• @[email protected]
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      401 month ago

      Somewhere between top-right and top-middle depending on how revoked his license is at the given moment and how much vicodin he is on.

      • @[email protected]
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        21 month ago

        I cannot believe he survived the whole series, seems like someone who should have died near the end of s3 just to add to the atmosphere of desperation.

        • EleventhHour
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          He was kept alive by his steady diet of 200 cigarettes per day.

          • @[email protected]
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            51 month ago

            HOW DID HE EVEN GET CIGARETTES!!!

            They are starving and eating paper but somehow they kept tobacco plants and all the mechanisms for drying and curing them, which would have taken enough resources to keep hundreds of people alive!?!?!

            • EleventhHour
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              A guy like Cottle buys cigarettes for a decade in advance.

              Hell, even Col. Tigh was smoking rollies by the end of the series. Cottle was set for life.

            • Flying Squid
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              I always used to joke that one of the ships in the fleet was a cargo ship full of cigarettes.

  • @[email protected]
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    1021 month ago

    No Dr. House?

    And Oz should be right on top of the Run For Your Life because he’s not fictional and should know better.

    • TheLowestStone
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      Dr. Oz and Dr. Phil have done far more harm than Dr. Pepper could ever aspire to.

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          21 month ago

          I don’t think McCoy is ever depicted as particularly brilliant. He’s just a competent doctor from a time with more advanced technology.

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            I don’t know, he came up with novel cures for things multiple times on planets never before visited. He did it in Miri despite the virus being completely novel.

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    851 month ago

    6 years of evil medical school doesn’t qualify as professional credentials? Also I’d put Dr. Phil below most of these guys, although maybe slightly above Hannibal Lector still.

    • Dojan
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      I trust Doctor Pepper more than Phil.

    • Cruxifux
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      Yeah Phil goes down and to the left. I’d say oz goes down a little bit too, but I’m glad the maker of this meme still put those guys in the right section.

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      To be fair he said he didnt go to evil med school to be called mr evil. Keys eords being didnt go to med school

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    How in the heckin’ is JD below a dwarf, a mad scientist tinkerer, and a random catchy band?

    He is a caring, trained, and competent doctor who will put his pride and personal life aside to help a patient.

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        He wasn’t to blame, though he easily could’ve been. That was death was the radiologist’s fault though, IIRC.

    • @[email protected]
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      71 month ago

      Given the same medical technology I would place JD the highest and furthest right.

      Not just because I like the character but because he truly does give a shit about his patients.

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        21 month ago

        Dr. Strange should have more formal training for his surgery specialty. Did JD specialize or did he just stay in internal medicine?

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          Dr. Strange, if he’s practicing medicine, might decide not to try and save you (he was a neurosurgeon IiRC) because it would hurt his stats.

          JD would try.

          I honestly can’t recall if JD specialised.

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            But that’s the Y axis. Training is on the X. As a neurosurgeon, he’s had at least 2 more years of training than JD, possibly a lot more.

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              I don’t know if Dr. Strange would technically be lower because he hasn’t been practicing for a long time? But I see what you mean.

        • Flying Squid
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          Internal medicine, and then eventually started teaching medical school classes too. Yes, I did watch the shitty Scrubs final season reboot.

          • @[email protected]
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            So Dr. Strange is trained in neurosurgery, which is a 7 year residency compared to 3-4 years for internal medicine. He may have also done a neurosurgery fellowship for 2 years.

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              He definitely should be higher than J.D. if we’re going just by special issues. I would rather have him overseeing my brain surgery than J.D.

              But if I was in the hospital for a more common ailment, I’ll take an expert in internal medicine over a neurosurgeon.

              In fact, if I was in the hospital for, for example, getting poisoned by something and no one can figure out what, I’d pick an expert in internal medicine over a neurosurgeon.

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                JD should definitely be higher than Strange on the Y axis. He cares way more for his patients.

      • FartsWithAnAccent
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        Yup, and Time Lords in general probably had several medical degrees worth of education.

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          I vaguely remember from my Dr. Who phase one of the doctors confirming he did get an Earth M.D. at some point

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          11 month ago

          The Doctor barely squeaked through his Time Lord training (I think the quote was “53% on his second try.”)

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            They still passed the academy, though. That’s probably incredibly good by human standards, given that Time Lord studies encompasses literally everything.

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      They haven’t eaten human liver or tried pan frying a piece of someone’s brain … but they’re still a couple of idiots that shouldn’t be trusted for medical advice

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        They may not be cannibals, but I wouldn’t put it past them to have devoured a number of souls…

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    For reference on the no training side:

    Dr. Dre and Dr. Venture: Both possess honorary doctorates. The former from UCLA, the latter from a Tijuana community college.
    Dr. Pepper: Charles T. Pepper did have a medical doctorate. He is cited as a possible source of the name.
    Dr. Evil: Evil medical school.
    Zoidberg: Claims he lost it in a volcano, more likely a art history degree.
    Dr. Horrible: Likely physics though he claims Horribleness (though it could be a catchphrase.)
    Dr. Seuss: Intended to get a Doctorate of Philosophy, got an honorary doctorate of Humane Letters.
    The Doctor: Per This - While pretending to be the Doctor in an effort to save herself from an army of Cybermen, one of the planet’s deadliest enemies, in Death in Heaven, Clara said: ‘I don’t even really have a doctorate. Well Glasgow University, but then I accidentally graduated in the wrong century.’
    Doc: Does become a doctor at Storybrooke hospital in a live action show, “Once Upon a Time”, apparently not a surgeon though.
    Spin Doctors: No doctors.

