prosecutor to malignant cancerous tumors. However, unlike the above two, this one's assholery doesn't extend to their actual medical practice, having only fallen into villainy after leaving the field. He only reassumes his doctor persona during a mental breakdown.
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Dr. Jerk / int_b1058237	comment	Temeraire: Dr. Keynes is brusque and unfriendly during his tenure on the titular dragon's crew, but is an outstanding dragon-surgeon despite his total absence of bedside manner. When he's reassigned to England to help deal with The Plague, Temeraire is very sorry to see him go.
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Dr. Jerk / int_b2431955	comment	Caren Ortensia from Fate/kaleid liner PRISMA☆ILLYA, an elementary school nurse who has the tendency to consider patient's injuries 'boring' and ask they get hurt much more badly next time they come to see her. To add insult to non-injury, she often tells visitors to get lost because "healthy people make her sick."
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Dr. Jerk / int_b3704ffa	comment	In 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 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 describes him to his insurance agent as being cold and inattentive.
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Dr. Jerk / int_b5d2696e	comment	Asylum of Doom: Doctor Burke is a smug bastard who seems to take great joy out of Gaslighting Gaz, and electroshocking her when she refuses to accept what he tells her. And when he ultimately decides to lobotomize her, it's clearly payback for her attacking him, not a desire to help her.
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Dr. Jerk / int_b704a08a	comment	Dr. Shamal from Reborn! (2004). Only towards men, though. And unfortunately for him (and them), 99% of the cast is comprised of Bishōnen.
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Dr. Jerk / int_b962c879	comment	Fairy Tail 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.
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Dr. Jerk / int_ba1b62cb	comment	Seinosuke Yamada from Bleach: Can't Fear Your Own World 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.
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Dr. Jerk / int_bbe33e8a	comment	Northern Exposure: Due to the culture clash of being a native New Yorker pressed into serving as a Frontier Doctor in a small Alaskan town, Joel Fleischman can be irritable and condescending with his patients, though he's still a decent guy and he warms to the town over the course of his time on the series.
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Dr. Jerk / int_bc42183b	comment	The Proud Family zigzags this. Dr. Payne is mostly only a jerk towards Oscar Proud, though it's justified as Oscar frequently provokes him and ignores his medical advice.
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Dr. Jerk / int_bcdcf629	comment	Animated Ratchet is a crotchety old man due to his Shellshocked Veteran status. He's also the resident medic.
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Dr. Jerk / int_c018d8fb	comment	Hanna Is Not a Boy's Name features Doc Worth, a chain-smoking med-school dropout who operates out of an alley and enjoys tormenting and shouting at anyone who makes him angry. However, he is solidly in the Jerk with a Heart of Gold category, since he seems pretty laid back when he's not screaming in Conrad's face, genuinely cares for Hanna, and doesn't appear to charge him for his frequent visits. The good Doc actually subverts this a bit, since Tessa likes to point out that he is in fact not a skilled doctor - he's probably a mediocre one at best. Or he would be, if he had ever finished med school and actually become a doctor.
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Dr. Jerk / int_c6dbe98e	comment	Tenma's boss in Monster is the heartless administrator variety, until he gets killed. Tenma himself inverts this trope, as he's one of the nicest people imaginable.
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Dr. Jerk / int_c71fd496	comment	Dr. Gillespie in the Dr. Kildare film series. Reduced to a wispy old man in a wheelchair from an accident (Real Life Writes the Plot 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 re-hire him in a roundabout fashion.
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Dr. Jerk / int_c75d67d	comment	On Person of Interest 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.
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Dr. Jerk / int_c95a117f	comment	Dr. Lazarus in Outland (1981) is a Jerk with a Heart of Gold who is ultimately the only person who helps our hero.
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Dr. Jerk / int_ca50717e	comment	In the spin-off After MASH, the characters of Mike D'Angelo (Season 1) and Wally Wainwright (Season 2) were jerkass hospital administrators.*
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Dr. Jerk / int_ca677a95	comment	Little House on the Prairie: In "To Run and Hide," this applies 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 â€“ after a pep talk by series protagonist Charles Ingalls â€“ runs the asshole doctor out of Walnut Grove.
