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When a character is shot or has some other lethal wound, but the next hospital is 100 miles away or the police are after them, an alternative is needed. It doesn't matter if they find a vet or a dentist; as long as they know how to hold a needle, they will do. And they will do just fine! In most cases, not even a scar will remain. To a very limited extent this is justified, as medical doctors in different specialties do all go through basic medical training,note For instance, while you can't expect an eye doctor to conduct a heart or liver transplant, they can be realistically expected to diagnose a heart or epilepsy attack, provide competent first aid, stitch up a wound, assist in childbirth, and so on and some of the skills of one discipline cross over. A bit.note In general, the more specific a procedure, the more specialized the doctor has to be (for instance, your average veterinarian is perfectly capable of sewing up a superficial wound in the skin, but won't be able to perform surgery for a shattered ankle — that latter will need an orthopedic surgeon). Oftentimes a subtrope of Closest Thing We Got, if the dentist's employed in an emergency. Compare Back-Alley Doctor, who may or may not be a licensed practitioner of medicine, but could still save your life if worst comes to worst. Compare/contrast with Super Doc when you can actually find a genuine doctor who is more like medicine's answer to the Omnidisciplinary Scientist. See also Surgeons Can Do Autopsies If They Want. |
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Later still, in Night Watch, Vimes trusts Dr John 'Mossy' Lawn, who is a pox doctor (that is, someone who treats... ladies of negotiable affection... for the infections they contract whilst... negotiating...) with the lives of his wife and unborn child during labour, when the delivery starts going badly and the midwife is out of her depth. It's implied that Dr. Lawn had similar attitudes to Ignaz Semmelweis when it came to childbed fever. However, a doctor who specializes in treating... seamstresses would have ample practice in both pregnancy and the resulting affliction that happens after it, though apparently, this is less of a problem than you might think. (Because Vimes is a very rich man when this occurs, he rewards Dr. Lawn by helping him set up a free public hospital. Subsequent books imply that the influence of the institution have downplayed this trope over time.) | |
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Father Neil daSouza is a Catholic priest who wrote five volumes of the Bless Me Father... short stories about his everyday life as a new parish curate straight out of seminary. Assigned to the wily and street-hardened Father Duddlestone, he learns quickly. Sent to a rich parishioner one day, she tearfully shows him an apparently dead canary and asks if there is anything Father Neil can do for it. (Compare this to James Herriot's story of dealing with a dead cagebird, elsewhere in this section.) Nonplussed, Da Souza read a random prayer in Latin and sprinkled holy water over the bird. He attributes its recovery and bursting into song to the shock of the cold water... | |
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The Adult Swim game series Amateur Surgeon, being a twisted parody of Trauma Center revolves around this. In the first game, Alan Probe is a humble pizza delivery boy who discovers he has an incredible knack for surgery — but since he's not an actual doctor he has to practice in his van or apartment and merely improvise his surgical tools. The sequel features a half-senile 70-year-old Probe called back into the saddle. | |
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In Heist (2015), Dante is wounded during the casino heist. On the bus, Cox calls out for anyone with any kind of medical training. The closest thing on the bus is a veterinary student. | |
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One episode of Vengeance Unlimited has Mr. Chapel getting shot. He has K.C. call a vet who owes him a favor. The vet protests, but you don't say no to Mr. Chapel. | |
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In Sonic the Hedgehog (Archie Comics), the Anti-Mobius version of Doctor Robotnik is Doctor Kintobor, a vet. In a related matter, the Evil Alien Xorda also once said the Mobians are 90% identical to humans in their genealogy, although lord only knows how the internal anatomy of a Mobian is arranged... | |
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In the pilot of When Hope Calls, local veterinarian Chuck tends to area residents who are hurt putting out a fire and the doctor is out of commission. | |
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Franken Fran will stitch together any "patient", whether a human, an animal, some weird hybrid, or a 40-meter giant that forced her to use a two-handed surgical knife. | |
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Black Jack. Operating on animals is one of the least outrageous things this man has done. He's performed successful "surgeries" on a supercomputer and a ghost. | |
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Skirted in Darkman II: The Return of Durant, the weapon builder is a doctor, but not a medic. | |
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In Conversations with a Cryptid, Recovery Girl's hero license only allows her to give first aid on crime scenes. Despite that she practices surgery, anesthesiology, emergency medicine, physiotherapy, sports medicine, pediatric medicine, and general practice, all without licenses or schooling for any of them. Subverted in that it's implied that Izuku's crippled right arm is due to her and several students died due to improper medical treatment. | |
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Angel: When pressed for time, Angel can dig bullets out of his own body. Justified in that he's a vampire, and doing so would do far less damage to him than it would were he a human. | |
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Dr. Phlox from Star Trek: Enterprise also gives Captain Archer's beagle regular check-ups. Justified because Phlox uses lots of animals as a source for curative substances, so he presumably learned how to properly care for and treat them, too. | |
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Jonas Wharton of lonelygirl15 accidentally cuts his hand open in "Flesh Wound" and has it stitched and bandaged by a vet. | |
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One episode of Doogie Howser, M.D. had the eponymous doctor operate on a kid's dog. And then nearly lose his medical license over it. | |
