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* [[Lampshade Hanging]] in ''[[Justice Society of America]]'', when Black Canary is surprised that Dr Mid-Nite ''is'' that kind of doctor, since most supers who call themselves "Dr" aren't.
* [[Batman|Bruce Wayne's]] deceased father, Dr. Thomas Wayne, was that kind of doctor.
** Dr. Jeremiah Arkham, head of the eponymous [[Bedlam House]] is a psychiatrist, though not the most sane one.
* ''[[X-Men]]'':
** Zigzagged with Dr. Moira MacTaggert. Her specialties seem to be biochemistry and genetics, and she even earned a Nobel Prize for the latter, so one can assume she has degrees in both. While she could likely treat an injury or disease easily, whether she could legally work as a physician isn't clear.
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* Dr. Sam Beckett from ''[[Quantum Leap]]'' straddles the line; while still amnesiac he recalls how to halt a premature labor, and then balks when Al tells him to do something requiring another degree; turns out medicine is just one of the ''six'' doctorates he holds.
* The vets in ''[[All Creatures Great and Small]]'' sometimes have clients who mistake them for traditional doctors, often under embarrassing circumstances. Tristan once went on a house-call to an infertile couple under the mistaken belief that he was going to artificially inseminate their cow. Another time a woman turned up at the surgery asking for confirmation of her pregnancy and Siegfried pretended to [[Covert Pervert|comply with her wishes]] in order to freak out Tristan and James.
* During one episode of ''[[Leverage]]
* Inverted in Season 17 of ''[[The Amazing Race]]'' when, after being U-Turned, Chad started taunting Nat at the Roadblock. Though really, it might have just been because Chad didn't know the difference between an MD and a PhD.
{{quote|'''Chad''': Nat you should be able to get this easy. How's that PhD helping you?
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'''Reid''': No, I didn't. I am a doctor, so technically it wasn't a lie.
'''Garcia''': What was it, then?
'''Reid''': Um... Second opinion.
'''Garcia''': You're my bitch now. }}
* The ''[[CSI]]'' franchise has two ex-doctors. ''[[CSI]]'' had Dr. Ray Langston and ''[[CSI: NY]]'' has Dr. Sheldon Hawkes. Both have ended up giving emergency care a time or two. Hawkes even helps with a bicycle first aid team in the park. Of course, the medical examiners (Robbins, Hammerbeck) are also doctors, but don't practice medicine.
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== Other kinds of doctors ==
=== [[Comic Books]] ===
* [[Doctor Doom]] dropped out of school after his [[Freak Lab Accident]] and then proceeded to learn magic and take over a country. He never actually finished his doctorate. No one would argue that he doesn't deserve one, but he simply never finished the paperwork. Ordering the [[Ruritania|University of Latvaria]] to give him a degree (what the fanon suggests he did) doesn't count, even though the thesis defense would have been... interesting.
* [[Spider-Man
** Lampshaded in ''[[Secret Wars]]'': Volcana asks Doctor Octopus to tend to the severely wounded Molecule Man; Octopus replies that his doctorate is in nuclear physics, not medicine, but he'll see what he can do
*** Conversely, every doctorate brings full knowledge of robotics, including the Entomology course (see Henry Pym).
** Also appears in ''Ultimate Spiderman''. Peter is injured in a fight and goes to Dr Connors for help. Although he isn't an MD, as he is quick to point out, he is persuaded to treat the wound anyway.
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* Brother Voodoo (Dr. Jericho Drumm) is a psychologist. Some readers assumed when they saw him go by 'Doctor Voodoo' that the title had come along with the office of Sorcerer Supreme, which he inherited from Doctor Strange.
* Kitty Pryde (from [[X-Men]]); after graduating from the Robert Heinlein University, she holds doctorates in Engineering and Astrophysics.
* ''[[Batman]]'' examples:
** Dr. Pamela Isley (aka Poison Ivy) in post-crisis ''[[Batman]]'' continuity, her PhD is in botany. In some cases though, she can use her expertise in chemistry to heal or treat humans, going so far as to cure Nora Fries in the animated ''[[Harley Quinn (TV series)|Harley Quinn]]''.
* [[Harley Quinn]] herself; as Dr. Harlene Quinzell, she was a Psy.D. Of course, there's Dr. Hugo Strange and Dr. Jonathan Crane, and ''those'' are just the most well-known [[Psycho Psychologist]] types among Batman's [[Rogues Gallery]].
=== [[Fan Works]] ===
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* Dr. Susan Block, best known for her sex advice, got her graduate and post-graduate degrees in philosophy, though "with an emphasis in psychology" and her undergraduate degree was in theater studies.
* Having grown up the child of a university administrator, this troper would like to point out that it's fairly common for this to come into play among staff members. Doctorates in business, literature, engineering and history are formally addressed in pretty much the same way, especially with letters and public addresses, as a sign of respect.
* Theodor Geisel, AKA "[[Dr. Seuss]]", was ''technically'' a doctor, his degree being
* [[All the Little Germanies|Field Marshal Blücher]] was given an honorary doctorate (in law) by Oxford University. But then his work ''did'' [[Black Comedy|contribute to medical science]]
** As did that of the Duke of Wellington who was similarly honoured the same day, June 14, 1814. Blücher at the time joked that if they made him an honorary doctor they should also make Gneisenau, his chief of staff, an honorary apothecary. He and Gneisenau got honorary doctorates (in philosophy) from Berlin University later that year.
* In one of dialects of my{{who}} language 'physicist' meant physician. Nucleus shares the word with kernel. So when female presented herself as nuclear physicist... (given—it was in time when nuclear physics what esoteric area of physics and 'no one' heard of it).
* [[Dr. Dre]] did not attend any university. He does have an honorary degree in Street Knowledge, though.
* Despite his claims to the contrary, creationist Kent "Dr. Dino" Hovind does not hold a valid doctorate. He bought his "degree" from a non-accredited "university" where he [[Did Not Do the Research]].
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