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Dr. Jerk / int_cb28b938	comment	The follow-up season, CharitÃ© at War, gives us Doctor Ferdinand Sauerbruch, a renowned surgeon with a foul temper who's obnoxious, full of himself, and prone to belittling his students and yelling at his assistants. Also A Father to His Men, a Reasonable Authority Figure, and a Secret-Keeper for members of the resistance against the Nazi regime.
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Dr. Jerk / int_cb4d8cb0	comment	Dr. Mincing from Doctor in Love, who refuses to let Dr. Hare have an experimental drug to save a child's life. Despite the drug being dangerous, Dr. Mincing shows no remorse to the situation at all.
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Dr. Jerk / int_cc56e139	comment	TÃºsÅ« Wine from The Tale of Food; there's a reason he's nicknamed "Doctor Strange". As the personification of a ritual medicinal wine and having studied under famed historical medic HuÃ TuÃ³, he's an undisputed expert in his field, but since he Took a Level in Cynic way back, he's also a bitter, dismissive recluse who is as mean as he gets, even if he ultimately means well and turns out to be helping in the end.
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Dr. Jerk / int_d39fda74	comment	Schtein from String Theory (2009), though he's Not That Kind of Doctor.
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Dr. Jerk / int_d461f757	comment	The 2004 Battlestar Galactica series: Dr. Cottle. The man is a wisecracking sarcastic jerk who actually smokes on the job. His cantankerous attitude seems to be mostly related to authority figures trying to tell him what to do, making him a Jerk with a Heart of Gold, as he feels obligated to heal the sick, period, human or Cylon, regardless of what Adama's steely blue eyes would seem to dictate. Of course, he gets that sort of slack because he's just so damn good, as he managed to save Commander Adama's life from a pretty brutal assassination attempt despite what most would consider fatal amounts of internal bleeding. Not to mention that with humanity reduced to under 50,000 people after the Cylon assault, he might well be one of the few doctors left alive. Gaius Baltar could also count as this, the best example being his blunt attitude towards Sharon Valerii while testing to see if she's a Cylon sleeper agent. "So now we'll find out whether you're a human or an evil Cylon." He's also an egomaniacal jerk with the poetic sarcasm of Gregory House. There's also "Nurse Bedside Manner", who informs Chief that he can't give blood to his son because he's not the biological father, and gets irritated when Starbuck is talking to her unconscious husband because brain dead people can't hear. It's been suggested she was originally a field medic and doesn't like being cooped up in Galactica's sickbay.
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Dr. Jerk / int_d4efb984	comment	The Golden Girls: One episode has Dorothy convinced there's something wrong with her. She goes to a doctor but he can't figure out 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 treatablenote for the record, the diagnosis was Chronic Fatigue Syndrome. 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 Cheers. It's not the least bit surprising that he's so unsympathetic.
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Dr. Jerk / int_d4fdfff4	comment	ER: Dr. Robert Romano. Even though he died after a chopper crashed on top of 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 attended his memorial service. It's almost as though they wanted him to become The Woobie though. The poor man 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. Peter Benton was Cook County's resident jerk before Romano got there, but they spent years making the audience know he was a Jerk with a Heart of Gold. 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, shown to be an exceptionally skilled and talented doctor who is a Friend to All Children and, surprisingly, has an excellent bedside manner with patients of all ages. Unfortunately she takes a number of levels in jerkass as the series goes on.
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Dr. Jerk / int_d4fe0006	comment	Dr. Jerome on Ed was one of the nastiest examples and has no redeeming qualities. His cruelty to Dr. Burton was as over-the-top as anything on that show, which made over-the-top a regular feature.
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Dr. Jerk / int_d4fe0152	comment	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 refuses to take any sort of criticism, firing Dr. Nathan for questioning him. 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 too long afterwards.
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Dr. Jerk / int_d6fa84c7	comment	Silicon Valley: Richard Hendricks' primary care doctor, played by Andy Daly, is cheerfully rude, condescending, and otherwise upsetting to Richard during every visit.