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Not exactly this trope, but in Balzac and the Little Chinese Seamstress, the main characters are sent to a remote mountain during the Cultural Revolution because their parents are doctors and dentists. So when the nasty village headman has a rotten tooth, let's just say the boys have some fun with this... | |
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Harrow: In "Locus Poenitentiae" ("Place of Penitance"), Harrow and Farley—who are pathologists—are forced to deliver a baby for a woman undergoing a Screaming Birth on the side of the road. Harrow notes that Farley at least did an obstetrics rotation during his residency, which makes him the slightly more qualified of the two. | |
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Subverted in one Crossed story where a Red Shirt character hiding inside a survival bunker dies from a botched appendectomy performed by the only doctor in the bunker: a dermatologist. | |
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Spirou & Fantasio: After one of the Count's inventions turns some of the inhabitants of Champignac black, the mayor refuses to call in a doctor, fearing what's happening might leak out. So instead he has one of the victims examined by a former vet who happens to be at hand. The only thing he can contribute is that the victim has a shiny coat, which is a good sign. | |
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Subverted in Fullmetal Alchemist with regards to Dr. Knox. Introduced as a medical examiner, it seems that later decisions to visit him for treatment are strange.potentiallyMedical examiners in real life need medical degrees anyway, so any given medical examiner is qualified to work on living people as well as the dead. In fact, in many places around the world, medical examiners are basically first trained as pathologists, which is often seen as one of the hardest and most prestigious branches of medicine, even if they mostly work with the dead. In fact, Knox had originally been a highly skilled physician but after taking part in medical experiments on captive Ishvalans he felt he was only fit to handle the dead. | |
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Modesty Blaise: In "Million Dollar Game", a vet is shot in the thigh in a position he cannot reach. He talks Modesty through the procedure for removing the bullet. | |
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Hometown Cha-Cha-Cha: Hye-jin (a dentist) delivers Yun-gyeong's baby in her home after the roads to the hospital are blocked due to the typhoon, armed with nothing but her rudimentary knowledge from school and some advice on home births from the neighborhood grandmothers. She's successful. | |
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In Destiny is a Hazy Thing, after the Sound/Sand Invasion, anyone with any medical training is conscripted to help with the massive number of casualties, including veterinarians. Even then, they're still so overworked that patients who should be healed completely are crippled for life because the medics don't have the time or chakra to do more than making sure their patients won't die. | |
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Discussed in NYC 22. When searching for a wounded gunman, Harper and McClaren look for him at various non-hospital facilities. McClaren notes that in the movies, it's always a veterinarian. The shooter turns up at a tattoo parlor. | |
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Shows up in The Dresden Files story "The Warrior" and after: Waldo Butters acts as Harry's physician — and it's stated that he's done this a number of times already. Harry, like most wizards, is enough of a Walking Techbane that his presence in a proper hospital would endanger the other patients. Unlike most of the examples on this list, Butters is a fully trained and accredited doctor. However, he works in the morgue and finds working with the dead less stressful. | |
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Used in the One Step Beyond (1959) episode "Brainwave" when a World War II ship captain gets a shrapnel wound in the neck, and the only medically trained crewman available is a pharmacist's mate. He's talked through the procedure via radio by a doctor from another ship, who gets killed mid-operation when his own ship is hit. Yet his voice continues issuing instructions that guide the mate through a successful extraction and closure: instructions so precise, it's clear before The Reveal that something supernatural is happening because he can evidently see the operation in progress. | |
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In Tomorrow: When the War Began, Lee's leg is wounded while on a recon trip into town, and his leg is fixed up by the local dentist. He's pretty abrasive and jumpy, but considering the risk he's taking by helping, it's probably justified. | |
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Discworld: People who actually know what they're doing don't go to a doctor for major medical problems, they go to a vet. The logic is thus: If a doctor isn't good, they usually just have a dead patient. But if a vet isn't good, they usually have a rich, furious, mafioso racing horse owner with lots of hired muscle and little patience (or worse, if the mafioso in question is Chrysophrase the troll) to deal with. Hence why horse vet "Doughnut Jimmy" Folsom is regarded as one of the best doctors in the city, despite his tendency to act as if all of his patients are horses, regardless of their actual species. Later in the continuity, they start going to Igors. When someone is trained to stitch together dead body parts into living monsters, stitching someone's lost arm back onto the body it belongs to is much, much easier. Later still, in Night Watch, Vimes trusts Dr John 'Mossy' Lawn, who is a pox doctor (that is, someone who treats... ladies of negotiable affection... for the infections they contract whilst... negotiating...) with the lives of his wife and unborn child during labour, when the delivery starts going badly and the midwife is out of her depth. It's implied that Dr. Lawn had similar attitudes to Ignaz Semmelweis when it came to childbed fever. However, a doctor who specializes in treating... seamstresses would have ample practice in both pregnancy and the resulting affliction that happens after it, though apparently, this is less of a problem than you might think. (Because Vimes is a very rich man when this occurs, he rewards Dr. Lawn by helping him set up a free public hospital. Subsequent books imply that the influence of the institution have downplayed this trope over time.) |
