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The practice of medicine has long been one of the highest-status professions around; what, after all, could be more admirable than healing the sick? Advertisement:propertag.cmd.push(function() { proper_display('tvtropes_mobile_ad_1'); })In comedies, the high status attached to physicians is always shown to loom large over those who come close to, but do not quite attain, the sacred mantle... such as other health professionals, doctors in non-medical fields, and sometimes even medical doctors whose specialty is perceived as less challenging or useful than others. Similarly, a nurse has a different set of skills than a doctor and they don't like to be confused for one. Of course in some Real Life cultures like Judaism (at least in America), a doctor is often considered to be a preferred profession by the family, so this has some basis in reality. See also Not That Kind of Doctor. Compare Hard on Soft Science. |
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Sarah from Quite Ugly One Morning is an anesthetist, and has several rants in the book about arrogant surgeons, and people who are surprised to learn that one needs to be a doctor to practice anesthesia. | |
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In Coupling Sally claimed her new boyfriend was a surgeon, which backfired when Jane recognised him as her butcher. Hilarity Ensues when he unwittingly gives the boys the impression that he's been performing unethical operations on her. Sally explains that she was insecure about people making "butcher jokes". No one points out that there are likely a lot more jokes about doctors. | |
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Bones: In one episode, Temperance thanked a chiropractor for his help but couldn't help noting that he wasn't a "real medical doctor". As she left he pointed out that she isn't a medical doctor either (she's an anthropologist). Another episode featured an M.D. making a snide remark about academics being people who couldn't do the "real" doctorate after Brennan said her doctorate was a PhD. Brennan herself, however, is quite proud of her doctorates and never shows envy towards medical doctors. |
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This is a frequent occurrence on Grey's Anatomy. Surgery is considered the best specialty. Cristina even says it's the "marines" of specialties in the first episode. The doctors look down on nurses, and everyone looks down on interns (especially the second batch). The surgeons themselves sometimes divide into their specialties even further, with Cardio and Neural at the top and Orthopedic and General at the bottom. | |
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The series Providence refers to this: lead character Sydney is a plastic surgeon and frequently has to deal with other doctors outright scoffing at her when she reveals this. Even one of her classmates seems reluctant to take her on as partner in her practice because of this (granted, this is a family practice, which Sydney, despite her skills and training, really does lack experience in. | |
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Dr. Zed in Borderlands 2 is a Back-Alley Doctor and legitimately the only person on Pandora who wants to actually help you and make you healthy. His lack of a medical license is a Running Gag in the series. The fact that Doc Mercy, the very malevolent leader of a group of bandits, actually DOES have a practitioners license, is a bit of a sore spot for him. | |
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Scrubs examples: Carla can become very defensive when anyone uses the phrase "just a nurse". Turk and J.D. are Star Crossed Heterosexual Life-Partners, having crossed the divide between physicians and surgeons, neither of whom consider the other group to be real doctors. In one episode where Dr. Cox has to call the hospital dermatologist, he rants to the patient: In the episode "My Quarantine": Cox also dislikes the surgeons and calls them "scalpel jockies" more often then not. Whenever he does (or calls them anything else derogatory) he will follow up by pointing out that the important stuff is being done by the "real doctors" and pointing to himself. An early episode has Elliot treating a psychiatrist. She unthinkingly asks him what prompted him to go that direction and not become a "real doctor". Dr. Cox even refers to his own psychiatrist as someone who couldn't cut it in real medicine. |
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In King of the Hill, after Bill falls into a diabetic coma, he's treated by a Dr. Jerk who tells him he's doomed to lose the use of both his legs from diabetes and that no amount of exercise or dieting will help since he's too fat and lazy to follow through with them. When a nurse suggests the name of a trainer who could help, he snarks, "You know what I learned in Medical School? Oh, right, you weren't there." | |
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The guys and gals from The Big Bang Theory are usually respected for being scientists and having PhD degrees, and Penny only thinks that science is incredibly boring, but at times she becomes fascinated with it. Howard, as an engineer with only a Master's Degree rather than a Doctorate, sometimes gets snubbed or made the target of snide remarks. When Leonard dated Dr Stephanie, she just asked whether she's a "doctor-doctor", or "their kind of doctor", to which Leonard replied that she's a doctor doctor. Interestingly, medical doctor is a career that even arrogant Sheldon Cooper respects and he was satisfied that Leonard dated somebody useful who could treat his hypochondriac complaints. |
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There are a lot of friction between doctors and the Ambulance crew in Sirens (UK), there were really quite shocked when a doctor thanked them and said they did a good job. In another episode two of the lads attempt to hit on a medical student that says they're nothing but glorified taxi drivers. | |
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The early seasons of All Saints had some conflict between the regular cast of nurses and the doctors in the guest cast, in particular Bronwyn's father Professor Craig, a condescending bully with no respect for their diagnostic opinions. It also comes up with Jared's fiancé Amanda when she objects to his decision to leave medical school and stick with nursing. | |