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Dr. Jerk / int_d9e1a051	comment	Fruits Basket has Hatori, who's more of The Woobie, but he's still grumpy.
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Dr. Jerk / int_db034944	comment	The Year Without a Santa Claus has the doctor who treats Santa for his cold at the beginning - a cynic who tells Santa that he'd be better off staying in bed this Christmas Eve because no one believes in him or cares about Christmas anymore.
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Dr. Jerk / int_db30cf92	comment	Jayfeather, ThunderClan medicine cat from Warrior Cats and terror of multiple generations of lazy apprentices. He wanted to be a warrior, but congenital blindness (and StarClan-gifted psychic abilities) prevented that. Finding out his mentor was also 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 Jerk with a Heart of Gold. 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. While not that mean, Willowshine tends to be this to cats that aren't Mothwing or Leafpool, often chiding Jayfeather, and when Crowfeather asks for help in dealing with the stoats, both she and Jayfeather refuse, while Leafpool is more reasonable.
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Dr. Jerk / int_db56e855	comment	Dr. Onimemo in The Eyes Have It is the doujutsu doctor for Konoha and a complete prick. He tells Sakura he calls her 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 are 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). It bears noting that on the one occasion Sakura visits the doctor at his home, she discovers that he married a Manic Pixie Dream Girl and is a complete teddy bear in her presence.
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Dr. Jerk / int_dbf05cf0	comment	Doctor... Series: 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. Dr. Mincing from Doctor in Love, who refuses to let Dr. Hare have an experimental drug to save a child's life. Despite the drug being dangerous, Dr. Mincing shows no remorse to the situation at all.
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Dr. Jerk / int_debe30cd	comment	Ghost Town (2008): Pincus starts out as a rude, misanthropic dentist. He even claims he'd chosen the profession because most of the time patients have things in their mouths and thus can't talk with him (he's very annoyed too when this isn't the case).
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Dr. Jerk / int_dfabfce5	comment	Downplayed in Red Dead Redemption 2 with Dr. Joseph R. Barnes. He has a 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 examining him for an obviously severe illness.
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Dr. Jerk / int_e144ba19	comment	Anders of Dragon Age II is an excellent Spirit Healer mage who goes out of his way to provide free medical care for the poor of Kirkwall despite his own fugitive status. He's also snarky, self-righteous, and always ready to go on insulting tirades against anybody who does not completely agree with his sometimes radical opinions. What's interesting about Anders, though, is that, unlike a typical example, he is never a jerk to his patients, to the point that many of the residents of Darktown are willing to risk their lives for him. Everyone else, though...
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Dr. Jerk / int_e2cb4c1	comment	Dr. Stephen Strange was one before the car accident that crippled his hands. He was so hated that the only jobs he was offered were of the Kicked Upstairs variety, which he had too much pride to take. He squandered his fortune on quack remedies, becoming almost destitute until, nearly at the end of his rope, he heard of an old man known to work miracles. That old man turned out to be the Ancient One, the current Sorcerer Supreme, and Strange's life changed dramatically after they met. After becoming Master of the Mystic Arts when his mentor passed away and bequeathed the title to him, he mellowed out and lost most of his Jerkass qualities.
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Dr. Jerk / int_e365af07	comment	Agent Dietrich "Medic" Luzwheit in Dino Attack RPG. He is a very skilled doctor capable of performing complicated and dangerous operations with great success, but, as a result, he thinks of all his fellow doctors, including Dr. Alan Pierce, as incompetent and inexperienced fools who should not belong in the operating room, and he doesn't hesitate to make his feelings towards them clear. There was also a minor doctor named Burns who, on top of being a jerk, was quite incompetent. It doesn't help that his namesake is Frank Burns.
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Dr. Jerk / int_e4fe0ac5	comment	The Night Of: All of John Stone's doctors are rather rude to him, but his pharmacist seems to take special pleasure in embarrassing him with loud comments about his symptoms and treatments.