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Parodied in the second instalment of the Supper Smash Bros: Mishonh From God trilogy, where Dr. Mario is shown helping Fiora give birth in his operating theatre. While Dr. Mario's qualifications aren't touched upon in his home games, his usage of pills implies him to be a chemist. Notable for being a case with three different types of doctors being (intentionally) mixed up in one fell swoop. | |
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Lampshaded numerous times in The Adventures of Dr. McNinja: In his first appearance in Issue One-Half, he is seen practicing dentistry. Mere moments later, he says that he is a podiatrist. At the end of Spooky Stuff, he's asking people if they want to discuss their current "General Practitioner? Or Dentist? Or Neurologist? Whatever." Justified, though — the Doc had numerous clones made of him in college, each of them mastering a different field. And then they re-amalgamated, to make the doc. He is now an expert in every field except agriculture. |
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Mass Effect: Annihilation: Yorrick the elcor tries pointing out from the off that he's an elcor ear nose and throat doctor, not a trained mortician/virologist. It's pointed out right back he's the closest thing they can manage in the situation (since they can't risk waking up anyone else). He does a remarkable job, all the same. Until he catches the virus, which eventually kills him. | |
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Jericho (2006): Kenchy is a plastic surgeon, but must treat several people suffering from fever, gunshot wounds, strokes, or pregnancy complications. Not all of his patients survive. | |
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On Batman: The Brave and the Bold, Aquaman calls The Atom (Dr. Ryan Choi) to help when Batman is infected with a deadly pathogen. Ryan Choi is a physicist. Fortunately, a physicist who can shrink, so at least they could "Fantastic Voyage" Plot the problem away. | |
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The Peshawar Lancers begins with a trooper complaining about being wounded and not wanting to see "the yoni doctor". His CO chides him gently, saying that while their regimental surgeon is a reservist and happens to be a gynaecologist in his civilian career, he is also a fully trained battlefield surgeon, and the trooper should know better than to be angry with people who are trying to keep him alive. | |
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Atomic Robo and the Knights of the Golden Circle: Robo encounters Doc Holliday while trying to save a man dying from gunshot wounds. Holliday is able to keep the man alive long enough to pass on some crucial information, though he dies shortly after. | |
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Parodied in 3rd Rock from the Sun. Vicki repeatedly mistakes Dr. Albright for a medical doctor, despite Mary's insistence that her doctorate is in anthropology. When Vicki gets pregnant, she asks Albright to deliver the baby; after Mary again tries to explain that she's not that kind of doctor, Vicki assumes that Mary is just being snooty. | |
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Fallout: New Vegas: Discussed. The doctor at the Bitter Springs refugee camp gives you a quest to find some medical texts for him. He is a military doctor, and thus specializes in trauma surgery, but is now stuck as the only doctor in a camp full of kids and people with all kinds of mental problems from the refugee experience. With no hope of help or finding a replacement, the good doctor needs to brush up on psychiatry and pediatrics, fast. | |
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In Inglourious Basterds, Bridget von Hammersmark is taken to a very frightened vet after being shot in the leg. He does a surprisingly good job. | |
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A mild example in The Wolverine, with a veterinary student stitching up Wolverine's wounds and extracting some lead bullets out of him. | |
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Everybody Loves Raymond: New York cops are legendary for having seen just about everything and for being able to cope with just about anything. Until Sergeant Robert Barone tries to take charge of his sister-in-law's pregnancy scare and attempts to rush her to the hospital. He only succeeds in getting stuck in a traffic jam on Queensboro Bridge and, faced with delivering Debra's baby, flounders terribly. Ray is of no help. Fortunately for Sergeant Barone, who panics completely, it's a false alarm. | |
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The X-Files: In the episode "Agua Mala", Scully (a pathologist) delivers a baby and states she has not done so before. She also winds up doing a fair amount of emergency medicine, largely on Mulder. | |
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The Quarry combines this with Self-Surgery; Laura, who's not even in school yet to be a veterinarian, is forced to patch up her own eye after her werewolf boyfriend slashes her face. | |
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In The Venture Brothers, Billy Quizboy, a neurogeneticist, is frequently called upon to do surgery on something other than the brain, although in a season 4 episode, he actually gets to do that. Previously he operated on Dean's testicles and sewed one man's head onto another man's shoulders, and claims to have grafted the head of a horse onto the torso of a well-known celebrity. | |
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Quantum Leap: When Sam leaps into a man helping a woman kidnap a baby (to return it to its rightful mother) he realizes that the baby has asthma. They're on the run and can't go back so they find a vet to bring the baby to. | |
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Valiant Hearts gives us Anna, a veterinarian who winds up having to aid several wounded soldiers and civilians in a story based in World War I. No animals are treated this way in the game, despite a medical dog being among the main cast. | |
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From the Stargate SG-1 episode "Deadman Switch": | |
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On the Archer episode "Coyote Lovely", after the mission goes wrong, Sterling gets shot several times and has to be taken to a vet... who also turns out to be an alcoholic. | |
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Subverted in The Regulators when a woman's arm is torn off by a gunshot. Tom Billingsley, a vet, tries to treat her, but she soon dies. Billingsley remarks that she needed a trauma unit, not "an old veterinarian with shaky hands". | |