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In The Silence of the Lambs one of the (many) ways Hannibal Lecter undermines Dr Chilton, the obnoxious and abusive head of the institution in which Lecter's incarcerated, is by publicly pointing out that Chilton doesn't actually have an MD. However, Lecter's disdain for Chilton is not simply because of this (he holds most "real" doctors, as well as the rest of the world, in total contempt) but more due to Chilton's mistreatment of him and Chilton's mistaken belief that he's as clever as Lecter. | |
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Seinfeld: Elaine dates a med student who has repeatedly failed his licensing exam to officially become a doctor. She insists on calling him "doctor" anyway so she can say she's dating a doctor, and helps him study for his exam so he'll pass it. When he finally does, he dumps her immediately. In another episode, she dates a podiatrist; the story's humor comes from her desperation to think of him as a real doctor. Another episode features Jerry dating a doctor who constantly talks about how rewarding saving lives is. When he finds out she's a dermatologist, a field he regards as utterly worthless, he is outraged. Next time they are out on a date, he angrily chews her out for daring to call herself a lifesaver... only to be interrupted by a man who thanks her profusely for saving his life. He had skin cancer. Open Mouth, Insert Foot |
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In Meet the Parents Greg has no shame or inferiority complex about being a male nurse, but is constantly asked by his fiancée's family why he didn't want to go all the way and become a doctor. Several of them are doctors. In fact, they all assume he flunked out of being a doctor, and they need to see a copy of his transcript before they'll believe he actually got top marks and preferred to be a nurse to get more time with patients. And even then, Jack, the patriarch, isn't entirely convinced. | |
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From A Song of Ice and Fire In the Seven Kingdoms, you're either an officially acknowledged maester or a nothing — even if you do some of what they do, or even all of it. Qyburn was a full maester. Until he got himself demoted due to ethical malpractice; part of his For Science! motivation is getting his chain (aka his licence) back upon proving himself right... by doubling down on what got him canned in the first place. Haldon "Half-Maester" is so-called because he supposedly never completed his maester's chain, so is technically simply an acolyte of the Citadel, still (think... a university post-grad student yet to sit all their final exams, yet having technically completed every module and practical needed to qualify). Yet, he performs the role of a maester for the Golden Company in practice. After all, it just wouldn't do to have a fully recognised maester assigned to outlaws and cadet branches, be they nobles or not. If you smell a fish, you're not the only one: Tyrion notes all this when he bumps into it. |
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Alan from Two and a Half Men is often belittled for being a chiropractor and not a "real" doctor. | |
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In the Doctor Who episode "Amy's Choice", Rory is the village doctor. And the Doctor suggests that as evidence that the village is the dream scenario since he assumes Rory always dreamed of being more than "just" a nurse. Later episodes demonstrate this isn't necessarily true: Rory is shown and described to be an amazing nurse, and quite proud of the work he does. | |
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ER: Averted in the Bottle Episode "Secrets And Lies", where Abby claims that the reason she dropped out of medical school and returned to nursing was so she could spend more time with each patient. She even lampshades the trope and claims that not all nurses have MD Envy. And then she completes her medical education and becomes a doctor anyway a couple of seasons later. Also averted with Carol Hathaway in Season 3. Hathaway spent several episodes considering getting a medical degree—as well as one episode continually locking horns with another doctor, suddenly resentful of having to take orders from someone younger and less experienced that she, even though she'd never displayed such behavior before—but ultimately decided she preferred being a nurse. Dr. Maggie Doyle apparently had this. Shortly after joining the show, she mentions to Carol that she actually started out in nursing school before switching to medicine, as she wanted to be the one giving the orders instead of taking them. Jerkass Romano insisted on operating on his dog himself. When asked why he didn't take her to a veterinarian, he snaps, "You think I'd trust my dog with some idiot who couldn't get into real medical school?!" Another scene has him saying, "If I wanted a nurse's opinion, I'd. . .actually, I don't know what I'd do, because that's never happened. Throughout his time on the show, it's obvious he holds little regard for anyone who not only isn't in the medical profession, but isn't a surgeon like himself. |
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Seen in the Aubrey-Maturin series, usually from the perspective of the common sailors who are pleased to have an actual learned physician like Stephen Maturin on board. Most naval surgeons are decidedly not physicians. Some have little more than a steady hand with an amputation saw, and given the high rate of drunkenness among naval surgeons, possibly not even that. | |
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Ben from My Family is a dentist, and is shown to have such a strong inferiority complex around doctors that his children lie about the profession of a friend's parent to avoid his reaction. | |
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Ross from Friends holds a doctorate in paleontology. He uses the title "Doctor" as often as he can, and refers to himself as a doctor when the context implies "medical doctor": For instance, when Rachel's father is ill: In the same episode, at the hospital: Then there's the time Russ showed up. He crowed that Ross was jealous of him being a "real doctor." Ross remained unimpressed. "You're a doctor of gums! That's the smallest body part you can major in!" To be fair, Russ has most likely hit his glass ceiling already, whereas Ross can and did go much further. During his parents' anniversary, it becomes apparent where Ross gets this. |
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Groucho averted this in A Day at the Races by just practicing on humans anyway. | |
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