25. Dr. Leisl Obrecht, General Hospital
The hospital’s brilliant former chief of staff probably would’ve ranked higher on this list, were she not so inclined to disregard the Hippocratic Oath; doing rather than undoing harm is sorta her thing.
Soaps’ 25 All-Time Greatest Doctors, Ranked [PHOTOS]
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24. Eve Russell, Passions
Image Credit: Paul Skipper/JPI If you overlook the time she reattached her babydaddy’s severed penis upside-down, she was really quite a reliable… What? Oh. Fine, then. Focus if you must on the upside-down-penis incident.
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23. Wilhelm Rolf, Days of Our Lives
Image Credit: Jill Johnson/JPI OK, so he may be more of a mad scientist than a traditional doctor. Stefano DiMera’s devoted henchman is still the guy you’d want paged if you needed to be brought back from the dead.
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22. John Finnegan, The Bold and the Beautiful
Image Credit: Howard Wise/JPI Though Finn is new to the scene, he’s thus far impressed us with his ability to make scrubs look stylish and his disinterest in chucking his medical career to become a designer — you know, like…
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21. Bridget Forrester
Image Credit: Aaron Montgomery/JPI She spent all those years studying to be a doctor, only to decide one day that instead of stitching up wounds, what she really wanted to do was sew haute-couture gowns for Jackie M.
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20. Jeff Webber, General Hospital
Image Credit: ABC/Courtesy of the Everett Collection To tell you the truth, we can’t recall a single patient that Steve Hardy’s son ever cured. But does anyone not remember the reputation that he earned for his, ahem, bedside manner?
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19. Roger Coleridge, Ryan’s Hope
Image Credit: Courtesy Everett Collection Whether you were on his operating table or in his bed, you were in good hands with Riverside Hospital’s finest — and yes, the egotist would’ve been the first to tell you so. Probably the second, too.
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18. Noah Drake, General Hospital
Image Credit: Mario Casilli/ABC/Courtesy of the Everett Collection The minute flirtatious Dr. Feel-Good hit Port Charles, demand rose as rapidly as heart rates for sponge baths and physicals. Coincidence? We think not.
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17. David Hayward, All My Children
Image Credit: Paul Skipper/JPI His ethics left something to be desired — like, you know, ethics. However, the creator of Libidozone was such a genius that he all but erased the need to ever call “time of death” on a patient.
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16. Julia Hoffman, Dark Shadows
Image Credit: Courtesy of the Everett Collection So unorthodox a thinker was Collinwood’s resident doctor that she probably could’ve cured Barnabas Collins of vampirism — if she hadn’t been so distracted by the way he made her go all hot-blooded.
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15. Hamilton Finn, General Hospital
Image Credit: Howard Wise/JPI A true doc star, Finn not only came up with a remedy for Blackwoods Disease, he donated the vast sums that he earned from his miracle cure to save the hospital at which he works.
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14. Sarah Horton, Days of Our Lives
Image Credit: Jill Johnson/JPI How dedicated to her profession is University Hospital’s youngest MD? Even when she’s scrubbed out for the day, she can often still be found playing doctor. Right, Xander?
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13. Nate Hastings, The Young and the Restless
Image Credit: Howard Wise/JPI Like any dedicated healer, this second-generation doctor would like to think that patients improve when in his care. Instead, their temperatures only seem to rise. Go figure.
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12. Patrick Drake, General Hospital
Image Credit: Sean Smith/JPI It’s no wonder Noah’s son was such a great neurosurgeon. Before he found true love and adjusted his attitude, he was the kind of arrogant womanizer to whom people were always giving a piece of their mind.
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11. Larry Wolek, One Life to Live
Image Credit: ABC/Courtesy of the Everett Collection The saying “Doctor, heal thyself” could have been coined for this MD, who remained lovesick over wife Karen even after learning that her hobbies included turning tricks.
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10. Tony Jones, General Hospital
Image Credit: ABC/Courtesy of the Everett Collection Imagine you’re feeling crummy. You need a reassuring word and, well, maybe a shot of penicillin. Whose face do you want to see? Whose voice do you wanna hear? Yeah, Lucas’ dad is our go-to, too.
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9. Kayla Brady, Days of Our Lives
Image Credit: Jill Johnson/JPI An added bonus of having this University Hospital physician treating you is that, if her prescription alone doesn’t do the trick, she can always pour you a tall cold one at her family’s pub.
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8. and 7. Alan and Monica Quartermaine, General Hospital
Image Credit: ABC/Courtesy of the Everett Collection When you think about it, it makes sense that the Bickersons would be brilliant healers. They’d have to have learned a whole lot about wounds in all the years they inflicted emotional ones upon each other.
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6. Joe Martin, All My Children
Image Credit: ABC/Courtesy of the Everett Collection Calm and methodical, stalwart and steady, the chief of staff of Pine Valley Hospital dispensed not only top-notch medical care but, free of charge, invaluable words of wisdom.
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5. Althea Davis, The Doctors
Image Credit: Courtesy of the Everett Collection At a time when the medical field was considered a man’s world, the MVP of Hope Memorial Hospital shattered misconceptions and blazed a trail that many a wonder woman has followed.
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4. Robin Scorpio, General Hospital
Image Credit: Howard Wise/JPI You know how you can tell Robert and Anna’s daughter isn’t a good but a great doctor? She’s the rare one who gets kidnapped when a baddie needs an insta-cure for, say, plutonium poisoning.
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3. Angie Hubbard, All My Children
Image Credit: ABC/Courtesy of the Everett Collection Besides being good for what ailed a whole lotta patients over the course of her career (which may not be over yet), Frankie’s mom passed along the healing touch to the next generation.
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2. Tom Horton, Days of Our Lives
Image Credit: NBC/Courtesy of the Everett Collection Whether you needed a sympathetic ear or a complicated diagnosis, you couldn’t make a wiser decision than to make an appointment with University Hospital’s longtime chief of staff.
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1. Steve Hardy, General Hospital
Image Credit: ABC/Courtesy of the Everett Collection With a smile as warm as his stethoscope, Nurse Audrey’s reliable better half never forgot — or, for that matter, let his staff forget — that “medical care” is nothing without the “care” part.