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Mass Effect: Despite the fact that Mordin Solus is a doctorate in genetics and biochemistry, he still runs a clinic in Omega. Justified by the fact that his assistants are more or less medically trained and his knowledge of Bizarre Alien Biology is a vital part of what keeps the clinic up and running. (Not to mention that he also occasionally shoots the mercs that try to disturb the clinic's work). Choosing him as the tech specialist during the suicide mission is also this and WILL get him killed. This is probably justified because Mordin is an Omnidisciplinary Scientist that also handles your tech and weapons upgrades when you recruit him. Treating a clinic's standard patients would probably be a cakewalk for him, and his recruitment mission involves dispensing a cure he created for a plague that is ravaging the clinic's neighborhood. He can even sing! In Noveria in the first game, the injured survivors in Peak 15 are being seen to by the facility's microbiologist. As he notes he has a doctorate, but not in medicine. |
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Better Call Saul: On his first day in Albuquerque, Mike goes to a vet for treatment of the bullet wound that he sustained while avenging his son's death against two corrupt cops before he left Philadelphia. The vet, Dr. Caldera, is not only a clandestine doctor for those who have no other recourse but also a middleman between various types of criminals who helps Mike get his first jobs in Albuquerque's criminal underworld. | |
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City Slickers featured two dentists as characters; when a medical emergency occurred on the trail, it fell to them to stay behind and care for the patient, as they at least had some medical training. Also lampshaded by the younger dentist when he asked "What are we going to do? Give him a cleaning?" |
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Just like Dr. Franklin, the various Star Trek medical officers cover all fields of medicine for multiple species. Of course, in Star Trek VI: The Undiscovered Country, Dr. McCoy's lack of medical knowledge about Klingons dooms Chancellor Gorkon and lands McCoy and Kirk in prison. That being said, McCoy successfully cured a rock once (a wounded Horta, to be precise). He realized that he was way out of his depth, having no training in silicon-based biology, but covered a phaser wound with plaster —the silicon equivalent of a bandage. Dr. Phlox from Star Trek: Enterprise also gives Captain Archer's beagle regular check-ups. Justified because Phlox uses lots of animals as a source for curative substances, so he presumably learned how to properly care for and treat them, too. |
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In the Firefly fic Shut Our Exhausted Eyes Simon has to do a root canal on Mal. Mal can't exactly go to a dentist and though Simon is a surgeon rather than a dentist, he had read up on the procedure and seen it done and since Mal was actually allowing the help without his usual grumbling, Simon knows it's gotta be bad. The author throws in a handwave of future medical tech being better than today's, and Simon being glad Serenity's med bay is at least decently equipped, and he's able to get it done without trouble. | |
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Variation in Forgetting Sarah Marshall. Peter, having just slept with someone after his break-up with the eponymous Sarah, goes to a doctor worried that he has an STD. Said doctor then reminds him, "Peter, I'm a pediatrician. Did you notice you're sitting on a fire engine?" However, since pediatricians treat people up to 18 years old, the doctor should actually be quite familiar with testing and treating STDs (not to mention victims of sexual abuse). |
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30 Rock: "Dr." Leo Spaceman tend to handle whatever the plot requires. He's actually listed under three different entries in the Writer's Guild health manual (fertility, meth addiction, and child psychiatry). He's not particularly competent at anything, though. | |
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Justified in The Walking Dead (2010) after Carl is shot in a hunting accident and Hershel (a retired vet) was the only person they knew to have medical experience that was still alive in the middle of a Zombie Apocalypse. He even explains that there's no guarantee of success, but he'll do the best he can. He manages to save Carl once they've retrieved some medical equipment. Bonus points because a key skill common to veterinarians is not getting bitten by patients, which is otherwise a major problem in the genre. | |
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In Our Mutual Friend, Mr. Venus is a taxidermist. In Dickensian, he's apparently the closest Inspector Bucket has to a forensic pathologist. | |
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In the webtoon Lackadaisy when The Big Guy, Viktor, gets injured in a fight Ivy calls the local horse doctor for help. | |
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M*A*S*H: The doctors will attempt to bring in a specialist if a patient has a particularly complex issue, but circumstances often mean that it's simply not possible. In many cases, one of the unit's four main doctors will end up having to perform a highly specialized procedure that may be completely outside their primary area of expertise. In addition, the nurses will also take on some of the work that would ideally be given to a doctor, and even non-medical personnel have occasionally been called to assist in surgery when the situation was particularly dire. In situations where they were especially shorthanded or overloaded, head nurse Margaret Houlihan occasionally performed some of the less complicated surgical procedures, like closing a patient's incision(s) after surgery. In later seasons, it became more common for the nurses to handle procedures of this type so that the doctors could focus on the more difficult procedures, allowing them to move the wounded through more quickly. In one episode, every doctor except Hawkeye is taken out of commission by the flu, as are a number of the support staff. When a load of wounded arrives, Hawkeye (who is himself ill by this point) ends up pressing pretty much every unit member still standing, including company clerk Radar, into service. (The jobs of the non-medical personnel were usually limited to "hold this" or "hand me that", but those are still people whose jobs usually don't entail any direct involvement in surgeries.) Inverted in episodes when the surgeons offered medical care to animals, like Radar's various pets or the shrapnel-injured cow whose calf they delivered. In another episode, Father Mulcahy, the chaplain, has to perform an emergency tracheotomy on a wounded soldier, guided by Hawkeye over the radio. He succeeds. |
