EW: 25 Best TV Doctors: Dr. John Truman Carter III (Noah Wylie) in "ER"

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Those survivors would have been screwed without him.

 

The question is are they still screwed with him?

 

Proably, but they lived longer at least.

 

CLIFF HUXTABLE
Bill Cosby
The Cosby Show (1984-1992)

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Best known for his trove of garish sweaters and penchant for hoagies, we sometimes forget bumbling Cliff Huxtable is actually a skilled OBGYN. But how can you go wrong with a physician who probably has his own lifetime supply of Jell-O?

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What doctor had all that spare time?

 

MICHAELA ''MIKE'' QUINN
Jane Seymour
Dr. Quinn, Medicine Woman (1993-1998)

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We'll admit it: we spent many a Saturday night on the sofa rooting for Dr. Mike as she strove to earn the trust and respect of her skeptical Colorado Spring neighbors. With a successful medical practice, a hot mountain man husband, and adoring children, this determined doc proved pioneer women could have it all ? if only they were allowed.

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hawkeye pierce FTW.

 

Not seen this show, but 'Michaela' in the 1880's? Crazy.

 

For a second I though you were talking about the Venture Bros. episode.

 

Sean Maher
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Served in the ship serenity as Dr. Tam

 

DOUG ROSS
George Clooney
E.R. (1994-)

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No one enjoys playing doctor more than George Clooney ? he's done it twice for penicillin's sake! He started his Chicago emergency room twofer playing floppy-haired physician Mark ''Ace'' Kolmar in the short-lived 80s sitcom E/R, but it was his role as bad-boy-with-a-big-heart Doug Ross on NBC's nigh-immortal E.R. that made him a star ? and a sex symbol.

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Never watched this show.

 

boy was he hot!

 

''HAWKEYE'' PIERCE
Alan Alda
M*A*S*H (1972-1983)

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Eleven years in the South Korean wilderness would have been much more deplorable without the antics of wise-cracking surgeon Hawkeye Pierce. Yet for all the levity he supplied, his helicopter exit from the 4077th still leaves us misty.

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Hawkeye was great.


Is it just me, or is there a pattern with actors playing doctors on TV becoming sex idols? George Clooney, Hugh Laurie...

 

I love how he has an equivalent in the SW universe, but some of the best episodes is when Hawkeye was serious.

Remember him with the Swedish female doctor? And when his father has the operation and that conversation he has with Charles. Some of the episodes that Alda directed were just anout him talking to himself, which was a little boring.

 

What is with this list? Hawkeye should be much, much higher. Same with Hugh Laurie as House.

 

Apparently, as people pointed out at the beginning, it's not a numbered list...

EDIT: As in "not a numbered list in which the number 1 equals the best".

 

Hawkeye Pierce is a classic. Alda was the reason I started watching MASH in the first place. I totally guesed that House would be first, look how wrong I was. NPH is another classic as Doogie.

 

Oddly enough, I remember Alda better in his light heavy and heavy roles...

 

FRASIER AND NILES CRANE
Kelsey Grammar and David Hyde Pierce
Frasier (1993-2004)

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Neurotic psychiatrist brothers Frasier and Niles Crane seem to have more issues than the patients they purport to help. Daddy complex? Check. Messy divorces? You bet. Unrequited love? Of course. Physicians, heal thy selves!

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