From Meredith Grey to Shaun Murphy, catch up with some of our favorite onscreen medical professionals.
Jackson Avery Grey’s Anatomy (2005present)
Ah, Jackson Avery (Jesse Williams).
Come for his stunning good looks, stay for his inherited talents, business mind, and leadership skills.
Rachel Bilson on ‘Hart of Dixie’.Michael Tackett/The CW
Emily Owens Emily Owens, M.D.
Gregory House House, M.D.
Unless he killed you.
Jesse Williams on ‘Grey’s Anatomy’.Ron Tom/ABC
‘Doctors don’t heal, they diagnose we heal,’ she says of nurses.
Although often underestimated by her colleagues, her skills and instincts spoke for themselves.
Douglas “Doogie” Howser Doogie Howser, M.D.
Freddie Highmore on ‘The Good Doctor’.Eike Schroter/ABC
Balancing adolescence, a girlfriend, and a medical career?
But her struggles made her triumphs that much more amazing to watch.
Yet, for all the levity he supplied, his helicopter exit from the 4077th still leaves us misty.
Mamie Gummer on ‘Emily Owens, M.D.'.Jack Rowand/The CW
Physicians, heal thyselves!
Marcus Welby Marcus Welby, M.D.
(19691976)
Much like its predecessorDr.
Hugh Laurie on ‘House, M.D.'.Jordin Althaus/FOX
Kildare,Marcus Welby, M.D.focused on the relationship between an older mentor and his younger charge.
Who says you might’t teach an old doc new tricks?
Nurse Chapel (Majel Barrett) fit the bill.
Ellen Pompeo on ‘Grey’s Anatomy’.Danny Feld/ABC
(And eventually married the boss StarTrekcreator Gene Roddenberry.)
We just hope she isn’tin the bathroomwhen the announcement is made.
Philip Chandler St.
Raza Jaffrey on ‘Code Black’.Sonja Flemming/CBS
Elsewhere (19821988)
Playing a doc on the small screen seems to pay off big in silver-screen karma.
Just askDenzel Washington, who got his showbiz break playing Philip Chandler on the ’80s dramaSt.
John “J.D.”
Patrick Dempsey on ‘Grey’s Anatomy’.Bob D’Amico/ABC
Dorian Scrubs (20012010)
Another one of our favorite interns, J.D.
Or that he had any less wacky daydreams.
Maybe a week without an eyebrow wax.
Matthew Fox on ‘Lost’.Mario Perez
“Trapper” John McIntyre Trapper John, M.D.
Because that’s what TV doctors do…the ones who aren’t House, anyway.
Jessica Capshaw on ‘Grey’s Anatomy’.Richard Cartwright/ABC via Getty Images
Edie Falco on ‘Nurse Jackie’.David M. Russell/SHOWTIME
Sarah Drew on ‘Grey’s Anatomy’.Eric McCandless/ABC via Getty Images
Jada Pinkett Smith on ‘Hawthorne’.Erik Heinila/TNT
Neil Patrick Harris on ‘Doogie Howser, M.D.'.Everett Collection
Lorraine Bracco on ‘The Sopranos’.Barry Wetcher
Julianna Margulies on ‘ER’.Everett Collection
Richard Chamberlain on ‘Dr. Kildare’.Everett Collection
Jane Seymour on ‘Dr. Quinn, Medicine Woman’.Everett Collection
George Clooney on ‘ER’.Sven Arnstein
Judy Reyes on ‘Scrubs’.Paul Drinkwater/NBC
Alan Alda on ‘MASH’.Everett Collection*
David Hyde Pierce and Kelsey Grammer on ‘Frasier’.Gale M. Adler/NBC/NBCU Photo Bank via Getty Images
Chandra Wilson on ‘Grey’s Anatomy’.Ron Tom/ABC
Robert Young on ‘Marcus Welby, M.D.'.Courtesy Everett Collection
Majel Barrett and DeForest Kelley on ‘Star Trek: The Original Series’.CBS via Getty Images
Nick Riviera of ‘The Simpsons’.
Christine Lahti on ‘Chicago Hope’.Everett Collection
Denzel Washington on ‘St. Elsewhere’.Everett Collection
Zach Braff on ‘Scrubs’.Bob D’Amico/ABC
Alex Kingston and Anthony Edwards on ‘ER’.Getty Images
Matt LeBlanc on ‘Friends’.Danny Feld/NBCU Photo Bank
Majel Barrett and DeForest Kelley on ‘Star Trek: The Original Series’.Everett Collection
Dylan Walsh and Julian McMahon on ‘Nip/Tuck’.Michael Becker/FX
Pernell Roberts on ‘Trapper John, M.D.'.20th Century Fox/Courtesy Everett Collection