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In Lost, Jack's appendix is successfully removed by Juliet, a fertility researcher, and Bernard, a dentist. The show attempted to justify this trope by having Juliet say that she'd performed a lot of appendectomies during her residency. Also, during Jack's operation, Bernard seemed mostly in charge of giving Juliet tools and applying Jack's anesthesia. As a dentist, Bernard would plausibly have more experience with that latter job than most other doctors who aren't surgeons. | |
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NCIS: A Halloween episode involves a badly wounded gunshot victim going to his neighbor for help. His neighbor is a pediatrician. In a less-believable example, medical examiners Ducky and Jimmy have to perform emergency surgery on a German Shepherd dog with serious internal bleeding. Jimmy spent a summer as a veterinary technician, but that's a LONG way from being able to perform complex surgery like finding and removing a foreign body in a dog's stomach. |
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In Prison Break, the character T-bag (Theodore Bagwell), forces a veterinarian to reattach his hand at knifepoint, without anesthesia. It should probably be noted that it doesn't work. It just kind of sits there uselessly until he's forced to remove it to escape a situation, and replaces it with a properly made prosthetic. | |
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In the Law & Order episode "Over Here" a badly-wounded man stumbles into a Veterinary Clinic; he was either too wounded to realize what it was or too desperate to care. The staff do what they can with supplies meant for very large dogs, but he dies before an ambulance arrives to take him to some human doctors. The detectives are taken aback when the vet gives them a precise description of the man's injuries; he explains this as having "x-ray hands" due to treating patients that can't talk. Truth in Television, as vets in most states are legally permitted and morally obliged to help injured humans until someone better qualified to treat people can take over. | |
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The Brittas Empire had an episode when the cast ended up having a vet deliver a baby in the sauna and a doctor deliver a calf in a squash court. | |
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In Animorphs, Cassie's amateur veterinary skills are sometimes brought up for this, such as when Elfangor crashed on Earth. (Of course, who's to say a human doctor would know how to handle an alien injury either?) Still, when she was actually forced to operate on Ax she only managed with help from Aftran, who accessed Ax's own memories to figure out what to do. | |
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In The Dragon Knight series, James, a man from the late 20th century, has had to use his limited 20th-century medical knowledge to help deal with 14th-century medical issues. Luckily, this tends to consist of fairly simple things like clean bandages, making sure that helpers wash their hands with soap, plus some general 20th-century medical info, like antibiotics and means of cleaning wounds, that he could easily use. Later, he's able to use his magic to assist in healing wounds and doing blood transfusions. | |
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Bluey - "Dad Baby": Lucky's dad is asked to help deliver the baby, but protests that he has no idea how. | |
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Subverted in an episode of Malcolm in the Middle when Lois is giving birth at home (not on purpose, the paramedics were late) and everyone expects the doctor neighbor to deal with it. He protests that he knows nothing about obstetrics — he is a dentist and, in fact, became a dentist because most aspects of the human body Squick him out. | |
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The plot of Steel Rain involves the Glorious Leader of North Korea being wounded in a coup, and raced across the South Korean border to safety by a loyal intelligence operative. He doesn't trust the South Korean government, so he forces his way inside an obstetric clinic that has just closed, getting the doctor to treat his patient at gunpoint. She does her best but there's a bullet lodged in his cranium that she doesn't dare remove. "I'm an obstetrician, not a neurosurgeon. Unless there's a baby inside this belly, I can't do it." Later a woman with them gets injured in a shootout, so she takes them to her friend who's a plastic surgeon, because she at least knows surgery. | |
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One Murder, She Wrote episode had the characters stranded in a ski lodge, and one performed a post-mortem examination, despite his protests that he was a dermatologist. He did fairly well, actually. | |
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Futurama implies that Zoidberg's entire career with Planet Express is a case of this. While the show generally treats him as an incompetent doctor, he's apparently a competent physician when it comes to treating other aliens, and humans (of which the Planet Express crew almost entirely consists) just happen to fall completely outside his range of medical knowledge. However, he's a cheap hire, remaining out of Undying Loyalty to Farnsworth despite far larger offers from a company hoping to hire him in a capacity better suited to his skills, and Planet Express has a greater investment in saving money than in saving employees. | |
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The Stand: Subverted when one of the merry band of travelers tries to perform an emergency appendectomy and the patient dies. None of the folks in the group are dentists or vets, but one of the group holds a Ph.D. In anthropology. Later, the Boulder Free Zone's "doctor" points out that he's just a vet, and the town needs someone with real human medicine experience. When an elderly M.D. arrives, he immediately sets about training the vet in human doctoring, noting that despite surviving the pandemic, he will not be around long and the vet (and a recently arrived nurse) is the best hope they have for the future. |
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In Psychonauts, where the page quote comes from. Dr. Loboto has no idea what he's doing—but he was amoral and loony-kookoo enough to take the job when the Big Bad offered it, so he's doing brain surgery as best as his dental training will allow. This turns out to be quite sufficient. On the other hand, his assistant Sheegor actually is some sort of brain specialist and was helpful in restoring Sasha and Milla's brains. Which is rather impressive considering she acts more like an eight-year-old girl. |
