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== [[Film]] ==
* In ''[[The Three Lives Of Thomasina]]'', veterinarian Andrew MacDhuie's defining feature is his great bitterness with his profession and not being able to use his skills to help people.
* Groucho averted this in ''[[A Day
* 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.
* The envy and inadequacy suffered by Kirstie Alley's character Marjorie as a woman who has married into an entire family of doctors is the catalyst for the entire plot of ''[[Sibling Rivalry]]''.
* Speaking of the MD vs DO debate, the movie ''[[Alien Apocalypse]]'' has Bruce Campbell as a DO who saves the world from alien conquest using the power of osteopathy and pointed sticks. He continually complains about no one takes him seriously because he's a DO.
* [[Lampshade Hanging|Lampshaded]] in ''[[Star Trek IV:
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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.
* ''[[Ender's Game|Shadow of the Hegemon]]'':
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'''The Psychologist''': I'm a psychologist.
'''Petra''': Ouch. That must have hurt, to admit you're only half-educated. }}
* Seen in the [[Aubrey
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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:
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'''Ross:''' And yet, we do. }}
** 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.
** Best one is where they are at a hospital
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'''Rachel:''' Ross, please, this is a hospital, okay? That actually means something here. }}
** During his parents' anniversary, it becomes apparent where Ross gets this.
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'''Father:''' [interrupting] ''Doctor'' Ross Gellar!
'''Ross:''' [embarrassed] Dad! Please! [soberly] I'm Doctor Ross Gellar... }}
* 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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** Also, Turk and J.D. are [[Star-Crossed Lovers|Star Crossed]] [[Heterosexual Life Partners]], having crossed the divide between physicians and surgeons, neither of whom consider the other group to be real doctors.
** And in one episode where Dr. Cox has to call the hospital dermatologist, he rants to the patient:
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** And in the episode "My Quarantine":
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'''Turk''': I counted more than that.
'''Dr. Cox''': I'm talking legitimate doctors, turtle head. Here, Pee-Pants is a pathologist, so he doesn't count. Johnson is a dermatologist, which is Greek for "fake doctor," and please don't even get me started on you four surgeons.
'''Todd''': There's only two of us.
'''Dr. Cox''': You are so very useless, I counted you both twice. }}
** 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".
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** Dr. Cox even refers to ''his own psychiatrist'' as someone who couldn't cut it in real medicine.
* Alan from ''[[Two and A Half Men]]'' is often belittled for being a chiropractor and not a "real" doctor.
* Averted in the [[Bottle Episode]] "Secrets And Lies" of ''[[ER]]'', where a nurse reveals she originally studied to be an MD but then switched to nursing so she could spend more time with each patient. She even lampshades the trope and claims that not all nurses have
** And then the character becomes a doctor anyway a couple of seasons later.
* ''[[Seinfeld]]'' - Elaine dates an intern who's repeatedly failed his medical licensing exam. She insists on calling him "doctor" anyway so she can say she's dating a doctor. Later on, Elaine even helps him study for the exam to make him an actual doctor only for him to pass and dump her immediately afterward, under the rationale that as a doctor, he deserves better.
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* In one episode of ''[[Bones]]'' Temprance 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 M.D.s, which makes sense, what with an academic doctorate taking way more time and often being much harder to obtain than a medical one.
* In the ''[[
* There are a lot of friction between doctors and the Ambulance crew in [[Sirens]], 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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