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Dr. Jerk / int_e50423a8	comment	Harvest Town has Lee Yau, the doctor's son whose favorite line is: "Can you get out of my way?" Considering that he only became a doctor to gratify his own pride rather than any genuine concern for his patients' well-being, it makes sense that he wouldn't have the best bedside manner.
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Dr. Jerk / int_e5da0fa0	comment	In Myst: The Book of Ti'ana, Jarl of the Guild of Healers actually tells Ti'ana that it would be better for young and sickly Gehn, who is only half Ronay, to die. Not unsurprisingly, she throws him out on his ass.
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Dr. Jerk / int_e64a6382	comment	Gavial from Arknights is a valued member of the Rhodes Island medical staff and a competent healer in-game. She also hails from a Proud Warrior Race — in fact, she is the tribe's strongest member — and her attitude towards her patients matches exactly what you'd expect from someone who grew up in such a culture. Patients tend to fear her care more than they fear allowing their injuries or Oripathy to worsen without treatment. Eunectes, another Rhodes Island operator hailing from the same tribe, outright asks the Doctor if all practitioners act like she does outside her native home, and compared getting a medical exam from her to getting beaten up. Similarly, Ptilopsis implies that Saria didn't become an actual doctor despite having a lot of medical experience due to her lack of bedside manner. In the game properly, she plays the role of a frontliner who can also heal.
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Dr. Jerk / int_e7410020	comment	Dr. Big McLargehuge from Empowered, whom Ninjette describes as "Dr. House the size of a house", has a total lack of bedside manners and is quite adamant that Emp gets her normal friend out of the suprahuman-specific wing ASAP so he can deal with more important cases.
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Dr. Jerk / int_e7e37776	comment	Firefly: 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. Simon is a brilliant young doctor who is on the run because he's helping his troubled sister. He starts out like this aboard Serenity. He treats and heals the crew, but he's cold, distant, and snarky. He gradually gets better when he starts trusting Mal Reynolds and others.
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Dr. Jerk / int_e980d76f	comment	Creepshow 3: Dr. Farwell, big time. He's openly insolent and rude to his patients, shows No Sympathy to a teenage girl with a brain tumor, mocks an old woman going blind, and gives a hot dog he just dropped to a homeless man.
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Dr. Jerk / int_eb76340f	comment	Carlos on Third Watch was a Paramedic Jerk. After his first day on the job, his supervisor "Doc" Parker, seeing Carlos alone, comments that seeing people suffering can get to you, but Carlos says he's surprised because it didn't get to him. He didn't care at all about the people they took care of. Doc is surprised, but Carlos eventually turns out to be a very good paramedic with excellent technical skills. The fact that he's not the nicest guy in the world doesn't stop him from saving lives. In contrast, Doc is too empathic and the job slowly takes a terrible toll on him until he snaps, shoots up the firehouse, and ends the series in a mental institution.
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Dr. Jerk / int_ec52a5b9	comment	Transformers (2007) Ratchet isn't too dissimilar to G1 Ratchet, once even threatening to weld Jazz's vocal unit shut in the tie-in Defiance comic. Oddly, he fits definition one for this trope despite starting out as a politician in the UK Titan comic.
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Dr. Jerk / int_ed72b3c9	comment	Trauma Center (Atlus): Victor Niguel is 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 will be probably thinking in the following seconds. Gabriel Cunningham from Trauma Team also is this, though not to the extent of Victor.
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Dr. Jerk / int_ee384546	comment	Cyberpunk 2077 has Trauma Team, a cross between EMS and Private Military Contractors. Each member of Trauma Team is a Combat Medic armed with state-of-the-art weapons and are all too happy to demonstrate how proficient they are with those weapons if you should so much as stand too close to them while they are on the job.
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Dr. Jerk / int_eeac804a	comment	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.
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Dr. Jerk / int_ef076a36	comment	The Mister Gutsy Sawbones in the Pentagon is one of the last as while he does know how to perform surgery he doesn't know how to do surgery (at least without doing harm). He also likes and wants to hurt humans but behavior limiters prevent him from purposefully hurting people if they aren't deemed a threat. He and his personality are based on the EMH Mk I from Star Trek: Voyager, including his penchant for poetry.