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In 3:10 to Yuma (2007), the posse brings a man who's been shot to Doc Potter for treatment. Potter nervously treats the man, then expresses surprise that he managed so well since he's actually a veterinarian. | |
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In A Life Less Ordinary, Celine takes Robert to an ex's house after he gets shot in the leg. Said ex is, of course, a dentist. That she shot in the head. | |
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In The Unusuals Delahoy coerces a medical examiner, despite her protests, into doing tests on him for his tumor. | |
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Draw!: After Holland is wounded during the shootout with the sheriff, Bess fetches the town dentist to extract the bullet from his leg. | |
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Dr. Quinn, Medicine Woman, once operated on her son's dog. She specifically points out she's a people doctor when he brings Wolf to her. The pilot had a brief mention of her treating a farmer's pig. | |
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Critical Role: Milo Krook, a mechanic, ended up being the only one who saw that Ashton didn't immediately die after getting thrown out of a fifth-story window during a burglary gone wrong, and had to fix his smashed skull and left side before he really did die. The only reason they even knew where to start is because Ashton's body is mostly made of rock and crystal, allowing them to mend the wounds with molten gold and slag glass. Ashton survived (though barely), but the injury and makeshift patch job left him with memory problems, blindness in one eye, and severe chronic pain. | |
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Get Shorty: Miles has his gunshot wound treated by his estranged wife, who is a nurse at a plastic surgeon's office. | |
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Subverted in Superstore when Cheyenne has to give birth in the store, the pharmacist Tate heroically walks in and asks if she's on any drugs for the birth...and then walks out, saying that as a pharmacist, that's all he's really licensed to do. | |
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The official Team Fortress 2 webcomic has this. The team is split up after being fired when Grey Mann takes control of Mann Co., and each has gone their separate ways. When Miss Pauling tries to gather up the team, she finds Soldier, Pyro, and Demoman, and has to drive them around in her car. Soldier and Pyro behave like children and do the "This Is My Side" thing in the back of the car. Pyro doesn't approve of Soldier being on his side. Without the Medic, they have to resort to a roadside veterinarian to reattach his hand. Soldier seems perfectly fine with this and it's the vet who looks positively traumatized by the whole affair. In all fairness, Soldier is crazy. | |
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More a case of not knowing which is the right profession for the job than being strapped for alternatives, in the My Little Pony: Friendship Is Magic episode "Secret of My Excess", Twilight tries taking Spike to a pediatrician to figure out why he's been having sudden growth spurts. The diagnosis? | |
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One episode of Doctor Who serial "The Seeds of Doom" takes place at an Antarctic outpost cut off from the outside world. When one of its staff needs an alien-Virus-infected limb amputated, a zoologist is tasked to perform the emergency surgery because he's a better choice than the geologist or botanist: at least he's probably held a scalpel before, if only for dissections. | |
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In Jurassic Park, Chief Vet Gerry Harding is the closest thing they have to a doctor after Malcolm is mauled by the T. Rex. Despite being one of the best bird doctors and the best dinosaur doctor in the world, the most he's able to do is give Malcolm morphine and try and keep the wounds clean and closed; and he outright says Malcolm will die if he can't be evacuated within a day. Presumably he's also the one treating Malcolm in the movie, where he does a much better job. | |
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Boardwalk Empire: Deconstructed when Prohibition agent Nelson Van Alden takes a wounded suspect from a hospital to where he can be interrogated. Seeing that the guy won't make it, they find the nearest person with a medical degree, who happens to be a dentist. The man points out that he has no idea how to help the suspect. He injects the then-legal cocaine to calm down the guy but has to do it in his mouth, as he has never injected a syringe anywhere else. The guy dies while a desperate van Alden, uh, accelerates his questioning under these conditions. Played relatively straight in season 3. Samuel Crawford is called in to treat a man who has been shot in the stomach. He is a medical student still two years from graduation and this is the type of operation that normally requires a proper hospital and a skilled surgeon. He is forced to operate out of a kitchen and use whiskey as an anesthetic. Luckily the bullet did not hit any vital organs and Samuel manages to extract it and sew up the wound. He then explains that the patient might still die from complications if he is not taken to a proper hospital. |
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On Discovery Health's Untold Stories of the E.R., one episode featured a med student with a background in biochemistry and pharmacology who ended up delivering a baby — rather, watching in shock while a nurse delivered the baby. A family with the mother in labor walks into the wrong section of the hospital, where the med student is, and the instructor orders him to help the woman. He had been a resident for 4 days and didn't even know where the emergency room was. It is worth noting that, barring complications, delivering a baby is pretty straightforward. Anyone with even basic first aid training is more than up to the task unless the delivery encounters complications that are not immediately apparent. |
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Secret Wars (1984): After Molecule Man is badly injured in the initial battle between heroes and villains, the other villains are at a loss for what to do and badger Doctor Octopus to help him in the basis that he's the only doctor present. Otto angrily points out that he's a physicist, not a medical doctor, but gets overridden and so has to try his best to treat Owen's wounds. He's able to manage some very basic stitches, but that's it, and he complains the whole time that Owen needs an actual medic. | |
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Parodied in Punch-Drunk Love: | |