    I feel like a fair amount of those on the trained side aren’t medical doctors (Phil, Ock, Robotnik, Lector, Honeydew) or at the very least, aren’t folks you’d want around for your heart attack.

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      Dr Strange being a professional surgeon and barely making it past the neutral mark on the qualification axis seems, well, a bit strange

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        I’d put Strange ahead of McCoy. What is McCoy going to do without his Tricorder? He’d rant,

        “They used to hand-cut and sew people like garments. Needles and sutures.”

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        I agree he should be a little farther right, but his origin story is all about how his injury specifically prevented him from doing surgery anymore. Plus some iterations of him with the time stone might not have thought about medicine in hundreds of years. His magic also seems to not be healing focused. So I kinda get why he is under qualified comparatively

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      yes, but his hands broke in an accident. Not sure how good he is with his hands on medical equipment/psychically controlling medical tools

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        341 month ago

        The meme references training, not physical ability. Strange should arguably be overlaid on Bones.

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        91 month ago

        I thought he willed himself back to full dexterity, but I also didn’t really pay attention to the movie, to be fair.

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          131 month ago

          He learned to magic because he thought it would let him fix his hands. Instead he learned the guy who he thought fixed his legs with magic just uses magic to control his non-functional legs.

          So he probably could do surgery but he’d probably magically control the needle instead of holding it or something. Maybe.

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    Some unsolicited comments on this:

    • I would absolutely trade Dr. Bunsen Honeydew with Dr. Mario.
    • The Dr. Pepper position is just pure slander.
    • Dr. Horrible and Doogie Howser, MD is the true duality of humanity.
    • Zoidberg is suspiciously much higher along the Y-axis than I would personally prefer.
    • Dr. Dre, like I would forget, is absolutely a quadrant II candidate. There’s just no way I’d put Spin Doctors high along the Y-axis than Dre.
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        Not just fully trained, but at the top of his field and possessing an MD and a PhD! He should be at the far right edge!

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          But he also refused a lot of patients because he really only wanted “sure things” and not something that might damage his reputation.

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        161 month ago

        Also… I think he brought some mother fuckers back from the dead. And he helped reverse the snap.

        That sounds like he’s probably got a solid defense against any complaints made to the state board.

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      I’m glad you didn’t forget about Dre… or Double-Doctor E as we call him in the hospital.

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    Dr Oz and Dr Phil are not doctors and should be to the left and south of Dr Pepper. Neither has a license and both are so full of shit their advice has probably killed people.

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      Oz is a Doctor, and was a very good one who got corrupted in his aim for fame and fortune. Part of his tragedy is that if he’d shut up and just do his actual doctor work only he’d be a benefit to society, not the detriment he is now. It’s important to know that he’s worse because he had actual skill as a heart surgeon. Quoting wiki:

      In 1982, he received his undergraduate degree in biology magna cum laude[3] at Harvard University.[31] … In 1986, he obtained MD and MBA degrees from the University of Pennsylvania School of Medicine[30] and Penn’s Wharton School.[34][35]

      Edit: also, as far as I can tell, still performing heart surgeries, so should still be licensed. Still a piece of shit who should stick to surgeries. Lots of people good at 1 thing think they’re geniuses at everything.

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        After hearing the pure stupidity that comes out of his mouth I wouldn’t let that fruitcake supplement salesman near me.

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    Doctor Evil didn’t go to Evil Medical School for six years to be put in the section with no training, thank you very much!

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    There is no way Dr. Mario has any training. He just throws random pills at the problems hoping that they line up and do something other than cause an overdose.

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      Bruh… that’s literally what doctoring is now. Got the hurt? Pain pills. Got the sad? SSRIs. Got two, three, four sets of titties? Ozempic!

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    Dr. Zoidberg is a fully-qualified medical doctor, though, and a good one at that. Just not for humans. Even so, he’s quite good, given that he hasn’t killed any of his human patients, though they may come out a little different.

    As is Doctor Who, who has high qualifications in literally everything. It took them a few goes, but they got there in the end.

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      Didn’t Zoidberg once successfully attach Fry’s head to Amy’s body (or something like that)? Not sure any of the others on that chart have done something that impressive.

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      That said, how much do you trust your life with Dr. Who? I’ve seen many characters die while trusting him, and that’s just the ones on screen.

      I’m not saying he is a bad doctor, but he was caught on film losing several sidekicks/ allies. If you’re caught on film doing something, you probably do it a lot.

      “If you get caught doing crack on the news, you are a crackhead. It’s not like a “oh this was just the one time” situation. You do it enough you get caught on the news doing it.” -Josh Johnson

      Edit: just looked for an answer of what the mortality rate is for the Doctor and it’s 42% according to a reddit question. At some point the authorities would be called in because 42% is more than just a “licence revoked” number.