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Dr. Jerk / int_f5429c8b	comment	Klay World: 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 he killed most of his patients on purpose because it was funny.
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Dr. Jerk / int_f6e2c23d	comment	The doctors in EarthBound Beginnings have this to say to you if you can't pay for their services:
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Dr. Jerk / int_f74b5f80	comment	Doctor Franklin of Babylon 5 becomes more and more of a jerk as his personal story arc plays out over the first few seasons. Of course, he was also battling a stimulant addiction, and losing.
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Dr. Jerk / int_f8df4747	comment	The Transformers: More than Meets the Eye: Pharma, head of the Delphi Institute, is one of the greatest medics the Autobots have, once managing to perform a four-way surgery with himself as one of the patients. He's also a colossal jerkass. Not to mention he's gone insane and started murdering some of his patients to harvest their organs for the D.J.D. Ratchet is a Jerk with a Heart of Gold version. He constantly insults Drift's religiosity, abrasively punctures Rodimus's grandstanding, and is a little too willing to Pay Evil unto Evil or do ruthless things to survive (converting a friend's dead body into a gun, for example)...but he also spends an issue gently guiding his friends towards people who can help their emotional needs, and even proves willing to meet Drift halfway on the religion thing when they get married.
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Dr. Jerk / int_fb9c177d	comment	Ratchet, in almost every incarnation of the Transformers franchise. G1 Ratchet is portrayed in fanon as being similar to his later incarnations, as a talented doctor who was also grouchy, constantly threatening his patients with various punishments. The Marvel G1 version was actually supposed to be a party animal, who was known for making the best high-grade around. This aspect of his portrayal was dropped fairly early on, though. Micron Legend (Armada) Ratchet, known to Western fans as Red Alert, is The Spock and thus seemed to be emotionally detached from his patients in the first episodes. Animated Ratchet is a crotchety old man due to his Shellshocked Veteran status. He's also the resident medic. Prime Ratchet also has the old and crotchety thing going on ("My pistons may be rusty, but my hearing is as sharp as ever!"), in addition to being a snarky scientist type who gets extremely annoyed whenever any of his equipment is damaged. Unfortunately for him, that tends to happen a lot. He starts to mellow out, but it's a slow process. Interestingly averted (mostly) with Knock Out. Yes, he's a self-admitted sociopath, but unless given a pretty good reason not to, he shows some genuine concern for his patients. Well, some of them, at least.
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Dr. Jerk / int_fc2d494	comment	Unfortunately some (purportedly real) examples of this have appeared on Not Always Working. Eventually, enough stories appeared of this trope (along with Nurse Jerk, Patient Jerk, the occasional Pharmacist Jerk, and so on) that they had to spin it off into the Not Always Healthy site.
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Dr. Jerk / int_fe0af5c6	comment	The Good Doctor: Dr. Neil Melendez is very good at his job but also very full of himself and quite prejudiced and mean to the autistic protagonist Dr. Shaun Murphy. However, he gradually comes to respect Shaun and mellow into a Jerk with a Heart of Gold. The same cannot be said for Dr. Jared Kalu, who takes advantage of other surgeons and takes credit for Shaun's life-saving idea at one point, though before he departs at the start of Season 2, he puts in a good word for Shaun. Subverted with Dr. Marcus Andrews. He's mean to Shaun and Dr. Aaron Glassman, only agreeing to hire Shaun just so he can give him more responsible in the hope that he'll mess up, but he's kind toward his patients. Like Melendez, he softens up to Shaun over time, even firing Han at the end of Season 2 for his behavior towards Shaun. Dr. Morgan Reznick is generally just a bitch toward practically everybody. The latter half of Season 2 gives us Dr. Jackson Han, who is perhaps worse than Melendez, Andrews, and Reznick combined. He skips his own welcoming party to go straight to surgery, constantly berates Shaun because of his autism, refuses to listen to anyone else's attempts to speak up for Shaun (he even clashes with Melendez), and fires Shaun when he demands to be transferred back to Surgery and suffers a meltdown when Han adamantly refuses to assent to his wishes. In the end, he gets fired in the season finale.