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CSI: In "Willows in the Wind", Doc Robbins (a pathologist) has to perform impromptu field surgery on Catherine, cauterising a gunshot wound with a curling iron. Doc Robbins and David have performed emergency resuscitation on a supposed cadaver that turned out not to be quite dead. Justified in both cases as pathologists start out as doctors, or at least have medical degrees—they may not be up on the latest medical knowledge, but they're fully capable of treating people in emergencies. |
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In Hack/Slash, Cassie and Vlad usually go to their friend Lisa — who is a veterinarian — to get patched up. In her defense, Lisa usually comments that she is not qualified to work on humans, but Cassie and Vlad prefer not to have their injuries treated in hospital. | |
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Mrs. Everdeen in The Hunger Games is an apothecary, but functions as a doctor for much of District 12, since the population is too poor to afford real doctors. | |
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A 1986 remake of Stagecoach replaced alcoholic general practitioner, Doc Boone, with Doc Holliday, a dentist. He fulfilled the role of delivering the baby. | |
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ER did this too—Doug Ross, Anna DelAmico, and Cleo Finch, all pediatricians, were often seen treating adult patients (in DelAmico's defense, she was double-boarding in pediatrics and emergency medicine). | |
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In Jagged Alliance, one of the combat medics you can hire, Dr. Mitch Shudlem, is an obstetrician looking to broaden his horizons into trauma surgery. By Jagged Alliance 2 this hasn't worked out for him, and he has "traded the blood and gore of the battlefield for blood and gore of the delivery room and wonders why he ever left." | |
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A massive car crash in the Pokémon: The Series episode "A Chansey Operation" anime results in a full Pokémon Center that is forced to send excess Pokémon to a human hospital and a doctor who prescribes superglue for everything he can get away with. Of course, this is the first and only time when we can see that modern medicine in-universe isn't limited to Pokémon. Local herbs and remedies have been used to cure ailments (specifically Stun Spore) on both Pokémon and humans throughout the series. |
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Teen Wolf: Justified: Deaton, the town veterinarian, is secretly the doctor to all the supernatural creatures (mostly were-creatures) in Beacon Hills. He'll treat more human injuries in a pinch, but the characters go to him for anything more supernaturally based. Later on, the one who handles more mundane injuries for the group is Melissa, a registered nurse. Reinforcing this trope is the fact that she's often pressed into performing advanced triage and emergency care because no actual clinical physician would ever believe just how the bestial injuries being treated came to exist. |
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South Park: During an emergency at the hospital, the surgeon is forced to employ the children as honorary doctors on the grounds that they'd once watched a medical drama on TV. Stan, being squeamish, empties his stomach into a patient's incision. A running gag is Randy being called on to do scientific work for the town outside of his field of geology. This being because he is the only scientist in the town. A double subversion in "Good Times With Weapons", where an MD opts not to operate on a dog with a shuriken in its eye that had wandered into the hospital, reasoning that his knowledge of humans doesn't translate to dogs. Problem is, it's actually Butters in a terrible dog disguise. |
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A Rabbit Among Wolves: After Jaune is shot, his minions take him to a vet where Perry works, largely because they can't go to the hospital due to Jaune being a fugitive. | |
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When Chuck gets shot on Gossip Girl his gunshot wound to the abdomen is treated by Eva, a prostitute who dropped out of nursing school and who uses only vodka and dressings to nurse him back to health. It works and he appears to have no lingering problems save for a two-episode limp. | |
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Mostly averted in the Don Knotts vehicle The Shakiest Gun in the West. His character is the valedictorian of his dental school, but he faints at the sight of the gunshot wound when the services of "Doctor Heywood" are called upon. | |
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Doctor Strange is sometimes roped by his fellow superheroes into carrying out medical procedures on the wounded in emergencies, usually over his fervent protests that he's a neurosurgeon specifically, and years out of practice besides (he had to retire after a car accident maimed his hands and left him unable to hold a scalpel steady; accordingly, when forced to do surgery nowadays, he has to use magic or give instructions to others). He's usually able to serve adequately enough, though he tends to also insist that his patient seek proper care once the current crisis is resolved. | |
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In Day of the Outlaw, Bruhn was shot and badly wounded during the robbery. Knowing he needs to get the bullet out, he asks if Bitters has a doctor. He is told that there is Doc Langer, who is a veterinarian. Bruhn asks if Langer can remove a slug, and is told that he has in the past. Bruhn then forces Langer to operate on him. | |
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In Dino Attack RPG, Dr. Joel Fuchs, a biologist whose specialty was in diseases, was called in to assist in the treatment of a large number of wounded agents. In fairness, there were already several more qualified surgeons but they needed all the help they could get, and he was probably the only other person around who had an understanding of human anatomy. Ultimately subverted in that he never actually performed any surgery himself. | |
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In the Ciaphas Cain novel Death or Glory, the chief medical officer of the scratch company Cain forms from the scattered remnants of various Guard units, PDF units, and street gangs was a vet. He was the only medically trained person they could find. Cain himself remarked that the Vet is trained in "All animals. Big or small." This would later become the title of the Vet's autobiography recapping the events of the campaign. | |
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In the film Baby Boom (1987), Diane Keaton's character gets treated by a veterinarian during her time in Vermont. | |
