Who is the best TV doctor character of all time?

Surgeons, diagnosticians, starship medics and one hologram, pulled from black-and-white classics and streaming-era dramas alike. Bedside manner varies wildly.

1. 1
   Gregory House

   The caustic, Vicodin-popping diagnostic genius played by Hugh Laurie in House (2004-2012).
   1000pts
2. 2
   John Carter

   Noah Wyle's ER med student who grew into the heart of County General across the show's run.
   653pts
3. 3
   Shaun Murphy

   Freddie Highmore's autistic surgical prodigy in The Good Doctor.
   617pts
4. 4
   James Kildare

   Richard Chamberlain's idealistic young intern in the hit 1960s series Dr. Kildare.
   617pts
5. 5
   Martin Ellingham

   Martin Clunes's blood-phobic, socially hopeless surgeon turned village GP in Doc Martin.
   576pts
6. 6
   Leonard McCoy

   DeForest Kelley's crusty starship physician 'Bones' of the original Star Trek.
   475pts
7. 7
   Miranda Bailey

   Chandra Wilson's formidable resident 'the Nazi', later chief of surgery in Grey's Anatomy.
   475pts
8. 8
   The Doctor (Voyager)

   Robert Picardo's Emergency Medical Hologram who grew from a program into a person on Star Trek: Voyager.
   475pts
9. 9
   Lisa Cuddy

   Lisa Edelstein's dean of medicine who kept House in check at Princeton-Plainsboro.
   475pts
10. 10
    Derek Shepherd

    Patrick Dempsey's neurosurgeon 'McDreamy', Grey's Anatomy's great romantic lead.
    411pts
11. 11
    Doogie Howser

    Neil Patrick Harris's teenage genius physician in Doogie Howser, M.D.
    411pts
12. 12
    Michael Robinavitch

    Noah Wyle's Dr. Robby, the haunted Pittsburgh ER attending of The Pitt (2025).
    337pts
13. 13
    Perry Cox

    John C. McGinley's ranting, secretly caring mentor in Scrubs.
    337pts
14. 14
    Marcus Welby

    Robert Young's kindly family practitioner whose Marcus Welby, M.D. topped the ratings in the early 1970s.
    337pts
15. 15
    James Wilson

    Robert Sean Leonard's oncologist and House's only real friend.
    337pts
16. 16
    Hawkeye Pierce

    Alan Alda's wisecracking Army surgeon who anchored M*A*S*H for eleven seasons.
    337pts
17. 17
    Doug Ross

    George Clooney's charming, rule-bending ER pediatrician who made him a star.
    337pts
18. 18
    Mark Greene

    Anthony Edwards's steady attending physician in ER, whose final arc remains one of TV's great farewells.
    337pts
19. 19
    Beverly Crusher

    Gates McFadden's chief medical officer of the Enterprise-D in Star Trek: The Next Generation.
    337pts
20. 20
    Frasier Crane

    Kelsey Grammer's pompous radio psychiatrist, from Cheers to his own long-running sitcom.
    337pts
21. 21
    Ben Casey

    Vince Edwards's brooding neurosurgeon in the 1960s medical drama Ben Casey.
    247pts
22. 22
    Peter Benton

    Eriq La Salle's fiercely driven ER surgeon with an arrogance matched only by his skill.
    247pts
23. 23
    J.D. Dorian

    Zach Braff's daydreaming young doctor who narrates the hospital comedy Scrubs.
    247pts
24. 24
    Christopher Turk

    Donald Faison's cocky, big-hearted surgeon and J.D.'s best friend in Scrubs.
    247pts
25. 25
    Michaela Quinn

    Jane Seymour's frontier physician in 1860s Colorado in Dr. Quinn, Medicine Woman.
    247pts
26. 26
    Jack Shephard

    Matthew Fox's spinal surgeon turned reluctant leader of the Oceanic 815 survivors in Lost.
    247pts
27. 27
    Joel Fleischman

    Rob Morrow's New York doctor marooned in small-town Alaska in Northern Exposure.
    247pts
28. 28
    Meredith Grey

    Ellen Pompeo's title surgeon of Grey's Anatomy, from intern to chief of general surgery over two decades.
    0pts
29. 29
    Cristina Yang

    Sandra Oh's brilliant, ruthlessly ambitious cardiothoracic surgeon in Grey's Anatomy.
    0pts
30. 30
    Quincy

    Jack Klugman's crusading Los Angeles medical examiner in Quincy, M.E.
    0pts
31. 31
    Jennifer Melfi

    Lorraine Bracco's composed psychiatrist treating Tony Soprano in The Sopranos.
    0pts

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