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Dr. Jerk / int_ff9ab17f	comment	Dr. Pulaski on Star Trek: The Next Generation, a one season replacement for Dr. Crusher. When she first arrives, she's abrasive and often rude, especially to Data for being an android. The writers apparently were trying to make her a Dr. McCoy analog, though she didn't ultimately have the same dynamic with the crew. She ultimately gets some Pet the Dog moments later in the season.
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Doctor Player / int_9ae85487	type	Dr. Jerk
Drenai / int_9ae85487	type	Dr. Jerk
Elianto / int_9ae85487	type	Dr. Jerk
Evensong / int_9ae85487	type	Dr. Jerk
Flowers for Algernon / int_9ae85487	type	Dr. Jerk
Heart of a Dog / int_9ae85487	type	Dr. Jerk
In Death / int_9ae85487	type	Dr. Jerk
Invisible Line / int_9ae85487	type	Dr. Jerk
Judy Moody / int_9ae85487	type	Dr. Jerk
Lucky Lives Omegaverse / int_9ae85487	type	Dr. Jerk
March of the Robots / int_9ae85487	type	Dr. Jerk
The Father Luke Wolfe Trilogy / int_9ae85487	type	Dr. Jerk
The Heroes of Olympus / int_9ae85487	type	Dr. Jerk
BattleCars	seeAlso	Dr. Jerk
BostonLegal	seeAlso	Dr. Jerk
DRJerk	sameAs	Dr. Jerk
Elianto	seeAlso	Dr. Jerk
LifeTimeMovieOfTheWeek	seeAlso	Dr. Jerk
TheInterferenceLegends	seeAlso	Dr. Jerk
WhiteCoatSyndrome	seeAlso	Dr. Jerk
Black Jack (Manga) / int_9ae85487	type	Dr. Jerk
Fate/kaleid liner PRISMA☆ILLYA (Manga) / int_9ae85487	type	Dr. Jerk
Letter Bee (Manga) / int_9ae85487	type	Dr. Jerk
Reborn! (2004) (Manga) / int_9ae85487	type	Dr. Jerk
Tegami Bachi: Letter Bee (Manga) / int_9ae85487	type	Dr. Jerk
Plumbing the Death Star (Podcast) / int_9ae85487	type	Dr. Jerk
After MAS*H / int_9ae85487	type	Dr. Jerk
All My Children / int_9ae85487	type	Dr. Jerk
Bates Motel / int_9ae85487	type	Dr. Jerk
Becker / int_9ae85487	type	Dr. Jerk
Call the Midwife / int_9ae85487	type	Dr. Jerk
Chicago Fire / int_9ae85487	type	Dr. Jerk
Chicago Med / int_9ae85487	type	Dr. Jerk
China Beach / int_9ae85487	type	Dr. Jerk
Code Black / int_9ae85487	type	Dr. Jerk
Deadwood / int_9ae85487	type	Dr. Jerk
Doc Martin / int_9ae85487	type	Dr. Jerk
ER / int_9ae85487	type	Dr. Jerk
Emergency! / int_9ae85487	type	Dr. Jerk
Fear the Walking Dead / int_9ae85487	type	Dr. Jerk
General Hospital / int_9ae85487	type	Dr. Jerk
Grey's Anatomy / int_9ae85487	type	Dr. Jerk
House / int_9ae85487	type	Dr. Jerk
JAG / int_9ae85487	type	Dr. Jerk
Jam / int_9ae85487	type	Dr. Jerk
Jessica Jones (2015) / int_9ae85487	type	Dr. Jerk
Life Support / int_9ae85487	type	Dr. Jerk
Louie / int_9ae85487	type	Dr. Jerk
MADtv (1995) / int_9ae85487	type	Dr. Jerk
Melrose Place / int_9ae85487	type	Dr. Jerk
Mercy / int_9ae85487	type	Dr. Jerk
Murdoch Mysteries / int_9ae85487	type	Dr. Jerk
Neighbours / int_9ae85487	type	Dr. Jerk