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Justified in the Legends of Laconia series, because Dr. Nat Silver is a Friendly Neighborhood Vampire who uses his extended lifespan to attend different medical schools over the years and become fully accredited in multiple disciplines. In one of the stories posted online but not yet professionally published, there is a subversion when someone gets a gunshot wound and he wails that he is a general practitioner, vet, psychiatrist, obstetrician, dentist, and plastic surgeon, but not a trauma surgeon! | |
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Stephen Maturin in the Aubrey-Maturin novels by Patrick O'Brien tends to show this sort of thing from time to time, though in this case it's pretty well justified. Maturin is one of few actual physicians in the Royal Navy, and can (unlike most Navy surgeons) be trusted to do more than amputate limbs and pull teeth, meaning that most medical men he meets defer to him. Maturin is not only a physician, but also a zoologist of some renown, and has a very good handle on anatomy in general. Maturin is usually the only medical professional in range when Sophie is at sea, and finally, other physicians readily acknowledge that Maturin is very, very good. | |
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Of course, in Star Trek VI: The Undiscovered Country, Dr. McCoy's lack of medical knowledge about Klingons dooms Chancellor Gorkon and lands McCoy and Kirk in prison. | |
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Trauma Center (Atlus): The player is called on to disarm a bomb in the first game and its remake. It's a bit justified since your assistant used to be a part of the police force and dated a guy on the bomb squad, and you do at least have the stable hands required. Trauma Center: New Blood forces the player into a dog operation when their guide dog receives a shotgun blast trying to protect them. The characters explicitly note that they're doing as little as is necessary to save the dog's life, since, well, they're not vets. In Trauma Team, Naomi indulges a child into taking a cat in for what she thinks is a "simple" endoscopy. Nope, the cat's infected with the Rosalia virus. |
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Emergency! has this situation more than once: "905-Wild," the paramedics find a pet goat kid who desperately needs surgery for a despondent little girl. As it is, the proper veterinary clinic is too far away and the goat has to be taken to Rampart Hospital instead over the vociferous objections of Dr. Brackett, who has to be talked into treating the goat. As it is, a vet from Animal Control guides the Rampart surgeons over the phone and Dr. Early happens to have enough animal training to avoid using the wrong drugs. On a later episode, the paramedics are on an isolated island with the one bridge out and thus they are the medical staff around except for one doctor, who is a psychiatrist. With radio contact with Rampart Hospital, she still proves an asset under the circumstances until Dr. Morton can be flown in to take over. Not as far-fetched as it might sound; a psychiatrist is a full M.D. with a specialty in diagnosing and treating mental illnesses. |
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Downplayed in the Sherlock Holmes fanfic All God's Little Creatures. Alfie asks Watson if he can help a hurt kitten. Watson notes that to a boy, all doctors probably seem alike. The wound is such that Watson can fix it, despite not being a veterinarian. | |
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Love Hard: After a bad allergic reaction, Josh brings Natalie to the local vet because the hospital is half an hour away. | |
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Kate Brewster in Terminator 3: Rise of the Machines was a veterinarian. By Terminator Salvation, she had become a doctor. Since most of the world was destroyed on Judgment Day, it's highly unlikely she got to attend medical school, so she probably got promoted to doctor based on her veterinary skills. | |
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In the final episode of Frasier, Daphne's baby is delivered by a nurse who happens to be waiting at the same veterinarian's office. Nobody even suggests that Niles (who must have a medical degree if he is practicing as a psychiatrist) might be a better choice.note In an earlier episode, Niles and Frasier attempt to deliver a baby, being the only doctors of any sort on hand for the emergency, and fail miserably. It is revealed of Niles that he only opted to specialise in psychiatry after he realised that surgery and the sight of blood made him very queasy indeed. | |
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An early episode of The Sopranos plays this for laughs. After hearing a hefty sound from Pussy from his brothel room, one of the men comments that Pussy must be having a good time... then the prostitute he's with runs in and tells everyone that Pussy might be having a heart attack. The madam sighs and fetches a doctor client of the brothel...a dermatologist. | |
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The Transformers: More than Meets the Eye: Because Transformers are giant robots, the boundary between "engineering" and "medicine" is naturally somewhat porous. This is best exemplified when Whirl, a former watchmaker turned Blood Knight, performs the equivalent of a heart transplant on a freshly constructed Megatron, out of spite. For bonus points, since he hasn't had his empurata surgery reversed and never does, he's performing said surgery with only one eye and using hands that are basically just scissors. It works perfectly. | |
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NTSF:SD:SUV::: Parodied when the President of the Navy has his heart covertly replaced with a bomb by the villains. Trent performs "heart surgery" by literally ripping out another person's heart with his bare hands and shoving it inside the other person's chest. | |
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In Justice League Unlimited Booster Gold is faced with a woman about to give birth and turns to the doctor helping him save the world. | |
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During a multi-episode arc on Night Court, Dan is called up as an Army Reservist and sent to Alaska. While he's there, a local woman has to have her appendix taken out but because the local doctor is unable to perform the surgery (both of his hands were injured in a plane crash Dan caused by firing a flare gun at his plane), Dan has to operate on her. Dan is chosen because the doctor wants someone whose native language is English so he can guide him through the procedure. | |
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