Nurse Jackie / int_9ae85487	type	Dr. Jerk
Scream Queens (2015) / int_9ae85487	type	Dr. Jerk
Scrubs / int_9ae85487	type	Dr. Jerk
Shortland Street / int_9ae85487	type	Dr. Jerk
Silicon Valley / int_9ae85487	type	Dr. Jerk
St. Elsewhere / int_9ae85487	type	Dr. Jerk
Star Trek: Voyager / int_9ae85487	type	Dr. Jerk
Tales from the Crypt / int_9ae85487	type	Dr. Jerk
The Good Doctor / int_9ae85487	type	Dr. Jerk
The Knick / int_9ae85487	type	Dr. Jerk
The League of Gentlemen / int_9ae85487	type	Dr. Jerk
The Night Of / int_9ae85487	type	Dr. Jerk
Trapper John, M.D. / int_9ae85487	type	Dr. Jerk
Trophy Wife / int_9ae85487	type	Dr. Jerk
Twin Peaks / int_9ae85487	type	Dr. Jerk
Virgin River / int_9ae85487	type	Dr. Jerk
Welcome To Eden 2022 / int_9ae85487	type	Dr. Jerk
Bat Boy: The Musical (Theatre) / int_9ae85487	type	Dr. Jerk
My Fair Lady (Theatre) / int_9ae85487	type	Dr. Jerk
Wit (Theatre)	seeAlso	Dr. Jerk
Always Remember Me (Video Game) / int_9ae85487	type	Dr. Jerk
Always Sometimes Monsters (Video Game) / int_9ae85487	type	Dr. Jerk
EarthBound Beginnings (Video Game) / int_9ae85487	type	Dr. Jerk
PokÃ©mon Black 2 and White 2 (Video Game) / int_9ae85487	type	Dr. Jerk
Ripper (Video Game) / int_9ae85487	type	Dr. Jerk
Silent Hill: Homecoming (Video Game) / int_9ae85487	type	Dr. Jerk
Silent Hill: Shattered Memories (Video Game) / int_9ae85487	type	Dr. Jerk
StarCraft II (Video Game) / int_9ae85487	type	Dr. Jerk
Tales of Xillia (Video Game) / int_9ae85487	type	Dr. Jerk
Timecrest (Video Game) / int_9ae85487	type	Dr. Jerk
Choice of Games / Videogame / int_9ae85487	type	Dr. Jerk
Liar! Uncover the Truth (Visual Novel) / int_9ae85487	type	Dr. Jerk
Phoenix Wright: Ace Attorney â€“ Justice For All (Visual Novel) / int_9ae85487	type	Dr. Jerk
Sekien no Inganock (Visual Novel) / int_9ae85487	type	Dr. Jerk
Wishful Thinking (2019) (Visual Novel) / int_9ae85487	type	Dr. Jerk
Ask That Guy with the Glasses (Web Video) / int_9ae85487	type	Dr. Jerk
Markiplier (Web Video) / int_9ae85487	type	Dr. Jerk
My Hero Abridged (Web Video) / int_9ae85487	type	Dr. Jerk
Bug Martini (Webcomic) / int_9ae85487	type	Dr. Jerk
Cuanta Vida (Webcomic) / int_9ae85487	type	Dr. Jerk
Fetch Quest: Saga of the Twelve Artifacts (Webcomic) / int_9ae85487	type	Dr. Jerk
JumpHero (Webcomic) / int_9ae85487	type	Dr. Jerk
String Theory (2009) (Webcomic) / int_9ae85487	type	Dr. Jerk
The Dragon Doctors (Webcomic) / int_9ae85487	type	Dr. Jerk
Wurr (Webcomic) / int_9ae85487	type	Dr. Jerk
Peter Rabbit / int_9ae85487	type	Dr. Jerk
The Garfield Show / int_9ae85487	type	Dr. Jerk
The Oblongs / int_9ae85487	type	Dr. Jerk
The Suicide Shop / int_9ae85487	type	Dr. Jerk
Riget / int_9ae85487	type	Dr. Jerk
The Phoenix Requiem (Webcomic) / int_9ae85487	type	Dr. Jerk

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